Which is beyond silly.
Tested this out lots on a campaign server on bridges. Germans attacking. Drove my tank onto the bridge and I had 10 seconds to live. They fire down low hitting the transmission and drive shaft killing half the crew and then hitting the ammo. They can also damage the engine from the front hitting that massive frontal plate that's seems to be made of cardboard. 3/4 AT riflemen were level 99.
However when I reversed onto the bridge They could barely scratch me. No real weak spots on the rear for an AT rifle and the front of the turret was facing me. People called me an idiot at first but all their AT rifle shots bounced off. It's also really hard to actually hit the turret ring of a panzer IV from the back when the turret is pointing backwards as well. Did it twice and it took them ages to kill me the first time and the second time artillery got me.
So yeah fix the frontal plate of the panzer IV. The lowest one down.
Tested this out lots on a campaign server on bridges. Germans attacking. Drove my tank onto the bridge and I had 10 seconds to live. They fire down low hitting the transmission and drive shaft killing half the crew and then hitting the ammo. They can also damage the engine from the front hitting that massive frontal plate that's seems to be made of cardboard. 3/4 AT riflemen were level 99.
However when I reversed onto the bridge They could barely scratch me. No real weak spots on the rear for an AT rifle and the front of the turret was facing me. People called me an idiot at first but all their AT rifle shots bounced off. It's also really hard to actually hit the turret ring of a panzer IV from the back when the turret is pointing backwards as well. Did it twice and it took them ages to kill me the first time and the second time artillery got me.
So yeah fix the frontal plate of the panzer IV. The lowest one down.