PLEASE ADD THE T-34 !

[-lynx-]

Grun - with all due respect, you can't compare penetration power achieved in tests to the actual field performance. RL T34 will most likely ricochet an AP round off it's sloping hull/turret while T-IV being bizarrely built at right angles all over will most likely swallow it. (RPG-7 shaped charge round will go through 300-450mm of steel plate but it does not mean that each grenade fired claims a tank...)

Panther is a different proposition altogether but since they haven't been "designed" yet... Plus, how do you propose to model difference in optics quality? At the distance where this is noticeable all you get is 1-2 pixels for a target anyway

Tank damage models need to be re-done anyway - under no circumstances (save for really obscure stuff like an example above) 20 mm round can do any harm to a turret/hull. Tracks? Maybe. But to "blow-up" a tank with 50 cals or 20mm cannons is a joke

[janjan]

If you have tried WW2OL you can see the differences in optics in computer game done nicely. Most obvious differences that can be done are:

Magnification and field of vision like real (lot of differences in various tanks).

Accuracy and ease to shoot different ranges and ease of range finding.

[whels]

Originally posted by Sokolov:
PLEASE ADD SOME RUSSIAN TANKS LIKE the T-34/76 or the T-34/85....
Would be nice to see the IS-2 in AH too....

Please think about this !

   

Id like to see the t34 and pershing II added.

whels

[Vermillion]

Not to nitpick but....  

In regards to the Yak-9T, the T stands for Tyazhelowooruzhenny or "heavily armed". It has nothing to do with "Tank".

True, the NS-37 37mm and the NS-45 45mm are the best anti-tank cannons that I can think of, but even those guns can only penetrate rear, deck/top, and side armor depending on the tank.

And FYI the majority of Yak-9T's, Yak-9K's, and Yak-9UT's were used mostly in an air to air role, and only marginally in an air to ground role.

The rest is urban legend class myth  

[Nifty]

I laughed when I first saw the thread.  I thought he was talking about the American trainer T34-C.    (it's because I live near Navy training fields, and we see a lot of them.)

 

[Daff]

Some Russian gun data:
 http://www.siemers.com/wwii/Russia/PenetrationTables.htm#762F34

When the T-34/76 first started arriving on the battlefields, it completly outmatched anything the germans had.
The T-34/85 did quite well against late war german tanks and saw service well beyond WW2.

More than 34.000 T-34/76's were build and around 18.000 T-34/85's, compared to around 6000 Panthers and 8000 PzIV's.
If any single weaponry of WW2 should be credited with 'winning the war', it should probably be the T-34.

Daff