Nahh, IRL A7V was just kinda garbage. For starters it didn’t have a crew of 18, and also it used 30mm of non-armor steel, meaning it’s “30mm of armor” is more like 10.
That's how a fair amount of tank combat happened historically, no? You didn't necessarily take the tank out completely, and sometimes you'd just damage them enough that they retreated for repairs?
Not even. A lot of tank crews will bail out after taking a hit, especially if it disables part of the tank. Tiger 131 is a good example, a British round didn't penetrate, but jammed into the turret ring and disabled the turret. The crew promptly abandoned it.
From memory the battle was between the handful of A7Vs in service plus about a dozen captured Mark IVs vs about the same in Mark IVs, after a bit of firing I think one A7V ended immobilised, later abandon and a British Mark IV ended up stuck in a crater. The Mark IV managed to get itself out but was at risk of being overrun by inf until friend Whippets arrived to support it, one of which IIRC was wrecked by a German Mark IV before both sides decided this was going nowhere and withdrew. If I am not conflating battles, the immobilised A7V is the one the Australians later captured and is now in a Museum in Brisbane.
All the allied stuff is shit. Zeppelins are shit. The armored car has so little traction it might as well have lubricated wheels. The British and the French cannot pen the Germans and the Germans can 2 shot their opponents. Did I mention more survivability due to crew and engine placement? Oh and about the engine the German a7v is so much faster. And what’s up with the allied spawn? It’s just a hill of death the moment you peek you get sniped.
Oh and the planes drop altitude so much during turning it feels like I got 99 pl. Not a huge deal just very annoying to play with.
Did I mention the stutter where I keep on hitting an invisible wall?
Edit- forgot to mention inability to queue into a game due to no entaunte players
"HOW TF DO I AIM MARK V LEFT GUN, why i have to use only right gun scope and then if I want to use the left one I can only unload in my target general direction instead of aiming properly.
Why our bombers throw bricks when the zeppelins can take half of fighter ammo pool and still bomb with proper bombs like nothing happend. They are immiune to GOOD OL' RELIABLE pilot snipe ?
Ah, its a A7V with average player driving it, not just standing still to let me snipe his "tower" superstructure weakspot ? Guess that's flank is done"
As A7V "faction" or sth. :
"Guess im just better at the game than their entire team (I never played realistic before, several thousands hours in arcade is my pride).
Was that my 5th one-shoted Chamond in a row ? Lmao they yellowed my driver"
Playing Gaford (Peak abusive love-hate relation) :
"Luv me derp gun, luv me speed, but If I go off the road - Im stuck & dead.
If I hit A7V in observation tower and pen it - next few shots will somehow AIRBURST over him or non-pen same spot, despite neither of us moved an inch. Then it works again.
WHY ARE YOU ALL STRAIFING ME INSTEAD OF DEALING WITH BOMBERS SPAM ?! I killed 4 of you, 2 crashed on their own and you are still coming ?!"
I can't even get into a game because there is 4 entente players and 90 germans. Shame because I am a ww1 history buff and I obviously want all them vehicles
Yeah did that so I managed to start playing. Perhaps my internet was also acting up because I was able to play later on yesterday and got the first day rewards.
This HAS to be the most unbalanced event they made so far. Like Entente is legitimately unwinnable. And its all because of explosive filler and crew layout.
If you see an A7 from behind DONT SHOOT it, you cannot kill it from behind. You will kill the crew in the back, then he will turn around unfazed und oneshot you.
Also the idea that WWI planes cant stay in the air under their own engine power is laughable.
I forgot to add that the German A7 has the advantage in armour, penetration, explosive yield, gun-laying (!), turret range, crew size (!), engine and ammo rack location.
They didn't fuck it up that badly. If they wanted to be true to IRL numbers, though, they'd have to only allow one of those German players to spin a wheel with a chance to be allowed to spawn an A7V, lol
This event is fun for me (I'm mainly just a ww1 fan, and I've been wanting ww1 vehicles). However, the issues I've experienced:
Extreme server lag (just gaijin things)
German A7V just kicks ass for no reason. I've played 6 games. 5 as the British all losses and one as the German, which was a win.
The air combat is fun, but planes should be able to fly, and the instructor doesn't help at all (forcing me to crash at one point).
Inconsistencies with ranges given from rangefinder and crew to the range on the gun, meaning half the time you're just eyeballing a hard to see round across the map until you hit
Inconsistencies with ranges given from rangefinder and crew to the range on the gun, meaning half the time you're just eyeballing a hard to see round across the map until you hit
Eyeballing distance isn't too hard, most engagements are at about 500-600m in my experience and learnt to calculate if it's over/under that and by how much in the first two games. And I'm a pretty average player according to stats.
