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Title: Your GV
Post by: Blinder on February 19, 2014, 06:54:20 PM: Since we have a favorite plane thread I'll start one for the lovers of everything wheeled, tracked and/or armored.
Answer any or all of the following.

#1 What gv (or gvs) are you most successful with in the game?
#2 What gv would you most like to see added to the game next?
#3 In the game or out, what is your favorite gv of all time?

My #1 - The M18. Love the speed and maneuverability. Hitting power is substandard and the armor is weak but I like to sneak around a lot.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/M18-Hellcat-ammunition-loading.jpg)

My #2 - I love Russian vehicles and would like to see more added. The Su-100 is low profile and hard hitting. It would be a fun addition for Soviet hardware fans.

(http://www.wwiivehicles.com/ussr/tank-destroyers/su-100/su-100-tank-destroyer-01.png)

My #3 Gotta go with the hog I crewed and commanded for about 8 years.

(https://scontent-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1/1002336_10201800949855052_941907822_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: Lusche on February 19, 2014, 09:31:34 PM: Quote from: Blinder on February 19, 2014, 06:54:20 PM
#1 What gv (or gvs) are you most successful with in the game?

It has been always changing over the years. I still have most Gv kills in the Tiger I, and that will never change. Absolute K/D is best in the King Tiger, but I use it so rarely and so conservative it hardly counts. My "best" in the recent past has been the Jagdpanther with it's devastating long range performance... but I also enjoy good success with the Sherman VC in that role, and like to hop into the M18 / M4(76) / Panther for more mobile warfare.

Quote from: Blinder on February 19, 2014, 06:54:20 PM
#2 What gv would you most like to see added to the game next?

A genuine British tank or a Russian assault gun.

Quote from: Blinder on February 19, 2014, 06:54:20 PM
#3 In the game or out, what is your favorite gv of all time?

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/VW_T1_Kastenwagen.jpg/640px-VW_T1_Kastenwagen.jpg)
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: skorpx1 on February 19, 2014, 09:44:03 PM: 1: My favorite in-game tank is the Sherman VC Firefly. Fun tank to screw around in.

2: Tank to be added would be the StuG III. Been asked for plenty of times before. Why not?

3: My favorite all time tank is the M60A3. Just love it.
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: Chalenge on February 19, 2014, 10:28:12 PM: The T34-85 is probably the best tank overall. The T34, or the Panther. I never use either though. I favor the M4A3-75. If I get within 5k of a vehicle base I can kill the entire base in less than ten minutes (my personal best time is four minutes). All hangars, all guns, everything, but it will require at least three vehicle supply boxes so that I have enough rockets. I have tried to teach the method to other users, but it is a hard concept to grasp. I don't like killing the base though, but I do like encouraging the enemy to come shoot my M4 where, surprise!, they meet my Tiger II.

Next is the TigerII. Nothing makes people whine quite like a TigerII will. Even if they manage to kill you, they will whine about it because instantly you are back with another one. They are whining about it now on the wishlist forum, because they cannot bomb a TigerII from 35k. The TigerII is the best idea Hitech ever had.
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: shermanjr on February 19, 2014, 10:48:33 PM: any tank cuase ill find a way to kill urs
stug 3
and the abrams cause nothing matches it today
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: Volron on February 19, 2014, 10:59:36 PM: 1) Ever changing and dependent on mood. But if I were to choose one, it would be the Panther. It has a very good ROF and the turret isn't too shabby either. It also has the ability to reach out and touch things well. It's gun is deadlier than that of the Tiger 1's except at extreme range, so it's got the punch. It's armor is solid and it's speed is okay.

2) I want a British tank, preferably one of the Crusader series or a Soviet TD.

3) Couldn't say...
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: WWhiskey on February 19, 2014, 11:49:17 PM: M-18
M-4
And my favorites
M-48/m-60
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: save on February 20, 2014, 03:48:29 AM: My tank, 1981
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3203/5842326719_7e7715ce04_b.jpg)
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: GScholz on February 20, 2014, 06:27:29 AM: #1: None.

#2: None.

