Tiger Specifications

[rshubert]

I found an interesting site on the internet with information about the Tiger.  Maybe that will help some of the recent discussions about 20mm, 37mm, etc.  taking out tigers.  I am looking for penetration information on the guns.

Enjoy.

[rshubert]

I forgot the link.  Here it is:

http://www.panzer-vi.fsnet.co.uk/specifications.html

[frank3]

I couldn't penetrate the tiger with 37mm from where ever I shot him, and rockets didn't do the job either...
maybe 40mm will do?

[Urchin]

Use a manned ack gun.  I've been killed at least twice in a Tiger by a 37mm manned ack gun.

[frank3]

hmm, I used a M8

[rshubert]

I found this link, showing armor information for many AFVs.  Note that the MkIV J that we use has almost as much top armor as the Tiger.  That would imply that anything that will penetrate the top of the MIV will penetrate the Tiger, too.

Maybe the model isn't so bad, after all...

http://www.onwar.com/tanks/germany/fpz4j.htm

[frank3]

so if I'm right I gotta get the tiger from above, makes sence

[bigjava]

the tiger is an hard one i have read that in wwII the allies, in a open land, use to engage one tigre with five sherman tryng to shoot it from the back:cool:

[Fridaddy]

The main problem I have had is there is no way AH can (without massive recoding of the program) allow for hits to do damage in the area hit. IE I have hit a Tiger in the treads w/ a 37mm. In RL it would take out the tread and immobilise (sp) the tank, not here. Also in the same engagement I hit the barrel, that would destroy the barrel, again not here.

The damage mod on the Tiger needs help. Its a UbarTank and removes some of the fun from the game.

[rshubert]

I have "killed" many tigers, and been killed in them.  They are not an "ubertank" or worth the perk points it takes to get one.  As in everything else in AH, it's more the man than the machine.

[Fridaddy]

When you can hit it four times w/ a Panzer main gun w/o damage. When a full set of rockets from a P-38 does nothing, When 3 bombs hit or near miss from P-51 dosent even stop it..... its a ubartank.

I have killed them, but I think the damage mod is wrong.

[Sakai]

Originally posted by Fridaddy
When you can hit it four times w/ a Panzer main gun w/o damage. When a full set of rockets from a P-38 does nothing, When 3 bombs hit or near miss from P-51 dosent even stop it..... its a ubartank.

I have killed them, but I think the damage mod is wrong.

Yet I have recorded numerous one shot kills from Panzers and disabled the turret or engine in an M-8 several times.  All in all I've been killed by about 3-4 tigers and I have killed or disabled a few dozen.

Sakai

[BUG_EAF322]

Manable field ack killed me instantly while in a tiger this tour 2X.

Tiger is crap.

not worth 60 perks

[MiloMorai]

some historical fact:

One of, if not, the first Tiger knocked out and captured by the British in Africa was hit with 57mm AT rounds. One can view this Tiger at Bovington.

[BenDover]

Originally posted by Fridaddy
The main problem I have had is there is no way AH can (without massive recoding of the program) allow for hits to do damage in the area hit. IE I have hit a Tiger in the treads w/ a 37mm. In RL it would take out the tread and immobilise (sp) the tank, not here. Also in the same engagement I hit the barrel, that would destroy the barrel, again not here.

The damage mod on the Tiger needs help. Its a UbarTank and removes some of the fun from the game.

It was an uber tank in real life though, and i've killed tigers with m8s numorous times, shoot the turret, shoot the engine, keep pumping shells in his rectum till he blows.