like seriously a cruiser tank against an italian armoured car? i tried both, maybe its me that i dont know how to use tanks, but must say that the cruiser is a point and click while the ab41 is garbage. rifle speaking is pretty balanced if not for the fact that axis is always braindead (nothing darkflow can fix sadly) but guys, i know the “charm” of brit vs italians, but its tunisia not libya/el alamein. give a more normal tank like a m13/40 or a pz3. Like in a match with a m13 i won a 1v2 against 2 ab41 cause their autocanno couldnt pen me. Oh and pls give allies rifle the bayonet too
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AB is really good against infantry with it´s autocannon though and seems to be very resistant towards handheld explosives. Also if you take out the gunner and drive around the A13 there´s nothing he can do about it. A13 and AB damage models seem to be really weird in general. I´ve landed 5 center mass shots on the AB and only killed 2 crew members. One of wich was directly on the ammo racks.
Also big agree on the bayonet part. It sort of worked in Berlin because the rifle with the bayonet wasn´t the russian default rifle. Allies meanwhile have to unlock theirs.
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Not with the reload speed on both the AB41’s guns. It’s utterly useless. The A13 has a reload that seems way too fast.
We have like 10 campaign levels and people already make assumptions about the balance of the campaign as a whole.
Also AB vs. Cruiser isnt that bad for me. Due their broken DM its nothing more than the same tennis-meta we have in France.
im not making any assumption about balance of the campaign as a whole. On the contrary i said that weapon speaking this campaign is very good. I only said that for me AB41 vs cruiser is not balanced as ab is underperforming.
AB good,it easy destroying british tank,very easy.
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the only reason the AB41 even has a chance against A13s is because british tankers are clueless idiots and both don’t look around when they’re killing infantry, and don’t know where to shoot the AB41. I’ve driven far around the sides of maps directly up to A13s when they aren’t looking around, and point-blanked them in their side armor. Even when they see me, they’re so focused on shooting through the front hull armor that they wind up wasting shots while I pin their crew down.
For brit tankers: Always look around your surroundings, and when you’re head on with the AB41–
–UPPERCUT THE THING–
Hit it right in the chin underneath the gun mantlet, from what i’ve seen so far it almost always kills 2 crew or pops the thing like an egg.
For AB41 tankers, the A13 is an easy mark, IF you shoot it right.here, I.E., the gunner’s position, it literally can’t hurt you. Keep shooting it here and eventually it’ll run out of crew or run away, where you can chase it down.
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And how does one look around while shooting at targets that have been identified? Love to know.
In fact the 2 poiunder should not have to select miniscule target areas on the AB - anything through the middle of the front SHOULD hit the driver and 2 turret crew - but most often it jsut bounces right off that mighty 8mm armour… which of course IRL it would go through easily at 2000m or more…
i don’t have much trouble penning the front if it’s dead on, but the AB has a lot of weird angles that might be fucking up the damage model. My advice is to see the AB before it sees you, and if it’s looking at you hit it under the mantlet. there’s no way to play around broken damage models besides shoot places that reliably get kills even with them.
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This is why I suggested in another thread that we need a Tunisia practice range with tanks … This way we can actually test the damage models.
You cant really do that in the middle of a battle … If this truly is a beta and not just a money grab then give us tools to test with …
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That mighty duceium at work
I do - head on from the front, side on, from the rear, the sloped plates, the flat plates - side on you CAN hit the ammo - I have managed a coupel of OHK’s - but rare as hen’s teeth.
I have been playing the Tunisian campaign since the open beta came out and have noticed that currently the AB 41s are almost indestructible (I use the Daimler and A13 tanks, both of which use the same 40mm qf2 pounder cannon)
I fired over 15 armor-piercing rounds from the daimler today (all with green sights) until I ran out of ammo and couldn’t destroy it.
On the other hand, the AB41 hits me 1 or 2 multi-shot bursts with its 20mm lower barrel and in 5 seconds it destroys me as if my tank were made of cardboard.
They fucked up the damge models again so you´re gonna have to deal with it until they fix it. I´ve seen people point out the spot where you have to shoot to kill the AB and A13 instantly but I don´t remember where. Might have to ask in the mess room about it.
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