Comments on: 9.1 – Upcoming Historical Battle: Tobruk

By: FlaK

FlaK — Fri, 25 Apr 2014 01:57:21 +0000

Universal Carrier 2-pdr prolly was there

By: 23r0_NA

23r0_NA — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 20:13:11 +0000

Agreed. Buffing the 5 cm gun might actually give the VK 20.01D and DW2 some use in randoms as well!

By: 23r0_NA

23r0_NA — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 20:09:41 +0000

Probably some Marders and StuGs on the German side. On the British side, I’m not so sure if they had any.

By: Foxton

Foxton — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:36:09 +0000

Crusader’s first action was in Tobruk (or really the operation around it, Battleaxe) of course it’ll be armed with the 2pdr, not the 6pdr. Same with the Matilda, not that it really needs the extra pen of the Little John against Pz 2/3/4s.

I’m wondering which TDs will make an appearance.

By: rivit

rivit — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:19:17 +0000

They created a Tobruk map.
Shown here on FTR:
http://ftr.wot-news.com/2014/03/22/upcoming-historical-battles/

By: Vollketten

Vollketten — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 15:11:13 +0000

Ridiculous

By: Tupinambis

Tupinambis — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 14:38:55 +0000

Holy Crap this update BETTER contain a buff for the 50mm L/60.

Its current, sheer impotence is going to absolutely wreck the balance for this setup.

By: CaptianNemo

CaptianNemo — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:53:31 +0000

Pz IV E/F are exactly the same but different production runs.

By: Delta0071

Delta0071 — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:26:26 +0000

Crusader rulez!

By: Squadman45

Squadman45 — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:59:33 +0000

I refer that german 50mm has worst stats in game than in real life, at the point PzIII is seriously underguned, if you dont notice it the 50mmL60 in PzIII is worst in all to the 2pr UK gun when in real life was oposite (and out of HB we can talk about WHY PzIII doesnt mount 75mmL43 when there were plans to do something like this).

And well, the only way to pen a matilda is using gold ammo or take his flank/rear with no angle but pen a PzIII in frontal is not specially hard.

PD: the PzIII frankentank

“Drawings to mount the Pz.IV turret on the Pz.III were completed on Dec.27 1941 by Krupp and sent to Daimler-Benz.

Krupp sent drawings to armor suppliers on Jan. 15, 1942 for outfitting the Pz III with the Pz IV turret mounting a long 75mm Kw.K. 40 gun. ”

reference used: panzer tracts No.20-1