Steel Shield *?spoilers?*

[McGib]

Originally posted by Paul Vebber:
THe top hit (given the heights in the game)would make an impossible angle for the MG to penetrate the top of the tank. THe bottom is a possible (though you would have to be within three hexes, the Panther moving m5m or more higher) bottom armor is assumed to be 1/4 the side armor.

Paul, playing a pbem I had a staghound fire its 30 cal from 2 hexes away at an Achilles and hit bottom armour. My opponent told me two crew were killed and the remainder bailed(to be mowed down by said a/c and mg). Is this right? It does not sound right to me and my opponent thinks its odd but strange things do happen.

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[Paul Vebber]

THat is becasue of a bug where we used the top armor to be the bottom armor (OOPS - bad news for your open top Achilles ...)

THis is fixed in ver3 where we use a fraction of the side armor instead...

[Seth]

Speaking of open topped vehicles, why do vehicles with open turrets have no hull top armor? This makes a lot of the German armored cars much more vulnerable than they should be.