When you forget it's a Milsim game

#Shorts

[tinnyoscar]

"I can't see anyone but I'm getting shot from every direction" is exactly why I prefer the night version of this map

[jxsnn]

The AT Rifle is winkle, you have to get behind it and get a few shots off then move again since the tank has probably already turned around before you even finished your first magazine.

[simulacra]

"I tried shooting the tracks"

*Shoots lower frontal hull*

[Magmabot]

i feel like a lot of people forget that AT rifles quickly became obsolete with just WWII Era tank armor.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that they were no longer used to directly take down a tank, instead having to disable tracks or optics.

[casualsatire]

Not that anyone cares, but there's a report from General Dashevsky where he mentions using them against armored cars, bunkers, etc and how he eventually gave up using them against tanks during about 1942. He apparently interviewed a ton of his troops on the PTRS & PTRD, found the second was better due to less fouling, etc. He also mentioned his disapproval for random distribution of them in the field, and gave those in his units to specific heavy weapons platoons. He gave place names, ranges, confirmed kills and with what ammo type, common malfunctions, etc. Guy had an absurd attention to detail for a Soviet general at the time and gave evidence for why his recommendations should have been implemented. Naturally, nobody on the Stavka cared.

[TESkyrimizer]

WW2 Eastern Front 1941 moment

Soviet Storm actually did a great explanation of this. Not only were the rifles terrible at penetration they were spaced out along a defensive line so the Germans just had to concentrate all their tanks on one point, break through and circle around to kill everybody else.

[janujano]

The "running simulator" part is obsolete when you put down garrisons and outpost

[angryscotsman]

Honestly you almost had it, they hadn't see you and you were in a "concealed" position. If you had waited a little longer you could have gotten a clear shot at the side at point blank range, where the turret wouldn't have the gun depression to shoot you, nor could the hull mg traverse to shoot you.

[spacetexan]

Those anti tank rifles don’t do anything! (Said every soldier equipped with an anti tank rifle in ww2 😂)

[agentrussianfox]

It's hard to pen Pz.III in front with an AT-rifle, you have to shoot it from side and aim for the crew.
But, if you infront of the tank and can't flank - shoot the drivers visor, tracks(not effective, but at least something) and turret right side, where's sitting a gunner.

Yeah, sorry for my english too if i have misspelled something or something like this

[person]

When you hit a track with a 14.5mm anti-tank cannon only twice it's not supposed to magically blow up the track

[hexagonshorts]

For some reason my dumb brain read when you forget it's a Muslim game

[ThelVadam]

Anti tank rifles need side or rear shots to pen

[Litterbugtaylor]

man armed with AT rifle that cannot pen panzer 3 tries to shoot the most armoured part of the panzer 3

[Henners]

I've never played with the AT rifle on Hell Let Loose, *but* back in Red Orchestra, you weren't really able to effectively destroy the tanks themselves with it. Instead you were supposed to aim for spots that would kill the crew inside.

Is Hell Let Loose the same? Would aiming for the driver or gunner's positions yield a kill? Or are you trying to hit the ammunition stowage or something like that?

[CombatKing]

shoots all of the rounds into the angled hull Armour "i tried to track it but it didn't do anything"

[saladv]

That moment when you find out war isn’t fun

[homie]

It was hard IRL to deliberately shoot a track off, so most of the time AT rifles were shot at the cupola / periscopes to injure or kill the commander, leaving the tank blind to attack by charges, or shot at the side hull above the wheels where a Panzer IV only has 15mm of armor.

[JAnx]

You shot a part of the tank with nothing, but air behind it, plus it was frontal armor.

[SomnathRoyGrimfangs]

I'm no expert on guns and I've never played whatever this game is, but as far as I know, Anti Tank rifles were basically the earliest Anti-Material guns and in order to make them work, you were supposed to make an approximation of where the operators of the tank were and shoot them.

That way, the bullets would pierce through the tank and hopefully get the operators as well if your estimate was accurate.

Maybe the bullets don't kill the operators, but damage the tank in this game, I don't know.