Pz KVII 754(r)

[Mobhack]

Interesting. So, if I get one myself, it may also fire occasional HEs against AFVs?

Quite likely

Is that only for damaged vehicles? I keep seeing armed crews out of destroyed guns and vehicles.

Only vehicles get weapon slots damaged...

[RVPERTVS]

Originally Posted by Mobhack

Only vehicles get weapon slots damaged...

Thanks. What I meant is that if it only affects the crews of damaged vehicles? because the crews of destroyed vehicles and guns don't see their armament reduced.

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by RVPERTVS

Thanks. What I meant is that if it only affects the crews of damaged vehicles? because the crews of destroyed vehicles and guns don't see their armament reduced.

Only the crews of damaged vehicles, as I said. Because AFAIR only vehicles can get weapon slots damaged - not A/T or Arty guns, mortars etc.

Not that I really bother much with bailed crews, unless they are core troops and need rallying to get them safely to the rear (by foot or on a spare halftrack).

[DRG]

Interesting. So, if I get one myself, it may also fire occasional HEs against AFVs?

Open up the Armour penetration calculator in the utilities tab of GameOptions and look at the AP / Best AP and the HE / Best HE for that weapon and you will see the line is blurred with that one so depending on the target the AI may decide either will work.

If, for example, you are using it as a German Captured vehicle a 152mm round hitting ( for example ) a Lend-Lease M3 in the side there is little advantage or disadvantage to either an HE or AP round.

Either way, it would not be a good day for the crew of the M3 when a shell weighing 114 lb travelling at 1500 ft/s strikes--- HE or AP

( 5.4 megadjoules = 3,982,835 Foot-pounds Force (ft lbf)

https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calcu...cs/kinetic.php
http://www.kylesconverter.com/energy...--pounds-force

[RVPERTVS]

Originally Posted by Mobhack

Only the crews of damaged vehicles, as I said. Because AFAIR only vehicles can get weapon slots damaged - not A/T or Arty guns, mortars etc.

Not that I really bother much with bailed crews, unless they are core troops and need rallying to get them safely to the rear (by foot or on a spare halftrack).

Thanks Andy. My point was that bailed crews from destroyed vehicles then seem to do better than the damaged ones, which may be counterintuitive. I don't care much about crews either; it's just that I couldn't remember coming across an unarmed one before. It was a CO in this case.

Originally Posted by DRG

there is little advantage or disadvantage to either an HE or AP round.

I thought at first that it was coded to save ammo, as it only packs 6 AP rounds.

[MarkSheppard]

Originally Posted by DRG

If, for example, you are using it as a German Captured vehicle a 152mm round hitting ( for example ) a Lend-Lease M3 in the side there is little advantage or disadvantage to either an HE or AP round.

Either way, it would not be a good day for the crew of the M3 when a shell weighing 114 lb travelling at 1500 ft/s strikes--- HE or AP

( 5.4 megajoules = 3,982,835 Foot-pounds Force (ft lbf)

I noted this on my website at LINK

Basically everyone started WW2 with 0.20 to 0.30 MJ of gunpower (3.7 cm US and German Guns); and then 1940, you saw a jump to 0.70 to 1.5 MJ in the 50mm weapons (US/GER/SOV), followed by a jump in late 1941 and early 1942 to a range of 1.2 to 2.1 MJ (US 75mm, Soviet 7.62 cm, German 7.5 cm).

That had enormous implications; for many tanks had been designed years earlier with protection schemes for the prior generation of gunpower, and there just wasn't enough time to replace them (production needs).

This affected everyone's medium tank families:

US: Sherman
GER: Panzer IV
SU: T-34
UK: Cromwell

But for obvious reasons, since WW2; everyone focuses on the Sherman.