[binarray2000]

Due to simplicity Russian tanks were also cheaper and easier ti build. Which is why they outnumbered the Germans.

[contingencies]

I can get another if I break it, so a clay cup trumps a grail. - Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, classical Urdu and Persian poet from the Mughal Empire

... from http://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup

[masklinn]

OTOH Germany didn't have the resources (raw materials or crews) to field that many tanks, so focusing on fewer but better tanks made sense. Not that it panned out, but it made sense.