War Thunder

[hslan.totaler_humbug]

Got the Tiger now, but I can´t make it work properly. I guess looking for long range engagements is the way to go, so your armour protects you?

[THeTA0123]

Long range engagements indeed. Or bottleneck situations. for platoon, I have a panther buddy who sticks at my flanks because the tiger is very easily flanked, and more and more people learn to use this way

The 88mm is your friend tough. At 800 meters, i only need 1-2 shots for T34's and even KV85's and IS. Turning your tank 30 degrees towards the enemy (dont know the exact word) will stop those 85mm guns from penetrating you.

[siben]

So, new patch, ended up in a tier 4 game with my panzer 4 f2 since i had tier 4 fighters. What a nightmare.
Still, managed to get 3 kills with my 1000kg bombs
First time i flew realistic in an aircraft, damn, its nice and different. I even shot down an enemy fighter!

Edit,
But now my question is, why cant i get into normal tank battles like before? i always end up in tier 4, even when i change all the aircraft to tier 1.

Edit 2,
Fixed it, sucks that i have to change my whole crew layout every time now

[Musti]

I just shot down a Ju 87 with my T-34, it's wreck has landed right next to me.
I'll be honest, it feels really good.
nvm. I just shot down a Ju 88, I think it's a bit easy and not at all awesome as i thought,
it still feels good though, T-34 L11. best mobile AA this side of the Atlantic.

Do you think they are going to introduce a tank vs tank only mode?

[siben]

Interesting, i made 2 kills with one shot, apparently shots can make a kill and pass right true the tank to make another kill.

[ajappat]

Interesting, i made 2 kills with one shot, apparently shots can make a kill and pass right true the tank to make another kill.

I killed 2 T-28's with one shot from Pz 38. I suspect that ammorack explosion of first T-28 took out both of them.

[Sander93]

Interesting, i made 2 kills with one shot, apparently shots can make a kill and pass right true the tank to make another kill.

Maybe it was an ammo rack explosion, which can damage nearby tanks. Don't know about shells passing through, could very well be that they included that too although there aren't many cases where a shell would have the energy and mass left to fully penetrate a first tank and penetrate a second one as well. Would have to be a large APCR shell against very lightly armored targets.

Ammo rack explosions are cool though, once I was rushing into the enemy base with my Panther ausf.D alongside a Tiger. A T-34-85 stood behind a rock ready to ambush us while we drove past at tight formation; he hit the Tiger and instantly blew it up, but the explosion took out my tracks (which made me slide sideways into the rock) and damaged my gun and I was left defenseless. It was like an action scene from a cool movie. 


About the new matchmaking, it means that if I want to play the Panzer IV for once I'm going to have to switch my entire crew loadout to tanks/planes lower than the Panzer IV's battle rating? That sure isn't very user friendly. I hope it's temporarily.

[Dukat]

Let me report about my expirience.

My first problem was, that my first crew (the very left one) could not be sent into holiday. That crew is dedicated to destroyer airplanes. If I want to fly a divebomber or level bomber, I have to train that first crew for it. Large con.

I took the Messerschmitt BF 110 and a Pz.Kpfw.III E. I picked the Me110 first and downed an IL-2. By that time, the battle was pretty lost, because the enemy had capped the only point A. I tried to bomb point A, but I wasn't used to the historical flight physics and hit a tree while I missed my target for the bomb by approximately 200 meters. I took the tank and reached point A, where I started to duel an enemy tank. Both the tank and I were killed by a He 111 that crashed into us in an attempt to bomb us. Then the battle was over.

The next battle I took the tank first. I was one-shot 2 times by the same T-28 into the ammo rack. I was finally downed by Flak when I tried to bomb that T-28 in return.


//End of AAR.

[siben]

Another special thing happened, first i mushroomed my barrel on my t34 somehow, and then when i tried to repair my massively damaged tank i got an 11 minute repair time.... just come and kill me please

[Dukat]

Press ESC, then select abandon vehicle.

[McCloskey]

So much for that Tiger action...

9/10 times someone hits my Tiger, they destroy my barrel. GG.

[siben]

Had the same thing on my T34, wrote it a few posts back.
God damn, that F9F jet is awesome!

[Dukat]

In arcade the barrel is often the only 'green' spot on a front armor.

[SiCaRiO]

I LOVE MY HETZER

finally I have a tank that can bounce shots

[hOMEr_jAy]

The addition of ground forces has brought me back to WT and so far it´s quite enjoyable. I picked the Russians and currently work on getting a T-34.
The BT-7 I just bought is pretty rad, too, since it´s so fast. Racing behind enemy lines and shooting campers in the back is great fun!
Just one question: Should I concentrate on upgrading one crew members vision to the max or upgrade all of them evenly?