Tank Crew Screenshots and Videos

[jollyjack]

Gothcha:

 

 

Night Rider:

 

 

Edited September 19, 2020 by jollyjack

[=J18=FritzGerald]

Messing around with filters on some old screenshots

[Leon_Portier]

Starting area of a WIP mission and Shermans!

[jollyjack]

On 9/2/2020 at 1:50 PM, RIVALDO said:

Tiger tactics in multiplayer. 

 

 

 tubo tiger?

[RIVALDO]

8 hours ago, jollyjack said:

 tubo tiger?

Tiger Aces!

[Voidhunger]

Nice detail modeled in game, the empty shell casing of the 152mm shell

[Leon_Portier]

Edited October 3, 2020 by [N.O.G.F]Leon_Portier

[SMARTAZZ]

A REAL BEAUTY!!! SR603-Flowbee

[Voidhunger]

I wasnt so lucky to escape the burning hell

[Robert_Molders]

Panzer VI-H1 " Tiger "of the 2. SS-Panzer-Division " Das Reich " in ambush position, Russia May 1943.

 

Edited October 22, 2020 by SKG210_R_Molders

[=J18=FritzGerald]

That looks awesome!

[Robert_Molders]

Danke mein Herr!  Salute!

[=J18=FritzGerald]

[Robert_Molders]

Panzer VI-H1 " Tiger " of the Panzergrenadier Division " Großdeutschland " close to the shore of the Dnepr river, north of Kiev, May 1943.

[SCG_Neun]

A summary of sorts of the first hour of our three hour Battle for Schmidt the other week with our friends from JG1 and several other players.  Germans forward observers were right on the money.....

 

 

Higher res to show the crews bailing out of tanks in the middle of a fire fight with MkIV's who have the roadway blocked.

 

 

Edited October 27, 2020 by SCG_Neun

[Voidhunger]

It reminded me the Pershing named Fireball.

(for those who dont know: https://www.reddit.com/r/DestroyedTanks/comments/il9ae6/elsdorf_26_february_1945_pershing_fireball_was/)

 

An incredible lucky shot from the T34 right into the my optics. I have experienced this for the first time.

If its not the bug, then its really good. ? I really like the Panther because its not invincible even from the front and you cant stand your ground in front of the enemy for too much long.

The round on the first picture is the one from the T34.

 

The subsequent explosion of the tank its not so awesome, but lets not spam this thread with damage model.?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 11, 2020 by Voidhunger

[=J18=FritzGerald]

"What happened to you?"

"Uh, the bridge spawned in while we were going across the river and now we're stuck like this."

"Good luck getting unskewered"

"Thanks"?

Edited November 18, 2020 by GALM=Leftenant_Gerald

[[CPT]milopugdog]

On 11/17/2020 at 5:48 AM, GALM=Leftenant_Gerald said:

"What happened to you?"

"Uh, the bridge spawned in while we were going across the river and now we're stuck like this."

"Good luck getting unskewered"

"Thanks"?

Reminds me of the time when I was on a bridge as it was destroyed by 'engineers'

 

[=J18=FritzGerald]

LOL

[Leon_Portier]

Today I had a lot of fun multcrewing a tank with my friends, here are some pics!

 

STUGs are just mobile cover, change my mind ?

One time I painted a golden KV-1s skin for fun - doesn't help with armor that much tho

The three Stooges

 

Spoiler

Tiger driver discovering how useless the additional armor plates are

 

[SCG_Neun]

[16th-BR_diditopgun]

First training with the Panther !

