Comments on: 31.7.2013 – part 2

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 12:13:16 +0000

Let me correct you Woras…
It is more like lolwut

petya75

By: Z.G.

Z.G. — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 19:00:45 +0000

Okay! Thank you!

By: T3azz (banned)

T3azz (banned) — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 14:45:54 +0000

Im aware that you end up in situations where it will turn its front towards you, because thats the only way for him to damage you, but as I mentioned above, dont hang around in areas where the foch 155 might be, even I who only drives TDs try to stay away from some tanks.

If there are some fast mediums with powerfull guns or autloaders, I will never engage them, or I will back off as soon as I see them push. Comming from a ferdie player with 1250 games played. All it takes is 3-4 shots to kill me, if the gun makes 300-400 damage, and some mediums do that.

Problem is some players think they are entitlied to kill everything on the battlefield, but really im affraid all tanks are not designed to kill eachother in 1v1 games, not even close. A medium isnt suppose to kill a full health loaded foch 155 in close quarter battles obviously. As well as a ferdie or any other slow TD isnt suppose to kill a autloader or a medium tank, because its mobilty is too bad.

By: T3azz (banned)

T3azz (banned) — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 14:37:29 +0000

I was speaking about general situations, and not about the foch 155, which is one TD out of many. What I meant was that mediums must be OP since they can flank TDs in general, or they have turret so they can egage them from different angles, and track them etc. Far from all TDs have the mobilty of the foch. It was an example to show that certan tank types have advantages and disadvantages in situations.

If we only concentrate on the foch 155, I can might as well say “its OP because I cant pen it frontally with my jagdpz e100, while he can kill me frontally in 10 seconds”. How ever in reality I know this, and I try to not face the foch 155 frontally, or even engage in areas it might be, other than if it is reloading or have 1-2 shells left in its drum.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 14:03:48 +0000

Sabots seem a tad overkill for that kind of gun. Not that the Germans were terribly fond of large-bore tungsten cores anyway for obvious logistical reasons ofc…

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:59:36 +0000

You’re assuming unrealistic amounts of actual hits and lack of LOLWTFBBQ ricochets for those three shells…

Anyways, that doesn’t seem to differ much from the JagdPanther you know. The thing is nigh impenetrable frontally to most meds it meets, rather quick, and pivots so fast circling it can be very problematic indeed unless you manage to shoot the tracks or do the side-hug thing. The gun isn’t as bloody scary ofc, but quite enough for the tier and doesn’t need to literally count its shots before reloading for the better part of a minute.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:52:11 +0000

Probably yet another mobile artillery bunker for the Fulda Gap, if the Foch is any indication.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:49:21 +0000

Wait, you got *paid*? Shit. I’ve been ripped off.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:47:36 +0000

I suggest preserving it in formaldehyde for future generations to gape at.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:46:14 +0000

My perennial favourites are the AI brainfarts – notably the persistent habit of the Maginot Line fortress divisions to spontaneously decide to head for a vacation in the French Riviera and the computer’s inability to grasp the combat modifiers, leading to Panzer divisions stubbornly trying amphibious assaults across the Danish Belts or the Strait of Messina with predictable consequences…

And the aircraft stacking penalties also tend to produce hilarious results.

By the by, IIRC the default method of capturing enemy tanks in Soldiers and MoW was to KO them with a turret hit, then send a guy with a repair kit to fix the thing back to mint condition and more likely than not drive it away (or fight with it for the rest of the scenario) with only that one guy inside…
So, yeah.
They’re not exactly what I could call epitomes of realistic tank modeling with a straight face.