Gyrene Posted April 12, 2001 Share Posted April 12, 2001 CM should have included more realistic modeling for the late war Jerry uber-tanks...Like the King Tiger breaking down if you fast move it for more than one turn and all of the German tanks running out of gas halfway through the game. Gyrene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
109 Gustav Posted April 12, 2001 Share Posted April 12, 2001 Those problems would have happened on the way to the battle, not in the 20-60 minutes of combat. This has been brought up before, and the general opinion was that it would spoil games if tanks broke down for no reason on the first turn. After all, you could claim "I only lost because my KT broke down on turn 5 and never saw an enemy AFV." Not much fun to play with. [ 04-11-2001: Message edited by: 109 Gustav ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warmaker Posted April 12, 2001 Share Posted April 12, 2001 Then they should model my 88's going through the front of a Sherman/soda can and out the back and killing another soda can behind it? It happened a bit after all... Love/War is a give and take relationship, after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyrene Posted April 12, 2001 Author Share Posted April 12, 2001 Then they should model my 88's going through the front of a Sherman/soda can and out the back and killing another soda can behind it? It happened a bit after all... Now THAT I'd love to see... Gyrene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Posted April 13, 2001 Share Posted April 13, 2001 Or they could model how the Sherman tanks couldn't turn in place on one track. Interviews with American Sherman tankers revealed that 'it took a whole field to turn around in'. They can't lock one track and turn on the other, they have to make a turn using both tracks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyrene Posted April 13, 2001 Author Share Posted April 13, 2001 They couldn't pivot around their centers? I thought that has a characteristic of all tracked vehicles. (Non-HT) I thought they could all do it, tractor-like, I guess it makes sense, being they used steering differentials in US models, instead of turning brakes, like the T34. Interesting. Gyrene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warmaker Posted April 13, 2001 Share Posted April 13, 2001 Read about that too. As a matter 'o fact someone posted that a while back. And back on the 88mm's effects. We all know of the excellent penetration it can do but here's some more food for thought. It became SOP for several U.S. armored formations NOT to fish out dead/wounded tankers whose mounts were knocked out by 88's. Why? Supposedly the injuries inflicted I guess were more "disturbing" than usual and caused even more psychological/morale problems to frontline troops who were fishing them out. Rear echelon units were assigned to do these tasks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyrene Posted April 13, 2001 Author Share Posted April 13, 2001 Warmaker, a dad's friend who was a Marine in Vietnam told me a story of how he once had to pull some guys out of an Amtrac that brewed up on the water...It boiled the crew, it wasn't a pleasant task. I've seen first hand the aftermath of bouncing shrapnel inside Iraqi tanks in the Gulf, not pretty. At least I didn't have to clean it up, just taking some Harrier/F18 pilots to inspect their handywork. Gyrene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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