Bulletpoint Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 (edited) In CMFB, I'm playing around a bit with the 57mm AT gun VS Panthers. But I am nearly unable to make the gun fire its APDS ammo. The Panther is coming straight towards the gun, and I tried firing at various distances. The gun keeps using regular AP ammo, which has no effect. Only when the tank got closer than 190m, the gun fired one single APDS, which penetrated the hull, but then it kept firing more regular AP. It has 22 APDS shells available. The crew is regular, +1 motivation, in close contact with HQ. So, why isn't it using it? Any ideas? Edited May 31, 2020 by Bulletpoint 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger73 Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 What happens when you specify a "Target Armor" arc at the direction of the enemy threat? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletpoint Posted June 1, 2020 Author Share Posted June 1, 2020 (edited) 22 minutes ago, Badger73 said: What happens when you specify a "Target Armor" arc at the direction of the enemy threat? The same. I tried it. Also there's no difference if I set a manual target order or not. I also tried changing troop experience to elite, and to give them +2 leaders. Same results: They fire APDS extremely rarely. Mostly when they run out of regular AP. And even then, they seem to be just as likely to shoot regular HE at the tank as APDS. It's like they don't realise it's a good anti-tank round. Edited June 1, 2020 by Bulletpoint 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt.Squarehead Posted June 1, 2020 Share Posted June 1, 2020 @IanL This might merit investigation IMHO, sabot is very important to the Aliies, or it should be. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletpoint Posted June 2, 2020 Author Share Posted June 2, 2020 @MOS:96B2P What do you think? I can send you a test scenario if you would like to take a look. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOS:96B2P Posted June 2, 2020 Share Posted June 2, 2020 8 hours ago, Bulletpoint said: @MOS:96B2P What do you think? I can send you a test scenario if you would like to take a look. Sure. Send me a PM and we can make arrangements. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbennett88 Posted July 18 Share Posted July 18 I can also add that the same applies to APDS ammo in the Polish Firefly. I specifically brought them to my battle to deal with Panthers...but...although it had 5 rounds onboard, it chose the regular AP round to fire at a spotted Panther. And...of course the round just bounced off the frontal plate. Since ammo selection is completely out of the player's control, the AI is at fault for not using the best possible round available... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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