I had already made a post about this, but only with images.
Today I bring you a video of how the subject of tanks is extremely ridiculous.
As you can see, where I fell is at the height of the caterpillars, so it doesn’t make sense for me not to climb up and get out.
(I spent more than 20 minutes trying to bring a real example, but it’s incredible how the Google garbage doesn’t have a single damn video of tanks.)
I think anyone who has ever seen a tank knows that something like that can go up.
I would like to be more complete about this, but since Google has absolutely nothing over it and for obvious reasons I cannot upload recorded personal content, I will have to settle with this empty complaint.
I hope they fix this once and for all and give the caterpillars some damn physics.
While I was going to play, the practice field occurred to me, look how the same tank uploads something much worse than the main video. It’s simply nonsense.
I disagree - your tank is at a very awkward angle not allowing the tracks to work properly.
Obstacle climbing such as your videos on the training ground assume the tank is otherwise on flat ground.
In this case I have no issue at all with you getting stuck - there are issues with tank movement physics, but I don’t think this example is one of them.
Probably would of been a good idea to get out and show what your stuck on. If your tread is hanging off the platform then yes you will be stuck. That isn’t a matter of box treads or not, it’s being a bad driver
The video was too long and I couldn’t upload it. I got stuck on the train tracks. At the end of the video you can see how I was able to straighten up, but from then on I couldn’t do anything but go backwards.
This here when I first fell, I couldn’t go backwards when obviously the tank should be able to do it.
It can also be seen in the image that the height of the “well” does not exceed that of the tank’s tracks, making it totally obvious that it should be able to rise.
You can’t see it in the video, but there were 2 bridges in the “pit” and a freight car inside which the tank should have been able to climb onto, and even be able to climb up the bridge.
Technically the tank had everything to be able to leave, the game just didn’t let me.
I ask you to look carefully at the videos before speaking, although visibility is poor, you can see how where I fell is not higher than the tank’s tracks, as seen at the beginning of the video, the tank should have been able to go out in reverse.
Then, I couldn’t get it up but I managed to move the tank forward and stay completely parallel and inside the track and even then I couldn’t climb the bridges, nor climb sideways as I clearly do in the training videos.
I cant get the videos to load, so I will assume you got stuck on some hard to see trash like tree trunks that cant be moved even though whole trees fall out of their place if you ram them.
Game logic still needs improvements though you should take tank capabilities into consideration as well.
A Panther can climb impressively 1-2 meters at 90 degrees while a Jumbo probably wont manage half of that.
Panther vertical obstacle ability was rated as 0.9m - but that assumes good ground and approaching at 90 degrees. Basic Sherman was 2 feet - .6m - haven’t found anything specific to the Jumbo.
An Australian army film comparing Sherman and Churchill is interesting, although it has no vertical obstacle in it ther is hill climbing and mudd traverse:
And of course the infamous comparison of Pather vs M3 - I’m pretty sure the whole German film is available somewhere too…
Here’s another video of a Churchill struggling to cross a pretty small wall… the nominal ability was supposedly 3-1/2 or 4 feet (1.13 - 1.22m) (link is to Mk VII but others are in sidebar) or 5 feet depending where you read online, and this video shows how that was clearly only in ideal circumstances!!
ETA: I had to look up “chespaling”!! A “Chespale” is chestunt wood paling wired together to form a flexible fence. It comes in bundles resembling fascines, and there are a few “chespaling” devices/launchers experimented with in WW2 - the 1 in the video is chestnut wood palings/fence rolled up in front of the tank.
This one is an attempt to carry several chespaling bundles as fascines to drop into ditches in front of the tank -
You can still buy chespaling for easily put up fencing -
your tank is not flat all the wight has been shifted to the front meaning clearance is far lower than normal
your tank is literally acting like a bulldozer
