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Originally Posted by A Very Super Market
No, I didn't watch it, but its a wonder it even got to the battle!
Tigers were notorious for breaking down, and more of them were lost to mechanical failure than enemy tanks! And somehow I doubt that the Soviets didn't manage to get one T-34 to flank and shoot his rear. Ah well, maybe it got lucky.
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That is not entirely correct. Mechanical faults were sorted out over the course of the production run, the same as with the Panther.
The later models were much improved over their earlier designs. Both never got to the same levels of reliability as the Shermans, but they were certainly better then their reputation suggest. Later on the tanks biggest flaws lay in a detoriation of armor quality due to wartime material shortages.
The Tiger certainly was one heck of a tank, it's reputation amongst its oponents well founded. Going for quality instead of quantity was the only way Germany had against the huge material advantages the allies had.