advanced era

istol · #1 December 2nd, 2008, 12:13 PM

how does the advanced era actually work in sp ?

what does it protect from and what does it not ?

seems to me pretty random protects against anything when it feels like protecting ?

Mobhack · #2 December 2nd, 2008, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by istol

how does the advanced era actually work in sp ?

what does it protect from and what does it not ?

seems to me pretty random protects against anything when it feels like protecting ?

If you need to know the technical nuts and bolts details, then the Mobhack help is the place to go usually.

Mobhack Help -> Units Tab -> ERA Paragraph.

Cheers
Andy

Imp · #3 December 2nd, 2008, 10:19 PM

Not wishing to sound rude but take half an hour to read the manuel. Realise it may not be your first language but you ask a lot of questions half of which are covered in it. Anything you then dont understand I will be happy to try & explain if you PM me
John

Marcello · #4 December 3rd, 2008, 04:32 PM

And if you are interested in how it works in the real world the following article provides a nice summary.

http://russianarmor.info/Tanks/EQP/era.html

istol · #5 December 5th, 2008, 05:35 AM

is it possible that tank that does not have been hit in combat with advanced era 8 is hit and the hit ignores era completely and hit's the norma larmor instead ?

"Numbers from 1 to 10 on a facing are ordinary ERA. Numbers from 11 to 20 are Advanced ERA"

i have never seen era valua greater than 8 and that was advanced era

why ?

Marek_Tucan · #6 December 5th, 2008, 05:40 AM

Yep, it is possible. Random numbers and all that. Check out say front ERA of T-90 (real-life I mean), you'll notice there are huge gaps around the gun for example.

Moon Pine · #7 December 9th, 2008, 07:02 AM

Several times, my Bradley still got destroyed after its ERA "defeated" the heat.

redcoat2 · #8 December 9th, 2008, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by istol

how does the advanced era actually work in sp ?

what does it protect from and what does it not ?

ERA does not always protect against multi charge weapons. To quote the game manual: “Multi charge ATGM have a higher chance of defeating ERA than plain vanilla HEAT.”

Example of a tandem-charge weapon: The Russian RPG-30

The ‘decoy’ (1) detonates the reactive armour and the main warhead (2) penetrates the compromised area.

Marek_Tucan · #9 December 9th, 2008, 08:19 AM

Actually no, that small RPG-30 rocket is intended to set off active defence systems (AKA CIWS in-game), the weapon itself is plain jane RPG-27 with tandem warhead against ERA.

redcoat2 · #10 December 9th, 2008, 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Marek_Tucan

Actually no, that small RPG-30 rocket is intended to set off active defence systems (AKA CIWS in-game), the weapon itself is plain jane RPG-27 with tandem warhead against ERA.

The small rocket is indeed designed to set off CIWS and the warhead is indeed a plain jane RPG with a tandem warhead. I did not know that CIWS was different from ERA in game terms.