burned out tanks and crews bailing out
I`ve just stumbled across this line in Robert Forczyk`s book "Tank warfare on the Eastern Fron 1941-1942":
"In combat, only about one-quarter of tanks hit by enemy action actually caught fire and burned out." [...]"Even those tanks that were considered "knocked-out" could often be repaired, since the damage inflicted by armour-piercing ammunition was usually not catastrophic. Crew casualties were usually limited to 0-2 fatalities per tank knocked out, with the rest of the crew wounded, so it was not unusual for a given crew to have been knocked out several times during the course of the war" (p.19).
Is it possible to model this in the game? It seems that right now maybe too much tanks catch fire and too often crews get completely killed, especially with small calibre guns like 20mm or 37mm.
Cheers
Mario
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