Ok guys, we allready knew that tanks can crush fences and other obstacles, but what happens if a tank engage a small wooden building? This suburbs map Spartakova I think looks like there are many wooden buildings? Can we squash them?
No tank crew with their right minds would drive through/crush over even a light build wooden building if there would be another option for that. There
I do get what you are saying but that isn't entirely true. For instance, I was watching Greatest Tank Battles on the Military channel, and although that show does depict the animated battle horribly the story is still worth watching for.
The episode I was watching was one of the Battle of the Bulge episodes and the crew of a I believe was a M5 AT gun observed a king tiger back up into a house. Although the actual pictures shown of the actual king tiger showed the tiger pretty ****** up, as it looked like it couldn't make it because it had got elevated when it backed up and looked like the tracks couldn't spin although I'm not exactly sure what had happened that had made the Tiger II inoperable.
But anyway there is footage of a Tiger 1 driving through a building and just completely driving right through it. It really showed thr Tiger's power. I am sure, although I can't say for certain, that there has been a tank that may have had only one option of getting thr tank and all of it's components (the crew) out alive was to attempt to drive through a building or part of a building.
I think most of us know that tanks CAN go through buildings. I think what RedGuardist is trying to say is that its not a smart move if it isn't absolutely necessary. Stuff can get caught in the tracks, and woops, the tank is stuck and possibly covered by rubble.
Also, gameplay wise, I don't think it would be a good thing. People would just use them as battering rams and run people over. Think of the halftracks in RO/DH, but with the ability to smash buildings.
Although I must admit tanks smashing through buildings is pretty damn cool...
The Sd Kfz 251 only weighed something like 8 tons. Although that is a lot I wouldn't expect that to go through one house and out the other lol. But I do agree with what you are saying.
Tanks WERE used as battering ram often against pak or digged in infantry! If u sit in your PZIII and you spot a house full of russian infantry, the house is actually a menace to you, so why not bringing it down as quickly as possible! But you
Tanks WERE used as battering ram often against pak or digged in infantry! If u sit in your PZIII and you spot a house full of russian infantry, the house is actually a menace to you, so why not bringing it down as quickly as possible! But you
I mean on some maps people drove them around without a gunner and ran people over. I dont think driving an open top 251 through a building would be a good idea at all
I can't recall what has been talked/said already but can tanks at least slash trees down like in Arma2 or are trees still made out of adamantium like in RO1?
Ah and there we got the KT at Stavelot, he almost bring the whole house down