Mind boggling subjective reasoning at best. No wonder there has been some dustups over "rules"

My subjective reasoning indicates the only thing that makes a real difference in IR battling is the speed of the tank and the skill of the driver. Throw all the historical prototypical data out of it.

The speed of the tank indicates what class it is for IR battling. What it looks like is really irrelevent in IR combat. Many of you sticklers for details are already over- looking the fact that one 88 could take out three Shermans with one shot!!!!!

With everything else being equal in these plastic and tin models of tanks the only thing measurable that makes a difference in IR combat is speed. That is the cold hard fact, and the rest is subjective opinions based on historically accuracy that really mean little in the real life physics of Model IR Combat.

Use a speed table for WWII tanks. IF it fast it is light. If a guy spends the time and money to gear down his tank and make it prototypical reward him with more armour hits. If a guy shows up with a stock Heng long Tiger that can run circles around a Tamiya Sherman guess what? In My IR world that Tiger is a light weight and should have no real advantage in IR combat.

Seems like a real simple solution to a problem that is all too subjective otherwise.

Oh ya I have zero experience in IR battling, and have nothing invested in preconceived ideas.

That's my opinion so there!!!!