flame armour

gila · #1 February 7th, 2009, 07:54 PM

I give you the Flammenwagon very good at persuading pinned or retreating infranty

gila · #2 February 7th, 2009, 09:17 PM

The sherman

gila · #3 February 7th, 2009, 09:23 PM

The italians had this,

gila · #4 February 7th, 2009, 09:50 PM

The Canuks had this bad boy

gila · #5 February 7th, 2009, 10:01 PM

No i did not forget the UK

Imp · #6 February 8th, 2009, 04:28 AM

Cripes at least the crocodiles trailer had an attempt at protection the Valentines trailer looks like they pulled it straight off the farm

FloodNZ · #7 February 8th, 2009, 07:12 PM

Anyone actually use these things? I find flame tanks to either be too slow in the case of the Crocodile or too thinly armoured in the case of Flame Panzer. In a defensive situation I find them to be ok, especially the Croc since it has a thick skin. I find that in PBEM the best flame weapon is definitely the German flame rocket launcher, I don't know how prevalent it was but I have seen it being used by quite a few players, awesome at making tanks button up or flee even if they don't take casualties.

Mobhack · #8 February 9th, 2009, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Imp

Cripes at least the crocodiles trailer had an attempt at protection the Valentines trailer looks like they pulled it straight off the farm

The Valentine flame-thrower was only a development model - same as the Valentine DD was only for proof of concepts.

Cheers
Andy

Imp · #9 February 9th, 2009, 02:12 PM

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The Valentine flame-thrower was only a development model - same as the Valentine DD was only for proof of concepts

Thank heavens for that.

Lt. Ketch · #10 February 10th, 2009, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by FloodNZ

Anyone actually use these things? I find flame tanks to either be too slow in the case of the Crocodile or too thinly armoured in the case of Flame Panzer. In a defensive situation I find them to be ok, especially the Croc since it has a thick skin. I find that in PBEM the best flame weapon is definitely the German flame rocket launcher, I don't know how prevalent it was but I have seen it being used by quite a few players, awesome at making tanks button up or flee even if they don't take casualties.

I had great success with a Flame version of the KV (I believe the date was 11/41.) I used it in a battle in Stalingrad and it was nice enough to take out the PzIIIs that it ran up against, had great armour and was able to desimate the infantry. Granted that was on a smaller map, so the speed was not a huge issue.

The Russians also outfitted a modified T34/76, I believe, that had grood speed, a 76mm gun and decient armor. I remember it being available at about the same time. Maybe I'll look it up when I get home.