So close to the Panther so the game is deciding to shit all over my face.
Just need one decent game. Using my Pnz iv H I kill most of the crew in a pnz III, he still somehow 1 hit kills me through the viewport, hitting my ammo rack, only taking it to orange(according to killcam) but apparantly is enough to make me explode.
Spawn in Tiger, get bombed by a fucking AI plane....I've had enough for today, this bullshit is just stacked i swear.
[QUOTE=Kilgore 2nd;46818840]So close to the Panther so the game is deciding to shit all over my face.
Just need one decent game. Using my Pnz iv H I kill most of the crew in a pnz III, he still somehow 1 hit kills me through the viewport, hitting my ammo rack, only taking it to orange(according to killcam) but apparantly is enough to make me explode.
Spawn in Tiger, get bombed by a fucking AI plane....I've had enough for today, this bullshit is just stacked i swear.[/QUOTE]
We all have those days. Sadly I got someone banned because they became too enraged at my own ignorance of the BR system.
Although, I do have to admit. Being the only IS-1 in a match filled with SU-100's, IS-2 1944's against king tigers and shit is quite abysmal.
I did survive for 6 minutes though, and I think I got a kill.
Just witnessed some pretty sweet executed clutch. A platoon of four D13 observed from 7k on Norway for nearly the entire round. We lost two hortens on takeoff, and the rest of the team died after following random bombers back to the enemy fighters.
As I return to my base after surviving a BnZ with a leaking fuel tank, and our tickets down to a few hundred, they start diving down on the enemy fighters.
And they do that insane rotary lawnmower maneuver, where there's always one fighter diving, one shooting, one climbing and one waiting at high altitude to attack anyone who follows.
The enemies just start dropping like flies, one getting shot down for each rotation. A perfect coordination of a fight because they all focused on staying on top instead of diving for cheap bomber kills.
As I landed at our airfield, with 30 seconds of fuel, and our tickets at 20, they had all killed two fighters each with a nearly perfect even score.
It was pretty cool to play a round like that, it just sucked that I had 46 in score from the combat time, and that I got my 2x :v:
Explain to me how I can hit an enemy tank barrel with a fucking 152mm HE shell and have it only go green
[editline]30th December 2014[/editline]
ah right i remember
'superior deutsche stahl' of course
Such properties are a mere byproduct by the collective density of the deutsche übermensch-boners manifested by the crew as their Panther rolls straight from the Nürnberg factory to your puny settlement of "Moskau".
You basically shot their dick, and they coulnd't give less of a reich-condoned fuck.
Superior? Think the devs said that they simulate German late war quality steel.
[QUOTE=O'Neil;46819917]Superior? Think the devs said that they simulate German late war quality steel.[/QUOTE]
obviously late war steel has the right amount of impurities to absorb 152mm HE better
So I have been grinding achievements for M8A1 and there is one thing I can clearly say...
Early tiers of Russian tanks are so fucking strong, that is not even funny...
Just finished doing that T28 one... in 5 rounds, damn, that tank is good.
Had 2 rounds with 10+ kills (11 and 16, just from that tank alone).
Now, I need to grind on German side and I can easily sum it right now - Pain.
(EDIT. all of above is from arcade only, I couldn't find realistic battles for over a minute, so I just gave up)
[QUOTE=O'Neil;46819917]Superior? Think the devs said that they simulate German late war quality steel.[/QUOTE]
Can you cite any credible sources that claim that late-war German steel was of inferior quality? I'm not saying you're wrong as it seems perfectly plausible, but I remember reading somewhere that an analysis of various samples of the steel in question found no degradation in quality over earlier samples. I felt like to get this cleared up.
[QUOTE=MrWhite;46820217]Can you cite any credible sources that claim that late-war German steel was of inferior quality? I'm not saying you're wrong as it seems perfectly plausible, but I remember reading somewhere that an analysis of various samples of the steel in question found no degradation in quality over earlier samples. I felt like to get this cleared up.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://tankarchives.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/german-armour-quality.html[/url]
[url]http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/02/06/on-german-armour/[/url]
[url]http://tankarchives.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/german-steel-vs-soviet-steel.html[/url]
[quote]In his memoirs, “Memories of a Soldier”, Guderian writes some reasons why German engineers, as excited as they were about captured T-34s, could not produce a copy. Among those reason, there is one we case about: “… our hardened steel, whose quality was dropping due to a lack of natural resources, was inferior to the Russians’ hardened steel.”[/quote]
[quote]. As a part of the agreement between the USSR and Germany, the USSR got a copy of Germany’s latest and greatest in tank technology. Of course, they tested every molecule of the tank they received. The results were bad. Really bad. The German armour failed catastrophically when subjected to the absolute minimum condition for acceptance by Soviet engineers. They were so shocked, they made an identical section of armour out of Soviet steel, just to make sure that there wasn’t anything about the armour’s shape that made it crumble to bits.[/quote]
[QUOTE=Araknid;46820237][url]http://tankarchives.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/german-armour-quality.html[/url]
[url]http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/02/06/on-german-armour/[/url]
[url]http://tankarchives.blogspot.com.au/2014/05/german-steel-vs-soviet-steel.html[/url][/QUOTE]
I hear over and over about these Russian tests, but nobody ever seems to come up with actual combat examples. Find me a case where spalling "slaughtered" a king tiger crew.
[QUOTE=Oscar Lima Echo;46819581]Just witnessed some pretty sweet executed clutch. A platoon of four D13 observed from 7k on Norway for nearly the entire round. We lost two hortens on takeoff, and the rest of the team died after following random bombers back to the enemy fighters.
