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Dittohead

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  1. Yeah. I hear ya.

    I dream of the day when computers are so fast and so powerful that graphics are not a problem and physics is not a problem.

    I dream of being able to model the bullet path of the MG42 while firing full auto and being able to track every bullet AND ricochets in real time.

    I dream of realistic real time war games being able to resolve the proper LOS of soldiers, ATGs AND tanks... buttoned and unbottend, properly.

    I dream of HE explosions with properly modeled shrapnel...that is random.

    I dream of Tanks with high fidelity modeled armor and interiors for advanced damage modeling.

    I dream of soldiers tanker and AT gunners with their own ability to think and resolve a situation properly...maybe even randomly.

    I HAVE A DREEEEEAAAAM!!!!!!

    But man...the coding would have to suck. Wouldn't you think?

    Sounds like WWII online to me. And coding is a biotch , jusk ask CRS. They almost deliver on everything thing you ask for.
  2. IIRC the "shatter gap" as defined by Rexford is not correctly modeled in the game which allows the 37mm and 40mm to get penetrations against face hardened armor when in fact the round should shatter instead of penetrating. Rounds do shatter in the game but i think that only applies to armor it would not normally penetrate. But then again i could be wrong. But who knows I don't remember things so good these days. ;)

  3. An elite 37mm gun crew(M8) can tank a panther out from I think like 720 meters in under a minute every time due to the shot trap( ran tests on it long ago). The game assumes that the shell ricochets with its full penetration power. However the smaller rounds would probably shatter on impact or not have sufficient power after the ricochet. esp. at the longer ranges.

  4. So will there be a shortage of AP rounds for the

    Soviet 76.2mm and 152mm guns during the first few

    months of the war?

    From Fighting Armor of WWII Osprey Military - T-34/76,

    Medium Tanks 1941-1945, Steven Zaloga and Peter Sarson,

    page 10. "Due to the incompetent leadership of Marshal

    K. Kulik, ammunition production for the new 76.2mm tank

    guns had been delayed and only 12 per cent of the rounds

    were available when the war broke out. Most T-34 tanks

    went into action with-out any armor piercing shells, only

    high explosives, while many tanks did not have even a full

    load of ammunition."

    From the Armor at War Series, Stalin's Heavy Tanks 1941-1945,

    The KV and IS Heavy Tanks, by Steven J. Zaloga, Jim Kinnear,

    Andrey Aksenov & Aleksandr Koshchavtsev, page 4. "Most of the

    KV tanks had been delivered in the last three months before

    the war. There was only a tenth the required 76.2mm tank gun

    ammunition, there was no armor piercing ammunition for the

    152mm gun on the KV-2, and no one had informed the KV-2 crews

    that they were expected to use the old 09-30 152mm concrete

    penetrating ammo instead of the non-existent armor-piercing

    rounds."

    Sounds like some T-34's/KV-1's should end up with 0 rds of AP

    during the first few months of the war.

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