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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Why does the SU-122 have such lovely muzzle velocity? It's like firing a medieval mortar or something. It's not a Toe-to-tow fighting vehicle. It was used for anti-entrenchment. Park it up, lob blobs into bunkers until issue was resolved.
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Artificer posted:God I wish there were some planes with the ammo capacities of American planes but with less focus on BnZing and a bit more turn ability. The P-63 takes a little getting used to since I have a hard time with the cannon and it seems like it has very little machine gun ammo too. Spitfire Mk I 
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BBJoey posted:Spitfire Mk I Yes, you too can deplete your ammo in literally four pulls of the trigger.
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Feb 16, 2015 09:58
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BBJoey posted:Spitfire Mk I Something without wings reinforced with toothpicks too, please.  Basically if I could strip out the 37mm for 2-4 more machine guns that would have been awesome on the P63.
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Feb 16, 2015 10:03
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Artificer posted:Something without wings reinforced with toothpicks too, please.
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Feb 16, 2015 10:06
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Actually on the topic of the Su-122, how effective is flinging HE at fools once you get to that caliber?
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Artificer posted:Something without wings reinforced with toothpicks too, please. You'll probably like the Mustang.
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Xerxes17 posted:Actually on the topic of the Su-122, how effective is flinging HE at fools once you get to that caliber? Very, but you need to either splash them from below, or hit the turret and powerdunk shrapnel through the top armor. Also, never use HE below 105mm.
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Feb 16, 2015 10:19
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Artificer posted:God I wish there were some planes with the ammo capacities of American planes but with less focus on BnZing and a bit more turn ability. The P-63 takes a little getting used to since I have a hard time with the cannon and it seems like it has very little machine gun ammo too. Ki-61-II e: If Gaijin ever get around to making a full Italian tree we'll see some really nice .50 cal armed planes then. NoNotTheMindProbe fucked around with this message at 10:34 on Feb 16, 2015 |
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Feb 16, 2015 10:20
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BBJoey posted:Are you seriously claiming the Tiger isn't an excellent tank at its tier because sometimes it doesn't 1hk everything it faces? This historical documentation represents the true combat capability's of the Tiger. its not a Tiger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_rsiSn065k
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Feb 16, 2015 10:32
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Why are all their tanks bunched up like that. They'd get smashed by artillery.
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Feb 16, 2015 10:43
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Fumble posted:This historical documentation represents the true combat capability's of the Tiger. its not a Tiger They managed to make an IS-2 look more like a Tiger than an IS, i guess that's something. Also I kinda liked this movie, even (or maybe because) it's more of a fantasy than a war story.
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Feb 16, 2015 10:52
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My new decal.
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Fumble posted:My new decal. I have never meant this more sincerely than now: Enjoy your ban, you've earned it. 
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McSpanky posted:I have never meant this more sincerely than now: Well that provoked a reaction, sorry for triggering you.
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Pretty sure that if you roll that decal into the RU server, you'll get ~reported~.
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Fumble posted:Well that provoked a reaction, sorry for triggering you.  he meant in the game you idiot moron
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Managed to get one last ARB in 10 min before the event ended. Played allies, team got wrecked as per usual. Then the most amazing thing happened. Me and the three remaining pubbies formed the loving A-Team and performed coordinated combined arms strikes on the remaining half of the German team. Ground forces quickly taking out enemy AA and enemy tanks getting 500kg presents pretty much as soon as they gave away their positions attacking our 1-2 tanks. We ended up winning and I've never been so proud of pubbies. Good ending to a good event.
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My last ASB game was me just rolling through the germans with my soviet 76mm M4, collecting 10 kills, an assist and capturing the single point at the enemies spawn. Beautiful finisher for an awesome event.
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Just got into this and having a blast, but how the hell are you meant to kill anything with the machine gun like cannons? Even from behind or the side most tanks seem to shrug it off like it's nothing. The best I can seem to do with it is seriously inconvenience one tank by setting half their crew on fire before they replace the slots and turn to kill me.Are they just more for Artillery spotting or is there a way to make them useful? Also had a great moment where my Stug ran into another Stug in a city map and we both blew a track off first shot, then sat there pouring fire into each others faces from twenty meters away while we both tried to work out where the hatches were. Turns out the answer was "Top Right" and I beat them to it.
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Feb 16, 2015 13:28
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I'm assuming you're talking about the 20mm cannons you'll see on the Pz. II models and the anti-air vehicles: 1. Get the APCR / HVAP rounds as quickly as possible and use those almost exclusively. These rounds offer increased penetration at the cost of really only damaging things they come into direct contact with, but the size of the 20mm round limits any type of actual warhead so you're not missing out on much at all due to this limitation. 2. Learn the crew positions in enemy tanks and the weakest portions of the armor that cover these locations. You can view armor thickness and an x-ray model of the tank showing all components / crew etc. in the hangar (shown here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=317287526&insideModal=1), and you also get an abbreviated version of that whenever you score a hit. 3. Murder those people. Prioritize gunner so they can't hit back, driver so they can't run away, and then whatever is convenient or accessible. Once the tank has been reduced to a single crewmember it is considered combat ineffective and you'll be granted a kill. In general don't bother going after the engine unless you only have a snapshot, and realize that HVAP is going to do a poor to terrible job of cooking off ammunition and fuel. Resist the urge to hold the trigger down on the gun and instead take rapid but aimed shots, switching targets whenever you knock out a crewman. 20mm can be really fun, especially at reserve tiers when you can wreck just about anything, but realize that it is not really representative of any of the other tank cannons so playing with it is going to require some changes to your tactics.
