Comments on: Model changes in 0.8.7

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 17:00:12 +0000

it would still look different, the E8′s sides only reach about half-way across the tracks whereas the E2′s sides reach all the way across (as its tracks aren’t as wide and the additional armour)

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:14:08 +0000

Gah, I keep getting duped by these “Reply” arrow things. x.x

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:12:22 +0000

Bent? How so?

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:11:33 +0000

Seriously not seeing where you’re getting this cognitive leap from “turret shifted a bit to the rear” into “better gundep yay”, as IIRC the AMX50′s were never even close to hitting the absolute physical limits of their gun depression (ie. the barrel hitting the hull). AFAIK the limitations come above all from the particular quirks of the oscillating turret construction, and while the technical drawing you can find at chars-francais.net is sadly too small to make out the actual text and numbers the depression angle it specifies doesn’t look all that generous…
It also doesn’t come even *close* to any part of the gun making contact with either the hull proper or the lower half of the turret.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:30:12 +0000

Also this is the Jumbo here, not the baseline tin can. Can’t be arsed to check dem sources but I seem to recall *these* had enough armour to stop the 88 cold pretty reliably IRL. In-game… well, just last night I “tanked” an IS in a corner peek and didn’t suffer a single penetration. >:D

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:26:27 +0000

Either most people don’t or it’s bloody hard to hit, ’cause I’ve stonewalled the damnedest things in that trollmobile.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:42:48 +0000

50B:

the gun in still bent and the mg stucks still in the hut

By: Nitty

Nitty — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:22:26 +0000

It’s entirely possible that the sideskirts are there to help make it look different from the E8 Sherman at-a-glance. That’s why the E2 is brown while the E8 is almost a forest green, too.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 09:25:50 +0000

It’s glacis, really. “Glacial” means something else entirely:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_period

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacis

By: not THAT stupid

not THAT stupid — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 08:48:34 +0000

u realized that its not balancing or other bullshit but the gun mantle hitting the turret ring?