Question: HE Penetration

[Mobhack]

HE penetration comes from the HE pen number, together with warhead size sometimes.

HE penetration is far less reliable than AP shot. And especially less likely for weapons with small warheads, and small HE Pen values.

So your hand grenade is unlikely to make its full value much. HE is not a first choice as an anti-tank munition - though large sizes have some utility (say, 150mm bricks and up).

I have had units do a * or 2 damage to little scout cars by flung hand grenades, without an assault happening (or a top hit on open topped half-tracks etc.) - but that is rarer than rocking horse dung. I'd guess that probably less than 1% would see a 1 penetration.

[Warnevada]

This helps a lot, and also helps explain what looked odd with some AP fire as well.

It would be very useful if the various relationships between range, penetration number, warhead size and angle were documented somewhere. What would also be helpful is an explanation of the relationships between HEAT and APCR numbers and the various types of ammo a gun may have: HE, AP and SABOT.