2021-01-25, 16:46 | #1 |
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Benelux
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Half-tracks are worse than any other vehicle off or on road
- They get stuck in the smallest ditches
- They are slower than the biggest tanks/APC's - The gunner can't defend himself even if the halftrack is pointed the correct way. The K/D of all halftrack gunners must be less than 0.1 Using them is suicide for an entire squad. |
2021-01-25, 19:09 | #2 |
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Yugoslavia
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Re: Half-tracks are worse than any other vehicle off or on road
Main thing that you get whit half-track is decent mobility (this is Normandy, so yeah not great in general), ammo, ability to request kits and pretty sure permanent rally point when dropped next to HT (did not try this). In general, you do not bring HT for its firepower, but for its utility.
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2021-01-25, 20:46 | #3 | |
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Re: Half-tracks are worse than any other vehicle off or on road
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Not having firepower wouldn't be a problem if at least it was as fast as a transport truck and didn't get stuck in every ditch. At the end of every game, Carentan and Brecourt are littered with half-tracks that deviated a tiny bit from the main road. Check any tracker: http://gammagroup.wtf/trackers/index..._cq_128.PRdemo I'm just randomly picking these from http://gammagroup.wtf/br/main/tracker/ http://gammagroup.wtf/trackers/index..._cq_128.PRdemo 1) The only time that a half-track leaves main is when all transport trucks have left, and there's absolutely no alternative. 2) Whenever the halftrack arrives, it either gets abandoned, stuck or killed (as opposed to transport trucks, which usually get reused, and almost never get stuck). If the half-track happened to be a mistake of a vehicle that was terrible at everything, this would be ok because it would be realistic. But half-tracks were great vehicles! The reason they are not used is the mechanical complexity of maintaining them. They could drive at over 50 km/h ([1] and [2]) and were much BETTER at driving through rough country than transport trucks. [1] https://www.nationalww2museum.org/vi...-m3-half-track [2] https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/n...51_hanomag.php | |
2021-01-26, 11:48 | #4 | |
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Trinidad and Tobago
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Re: Half-tracks are worse than any other vehicle off or on road
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Note: Another way to get people to use those half tracks is to probably make a mortar version of it or an AA version other than that, it can kiss my *** | |
2021-01-26, 15:52 | #5 | |
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Re: Half-tracks are worse than any other vehicle off or on road
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For special HTs, crewman kit should stay as requirement. | |
2021-01-27, 09:15 | #6 | |
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Re: Half-tracks are worse than any other vehicle off or on road
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What's really necessary is making the half-track faster than the transport truck (i.e. giving it its real life speed), and making it better off-road than all other vehicles (it should certainly be better than the Greyhound. "The M8 Greyhound's excellent on-road mobility made it a great supportive element in the advancing American and British armored columns. It was marginal off-road, especially in mud." In other words: the Greyhound should get the half track's current speed off-road, and the american half track should get the greyhound's speed both on and off-road. (I know that off-road isn't a thing in project reality, but what I mean is that the greyhound should get stuck in the smallest ditch in the same way that the half-track currently gets stuck, while the half-track should really be able to climb any hill) | |
2021-01-30, 21:23 | #7 |
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United States of America
Location: Illinois
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Re: Half-tracks are worse than any other vehicle off or on road
If they had the 360 turret like it was supposed to it would have been 100% better.
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2021-01-30, 22:10 | #8 |
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Re: Half-tracks are worse than any other vehicle off or on road
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2021-01-30, 23:26 | #9 |
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Re: Half-tracks are worse than any other vehicle off or on road
right now its only redeeming quality is you can request kits, its speed needs a serious looking into. it was made for off road. if this was bombing around offering kits it would be harder to hit and fill a niche roll, a light apc, similar to shit box . like a guy said earlier if it was this much of a lame duck it would have been well documented
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2021-01-31, 00:23 | #10 | |
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Re: Half-tracks are worse than any other vehicle off or on road
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Off road ability of HT was better compared to trucks, but it was not something more impressive. Point is, for SdKfz 251, DEVs would need to find way for hole crew to effectively engage enemy from inside of vehicle whit there weapons. On other hand, M5 seams right in big picture. | |
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