Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: Nefarious on March 08, 2005, 10:41:50 PM
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Thats right, 2 Scenario's Down, 3 to go in the ROW5 Tournament.
Now, as it is I have a *Edited for Secrecy* force of Churchill Mk VII's.
I'm fighting a reasonable sized force of what I beleive consists of Two Tiger Tanks, and and least Four Panzer IV's and unknown number of Halftracks.
Ive confirmed two Panzer IV's killed from shots around 400m. When I saw the Tiger's I fired some smoke rounds and deployed my Armor to better Posistions. But some of my Churchills have taken shots from these tanks, with no success, mulitiple ricochets.
I guess what I'm asking is, Was the Churchill VII that great of a tank, from Shots of what I think are from 88mm and 75mm guns?
Or am I in that great of a Posistion, Hull down, that they cant land successfull hits?
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Well, it had thick armor as I recall, but it was weakly armed. It was slow, very slow on flat terrain, but it's gearing meant it actually climbed hills faster than a Sherman or Panzer IV.
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Churchill VII had thicker armour than the Tiger I iirc. Front 150mm/side 100mm I believe.
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Yea, the Churchill had some seriously think armor... and the 6-pdr is a better AP gun than the 75/76mm on the Shermans. You probably still can't take a Tiger from the front, but if you can crawl one of the Churchill's around the side you have a pretty good shot at knocking it out.
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A Churchill might not be a bad base defense tank, or spawn point breaker, in AH. It's slow, but it wouldn't be perked so you would have a very heavily armored tank to use that wasn't perked.
Ok, we need an M4A3 Sherman and a Churchill VII in AH.
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There was Russian tank that was just huge an A something or am I recalling wrong. I thought I saw some years ago an osprey book on it.