>>64220891
>Casually conquers France and the entire easternmost part of the Soviet Union
It is kind of funny considering that everyone associates Blitzkrieg with the iconic Tiger/Panther tanks, but they only came into service after German advances had stalled and the war had turned into an attritional slog that Germany had very little hope of winning. Their biggest successes really were when they were mainly driving aroud in clanky little claptraps like the Panzer II and III, wasn't it?

Not that the early model Panzer's were viable latter in the war obviously (unless modified for Stug life). But still funny to think about.

>>63998543
Honestly the most damning aspect of French tank design and doctrine is about half of the German tanks that invaded France were only light Panzers. II's armed with 20mm autocannons, and the I's just with machine guns. It seems like if the French had focused on mass producing one or two less crappy multi crewed turret designs (and had an accompanying doctrine that was merely mediocre instead of outright terrible), the Germans wouldn't have been able to roll over France since most of their early war tanks weren't actually really good at head on fights. They just over performed since the French used tanks in a piecemeal fashion, and their more heavily armed and armored tanks were handicapped by the one man turrets.