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 28, 2020 by 16th-BR_diditopgun

[BladeMeister]

I finally am giving TC a run through. Up to this time I was using the keyboard and mouse, but yesterday I took the time to set my controls up to use my Crosswinds to steer left and right, my throttle to well, throttle forward and reverse and my joystick to control the turret. I also assigned every command to my joysticks except 2  or 3 commands. What a difference that makes. Just having the turret control assigned to my joystick is so much better than using the mouse. I am also using Syn_Vander's TC Quick Mission Builder and that is a nice addition to TC as well. Here are a few pics from a skirmish mission I setup with 6 Shermans against 5 Panzer IVs and one Panther I think it was. My Platoon managed to take out two Panzers but in the process we basically got slaughtered. The point is, I HAD A LOT OF FUN SETTING UP THE CONTROLS, USING THE QMB AND OF COURSE RUNNING THE MISSION. TC has a lot of potential. Lets hope people buy it so that Digital Forms and 1C will continue to improve it and hopefully announce a TC2!

Here are the pics of my Sherman being pummeled by one of the Panzers and the Panther.

 

S!Blade<><

 

I ordered all five of my Shermans, one had been disabled on a lucky long shot during our approach over the rolling hills from the Panther I believe, to rush the Panzers and Panther in a line formation with a short stop to Fire movement command. Lesson one, for me at least, never rush Panzer IVs and a Panther when the odds are even and your Platoon rides in Shermans. Find a Hull down position as close as you can and then fire on them. As we closed the range I stopped my Sherman, jumped in the gunner's seat and fired my first round at the last Panzer IV in line. Then I heard a round fired from one of my AI Wing Man. I then jumped back in the drivers seat and moved forward while my loader did his thing! Lesson two, always fire on the Panther first. Lesson 3, make sure you are not firing at the same target as one of your AI gunners if possible.

 

 

My round, followed by my AI Wing man's round, absolutely devastated one of the Panzers! Unfortunately the Panther Commander did not appreciate that very much, and he was taking notes on who the offending culprits were. I think I had fired first,  so his prejudice was solely focused on me as he swung his turret to get a bead on my Sherman.

 

 

Evidently the Panzer I had fired at was not the last in line, and I was fired on by the actual last Panzer in line at the same time as when I had fired my round. A rude surprise was incoming and I didn't have a clue!

 

 

Before the ringing in my ears could clear from the round my gunner had just sent downrange, my Sherman took a hit in the mantlet and another in the right track!

 

 

With a thundering explosion, my Sherman shook and for an instant, a white light blinded us within the crew compartment!

 

 

For a few moments we could just barely hear a splintering and pattering sound as debris and shrapnel rained down on the turret and hull of our Sherman tank!

 

 

My driver tried to keep our Sherman creeping along, but it was no use and our gun was out of service. I ordered each of my men to leave our tank through the bottom escape hatch. I was the last to slip out and as my hearing had just begun to clear to almost normal, I heard another shot come from the direction of my Wing Man as he brought up the rear in this fight! Each of my crew stayed low as machine gun rounds hit all around us. We ran as fast as we could from our badly damaged Sherman.

 

 

The sound of the shot from behind us was the last thing I heard before being knocked to the ground. The Panther gunner had drawn his sight on our Sherman with the experience of a battle hardened tanker and his commander had ordered him to fire!

 

 

The Panther gunner had hit our Sherman directly between the main hull and the turret and she gave up the ghost! That Sherman tank threw her turret ten feet in the air and it shook the ground with a thud when it came down . Secondary explosions from the rounds inside the hull were cooking off randomly!

 

 

My Wing Man told me later that he had a front row seat and had watched as that seven ton turret took a ride!

 

 

Of course his gunner returned fire and hit the Panther, but in a mere matter of minutes each of the remaining Shermans were disabled.

Thus endeth the lesson. Don't mess with Panzer IVs or Panthers while in open country and riding a Sherman.

God forbid you should ever come across a Tiger while riding a Sherman!

 

 

 

 

Edited December 1, 2020 by BladeMeister

[16th-BR_diditopgun]

 

 

[BladeMeister]

Tonight my Platoon of Shermans had its' revenge. We sneaked out of the woods and remained hull down behind the rolling hills and picked off 4 Panzer IVs and 1 Panther. I had 3 kills from the gunners seat after leading and positioning us in a line formation. Lots of Fun tonight!

