Author Topic: How about a Sherman Tank? (Read 4729 times)

MiloMorai · « **Reply #195 on:** July 14, 2006, 10:09:07 AM »

Reynolds

the T-64 is NOT a WW2 tank. It is 15 years too late as it is a 1960s tank.

Reynolds · « **Reply #196 on:** July 14, 2006, 02:17:55 PM »

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Originally posted by MiloMorai
Reynolds

the T-64 is NOT a WW2 tank. It is 15 years too late as it is a 1960s tank.

I never said it was. I just said it was one of my favorite tanks. I am perfectly aware of when the T-64 was made, i was just listing all of the tanks i like regardless of when they were made.

Reynolds · « **Reply #197 on:** July 14, 2006, 02:19:22 PM »

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Originally posted by Angus
The versatile tanks would still have the short gun I guess.
Both Shermie and the Churchill were in the group of Hobart's funnies.
If we had some of those, as well as mines, AH would really be getting into an area where nobody else is.

Well, AH is ALREADY in a league of its own, but adding those things... id love it, it would make playing so much more fun, but then when i went on vacation, i would suffer from withdrawl from not playing!

Angus · « **Reply #198 on:** July 14, 2006, 05:09:29 PM »

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Originally posted by Reynolds
Well, AH is ALREADY in a league of its own, but adding those things... id love it, it would make playing so much more fun, but then when i went on vacation, i would suffer from withdrawl from not playing!

Hehe, yes indeed. Most of us have that problem. In my case it is best described with snappyness, and then wife locks me inside the computer room for AH playing

And yes, - AH is already in a league on it's own. Best online WW2 flight sim

Reynolds · « **Reply #199 on:** July 14, 2006, 05:29:35 PM »

See, i have to use my dad's computer when he isnt busy, (AND HES ALWAYS BUSY!!!) and its a sucky computer, so i cannot fly most aircraft, and cannot sustain fire for more than three seconds, with three second intervals, so even when i have AH in front of me, i still suffer from withdrawl!!!

Arlo · « **Reply #200 on:** July 14, 2006, 08:14:04 PM »

So ... like ... lotsa Shermie fans. Cool.

Reynolds · « **Reply #201 on:** July 14, 2006, 08:23:05 PM »

Well, yeah, i like it, but im a King Tiger guy! (Which would the most uber-est perk tank in the game if we got one!)

Angus · « **Reply #202 on:** July 15, 2006, 03:36:37 AM »

Well, the Firefly can open the Tiger up like a can of beans at 2K, so I guess they'd have to perk it too

There would be other allied ones interesting as well of course, - Late Soviet tanks, and late UK and Brit ones.

Reynolds · « **Reply #203 on:** July 15, 2006, 04:13:54 AM »

Can a Firefly take out a KING Tiger??? Lots more advanced armour on THAT baby. It would be invinceable except by Stuka Bombs!!! AWESOME!!! But would take like... 500 GV perks?

Angus · « **Reply #204 on:** July 15, 2006, 08:19:03 AM »

I don't think there was any tank that could handle the 76mm AP.
But I'd have to look.
For a King Tiger, - less range.
BTW, I have one account of a Tiger falling for a Spitfire

Since the attack was logged and the tank found later at the location, all charred (It caught fire), with "BRAVO RAF" scribbled into the soot, the most likely thing to be possibly wrong would be the tank type.

Reynolds · « **Reply #205 on:** July 15, 2006, 04:10:57 PM »

I think maybe at VERY close range the Firefly might take the King Tiger (Mind you, i know next to nothing about the firefly) but at distance, the King TIger is pretty damn safe... unless you run outa gas!

Lusche · « **Reply #206 on:** July 15, 2006, 04:27:14 PM »

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Originally posted by Reynolds
the King TIger is pretty damn safe... unless you run outa gas!

unless you have one of the many mechanical breakdowns, or encounter a bridge not strong enough to support you...

Reynolds · « **Reply #207 on:** July 15, 2006, 04:29:11 PM »

Yeah, those where shizz economically, but hell, when you got in a fight, id take that Kitty any day! Purrrrrr tiger, purrrrrrr...

Arlo · « **Reply #208 on:** July 15, 2006, 08:08:45 PM »

But this isn't about the Tiger. It isn't about the uber. It's about a tank that saw service in every theater on every front under the flag of all of the "big three" allies. A tank that Patton built his rep on. And ... woof .... a tank that helped Kelly and his gang rob a bank.

Don't hit me with those negative vibes.

E25280 · « **Reply #209 on:** July 15, 2006, 09:48:36 PM »

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Originally posted by Reynolds
I think maybe at VERY close range the Firefly might take the King Tiger (Mind you, i know next to nothing about the firefly)

Then you shouldn't put down what you know nothing about.

King Tiger had max armor of 180mm or so in the front. Sides were about 80mm, which is no more than the Tiger I.

17 Pounder firing an APDS round (granddaddy to modern-day Sabot rounds) could penetrate 213mm armor at a range of 1000 meters.

Because of the slope of the armor in the front of the King Tiger, I don't know if the round would ricochet rather than penetrate, but a side or rear shot would destroy the TigerII easily at range.

Firefly would have to be perked, but I would love to see it. I would love even more to see as many variants of the Sherman as we have 109s or Spits, just to make it interesting. Personal favorite is the 105mm assault version for base blasting, with HEAT rounds for the pesky vehicles it would run into.