Desert Fox
Posts: 171
Joined: 5/9/2000 From: Ohio, that is all I can say. Status: offline
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Unfortunately, I have seen those 'invincible' halftracks too. However, I don't see the halftracks taking 88s with no effect, I see my armored cars taking 75mm Sherman tank shells with no effect. I have turned off the messages, so I don't know exactly what is going on, but from the sounds, a good portion of these shells are ricocheting. Don't get me wrong, the armored cars rarely take more than one ricochet, but I still find it odd that it happens.
Perhaps just as odd is the fact that I can use the same armored cars to pound away at halftracks from 1 hex away and, even more frequently than 75mm shells bounciung off armored cars, the 20mm weapons simply do not cause the crew to bail or the halftrack to blow up. I seem to lose armored cars quicker to the .50 cals on the halftracks than one of my 20mm guns actually destroys the halftrack. Seems odd to me, anyways.
And as for that Hitler thing, I really think you are a little oppressed, victorhauser. Saying, "Heil Hitler" as a kampfgruppe commander is no different than saying, "Long live the King," as a British commander, or "Hail to the Chief" as an American commander. Yeah, Hitler was an evil dude, but few soldiers in the field knew about it, and besides that, he was the leader of the country they were fighting for. Its all about respect and patriotism not slaughtering Jews and commiting attrocities. It absolutely must be taken in context.
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