Tiger Turret Traversion speed

[malice]

The turret speed is irrelevant if you are team tanking, with driver and gunner, and communicating; the way the tanks are meant to be used.
Driver turns the tank in the general direction of the target and the gunner only has to fine tune the barrel before firing.
The complaints about slow turn rate are likely mostly by those who always get in the tiger alone and try to drive and gun and turn the barrel all at once, which is quite inefficient.

And the Tiger is a much better defensive weapon, you shouldnt be charging headfirst into a battle with the tiger. You should be keeping the tank back so small movements of the turret can cover a large area of the battlefield. The Tiger is really slow in every way so by keeping it back you minimize the movements you need to make to target the enemy. Stay further back and you can cover most of the battlefield with tiny adjustments before advancing.
You might say that the tiger should be leading the attacks because it has such thick armor but thats only true with you are working closely with your team. If you have other tanks advancing with you then you can take the hit and they can return fire but if your not using close teamwork this doesnt work, so keep the tank back.

 

[Zoring]

I want it too, but then you'd have to implement a clutch thingie, no point having a fast turret traverse if your racing around bashing into things cause you have to keep the engine going

 

[Kipper]

I think we should add the ability to have the Tiger rotate in place like it could in reality.

 

[angelangel]

No one should be whinning about the Tiger's traverse speed because in reality they didn't need such a fast traverse speed. Tiger tanks were used for long range tank combat. So yeah, in Arad that's like super close tank combat. If only RO could support 100 players.

 

[Rameusb5]

I would like to see this issue resolved. What was the ACTUAL mechanism that the Tiger I used to traverse the turret, and what was it's speed?

Perhaps I'll write a letter to the Patton museum and ask them. They've got a Tiger I down there and maybe someone might know.

 

[SheepDip]

I've been trying to find this out for ages, so far I haven't found anything definitive. A couple of sources do say the hydraulic mechanism could traverse the turret at a maximum rate of 6 degrees per second. I'm planning a trip to Bovington sometime, and they have the fully restored Tiger 131 there. I'll see if I can ask someone!

 

[Fu. Svedberg]

I've been trying to find this out for ages, so far I haven't found anything definitive. A couple of sources do say the hydraulic mechanism could traverse the turret at a maximum rate of 6 degrees per second. I'm planning a trip to Bovington sometime, and they have the fully restored Tiger 131 there. I'll see if I can ask someone!

If this is true then in most cases the traverse should be even slower then it is today and also it supports snakedude24 statement.

 

[snakedude24]

Yeah, as I said before, Otto Carius fought 'till the end of the war - so he would have seen any new Tigers.

He stated that at a minimum the traversion took 60 seconds, at maximum 60 minutes - in his opinion, a good thing, because he could fine tune his aim.

 

[Rameusb5]

I won't be able to check with the patton museam OR the aberdeen proving grounds. Neither appears to have a Tiger I.

I was surprised how little Aberdeen actually had. The patton museum had a panther and a King Tiger though... which surprised me.

I have seen original maintenance manuals for the Spitfire and Hurricane reprinted in book format. I wonder if there's anything out there like that for the Tiger. I would LOVE to put this one to bed one way or another.

 

[Zbojnik]

I won't be able to check with the patton museam OR the aberdeen proving grounds. Neither appears to have a Tiger I.

I was surprised how little Aberdeen actually had. The patton museum had a panther and a King Tiger though... which surprised me.

I have seen original maintenance manuals for the Spitfire and Hurricane reprinted in book format. I wonder if there's anything out there like that for the Tiger. I would LOVE to put this one to bed one way or another.

Looking for a Tigerfibel. I have the links to one somewhere. Suprisingly it doesn't offer that much info.

 

[[FS] Celtic WereWolf]

Here is an idea, i have no problem team tanking if the person actually speaks the same language or actually knows how to listen to the commander !!!! When this happens then i will fully team tank !!! Untill then its solo or tankin with someone i already know !!!! And the Tiger turrent took a full 60 seconds to do a full rotation !!!!

http://tiger1.info/fibel/

or here it is in PDF format

http://www.fprado.com/armorsite/TIGER-1 FILES/tigerfibel.pdf

right click and save link as, and you will have the tigerfibel all for your self,

 

[Zbojnik]

Here is an idea, i have no problem team tanking if the person actually speaks the same language or actually knows how to listen to the commander !!!! When this happens then i will fully team tank !!! Untill then its solo or tankin with someone i already know !!!! And the Tiger turrent took a full 60 seconds to do a full rotation !!!!

http://tiger1.info/fibel/

or here it is in PDF format

http://www.fprado.com/armorsite/TIGER-1 FILES/tigerfibel.pdf

right click and save link as, and you will have the tigerfibel all for your self,

Thanks. Was looking for the link, came here to check and you posted it. It's a fun thing to look at.

 

[Colt .45 killer]

other then alot of skimply dressed women that manual dosent have much..

 

[Rameusb5]

LOL... Boobies!


(Thanks for posting it... I'll try and translate it tomorrow)

 

[Moz]

I think we should add the ability for the Tiger

 

[Sieg]

Hope the following extract resolves the argument:

"To traverse quickly onto a target, the Tiger I was outfitted with a hydraulic motor for the turret drive. The speed of traverse was dependant on the engine speed the maximum being 360

 

[Rameusb5]

Thanks for posting that. I almost bought that book last night from Osprey, but then noticed that Jentz was the author and so already knew what he was going to say...

 

[LukeFF]

other then alot of skimply dressed women that manual dosent have much..

Yeah, it was approved by some schmo named Heinz Guderian...

...who was only the Inspector-General of Armored Troops.

 

[Moz]

Yeah, it was approved by some schmo named Heinz Guderian...

...who was a creepy sex fiend.

 

[LukeFF]

Yeah, great comeback there. Any other wisecracks you'd like to share with us?