Author Topic: Vehicle Damage Models  (Read 152 times)

Offline redphoenix

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Vehicle Damage Models
« on: March 15, 2002, 09:27:23 PM »
Ok...

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P800
384M
 54 FPS

My M8 with 37mm AP ammo meets OSTWIND 37mm AA ammo

I get the first hit...

He fires at me now he notices me with his 7.?mm machinegun...

before I can reload and fire again... I die.

NOW I AM THE ARMORED ANTI-TANK FIGHTING VEHICLE

HE IS A TIN TANK WANNABE...

WHEN I HIT HIM POINTBLANK '+' on his arse he should have died.

What's up with this?

I can get gameplay like this in AirWarrior...

OOOPPPPSSS... forgot...they are out of business...:confused:

Offline Urchin

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« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2002, 09:30:59 PM »
M8s are rather useless, to be honest.  They are fast, but a light dusting with 7.92mm MG fire and they will lose their turret at the least, and usually explode.  

The only GV that is really worth a damn is the Ostwind.  It can kill pretty much every airplane with 1 hit, an M8 in 1 hit, an M3 or M16 in 2 or 3 hits, and a tank with probably 10-15 hits.

Offline Karnak

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« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2002, 10:47:08 PM »
Vehicles, particularly the PnZ IV H, should be much, much tougher.

20mm cannons should only have a small, very small, chance of destroying the PnZ's engine or tracks.

PnZ's should be nigh immune to 20mm fire, let alone 12.7mm or 30 cal fire.

The RAF ordered the Mosquito FB.XVIII with the Mollins 57mm cannon as an anti-tank weapon, but by the time the FB.XVIII was ready they had concluded that the 57mm Mollins gun lacked sufficient penetration to destroy German tanks effectively and so gave the FB.XVIIIs to Coastal Command.  That was a 57mm cannon that wasn't good enough, 989,000 joules at the muzzle.  Hispano MkII 20mm cannon, by comparison, have a mere 50,300 joules at the muzzle.

There is no way that aircraft guns, not even the Yak-9T's 37mm or the Hurricane Mk IId's 40mm, should be anywhere near this effective agaist tanks.  Bombs and rockets should be the only realistic hope a pilot has of doing anything to a tank, and the rocket needs to actually hit the tanks, the bomb needs to be damn close.
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