For me, it's the Schwerer Gustav

A simple softwax ear plug + old earmuffs would work.

>USA
>aircraft carriers
so americans have a micropenis? checkmate cletus

Was it autism?

People meme about the stupidity of the Gustav and especially the proposed P. 1500 'Monster' SPG version.

But how else are you gonna crack heavy fortifications in an age before jets and precision munitions? Why not just go full dieselpunk? It weighs less than a destroyer!

Only ever a propaganda piece, built for the previous war.

*need to perform maintenance after every shot and then do some rocket science to fire another shot*

hmm...

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>this is what .45 users believe

An over the top magical anime version of it is the "final boss" in Valkyria Chronicles 1

You destroy something similar in medal of honour, don't remember if the exact model.

>all that effort for something a bomber could do faster, more accurately, and a thousand times cheaper

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>bomber
>requires air superiority to do its job properly
>Big fucking gun
>LMAO
Still it was made for a different war, a war where air power was non-existent, just like the Japanese battleships were.

And also a very powerful vehicle in Battlefield 1.

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*drives around you*

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I hate that time-travelling shit so much.

i have no problem with the thread itself but isnt this board for video games

Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory there's an entire map around the Axis trying to fire the gun while Allies try to stop it

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Said big fucking gun has a large chance of missing its target

So did bombs, that's why they were usually carpet dropped.
Also said big gun managed to blow up soviet underwater ammo reserves and bunkers, so I guess it did its job adequately well and accuracy concerns were not an issue

>black speak

Medal of Honor

These nazis were autistic when it came to military tech.

DA RAAIL GUN

You do what the British did and invent a 22,000 lb bomb called the Grand Slam that could punch through several feet of reinforced concrete before exploding.

The Schwerer Gustav could only fire about 14 shells *a day*. In one bombing run against the Valentin u-boat pens, the British dropped 13 Grand Slams.

It was smarter and easier to use bombers, rather than a giant gun that had to sit in one place and fire.

Did the Germans even have a plane that could carry a 22,000 lb bomb?

Maybe not. The Heinkel He 177 was only good for 15,000lbs.

Then again, the Lancaster wasn't supposed to be carrying 22,000lbs either, so maybe the He 177 could have pulled off heavier loads.

You have to remember though, that the Germans largely conducted their war with large tank divisions bolstered by infantry, rather than air.

Nobody posted it yet? Well, alright then.

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>moved and loaded a 1000+ ton gun by hand

If ultra-Herculean strength like that isn't enough to beat up Chad then all the Gustav is going to achieve is piss him off.

>muh bombers
The beauty of setting up an artillery-line is that you can shell your opponent for days until he decides he doesn't want to be there anymore, or until he advances on your position - and you can do all of this from a comfortable range.
If the enemy retreats, you just move your shit closer.
If the enemy advances on you, you'll either have a comfy defensive line for him to get chewed up in, or you just move your shit further back.

With a bomber you need to get close enough to drop the payload, risking AA-fire, enemy fighters and so forth.

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For me, it's the Karl-Gerät

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i bought the english version of this card because the german one had a gay shortened name
the other train xyz i got in german tho

>The Prudential building in Warsaw being hit by 2-ton mortar shell from a Karl-Gerät.

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>Built giant building-sized gun that you can barely use and is basically abandoned after its first use
>Allies cause far more damage with cheaper and easier to use aircraft
kraut autism in a nutshell. Like how they made useless rockets and jet fighters but the Allies just made a nuke and four engined bomber for a far more efficient combo

>useless rockets

The rockets themselves were incredibly effective, it was the Germans operating them that were useless. The ones aimed at Britain were directed away from their targets thanks to British intelligence slam-dunking them with a highly trusted double agent, and Hitler's autism prevented them from being used against vital strategic targets along the coast of Europe because he thought that bombing civilians some more would somehow make the Allies give up. The Allies themselves considered the V weapons extremely dangerous and identifying and eliminating launch sites was a top priority, along with strategic bombing to try and disrupt their manufacture.

I don't think earmuffs were an option back then. I know in the USN they'd use cottonballs.

>rockets and jet fighters
>useless

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Lost Planet 2

The rockets had terrible accuracy. You could hit a city but good luck anything smaller than that. So they could cause no military damage and just pissed the Allies off more.

Entire V1/2 is a clusterfuck
>Kills more people building than in use
>consumes huge amounts of fuel at a time of chronic fuel shortages
>Essentially unable to strike military targets outside of mass bombardment, which is an issue from their high price tag and fuel cost

Launch sites were prioritized due to civilian deaths and to avoid a panic in British cities. Not for any military reason.

the V1/2 and Me-262 had no military benefit and achieved nothing besides wasting resources. Both of its roles were performed more effectively and cheaply by Allied counterparts

The jet fighters weren't actually that good. The Me 262 came into service early and had deeply impressive performance, but they were a nightmare in strategic terms because their engines would basically wear themselves to pieces after a surprisingly short number of flying hours. The Gloster Meteor that came a few months later didn't have the same raw power, but it could still outperform prop aircraft and its engines could keep going and going and going.

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>the V1/2 and Me-262 had no military benefit and achieved nothing
Is that why the Allies make jet of their own and race to captured German rocket scientists?

I'm not sure how loud it'd actually be from the operator's position. Big guns are louder than a rifle or pistol at the muzzle, but the muzzle's pretty far away from the breech on this thing and the crew would be almost directly behind it.

the a-4 was used to revenge bomb london and antwerp, in 44 and 45 there was no military tactical or strategic reason to do so other than hitlers revenge fetish
the fact that ballistic missile tech is useful is another issue entirely

the me 262 was pretty useless but innovative tech nonetheless

V1s were inaccurate, but the V2s weren't (on a strategic scale at least) when they were fired at targets within the scope of their fancy radio guidance system. About half of the V2s aimed at London missed the dense urban areas, but that was because of British intelligence fooling the Germans into re-calibrating their aim 10-20 miles north of their targets.

When fired into areas not covered by the radio guidance system they could have ridiculous shotgun-like accuracy though, with some of them landing 40 (!) miles away from their targets.

The Wehrmacht were the most elite fighting force on the planet when WW2 started. After conquering the continent, Hitler tried to sue for peace multiple times with Churchhill who refused because Churchhill had an irrational hateboner towards the Germans. Hitler never wanted war with the British.

>useless rockets and jet fighters
>had no military benefit and achieved nothing
>ballistic missile tech is useful

>still dies to bombers
lol

I dunno man, ten metres of solid armour plate is nothing to sniff at.

>>had no military benefit and achieved nothing
it didnt
the fact that ballistic missile tech became viable in the 50s is not the same as germanoid missiles actually achieved anything in the second world war