Secret Deflect

New topic

New Reply

Posts: 47

Hi I remember watching a video (tightropes maybe hans?) in which they showed angling your armour, so the anti tank projectile hits the front corner of your tank, was more likely to deflect the shot.

Does anyone have any info on this? I told my mate and he said they tell you about it in the tutorials or campaign. But I'm not sure about any of this. Thanks.
>inb4 my spelling and grammar

Posts: 1194 | Subs: 1

That isn't a thing in either COH1 or COH2. Armor works off of a simple value that is binary, either an incoming shell hits your front armor or rear armor. Angling just makes it more likely for a shell to hit the back half of your tank, IE rear armor. You want to face your targets head on in basically all situations, regardless of tank.

If you want some example of Games where angling is somewhat represented:
War Thunder
Men of War

Playercard of comm_ash

	1v1: P	streak: - 1
	1v1: P	streak: + 11
	1v1: P	streak: + 8
	1v1: P	streak: + 9

Multi Quote

Posts: 47

12 Oct 2022, 03:01 AMcomm_ash

That isn't a thing in either COH1 or COH2. Armor works off of a simple value that is binary, either an incoming shell hits your front armor or rear armor. Angling just makes it more likely for a shell to hit the back half of your tank, IE rear armor. You want to face your targets head on in basically all situations, regardless of tank.

If you want some example of Games where angling is somewhat represented:
War Thunder
Men of War

Thanks I just went through all of tightrope's videos and couldn't find anything. Must have been a fever dream.

Posts: 1379

12 Oct 2022, 03:30 AMSocks

Thanks I just went through all of tightrope's videos and couldn't find anything. Must have been a fever dream.

No, it's definitely been in tightrope's tips videos before. It's just that you have it backwards. If the enemy has their tank at an angle to you (I.E. a little bit shy of perpindicular), you can attack ground at the rear half of the tank to get rear armor hits where you would usually be more likely to get frontal hits.

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?..The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and... the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough...We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

Multi Quote

Posts: 786 | Subs: 1

"angling" your tank does nothing

always keep your front part of the tank facing the enemy guns, if the sides are exposed, they can hit the rear armor and damage you easier

Posts: 1379

12 Oct 2022, 02:21 AMSocks

snip

Here's a quick demonstration vid I made about the whole "angling your tank" thing:

The closest thing I can think of to what you're talking about is maybe parking your tank behind sandbags so scatter shots are less likely to hit. Angling your tank does nothing other than put you at a disadvantage in CoH2, sadly.

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?..The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and... the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough...We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

Multi Quote

Posts: 2184 | Subs: 2

12 Oct 2022, 12:23 PMKatukov

"angling" your tank does nothing

always keep your front part of the tank facing the enemy guns, if the sides are exposed, they can hit the rear armor and damage you easier

In the German Alpha mission, this didn't matter either, there were constant "flank" and "rear" hits even if the tank was strictly frontal to the gun, it would be unpleasant to see this on the release.