danfrodo

all depends on the material models. The material models are built from from pulling on a sample of the material and then backing out stress-strain from that.  So it all depends on how well the stress-strain behavior used in the model would match with the stress-strain behavior of the projectile and armor materials.  They are probably reasonably close.
These kind of models are used in car crash simulations simulations every day, though the test data for those models is very good, of course.  Automakers don't go crashing dozens of super expensive prototype cars into walls to see what happens.  They simulate and get something they are very confident in, then crash just to verify.  Simulation-driven-design, which is predictive, as opposed to old school build & test, which is reactive.

There is no tactical interest in riding the captured Panther, just the fun, the feeling of power and that stoast of revenge and freedom after 5 years of oppression.
In a few moments they will pay a lot for their youthful unconscious!!!

Dudes thinking they are so cool in their bunker

Even invited all their friends

But forgot to invite the friends w AT assets and this is what sherman(-ski) tanks excel at.  Two shermans and an SU76 make 3 hits at nearly same time

Party over, Dudes

Meet the new neighbors

The bad news is there was another bunker I hadn't properly suppressed and one of the sections above lost several men and fled the scene

When is santa claus (GeorgeMC) gonna leave this under our trees?   Me & a bunch of my heavily armed friends want to know (picture from On to Berlin, battle #8).
SU152.  Yeah, slow loading, not many rounds, but 120mm of frontal armor and a navy-sized gun.   I'm planning some urban renewal in Berlin.

 

Dudes thinking they are so cool in their bunker

Even invited all their friends

But forgot to invite the friends w AT assets and this is what sherman(-ski) tanks excel at.  Two shermans and an SU76 make 3 hits at nearly same time

Party over, Dudes

Meet the new neighbors

The bad news is there was another bunker I hadn't properly suppressed and one of the sections above lost several men and fled the scene

Not usually the biggest fan of the early Panzerfausts, but at point blank it's hard to miss with them.

Overwatch! Never leave home without it! (Bit of a mouse trap too)

Gotta love a nice twofer
 

Brutal action in the trenches.

Dudes thinking they are so cool in their bunker

Even invited all their friends

But forgot to invite the friends w AT assets and this is what sherman(-ski) tanks excel at.  Two shermans and an SU76 make 3 hits at nearly same time

Party over, Dudes

Meet the new neighbors

The bad news is there was another bunker I hadn't properly suppressed and one of the sections above lost several men and fled the scene

Dudes thinking they are so cool in their bunker

Even invited all their friends

But forgot to invite the friends w AT assets and this is what sherman(-ski) tanks excel at.  Two shermans and an SU76 make 3 hits at nearly same time

Party over, Dudes

Meet the new neighbors

The bad news is there was another bunker I hadn't properly suppressed and one of the sections above lost several men and fled the scene

Best mission of the campaign IMHO, so satisfying to use all of that firepower to smash your way through the enemy defenses. The enemy AI felt very realistic too, apply enough pressure and they're often smart enough to surrender rather than die in place, I think I ended it with 40 or 50 enemies captured by the end. So many times I lit up an enemy contact in a building only to realize at the end of the turn they were trying to surrender, oops!

Dudes thinking they are so cool in their bunker

Even invited all their friends

But forgot to invite the friends w AT assets and this is what sherman(-ski) tanks excel at.  Two shermans and an SU76 make 3 hits at nearly same time

Party over, Dudes

Meet the new neighbors

The bad news is there was another bunker I hadn't properly suppressed and one of the sections above lost several men and fled the scene

When is santa claus (GeorgeMC) gonna leave this under our trees?   Me & a bunch of my heavily armed friends want to know (picture from On to Berlin, battle #8).
SU152.  Yeah, slow loading, not many rounds, but 120mm of frontal armor and a navy-sized gun.   I'm planning some urban renewal in Berlin.

 

Dudes thinking they are so cool in their bunker

Even invited all their friends

But forgot to invite the friends w AT assets and this is what sherman(-ski) tanks excel at.  Two shermans and an SU76 make 3 hits at nearly same time

Party over, Dudes

Meet the new neighbors

The bad news is there was another bunker I hadn't properly suppressed and one of the sections above lost several men and fled the scene

Never listen to Engelbert Humperdinck.

OMG, you mean there's MORE after CW & F&R??????

Syrian mechanized unit attacks supported by tanks.

Back in Poland, summer 1944.
Elements from KG Mühlenkamp counterattack in an effort to eliminate elements from 9th Tank Corps and IV Guards Cavalry Corps.

Whilst lead elements attack from 8./II./SS-Pz.Rgt. 5 (commander SS-Obersturmführer Karl Nicolussi-Leck) attack, one zug takes up overwatch in a patch of woods.

The attack breaks into the small village of Rani held by infantry and AT guns from units in IV Guards Cavalry Corps.

A zug from 10./III/SS-PzG. Rgt "Germania" (commander SS-Hauptsturmführer Werner Westphal) moves into Rani to provide close support to the tanks. @kohlenklau's excellent no gear mod doing grand service here. Ta muchly

'Wiking' Panthers encounter armoured elements from Batov's 65th Army - Ill met at Dolbizna - but for whom?

Codreanu, you inspired me to keep going on the campaign and not divert to seelow heights battle.  I have pre-planned smoke and arty barrage on the enemy side of the first bridge set for 15 minutes from start.  So I have to get the bridge approaches clear enough for an assault.  This is a really fun one so far.  Glad I am not volksturm, they are getting hammered.
And so it begins:  infantry + armored car rush the bridge.  The smoke rounds missed did the bridge/road but at least will blind flanking fire.

First wave rushes across. 

Success:  first wave across w follow on troops now crossing.  So vulnerable but it looks like my preliminary fire destroyed the immediate bridge defenses.  That plus smoke made for no casualties in first wave

Codreanu, you inspired me to keep going on the campaign and not divert to seelow heights battle.  I have pre-planned smoke and arty barrage on the enemy side of the first bridge set for 15 minutes from start.  So I have to get the bridge approaches clear enough for an assault.  This is a really fun one so far.  Glad I am not volksturm, they are getting hammered.
And so it begins:  infantry + armored car rush the bridge.  The smoke rounds missed did the bridge/road but at least will blind flanking fire.

First wave rushes across. 

Success:  first wave across w follow on troops now crossing.  So vulnerable but it looks like my preliminary fire destroyed the immediate bridge defenses.  That plus smoke made for no casualties in first wave

Golly, I just wanna play w cool-looking pretend army-men and tanks

Codreanu, you inspired me to keep going on the campaign and not divert to seelow heights battle.  I have pre-planned smoke and arty barrage on the enemy side of the first bridge set for 15 minutes from start.  So I have to get the bridge approaches clear enough for an assault.  This is a really fun one so far.  Glad I am not volksturm, they are getting hammered.
And so it begins:  infantry + armored car rush the bridge.  The smoke rounds missed did the bridge/road but at least will blind flanking fire.

First wave rushes across. 

Success:  first wave across w follow on troops now crossing.  So vulnerable but it looks like my preliminary fire destroyed the immediate bridge defenses.  That plus smoke made for no casualties in first wave