British 2pdr Anti-Tank Gun

Mobhack · #1 October 25th, 2008, 03:34 PM

What exact unit class is being fired at? - ATG can fire solid shot at soft vehicles (I destroyed a couple of Italian truck SP-AT this afternoon with 2 pounder), and motorcyclists as I recall, are classed as vehicles (sort-of).

If not - a save game would be useful for debug.

Cheers
Andy

RERomine · #2 October 26th, 2008, 01:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Mobhack

What exact unit class is being fired at? - ATG can fire solid shot at soft vehicles (I destroyed a couple of Italian truck SP-AT this afternoon with 2 pounder), and motorcyclists as I recall, are classed as vehicles (sort-of).

If not - a save game would be useful for debug.

Cheers
Andy

They were targeting leg units, engineers to be exact. I dismounted them to clear some obstacles and was pushing them forward to see what was beyond the smoke after clearing some wire and dragons teeth. At the moment, I don't have any saved file to send as I continued with the assault and gave the 2pdrs a bit more respect. The 2pdrs are effective against soft vehicles, such as trucks and motorcycles, but that was expected.

My G2 section got reamed out because of the unexpected capability of the 2pdrs

iCaMpWiThAWP · #3 October 26th, 2008, 11:34 AM

are you sure that it was a 2pdr? it could have been a 25pdr

RERomine · #4 October 26th, 2008, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by iCaMpWiThAWP

are you sure that it was a 2pdr? it could have been a 25pdr

Definitely 2pdrs. Tanks firing were A13 Mk II (not the CS variant) and there were some 2pdr ATGs as well. The only 25pdrs the British had were off board artillery.

I'm getting ready to start an assault against the Australians. They use 2pdrs as well, so I'll keep an eye open for it. If it occurs again, I'll save a file. It may be a bug with just the British, however. I'll know soon.

Mobhack · #5 October 26th, 2008, 12:47 PM

Later 2 pdr do have HE, but not the a13s.

It may be an engineer unit class is bugged (if they were only firing at particular sappers) - which ones do you have fielded?.

Andy

RERomine · #6 October 26th, 2008, 01:23 PM

The engineers were SS Sturmpionieres. I don't know what the date of the battle was, but my current battle is 4/1941 so the battle where I had problems wouldn't be any later than that.

At this point, none of the 2pdrs should have HE. Traditional thinking by the British at the time was a 40mm HE round was too small to be effective so they didn't bother with it. They found themselves at a disavantage in gun duels with German ATGs, either 37mm or 50mm, that the finally figured out they needed some sort of HE rounds. I don't know when all this happened, however.