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    Red Thunder bugs

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    88s fires from the gun barrel in my end, but the crew load it a little below the breach...I do normaly get quite close to my pixeltruppen but rarely as red, and when it happens mainly tanks....

    85s in the other hand, and I have just tested, is firing from the bottom as you have said, wich brings a lot of missfires and even own crew kills when firing from a depressed position (20/19/20), now I do undestand why was so easy of overcome they position in some scenarios I made...on the other hand, they load the gun quite far from the breach, but with the configuration of the gun I understood the modeling of such act is complicate...

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    Hammer's Flank Campaign

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

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    5 hours ago, Aured said:

     I've read a lot of people saying that it's unrealistic and badly designed

    😲...Nuts...they are nuts...

    all scenarios are as realistics as they are ...as proven in real life...in many cases they will provide you with much joy just for the fact that you just overcome the dificulties they are presenting...

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    Was the Russian T-34 Really the Best Tank of WW2?

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

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    I remenber in Saudi Arabia some time ago an american guy was complaining that the Saudies did not use the humvees they had purchased and instead they prefered the toyotas...I did ask him if the humvees they bought got aircon...no doubt they prefer toyotas...Crew confort it is really a deciding factor in fact

     

    JS3 was a dissapointing russian experimet, it lasted nothing in the soviet cadre...anyhow... the whole middle east confict should be taken cautiosly to say it kindly...and ofcourse...supershermans were super...90mm...that´s the gun that could handle an opposing beast...

     

    Comming back to 76 shermans, well , they were reported to beat the t38/85 in Korea...with extensive use of HVAP...I would not like to be on either side anyhow

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    Was the Russian T-34 Really the Best Tank of WW2?

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

    Posted · Edited by Dan Dare

    9 hours ago, chuckdyke said:

    This is a CM hobby site. Ever played a December morning in FB? You find to tackle the King Tiger you can use the 76 mm Sherman to knock it out. This is my experience with the 76 mm gun on the Sherman. Back to the Josef Stalin. I remember the specification of rounds to be carried on an allied tank always around seventy. 28 rounds on the IS2 a serious matter it translates in 9 effective shots. 5 minutes in a battle and it is out of ammo. The issue is similar in pistol shooting in which I have experience. 7 rounds .45 ACP or 13 rounds 9 mm in the HP Browning? Not surprised even the US army went for the 9 mm some time ago. If you drop a 75 mm shell through the slit of a pillbox the people inside won't tell you that the round is ineffective. Even more effective than cracking the reinforced concrete with a 122mm. In Korea British tankers excelled in that technique. They called it letter dropping. 

     

    yep "This is a CM hobby site" and CM is the most realistic game I had ever found, so the 76 in december 44 with the HVAP (something similar to shoot with gold munition) sure could do the job...or even at 500 m the AP on the side or back could, not always but could...anyhow, better use the 90mm when possible

    lets see now time on combat...well with the 76  and the water container they had 71 rounds...I guess It will be more or less the same time in continuos shooting...lets see, 28 times three...84...ough...it looks as if it will be depleted of ammo faster than the 122....

    Cal....tank guns versus mg, rifles and pistols it is not comparable unless you have armored soldiers...thinking it of a .22 will provide you of much capacity then... I read somewhere that Israeli SF use .22...and US marines I think they have .45s, I wonder why...In fact, ROF is starting to play something on even cal and armor, mg42 that's a killer and it is the only one gun that have survived till our days with small modifications...in fact I strongly belive that all this German ubersoldier nonsense of old years was just they had the mg42...look at this, romanians, hungarians and italians infantry units had allegaly performed poorly on ww2, and then the spanish, armed by the germans did it well...wonder why

    another example..in ww2 too much spectation was put of crusiers (mostly IJN) armed with 152s and rapid fire compared to higher calibers...they where expected to overwelhm the big guns...they resulted on a kind of fiasco....

    really not ofense and not that I think I will convince you but I love the chatting and educated ranting about the theme...

     

    it worth a reading this https://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4013coll8/id/3523 , 19 January 1945, third parragraf

     

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    Was the Russian T-34 Really the Best Tank of WW2?

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

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    2 hours ago, chuckdyke said:

    he IS2 28 shells rate of fire two round/ minute. Very good reason not to appreciate it. Pershing not reliable not even in Korea. M46 was actually the same tank better engine entered service 1949. Explains why the Pershing was introduced too early. 

    and there we go again... ROF...seriously...2 to 3 shots a minute...1 shot every 20 - 30 seconds is too much time for you?,  enough for you to run away surely...are we talking about guns?...if yes then keep shooting at it with your 76 at 3 times the rate assuming you could coup with the aiming, but remember Einsenhower words "Ordnance told me this 76 would take care of anything the Germans had. Now I find you can’t knock out a damn thing with it".

     

     

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    Was the Russian T-34 Really the Best Tank of WW2?

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

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    do you ever wonder which tank had made a crisis in AT defences?...cause tanks are made for a reason...every upgunned tank/new developed tank or atgun will give you a hint of which was "the best" at a given time, i mean, you don't go to calibers above 100mm stop a sherman or a t34 unless they are on a row....based on that my picks are namely: T34/KV, Tiger/Panther, and the very unapreciated IS2.

    Pershing...too late and to little

    Shermans...well...lots of them and very reliable... but for me it is as if the USAF would had sticked to the p40 for the same reason, surely we will be arguing today that the p40 was nice after all

     

     

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    Fire & Rubble Release Date Pool

    in Combat Mission Red Thunder

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    2 hours ago, Anonymous_Jonze said:

    Nah. Partisans will be awesome. Not every scenario needs to have a tank.

    Sure  and even with the strong oposition of wadepm...In my defense I will just say that I want to blow a bridge while a tank pass over since long long time ago...

    not quite sure how I will manage but...

     

    1 hour ago, wadepm said:

    Maybe, but no scenario needs a Partisan.

    Partisan scenarios will for sure...😉...

     

    and also, with the variety of things they brought on equipment and gear, modding them to whatever you like will be awesome (in fact I´m thinking on a whole new life for my pixelvolksturm)

     

     

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