New anti-armor system ?

[Mitchverr]

the big thing with the Honeys is that they were fast and maneuverable, compared to the stationary 2 pounder. They were used to flank tanks while Sherman's attacked the front lines. The 2 pound SPG's were large and slow, making an easy target for the German Africa korps.

For anzac maybe, but the UK 1s were not "slow" Plenty of light and cruiser tanks with it.


Not to mention most the 2 pounders I suspect will be in will be armoured cars or light tanks, so speed cult of 2 pounder then?

[oneshot]

It's also been said that the crew can abandon their tank.

Also that:
There are no health bars, either. If a unit is getting its ass kicked because it's commander has also not read Art of War, the group might panic and cower. Each "unit is able to fight or is not able to." If you send out a recon plane to scope out encroaching enemy territory and it gets fired upon, it's getting destroyed or evacuating.

Do I understand it correctly, no more HP pools, healing etc, just a more realistic binary "ded/not ded" system?

And the planes, it looks like enchanted Wargame system, instead of getting stunlocked they will try to evac. I hope it won't require a few direct hits to panic the planes, tho, especially if there is no HP

I like this idea. "Dead/not dead" means that tiger tanks can oneshot t-34, without having them leaving the battlefield with one health bar left, and then repair and fight again like in wargame; though the t-34 can be repaired if a tiger tank hit it, in history if the tank can't move, the crew would just abandon it, come back when its safe and repair it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but i'm starting to like this new game...

[Fade2Gray]

Dude, why do you think the pink is there for ? I'm a VIP, I can get there anytime and steal pencils from MM's desk all I want.

Steal a pen for me would you?

[VKTD]

Seems like we are getting a game that takes a few more cues from the Close Combat series, should be interesting! Especially if buttoned up tanks have worse vision. Shoot them with an MG, then the AT!

[hansbroger]

I'm curious how HEAT and especially large Caliber HE are going to interact with tank armor, especially given the frequency of direct fire artillery use at that time.

[DeuZerre]

Answer to a few pages back:

North Africa was initially lost due to a lot of factors. The 2 pdr's anti-tank capabilities wasn't one of the main ones. Against anything but German heavy armour, it was effective. Against italian armour (chuckle), it was effective. It was still effective against light and "medium" (don't pick on me on the nomenclature) vehicles at most ranges. However... It lacked HE rounds of any significance, which meant that they were pure anti-armour, and as such bad infantry support when tanks weren't around.

That's what the shermans brought: Proper HE rounds. It is why the sherman, a mediocre or at least average in everything tank was good, it is why the Russians loved their T-34s and had more HE shells in their IS-2s than AP shells: Because tank on tank isn't a massively frequent occurrence in WW2, and the sherman was "good enough" against armour, and "pretty good" against infantry, towed anti-tanks, entrenched troops in buildings...

Tanks that were driving around had HE shells loaded. Not AP shells, because "Oh god a tank shoot!" Bang, you hit with HE, it shakes a lot. Then you can finish with AP. Unless you're expecting tanks, you load HE because it's more frequent to have to shoot at infantry, entrenched infantry, or ambushing towed anti-tanks.

[hansbroger]

Answer to a few pages back:

North Africa was initially lost due to a lot of factors. The 2 pdr's anti-tank capabilities wasn't one of the main ones. Against anything but German heavy armour, it was effective. Against italian armour (chuckle), it was effective. It was still effective against light and "medium" (don't pick on me on the nomenclature) vehicles at most ranges. However... It lacked HE rounds of any significance, which meant that they were pure anti-armour, and as such bad infantry support when tanks weren't around.

That's what the shermans brought: Proper HE rounds. It is why the sherman, a mediocre or at least average in everything tank was good, it is why the Russians loved their T-34s and had more HE shells in their IS-2s than AP shells: Because tank on tank isn't a massively frequent occurrence in WW2, and the sherman was "good enough" against armour, and "pretty good" against infantry, towed anti-tanks, entrenched troops in buildings...

Tanks that were driving around had HE shells loaded. Not AP shells, because "Oh god a tank shoot!" Bang, you hit with HE, it shakes a lot. Then you can finish with AP. Unless you're expecting tanks, you load HE because it's more frequent to have to shoot at infantry, entrenched infantry, or ambushing towed anti-tanks.

The 2 pdr didn't receive many complaints as far as AP capability from the Russians either (in fact they rather liked the Valentine) except for the lack of an HE shell. It was just a little too specialized of a weapon for what tanks needed to do (against anything else a tank armed with it was essentially just as powerful as a machine gun armed tankette).

When it came down to it the 2 pdr had a great run through 1943 where it could confidently perforate pretty much any enemy AFV it faced at combat ranges, and even after then it still had a decent likelihood of punching through most anything it would face in 1944 other than a Panther or Tiger.

[Sweedish_Gunner]

I'm curious how HEAT and especially large Caliber HE are going to interact with tank armor, especially given the frequency of direct fire artillery use at that time.

What do you mean direct fire artillery? Like infantry support vehicles in the anti tank role?

[D-M]

He probably means the infantry guns such as the 7,5 cm le.IG 18 that was use for direct, indirect support and anti-tank missions.

I hope we 'll see those...



... for no particular reasons.

[hansbroger]

He probably means the infantry guns such as the 7,5 cm le.IG 18 that was use for direct, indirect support and anti-tank missions.

I hope we 'll see those...



... for no particular reasons.

Or these.... sIG 33

People always forget that it is an infantry gun

#Wehrmacht Logistics

With the madness that is the 15cm Stielgranate 42 demolition supercaliber round...



Seriously you can't even make this crap up

A bunker busting shell weight 200 pounds. Unlike other shells the 42 was loaded outside the vehicle (referring to a Grille) and thus required the crew to be out of sight of enemy forces at the time.

https://books.google.com/books?id=GHSeB ... 42&f=false