Hi, few questions :)

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by curious123

thanks for the fast reply, just another point i forgot to mention, i recently read one of the posts on this forum about tanks rarity and how the ai chooses the tanks , so i just wanted to mention that i didnt meet any T-34 during july/41-october/41 althouh i met some KVs even on the 1st battle, and considering the russians had around 1000 T-34 and only 300 KVs made pre war it may be a bug or my luck.
and indeed i didnt think about the bunker question logically

Before about 11/41 the T34 and KV AI buy has been toned down a bit from what it was. You may still see some, as well as some KV though. It can still roll snake eyes and put out a lot of them occasionally.

However the BTs will be target practice, unless it gets lucky (I have had 2 coys of the things burst out of a wood and swarm over a single Nazi tank platoon. Think Custer's last stand! )

Andy

[PanzerBob]

Good day,

Just to expand on several subjects:

In ref the ammo used by tanks to bunker bust, there were instances when tanks were able drive up and lob HE though vision slits or other openings, this of course depended on the type of bunker and whether the installations were overrun or not. Anything from a distance AP/HEAT type rounds would be the norm. Flame throwing tanks played large roles in this kind of work as well.

Keep in mind of our game a hex is 50 meters, so being "beside" a bunker is relative. BTW, the AI seems to be aware that Flame Tanks make good bunker destroyers as the other day I had the Canadians making valiant attempts to get Badgers up to a well fortified AT Pillbox on a hill they managed to burn my PzGren's out of their trenches but never got the Pillbox.

Ref the early T34 and KV1 usage, despite the numbers available in the early stages of the war they were terribly misused, by being employed in small numbers, with crews that were barely trained, along with a lot of mechanical bugs and not to mention lack of spares. A lot of this applied to the Red Army Armoured Corps in general, but of course with the two best Soviet Tanks it was even more apparent. The Germans quickly overwhelmed any minor set backs caused by these two War Machines.

The toning down referred to was necessary, as with the old AI, it was not unusual to come up against hordes of KV's or T34's as soon as you crossed the frontier into the Soviet Onion!!!

Hope this helps. Bob out

[iCaMpWiThAWP]

rofl, soviet ONION,btw i remember fighting (actually seeing my panzers I and II geting blow one by one, like turkey shooting) some KVs and T34s early on, so, curious123, you'd better be ready to shoot hordes of BT and T26 as well as to ambush KVs and T34s(unless you like loosing your panzerIIIs for nothing) and once the PZIII with 50mm canon becomes avaiable upgrade your tanks, german early TDs aren't that good against russian armor, but will work against all early tanks but the matildas