Ugh, Tigers...

[MstWntd]

So I had my lancs to bomb V46 (TT map)...but bish had taken the hangers down...so I said 'Well OK'. I saw a Tiger. I wanted to make sure I killed him.

".salvo 14"
"Bomb Doors Open"
"Bombs away"

So, all the bombs hit right on his top of turret (Weakest point for a Tiger).  I thought for sure I'd get him...After all the bomb craters...he is just sitting there...Turret still working, he simply just drove to concrete and landed.
Also, a few weeks ago, just to add to this story I had a Tiger. A P-40E drops a 500lb bomb on me and I die!

[Lusche]

Originally posted by Spikey

".salvo 14"
"Bomb Doors Open"
"Bombs away"

So, all the bombs hit right on his top of turret

That is not possible.

/nitpickmode ON
Shortest salvo duration is 0.05 seconds. At a speed of 200miles per hour, that means you drop a bomb every 5yds, resulting in a total disctance of 70 yds covered with 14 Bombs. Technically, only one bomb could have hit his turret top, not all 14.
/nitpickmode OFF

[Larry]

ahem divebombing lanc.

[MstWntd]

Originally posted by Larry
ahem divebombing lanc.

lol


Lusche,
I had stalled out before I dropped, about 6 hit him direct...the others landed within a close range of him...

[Lusche]

Originally posted by Larry
ahem divebombing lanc.

No no... nobody does that in this game !!!

[Sketch]

Originally posted by Spikey
lol


Lusche,
I had stalled out before I dropped, about 6 hit him direct...the others landed within a close range of him...

No, this is a direct hit.... and that was with 18x 1,000lbers.

One hit... that is all, out of 18...  Stall out all you want, 6 eggs won't fall in the same spot.

[LTARsqrl]

But as usual, people think that you have to salvo an entire load of ords to kill one GV.  No surprise there.  

You probably would have been successful with only one bomb.  Parish the though.  LOL

LTARsqrl  <>

[Lusche]

Had much fun in my Tiger a few hours ago defending Ndisles A18 town against a CV raid. Did the Tiger Waltz outside the town and collected 8 proxy kills of greedy blue planes trying to bomb me

[Movie]

some napalm oughta do it lmfao

[macleod01]

Originally posted by Sketch
No, this is a direct hit.... and that was with 18x 1,000lbers.

One hit... that is all, out of 18...  Stall out all you want, 6 eggs won't fall in the same spot.

AND THE BOMB BOUNCES OFF!!!!!!!!!  

[VooWho]

How does a bomb bounce off of a tank? Thats gatta be game bug there.

[Sketch]

Originally posted by LTARsqrl
But as usual, people think that you have to salvo an entire load of ords to kill one GV.  No surprise there.  

You probably would have been successful with only one bomb.  Parish the though.  LOL

LTARsqrl  <>

The only reason I dropped all mine is because we had troops on the ground and the gv was close enough to town to 'maybe' hit a troop.  I do feel bad because it was LTARsoup....     Tell him sorry and I will take out his garbage for a week....

[Spikes]

yeah Sketch, I saw your post on that...sqrl..we were about to take the base and I did not want that Tiger to get in our way...wanted to make sure he was dead.

[Kweassa]

How does a bomb bounce off of a tank? Thats gatta be game bug there.

 Actually, if a bomb is set with a timed fuse it will not blow up on impact if it hits a target before the set trigger time.

 I admit the pic itself is very interesting, though, since it seems to suggest AH has some kind of system that determines whether dropped ordnance blows up upon impact or not. So far, all we know is that every AH bomb detonates after 1000yd travel distance. The pic seems to suggest that there's also something else.

 We just don't know what it is. A bug? Or a feature?

[Spikes]

well I doubt a bomb bounces when it hits ground in WWII...