ladoga

Afaik Ju 87G-1 used modified 3.7 cm L.89 FlaK 43 (as BK 3,7cm) and PzGr. 40 tungsten carbide ammunition. Muzzle velocity was 1140m/s. Some penetration figures: 156 mm / 0 m / 90dgr 140 mm / 100 m / 90dgr 70 mm / 100 m / 30dgr No need to shoot at turret tops with that. [ December 08, 2004, 03:37 AM: Message edited by: ladoga ]

I think that IRL it wouldnt be possible to knock out "hull down" Nashorn because only thing visible would be its gun and some 50cm from top of the gun shield. You could get gun hit but very hard to damage anything critical unless penetration is made by HE round.

Theres few minor errors in plane stats. None of Bf 109g or Bf 109k models had 15mm machine guns. This is error which happened when some author mixed mg151 (15mm) with mg131 (13mm). Prolly a typo. 15mm mg151/15 is physically even larger than 20mm mg151/20 which they placed firing though 109F and G propellor hubs. There simply wasnt enough room to fit it inside the cowling. Large bulges were needed to house pair of mg131s there. So IRL both had 13mm cowling guns. Late model Bf-109g (g-6, g-10) had option for MK 108 30mm cannon in place of mg151/20. In Bf 109K 30mm MK 108 was standard. [ September 25, 2004, 07:39 PM: Message edited by: ladoga ]

Which can be compressed down to few MB. Good tool for this is virtualdub.

I just read article of finnish Stug commander Börje Brotell. He says that 1st round hits in combat were a norm. Also he mentions that they could hit black center area of 300m rifle target from 600m. So i guess it depends much of the crew. With careful aim these guns were VERY accurate. [ June 27, 2004, 05:16 PM: Message edited by: ladoga ]

If we can expect same realism (lack of) that il-2 has, then ill be playing CMBB long. Good looks isnt everything.

Mmmm... that's my favorite side-game </font>

Targetware www.targetrabaul.com Nethack and SPWaW can be also found on my HD. [ May 23, 2004, 01:26 AM: Message edited by: ladoga ]

@Eichebaum Looks awesome!!! Are you going to make forest treebases also? If so could you make something less uniform? So that forest edges wouldnt be like drawn with ruler and color variations would be more between green and brown. Lower surfaces tend to be brown because of dead leaves from pine trees. This isn't a very good photo but gives you an idea.

And how about huge delays in loading time of CDV version. US version of CMBB takes 3 sec loading time from launch to the splashscreen while CDV version takes up to 40 seconds because of crappy copy protection.

I think that MG 151/15 or /20 was the closest match to 50cal in german arsenal. It was mostly used on aircraft though. Seems like ground forces didn't really have a need for heavy machine gun. 20mm mg151/20 as mounted in post war french helicopter. MG 151/15 (1935) caliber: 15 mm lenght: 1960 mm weight: 42,7 kg cartridge: 190 g bullet: 72 g API, HE/T, Hartkern ROF: 700 rounds/min MV: 1040 m/s MG 151/20 (1937) caliber: 20 mm lenght: 1710 mm weight: 42,5 kg cartridge: 220 g bullet: 115 g (API, HE/T), 92g (Minengeschoss) ROF: 750 rounds/min MV: 710-805 m/s (depending on ammunition) I didn't find any penetration figures for MG 151/15. Seems like good light armor killer considering it's high muzzle velocity, projectile weight and availability of tungsten ammo (this was used by LW in ground attack missions). Number of these guns produced must have been really high since nearly every LW fighter had 1-4 pieces of these as its standard armament. IIRC they installed some "Drilling" 3x MG 151/15 and /20 mounts to SPW 251 halftracks.

AC's are relatively safe if you dont do close in scouting with them. Just keep them further back supporting infantry which is doing the actual scouting.

ops... [ November 09, 2003, 06:09 AM: Message edited by: ladoga ]

The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. / It's beutiful to die for your coutry. I can't read latin but thats my guess.

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