Slitherine

JoaoLuisAngelo wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2024 10:36 pm You'd be surprised how effective small arms fire (specialty ammo for sure) were in the early days, or later against lightly armored vehicles.
This isn't MG fire against Tiger IIs, though. It takes special circumstances to actually work.
In the last scenario of the US Pacific campaign (normal difficulty) I attacked the heavy tank that appears as reinforcements on the top left corner of the map with two B29 strategic bombers then with some artillery (Long Tom, IIRC, one or two) then with Heavy Infantry (and possibly Engineer, one each). With all the efficiency loss it retreated into a river.
To add insult to injury I then attacked it with a .50cal Jeep (recon) which (to my surprise) made it go boom.
Now don't take this to mean that the .50cal punched through the armor plate of the JP tanks, I don't think that is what is meant.
But imagine the scenario from a human perspective: those tankers were concussed, tired and wounded and not particularly aware of their surroundings.
The plucky US recon troopers might have been able to surprise them and chuck a few grenades down a few hatches.
Soft kill to be sure but a somewhat plausible kill none the less.

StuccoFresco wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2025 5:49 pm There is no support fire against infantry, only AA vs air attacks and AT against tanks. I've tried meddling with the game to make artillery units act as anti-infantry support but it doesn't work.