Let's see the opinion of this armchair general about the battle against the Tiger.
- The Tiger fires at the LAST tank of the column, thus avoiding that flames and smoke from a more advanced tank could obscure the rest of the targets. The surviving American tanks do exactly this: they retreat trying to get concealment from the smoke coming from the wreck.
- The Americans fire smoke ammo, blinding the Tiger. At this point the battle becomes a stone-paper-scissor one. The Tiger commander is in a conundrum: what are the Americans doing? Retreating or charging trying to close the distance? At the end the Tiger attacks and aces another Sherman (my girlfriend said that the scene reminded her of a charge of armoured knights).
- The two remaining Shermans attack left and right, trying to bracket the Tiger. Bad dice rolls are made by both sides (IIRC, the third Sherman dies because either the Fury misses a crucial shot or they were still reloading).
- The Tiger actually tries to avoid a rear shot, counting more on the rotation speed of its gun (which was low in Tigers). Still it glances the Fury, damaging the electric turret rotation. Again, bad dice rolls are made by both parts. I believe it is realistic: just think to be there.
- Someone said that the Tiger could increase the relative rotation speed of his turret by rotating the hull, too. But remember how Bible says that they are going *too fast* for him to place a precise shot. Wardaddy changes the way the Sherman maneuvers, so to slow the relative rotation. The German commander, instead, makes a mistake, counting more on the sheer speed of rotation of his gun.
- Bible fires and MISSES. At this point Wardaddy decides to call the shot. Inside the tank Gordo sees that the Tiger gun is almost lined with them and screams to fire. Wardaddy orders to stay steady, then, all of sudden, calls for Gordo to rotate the hull for a last time and to Bible to fire. They hit the Tiger twice, kill the crew and win.
So, where is the videogame? Sure, there is the big mistake of the penetrating distance (700 meters was enough for the Fury gun) but I accepted it for a cinematic reason: by "cutting the distances" the spatial geography of the battle becomes more clear to the uninitiated. Realistic distances would have seen little silhouettes of tanks in the distance and vehicles exploding just because.
Small note: nothing implies that Norman "becomes a man" after bedding the German girl. If anything, his behaviour before having sex and the body language of both after their meeting suggest that he is already quite good with women. Some boys "become men" quite early. I remember a lot of examples in my high-school.