Villers-Bocage Michael Wittmann's Last Battle 8 August 1944

Herr Migraenz
Yeah, Paul is definitely better than most buffoons on the platform these days.
To be entirely frank, I couldn't care less about what offed Wittman for I don't find him particularly to be awfully interesting. Just like Rudel, Michael was little more than an upstart overutilized by Propagandaministerium. He is still being credited to this day with all the kills of the Villers Bocage battle, when in reality all these loses were dealt by an entire panzer abteilung, which over 2 following days got nearly entirely wiped out by American artillery, meanwhile Wittman only took out a half-track and damaged ONE Cromwell CS. Makes you think how bloated his kill count actually is.
All I'm saying is, Sherman's 75mm was a very capable gun especially in the most crucial of its roles - supporting breakthroughs with some excellent HE shells, while APs were definitely capable of taking on Teutonic armor here and there.

Back to the topic at hand, I do wholly support your notion, Dragon's re-boxing practices are frankly mildly unpleasant and have been this way for quite the period now. Adam Mann did a review on Tauchpanzer III H 6775 nearly a decade ago which does good job at outlining the issues: they just want to re-pack whatever they can, toss a heap of sprews in, sprinkle whatever decals in and still charge you 50 bucks for it! Big shame. I love Dragon, they are among the most competent on the market, they know whom to take advice from, but marketing and business practices are subpar lately (not to mention the complete absence of entirely new kits).
TLDR, cheers to you indeed!

me109g10 Szerző
😄 Yeah Paul is great. Nice to see another modeller with a similar viewpoint. Just to note that Dragon is from China so they have a different view point on our european "troubles" from the last century. Same as almost nobody here knows anything that happened in China and who did what etc. Its just the usual take like a Hollywood movie with headlines because somebody connects the Fletcher Destroyer to the Atlantic battle and boom you have Greyhound with psycho Uboats and stuff that never happened and is not even possible (Like the Kommandant talking like a creap to some random frequency that happened to be the ont that the destroyer has on loudspeaker and stuff). 😄 my 2 cents. Cheers and have a great one and fun modellng 🙂