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Offline Nemisis

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Re: Please fix the tiger...
« Reply #30 on: June 08, 2010, 06:13:53 PM »
No BAR, nothing you can do will affect how well the other guy aims. Period. Thats a fact. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING you can do will affect how well the P-38 aims his bombs either.

And, exposing the side armor in a long rang engagment isn't the smartest thing you can do (unless you are behind the front line as opposed to engaging the first tank you see, and from your post I take it you assume it is also the furthest forward) as most of my tactics involve working my way into the range where I can turret you, and then kill your engine as you turn tail and attempt flee. Exposing your side armor makes it easier for the M4A3 you didn't notice to slip around to your right/left (depending on wich side your rear is facing), and put a round in your engine, making the whole point of putting your side to the enemy irrelivant.

And I think I have a film of that tiger at V85, but I'm not sure. It was a couple weeks ago, and I've attained other films since then.
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Re: Please fix the tiger...
« Reply #31 on: June 08, 2010, 07:30:25 PM »
No BAR, nothing you can do will affect how well the other guy aims. Period. Thats a fact. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING you can do will affect how well the P-38 aims his bombs either.

And, exposing the side armor in a long rang engagment isn't the smartest thing you can do (unless you are behind the front line as opposed to engaging the first tank you see, and from your post I take it you assume it is also the furthest forward) as most of my tactics involve working my way into the range where I can turret you, and then kill your engine as you turn tail and attempt flee. Exposing your side armor makes it easier for the M4A3 you didn't notice to slip around to your right/left (depending on wich side your rear is facing), and put a round in your engine, making the whole point of putting your side to the enemy irrelivant.

And I think I have a film of that tiger at V85, but I'm not sure. It was a couple weeks ago, and I've attained other films since then.
1: you can affect the outcome of what they do by thinking fast and good maneuvering. GVing is like Chess: Make the right move.

2:I'm sorry but if you let the enemy get too close to you to turret or kill your engine while you are in a tiger then you aren't the GVer you say you are. Keeping your distance allows you to use side armor due to its thickness that is still as thick or thicker than all the other tanks frontal armor, use the fact that you should already know what your against and turning sideways allows you to slip away fast and take a new position to allow for more kills (a.k.a. TRUST ME, ive done it many times). (along with this you should never be alone on a battlefield, no matter what GV you are. Teamwork allows you to stop flanking and it opens up more tactical decisions even if you only have one team member.) Sitting back in a tiger covering your teams movements and taking the brunt of the fire is a great tactical decision. You put yourself at the greatest risk for the greatest outcome.

Yet again i say that a good GVer in general wont lose a tiger to other GVs. Stupid decisions make you lose your tiger, such as limited terrain movement, tunnel vision, spawning in a very hot zone, etc.

3: The distance i'm talking about is the distance the tiger side armor gets shell pings off of? a T34 or a pnzr or a sherman wont penetrate the tiger side armor and the frontal turret armor...


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Re: Please fix the tiger...
« Reply #32 on: June 08, 2010, 11:22:24 PM »
I remember back in AH1 dropping both 500lb bombs from my Mossie's bomb bay, one exploded about 5ft from the Tiger and the other struck the Tiger (displayed a hit sprite) and all I got for it was the Tiger driver (eskimo as I recall) exclaiming "That was LOUD!!!"
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