ORIGINAL: ksoc
Before all the German tankers start drooling too much about the 'one shot kills' from their 88's, you better throw in a variable for reliability - Panthers and Tigers becoming pill boxes when the drive train break all on its own
Didn't I read somewhere that more Tigers were scuttled by their own crews (to avoid capture) than destroyed by the enemy? Part of it would be random, the other related to speed - the longer and closer to 100% throttle used, the more likely the tank is to break down.
What ever you come up with, it sounds like a great idea!
Yes indeed. 50% of a King Tigers battle life should be sitting still. I'm all for making it real, but it has to work both ways. When all those heavy German tanks hit the battlefield , half of them should be pillboxes within the first 10 minutes!!!!!!!!
I really like the balistics idea. A Sherman Firefly with a 17 pdr should be able to take out heavy German armour in a shot or two. The ballistics on the 17 pdr showed they had better pentrating power then the legendary 88. So the current basic Tam Standard addresses the armour issue but does nothing to match the gun performance. A system that did that would be a lot of fun.
One thing to remember in all this development though. It has to be backwards compatible and dumbed dumb easily to emulate the current Tamiya system.