Hello everyone I was tanking in a T34 the other night and had a few mystifying things happen to me. The first thing was I was hiding behind a hill and scoping out the area with my engine off waiting for a newly spawned tank to arrive, I have the hill on two sides of me and trees and a cabin on the other sides, the distant hills are clear of tanks and no planes have flown over me is some time. Then bam! I am dead, one shot from long range somewhere. NO one close could possibly see me much less get near enough to see me without my hearing them, I could see the far off ridge that the enemy might come over and there was no movement and if they were hull down the closest they could be was over 30 away. So I am mystified about how this happened, one shot at long range, OK it can happen but how is it they can spot me so easily at that range? I can't see them.
The next thing was I had driven all the way around the enemy base and got fairly close in and found a nice little hiding spot with trees covering my flanks, clear vis behind me and a nice ambush to hit enemy as they move around to flank our other guys. I sit with the engine off for over five minutes...not a sound..then I hear a tank engine and begin the wait...sure enough he rolls into view and I have a nice short range shot (about range 8) at his tail end. bam he dies in a glorious ball of fire. not five seconds later I die from an unknown enemy with one shot, no planes overhead. What happend?
OH I am not complaining about gett'n kilt if so I would have died in real life of dehydration from the loss of tears
I am just trying to find out what I am missing or doing wrong here as I can not silently sneak up on anyone in my tank or spot and kill them at extreme range much less with one shot.....
So any advice would be great because I do like to jump in the tank and having a chance at survival would be great.