Warning on Jap type 89 tank

[Walrus]

Hi All
I am no expert with guns and OOBs and all that but I do know that the SP developers had a plan with the "fire HE instead of AP" when they introduced the code to the game.
I think the idea was, in game terms, to give tanks with crap AP penetration a chance by firing HE when the game assumed that the HE (using over penetration codes) had a better chance of destroying the armoured target.

Now I think Chris and I stumbled onto the wrong end of the bell curve when we were playing this battle. I suspect that the bad performance of the gun is not intended by the CAMO guys but when viewed a whole against the era that winSPww2 covers, the system is correct.
As someone mentioned earlier...the gun was just not very good...however for game purposed perhaps they should tweak the low end of the bell curve on this gun, and I imagine quite a few others, so there is at least the chance of some fun with armour v armour in these early battles.

I am sure others know better than I what the true specs of th guns, ammo and armour of that era actually were...but as always we are constrained by this very old game code and sometimes it just cannot be tweaked past a certain point.

I guess it is lucky that most chaps will not bother playing 1935 Jap v armour type fights.

Just my 2 cents. I am sure Remco will have a more correct interpretation of the code vs the results we have seen.

Cheers all
Jason