Tougher targets???

[556recon]

I was in a panzer, shooting at a tiger.  The tiger was driving erratic to loose me.  From 900 to 1000 meters away I hit him once direct on(no angle) in the rear and at least 4 or 5 times in the track. those shots should have taken out the engine or the track.  All this happened after a 1000LBS bomb landed right beside him. after the explosion he was sitting in the crater.  
Did this update make them tougher???

[OOZ662]

Nope, it's always been that way. The tracks are practically indestructable unless by MG. Has been that way a long time.

[wipass]

Shoot at Tiger tracks with HE, unless its been fixed it disables them !

wipass

[Kazaa]

I think the tigers are over modeled period, you can shoot the things from point blank & they will still be able to plod along.

Give me an M36 Jackson anyday.

[IownU]

no hes right something is messed up with all tanks. today i rolled a tiger and hit another tiger point blank like 200 feet from each other took 12 hits from my tiger to kill him all turret hits. then i was in a panzer and i had like 15 bombs dropped on me and i did not die dont know why. i have also bombed gvs tigers, panzers, and t34s and they dont die with direct drops on their turrets something aint right

[Lye-El]

I think the Tiger dies too easy when I'm in it.

[MachNix]

Whether it is intentional or not, "Fog of War" or "Luck" seems to be modeled into the GVs.  I have been in a tiger and died from a single ping from a panzer at 1.5k away when my own rounds seemed to do nothing to the panzer.  I've been in a panzer and it seems like I lose my main gun to an M3.  And at other times in a panzer, I felt impervious to anything they could throw at me.  "Luck" is modeled in some how – both GVs and aircraft.

"Sometimes you kick; sometimes you get kicked." - INXS
"The more I practice, the luckier I get." - Gary Player

[LYNX]

To track a Tiger use HE.  You don't need to hit the track but you do need to be close.

Have not used Gv's since new patch but I have no problem bombing the blighters.  They still go pop under me 500 Lbers.

The m3 seems a little tuffer under rocket fire but my aim coulda been off.

New Jeep pops with 1 rocket close in.

[Gwjr2]

Lynx how many HE shots to track?


thanks m8

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Kazaa
I think the tigers are over modeled period, you can shoot the things from point blank & they will still be able to plod along.

Give me an M36 Jackson anyday.

 

Not necessarily

I know I've mentioned this before a while back in another thread.

If you pick up a copy of Bill Mauldins book "Up Front" he gives a first hand account of 3 tank destroyers firing at point blank range repeatedly at a Tiger with no effect.
The tiger in return simply wheeled its turret around and with 1 shot each, destroyed all 3 Tank destroyers.

That being said  as far as thr game is concerned.
I find it hard to beleive that AP rounds, even from an M8 would not damage the treads on even a tiger

Yet I have managed to detrack a tiger with machine gun rounds from an M3

An even larger comlaint that I have has to do with all GVs. When in the middle of a  bomb crater, they for all intents and purposes are next to impossible to spot from the air even in the clearest of terrains

[Lye-El]

Originally posted by DREDIOCK

An even larger comlaint that I have has to do with all GVs. When in the middle of a  bomb crater, they for all intents and purposes are next to impossible to spot from the air even in the clearest of terrains

Do you have Icons turned off?

[DREDIOCK]

Originally posted by Lye-El
Do you have Icons turned off?

No but even with the Icons on they are hard to spot.
and if you aim at the icon, you usually miss