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Offline Bronk

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Re: A pony took out my turret?
« Reply #60 on: May 14, 2010, 03:59:18 PM »
In AH? Nope, never.

Anyways, I've heard that WWII armies which had them won all the battles  ;)


Spall by what? 50 cal AP rounds? LMAO
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Re: A pony took out my turret?
« Reply #61 on: May 14, 2010, 04:38:14 PM »
If a hole is punched through there will be spall.

There can be spall without hole. And hall can be punched without spall at all. Blah, blah... We could argue forever.

Destruction and lethality of spalling achievable with high velocity specialized projectiles is not the same as that of, lets say, 50 cal bmg, AP or not.
Besides that, currently we don't have any tank in game which is seriously vulnerable to small caliber weapons.

And before we continue, I'd really like to see any evidence (records, etc) of WWII tank crews being disabled/killed by small caliber AT weapons on regular basis(especially trough spalling). Just didn't happen that often. At least not often enough to worry about in game modeling...


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Re: A pony took out my turret?
« Reply #63 on: May 14, 2010, 10:08:08 PM »
And before we continue, I'd really like to see any evidence (records, etc) of WWII tank crews being disabled/killed by small caliber AT weapons on regular basis(especially trough spalling). Just didn't happen that often. At least not often enough to worry about in game modeling...

This link is one source describing spalling that I knew of off the top of my head.  About 4 paragraphs from the bottom, although it is a good read, so I suggest reading from the top.   :aok

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Re: A pony took out my turret?
« Reply #64 on: May 15, 2010, 09:55:15 AM »
This link is one source describing spalling that I knew of off the top of my head.  About 4 paragraphs from the bottom, although it is a good read, so I suggest reading from the top.   :aok

If you don't bother to read, why bother to answer?

And before we continue, I'd really like to see any evidence (records, etc) of WWII tank crews being disabled/killed by small caliber AT weapons on regular basis(especially trough spalling). Just didn't happen that often. At least not often enough to worry about in game modeling...