Why does the Semovente da 75/34 in Game not have any HE ammo? IRL it did, The game has Given the Matilda HE ammo and they never actually had any 2 pounder HE till late in the war for the 2 pounder in Europe so it does not seam to much of a stretch to give the Semovente da 75/34 at least a few HE shells when it actually had them.
Also it would be great if the AA MG gun was modeled for it as well
The L34 modello 34 Breda 75 mm had limited traverse (16° left, 16° right) and 42 rounds stored, either Armor Piercing (AP) or High Explosive (HE) shells. This gun had a muzzle velocity of 624 m/sec (2,050 ft/second) and a range of 12,500 m (13,670 yards). However, in order to defend the crew against infantry, a 8 mm (0.31 in) Breda machine-gun was added on a removable roof pintle mount.
Above From: Semovente da 75/34 (tanks-encyclopedia.com)
Below you can see references for the HE round, and the AP round, and two types of HEAT round that the Semovente 75/34 carried , from this source:
TM 9-1985-6 Italian and French Explosive Ordnance, 1953 : United States. Department of the Army : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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I think I asumed it was something to with balance, but for the life of me I could not wrap my head around the why of that.
Given how anemic the effects of the 75 MM HE are from the P III N I cant imagine it being destabilizing to give it some HE , and it has no MG after all, even if the AA MG were added using it would be risky as you would need to be exposed to do so.
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I Use AP as HE, it has pretty good blast. Imo better thing would be to give it only HEAT, as even pen more armor and work as HE.
And AA MG is not there because it was not modeled even for WT one, from where they imported the model.
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I consider the ability to oneshot every allied tank i meet as “good”, tbh.
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I use it a lot and it cant one shot every allied tank, the Sherman and the Grant to a lesser extant are very hard , if not at times, depending on the angle, imposable to kill.
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I do agree that the AP it has can be effective, but only it seams if you actually hit a solider with it and then you can get some others along with it if there near by.
Was the AA MG on the M 13/40 in War Thunder ?
Either soldier, or ground nearby, but that is tricky as it sometimes looks like it landed near troops when in reality it didnt. But hitting soldiers is more reliable.
Yep, M13/40 and its whole M13 tank series has Its MGs, even Semovente 75/18 M41 has MG (And 75/18 version should have been in campaign as 75/34 version were never deployed to North Africa).
Exactly, the Matilda had no HE despite being a infantry support tank and the sevmovente was used as an assault gun so it definitely used HE.
As you said PZIII N has 75mm HE. Maybe sevomonte has a lower reload time to compensate.
My theory is because it has really low ammo 44 shells iirc they gave it only AP soo you always have shells to use against tanks, but i could be wrong.
I meant were they modeled in War Thunder, I mean if the reason the Semovente da 75/34 does not have it now, is that were not modeled before…
Also, why do non of the Hull MG’s on the Tanks work?
Semovente we have dont have modeled MG in WT.
Hull MGs dont work in WT either.
They seem pretty “flexible” about what tanks are on what maps/Campaigns, the M 24 was never in Normandy neither were the 76 mm Shermans, yet they are …
The Semovente 75/18 would of been effective what with it’s HEAT round.
It also strikes me as odd that non of the tank’s, at least not the ones I have used to date have more than two types of ammo available to them, despite many having historically a variety of types.
I also thought perhaps it was an ammo load out question, that is like you say a low ammo count but it is so easy to rearm in game
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