APC Vs AA Vehicle

[Bammo]

Just playing Oman WAC and went up against a MEC AA vehicle in a LAV-25.

Correction, went up against a MEC AA vehicle in *3* LAV-25's.

Even when I opened fire first the AA vehicle pwned the LAV in about 3 seconds!

Is it supposed to be this way? I thought the AA vehicles were firing explosive ammo unlike the AP stuff in the LAV's? Normally an AA vehicle is death against troops but is very lightly armoured and much easier to kill than an APC, or has this changed?

[Psyrus]

Is it supposed to be this way? I thought the AA vehicles were firing explosive ammo unlike the AP stuff in the LAV's? Normally an AA vehicle is death against troops but is very lightly armoured and much easier to kill than an APC, or has this changed?

Dunno but in my experience... the LAV loses to just about anything these days. I have yet to see a LAV win a fight against a chinese or MEC APC... and with the fast firing rate of the Tungsta, I'm confident that in PR the Tungsta would win :wacko:. The APCs certainly have low armor, and I'm pretty sure the damage of the AA (fixed and mobile) was beefed up significantly to take on the choppers... so maybe a side effect of that is that the APCs are now raped by the AA. Maybe bring it up on the PR forums?

[Madhouse]

i will comfirm is bammo cuz i was in one of the two mec AA's taking out ur LAV's

[Bammo]

Thanks Madhouse (not)!

First ragequit in ages :)

[Ablack77]

not really related but thought you should know,
explosive rounds from the APC's are MUCH more damaging against armoured targets compared to the armour piercing rounds.

as for the AA thingo, i keep getting shot out of tanks when hit by enemy AA,
seems strange yes i know,
tank is undamaged but the crew get shot out immediately. :wacko:

[daveee]

Taking on AA use heat rounds and aim around the AA/nearby ground killing the person using it with splash damage. Much easier than trying to destory the thing itself.

[Bahlye]

I was in a mec aa vehicle the other day on Oman,and caught a US apc coming off the beach....Killed it easy....it got a few shots off but it still only took about 3 secs to blow it.....

AA vehicle ftw..:)

[pirogoth]

yea i was doing tht last night. kill apc as they came up off the beach. doesnt take long to destroy if holding down fire button, although it does over heat for a sec or too before the apc goes boom

[pogoman]

so, is it realistic or not?

[daveee]

Who's got an APC and some AA irl to test it? :P

[Madhouse]

USMC vs. Russian Army?

[1rankman]

well i created a game at home and it take about 3 sec yea a joke and also a full clip of 650 rounds in the rear will kill a challenger 2 tank

[daveee]

How long does it take to empty an entire clip??

Btw: Can you reload AA guns with ammo boxes from supply trucks?

[Jim]

Quick check of the manual says regarding vehicles
"Vehicles can be resupplied at the command post, bunkers and firebases"

I have parked an APC next to a supply crate and supply truck before and it did not rearm or repair off either.

"Vehicles can be repaired by an engineer using his wrench. Aircraft and Helicopters automatically repair and rearm at their spawn location".

[CDN-SMOKEJUMPER]

I was on an AA gun and shot the hell out of a troop truck with a solid 6 second burst ( think it was longer because he came straight at me and had no where to go ) and had to jump out and shoot the driver with my PPK on Mestia the other day....... AA is weird.

[1rankman]

its kill the british afv in about 4 sec
this is with the mec moblie AA

it think it kills APCs faster then command trucks

[daveee]

I mean with stand alone AA sorry..Like commander asset AA.

[Bammo]

Yeah daveee I guessed you were talking about the fixed emplacement! I think that the AA vehicle (the Tungusta) is modelled wrong in game. IRL they are *very* lightly armoured and the twin 37mm cannons fire a proximity fused round that produces lots of shrapnel effective against thin skinned aircraft but not against an APC. With the single crew capability it is very unbalanced.

Blacky is the HEI ammo really more effective than the APFDS against armour? Am I right in recalling that this is reversed from 0.6?

Mayhaps Ancientman could offer this observation for the next patch?

[Jim]

I mean with stand alone AA sorry..Like commander asset AA.


Oh right. We didnt end up testing that the other night....

Guide has no info and I couldnt find a reference on the PR forums.
Have to test it.

[Slavak]

A-10's arn't carrier based :P

[Jim]

You leave my sig alone :P

[Psyrus]

I mean with stand alone AA sorry..Like commander asset AA.

Well I know in 0.6 the fixed AA was resupplied by the supply boxes and the resupply jeeps, so I'm assuming that the Supply crates have continued, as well as firebases/bunkers now, if you place the AA close enough (5m or so).

[1rankman]

im sorry but you have to resupply the fixed AA
i only started in 0.6

i mean come on A-10 on a carrer

[Madhouse]

lol just imagine a A-10 on a carrier in real life.... the carrier would sink

[CDN-SMOKEJUMPER]

I was going to tease you about the sig too. You need to change it look; it's created a hijacking!!

[bishos30]

I used to have the mobile AA vs Armour problem back in the days of Greasy Mullet. I used to get pumped all the time when gunning cos the AA rounds moved the tank and stuffed your aiming up all the time. Usually find that HEAT rounds work better than SABOTs against them.