HOW WOULD THE LEMAN RUSS PERFORM IN WW2? Warhammer 40k lore and WW2 Tank History HH ep 5 fixed audio

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To be honest any box of steel would atleast be effective against either the italians or the japanese tanks

A Russ vs a Hammerhead is like a Sherman with the armor of an Abrams vs an Abrams with the armor of a Sherman.

I mean you could technically introduce a new short and longer leman russ design, you just need to: 1. Establish or "find" an entire forge world. 2. Try to convince the mechanicus that you discovered an alternate design of the leman russ "hidden" in your archives that makes it harder to hit with its lower profile. 3. If they ask why the dimensions of the tank are so... "off", you could always say the STC you have might have been slightly corrupted, thus leading to current vairant of the tank youve been churning out of the assembly line. 4. Prove that your leman russ variant has a slightly higher success rate from being hit just slightly less often. 5. Get found out. 6. Get branded as a heretek. 7. Die and have your forge world wiped off the map by the mechanicus. 8. Become less than a footnote in history 9. After about a century or two, the mechanicus starts churning out your tank variant stating it was a lost STC "discovered, and totally not pried out of some guy's cold dead hands" and call it the newest mark pattern of the Mars Pattern Leman Russ Tank. 10. ... 11. Profit! (For the rest of humanity at least.)

The greatest quote ever: “There is killing to be done!” - Commissar Bradley

the imperium discovers the blueprints of an ancient tank.. it uses exactly the same engine as the Leman Russ Tank. Got a powerful long range gun. Is about as reliable as the russ (meaning it breaks down on the slightest incline...) It is called the tiger Tank. and the techpriest has already made a plasma cannon variant.

I find it hilarious that the Leman Russ uses a variant of the Tigers engine which is infamously super unreliable

A lot of people don’t understand The guard win wars where Space Marines win battles. I’m a Space Marine fanboy, but their normal objective is to hold and capture areas that the imperium can’t lose.

The Leman Russ canonically has an "HL230 multifuel engine". Coincidentally, the high performance version of Maybach's V12 engine used in Panthers and Tiger IIs is the HL230 model.

I am an ex-tanker and... yeah, everything you said checks out. I didn't know about the force field on the Lemon though, I didn't know that's why it was so fucking tall. It was something of a standout, most of the Imperium's vehicles are reasonably sized, the Lemon just fucking isn't, and it's good to know there's a reason. I've always thought the Lemon was a great tank, ever since it was blowing my space marines to kingdom come back in 2000, because the gun instagibbed marines.

A Lemun Russ in green just looks so much like a Tank of Green Earth from Advanced Wars.....

I could imagine the Leman Russ has quite a few advantages in what's called "soft" qualities. It's tall and wide and has very long tracks so it's likely both roomy and comfortable to drive. You never see Leman Russes with things like exterior stowage bins or cargo nets so clearly there's enough room inside for the crew to have their personal gear with them. The multitude of access points mean that you have a good chance to escape a knocked out tank.

While 120mm may be the canon size for the Russ Battle Cannon, scaling the internal diameter of the model's gun gives you anywhere between 12"-14" depending on model kit and if you count 40k as 1:56 or 1:48 scale. That is over double the stated 120mm 4.75" gun. If you go off the actual model, a Russ is a Mk4 with the front armor of an M3 Lee, the turret of a Tiger, and the gun from a battleship, with a 25% difference for copyright reasons

It's funny, when you play a game like Men of War, which has 40k mods, you get to see how useful those tanks are in a battlefield setting. In the 40k mod, sometimes you'll actually forgo the battle cannon on the russ and get a punisher cannon just for the volume of fire. All other races apart from the guardsmen adjacent ones get vehicles way later and are more expensive. So by the time someone actually gets an armored vehicle out to challenge your russ, you'd already have three of them.

I absolutely love the level of detail you went into about the lemun russ tank, explaining so much about it, now in defence of the height issue, it is said that the blueprint that the lemun russ was from was for a civilian vehicle, a farm or construction machine perhaps (since half the imperium's vehicles were hilariously originally civilian machines), they simply took the design and technically just slapped on some weapons and armor and decided that's good enough, still a badass tank though

I think the fuel used by the Leman Russ would be its defining factor and its greatest strength since it runs on anything that is combustible liquid making it not as suceptible to fuel shortages as well as simplifying its fuel logistics.

As a museum curator working at a military museum, I love that you mentioned the jumbo. The chunky sherman doesn't get enough love. Also, I love the idea of random people from history being thrusted into Warhammer 40k, and actually giving sound advice. hahaha

It seems that Vanquishers produced on Gryphonne IV fire 150mm rounds, while Vanquishers made on Stygies VIII use 120mm Sabot rounds.

20mm of steel makes you immune to pretty much all small arms fire, so imagine what 10 times that could stop.

Everytime I hear him call the Tank a metal box, I think of the Dawn of War quote "METAL BOXES!"