You know your army is in trouble when...

[CountryBoy]

In reality Goliaths/B IV should have better Quality.
Despite actual narrative of little success if you read german reports after Kursk they stated very clearly that B IV was a somewhat efficient weapon that caused some damage despite all of its shortcomings (it had indeed, it was unreliable and expensive): more than 20 attacks were succesful, specialy when it was paired with Tigers because Fernidads were too slow for them and they showed very poor coordination, B IVs even blowed up soviet tanks. 20% of demolition vehicles were lost due enemy direct fire, since russian soon learnt to fear their attacks and flagged them as priority objectives. (specialy the B IV that was unwired, reusable and quite bigger)


They ordered more demolition vehicles and improved their equipment. In the end the germans produced almost 9000 Goliath/B IV vehicles, not bad for a useless weapon.

The units that used B IVs:
• PzAbt. 300 (Fkl) 2/9/42 Eastern Front
• Versuchs-Kommando (Fl) Tropen 6/24/42 North Africa
• PzAbt. 301 9/9/42 Eastern Front
• Pzkp. (Fkl) 311 1/25/43 Eastern Front
• Pzkp. (Fkl) 312 1/9/43 Eastern Front
• Pzkp. (Fkl) 313 1/9/43 Eastern Front
• Pzkp. (Fkl) 314 1/25/43 Eastern Front
• Pzkp. (Fkl) 315 7/6/43 Western Front
• Pzkp. (Fkl) 316 7/13/43 Western Front
• Pzkp. (Fkl) 319 8/28/44 Western Front
• schwere PzAbt. (Tiger/Fkl) 301 9/2/43 Western Front
• 3./schwere PzAbt. 508 12/30/43 Italy
• 3./schwere PzAbt. 504 2/1/44-9 Italy
• PzAbt. (Fkl) 302 6/22/44 Eastern Front
• 4./PzAbt. (Fkl) 301 6/5/44 Western Front
• PzAbt. (Fkl) 301 1/25/43 Italy and Eastern Front
• Fkl-Pz. Zug/Pz.Abt. 303 2/18/45 Eastern Front

I just thought it was a small tank with no weapons, but it is certainly not that at all. A very strange little weapon. Here's one in action:



By Bundesarchiv, Bild 101III-AhrensA-026-12 / August Ahrens / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5413820