Zerknautscher said:Why is the Panzer IV H not put into the game? I don't think it is that much work to model the "Sch
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Zerknautscher said:Why is the Panzer IV H not put into the game? I don't think it is that much work to model the "Sch
jedinstven-o crni Wuk said:a more comon version of the panzer IV, woud be very needed. Yes. THough it hase been mentioned now ... a very long time ...
Zerknautscher said:Why is the Panzer IV H not put into the game? I don't think it is that much work to model the "Sch
george said:Didn't those fall of alot? And weren't they a pain in the a$$ to clean and stuff?
Oi!Oi!Oi! said:Skirts are sexy...
george said:Didn't those fall of alot? And weren't they a pain in the a$$ to clean and stuff?
Otherwise I think I read they were effective, against stuff like AT guns and stuff.
SchHarry S. Truman said:The skirts added very little protection from AP rounds, but they provided significant protection verses HEAT rounds. The skirt would prematurely detonate the warhead and the gap between the skirt and the armor would dissipate the hot gasses instead of burning into the armor. Of course, the Soviets used very few HEAT warheads, but it was quite common in American and British arsenals in the form of the PIAT and the Bazooka and some tank rounds late in the war. The Germans had a workable heat round as early as 1941 (Gr. 38 HL/C) that was used in the Panzer IV's 75mm short gun. The German Panzerfaust and the Panzershriek both used a HEAT round as well. All told, the skirts didn't provide much protection in armored warfare on the Eastern Front but were much more useful in the Western Front.
The Shurtzen was usually a 5 or 8 mm soft steel plate, but it could also be just steel mesh. It had the same effect on heat rounds. When you see photos of tanks missing a piece of shurtzen, it is most likely it was removed because it got damaged or destroyed. Even though it would look "cool", there would be really no benefit to having it on the tank, at least not in RO:OST. The biggest benefit would be the 7.5 cm KwK 40 L/48, which has a significant increase in penetration over the F2's 7.5 cm KwK 40 L/43.
Harry S. Truman said:Even though it would look "cool", there would be really no benefit to having it on the tank, at least not in RO:OST.