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Thanks! Some good tips, I make the mistake of continuously trying to kill the driver I see when I need to spread the shots out to the rest of the crew. While I'm on newbie stuff, is there any reason to keep your plane alive in the Tank Battles when you swap for air support? Most people seem to smash themselves into the ground as time runs out.
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Fans posted:Thanks! Some good tips, I make the mistake of continuously trying to kill the driver I see when I need to spread the shots out to the rest of the crew. No, it saves time to crash the plane into the ground when you're out of rockets or bombs.
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Luigi Thirty posted:No, it saves time to crash the plane into the ground when you're out of rockets or bombs. Ah! I wasn't doing it because I thought it might reduce the amount of air power my team had. Kind of stupid it doesn't really. At least pubbies seem hopeless with bombers, I've never seen one manage to land a hit and the rare few times I got a go I went straight for anyone camping who'd been pissing me off. Immensely satisfying if you're doing it with the Stuka too.
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Feb 16, 2015 14:12
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Awww yeah it's Flight of the Swallows day 
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Fart Car '97 posted:Awww yeah it's Flight of the Swallows day Every day is swallow day when you fly the 262 
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Iwo Jima for RB event. Took my B7A2 out hoping for some plane-killing, five dead enemies before the timer reached 58 minutes on the countdown.
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AceRimmer posted:If you're having issues with the Zero in regular RB, play it during the various Pacific events to face even dumber/lower-tier fighter opposition, not to mention the SBD/TBF special needs donkey brigade. MrLonghair posted:Iwo Jima for RB event. Took my B7A2 out hoping for some plane-killing, five dead enemies before the timer reached 58 minutes on the countdown. 
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Feb 16, 2015 18:19
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Someone here is secretly working for Gaijin.
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Feb 16, 2015 18:22
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edad posted:Someone here is secretly working for Gaijin. Pretty sure it's Thief.
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Xerxes17 posted:So I have just started playing this and it's like Red Orchestra tanks had a baby with WoT and I quite like how it plays. Naturally I am going for glorious USSR tanks to being with. Money is largely a non-issue but it can sneak up on you at the later tiers if you let it. I'm only at late Era IV planes for each nation but I need to watch my spending or wait for discounts before purchasing everything. Up until about Tier III I could purchase things as they unlocked but now each plane costs at least 350k lions, plus another 50k+ to put them in a crew. Upgrades scale up as well; unlocking anything basically negates the reward that I get in the round that earns it. I have almost 2mil SL banked so money is certainly there but I have maybe 8 planes not purchased so I'd be bankrupt if I got them as they unlocked. Instead I have to cherry pick which ones I want to buy and use all of the lions that I earn during Spadequest to fund the next plane that I want. Repair costs are a non-issue because I very rarely lose money, but it certainly has a huge effect on the rate of savings if you're dying without getting kills. No clue how this applies to tanks. Or anything outside of RB for that matter Teeter fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Feb 16, 2015 |
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Feb 16, 2015 19:23
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Tank prices are pretty similar. The IS-2 is about 320k, I think?
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Teeter posted:No clue how this applies to tanks.  )Thankfully, I have a nice selection of fun premiums to earn lions with. Speaking of tanks, it is really baffling how limiting their respawn points are. I always thought that Gaijin would make the spawn points a lot more generous in order to encourage people to buy all the crew slots for a nation/crew points. 
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One of the first things I did in this game is blow all of my GE on extra crew slots because I had no clue what I was doing and had no concept of in-game currency value yet. I don't even play arcade anymore so now all it's done is left my hangar in an unorganized mess because each nation has a different slot that I've taken to using for my primary fighter.
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Beautiful game even when set the lowest you can go without losing cockpits or using third party poo poo Yaaaaay turnfighting I won, would be shameful if I didn't against a pair of F4U
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Yeah, play this event if you want to enjoy the B7A2's looney toons flight model while it lasts. Willing to bet a lot of hitlerbux it will get the standard Gaijin problematic plane data sheet adjustment: negative Gs = no more wings. 
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Got an Su-122 and its slapped my battle rating all the way up to 4.7, is there a way to disable tanks for a queue? Also how useful are these 'hollow charge' rounds, huge pen no damage?
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Artificer posted:God I wish there were some planes with the ammo capacities of American planes but with less focus on BnZing and a bit more turn ability. The P-63 takes a little getting used to since I have a hard time with the cannon and it seems like it has very little machine gun ammo too. 900 .50cal rounds (two guns of which are nose mounted) isn't enough for you?
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maev posted:Got an Su-122 and its slapped my battle rating all the way up to 4.7, is there a way to disable tanks for a queue? Just swap it out of your lineup
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