#3: Panzer IV/70(V) (SdKfz 162/1), Panzerwagen 604/10, Gerät 559

(http://the.shadock.free.fr/aberdeen/images/Jagdpanzer%20IV%20Aberdeen%202007.JPG)

I rescued Jeanne D'Arc from being burned on the stake by the British in one of these... True story.
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: artik on February 20, 2014, 09:51:26 AM: 1. Most success - M8 :-), killed once a Jagdpanther in one by circling around it and punching with 37mm rounds from 0 distance (and he couldn't get his gun on me) - fun GV to drive. But really T-34-75 (for non-perked)
2. Want to see some early/lightweight tanks with 37mm guns. At the beginning of WW2 most of tanks were light ones. Germans captured Poland in 1939 on Panzer III with 37 mm guns.
3. My GV is this bad guy (Merkava Mk IV)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Flickr_-_Israel_Defense_Forces_-_Storming_Ahead.jpg)
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: Oldman731 on February 20, 2014, 10:18:47 AM: Quote from: Blinder on February 19, 2014, 06:54:20 PM
#1 What gv (or gvs) are you most successful with in the game?
#2 What gv would you most like to see added to the game next?
#3 In the game or out, what is your favorite gv of all time?

1-2. N/A

3. T-34/76. Next to the WWI British Mark I, I can't think of another AFV that had a greater effect on history.

- oldman
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: icepac on February 20, 2014, 12:16:43 PM: M4 with rockets.........because it can take down HQ with 4 boxes of supplies using rockets alone.

M18..........because it covers the super long drives to friendly strats where I like to hunt enemy tanks in the streets or where they decided to sit when shooting the trains that don't shoot back on some terrains.
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: Blinder on February 20, 2014, 02:25:37 PM: Quote from: save on February 20, 2014, 03:48:29 AM
My tank, 1981
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3203/5842326719_7e7715ce04_b.jpg)

Nice looking IKV 91 tank destroyer. Is that one in the pic equipped with the Bofors 90 mm L/54 rifled low pressure gun?
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: save on February 20, 2014, 06:29:48 PM: indeed it is the low pressure 90mm
The where testing the high-pressure 105mm when I was in repetition training, but it never went into production, you never saw if you hit the target due to all snow thrown up by the high pressure gungun.

Also afaik they only tested AP rounds with it, we had the 90mm HE round that could be set to .025 sec delay, allowing an APC to be penetrated before it exploded inside the vehicle.
Shooting distance was up to 2km at stationary armoured targets and target computer allowed for 1400 meter at moving target, we also had Lyran flare system and smoke dispenser.
The HE round was shooting at 600meters/sec, and the AP-HEAT round was shooting at 875meters/s if my memory serve me right.

Im sitting in commanders cupola in picture.
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: TOMCAT21 on February 20, 2014, 08:54:51 PM: 1) M4( 75MM )
2) M26 Pershing
3) Abrams
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: Megalodon on February 21, 2014, 10:00:31 AM: (http://members.iinet.net.au/~joan.ahern/pics/ju87g2/ju87-g2-kanonenvogel.jpg)
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: Blinder on February 21, 2014, 02:10:29 PM: Quote from: Megalodon on February 21, 2014, 10:00:31 AM
(http://members.iinet.net.au/~joan.ahern/pics/ju87g2/ju87-g2-kanonenvogel.jpg)

<sigh> There's one in every crowd. :bhead
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: pervert on February 21, 2014, 03:50:35 PM: Quote from: Blinder on February 21, 2014, 02:10:29 PM
<sigh> There's one in every crowd. :bhead

This Is
(http://starsmedia.ign.com/stars/image/object/919/919788/big-gay-al_pictureboxart_160w.jpg)
GV

:)
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: FLOOB on February 21, 2014, 11:36:24 PM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAAnUqhKWZI
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: Volron on February 22, 2014, 12:32:40 AM: Quote from: FLOOB on February 21, 2014, 11:36:24 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAAnUqhKWZI

:rofl :rofl :rofl
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: Blinder on February 22, 2014, 07:03:10 AM: Quote from: FLOOB on February 21, 2014, 11:36:24 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAAnUqhKWZI

Damn. Those broads are some conducting some fine tanking there! :aok

This one shows the whole scene.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4pYWbKR37U (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4pYWbKR37U)

If this doesn't make you wanna jump in a GV than nothing will. lol! :rofl
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: FLOOB on February 22, 2014, 11:40:48 AM: Quote
embrace tankery and blossom as a woman
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: Megalodon on February 22, 2014, 12:07:58 PM: Quote from: Megalodon on February 21, 2014, 10:00:31 AM
(http://members.iinet.net.au/~joan.ahern/pics/ju87g2/ju87-g2-kanonenvogel.jpg)

You said post your GV ... That's mine <shrug> It should be able to up from GV bases too :)
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: Blinder on February 22, 2014, 12:33:54 PM: Quote from: Megalodon on February 22, 2014, 12:07:58 PM
You said post your GV ... That's mine <shrug> It should be able to up from GV bases too :)

Last time I checked, a Junkers Ju87, in any configuration, is still an airplane and not a ground vehicle.

