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Offline Baine

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One tough jug
« on: February 24, 2003, 10:17:42 AM »
Took a Panzer to an enemy airfield Sunday night. I was happily parked in a hanger, blasting away at fuel tanks, ammo bunkers and spawning ground vehicles when some poor pilot spawned a jug in the same hanger I was occupying. As he rolled away to take off, I put a 75 mm shell right into the rear of his fuselage at 100 yards, expecting a satisfying boom! Instead, his wing just fell off. It took another 75 mm to finish him off as he lay there like a turtle on its back.
That's one tough plane, especially when you consider that a single 75mm round willl usually kill an armored Panzer, and sometimes even a Tiger, if you can get that close behind it.

Offline skernsk

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« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2003, 11:27:46 AM »
AP or HE?  

HE works better on planes :)

Offline SKurj

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« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2003, 11:28:57 AM »
if it was AP... it may pass straight through a thinly skinned aircraft...

I always use HE on aircraft and half tracks cuz you can miss and still kill if you are close enough


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Re: One tough jug
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2003, 12:54:19 PM »
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Originally posted by Baine
That's one tough plane, especially when you consider that a single 75mm round willl usually kill an armored Panzer, and sometimes even a Tiger, if you can get that close behind it.


AP is really bad at killing planes outright; they'll usually break something important, but not kill the plane completely; HE is the round of choice for that and for whacking ground objects.

And every so often you get the chance to grab the Holy Grail of GV vulching -- several weeks ago I was sitting 1800 yards away from an airfield, both tracks blown, lobbing HE shells into the runway spawn, and blew away a 262 three seconds after its pilot upped onto the runway.  :D I was laughing so hard I almost missed my shot at the next pair of planes that upped there.

Offline Albacore

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« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2003, 02:52:57 PM »
lol

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« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2003, 06:56:28 PM »
LOL, i think we need to start recording more often :P

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« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2003, 12:01:18 PM »
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LOL, i think we need to start recording more often :P


Yeah, I wish to hell that I'd had my film on; I'd frame the time increment right before the explosion of the 262 and put it up on my wall.