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Originally Posted by 4Tran
Really? There are lots of heavily-armored Allied vehicles it can't do much against. Even the StuG IIIF's 75mm L48 isn't going to do much against a Churchill or IS-2 from the front.
I think that the short L24 looks pretty good on both the Pz. IV and the StuG III. It was a pretty good gun for what it was designed for too. It's not really the designers' fault that the Wehrmacht decided to give both vehicles a very different combat role than they were meant for.
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apples and oranges, you are comparing medium tank armaments to heavy tank frontal armor. in any case its safe to say that based on comparable weight class, german tanks were virtually superior in every way except for maybe reliability
also not sure if anyone mentioned already, but pretty much all the short barrel guns were used for anti infantry combat with HE shells early war.
so for the combat thats about to come up i'm going to say the odds are heavily stacked for the M3 which looks like the only tank with a gun that can do real damage from a distance.