What's Your Ugliest and Most Beautiful Tank of WW2?

[Mspfc Doc DuFresne]

While I cant beat that...

The T-30 and T-29 Heavy Tanks are ridiculously manly. The IS-2 wilts like a tulip next to these pieces of solid cast testosterone.





For Sexiest, M-18; cutest, M-29 Weasel



And ugliest is a tie between the T92 Howitzer Motor Carriage, a hideously beautiful brute with a 9.45 inch gun (240mm), and the T55E1 gun motor carriage, a real abortion of a...whatever its supposed to be.

In order:

[Torenico]

This just reminds me of some kind of, if you played Silent Hill, one of these ugly mutants..

[Mspfc Doc DuFresne]

  You know the M8 Howitzer is just adorable! You are just denying how much you want to hug it and pinch its little cheeks! Its almost as cute as a Panzer I.

[VonMudra]

You know, even better...the Pz1C saw combat in Normandy 1944...38 of them

[Torenico]

You know the M8 Howitzer is just adorable! You are just denying how much you want to hug it and pinch its little cheeks! Its almost as cute as a Panzer I.

May be effective and all that shit, but damn thats like a deformed Stuart with a horrible mutation right on his face.

Im pretty sure i saw a pic of the PzI with a Tiger in Normandy, any story like, i know some Panzer Is where still in service but in Yugoslivia, all were lost in late 1944 iirc.

How about, PzIs in Berlin? because i think i saw a PzII once.

[VonMudra]

Donno about Pz1 in Berlin, I just know that the 38 or so Pz1C served in normandy.  This wasn't the type with the 2 MGs though, it had a Pz2-like turret with a 20mm.  Still would be awesome to see someday   And yes, all were lost in combat there, though I bet they did make good mobile pillboxes for awhile....

[Taranov]

Hehehe, finns call that as "Pikku-Sotka" (Little Duckling).

Do you have any information about nicknames of T-60 and T-70 in finnish army?

[Flippy Warbear]

No I've just browsed through some books and checked out google but nothing came up.

[9.Pz-Div. Günther]

The M18 is perfect in every way. I read that it was very quickly to produce at not all that expensive, though only around 2500 were made. It's got the looks, its proportions are just so perfect and its kinda cute, and still a big boy.

[Desertfox]

The M18 is perfect in every way. I read that it was very quickly to produce at not all that expensive, though only around 2500 were made. It's got the looks, its proportions are just so perfect and its kinda cute, and still a big boy.

isn't that a tank destroyer, not a tank?

[BUNNY]

I think a TOG2 is worse then a churchill, much worse ...

Is that a child or is it just a huge tank with a midget?

Anyway:
UGLIEST:


As for "beautiful", got to go with Stuart:

[Fuchs]

TOG2 is really huge. Designed when WW2 was lurking around a corner, TOG = The Old Gang, the guys who made the WW1 tanks, they thought that a new war in Europe would end up in the same trench mess as WW1 and TOG over there was their answer, huge cannon, big fat armour, immense crossing performance, perfect for trench warfare 

[THeTA0123]

The M18 is perfect in every way. I read that it was very quickly to produce at not all that expensive, though only around 2500 were made. It's got the looks, its proportions are just so perfect and its kinda cute, and still a big boy.

isn't that a tank destroyer, not a tank?

Indeed it was. It did its job very well in that role. The Hellcat quick acceleration + speed made it an excellent tank destroyer, even if the frontal gun couldnt penetrate the tiger and panther frontal armor with standard ammo

Some combat performance=

On September 19, 1944, in the Nancy Bridgehead near Arracourt, France, the 704th Tank Destroyer Battalion was attached to the 4th Armored Division. Lt. Edwin Leiper led one M18 platoon of C Company to Rechicourt-la-Petite, on the way to Moncourt. He saw a German tank gun muzzle appearing out of the fog 30 feet away, and deployed his platoon. In a five minute period, five German tanks of the 113 Panzer Brigade were knocked out for the loss of one M18. The platoon remained in their position and destroyed a further ten German tanks, with the loss of another two M18s. One of the platoon's M18s, commanded by Sgt Henry R. Hartman, knocked out six of these and lived to fight another day. Most of the German tanks were Panthers.

The M18 Hellcat was a key element during World War II in the Battle of the Bulge.[7] On December 19 and 20, the 1st Battalion of the 506th PIR, was ordered to support Team Desobry, a battalion-sized tank-infantry task force of the 10th Armored Division assigned to defend Noville[3] located north-northeast of both Foy and of Bastogne just 4.36 miles (7 km) away. With just four[2] M18 tank destroyers of the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion to assist, the paratroopers attacked units of the 2nd Panzer Division, whose mission was to proceed by secondary roads via Monaville (just northwest of Bastogne) to seize a key highway and capture, among other objectives, fuel dumps—for the lack of which the overall German counter-offensive faltered and failed. Worried about the threat to its left flank in Bastogne, it organized a major joint arms attack to seize Noville. Team Desobry's high speed highway journey to reach the blocking position is one of the few documented cases[2] wherein the legendary top speed of the M18 Hellcat (55 miles per hour (89 km/h), faster than today's M1A2 Abrams) was actually used to get ahead of an enemy force as envisioned by its specifications.

[S1lv3rWolf]

Marder I 'Geschutzwagen', I find it to be quite an ugly Tank Destroyer due to it's bulky looks, but i'll leave you guys to your own opinions on it.

I don't have favorites when in relation to "beautiful" tanks, but in a list:
Churchill, due to how it's design was made for it's actual purpose.
M18 'Hellcat'
M24 'Chaffee'
M36 'Jackson'
Pz.Kmpf V Ausf. G 'Panther'
and the KV-1 and T-34 tanks.


oh and before I forget, I find the French B1-bis to be quite an ugly tank aswell, it just looks a bit like the TOG.

[Mspfc Doc DuFresne]

The M10 is a combination of the worst parts of the M36 and M18. The doctrine called for a fast, lightly armored and well armed tank destroyer, and so they got a slow, lightly armored and meh armed tank destroyer.

M18 was a work of art.