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KV1 and KV2
« on: July 07, 2008, 09:53:54 AM »
id like to see the KV1 and KV2 tank added. it had good armor and was tough to kill. the KV1 had a 75mm anti tank gun and the KV2 carried HE rounds

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Re: KV1 and KV2
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2008, 10:17:11 AM »
that KV2 is 1 weird lookin tank with its huge turret
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Re: KV1 and KV2
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2008, 10:56:16 AM »
id like to see the KV1 and KV2 tank added. it had good armor and was tough to kill. the KV1 had a 75mm anti tank gun and the KV2 carried HE rounds
Im curious how was the kv1 or 2's armor compared to the tigr and panzer? You said the kv2 carried HE did it also carry AP or was HE only option? Looks pretty cool and we need another russian tank.  :aok :aok :pray
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Re: KV1 and KV2
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2008, 11:59:14 AM »
Another Russian tank with no machine gun........ hmmmmm

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Re: KV1 and KV2
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2008, 12:42:29 PM »
Need a British tank first.
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Re: KV1 and KV2
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2008, 01:07:18 PM »
Im curious how was the kv1 or 2's armor compared to the tigr and panzer? You said the kv2 carried HE did it also carry AP or was HE only option? Looks pretty cool and we need another russian tank.  :aok :aok :pray

the KV2 was designed as a bunker buster with a 152mm main gun. not sure if it carried AP.

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Re: KV1 and KV2
« Reply #6 on: July 07, 2008, 10:24:55 PM »
Either KV would be a good addition... after we have a viable tank destroyer (M18?).
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Re: KV1 and KV2
« Reply #7 on: July 07, 2008, 10:34:52 PM »
We need a polish tank. The main gun is loaded from the outside and it shoots in the turret.  :rofl :rofl I crack myself up sometimes.  :lol Ok as you were <<S>> :salute
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Re: KV1 and KV2
« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2008, 01:34:32 AM »
We need a polish tank. The main gun is loaded from the outside and it shoots in the turret.  :rofl :rofl I crack myself up sometimes.  :lol Ok as you were <<S>> :salute
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Re: KV1 and KV2
« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2008, 05:34:06 PM »
Need a British tank first.

WHY ???????? They were all a piece of , well you know. We have talked this one into the ground. British tanks could not even compete with our current tank selection let alone any further uber selections. In my opinion the Stug would make the most sence since it would bridge the entire ew-lw era's and then move up from there. But a British tank doesnt make sence. The KV models don't make any sence either. T-34/85 or Panther would make a better addition. The KV 1 was on a basic T-34 frame so killing it the same way you kill a regular T-34 would be all you need to do. The turret might take a little more of a pounding than the T-34 but that's it.

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Re: KV1 and KV2
« Reply #10 on: July 08, 2008, 05:50:49 PM »
WHY ???????? They were all a piece of , well you know. We have talked this one into the ground. British tanks could not even compete with our current tank selection let alone any further uber selections.

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Re: KV1 and KV2
« Reply #11 on: July 08, 2008, 06:46:18 PM »
WHY ???????? They were all a piece of , well you know. We have talked this one into the ground. British tanks could not even compete with our current tank selection let alone any further uber selections. In my opinion the Stug would make the most sence since it would bridge the entire ew-lw era's and then move up from there. But a British tank doesnt make sence. The KV models don't make any sence either. T-34/85 or Panther would make a better addition. The KV 1 was on a basic T-34 frame so killing it the same way you kill a regular T-34 would be all you need to do. The turret might take a little more of a pounding than the T-34 but that's it.

The only thing shared between the T-34 and the KV1 was the engine, transmission and gun.  Though, I do agree that adding the KV1 at this point adds nothing new to the game that the T-34 doesn't already offer.  The only real thing the KV1 might offer is better armor but by 1942 the invincibility the KV1 once enjoyed was no longer there after the Germans started to field better armament for their tanks.

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Re: KV1 and KV2
« Reply #12 on: July 08, 2008, 06:51:12 PM »
the KV2 was designed as a bunker buster with a 152mm main gun. not sure if it carried AP.

The KV2 was nothing more than a mobile heavy artillery vehicle with a mounted 152mm howitzer and it didn't fire AP rounds.  It wasn't very successful either and only around 250 were made between 1940-1941.  It was expensive to produce, it was very slow and the turret had traversing issues which pretty much only allowed it to traverse on level ground as a slope or an incline would make it almost impossible to traverse the turret. 

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Re: KV1 and KV2
« Reply #13 on: July 08, 2008, 06:57:55 PM »
British tanks could not even compete with our current tank selection let alone any further uber selections.

As someone noted the Firefly was a very effective British tank even though it was a modified Sherman.  The Achilles IIC was also an effective British tank destroyer (based off the M-10).  There was also the Comet though I don't know how much action it saw.  I believe some of the tanks in the Crusader and Cromwell series were also rather effective and there was the Archer, another British tank that fielded the dreaded 17 pounder main gun.  There also had a number of successful early war tanks like the Matilda.


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Re: KV1 and KV2
« Reply #14 on: July 08, 2008, 08:54:55 PM »
As someone noted the Firefly was a very effective British tank even though it was a modified Sherman.

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