This German Tank Terrified Americans - DCS Shows Us Why
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- čas přidán 1. 03. 2022
- We're going to send 3 King Tigers into a wall of 30 Sherman Tanks over near Dunkirk, 1940's - World War 2 still playing out, I managed to find us a quiet spot, at least for a few moments.
The Germans were always good with technology, and back in the early 1940s, they'd figured that using sloped armour on tanks, their effective thickness increases, without using additional materials....
Until someone says, "Hey, use additional materials, and the sloping armour together, strap on the 88mm, and we have an almost indestructible vehicle of death!"
Their only problem, Goering couldn't even match aircraft production with the UK for 6 of the 7 years of war, nevermind the USA or Russia, and decided to throw most of that away in the Battle of Britain, giving orders that previously attacked bases must be left alone, effectively ensuring he wiped off any gains they may have made in previous days..
Combine a genius over here with a rich heroin addict that appears to have tried to lose, results in giving the Germans the best useless tank ever made, that anyone could fly over, go around, and drop things on with impunity... that is unless you had a Sherman tank in certain fields around France and western Germany back in '45 - Hry
Sherman’s need to press the two key and load the skill .
In video games they always say " armor is op " and didn't put other injurie than the penetration but being hit just by 1 hit is dangerous for the crew du to concussive force inside the tank.
An interesting thought experiment, but in reality, those Shermans wouldn't have just sat there and taken it. They would have maneuvered to the sides and rear of the Tigers to hit the thinner armor. In addition, the game isn't replicating the damage inflicted on the vehicle tracks and suspension. Likely, the Tigers would have been immobilized pretty quickly with all those impacts and the Shermans would have maneuvered to the aforementioned sides and rear. It still would have been a mauling of the Shermans, but in the end, they would have likely prevailed.
I agree with all the points you made, and this is why I didn't do more comparing ground units in DCS. The AI units in DCS are remarkably stupid at times, remarkably brilliant at others (high skilled machine gunner can head shot a pilot, flying past at Mach 1.0) also the damage models for ground units, especially tanks, has been a constant source of frustration to pilots on CAS missions. I'm not sure how much has gone into creating certain "collision box hot spots" for specific aspects of tanks. As you point out, a round might not have enough to penetrate the main armour, but shift that same round over a yard or two, it might have busted the tracks off the same tank. DCS used to count all damage down a single percentage of "health" and clearly this might have been great 10-20 years ago. Hopefully I'll get to make a video one day soon, same setup, with the AI and damage behaving more realistically. Thanks for your feedback
Thank you for making this entertaining video for us.
While the Tiger II was a very advanced tank for its time, the issues with reliability and how resource intensive it was to operate, even if the Germans produced a significant number more of them, they wouldn’t have made a very noticeable difference.
What absolutely fascinates me, is how long Germany held on after '42. It's no wonder they lost, but Britain alone outproduce them on aircraft every year of the war except 1944, and some reports are very biased towards or against... For example outnumbered 10:1 is argued the one side has no chance, but in the second statement it's "they did so well outnumbered because it was target rich environment..."
@@DCSDigitalCombatSimulator agreed. I’m just personally glad that that war was fought by my forefathers and not I. I truly do hope that no war ever gets to the levels of barbarism and desperation felt by those soldiers. But I guess, that’s just what such intense nationalism and fear con do to a nation.