Wanting to try the new tank versus new ack, I went offline and rolled a Pz up to an airfield.
I was surprised to find one ack reaching out and touching me at a pretty long range (it looked like about double the old ack range).
I stopped at its extreme range limit. From the tank gunsight, it was showing at "28" (whatever range "28" represents). It was hitting my frontal armor regularly but slowly.
I put a whole bunch of HE shells all around it, as close as I could from that range. What I observed:
- it had no trouble hitting me with every shot
- it didn't seem to do any damage to me
- I couldn't hit it at that range, could only get a few pixels near it
- every recoil would move the gunsight, requiring a re-aim (that's going to make tank vs tank battles more exciting)
- at that range, the sight markings are far enough apart to make precise aiming difficult
- I put at least 20 HE shells right next to the ack, with no effect
- I put 3 or 4 AP shells on the ack, with no effect. At that range, it was 3 or 4 hits out of about 20 (I wasn't keeping track)
- eventually I moved closer and I was kilt :> I never got to within MG range
- the ack is able to hit the tank at extreme range with a very "flat" shell trajectory and high velocity. The tank shell arcs a lot more, and takes longer to arrive (even the AP)
- I didn't try smoke to see if it had any effect
Things have changed
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Waxer
II/JG2 Richthofen
"Nothin' up my sleeve...Presto!"
[This message has been edited by Waxer (edited 06-21-2000).]
