Tank vs Tank close combat

[Snicky]

This leans towards ridiculous, but I don't see anything in the rules about tanks not close assaulting each other. The chances of doing real harm aren't very good though. It would rarely make sense to do this, if it is allowed. Perhaps as a second attack after using the main gun that turn.

-snick

 

[MongooseMatt]

Historically speaking, it did happen!

 

[lastbesthope]

Tank on tank ramming was often a feature of original BF Evo games. Great fun too.

LBH

 

[Xorrandor]

This leans towards ridiculous, but I don't see anything in the rules about tanks not close assaulting each other. The chances of doing real harm aren't very good though. It would rarely make sense to do this, if it is allowed. Perhaps as a second attack after using the main gun that turn.

Tank vs. Tank close combats don't make much sense, but as you say they don't have a great chance of doing real harm. I figure the fun of watching a demolition derby is worth the incongruity. (And if it's historically accurate, so much the better!)

OTOH, I once polished off a Challenger with a Shadow in the original release of the game. Now, granted, the tank was down to one hit left, but still: I rammed an MBT with a glorified Jeep, and it broke... :shock:

 

[weasel_fierce]

In urban combat, ramming can certainly occur, and did.

Not sure what the prospects of damage are, but Im sure its unnerving.


In open field combat, your tank will propably be a wreck before you get that close, though there's stories of T34s simply driving over German 37mm PAK's :twisted:

 

[DM]

Lots of stories of everyone's tanks overrunning the opposition's ATGs (IIRC driving over the trails was the generally accepted manner of crippling said guns). Bruce Quarrie's "Tank Battles in Miniatures Vol.2" includes a quote which includes (IIRC) a KV-1 ramming a Tiger.

 

[Joe_Dracos]

there's stories of T34s simply driving over German 37mm PAK's :twisted:

...anything short of an 88 in fact... :shock:

 

[hithero]

there's stories of T34s simply driving over German 37mm PAK's :twisted:

...anything short of an 88 in fact... :shock:

Can't do that in the rules though, AT guns don't have any stats so cannot be destroyed.

 

[Shadow4ce]

The men manning them tend to be quite squishy when ran over though. :twisted:

 

[n815e]

I house rule it that if the tank moves into the gun, the gun is wrecked.

There's a great scene in Is Paris Burning? where a Sherman overruns a German atg.