Author Topic: MG 34 vs tank (Read 214 times)

brady · « **on:** August 07, 2002, 05:25:48 PM »

The other night I was covering a spawn point , all was going well they spawned I killed them, then they started spawning faster than I could kill them and my turet was taken out( I was in an Osty).

Not being one to give up easly, I jumped into the hull gun to see if I could get a few assists, or simply tie them all down for a bit while they worked me over.

About 400 to 500 yards in front of me was a freshly spawned osty. I unloaded into his rear plate, a couple hundred rounds into it he brewed up! I am not shure how much ammo I pumped into him but I do not think it was more than half.

How is this posable? If tests have shown that a 50 cal round can not do this then how is my MG 34 doing this?

john9001 · « **Reply #1 on:** August 07, 2002, 05:31:09 PM »

your a good shot????

Raubvogel · « **Reply #2 on:** August 07, 2002, 08:12:35 PM »

You must have ricocheted them off the ground into his un-armored bottom

Stranger · « **Reply #3 on:** August 07, 2002, 08:51:09 PM »

Freak accident? Isn't parking at a spawn point and sniping people gaming the game? Kind of like clubbing baby seals?

brady · « **Reply #4 on:** August 07, 2002, 11:40:04 PM »

LOL, they got me dident they, would you of felt better if I wated for them to drive to my base and then killed them?

Stranger · « **Reply #5 on:** August 08, 2002, 12:21:33 AM »

INever mind, if you don't get it you just don't get it, do it your way and spoil it for other people who wanted something more realistic. I don't think anyone minds getting beaten by others who are better than they are in a realistic fashion, but I don't see how you can be proud of killing them that way. I would prefer to win a fair fight with skill and be able to feel good about it afterwards. Maybe it is just me, I don't know? Could be I guess.

brady · « **Reply #6 on:** August 08, 2002, 01:55:50 AM »

lol, war is h!ll m8t vulching is a part of the game in part because it has to be.

In order to take a field you almost always half to get in and vulch, espichaly now that bombing is more dificult, in the old days my first squad IN ah used to KIll the field then take it, or vulch only if nessary, remember it takes two to vulch m8t you and the person alowing themself to be killed like that. If I am trying to take a base or helping others to do the same I will Vuclh to protect them and the goon to that end.

If I am at a spawn point it is generaly because I fought my way to it in an atempt to protect the field I am defending.

I play the game to protect the Empire and win the war, and vulching is a nessary evial, every plane that gets up could kill the goon, or my m8t's, if I let them up I am doing my side a diservice.

Hristo · « **Reply #7 on:** August 08, 2002, 03:15:05 AM »

Did you entomb the crew by continous fire with your MG34 ?

Hortlund · « **Reply #8 on:** August 08, 2002, 03:25:26 AM »

AHAHAHAHAHA

I remember reading that in one of these threads how a couple of P-47s strafed a German tank so bad they entombed the crew because the massive strafing shot off all parts carried outside the tank, and dinged the hatch lips, effectively welding the hatches closed."

And I was thinking...

a) exactly how does these guys think the hatches on German tanks worked? and

b) why didnt the crew just use the bottom escape hatch?

(But I suppose the P-47 bounced enough .50 cals off the road to disable the bottom escape hatch too)

brady · « **Reply #9 on:** August 08, 2002, 04:14:00 AM »

Ya that was prety funny stuff:)

Shiva · « **Reply #10 on:** August 08, 2002, 08:56:04 AM »

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I remember reading that in one of these threads how a couple of P-47s strafed a German tank so bad they entombed the crew because the massive strafing shot off all parts carried outside the tank, and dinged the hatch lips, effectively welding the hatches closed."

And I was thinking...

a) exactly how does these guys think the hatches on German tanks worked? and

b) why didnt the crew just use the bottom escape hatch?

For your first question, it's a low-probability occurence that they'd be able to get all the hatches done up that way, but from what I remember of the internal hatch mechanism, it's at least theoretically possible to ding the hatch lips enough that the locking bars on the inside of the hatch are pressed tightly enough against the inside of the hatch frame that the crew can't get enough torque on the unlocking wheel to get the hatch open. I'd expect it to be a one-in-a-million occurrence, though.

For your second question, it would depend on the tank; you can't have a belly hatch on a tank with torsion-bar suspension, because the torsion bars run across the width of the tank at the bottom of the hull.

Wotan · « **Reply #11 on:** August 08, 2002, 09:00:01 AM »

geesh dont try to rationalize it.

The likelyhood of that happening steve

slim to none

brady · « **Reply #12 on:** August 08, 2002, 07:22:38 PM »

I know this may be hard for some to realize, but a lot of what is said and show on the history chanel is ...well....BS.

Generaly I watch the history chanel because it has prety pictures, I always Question the content of the show's historical narative.