Nikademus -> (7/11/2001 3:18:00 AM)
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Originally posted by NateD:
Please don't tell me I'm just wrong, :D
Thanks for lettin me vent,
ok, i wont tell you your wrong
:p
But the Matilda II was indeed a tough bird. I dont think it would be too out of bounds to call it the "Tiger" tank of the early war period, only without the killer gun (still adequate, at least until the debut of the uparmored and face hardened armor Pz-III's and IV's)
Matiltas had ALOT of armor, including around the suspension too. I've seen events of the type you describe from WAW all the way back to SP-1 (heh, in fact you gave me a memory lane trip.....one of the most memorable SP-1 games i had was UK vs Germany in France where i ran into a couple of those pesky tanks. At one point i had one of them surrounded on all six hex sides with 90% of my kampgruppe, pouring lead into it from all sides and getting nothing but
tink
tink
tink
tink tink tink tink
TINKTINKTINKTINKTINKTINKTINKTINK
must have hit the damn thing 40+ times before finally getting a suspension disabled message.
And that was BEFORE all the Matrix tweaks to the Ready-Buttoned-Retreating-Routed routine.
Though it can get frustrating at times i'll take Matrix's more unpredicitble crew characteristic qualities vs the "gaming" like method employed by previous incarnations of SP where you could predict how many hits it would take to supress a vehicle, lose all of its op fire shots and then breath easily.
does'nt happen in WAW my friend. That supressed tank might pass a morale check and get a special op fire and cause your blood pressure to rise. :D
Had that happen to me with a Russian Antitank gun. Supressed it to hell with a whole platoon of tanks and killed all but one crew member, who in Hero of the motherland fashion managed to get two special op fire passes and toasted two more of my panzers bringing the gun's total tally to 6 Facist panzers destroyed. (casing the head Facist (ME!) to have a fit of the vapors.
I could laugh about it afterwards though and appreciated the unpredictableness of the game system.
I suspect in your case that you had the unfortunate luck to come across well experienced Commonwealth crews who trusted in their steel beast.
Makes you wish for one of those new Marders converted to carry the rechambered Russian 76.2mm gun eh? :D
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