It is decently fast (just as in real life), and armed with coaxial and hull-mounted MG34 light machine guns to counter infantry attack. It is only available with the Wehrmacht's Blitzkrieg Doctrine.
With the addition of the Opposing Fronts expansion, this list spreads out to include the Firefly and 17 Pounder AT Gun. It commands heavy armour with its only real threats being the M26 Pershing and the M1 57mm Anti Tank Gun. In-game, the Tiger is actually fairly accurately modeled: It's the alpha dog, with only a very few other tanks being slightly better than it. Legendary tank aces such as Michael Wittmann and Kurt Knispel were born in this tank. From the Eastern Front, to North Africa, to the Battle of Normandy, it was the spearhead of the German Army. The Tiger served extensively throughout the war as a battlefield superiority weapon and an armoured breakthrough vehicle. It's incredibly thick armour was virtually invincible to all known anti-tank weapons at the time - even from the sides and the rear - and it's infamous "88" KwK36 gun was capable of engaging and destroying virtually all targets at ranges well in excess of 2km - there were recorded kills at 4km. It completely outclassed all existing tanks in the world at the time of its introduction. Conceived as a result of the heavily armoured Soviet tanks encountered on the Eastern Front, Such as the T-34/76. E, usually just known by its nickname "Tiger", was one of the most powerful tanks to see action during World War II.
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