T-34 soft spot

[Lusche]

Originally posted by bobtom
Now (sadly) there will be a severe decrease in t34 drivers because they will all be shot with 1 shot.

 To my experience only a small percentage of the victims, err, players out there does read the board

[Larry]

Originally posted by JagdTankker
kinda like not being able to kill a tiger tank bug due to incorrect modeling?

The T34 should be able to kill a tiger from the rear. There are even storys about T34 crews running thier tanks into tigers to take them out .

[Colt44]

I had one of the uber guys kill my T-34 with his hull gun in a flack that had its main gun knocked out.   He killed me from 30 feet with the bb's while I was hammering away at him with my main gun....  

He of course wouldn't tell me how he did it, and wouldn't even respond on 200.   Funny how quiet he got all the sudden.

Anyone else know how this could be done?   Some would think that I would want this information to exploit the bug myself....  But, actually I just want to know that its a bug and not a Ha ...  uh... something else.  
That would really be a total buzz kill.

I may just have to resign myself to the fact that information is power and that power corrupts.

[Sketch]

Originally posted by Colt44
He of course wouldn't tell me how he did it, and wouldn't even respond on 200.   Funny how quiet he got all the sudden.

I wouldn't have responded on 200 either because I don't tune to it..... so does that mean I uh.. oh never mind.

[715]

Krusty had the answer:  where the glacis and the bottom come together on the real T34 is an enormously thick casting that should be nearly invulnerable.  In AH that casting is modeled as the same thickness as the glacis armor, but at 90 degrees, so it is very weak.  Hit that point and you will kill a T34 with one shot 100% of the time.

A T34 can kill a Tiger only from a range of about 400 and less and only if you hit either the side of the turret at 90 degrees (will take out turret only) or the side of the hull (where the cross is) again at 90 degrees (one shot will destroy the Tiger).  If the Tiger is pointing at you it is entirely hopeless unless (as one unfortunate Tiger driver did to me recently) he turns his turret the wrong way and presents the side to you.  If you are beyond 400 yds, never fire at a Tiger- it will just annoy him.

Edit: This is with HVAP rounds of course.  AP will do nothing.

[BaldEagl]

Originally posted by 715
If you are beyond 400 yds, never fire at a Tiger- it will just annoy him.

[VansCrew1]

Originally posted by Urchin
Should be able to kill a Tiger from the sides or rear with the HVAP rounds in the T-34.

it would have to be extremely close range.

[Urchin]

Yes, less than 500 meters from the side, and 1000 from the rear, but it used to be almost literally impossible.

[715]

It wasn't impossible:  all you had to do was drive to within about 50 yds of the Tiger and fire 9 AP shells into the side of the hull.  

Of course, for your T34 to survive that would require quite possibly the worst SA on the Tigers part ever.

[Overlag]

i dunno what u guys problem is but my tigers die after 2 or 3 hits all the time...