37mm ack vs. panzer/ostie

[Mickey1992]

Jumped in the field gunner 37mm ack to defend VH-less base.  Pinged an enemy GV for a good 60-90 seconds.....no damage.  Every round bounced off into the air.  Should they be impervious to 37mm rounds?

[whgates3]

probably not unless superman is a GV

[Tony Williams]

The 37mm gun had a limited AP performance and would have had little effect on a late-war tank. The shots would indeed have bounced off (although they might have knocked some tracks off). Of course, the FlaK guns didn't usually have AP shot anyway.

Tony Williams
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[Kweassa]

That's pretty fishy, since AH Ostwinds comfortably knock out Panzers at close ranges, and M3s or M16s with .50s just rake across the Panzer surface and disable every damageable part there is.

 Boy would I like to have something that'd just brush off those uber Osties in a laugh.

[OSCAR]

37mm aa vs tank frontal armor be like shooting your caddie with a pellet gun expecting to destroy it.  One thing you have to remember is the flak has to drive to your base to get close enough, thus its frontal armor is directed toward your gun 90% of the time, I've bounced flak rounds and m8 rounds off tanks n flaks before, but then the hull gun would take out the treads or engine, that seems bit odd.

[iwojima]

maybe HTC will give us one of these to combat the Osti

[SKurj]

I never have probs using field guns on GV's ...

If the rounds bounce i change aim point, and can usually pop them in just a few shots


SKurj

[Moose1]

I know it's a totally different 37mm, but still...

Last night the bish were hitting A90 with GVs and I decided to try something different and up in an M8 Greyhound--I figured, hey, being able to get to a firing point quickly is worth something, right?

So I blew away an M3 easily enough, and then started working on an Ostwind chugging up the hill toward A90 town.  I ranged him easily, 1200 yards or so, and started laying into him with the M8's 37mm firing AP ammo.

He started smoking on the second or third hit--a turret hit, I figured, since he wasn't using that can-opener 37mm on me, and he was still moving.  So I started scattering hits all over him, some in the turret, some in the glacis plate, some on the tracks, mostly aiming for the joint between the turret and the hull.

Ten hits.  Still coming.

Twenty hits.  Still coming.  He's less than 800 yards out, and now I'm hitting him 80-90% of the time.  He's easy meat.

THIRTY hits.  By this time he's less than 500 yards away according to the gunsight, and has taken out my pintle .50 with his hull popgun.  And STILL, he's coming.  I'm slamming shot after shot after shot after shot dead on into his turret cupola and tracks--no effect.

FORTY hits.  I'm running low on ammo but still firing, now at less than two hundred yards.  He's STILL MOVING.  He drives around me, with me laying shot after shot into his side and tracks at under one hundred yards.  Then he stops behind me, with his right side to me, fifty yards away.  And I'm firing and firing and firing and it won't die.  He's not disabled--he just stopped moving.

FIFTY hits.  A nearby Pzkfw IV opens up on him and blows him away in one shot.

I got an assist.

50+ 37mm hits, many of them well inside lethal range, and all I got was a bloody assist.

30 minutes later, I hit an Ostwind three times in the right side with an M8, range 600 yards, and the sucker blew up.

I give up trying to figure GVs out in this game.  

[SKurj]

and i've killed osty's with an m8 using HE rounds from the rear at less than 1000yrds..

Tonight i hit a guy in a pz (i was in 1 too) for a total of 20+ hits(range d2.6ish) as well as another friendly also hit him a few times, and he just kept firing back no smoke nothing...  and those hits do not count riccochets


SKurj