r/GunnerHEATPC

Somehow managed to shoot a round down the hostile T-55's barrel from 1,800 metres.

I just updated to latest patch. My mouse works in the main menu until I get to the Settings > Input > Adjust Controls screen. Once that option opens, mouse can't click on anything. ESC is the only key that will bring me back to Main Menu. I can use arrow keys, TAB and ENTER to make selections, but nothing on the mouse. In game, mouse is being recognized either.

Mouse is a Corsair M65 RGP Ultra. I provided the player.log to their GitHub forum.. haven't heard a thing back.

Any thoughts, caused it worked fine before the update. I even uninstalled and reinstalled, removed any saved games and configs... same crap happens.

I haven't seen spalling damage (i.e., bits of armour breaking off on the inside of the tank from the shockwave caused by a non-piercing hit and ricocheting around) in any of the battle-damage AARs. Is it in the game yet? If not, is it planned?

Generally speaking it could happen with any shell, and this is why most armoured vehicles now have a liner made of e.g., Kevlar on the inside of their steel armour to try to damp down such fragments. From what I've been able to find, these liners were introduced in the early-mid 1980's and so some of the vehicles fielded by the US army (and W. German?) could have had them by 1985, though this would require more research to substantiate - the only tank I'm relatively sure had it in 1985 was the British Chieftain. I've also read of M1 Abrams crews wearing ballistic vests because there was no anti-spall liner but that that M2 Bradley had one - doubtless people on here who know more about this than me can say more on this.

Spalling was particularly a factor with HESH ammo (such as the 120mm HESH shells pictured) that were used by British and Canadian tanks (including the Canadian version of the Leopard 1 which used the British 105mm rifled gun) during the period, where the main damage against armoured targets is caused not by armour-penetration but instead by spalling. Since Canadian forces at CFB Lahr were supposed to reinforce the US/German forces, theoretically these could have turned up at Fulda (though their main mission was in US VII Corps area further south).'

Turns out while the M60 can get lucky when it comes to glancing 105mm shots, the human cranium, even with a helmet, cannot.

Full, longer, version is here, i really like how it turned out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF0BqLczvFc

Super duper satisfying to just get those random pops sometimes

Just love this shot (not even sure it was one of mine) where a 105mm sabot round has gone through the drive-sprocket (?) of an already-turret-tossed-T-72 and continued on to demilitarise another T-72 through the side-armour, and *THEN* continued out through the other side of that T-72. Pretty sure if there was a T-55 on the other side of that T-72, it would have been whacked as well.

It still needs a lot of work, but there's nothing quite like this.

No visuals on the artillery for me. Audio is clear but nothing to see. Just a bug i think?

AKA - with friends like these....

If I didn't know better, I'd assume this game was meant to be some sort of anti-tank propaganda, since it sure as hell seems like that. They seem more expensive targets more than anything and certainly doesn't help that mobility kills (at least in the missions I've played) disproportionately harm a player more than the enemy.

I've looked at the multiple guides here posted on the sub prior, taking things slow and/or finding good defensive positions. I've tried those well enough, problem is there seems to fundamentally be no good defensive position that doesn't also overwhelmingly cripple your sight picture as well. Hull down approaches? Doesn't matter even a T-55 will get you before you can even be warned of it approaching in anything short of an M1P. Full concealment? You're now blind as a bat and even if your commander can see something, you're incapable of bringing the gun to bear because climbing out will expose you and/or leave you at so abysmal a gun angle good luck shooting. And god help you if its an average day in Germany and it's raining. Because none of those problems seem to burden the AI.

The 2 things that have worked, oddly enough are the ones that are as far away from what I assume was intended from a tank sim-lite as possible. Either I fail the mission enough times to memorize where everyone is coming from and then deliberately hug the edges of the map before trundling up from behind as they all suddenly are rendered thunderstruck and incapable of the pinpoint accuracy with little to no warning you have to deal with otherwise, or just use all your fire support systems more than your main gun. Referring back to my first paragraph, if the preferred way to win a fight against tanks is to basically use everything *except* the tank, something has gone wrong.

This isn't even a gunnery issue, on the range I can hit targets quite reliably, the worst it gets is when every so often one tank takes 3 shots to shut down. The problem arises when you're shot at fatally before you can even see the target.

With fragility like this, I'm surprised people still use tanks at all when IFVs are cheaper, and can carry just as much if not more a punch (though admittedly with less magazine depth) with ATGMs, then skedaddle if need be. There's no point to the armored boxes if they die to one easy shot all the less unless you're saved by providence.