And hetzer...dont forget hetzer...
The Jagdpanzer 38(t), or "Hetzer" as we have come to call it, had serious problems. It had TERRIBLE visibility for the crew, especially the commander who had no forward viewport and had to stick his head out to see anything in front of him. The loader had to reach over the recoil cage to reload the gun, and the breach lever was very difficult for him to get at. Ammunition storage was bad, too, with rounds lining the right side of the upper hull interior. Furthermore, while the gun was good enough to deal with most of the Western Allies' tanks, the Soviet IS series was presenting a problem for the Hetzer's gun. That being said, it was a good solution for a country with limited industrial capacity (compared with the United States and USSR) that could have been worked into a pretty good design.
Here's a photo of a StuG IV so this post isn't just a bunch of ugly words
