Originally posted by hazed-:
remember also the longer the range the more the shell ends up isn a downward trajectory and hits the top(weakest) part of your tank.
hazed.
Exactly. In real life, the type of long range shooting we do in AH would be called indirect fire.
Now in RL, you can't see the target because he's to far away (no uber optics). You have a spotter on the ground who direct you fire by the spotting shots by making a high shell arc.
In AH, the land is generally flat, and with the uber optics, you can spot yourself because there's no lack of depth at range (cloud of dust before, more arc, after, less arc, and the giant tracer, where as in RL you wouldn't have these aids)
Now since the AP shells have a crater, all this is possible. Presently, it could never really work as it does in RL, because a spotter and the shooter see totally different shell trajectories and hits.
There, are, however, plenty of accounts of tanks being used like this (as an artillary piece) albeit not on something like a single tank. They did, however, like to climb up on boccages and stone hedges to elevate the higher and shell armor coloums with a volly from a tank platoon, via HE shells.
The Tiger was, infact, notorious for this.
- Jig
