TankAce, if you want protection from aircraft, then protect yourself. When I GV, I almost always take a T34 because of it's ability to easily shoot down many aircraft. I've been playing for less than a year and already I've probably gotten nearly 100 G2A kills in that thing. You may not like it because it's not your uber perked Tiger 2 or Panther, but with a little practice, you can shoot down A20s as they climb to alt and Il2s are a joke. Your claim about tanks being helpless against aircraft with bombs is completely unfounded.
I've killed numerous aircraft with tanks as well. Including a pure dumb-luck shot at 4k on a pair of B-17's. But
most of those kills are on
poorly flown aircraft, usually strafers such as the Il-2 and Hurri IID. The ones I have on bombing aircraft (A-20, B-25H, etc) are with few exceptions only on the ones that possed little to no threat, and rarely before they managed to release eggs (they either missed or dropped WAYYYY too late).
For all your talk of 'nearly 100' aerial kills with the T-34, you clearly display a lack of expierience (as would be expected with a new player, and especially one that doesn't remember what things were like before the icon changes). Ability to kill aircraft that are, again,
poorly flown does not mean it is capable of effective deterence, or even retaliation, in most cases.
If a plane takes a hit from the main gun any time after take off or before landing, he's made a grevious tactical error, and has forefit all rights to complain. If you fly down a tank's gun barrel, expect to be shot.
No, I don't want the game coded to make things easier for me to kill. I want a challenge, though it sounds like your like Tank-Ace and really don't want a challenge yourself.
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AKAK, you're not a GV'er, and thats fine, but it naturally prevents you from having usefull imput on the topic. Even if you USED to GV (I'm not going to go through 10+ years of statistics for you, and I don't know what you did before AH), well we all know what time does to memories and expirences.
Your one post that is actually relevent to the topic is
irrelevent to the game. Who cares what the real life attrition rates of GV's to aircraft were when there are MANY more AA units to provide cover, MUCH greater abundance of ord, we have communications much better than those in WWII that let us coordinate, Spitfires fighting P-51's, Hurricane I's flying around with 262's, more tanks than were produced dying each month........ and hell, that flourecent icon that displays nationality, range, and plane type kind of hurt any 'realism' arguments.
So, when you have a fair bit of recent GV expirence, then you'll understand what we're talking about. But untill then, kindly refrain from accusations of wanting EZ mode gamplay.