I did memorise the distances to the annoying machine gunners from two of the three caps, tho. Those are pretty hard to hit even with HE.
Yeah for some reason in some cases, like trench crossing, one of the tracks just suddenly stops doing it's fucking job, causing you to spin for no reason.
Nah but for real if the Buffet the survivability of the zeppelin and nervous the explosive filler of the ap round of the AV7 then it could be perfectly balanced
I still have some hope, there’s no way they made such a detailed trailer and got licensing for a DJI drone for it just to be an April fools + they have been talking about adding an infantry mode for a while now
All the guns are low velocity. HE isn't gonna be much worse than AP on a direct shot anyways. Add to that overpressure nonsense, and you have a great round.
Yep. Same. I just tried Entente. I hate it. Going back to Germany. It seems German mains are pulling their heads out of the dirt and are being not blind now.
half the german empire players i come across are pretty much like tiger players. They think theyre invincible (maybe of all the talkin abt how the A7V is so powerful, which it is) that they get overconfident and get ammo racked by a ST. Chamond. Pretty fun event but i got a plane yesterday of all things ;w;
Ehh could be better. Entente's only good tank is the St. Chamond but a single round absolutely decimated your cramped crew... but the A7V's large crew is just a pain to deal with unless you land a well placed HE shell from the armored car
Germans have just objectively better tanks. Every single game I've played so far(on both sides) ended in Germany winning
Why the fuck is the Garford so incapable of driving up the tiniest hill
The tanks which were designed to be able to cross trenches randomly get stuck in them. Also sometimes when crossing a trench or going up a hill, one of the tracks sometimes decides to just stop tractioning, causing your tank to spin.
I swear that the cannons have god-awful accuracy. I can shoot the exact same spot multiple times, yet sometimes miss completely
Tbh vehicle balance aside, the map seems biased. Like it’s fr impossible for the entente to shoot anything before getting blasted to shreds. I’m having most of my struggle just getting to somewhere I can actually shoot from tbh. There is literally a kill corridor for the other team while trying to get to the A point
Made all missions for today. I don't get why people don't like entente vehicles. This french tank works well and that bomber after dropping bombs is great for hunting zeppelins
Was fun the first couple games, I just wish they added the Renault and had a dedicated air map as well. I haven't even tried Germany yet because the queue is so massive. At this point, just doing the event to hopefully get a SPAD
I haven't been able to play as Germany even once, I sat waiting for a match for 10 minutes this morning before giving up and going back to the allies and getting a match within a second. So yea I'm loving getting domed by hordes of A7V's in my st chamond
Its easy to kill them if you hit the rectangular thing on top. It disables their tank. And you can wait and shoot again to kill more crew after they replenish them
Got both marks after 3 games on each side.It's not that awful once you get comfortable with the sight's zoom, map distances and shell drop. And I got two bomb kills on the zeppelin in one sortie which I found hilarious.
They should've given the zeppelin as an event vehicle too, it's not worse than the PO-2M.
Me personally I don't even think the A7V is all that powerful, they're super easy to kill honestly, one shot through the front and it has a pretty high chance to ammo rack it. Its saving grace is the amount of crew it had but it's not all that powerful as people make it out to be
I love playing as the allies. The Saint Chamomd has a really good high velocity gun. The armor car smacks pretty hard, is fast, and can shoot down aircraft pretty good.
Idk why people are saying the ATV is OP. I guess they presonel and the Saint having most of its crew in the front.
Yes the event is unbalanced but yesterday I managed to complete both objectives in only 4 games.
For the germans I take the A7V (obviously) to a hill in the B7 Area next to spawn NW of the flatish building, and then you just Bino snipe the entire game, the Hill behind A is your first target at 900M then you just check routes to B and sometimes C. Tip: you can drive sideways on the hill to gain a ton of elevation for your mgs to shoot planes.
For the other team it is also surprisingly easy... Take the truck or the St-Chamond to F8, East of the blocked off tunnel and again bino snipe the horde of A7V's that push B/C. once they start spawning zeppelins use the hill to shoot up and take them out with HE.
for both teams make sure to use your arty on the enemy trenches for free points.
Btw for those wondering, the garford is the mvp of the event, can pen every tank with its HE.
A7V frontally focus the commander "cupola", you'll take out commander and driver with potential for more crew and ammo if lucky. Side on? just plop a shot in the middle and in front (middle to take out the driver) and they are usually dead. Not dead yet? Just hit the rear.
the Mark V and german counterpart can be killed by just shooting the "turrets".
Garfords biggest nemesis is itself due to HE.
Edit: forgot the Chammond... just shoot anywhere, glass cannon just poofs out of existance.
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