Originally Posted by
typerated
is it not more nuanced than that:
Yes Tiger and Panther were more than a match for the Western tanks on the battlefield.
But they were very hard/expensive to produce – very unreliable – hard to maintain.
also oversized and too heavy for a 1944 western Europe road net- so they could not use a lot of bridges – got stuck on narrow roads and streets etc etc.
Tiger ones originally had a snorkle so they could wade rivers underwater to get around the bridge issue and as for Western tanks not being a match, the British upgunned version of the Sherman, the Firefly with its 17 pounder onboard did.