Originally posted by brady
Pongo raises and interesting point, Just how reselent would a King Tiger be to bomb damage?
Just how reselent should a PzKfW hull be to bomb damage....
The other knight I took out an osty's engine with my 7.9mm hull MG by shoting him in the rear from about 100 yards.
How well are these things modeled?
The big issue with any perk vehical will always be the air component of the game, in our Ah universe of NO cover for GV's, a world whear GV's rarely live long enough to fight one another before they are killed by a plane I wounder how happy we will be when We hop in our PANTHER (we just paid to ride) and a P 38 drop's 2 k on our head, ya shure we fired our MG 34 at him, but it is only realy effective aganst Panzer IV's......
Strafing wasnt serious threat to any major tank models of ww2. There was usually 12-20mm of armor at tanks deck.
It would need specialized AT-cannon to have any serious effect.
As few examples...
-BK 3.7cm(Modified 3.7cm FlaK 36 with wolfram core ammunition)
-BK 5cm (Modified 5cm PaK 38)
-BK7.5cm (Modified 7.5cm PaK 40)
-NS-37
-NS-45
-Vickers 40mm
Not even such guns like VYa-23 despite of very heavy bullet(for its caliber) and high muzzle velocity were enough to kill medium tanks. (25mm penetration against vertical plate)
Also after action research (in late 1944) at battlegrounds in france didnt show much (if any) of tanks killed by strafing. Yes pilots of ground attack units did serious overclaiming. Actually research showed that their effect was only supressing and few (from air)tank kills were made with direct hits from bombs or rockets. I posted of this study in GV damage thread earlier.
About 40mm Vickers from Tonys site:
Tests in the Far East showed a high level of accuracy, with an average of 25% of shots fired at tanks striking the target. Attacks with HE were twice as accurate as with AP, possibly because the ballistics were a closer match with the .303" Brownings used for sighting (the HE shell was lighter and was fired at a higher velocity). By comparison, the practice strike rate of the 60 pdr RPs (rocket projectiles) fired by fighter-bombers was only 5% against tank-sized targets. Operational Research following the Normandy battles of 1944 revealed that in action this fell to only 0.5%, presumably because of problems in making the complex mental calculations about the trajectory of the slow-accelerating rockets, although the effect of a salvo of RPs on the morale of tank crews was admittedly considerable.
