With an AMX-M4 I just shot a Tiger II’s side almost completely head-on at 100m, and the shell bounces. This is not the first time, so many of my shots have bounced from absolutely unbelievable angles recently. I’ve also penned the mantlet of a T-10A with an EBR 1951 at point blank. Is something fucky going on or what?
It is am issue with armor overlap.
Where two plates meet, the shell can hit both. This causes it to add both plates and double the armor.
This was the case because Tiger 2 has no overlapping plates on the side armour, except side skirts but I hit centre-mass.
send a replay link and we can check
i had a 183mm HESH shell richochet off an IS6 mantlet just now
They did an “update”… I have been having periodic bad server lag even though my ping was in the 30ms and packet loss was zero. So… perfectly normal.
Busy right now but it was American Desert within my last couple of games.
Holy bad shot Batman!!!
How were you expecting that to go through?
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Dude… are you high?
For argument’s sake I even put it at an extreme angle(over twice the angle I shot from) and it still should’ve gone through.
the angle is too high for 80mm side armour
see above
See the video I posted… You were in the AMX M4 not the Somua. You lost the somua to the T-44-100 at the railway station without doing any damage to anything
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While it is possible to pen at such an angle it’s really just taking a big risk. The equivalent protection at that angle is about 230mm
you also have to account for the fact the shot came from slightly below since the tank is not driving on level ground.
It was not a guranteed penetration and thus a risky shot
Again, I have exaggerated the angle to give benefit of the doubt and it should still pen with no issues. It’s french high velocity 90mm APCBC at less than 300m. Whatever the argument, that should not have been a ricochet.
Ammo detonation is inconsistent, so I can’t aim for rear turret.
Optimal place is centre-mass - hit ammo rack + take out gunner/turret drive incase ammo doesn’t detonate. There was no other optimal place I could have shot except possibly centre mass of the turret to take out breech/gunner, then send more shots to take out the rest of the crew. KT will just forward-face me where I can then only pen his turret, which has no active crew, meaning it won’t kill. He can just reverse back behind cover or I get third partied.
Can i get the replay link?
I mainly play france and I would not have take that shot. It is just not worth it. you could have waited to get a better one.
afaik there is a house infront of me, c point is to my left so he will continue forward behind cover and eventually turn to face c point(me) giving me worse shot placement. I have no problem admitting when I get skill issued, but that aint it dude. protection map and common sense says a round with 243mm of pen @ 500m should go through the side armour of a KT like butter even when angled.