tanks

[McIvan]

Ok, couple of obs then:

I am an ex zipper-head trained as a driver and gunner. Yes, being buttoned up makes it harder to spot new targets (mostly infantry not vehicle if to your front facing) but we never had any trouble tracking a target once registered unless it went into dead ground.

You won't lose a vehicle track, but infantry going to ground will often turn to a "last known position marker" after a little while, unless you have other units observing them.

Edit: and what Randy said about modern tank optics/cupolas.

Tanks on hills should be much harder to hit as only their gun and very top of turret is showing. I checked from the stugs POV and indeed that is all that could be seen of my T34s on the hill; so that was wonderful shooting on his part. As for my T34s, they never came close to hitting the stug (btw - the germans were green and my reds were regular) and if they did it should have been a top hit.

They should be harder to hit and usually would be. You can end up in games with both sides shooting and repeatedly missing little bits of enemy tanks with a percentage hit chance in the 1-10% range, because of terrain obscuring all but the top sliver of the turret. Four hits from four shots from a green Stug at 850 metres is a heck of rare occurrence.....simply sounds like very bad luck.