fair enough
youre asking for an anti air post on the engine deck, not an mg port.
also i dont believe thats a thing because ive only ever saw it being done on models of jagdtiger, most likely to add something to the engine deck, which is quite sparce and is kinda bad for a model.
What kind of extraordinary ace flags OP in the topic so I can’t even read what whole fuss is about?
You mean MG post or MG pole :P, that would make more sense :P
Thanks bud, doing the lord’s work.
As for the question posed by the OP, now tha the Tiger II Sla has acquired the following new cutting edge capability its BR is gonna go up for sure:
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From memory, I think the test vehicle actually survives to this day at the Tank Museum but the Germans refitted the original engine.
I think it was something about giving the tiger2 sla a rangefinder (so 2 80mn weakspots in reality) and that’s all I can remember honestly it didn’t make sense.
uhhhhh No?
The Jagdtiger in the tank museum is a pre Production one with the Porsche Type Suspension.
Not the one fitted with the SLA-16.
I think that this suggests it is the one in Kubinka:
Thanks for the clarification.
Also, was that actually done though? As far as I’m aware it was only fitted to a Jagdtiger?
Panther 2 has a rangefinder and it hasn’t ever felt like it has added a weakspot.
Edit: Because there is none. Because they don’t bother modelling such things.
Even the NVDs have never been an issue, even though you can turn them off now.
I doubt adding a beneficial rangefinder to the Sla will ever be an issue.
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okay well that’s like saying a copula isn’t a weak spot, or a machine gun port. Honestly one of the comments of all time.
what are you talking about they’re literally an 60mm aphe sweet spot, keep coping dude, just tested it’s possible for the p40 to frontally pen the panther 2 through the rangefinder and even take out the transmission lol, so I fail to see how they would make the tiger 2 sla better especially considering the overall small map size on a average and already above average shell velocity.
Sure, move it up. Move some other stuff up too and soon we can drop German win rates below 40% consistently across the board. Maybe we can also nerf the flight performance of the 109s and 190s some more?
You mean the planes that all through the war got shot down time and time again by Spitfires and P-51s? With very low kill rates of their own? And only were considered successful due to them hunting defenseless bombers?
lol, lmao even. mask off moment. hate to break it to you but irl spitfires were probably the least impactful plane of WW2 and many were a victim to the butcher bird (which irl was the best axis dogfighter lol), no legs whatsoever it did less for the war effort by far than the simple p40. And calling b17/24 defenseless is funny, maybe Halifax/Lancasters with their utter lack of any belly defense.
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This shot would never happen in a real battle lmao.
yeah the p40 is 3.3 I just used it as an example, or are you saying people don’t shoot for couplas or machine gun ports?
Adding these to the tiger 2 sla just adds an unnecessary weak point, you cannot refute that. it would for example allow the Sherman 76 or soviet 85mm to easily delete your turret.
If you used bushes it would drastically lower the odds too ofc but that’s so cheap
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Yeah see it wouldn’t create a real weak point because you’d never be able to hit the viewport or rangefinder in a match and even if you do it’ll just eat the round like it does on the panther series tanks with its machine gun in the turret face, and honestly I don’t see the issue with it having a tiny half chance weak point on the front of it that a 76mm could go through. Tanks have weak points like machine guns and cupulas because of they are lightly armored in the case of machine gun ports and cupulas because of APHE works act as a shot trap, in the same breath though things like range finders and viewports act as blackholes making shot that seem “possible” not actually able to happen in a real game. To me idc what your argument is I think its just stupid to use the game’s penetration mode as a showcase of something being a weak point since its notoriously awful at showing how rounds will act in game, I mean to the point the devs are telling you not to use it as an example.