Squash Head for the M56?

[slayerfar]

Looks nice to have a HULA type warhead, but it's Low Pen value makes it rather useless against most tanks in the 6.3 bracket.

[slayerfar]

Anyone??

[RedSector73]

Your wrong. 102mm is fine, example - ru-251 @ 6.7 has same round and have no problem with it killing IS-6 one shot (frontly).

Assume this isnt what you want to hear, but it's the truth.

You need to learn to shoot them.

[slayerfar]

Originally posted by RedSector73:

Your wrong. 102mm is fine, example - ru-251 @ 6.7 has same round and have no problem with it killing IS-6 one shot (frontly).

Assume this isnt what you want to hear, but it's the truth.

You need to learn to shoot them.

It is what I want to hear, but not what I understand. 102 mm. is woefully short on almost all tanks in the 6.3 bracket, and should, theoretically, explode harmlessly on the outside of the armor.

What gives?

[Illusionyary]

HESH ignores effective armour thickness of sloping and only takes the base plate thickness into affect.

[83athom]

Originally posted by Illusionyary:

HESH ignores effective armour thickness of sloping and only takes the base plate thickness into affect.

On the dev server they finally buffed it so it actualy increases its effectiveness with heavier sloping, like how it works IRL (mostly).

[slayerfar]

Interesting. So many of the Bracket Tanks, especially the very slopey ones (Damn you Panthers). suddenly come within range.

[83athom]

Originally posted by slayerfar:

Interesting. So many of the Bracket Tanks, especially the very slopey ones (Damn you Panthers). suddenly come within range.

You can also shoot Russian tanks on their roofs very easily with HESH, and usually they will oneshot them.

[Illusionyary]

Originally posted by slayerfar:

Interesting. So many of the Bracket Tanks, especially the very slopey ones (Damn you Panthers). suddenly come within range.

Yes. So for your round, you can penetrate any plate that is 102mm thick or less, regardless of how well sloped it is. The whole point of HESH was to defeat sloped armour of tanks like the IS-3 and T-54, it was designed specifically to combat those tanks.

[slayerfar]

And I take it that the HEATFS is essentially only for Targets with a Armor Thickness beyond the HESH round?
How does the HESH round damage compare to the M 82 shot??

[RedSector73]

Originally posted by slayerfar:

And I take it that the HEATFS is essentially only for Targets with a Armor Thickness beyond the HESH round?
How does the HESH round damage compare to the M 82 shot??

Not really, ignore the HESH pen. value, it means very little.

I have m56 but don't play it much. But for the RU, HEATFS for distance work (where dont know the distance) and HESH for everything else.

Once you get used to HESH, in the mean time - Aim GUN first then you pick them apart and learn where to shoot oneshot each tank type.

[slayerfar]

The thing about the M56 is that it is made from wet tissuepaper. So aiming it is almost never an option.

[RedSector73]

RU isnt any better but has turret and speed, so much speed. In your set postions on maps start measuring to object near where you contact tanks. Makes the job easier when they eventually appear.