Originally Posted by AThreatToYou
Okay, I know this is a video game, but this is still a tank shell supposedly traveling at ballistic speeds fast enough to where the speed of the shell comprises a good amount of its destructive force. The shells in that video would practically have to be self-propelled and finned in order to reasonably move that slowly in such a manner...
BUT, they ARE NC, so they probably would use self-propelled rounds (aka giant bolter cannon).
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They're slow for gameplay purposes I'm sure. That way it rewards superior gunnery skills since you have to account for lead time, arc, etc at long range and/or fast moving targets.
That and the effective range of modern RL tanks is measured in
thousands of meters, but each game cont is only ~8km across. The size of the game world is significantly diminished compared to RL, so the effective range of a tank weapons need to be adjusted accordingly or you'll have tanks shooting from one end of the map to the other. Slow arcing projectiles is an easy way to facilitate that.
And like Deflagrate pointed out, Lightnings and ATVs would get chewed up fast if MBT's had more-realistically-fast moving shells.
2012-07-02, 08:58 PM
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