Hmmm Verrrrry Interesting

[Jekyll]

The picture says it all.  After being nailed twice in a row with the 1st shot from the enemy Panzer, I just had to ask  

 

Makes one wonder, don't it?

Names removed to protect the (hopefully) innocent.

[Ripsnort]

Jekell, not to brag (but I will), but I regulary hit from 1-2 miles  out (about D3.5) , its  not tough to do, watch the hit sprites.  Also, if  its a spawn point, its easy if you remember the position of the gunsite.

[Kieren]

He has a sighting device on his cannon... if he reads the little lines, he knows how far you were when he shoots you.

Seriously, a good tanker will get you easily from that distance. And he will know how far you were. Mighty1 can kill you from much farther away, as can Jigster, AKDejaVu, etc.

[Westy]

 I'm not saying nothing is funny here, but I've gotten pretty good at guestimating range by the size of the enemy v3ehcile in my zoomed-out gunsite. Once hit, the next person who pops up is dead meat.
 But a one shot each kill, not once but twice and at 2.9 range?? I've never gotten a one shot kill over  500 yards. They were always point blank range. And even then they took two hits many times to 'pop'.
 
  -Westy

 

 

[Ripsnort]

I might add that there  are some great tankers in AH, Rollo, Mooj,Storm,Mighty1, to name just a few...all hit from long range, and if there's more  than one  tank, its even easier to hit with a first shot if you've already destroyed a tank nearby within a few hundred yards of your next potential target.

[funked]

The panzer sight has a mark every 200 yds.  If he hit you with his sight halfway between 2.8k yds and 3.0k yds, then it was probably 2.9k yds.    

And with the better tankers, you had better not be in a spot where they have registed some fire (like a spawn point or a ridgeline) because they will hit you on the first shot.

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[sling322]

I witnessed this myself the other night.  I was rolling ground vehicles with eskimo I believe....anyway, we were attempting to take over 27 or 28 (one of those canyon bases).  He had the spawn point dialed in and he just started racking up one shot kills while we were waiting for the bomber to come in and kill the vh.  The person defending just kept on spawning and eskimo would hit him everytime.  I am not too sure of the distance the shot was because I was hiding around a corner in my M3, but it was a pretty good long shot.

[Replicant]

Hi all

To me range doesn't mean a thing as far as one hit kills go.  You can be right next to the tank and still it may need several shots.  I actually hit a tank 30 times with AP whilst right behind it before getting kill(it was in ack).  

As for ranging kills, most of my kills are between 2-4k but you can kill with several shots at the bottom of the reticle if you have already ranged your shots - have done that a couple of times when aiming at VH at range whilst enemy F4Us are around.  Bottom reticle shots must be around 10k away.

'Nexx'

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[Dinger]

Yeah, 2.9k is quite possible, and one ping can happen, but it's usually rare.  Heck, I've busted enemy tanks from 4.0k.
A couple days ago, I got into a tank battle with someone.  Hit him with the second shot at 2.6k.  He hit me with the first though  

[mason22]

i'm not gonna mention the tricky little tip on using the message buffer from HT...  

oops...

[Duckwing6]

oh and i did some FAC work too sometimes to get the range on stationary targets ... just fly over it on a rocket pass or so .. and when you're as close as possible (that can be prettyfar away on FPs..) you give your tanker a call and he gets the distance of YOUR icon .. then it's a matter of walking the bullets in  

[JoeMud]

hey Jek does that name happen to start with an M by any chance???

[Jigster]

The kicker is you can't see tracers past 3.4k or so. They just don't show up so you don't know if they are firing or not, so this may lead you to believe it's a "one shot kill"

I've fired like 20 shells at a guy just to have him tell me that  

If you know how to pick a reference point for fire, you can be in range of a field with the 75mm from the spawn point.

While it's possible to hit tanks that are, when firing, well out of sight because the main optics are too high above them, this is very hard compaired to a hanger.

- Jig

[funked]

We need some more stuff on the ground.  Trees, houses, smaller terrain features, etc.  In most of the places where WW2 was fought, you couldn't see vehicles 2 miles away.  That would end most of the kills at silly ranges.

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[AKDejaVu]

If he hit you.. he knows exactly what the range was.

With a little practice.. you can range in on anyone with only a few shots.

As far as one hit kills go.. I've gotten 8 of them in a row.  I've also had tanks that took 10 to go down.

My personal favorite kill came when HT was nailing a vh spawn point from about 3k away.  I spawned.. saw him and fired a tad bit short.  I died.  I spawned fired a tad bit long.  I died.  I spawned and fired.. HT died  Got him with 1 ping that time.  He didn't get on private comms and harass me though.

AKDejaVu