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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: Weird WWII on December 29, 2007, 12:09:33 AM
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You guys have got to check this video out! :o
Brian
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-4JQbgccR4Y&feature=related
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Thanks :)
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looks more like a propganda film :?:
are panter tanks realy such a hard thing ?
what about the anti tank tactics in ww 1 ,what can you guys tell me about them.
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looks more like a propganda film :?:
Probably. Possibly a Soviet one, or a post-war piece.
are panter tanks realy such a hard thing ?
Excellent frontal armour, and even the 40mm side was greatly improved by the slope. Of course, it got real good PR, also from the Allies...
what about the anti tank tactics in ww 1 ,what can you guys tell me about them.
Basically, use field guns. For lack of those, walk in close, throw hand grenades or "Geballte Ladungen" onto the roof, or shoot through the vision slits using pistols and SMGs...
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A lot of the things specifically dreamed up to counter tanks, such as AT rifles, weren't that effective. As Chris said, the thing a tank had to fear the most in the Great War was plain old-fashioned field artillery. None of the tanks of the period had particularly good armour when faced with that.
There's a cool colour plate in the Osprey on Cambrai that shows another way, if you're feeling brave. While fire is concentrated on the vision slits, two plucky Boche fellas rush a Mark IV with improvised bombs made from sacks filled with grenades. They shove these under one track, blowing it off.
Unfortunately, that didn't help. The plucky tankers refused to abandon their landship and kept Jerry away with hot fire until reinforcements arrived.
Great War Miniatures make a nice German flamethrower crew. You might have fun trying to get close enough to a British tank to put that to good use.