Vehicles shooting HE bug

[thewood]

One question is if American Sherman (75) fired HE instaed of AP at King Tigers? I know sometimes they fired WP to get crews to bail, but would they have fired HE only?

[Sgt Joch]

Getting back to the topic at hand, this sounds very much like a bug/ programming fault to me, I don't see how you can justify/rationalise shooting HE at an armored target.

In general, soldiers fight as they were trained and Syrians show little initiative on the battlefield.

If a Syrian tanker was trained to fire AP at U.S. tanks, that is what he would fire in battle. He would not decide to experiment with HE.

On the other hand, if he was trained to fire HE because his AP cannot knockout american tanks...then they would bolt as soon as they caught sight of a U.S. AFV.

[Exel]

Originally posted by Sgt.Joch:

If a Syrian tanker was trained to fire AP at U.S. tanks, that is what he would fire in battle. He would not decide to experiment with HE.

Exactly. Tankers in the real world don't speculate with mm penetrations versus given RHAe values. You have a tank up against you, the antidote is your AP round. That's what you use. The only exception is if you are either out of AP in which case you fire HEAT (not HE), or if you happen to have HEAT loaded in the barrel when you make contact. If you have just HE, you better bail the battle...

Now, you might know that your primary AP round doesn't have much of a chance against your enemy. But you also know that your standard HE round has even less of a chance. And with the AP round you always have the chance of hitting a weak spot. If you see that your AP rounds have no effect on the target, you might try lobbing a HE round at it in desperation, maybe to hope to cause enough disturbance to buy you some time to evade return-fire and to get the heck away from there. HE rounds are NEVER the preferred AT round - simply because they aren't AT rounds.