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Jump back to quoted post29 Mar 2014, 21:16 PMbraciszek

!!! Google Time.

In World War II, at least one incident of a tank ramming an enemy tank has been reported. In 1944, an Irish Guards Sherman rammed a Tiger II during Operation Goodwood.
-Wikipedia had been useless.

-Oh wait.
Tank rams, despite the beliefs of some, were not a very common occurrence. They happened in exceptional cases, where the gun was damaged or out of ammunition, or the two tanks found themselves unexpectedly close. Various sources count 52-160 tank-on-tank ram maneuvers being performed during all of WWII, in total. Let's take a look at some recorded ramming maneuvers, in roughly chronological order.
http://tankarchives.blogspot.com/2013/06/ramming-speed.html

-Huh. This many rams happen in game PER DAY in CoH2.

Edit: Most rams happened in Kursk. The Soviets did not have access to tanks like the Su-85, and the T34-85 as well as the IS series barely entered the prototype stage. Many, many mines and soviet defenses(AT guns as well) were the main reasons the soviets managed to hold back the superior german tanks. I cant wait until the Battle of Kursk ToW comes out...

Jump back to quoted post29 Mar 2014, 20:47 PMbraciszek

As i said, the game OVEREXAGGERATES IT. At Kursk, the soviets had a lack of Tank Destroyers, and sometimes had to resort to other tactics. Because this game has to stay a game, tanks cannot be disabled in one shot, even if that is how most tanks met their end in reality.

Jump back to quoted post29 Mar 2014, 19:09 PMbraciszek

And online play, the tactics and units used how they are being used surely isnt realistic. T34 ram? Tanks surviving multiple shells?