| shadow king | 28 Aug 2009 11:01 a.m. PST |
hiya asking the experts here I'm off to buy my FOW stuff and have the books etc (no models yet), 1944, I'm going to get the German Tigers Marsch set that has 5 Tigers in it, I got the new desert book today and found that 4 tigers cost 1540 but in the Europe book only 860? what the points and I'm not reading some thing here?? Tony |
 Doms Decals  | 28 Aug 2009 11:09 a.m. PST |
Mid-war versus late war – late they're cheaper as there's much more high-powered anti-tank kit. |
aecurtis  | 28 Aug 2009 11:11 a.m. PST |
They're more effective in Mid War (tm) in the desert, so cost more. Tanks are less expensive in Late War (tm) because more stuff can kill them. Allen |
| shadow king | 28 Aug 2009 11:20 a.m. PST |
thanks guys i know i could count on you how much in points is the set exactly? |
| Doms Decals | 28 Aug 2009 11:26 a.m. PST |
It depends what list you use it for…. |
| TodCreasey | 28 Aug 2009 11:32 a.m. PST |
I think LW it is a pretty consistent 215 point per tank so you are looking 5 tanks at 1075 points. |
| Doms Decals | 28 Aug 2009 11:37 a.m. PST |
SS are more – 240 I think, and mid-war higher still, obviously. |
| Endless Grubs | 28 Aug 2009 12:47 p.m. PST |
FWIW, the five Tiger Marsch kit Tigers have zimmermit--the Tunisian Tiger E's do not. |
| Matsuru Sami Kaze | 29 Aug 2009 5:48 a.m. PST |
Yes, hardened muck troweled onto an armored slab can cost more than one of those $2,500 USD hammers. The mere over engineering of the Tiger should cost you more. Crack the transmission case and stand by to be awed by the jeweled German watchworks they've crafted. Extra cost could be the extra mechanics and engineers required to keep the Tigers humming like bumblebees. Or knowing that it takes a Tiger to tow a Tiger, could it be that there are a couple built in redundant Tigers in the OB to haul the broken ones to the shops? A Tiger cannot cost enough. Huge resources went into producing a few. Were German too smart for their own pants? Poor babies. |
| JamesonFirefox | 29 Aug 2009 10:29 a.m. PST |
a friend ran a FoW game once with tigers and then again with the tigers replaced by equal points worth of PzIVs. With the two Tigers the Soviets couldn't do a damn thing but second time with the PzIVs the soviets had a complete walk over and the Germans didn't stand a chance. |
| Martin Rapier | 29 Aug 2009 12:48 p.m. PST |
"Huge resources went into producing a few" Well, not really. The RM cost of a Tiger I was only twice that of a Panzer IV, then again a Panther only cost 10% more than a Pz IV, which perhaps shows how ludicrously over-engineered the Panzer IV was! The big cats did take a bit more maintenance of course. |
| Moonbeast | 29 Aug 2009 1:12 p.m. PST |
"Or knowing that it takes a Tiger to tow a Tiger" Or multiple SdKfz 9's. |
