World War Two was fought and eventually won by the Allies who followed a doctrine of quantity over quality. With the benefit of hindsight, Germany would have done better to have flooded the battlefield with Panzer IVs to take on the hordes of T-34s and Shermans rather than press ahead with the Tiger and Panther. As well as continuing to manufacture high quality tanks, German engineers allowed themselves to be seduced by Adolf Hitler's love of heavy tanks. And so at a time when Germany could least afford it, the heaviest production main battle tank of the war was bom - the King Tiger. When the Tiger I project was launched, Henschel and Porsche both submitted designs. Porsche's design was expensive, complex and impractical, and the company lost to Henschel. History repeated itself with the Tiger II. Again, Henschel and Porsche both submitted designs. Again, Porsche's design was expensive, complex and impractical, and the company lost to Henschel. By the time Henschel was declared the winner, Krupp had already built a number of turrets for the Porsche design. Rather than see them go to waste, they were fitted to the Henschel prototype and the first 50 production Tiger IIs.
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