freeeman Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 My Sturm Panzer rolled down the road, I watched in terror as I saw the notice, side hull penetrating, and a light like the sun, seriously my monitor went bright white, then the burning hulk was inside a crater that swallowed it.. the top barely crests.. its like a 12 inch battleship round... I tried to take a picture but am having issues with screen capture... so What ungodly thing hit this 70 plus ton beast putting such a dent in the roadway? crater is almost twice as wide as length of Sturmbaby 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMolestCats Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 Ion Cannon... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeeman Posted June 6, 2013 Author Share Posted June 6, 2013 It actually acted like a heat round... the SP just blew up... and then the crator after the huge fireball.. AWESOME!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeeman Posted June 6, 2013 Author Share Posted June 6, 2013 I keep getting an all black image... the tiger driving on the edge of the crator for scale was a great shot.. too bad when I go to paint, sic, it shows all black, further proof of the alien conspiracy! lol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iMolestCats Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 Lmao, can you send me the turn? I got to see this.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 Really, some vehicles, like Brummbar, Grille and Priest, the least little penetration is liable to cook-off their whole freakin' ammo load. Not only KO the vehicle but make a huge crater and kill anyone remotely close. I've got into the habit off having my infantry give some vehicle types a wide berth just-in-case. A similar thing in CMSF involved Bradley Fighting vehicle. You don't want stored TOW missiles to cook-off. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c3k Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 That's great! Gotta love it. During a beta test of CMBN, I was the Germans. The AI sent a Priest down the road... I nailed it but didn't kill it. The surviving crew panicked and BACKED it into my main defensive bocage block. Some stupid landser took the shot. Sigh. The ensuing cook-off killed half my guys. Defeat by kamikaze tank. Pretty fun... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeeman Posted June 6, 2013 Author Share Posted June 6, 2013 what was shocking was the WHITE screen affect.. I mean cooking my eyeballs.. like a sun spot! WOW I dont know why Im having trouble getting the image to paste, any thoughts? when I paste into paint, its just a black page 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bil Hardenberger Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 Freeman you need to download FRAPS and use that make screen captures. WIN 7 or 8 screwed that up for us. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 freeman, 50 15cm shells @ 38 lbs/each + 1 lb + of propellant per shell= 1900 lbs shell weight + 50+ lbs of propellant. http://www.lonesentry.com/manuals/german-infantry-weapons/sig33-15-cm-heavy-infantry-howitzer.html As it happens, the above numbers are practically dead on for a U.S. WW II MK 13 16" HC (High Capacity) shell. Quoth the Wiki for the Iowa class battleship. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armament_of_the_Iowa-class_battleship "For unarmored targets and shore bombardment, the 1,900 lb (862 kg) Mk. 13 HC (High-Capacity—referring to the large bursting charge) shell was available.[24] The Mk. 13 shell would create a crater 50 feet (15 m) wide and 20 feet (6 m) deep upon impact and detonation, and could defoliate trees 400 yards (360 m) from the point of impact.[24]" Judging from the above, it's possible your smoking hulk nestled in its crater may understate the full force of the detonation and the resultant terrain remodeling. Contrariwise, your Brummbar's annihilation technically was an ultra low airburst, where the 16' HC would likely penetrate at least a bit before detonating. If we compare total explosive weight, the MK 13 HC has 153.6 lbs. See Ammunition, first section for WW II ammo. http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNUS_16-50_mk7.htm while your notional (all 50 aren't HE, but most are, plus the 50+ lbs of propellant) Brummbar load, per the sIG-33 link above, comes in at 50 x 18.25 or 912.5 lbs of explosive or 5.9 x as much explosive as the 16" MK 13 HC! Who needs an alien death ray when a penetrating hit on the Brummbar's ammo storage, using crude Terran weapons, will yield the same result? Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baneman Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 Freeman you need to download FRAPS and use that make screen captures. WIN 7 or 8 screwed that up for us. What he said. When I was running CMBN under my old XP system, screenprints worked, but with Windows7, I have to use (free) FRAPS. Note that free FRAPS will only save your pic as a bmp, you will still need to convert it to jpg using Paint or Irfanview or somesuch before posting it here 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted June 6, 2013 Share Posted June 6, 2013 What ungodly thing hit this 70 plus ton beast putting such a dent in the roadway? crater is almost twice as wide as length of Sturmbaby Kinda like this: Some stupid landser took the shot. Sigh. The ensuing cook-off killed half my guys. Defeat by kamikaze tank. Pretty fun... Oh man that is an even better story. I think you have us beat there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 freeman, Oops! Wrong Sturmpanzer! Recalculation, based on 14 rounds of 38 cm Raketen Sprenggranate 4581 at 275 lbs of explosive per round. That's 3850 lbs of explosive (no factoring in propellant at all) or 25 MK 13 HC 16" rounds! That's two broadsides + another turret volley and a two gun salvo. No wonder your monitor went white! Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeeman Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 I think it was the detonation of the beast.. too bad we still are using smoldering husks.. imagine the gory bits of molten SP flying around .. talk about schrapnel I never had an issue with cutting and pasting images into paint before! odd well I have saved the game and there is a HUGE crater 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeeman Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 Ive never in hundreds of hours of CM seen the likes of the 200 to three hundred foot wide fireball.. it was amazing and as said before bright.. So what the heck, a 57 mm anti take toothpick can detonate these guys... Im seriously thinking infantry support and more infantry support is needed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeeman Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 oh, and for the elite on this attack .. driving in tigers and sturm panzers and elephants.. note one jeep, truck half track etc... my poor poor pitiful elite anti tank infantry have to race an amazing way... seriously I would be raising hell if these where my troops and not even one asset to help move the infantry forward? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeeman Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 I just watched the priest blow... yep, very much like that and a little bit bigger... funny it did not look like it got hit, my sturm... just a note a sound and then a very very large sunspot.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Sounds even more dramatic - looking forward to pics if you can sort out your troubles. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Some of the pre-release screenshots showed a Priest blowing a huge crater when it went, IIRC. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeeman Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 ok.. Ill try to gets a working system... and it happened AGAIN! talk about lightning striking twice... now I have two huge craters.. fun seeing my tank drive down into and then out otf this hole from hell 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Belenko Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 Who's grass mod are you smoking?... Just kidding Probably just the on-board cannon shell cooking off all at once. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womble Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 ...talk about lightning striking twice... You know what they say: "Get a side penetration with medium ATG on my assault gun once: well done for siting your asset. Get a side penetration with medium ATG on my assault gun twice: shame on me." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeFF Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 BMP-3s in CMSF are also known for their huge explosions when their ammo load is ignited. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lethaface Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 freeman, Oops! Wrong Sturmpanzer! Recalculation, based on 14 rounds of 38 cm Raketen Sprenggranate 4581 at 275 lbs of explosive per round. That's 3850 lbs of explosive (no factoring in propellant at all) or 25 MK 13 HC 16" rounds! That's two broadsides + another turret volley and a two gun salvo. No wonder your monitor went white! Regards, John Kettler Didn't know the Sturm Tiger was in the game (quite sure it isn't ? The Brummbar is though, so you were actually right the first time hehe. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeeman Posted June 7, 2013 Author Share Posted June 7, 2013 Ok In game looks like tiger with cap Called strum panzer Make large crater Use as suicide troops to open defensive walls in sieges Lol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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