LW Shermans eating up a Tiger company

Title says it all, Mikael down at the club wanted to play FoW but there were no LW opponents for his LW US tank company so David borrowed me his Tiger company - and the same bad luck which I had previously displayed in my EW game against David was also displayed against Mikael to the point that he was just shaking his head.

I got 6 Tiger tanks and faced some 15 Sherman’s. The odds could not have been more stacked in my favor. On Turn 2 , two of my Tigers are destroyed by Sherman tanks in one single roll. The following turn I would have lost, since one of my tanks that was heading over to prevent the enemy from capturing the objective got bogged down. Mikael said "screw it, let’s play on", probably hoping my luck would even out at some point. It got only more ridiculous.

My delayed reserves did not enter the game until turn 6. By then both my Company commander and 2iC had been brutally murdered by Sherman’s, and the "just for laughs" reinforcements that arrived - did indeed manage to knock out some Sherman tanks but were soon put out of commission by the remaining Sherman’s on the table.

Final score was something like

6 Tiger E and 1 BergePanther destroyed at the price of 8 lost Sherman’s and 1 infantry team. My unfamiliarity with LW and Tiger tank companies in particular contributed to their demise - no doubt about that. But the amount of sheer bad luck that entire day in both my FoW games was just astounding. Glad it wasn't during a tournament, because then I would sulk for the remainder of the tournament.

Regarding the German list, I don't know how much fun David is going to have playing this force. I find Tiger companies in both mid and late war to be quite dull - and against allied armor it seem to be a complete overkill. I think I would have preferred to run Pz IV, StuG - or even cheapass PzIII tanks. Marder’s would also be fun, those "regular" tanks would offer a lot of fun infantry options as well that the Tiger company seem to be missing out on. This was a 1500 points battle since Mikael only has 1500points US. The 1750 points Tiger company David has includes the 6 Tigers, the BergePanther, Michael Wittman and a platoon of Light AA vehicles. I can only imagine the nightmare of facing US infantry packed with Bazooka teams with such a list.