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timmy41 · 09-11-10, 10:19 PM

the 88 would not have the power to go through a tank at 7km, nor the accuracy to hit it more than 5% of the time in absolutely perfect conditions. whats the chance of the guns on a battleship being disabled, when the round has a chance of nill to go through the armor, while shooting from a rolling and pitching platform while moving and shooting at another moving platform and doing this with only 200 or so rounds? I also forgot to mention all these rounds being HE and thus having little to no penetration ability, and even less accuracy due to inherent ballistic characteristics compared to a solid or semi-solid AP round.

K-61 · 09-11-10, 11:06 PM

Correct. Also, lest some people confuse the issue, the 88mm gun on U-boats is not the same 88mm gun that terrorized Allied and Russian tank crews. That gun was a flak gun and was the basis of later dedicated anti tank guns and guns mounted in tanks like the Tiger. The 88mm gun on the U-boats was simply a naval gun of the same calibre, but not of the same punch as the land version. There was simply no way the 88mm naval gun would even injure a battleship, let alone sink it. The belt armour on some battleships was as thick as eleven inches, perhaps more.

Jankowski · 09-12-10, 02:57 AM

I have shot down a plane with the 8.8 in stock, i shot down a liberator somehow (my crew shot it down) also in gwx i shoot down airships in a custom mission with it. (again it was my crew doing the shooting)

can anone compare the differences between the naval 8.8 and the tank hunter 88 shell?

JokerOfFate · 09-12-10, 09:29 AM

I sunk a hunt I with my 88 at about 7500m myself all it was only a puff of smoke off in the distance plus it didn't even see me.

timmy41 · 09-12-10, 12:08 PM

Hey everyone! i was following the scharnhorst and gneisenau around when i watched them run away from a convoy because the ramillies was in it! so i went and destroyed it with my deck gun!
picture for proof!

fastfed · 09-12-10, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by timmy41

Hey everyone! i was following the scharnhorst and gneisenau around when i watched them run away from a convoy because the ramillies was in it! so i went and destroyed it with my deck gun!
picture for proof!

LOL!! its one thing to lie about your personal like (Not even saying he is, though...)

But to lie about a game, that all of us play so much and know about SO MUCH, is just ludicrous..

Its like arguing about the tiles on a space shuttle is made from XXXX material to the guy who installs them/invents them

desirableroasted · 09-12-10, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by timmy41

Hey everyone! i was following the scharnhorst and gneisenau around when i watched them run away from a convoy because the ramillies was in it! so i went and destroyed it with my deck gun!
picture for proof!

Man, that is art, true art. The foreshortening of the horizon lets us see Ramillies' dire predicament at the hands of your hardened gunners, yet your delicate, graduated shading of the water tells us Ramillies is many, many kilometers away -- probably so far away that its crew is looking upwards, sighing "Whence this deadly rain of shot and shell?" as their ship Kasplodes under their trembling feet.

And I see you are using the what_my_silly_little_pop_gun_should_sound_like.mod . Nice touch!

Out with that glossy of the fat cow at the night club, this goes over my bunk. Strike that.. it goes over everybody's bunk.

09-11-10, 11:06 PM	#32
K-61 Grey Wolf Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Ontario Posts: 795 Downloads: 39 Uploads: 0	Correct. Also, lest some people confuse the issue, the 88mm gun on U-boats is not the same 88mm gun that terrorized Allied and Russian tank crews. That gun was a flak gun and was the basis of later dedicated anti tank guns and guns mounted in tanks like the Tiger. The 88mm gun on the U-boats was simply a naval gun of the same calibre, but not of the same punch as the land version. There was simply no way the 88mm naval gun would even injure a battleship, let alone sink it. The belt armour on some battleships was as thick as eleven inches, perhaps more. __________________

09-11-10, 10:19 PM	#31
timmy41 Weps Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 367 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	the 88 would not have the power to go through a tank at 7km, nor the accuracy to hit it more than 5% of the time in absolutely perfect conditions. whats the chance of the guns on a battleship being disabled, when the round has a chance of nill to go through the armor, while shooting from a rolling and pitching platform while moving and shooting at another moving platform and doing this with only 200 or so rounds? I also forgot to mention all these rounds being HE and thus having little to no penetration ability, and even less accuracy due to inherent ballistic characteristics compared to a solid or semi-solid AP round.

09-12-10, 02:57 AM	#33
Jankowski Frogman Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 306 Downloads: 17 Uploads: 0	I have shot down a plane with the 8.8 in stock, i shot down a liberator somehow (my crew shot it down) also in gwx i shoot down airships in a custom mission with it. (again it was my crew doing the shooting) can anone compare the differences between the naval 8.8 and the tank hunter 88 shell?

09-12-10, 09:29 AM	#34
JokerOfFate Sonar Guy Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 387 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	I sunk a hunt I with my 88 at about 7500m myself all it was only a puff of smoke off in the distance plus it didn't even see me.

09-12-10, 12:08 PM	#35
timmy41 Weps Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 367 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Hey everyone! i was following the scharnhorst and gneisenau around when i watched them run away from a convoy because the ramillies was in it! so i went and destroyed it with my deck gun! picture for proof!