Pen is historically inaccurate in ground forces

I will believe a human being any day over watered down documents.

Who do you think wrote down those documents? Skynet?

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Clearly reptilians from Alpha Centauri.

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Man, I wish my Super Persh could Lolpen a King Tiger, but both IRL and in-game it’s just not, nor was ever, possible.

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Now we are just being dumb

It was possible. And I refuse to believe otherwise

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You are very delusional do to the fact that you take a video game for fact over someone who actually fought in the war.

I take the documents made by the army who actually fought the war over one person, yeah.

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The metrics were already provided that proved it simply didn’t happen. I don’t see why you want to keep insisting on dying on this hill, but go on I guess.

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Metrics that were watered down over the course of 75 years ago. And the fact that a game can’t get simple angles of penetration together is absolutely crazy and the fact the more than half users support these claims because they simply found something from google is already a dying hill by itself.

It’s not “a videogame”, it’s physics.

Physics backed up by official reports of gun and shell firing tests conducted by the Army of the United States of America to describe the performance of this equipment.

Now enlighten me; if a 90mm WW2 standard shell was able to penetrate the 150mm thick sloped armor plates of a 70 ton tank… why would HEATFS and APFSDS shells have been made for? Since apparently those WW2 shells were enough to punch through the heaviest armored tank of the time?

And personal accounts dont get watered down?

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I’m not even talking about the game. I’m talking about the real life aspects regarding the Super P’s gun and ammo capabilities ontop of the fact that no KTs were even in that fight.

This picture is from a Tiger sight, which was similar to Pershing’s… and even though the tank is relatively close and the picture is digitally zoomed in, it’s difficult to distinguish which one was it.

But, apparently, it turns out that one Pershing gunner identified a Tiger II on the sight on the heat of the battle even though there weren’t any Tiger IIs on a 120km radius.

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Not to be that guy, and i might got this wrong since i never studied panther optics in detail, but the pic states “8.8cm Pzgr 39/43”.

It’s 41ºC here, I had an aneurysm for a moment lmao, edited xD

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All good chief

No, you are unwilling to understand the history of the performance of rounds/cannon within the game War Thunder, by people who happened to play this game during these different phases of the game.

We know it is not “historically accurate” as using “historical accuracy” caused a set of issues explained.

The Pen formula is not perfect by any means. But nor is data collected from different militaries using different variables as they were not created for a video game to compare performances.

You belittled/acted poorly in this topic long before the “first hand experience” meme and here (topic) have shown you are hostile towards most replies. Considering your conversations elsewhere in the forum where you appear more rational it makes it seem you are just trolling or unable to be a little more mature in your handling of your own topic.

Best of luck in whatever you are trying to do.

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Physics that are clearly calculated into a simulator engine am I not wrong?

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