Shot to the side or ass of Tiger with 75mm on the Sherman:
IRL = dead Tiger
FH2 = do this a thousand times and good luck causing any damage at all.
FH2 penetration tables are set on 500 metres.
Here from Wikipedias Tiger-article:
"From a 30 degree angle of attack, the M4 Sherman's 75 mm gun could not penetrate the Tiger frontally at any range, and needed to be within 100 m to achieve a side penetration against the 80 mm upper hull superstructure."
In FH2 and reality this means: Nope
Butch is correct, and incorrect
When the allies captured there first tiger tanks and did penetration tests, they came to the conclusion that some tiger tanks were manufactured with faulty armour plate sections and they did not stopped a 75mm gun when it should have had.
I cannot find any of this in normandy tough. German tanks had fauly armour plates mainly on panther tanks and PZIV, but vital alloy elements wich were in extreme short supply were primarly directed for use on heavy tanks so its possible that late war, tiger tanks were not affected by it anymore
(King tigers were however, as proven post war)
Wheter its a M4A1,Tiger, PZIV or Panther tank, all of these tanks were gigantic bombs of gasoline. All of these tanks had very high chance of fire upon penetration (80-85%)
Only british gasoline tanks were safer then the above (With the churchill tank being the safest at 60%)
The T34 had only 30-40% chance of fire upon impact BUT this tank had a FAR higher chance of ammo explosions
The M4A3 however, was one of the safest allied tanks latewar, thanks to improved ammo storage, fuel storage and wet ammo racks and was as safe as a churchill tank
Long story short
Should a Sherman 75 penetrate a tiger from the sides? No, not via FH2 range
Should a 6PDR penetrate a tiger tank? Yes as the first tiger tank was knocked out by a churchill and the first tiger tank Destroyed was also done by a churchill tank (Wich penetrated the Tiger tank at 400meters using the newly developed APC round wich penetrated 94mm of armour at 500 meters)
Same way a 17PDR, should NOT penetrate the front hull of a panther tank. The angle had to be perfect for it to penetrate at 500 meters. Only the turret could be reliably pierced