The spirit of the game...

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The "spirit of the game", hm. A dubious concept. In the real world, there was not a single Panther in Italy from October of '43 to February of '44. CMAK renders this in Standard Rarity as "+5%" for the PzKw Vd in November of '43 or the PzKw Va in January of '44. But because there were so few Tigers and Panthers in Italy, the U.S. Army sent no M36 tank destroyers to the country. These, of course, are completely unavailable. Just a few of may places in which availability and victory conditions have been fiddled by the designers to favor the Germans.

BTW, I feel that this was a correct decision by Battlefront. If your game does not allow adolescent panzer enthusiasts to drive their Tigers to victory in spite of quite modest tactical skills, you will not sell as many of the game.