DarthJesus Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 How tough are Panthers anyways? This one took 13 shots from T-34/85's from less than 200 meters without a penetration. It even took two shots in the side hull without a penetration! From 180 meters! In desperation I tried a close-in infantry assault to take it out. It went poorly: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bud Backer Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 How tough are Panthers anyways? This one took 13 shots from T-34/85's from less than 200 meters without a penetration. It even took two shots in the side hull without a penetration! From 180 meters! In desperation I tried a close-in infantry assault to take it out. It went poorly: This is exactly why I didn't want to face one head on in my CAAR. I just knew it would be trouble, and it was... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heinrich505 Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Soviet Armor begin their advance. Uffz. Beck finds himself flanked. His Tiger takes a hit to the flank. No one panics. The shot is lined up. The order given to fire. The kill is seen in the distance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heinrich505 Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 The instant of death. Beck's tank is blurred in the fog and mist. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heinrich505 Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Leutnant Ackermann watches and waits. The flames from Beck's kill dance in the mist. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heinrich505 Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 And there it is. Target, 12 o'clock. Leutnant Ackermann's gunner sees it at the same time as his commander. A large smudge looming from the dark mist. Lt. Ackermann orders the shot; the trigger is pulled almost at the same time as the command. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heinrich505 Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 TREFFER!!! The enemy tank goes up in a fireball. Catastrophic explosion. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heinrich505 Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 Lt. Ackermann and his wingman's Panzer are backlit from the violence of the explosion. While the tank on tank drama plays out, the Landsers work feverishly to provide medical aid to their kameraden. They have been bloodied badly from the Soviet artillery. The Tigers are all that are keeping them from being overrun and crushed by the Red tanks. Heinrich505 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waclaw Posted July 7, 2015 Share Posted July 7, 2015 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heinrich505 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 rocketman, Great shot. Did Hans rectify the situation or did he get remanded back to driver's school? Heinrich505 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 He did get out of that awkward position and was a valuable spotting unit, harassing some assault guns, venturing forward like a true trooper and happily sacrificed his pixeltruppen life to reveal a hidden T34. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heinrich505 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Hans is totally focused on his shot.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heinrich505 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 So far, so good.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heinrich505 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Nearby troops make tracks fast. If there are any survivors, they will be angry. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heinrich505 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 There are survivors from the Tank Riders. They are dazed but angry. Their tank crew didn't make it. They fan out for vengeance. The killing shot can be seen in the right side of the turret. Heinrich505 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rinaldi Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 An indecisive meeting engagement PBEM. Forgive the audio (its gotten worse if anything...) - I'll be going over to more traditional narrating post-facto after this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOS:96B2P Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Nice Rinaldi, I really like the level one & two video of the AAR where were down moving with the units. I could watch just that part for hours. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womble Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Nice work. Rinaldi. One little skirmish that seems to have ended up "on the cutting-room floor" was the story of the two T-34s that carried your SMG platoon into the woods on the right flank and accompanied them through it, and their interaction, if any, with the Luchs that you showed, starting to give your LMG team grief in their upper storey perch... I was expecting that to go worse for you than it did, since the Lynx didn't seem to have any armoured opposition, and looked like it was going to make dogmeat out of your SMG platoon, or at the very least the LMG team... How did it turn out that your right flank survived? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rinaldi Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 (edited) His attempts to push through the forest usually led to equally poor results in terms of infantry. Why he never moved the Luchs forward I'll never know - most likely he believed I had more T-34s there, which was a safe assumption on his part. I put down considerable mortar fire on the treeline off-camera to deter movement through it. I cut alot of extraneous stuff like that out of my videos because I simply do not want to upload a 2 hour video - no one will watch those. The right flank had to more or less pull back to my edge of the tree line, and he was content to sit there with half-strength fireteams and just wollop me when I decided to move up. I think it was a case of mutual exhaustion. The LMG team managed to crawl down to the bottom floor and hide, but was unable to recover the DP. I should've dismounted the SMG platoon in line rather than in columns of squads. The time it took to fan them out let him dump 60 odd men in there. When I wanted to shift over to the left flank, but leave my right secure, I redeployed both of the 45mms just behind the treeline in case he decided to roar out with any armored vehicles. He was largely reactive by that point anyways, and I think he redeployed the Luchs closer to the Panther in reaction to my movements on the left. Edited July 13, 2015 by Rinaldi 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womble Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Thanks for that, Rinaldi. What was it nailed the two T34-85s over that side? The Panther? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rinaldi Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Yes, it was the Panther. Rather a good job of lining up a good angle on his part. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtsjc1 Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Nice video Rinaldi! And please accept my apology I accidently hit the down arrow for rep so please ignore it. Btw my cousin's last name is Rinaldi so I'd never vote down! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heinrich505 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 East Front Carnage 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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