Charles22
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BTW, employing the method to which I spoke, my current battle is 9/39 against the Poles. I've been like 5 turns into his advance and destroyed like 15 of his tanks (including the tw) and have not suffered ONE HIT to my tanks. Certainly that's quite exceptional, but the key isn't always whether a very high percentage of your hits are penetrating or not, but whether you firing as much as he is (when on defense). It also helps to let the enemy close until some of your hits have a chance to penetrate (such as maybe 15 hexes or less with the 37mm).
Now, of course this strategy is somewhat bankrupt against the French S-35's, but by then you can upgrade 20mm flaks in core to 88's and you can keep the 88's in a linited role to use it decisively in spots, so that it can fire a lot of times with only one or two units able to counter it's fire. I do this so that the 88 can survive from battle to battle.
As was the case with the S-35's when I dealt with them, remember, even if you're not penetrating, if the enemy isn't hitting, much less penetrating you're in a draw at worst. The Polish conflict to which I spoke, shows, if you analysed every last shot I had, that there wasn't a very high damage rate with hits, but on the other hand, the war was being won because the enemy wasn't hitting AT ALL. The French S-35's and the like, are burdened with inadequate crews, so that the while they have great armor, they suffer from the inability to actually do much hitting. Place about four 88's in areas where only a few enemy tanks can counter their fire (such as behind hills, overlooking just a few hexes in front of an area you want to defend), and watch what French stuff can get through, get torched.
In the battle where I faced the 150 S-35's, the 88's I had probably didn't torch more than 6 S-35's, but the 88's never received any counterfire either. As well, infantry placed well can take out many S-35's. I place my infantry generally no more than four or five hexes in front of my tanks, so that when the S-35's started getting assaulted by infantry, he'd decided he'd had enough and quit, having lost something along the lines of 3960 to 23. I'm glad the battle ended there or I would've started losing some core units, but this shows another strategy, and that is to don't ever give up, because the next turn may be the one where, even if he's giving it to you pretty good, that he decides that he's lost too much. Them S-35's may be hard to dent, but they sure are expensive!!!
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Really, when you score a hit you cannot tell where it actually hits. So maybe your 88 hit a turret, but instead of hitting it 'face on' it only scored a glancing hit. Sort of near miss. Such hit would surely dent some metal and make the tank crew feel like bats in the belltower. Also because the hit angle and armour angles are counted in you may just have a straight ricochet or you may see a very high armour value due to the very small impact angle.
As for damaging shots, there is always a possibility that a shot penetrates but only does some damage. This ratio is adjusted in the patch and the kills should be easier to get now. I haven't played yet with the smaller guns but for example the 50mm KWK/43 against Stuarts causes a lot of first penetration kills now.
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