Deployable Ammo boxes should be more realistic

[CrudeCloud]

Deployable Ammo boxes should explosive mass corresponing to the explosive mass of the shells that are carried by the tank that built it.
Currently if you shoot an ammo box it just does a tiny little fire and nothing else.

Screw that.

If I go into a match with my fully loaded Sturmtiger, where each rocket has an explosive mass of 115kg, the destruction of the deployed ammo box should result in an explosion with a force of about 1.5 tons of TNT.

I NEED THAT.

[Gold Merchant Lev]

I agree

[Kugelschreiber]

Originally posted by CrudeCloud:

Deployable Ammo boxes should explosive mass corresponing to the explosive mass of the shells that are carried by the tank that built it.
Currently if you shoot an ammo box it just does a tiny little fire and nothing else.

Screw that.

If I go into a match with my fully loaded Sturmtiger, where each rocket has an explosive mass of 115kg, the destruction of the deployed ammo box should result in an explosion with a force of about 1.5 tons of TNT.

I NEED THAT.

:dno_spearman:

But then they should also adjust the size of the ammo box, depending on how big your rounds are and how much you will have.
Meaning your sturmtigers ammo box would be half a shipping container.

[CrudeCloud]

Originally posted by Kugelschreiber:

But then they should also adjust the size of the ammo box, depending on how big your rounds are and how much you will have.
Meaning your sturmtigers ammo box would be half a shipping container.

I accept these terms.

[mogami_99]

What is an ammo box? (asking for a friend)

[CrudeCloud]

Originally posted by mogami_99:

What is an ammo box? (asking for a friend)

Since the last update Tds and SPAAs can deploy ammo boxes to reload their ammo without having to go to a capture point.

[Sogaki]

Using ammo boxes as improvised mines to clap medium and heavies trying to push you would be great, I'm 1000% on board with this idea.

Also the sturmtiger's ammo box becoming a huge shipping container of doom sounds infinitely funny to me

[Emberfogó Freeman]

Originally posted by Sogaki:

Using ammo boxes as improvised mines to clap medium and heavies trying to push you would be great, I'm 1000% on board with this idea.

Also the sturmtiger's ammo box becoming a huge shipping container of doom sounds infinitely funny to me

To not make deploying ammo boxes a new (and silly) meta thing, they don't necessarily need to damage vehicles, maybe only light ones, but the actual damage should be reduced.
The size and explosion difference ideas are great though and needed for realism.

[CrudeCloud]

Originally posted by Emberfogó Freeman:

To not make deploying ammo boxes a new (and silly) meta thing, they don't necessarily need to damage vehicles, maybe only light ones, but the actual damage should be reduced.
The size and explosion difference ideas are great though and needed for realism.

I don't care about the meta.
I mostly play like a clown most of the time, which somehow works in my favour most of the time.

[Sogaki]

Originally posted by Emberfogó Freeman:

To not make deploying ammo boxes a new (and silly) meta thing, they don't necessarily need to damage vehicles, maybe only light ones, but the actual damage should be reduced.
The size and explosion difference ideas are great though and needed for realism.

In my mind there's no way this supposed mechanic could ever be meta in any shape or form honestly, to blow the boxes up you'd still need to shoot them.
Which means you'd also still need to be in the line of sight of the vehicle pursuing you and the ammo box must be below it's hull to do any damage (just like a mine)
There's even a remarkably similar mechanic already ingame: huge HE shells can overpressure tanks when shot at the ground below them if the bottom of the tank is thin enough.
The KV2 can and so does the geman 105, and not only to light tanks but to early shermans and panzers too

Not particularly useful, but hilarious the 1 time out of 100 that the gamble actually works

[j.yellow28]

would make sens but other tanks can rearm it, so idk if that should work like that. Plus most are AA's so there isnt a large amount of explosive mass in there.

[CrudeCloud]

Originally posted by Sogaki:

Not particularly useful, but hilarious the 1 time out of 100 that the gamble actually works

TBH, I just want the Sturmtiger to be able to deploy a 1 and a half ton worth of explosive mine.
That is the entire Reason why I made this Post xD

[Spungy bob]

Originally posted by CrudeCloud:

Originally posted by Sogaki:

Not particularly useful, but hilarious the 1 time out of 100 that the gamble actually works

TBH, I just want the Sturmtiger to be able to deploy a 1 and a half ton worth of explosive mine.
That is the entire Reason why I made this Post xD

Valid. Place an ammo box, sit behind a corner, then MG the box and set off a mini nuke