M4 Sherman vs Tiger

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Hmmm, Grummi, that is starting to sound a bit like "Methodical Battle".

As for the lack of organics, they usually had attached TD,Tank and AAA Bns. The US had 31 Seperate Tank(nice big Battalions with 77 tanks) and 61 Tank Destroyer Battalions as of 1 Jan 1945 in the ETO. General Patton observed in March 1945,

:bow: "Since 1 August 1944, when 3rd Army became operational, our total tank casualties have amounted to 1,136 tanks. During the same period we have accounted for 2,287 German tanks, of which 808 were the Tiger or Panther variety, and 851 on our side were the M4. These figures of themselves refute any inferiority of our tanks, and let me add that the 3rd Army has always attacked, and therefore better than 70 percent of our tank casualties have occered from dug-in antitank guns and not enemy tanks, whereas a majority of the enemy tanks have been put out by our tanks":bow:

The 743rd Seperate Tank Battalion lost 96 Medium tanks during the European campaign (mostly to antitank guns and Panzerschreck/fausts).
They destroyed 41 Mark IVs, 26 Panthers, 4 Tigers and 10 SP guns along with 100 pillboxes/machinegun nests, 36 AT guns, 9 field pieces, 4 armored cars and 125+ trucks.( [/i]Steel Victory[/i], Yeide 2003) That's a pretty good trade-off unless of course you one of those 96 crews.

The main point being that the big gunned tank was'nt needed in the ETO because large tank on tank battles were rare. Most of the TD battalions were used as SP Arty because there was'nt much to hunt.
And what was the level of distibution of Tigers anyways?(I don't mean in SP games which is likely most games) 1 Battalion per Panzer Korps?
Very bad if it's in your sector, but they can't be everywhere.