I’m relatively new to the game and I’m sorry if it sounds like I’m complaining. How does a normal grenade kill a PZ. IV? Genuinely curious I keep getting randomly killed by a hand grenade not by a tank. I can be the only tank on the board (figuratively) and my tank will explode by some puny grenade. How does that happen?
It is the explosion pack they are using, it is a bunch of sticks of dynamite they throw and it is used primarily as an anti tank grenade.if you see notification that there is a grenade then always drive away from it if you can, but sometimes you can’t because they cook the packs for a few seconds, which makes the fuse shorter when it reaches you
Would make sense most of the time but there’s quite a few times when I can see the grenade and its sometimes even a pineapple grenade like my last game I saw it perfectly thought it wouldn’t do anything because it was a pineapple grenade the only grenade in the vicinity nope that pineapple grenade killed me
Hmm, that dosent make sense if you were using a panzer 4,because those normal grenades don’t give any penetration I think, so it might be bugged or something weird happened
Possibly but it happens more often then you’d think I can understand the little grenade packs and anti tank stuff but I see more and more of pineapple grenades destroying my panzer IV not even just the panzer IV destroys my PZ II PZ III the M3AI Stuart my puma it’s happened at least once witj every vehicle some I can understand the American AA gun truck thing has 0 armor and open top
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I can understand open top veichles like the Scott or dicker max being destroyed by grenades, but full closed veichles shouldn’t die to normal nades
Sounds to me like an issue I need to submit to gaijin do they listen to the player base? Not saying this rudely just to many company’s don’t and idk enough about gaijin
If you submit a bug report they will listen to your report eventually, but on here they don’t even listen to mass outcry on certain issues
Are you seeing the actual grenade, or the orange grenade warning icon? The orange icon is always a pineapple grenade even if it’s actually an explosive pack, I’m pretty sure.
There is a few videos on the reddit of people throwing grenades down the barrels of tanks successfully. Maybe that’s a real thing that’s happening too.
Frag grenades are perfectly capable of penetrating the engine deck of a pz 4, I do it myself when the need arises.
EG: Threw a frag, penetrating his tank and damaging his components, this spooked him, and I was able to mop up when he bailed.
I can normally see the type.of grenade thrown because I keep myself on a swivel I don’t stay stationary for more then 5 seconds so I notice what different type of grenades are thrown I was driving a PZ IV and I was backing up someone threw a grenade I didn’t see the type of grenade until it was in front of me and it still killed me no AT infantry no rank around one tank was across the entire map but hed have to shoot through 3 buildings to kill me and I saw it was a normal American pineapple grenade oval shape and green it was basically in front of me albeit it low id expect at most transmission damage but he wiped my entire tank out with it idk how
Also good to know to watch my engine deck more closely lol that’s wild but interesting I can also use this for myself thanks lol gives me options if I’m infantry
Also isn’t it kinda wrong that Infantry is the best way to counter a tank? As much as I use tanks god I love WW2 tanks but it always seems that the best way to kill me is from infantry the other tankers are just so terrible I can get hit 15 times by another tank and survive but one small pineapple grenade kills me makes zero sense tanks were made to be good against infantry not for infantry to completely disregard all tank/infantry rules
Tell me 1. Why is spawn protection why sided when the enemy spawns I can’t kill them instantly some kind of shield icon but when they spawn kill me it’s an instant death also 2. I’ll get record this but how in the world does some fully automatic what seemed like squad infanty weapon kill a PZ.IV unless it was the truck but that’s still a 12.7MM auto cannon that should pen the sides of a PZ IV maybe the rear but shouldn’t be an instant death
Spawning from a default spawn gives you limited time protection, spawning from a player built rally gives you no such protection.
In regards to infantry seemingly being better at taking out tanks, this has mostly to do with the close quarters nature of most maps and nearly all squads being able to field an AT infantryman. Thrown explosives are typically detonating above or below your tank, where as projectiles are hitting from the sides and if facing Americans, you may be dealing with solid shot. INFANTRY IS KING.
Some nations are better at armor removal with tanks than others, Axis and Soviets are the most capable in that regard, US got reduced shell selection, and their tanks were more geared towards infantry support anyways, Japan is…well, they are special…
I’ve yet to play as Japan mainly due to their selection of researching is so very… Limited almost boring and useless and their smgs just looks so… Awkward. Sadly enough it appears infantry is king in 90% of situations there’s been some situations where I can pull off a 100 kill game in a tank but the team still fails at their own objectives of pushing or defending. I’ve been playing a lot of Germany tried Russian tanks for 0 armor and some tanks of to few crew men to make use of the tanks. America’s just weird. When I play with America I get these kids who sweat at a free game thinking they getting a buck for winning when I play Russian I get both sides being bots and still loose with 50-100 kill games Germany my teams are bots unaware of how to play. I have noticed that Germany armor good at taking ranks out but that’s about it I can put an HE shell next to an enemy squad and get 0 kills place it on ones face and I get a single kill I use Russian I get a couple in a squad then I use American I can squad wipe and sometimes get a single kill
Also why when I use an anti tank rifle it’s like I shooting spit balls at the enemy armor but they use it and they can seemingly one shot me with a rifle no matter what tank I’m using? Legit question because I have no idea how to use an anti tank rifle