Why are hull gunners not used on tanks?

[Chase]

Seriously, it looks so stupid and unrealistic, I mean, they should be able to be used like turret mounted MG's even though the top turret doesn't have a crew member.As if machine guns are gonna do anything exept track people and destroy guns. It wouldn't be all that bad and not even op at all. This is my opinion.

[Viur]

Actually, most MGs do work. As far as I know, only the rear mounted MGs in some Russian vehicles can't be fired.

[Titanpilot321]

Originally posted by Nephilim:

Actually, most MGs do work. As far as I know, only the rear mounted MGs in some Russian vehicles can't be fired.

what about the hull gun though?

[big Whoper]

Originally posted by titanpilot321:

Originally posted by Nephilim:

Actually, most MGs do work. As far as I know, only the rear mounted MGs in some Russian vehicles can't be fired.

what about the hull gun though?

Only on some select tanks do the hull MGs work e.g. The first Crusader.

[Scheneighnay]

Originally posted by titanpilot321:

Originally posted by Nephilim:

Actually, most MGs do work. As far as I know, only the rear mounted MGs in some Russian vehicles can't be fired.

what about the hull gun though?

As they said, most of them work.

There might be a few where they haven't been implemented yet, but I thought that was fixed a while ago.

[↯Zindy⛦]

Originally posted by Nephilim:

Actually, most MGs do work. As far as I know, only the rear mounted MGs in some Russian vehicles can't be fired.

if you're referring to the SMK you can actually use that one as well.

[Scheneighnay]

Originally posted by (東方) Zindai:

Originally posted by Nephilim:

Actually, most MGs do work. As far as I know, only the rear mounted MGs in some Russian vehicles can't be fired.

if you're referring to the SMK you can actually use that one as well.

I know the KV-85's doesn't work. Don't have a list, though.

[Dr.Pepsi Man]

what seperates WOT from WT is that WT has MGs,
do make a list of those that don't, and if they truely dont and dont have crew there for it then report it so it can be fixed for next patch

[Titanpilot321]

Originally posted by DoctorPresidentPope:

what seperates WOT from WT is that WT has MGs,
do make a list of those that don't, and if they truely dont and dont have crew there for it then report it so it can be fixed for next patch

we are not talking about machine guns, we are talking about ball mounted hull mgs

[MADX0]

Originally posted by DoctorPresidentPope:

what seperates WOT from WT is that WT has MGs,
do make a list of those that don't, and if they truely dont and dont have crew there for it then report it so it can be fixed for next patch

a clear example is the M3 (Lee, Grant Mk.I and the russian one) they have a dual MG opposite to the TD cannon (cant remember the mm) yet the US M2 fires all of them, about seven 7.7mm, the same for Stuarts... theres lots of vehicles that doesnt use the hull MGs and they could be usefull at RB to spot enemies...

[MADX0]

Originally posted by idk:

Seriously, it looks so stupid and unrealistic, I mean, they should be able to be used like turret mounted MG's even though the top turret doesn't have a crew member.As if machine guns are gonna do anything exept track people and destroy guns. It wouldn't be all that bad and not even op at all. This is my opinion.

well, US 12mm MGs are OP at tier 1, can pierce almost anything, only country with mounted turret MGs... in the other counries makes no difference since they use 7mm ones... cant tell how historicaly accurated (reallistic) were the mounted turret ones... did all countries used them? which cal they used?

[Squirtbottle]

Originally posted by titanpilot321:

Originally posted by DoctorPresidentPope:

what seperates WOT from WT is that WT has MGs,
do make a list of those that don't, and if they truely dont and dont have crew there for it then report it so it can be fixed for next patch

we are not talking about machine guns, we are talking about ball mounted hull mgs

...yes everyone here is talking about machine guns...didn't you know hull mounted mg's are machine guns? MG=Machine Gun in this situation

[Squirtbottle]

I think some of the earlier German tanks have them but they don't work such as the Pz 35 and 38, some other ones are definitely the Shermans as well as the Panthers and Tigers (most of all of them)

[Răzvan]

OP is saying that tanks were equipped with both hull and turret machineguns, but if you press space in game only the turret machinegun fires, which means that the person in the machinegun slot is always idle. For example, Tiger I was equipped with a 88mm gun and 2x 7.92mm machineguns (one located in the turret, and the other on the hull), and the game model shows that as well, but if you press space, only the turret machinegun works. Having both machineguns could help a bit at tier 1 - 2, but it's irrelevant after that.

[Scheneighnay]

Originally posted by Jonclee:

I think some of the earlier German tanks have them but they don't work such as the Pz 35 and 38, some other ones are definitely the Shermans as well as the Panthers and Tigers (most of all of them)

They were added to the 35 and 38 a while ago.

[Blamite Delight]

the ball turret hull gun doesnt work on all of the german tanks except for the jagdpanzer series and the jagdpanther and jagdtiger. You can only fire the commanders cupola mounted gun and coaxial machine gun currently.