The mighty TIGER, or not so much?

[FireDragon]

While i have no idea of the historical aspects of the tiger tank out side of the the game.......in game>>>>>.... The Tiger has always in my opinion been easy to kill with a Panzer. One shot kills have always been common.   I always though it actually got harder to kill a Tiger when they changed the ballistics of the ammo...<<<< I think balistics is the right word here >>>>> It was around the same time we got the High velocity rounds for the T34.  


there are very few situations that make the tiger worth tanking out of the hanger.. None of them work for my style of play...

[smokey23]

I GV alot and its a joke when a puney little 250lb or even a 500lb bomb hits 50  to 100yards away from my tank, however i seem to end up in the tower.A bomb hitting open ground that far away wouldnt do much to an armored vehicle other than cover the tank with dirt , scratch the paint and possibly give the folks inside a headache. When i drop a bomb directly on a tank from an aircraft i get "invalid component" whats whith that. Much work still needs to be done.IMHO

[Chalenge]

You realize at 3,400 yards you're shooting at a target that is over 2 miles away, right?

Where did you go to school? 

[shreck]

So wouldn't it make sense to even the playing field point wise tween firefly and tiger ?

[Motherland]

Where did you go to school? 

Whoops, almost 2 miles. For some reason I was thinking it was 1680 yards instead of 1760 yards.

[redman555]

i think tiger is underpowered....  i was in a tiger one time, was head to head with a sherman... i shot him in the turret.... he takes the hit.. then he shoots me one time in front.... and im dead..


-BigBOBCH

[Warspawn]

They should lower the perkie cost of the current tiger, or perhaps replace it with the King Tiger at its current perk cost.  Or the Panther, either works for me 

[AirFlyer]

Whoops, almost 2 miles. For some reason I was thinking it was 1680 yards instead of 1760 yards.

1.93 miles, close enough.

[Spikes]

Yeah it's bomb proof alright. I've dropped a full load of lancs (salvo 14) onto a tiger after it taking 2 DIRECT hits from 2 1K bombs. It still kept driving. I took a Tiger up to kill it then, and got bombed by a 190A8 with a 500kg bomb, 1K bomb basically. I don't get it, do some people just get a bugged tiger? Other times I've hit a tiger with a 500lb bomb and killed it.

[shreck]

Yeah it's bomb proof alright. I've dropped a full load of lancs (salvo 14) onto a tiger after it taking 2 DIRECT hits from 2 1K bombs. It still kept driving. I took a Tiger up to kill it then, and got bombed by a 190A8 with a 500kg bomb, 1K bomb basically. I don't get it, do some people just get a bugged tiger? Other times I've hit a tiger with a 500lb bomb and killed it.

  Hmm you could spit on my tiger these days and kill it!

[RipChord929]

Yeah it's bomb proof alright. I've dropped a full load of lancs (salvo 14) onto a tiger after it taking 2 DIRECT hits from 2 1K bombs. It still kept driving. I took a Tiger up to kill it then, and got bombed by a 190A8 with a 500kg bomb, 1K bomb basically. I don't get it, do some people just get a bugged tiger? Other times I've hit a tiger with a 500lb bomb and killed it.

I know how ya feel man.... I've seen some bizarre things happen on the GV scene...
Doesn't seem to be any consistency to it... VERY ODD....
Thats why there are so many accusations of cheating in game... Certain players sure
seem to get that "indestructable bug" often... Isn't always a Tiger either....
I just don't get it....

RC

[FireDragon]

[quote author=FireDragon link=topic=245540.msg3003046#msg3003046 date=121995226 
there are very few situations that make the tiger worth tanking out of the hanger...


So wouldn't it make sense to even the playing field point wise tween firefly and tiger ?

Were in violent agreement Shreck....Based on my style of play the tiger is not worth taking out of the hanger for FREE...

[715]

I think the game has no "shell passed through target and did no serious damage" visual effect so it uses the "shell bounced off and did no serious damage" visual effect instead.  Example: I hit an M3 at close range with T34 HVAP but I lead him a bit too much and the shell hit the drivers outside window post.  In real life it would have passed right through it but done little damage (except scaring the poop out of the driver).  The game probably has no visual effect for this so it gives the "bounced off" visual effect instead.  (Yes I know I should have been using HE not HVAP.)

(The "hit the side and/or rear of the Sherman with Tiger and got no damage" sounds odd though.)

[kamori]

The Gv model along with other things has had major problems for many years. HTC is like a teenager with a car, he puts cool rims, Rockin stereo,  paint on it but doesnt maintain whats under the hood. lame but thats the way it is. The Tiger isnt worth the big diff in perks. Its still my fav ride.


KAM

[E25280]

I'm not really up on history when it comes to tank performance

Well, there is your problem right there.