Bunker Talk: Maus vs Tiger II

Saturday, March 9, 2024

The Military Depot Maus is a very large model.

Compared here to a Roco Minitanks Tiger II.

The Maus is massive.

Here is the Maus turret on the Tiger II hull. You can see how large the turret is in this photo.

The Maus turret on the Tiger II hull. The turret is almost as big as the hull.

Tiger II turret on the Maus hull.

It looks like a toy with that hull turret combination.

Four Maus tanks and a Tiger II.

Tiger II by Roco Minitanks and four Military Depot Maus tanks.

Line abreast naval tactics for such land battleships.

Legion4 said...: Great models! Yes, the Maus was bigger and heavier than the Tiger II. But as we see as with the Tiger II, if the Maus actually became operational, it would suffer breakdowns, and needed fuel and ammo. In many cases, Allied troops found some broken down both Tiger 1s & IIs, out of fuel, ammo, etc.

Regardless I like to have those for modelling and wargaming. Even if the Maus never was fielded. GHQ has many models of German equipment in their Wehrmacht '47 line. Things on the drawing board that never came to be. That line also includes US and UK AFVs that could have been on the battlefield if the war lasted long.; March 9, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Mike Bunkermeister Creek said...: I think if the big storm in Normandy came on June, 7, 1944 and wiped out the follow up troops, Hitler released the panzers and the invasion troops were rounded up after fierce fighting.
I think at that point Operation Dragoon, Southern France would take center stage and be the start of the return to the Continent. That would delay the end of the war at least two months, probably closer to six months as it would be harder to re-supply via Southern France than from the UK across the Channel.
Given the extra time the war might have lasted until September, 1945 after the US dropped an atomic bomb on Berlin and Cologne in August.
Thanks for reading and commenting Mr. 4.

Bunkermeister; March 10, 2024 at 1:21 AM