flamethrower tanks needs a buff to make them more useful rather than just being able to kill open top exposed crews, it would be nice if these could also burn the engine, set exposed ammo on fire after prolonged exposure (to deplete MG belts and 20mm mounted guns for example), overheating the cannons and burn optics, IRL coctel molotov was actually useful against armor if an infantryman managed to get a clean hit on the engine, this would make it better at farming assistances rather than getting a kill directly cuz against well armored tanks theres not even an assistance if im not mistaken sinc theres no damage
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Yeah I agree it should destroy engines if you hit the vents / be able to destroy machine guns. I dont think it should destroy the barrel though would be too cancerous
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not destroying the barrel but more like gradually increasing the overheating value of the enemy cannon until it procs the delay
Yeah not sure about that one, might just be a bit to stickly for gaijin’s spaghetti code
You can also add that driving over fire with a wheeled vehicle damages the tires, not to the point of instantly popping but just “don’t brake on top of fire of please”
idk how realistics this is tho.
Pretty sure the mix they use in flamethrowers would stick to the tires and ignite them if you drove through it.
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If it has rubber tyres it could melt them, but things like the EBR have metal tyres too
Molotovs (and flame in general) were only useful against open toped vehicles, and gainst slosesd top ones that had decks that were not designed to defeat them.
Early tanks were vulnerable - T-26’s and the BT series, and some later tanks with large fan holes or engine air intakes on the deck would also be vulnerable.
But if the decks are designed well then flame is totally ineffective - would blind the crew if on vission devices tho
If you burnt off the rubber tires on the EBR though it could only drive in a straight line, the metal wheels don’t have steering. That would be funny, flamethrower its tires off and watch it plough into a tree or wall because it can still drive but not steer.
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IRL would the flamethrowers go though openings in tanks like vents/mg slots etc and kill crew members? If so that would be something cool to see in game