I'm playing version 1.03...
It seems like whenever I get any version of the T-34 in battle, at ranges from 150-500m, it always misses the first five shots.
I recall a QB I played where I had bought a platoon of three T-34/85 (the ones with a intercom/radio inside, I think) and proceeded to prowl them up on this hill in line formation. Lo' and behold, a german tank in the distance (it was a Hezter or Nashhorn I believe, 75mm) all three T-34/85s stop and shoot! (my T-34s and this vehicle were of the same rank, veteran)
Miss, miss, miss.
The vehicle fires back. Hit. KO'ed.
My T-34s reload. Two shots from two tanks fired.
Misses.
The german vehicle fires back again. Hit. KO'ed.
One T-34 left, reload, fire, miss.
German vehicle fires back, Hit. KO'ed.
I furiously surrender and quit the game.
"How can..." I reasoned "...a tank, of any quality, miss so much?"
I tried searching on Google for documents about T-34 optics. It's common knowledge the german tank optics are excellent (Zeiss, among other things).
But the object of tank optics was way too obscure to find anything, execpt bonafide historians praising panther and tiger optics, almost borderline fellatio.
Now imagine if I was playing another human on a medium 700-1000 point map. The map is so small that in such a way, it is possible, my tanks won't have any cover on any possible path. That one strategically placed german tank or gun will destroy all my armor, since they literally can't hit the broad side of a barn.
I know someone will come to this thread saying "LOL BUT THE T-34 WAS EASIER TO PRODUCE AT A LOWER QUALITY!!!11"
Yeah? Well, in CMBB they barely cost
any less than the german tanks. I saved 30 points.
What am I going to do with 30 points? :confused: