Killing tank crew withOUT penetration

[FragerZ]

Okay, so there are two things that happened in the very same turn that I wanted to post about -- I'll start with the most puzzling.





So the pictures are quite self-explanatory... I've never seen anything like it really, have the more experienced people? I never realized crew could be killed by a shell breaking apart on their hull - I would have only ever thought it conceivable if the tank had a VERY poor quality of armour, and... maybe the armour plate cracked out of it's welding or something...

Other than that, this tank hasn't taken much punishment this game, only a side penetration by a bazooka (which the skirt stopped), and a frontal partial penetration with no effect about 2 turns before from a sherman 500m away.

This also brings up the question, what lasting effect does internal armour flaking have? As shown in the youtube video in my other... puzzle... the tank has taken 6 partial penetrations, and has taken about 4 'internal armour flaking', yet the hull still doesn't appear weakened (or the newer shells would have penetrated)
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I'm trying to embed a youtube video -- this BETTER freaking work, or I'll just create a link

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbo3EAjfALA
^^Incase the video won't work, copy and paste^^


Lol, every time I watch this video, I yell at my computer, "Dumbass!!! Why the hell did you do that!!!???? WTF were you thinking???"

The text is a bit too small to see, but you can make out what happens -- after about 40 seconds, and 6 direct upper front hull hits latter, the tank commander can't take the pressure, and wants to end his suffering....

I remember reading a post by Old spike or someone, in which he estimated that after about a minute of conflict ending, they unbutton automatically. And I just can't explain this, so I decided to post it.

This really sucks for me, 'cause now both of these tanks are shocked and refuse to respond to my command, and so they're probably going to take a beating next turn.


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P.S. In the video you can see a 37mm firing off. Within the same 60 second turn that these two things happened, the flak gun blows up 2 shermans, and is, (I expect) deathclocking a third... I guess when a 'large HE' shell penetrates, a kill is almost certain.