Hey guys, so far +75h in-game, but one thing is still bothering me - are flamethrowers and molotov cocktails effective against armored vehicles? I managed to put whole flamethrower fuel tank on Puma setting it on fire, but does it work in same way as damaging tank fuel tanks/engine, making in burn and slowly damaging all modules? Or it was just visual effect, making his vision harder?
Tanks explode from flamethrowers. I haven’t even gotten the kill for it though. Even with no friendlies nearby. Happened 3 times.
As a tank driver though, I know molotovs hurt crewmembers. Draining their life. It takes more than one Molotov however.
molotovs can destroy an engine iirc
if you go to the practice range you can see for yourself
i tested it. If you shoot a tank in the ass for a long time with the flamethrower it “breaks” something
you can hear a sound effect.
But i have yet to destroy a tank with it
Flame pretty much just blinds tanks - any damage is so slow occurring as the be effectively none.
IRL flame wasn’t really much use against tanks if htey were closed up - tank designers figured out early on after the Spanish Civil war how to make engine louvres that did not not drip burning petrol/molotov mix into the engine compartment - they they were stil useful in Finland, for example, and early days of WW1 - but not much after 1942-ish.
for experience, i don’t know it if was a bug or something, but half of my crew died because of a molotov.
so i guess they do damage now.
Flames could hurt the crew irl by cutting of oxygen supply from the outside if the tank was engulfed in it (and kept going long enough) leading to the crew suffocating after some time. Though this was also dependent on wether or not the tank had a luke in its floor.
In the game you can kill tanks with molotv/flamethrower if you are lucky enough to set the fuel tank or engine on fire, though it happens rarely. As someone said above if you keep the fire going you can kill of crew memebers as well. But i would suspect that it also depends on the tank and its model.
Was it a M8 or did you have the commander out?
'cos I’ve played flamethrower over a tank until the FT ran out of fuel a couple of time and did absolutely nothing!!
I had tanks exploding sometimes in the moscow campaign when throwing molotvs at soviet tanks. I think it was the T-60 and T-28. I also loose crewmemebers from time to time in the 38(t) when people set it on fire and it keeps going, though the dmg is rather on the level of running through barbed wire. I also saw some a Pz III exploding while gettiong attacked by a soviet Flamethrower trooper attacking it, but I am not entirely sure if it was random occurance and something else set its engine/fuel tank on fire or if it was the flamethrower guy
PZ IV H.
i was crossing during swamp invasion from third objective ( the house ) to the bunker at the far right ( for germans, while left for americans ), and as i went near the american spawns ( which are at the church ) some players throwed at me a molotov and my commander, gunner and radio operator burned with the screen effect of fire.
i checked, and there were no tanks,
my only guess, molotovs.
which, speaking of, by a few update, you can order your AI with molotov to throw them at the tank, so perhaps they do damage.
If it’s anything like ordering them to use det packs I wouldn’t stand behind them while they do it lmao
I ran into a burning sherman not a player destroyed one with my jumbo while trying to move it our of the way and it burnt up my whole crew
Now thats a new type of antitank weapon! I laugh my ass off to image of ppl throwing cocks on the tanks. 
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