It does, i thought it was just something to strengthen/lower your/their counter espionnage efficiency
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It does, i thought it was just something to strengthen/lower your/their counter espionnage efficiency
A few other problems with the T-34 were that it had a four man crew, meaning the commander of the tank was also the gunner, and they rarely had radios. This meant that in any tank battle the commander was too busy shooting stuff to really keep an eye on everything he should, and couldn't really cordinate with other commanders. They also had no cupola and the commander's hatch opened straight up, which was a huge "the commander is about to look out, please shoot him" sign for any infantry nearby. Finally, they apparently weren't that easy to drive, I've seen reports that the driver often carried a mallet to smash the gear lever into place.
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And, for the umpteenth time: What about the five previous years of the war, three of which saw the T-34 in heavy combat? By the end of '44, the war is basically over bar the shouting. The writing is on the wall for the Germans.
The problem with this perrenial argument is that everyone participating determines their own frame of reference. So it's totally subjective unless the participants can agree on their frame. You don't, so it's completely subjective. Just let it alone.
In early years it certainly is somewhat diffrent case, and I do have to apologize a bit in general. After all, when someone starts mentioning Sherman, poor armour, T-34 and poor armour among other things it tends to be problematic to make sense which timeframe we are talking about in the first place. Since most of those AFVs saw service even in later period of the conflict it's easy to make general comparasion based on that phase.
Indeed in early years when it came to general firepower and protection T-34 was unrivalled, but considering some other interesting issues which Darkrenown mentioned - it certainly took a while before they sorted most of the bugs out and by that time every medium tank was practically equal.
In quick defense, there are I think three (THREE!) different top-10 programs. One called "Top 10", one called "Greatest XX", and I do not remember the last program. I would have to go check my DVR to see which recordings I kept, but I think the "Top 10" show is good and the "Greatest XX" was not. I do not remember feeling like any show catered to the Americans though, one actually uses online polls as part of its answer, so that could be part of the problem. Sample winners: Longbow Apache (helicopters), T34 (tanks), AK-47 (rifles). I have no disagreement there. I do disagree with the Swedish turret-less tank that made one top-10 (for ingenuity and innovation), but thankfully Sweden has since switched to the German Leopard. I love the German tank naming convention, for what it's worth.
Anyway, briefly one the T-34: the revolutionary thing about it was its armor, as has been said, and then later of course just the pure number of them. The armor was amazing because it was the first mass-produced tank with sloping armor, increasing the effective thickness of the armor just by its design by I think 20%. After its success, of course the new armor design was emulated by everyone and T-34 wasn't as good, but by that time the war was already won anyway.
The other thing was the numbers. When they were mass-produced, there were just too many for the Germans to take on (especially because the Germans refused to use lower-quality parts, although the min-max curve definitely favored more tanks at slightly less quality). In fact, the German tanks were unreliable -- if this makes sense -- because they used such precision parts.
The OP has generously yielded his topic to this somewhat-absurd historical debate, but let me ask @OP: did you want a system where it shows how many men were lost from each brigade (armor/infantry/etc.)?? Or did you want better intelligence on the enemies' units after you fight them?