I’m sure if a soldier was caught by enemy commandos by surprise in a shower he would start to fight for his life, naked and with whatever improvised weapon he could find near him.

Though there is no Call of Duty – Fresh out of Shower edition where you are forced to fight naked and whack other guys with a metal pipe.

Just because something is possible or even might have happened does not mean it is the best representation of the typical situation nor a good material for the game.

Where some arm *is supposed to* and *optimally should* fight has absolutely nothing at all to do with where it in practice *has had to*. People have built siege towers on ships, used mounted cavalry in street fighting, employed heavy artillery as ersatz infantry guns over open sights, dropped paratroopers smack into forests and dragged AFVs over swamps and mountains if that’s what it took.
And, yes, duked it out with tanks in built-up areas among other less than ideal choices of battleground.

@MKultra
- That reminds me, if anyone knows how the uberrealistic WT is doing it, solid or not?
With the words of your almighty SerB.
“If you don’t like it, don’t play it”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marines#By_country

I am not saying having no collision on the barrel is wrong. It’s pretty functional with what maps we have to play on.
It is just the maps that are mostly retarded from the perspective of the armoured combat. If we had maps representing terrain that is more likely to be a place of tank battle (aka not a god damn middle of a jungle or a bottom of the great canyon) then perhaps there was no need to make barrels immaterial. That’s all.

Also I mean just because you can drive a tank to some places it doesn’t mean it is the best ground to fight at. Sure, it can be done and if the other side has nothing to pose a serious threat against tanks then you can use and abuse them anywhere. And even armoured car is a blessing where enemy has none.

But we are talking about tank vs tank combat. Tanks would have go around the forest or city and flank the enemy somewhere in the open. And the enemy would not allow his tanks just to wait to be encircled but send them out to prevent the said flanking. That’s how large tank battles were starting, not because some tanks assigned for infantry support role, ordered not to engage enemy tanks if possible, bumped into enemy infantry support tanks, ordered likewise, just because it was a city/forest/mountain and they could not see very well where they are going, and both sides somehow have lost their infantry cover to scout ahead for them.

It’s like making a game about battleships and forcing them to fight on a lake and disabling collisions because they could crash.