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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: eskimo2 on March 20, 2002, 04:32:00 PM
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For both realism and game-play in mind, I would like to see the top mg on a panzer killable.
I don't recall losing the top mg apart from the main gun... they seam to be linked to each other.
I also don't recall losing the top gun by mg gun-fire. Clearly the mg should be destroyed by a single 50 cal hit, the gunner should also be susceptible to mg fire. It seams however that he and the gun never die. This is my opinion after dozens if not hundreds of Panzer sorties - shooting back at planes, and likewise, dozens if not hundreds of sorties in planes attacking Gvs.
As a tanker, and an attack pilot, I think the top mg and gunner needs to be more susceptible to damage.
I also feel that the Ostwind main gun needs to be more killable. It seams that only a direct hard hit on the gun itself will kill it. The gun crew should be killable as well. As an FP gunner, I have never been killed or wounded. The gun, however, occasionally gets killed. It seams to take a heck of a lot of fire to kill a Osty gun. I would say that the vast majority of FPs in AH that are killed by gunfire still have operable main guns when they die. High angle of attack gun passes on a Flack-Panzer, with lots of hits in the turret, rarely disable the gun. This does not make sense, and for gameplay consideration seam to give the FP an unfair advantage.
Again, I wish to point out that I am both a very experienced ground vehicle driver/gunner and an attack pilot.
As a FP gunner, and an attack pilot, I think the FP main gun and gunners need to be more susceptible to damage.
Lastly, I have a question for Hitech on the issue:
Does the 75mm AP round have better armor penetration than the 37mm in AH and in real life?
They seam to be about the same.
Are they?
Or, how should they be.
P.S. This was originally written as a response to: the 50 cal. panzer kill thread, but after writing, I realized it is it's own topic and made a new post.
Thanks,
eskimo
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how odd. Seems if a 3 yr old sneezes within 10 miles of my panzer the pintle is gone (way it should be).
What needs to change is the pilot seeking shells in that thing.
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picture yourself in the commander's spot in a PNZR, you're standing up manning the pintle MG, an AP hits the tank......
How much protection do you really have in that position? Little or none from all I have seen in pics and such. The blast would hurt ya pretty bad, if not kill you outright.
I can't imagine engaging another tank from the MG position, anywhere other than in this game. When the BIG taters start flying, you wanna be buttoned up tight behind several inches (or mm) of armor, not standing up like Rambo.