The Prowler tank's general shape was inspired by the Tiger tank

[Rothnang]

I wanted to point this out in the ill fated TR-Nazi thread, as an interesting side note that really has nothing to do with that discussion.

The Prowler Tank seems to be inspired heavily by the German PzKpfw VI Tiger tank, primarily in its hull design. It's a little sleeker, and doesn't have the prominent boxy superstructure, but it shares the large lower glacis plate and angled front and sides, the extremely broad tracks, as well as the general proportions of the hull being almost as wide as it is long, and exposed engine components/exhaust system on the back of the tank.

The turret design is obviously very different, and the Prowler has fixed side skirts that cover its tracks as well as a much smoother superstructure that is also missing the hull mounted machinegun and drivers viewport that are very characteristic of the Tigers front.

Some pictures to compare:






Please don't start the whole nazi discussion up again. I just wanted to point out that some of the artistic inspiration for a TR vehicle was in fact partially drawn from a German WW2 vehicle, merely as an observation of aesthetic influence in the game.

[bpostal]

Neat? Was it's steering as fucked up as the Prowler's is when it's trying to turn around?

[Binkley]

Other than the L x W similarity, I don't see much comparison.

[spuntron]

Nope.

[Figment]

Don't see it.



Looks more like an IS-8 or some other Russian model like the Object 252 to me.

[DarkBalths]

WHOAH

A tank that looks like a tank?
What?!

[AThreatToYou]

I can see this, mostly because the Prowler's design as an MBT is horribly unrealistic, so much so that no professionally-minded military would select it as their MBT in the motherfucking future.

It still looks cool though!

Not saying that the Panzer VI wasn't professionally minded. It was a heavy tank, very slow, and poorly armored for how heavy it was mostly because of its armor all being at flat angles. It was the Tiger II that had good armor. It had the usual Wermacht advantage of having a significantly better gun than its opponents.

But hey, that's not entirely relevant to just how the Prowler looks. What is relevant is that the Prowler, for all intents and purposes, would be extremely fucking stupid if it wasn't based off of the PzKpfw VI Tiger, because:

1) Its front glacis is fucking flat. FLAT. That tiny angle doesn't count. It's flat.
2) You can SEE its engine from the rear.
3) It's a box with treads and a cylindrical turret, just like the Tiger.

Originally Posted by Figment

Don't see it.



Looks more like an IS-8 or some other Russian model like the Object 252 to me.

Nope.avi

Reasons:

Flat front glacis
Box shape
Tread thickness

[Figment]

That is a long list of crap reasons. Hell, the Vanguard looks more like the Tiger than the Prowler.


If you have not noticed, the Prowler is all about sloped armour.



Besides, it isn't based on any tank in particular, it is based on the Terran Republic Leitmotiv.

[maradine]

And don't get me started on off-axis gun mounts . . .

[ChipMHazard]

I don't really see the inspiration. If anything I would think that the original Prowler [From PS1] looked like a Sherman made for racing. And since the current Prowler looks largely like its predecessor I would almost claim that it would be a closer match.
But I can't really think of any specific tank that reminds me of the Prowler's design...

Let's face it. The Prowler is a brick with tracks

[Koadster]

The biggest difference between the prowler and tiger, other tank drivers don't shit bricks when a prowler comes to play.

[Silent Thunder]

Originally Posted by Koadster

The biggest difference between the prowler and tiger, other tank drivers don't shit bricks when a prowler comes to play.

No but at least the Prowler is easy to maintain, can be built quickly in large numbers, and doesn't run out of fuel during a campaign. Which is more than can be said for the Tiger.

[stargazer093]

no it was inspired by nintendo FC

[maradine]

Somewhere, in the bottom of a filing cabinet, I have a photo if myself and my brother at 9 and 5, respectively, sitting on a PzVI at Aberdeen. They closed it in 2010, which is a shame. Well, moved it, anyway.

[Zulthus]

That's some good guess work, but I'd like to give my opinion on this topic as well;

I believe the Prowler was inspired by a vehicle from the 2003 game Planetside, called the Prowler. As you can see, pretty much all of the major parts of the tank are extremely similar;