And any logic that professes otherwise would also reckon that this contraption pictured below counts as an airplane.

(http://flightcomputer.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Lun-Class-Ekranoplan-3.jpg)
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: BigKev03 on February 22, 2014, 10:59:52 PM: Hmmmmm, tough calls here but my Top 3 is:

1. Got to go with the Panther. Decent armor and great gun. If used properly it is nearly unbeatable at range.

2. Panzer IV, for a non per tank the gun is good and if used on the flanks of you enemy it can take out any tank in this game.

3. M8, I like it for the speed and the ability to get in quick and disrupt a base defense and it is capable of taking down heavier opponents if you hit them in the side or rear.

My dream vehicle in the game would have to be the SdKfz 234 Puma. It would be nice to have as it has speed and decent firepower above that of the M8 and plus it just looks cool.

BigKev
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: Rich46yo on February 24, 2014, 03:05:46 PM: Not much of a tanker but I prefer rolling with the Red Star too. The T34/85 is a GREAT tank.

The German TDs fascinate as does the Yank one. The SU-100 would do so even more. :D
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: wpeters on February 24, 2014, 04:00:43 PM: Quote from: Blinder on February 22, 2014, 12:33:54 PM
Last time I checked, a Junkers Ju87, in any configuration, is still an airplane and not a ground vehicle.

And any logic that professes otherwise would also reckon that this contraption pictured below counts as an airplane.

(http://flightcomputer.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Lun-Class-Ekranoplan-3.jpg)

Isnt that a Soviet hover craft ( I think it was called the Ekranoplan) that use ground effect stay airborne. I think read something about them a long time ago.
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: caldera on February 24, 2014, 04:18:03 PM: (http://i343.photobucket.com/albums/o460/caldera_08/Aces%20High%20Motivational%20Posters/m16.jpg~original) (http://s343.photobucket.com/user/caldera_08/media/Aces%20High%20Motivational%20Posters/m16.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: GScholz on February 24, 2014, 05:27:39 PM: Big boom!

(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/26232318/boom.png)
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: BaldEagl on February 27, 2014, 11:29:09 PM: #1 What gv (or gvs) are you most successful with in the game?

Most commonly used: Panzer IIIF, Ostwind, Tiger I (also most success with)

#2 What gv would you most like to see added to the game next?

Crusader so we'd have a true British tank and also got the AA version so there would be an Allied AA to compete with the Osti/Wirb

#3 In the game or out, what is your favorite gv of all time?

The Jeep of course. Iconic and capable.
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: Chalenge on February 28, 2014, 12:28:25 AM: Quote from: wpeters on February 24, 2014, 04:00:43 PM
Isnt that a Soviet hover craft ( I think it was called the Ekranoplan) that use ground effect stay airborne. I think read something about them a long time ago.

Yes, and it is also an airplane by definition as is the Hughes H-4 Hercules. Perhaps neither of them are able to leave ground effect, but that's the genius of the design as well. Either one operates stealthily and economically. The H-4 had the added benefit of having the ability to handle even the largest waves (non-tsunami) and still remain in ground effect.
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: GScholz on February 28, 2014, 07:51:27 AM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr8N0Z4Cl0U
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: Blinder on February 28, 2014, 02:00:37 PM: Quote from: GScholz on February 28, 2014, 07:51:27 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr8N0Z4Cl0U

It's a glorified hovercraft. nothing more ...and a JU87 is still an airplane and not a GV.
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: BuckShot on February 28, 2014, 02:24:12 PM: Its not a hovercraft.

Ground effect craft fly, but only in ground effect.

Hovercraft do not fly. They only use the venturi effect in their rotors and props, where ground effect craft have a wing.
Title: Re: Your GV
Post by: Blinder on February 28, 2014, 06:53:13 PM: Quote from: BuckShot on February 28, 2014, 02:24:12 PM
Its not a hovercraft.

Ground effect craft fly, but only in ground effect.

Hovercraft do not fly. They only use the venturi effect in their rotors and props, where ground effect craft have a wing.

same difference. :D