penetration and crew quality

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With the Panther's 7.5cm L70 gun, at a range of 1700-2000 your going to get a penetration of about 11-10 with AP and 13-12 with sabots. The sabots will get better penetration than the AP out to about 2500m.

With the 500m max for sabots, you are probably thinking of of the German 5cm L42 where the sabot only had a range of 1000m, compared to 2500m for the AP round. Which meant that after about 500m the AP round penetrated better than the sabot. The 5cm L60 sabot was a little improved giving better penentration than the AP round out to about 600m.

Didn't you read my AP Penetration Calculator Weasel? ;)