Editing Jagdpanzer IV

The Jagdpanzer IV was the German response to the more widespread introduction of both allied tank destroyers and heavy Soviet tanks.
It was a solid design and resembled in many ways the Stug and Hetzer assault guns.

==IRL==
The Jagdpanzer was ordered in the wake of the Battle of Stalingrad, because apparently winning that battle was a strategic concern and not a [[Emperor of Mankind|giant]] [[Cato Sicarius|ego]] fest. The new design called for a fuck ton of armor and 7.5 cm AT cannon like the ones mounted on the Panzer V. The solution? Modify a Panzer IV chassis, eliminate the turret, install a gun into the hull, strengthen the armor, rework the internal design, and boom! {{A game of pretend|New tank!}}. Oh, and don't forget the Coaxial MG34 to prevent [[Imperial Guard|soldiers from zerg rushing you.]]

Suprisingly, the Jagdpanzer IV performed well, despite the efforts of Hitler, who insisted it needed a bigger gun for some fucking reason, because apparently a gun that can [[Rape|utterly destroy]] everything short of superheavy tanks wasn't good enough. Some of it's advantages were its low profile, armor, and, it has to be said, the gun. Given that the war was no longer so much about manuevering as slowing the Soviets down by any means possible, the gun was not the worst problem.

Funnily enough, despite being explicitly designed to replace the Stug III as an assault gun, the Jagdpanzer IV was a terrible assault gun. Also, Heniz Guderian hated the design, stating that it screwed with his ability to continue production on Panzer IVs and saw it as a waste of resources.

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