Tiger II

He's gonna p- probably fall here pretty quickly, and then it's then gonna be Scott and I searching for, through the jungle of the Congo.

I wanna see those King Tigers-

I wouldn't count out

... and the Italians.

And I was really pleased to see people doing that.

You know, they brought their super heavy, they brought their King Tiger, they brought their...

Or in your case, like a, an, an ISU-152.

That thing is a unit.

Look, let's mention Dennis, and, and shout out to Dennis, uh, who always paints beautiful, beautiful armies.

Mm-hmm.

And Dennis brought, um, [lip smacks] as, as he does, a King Tiger and a Sturmtiger.

Yeah, you heard that right.

So that played really well.

And in that game, you've got a King Tiger pushing down into the perimeter.

It's the very last day of the action.

It's the 25th of September.

The Paras are pulling out that night.

Not that they know it yet, but the Paras are pulling out that night.

The Germans are making that last-ditch attempt because they don't get the King Tigers until that last day.

True.

...'cause you get a pin as a result of assaulting a building even if you survive.

Look, I'm just saying when we h- we had, when we had Dale's board, I wanna drive a Tiger II all the way through that-

True

... apartment complex and just-

They recruited her to go back to Berlin because they knew about Hitler.

being infatuated and they asked her if she would go back and sing in Berlin and pick up any information she could and the story behind it and it's a true story she was able to get the information of the Tiger II tank because she was at his birthday party and she was able to relay that information to another spy which again there's another backstory to that but she had when she had the stage she had Hitler watching her sing, and the people that were stagehands doing up the curtains were downed REF pilots that she was helping filter through.

Oh, wow.

He didn't have a clue there was actually REF pilots doing all the stagehanding and things like that.

The new defensive line along Germany's western border also meant shorter supply lines for the Germans.

For example, the Germans only had about 100 tanks left on the entire Western Front in early September.

By late September, they'd built that number back up to 500.

U.S. General Omar Bradley later summed it up by saying that Modell, quote, miraculously grafted a new backbone on the German army.

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

I mean, you mentioned names there, too, like Mirko's, like, King Tiger still sticks out to me to this day.

Yeah.

I mean, that piece is, like, tw- over 20 years old, I feel.

Yeah

...

it was one of those pieces that to this day it still stands, you know, as one of the best examples of not only a King Tiger, but scale modeling, and it still car- it, I think you can see its influence, just like-

Mm