The Last Hope
Alternate History

"After the Battle of Nuremberg, american soldiers of the 7th army inspect the knocked down "Spider tank". Near the end of the battle, US tankers engaged what they tought to be a casemate tank turret from what they saw. Upon arrival, they found out that it was completely something else. Something they never saw before. The "spider tank" seems to have an outdated small barrel without a muzzel brake. The armor looks thick, but weak at some places. The paint pattern and the markings matches the one used by the german army. Also the riveted parts of the "vehicule" looked odd and outdated. The strangest thing were the legs. One of the legs was hit by a 75mm shell, the front body by one shell. The turret was also hit by 2 shells. After a quick peek in the inside of the turret, they found out that the « vehicle » only had two crewman. One who seems to be exclusively the driver and the other the commander, loader, gunner at the same time. The space inside the turret and the main body appeared to be really small and tight. The two crewman were later identify as young boys from the Hitlerjungend. This is probably why they we’re not able to maneuver the vehicle correctly and use it proprely as no shell was fired from them. It looks like the german forces took that old prototype from a warehouse as a last effort of defense... there last hope."