As I return to my base after surviving a BnZ with a leaking fuel tank, and our tickets down to a few hundred, they start diving down on the enemy fighters.
And they do that insane rotary lawnmower maneuver, where there's always one fighter diving, one shooting, one climbing and one waiting at high altitude to attack anyone who follows.
The enemies just start dropping like flies, one getting shot down for each rotation. A perfect coordination of a fight because they all focused on staying on top instead of diving for cheap bomber kills.
As I landed at our airfield, with 30 seconds of fuel, and our tickets at 20, they had all killed two fighters each with a nearly perfect even score.
It was pretty cool to play a round like that, it just sucked that I had 46 in score from the combat time, and that I got my 2x :v:[/QUOTE]
Were the enemies jets? Being in a D-13 against jets can be extremely punishing, but there are few things more satisfying than watching a coordinated group of guys in props rip the shit out of a bunch of jets.
[QUOTE=Avager;46820139]So I have been grinding achievements for M8A1 and there is one thing I can clearly say...
Early tiers of Russian tanks are so fucking strong, that is not even funny...
Just finished doing that T28 one... in 5 rounds, damn, that tank is good.
Had 2 rounds with 10+ kills (11 and 16, just from that tank alone).
Now, I need to grind on German side and I can easily sum it right now - Pain.
(EDIT. all of above is from arcade only, I couldn't find realistic battles for over a minute, so I just gave up)[/QUOTE]
Panzer IV E and C are pretty rape tier if you know how to use them properly.
I don't know whats up but I keep shooting down jets in my B-17G:v:
I can't dig it up no matter how well I look for a British report on the captured Tiger 131. I remember tho, that it basically said the constructional quality was trash even back then.
Arcade tonks is hilariously fun
kuban 5 times in a row
is this a fucking joke
i would love to see alternate history tank maps.
[QUOTE=O'Neil;46819917]Superior? Think the devs said that they simulate German late war quality steel.[/QUOTE]
I don't know how they do that without also simulating mechanical breakdowns and other reliability issues and the fact that many Russian tanks reached the frontlines with defects and impurities of their own due to being rushed off their primitive production lines without any quality control.
[QUOTE=krakadict;46820683]i would love to see alternate history tank maps.[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't mind a map taking place on the streets of New York City or London.
They also simulate cast armor.
Am i the only one that uses the M2A4 as a anti air vehicle? It's just hiraliously fun to shoot down bombers with the 2 mg's and the 37mm cannon
[QUOTE=Araknid;46819857]Explain to me how I can hit an enemy tank barrel with a fucking 152mm HE shell and have it only go green
[editline]30th December 2014[/editline]
ah right i remember
'superior deutsche stahl' of course[/QUOTE]
Really? My Tiger cannon seems to break if someone just looks at it. I'm forever repairing the barrel or the breech. Then again I seem to have that problem in most tanks.
If you hit a cannon barrel with high caliber HE and it only gets greened, the shell probably ricocheted instead of exploding (yes HE can ricochet instead of exploding).
If you are shooting from the front, it's safer to aim at the gun mantlet on either side of the gun, but I had many cases where I was going for mantlet hit and inaccuracy/gun wiggling sent it onto the barrel so yeah, gun is armor.
[QUOTE=Timezbrick;46821238][t]http://puu.sh/dQEFh/2390ef3a47.png[/t]
(3.3 + 3.3 + 3.3) / 3 = 3.7 ???
Could someone explain this? :v:[/QUOTE]
Is formula of sekret document)))))
Well BR is meant to be calculated based on [img]http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb1419252955/warthunder/images/math/0/3/e/03e07cf76518373d549b39e87c028ab8.png[/img] so I have no clue honestly.
[QUOTE=Timezbrick;46821238][t]http://puu.sh/dQEFh/2390ef3a47.png[/t]
(3.3 + 3.3 + 3.3) / 3 = 3.7 ???
Could someone explain this? :v:[/QUOTE]
my best guess is that you're queued for an air-only battle, and you have a tank in your lineup that isn't being displayed, but is still being accounted for.
Simulator battle:
[img]http://i1.minus.com/iYcfCUNGacM2k.jpg[/img]
I was the only IS-1 amongst my whole team going against Tigers and Panthers.
The fuck is going on with this match making? It's not just about my BR anymore. This is match making being fucked.
The other battles I have are where I'm an IS-1, and maybe a couple other people, where everyone else is a IS-2, or 1944 mod.
Somethings fucky.
[QUOTE=Covalent;46822195]Simulator battle:
[img]http://i1.minus.com/iYcfCUNGacM2k.jpg
I was the only IS-1 amongst my whole team going against Tigers and Panthers.
The fuck is going on with this match making? It's not just about my BR anymore. This is match making being fucked.
The other battles I have are where I'm an IS-1, and maybe a couple other people, where everyone else is a IS-2, or 1944 mod.
Somethings fucky.[/QUOTE]
Maybe this explains why I've had 3 games in a row in my Tiger and Panther vs Tiger II H's and Jgpanthers. In all 3 games I was killed in 1 hit so just went straight back to garage. It's really no fun at all.
A big reason for preferring War Thunder over WoT was the better matchmaking at the time, when I first started playing you rarely saw a tank a tier above. Latley all i've been getting is BR 6.7 vs my 5.7. Yes I realise MM is +1 but this rarely happened. Now I'm just getting rekt and spoiling the game
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPKKkum5uLk[/media]
this tank is too fun
[editline]31st December 2014[/editline]
I want the fucking ISU-152 and that 250mm pen HEAT
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