 

S!Blade<><

 

[BladeMeister]

Operation Revenge!

My Platoon of Shermans rolled out of the dense forest, slowly creeping up the rolling hill, and I ordered each of the tank commanders to find a hull down position from which to initiate the battle. I called on the intercom to my loader Comrade Egor,

"Нагрузка бронебойно-фугасным снарядом". Just as our Shermans came to the crest of the grassy hill, the rounds began to fly hot and heavy over the tops of our tanks.Thirty minutes earlier I had seen three Stukas with no eggs fly over us. I supposed they were en route to return to their base, but I had to believe that the Kette leader had reported our position to the Hun tankers. Over the radio I gave the order for all gunners to openly engage the enemy at will. I was confident that the Huns were now expecting us. As we began to crest the hill, I could now plainly see their tanks through my periscope, but I had to yield my instinctual call to have my Sherman halt . Only my main gunner Comrade Ivan's view of the battlefield was what mattered now. Once he was able to target a Kraut's tank, he would order our driver Comrade Andrey to stop. I called out the targets as I spotted them with my periscope. Two Panzer IVs,...... no three and one Panther, wait,..... four Panzer IVs and one Panther Comrade Ivan! Only moments later, the command came from him, "Cton!!!"

 

Comrade Ivan fired his first round at the trailing Panzer IV in the column. I observed the failure of the shot and reported it to him on the the intercom,"round short, two meters!" Comrade Ivan immediately yelled at Comrade Egor over the intercom, "Егор Торопитесь! Еще один раунд, спешите! Comrade Ivan readjusted his main gun elevation and the call came from Comrade Egor, "круглый вверх!" Comrade Ivan immediately fired his second salvo. This one hit the mantlet of the Panzer IV square on, and the tank immediately proceeded to move forward at a slow pace! We did not receive a return round so I surmised that Comrade Ivan must have disabled their aiming optics. The Panzer Iv's turret was no longer traversing as it began to pick up speed, thus confirming my deduction about the disabled gun sight or possibly injured crew within the Panzer IV.  As they began to move down the road, the next Panzer IV in line was hit by a round and altogether exploded. One of my other Sherman crews had just taken the first kill of the day. Comrade Alexi came over the radio from tank two, "Мы победили!"

 

The Panzer IV which Comrade Ivan was attempting to target was at present determined to move and position his tank behind the now utterly destroyed Panzer IV to the front of him. He wisely tried to use the heavily smoking hulk as cover for his tank and crew.

 

As this Kraut tank Commander moved his tank for cover, smoke now bellowed from its' aft end as another round from one of my fellow tank's Comrade gunners struck it squarely near the rear end. This Panzer IV kept moving but at a slowed pace, and Comrade Ivan now finished it off with one more armor piercing high explosive round sent directly between the turret and hull. Over the intercom we all heard Comrade Ivan loudly and excitedly  express, "Победа!"

 

Comrade Ivan had scored a direct hit on the Panzer IV causing the turret to lift upwards over one meter on one side before dropping back to the deck of the now destroyed German tank. The fireball was immense and displayed the destructive power of the armor piercing high explosive rounds which our Sherman's employed. No tanker could have survived this brutal assault.

 

Comrade Ivan encouraged Comrade Egor to hasten the next round into the breach as he took aim at a Panther tank, "Торопись, Егор! Пантера! Пантера!" The Panther was not moving and gave no appearance of being engaged in the battle at hand. As I viewed the Panther through my periscope, I observed the crew seemingly running away from their tank. Possibly it was inoperable? No matter, I immediately commanded Comrade Ivan to destroy it quickly. He took careful aim slightly below the upper run of the starboard track and just aft of mid hull. The armor piercing round entered the Panther through one of its' weakest points and struck the Hun's main gun ammunition inside of the Panther.

 

The explosion was immense! The fireball shot fifteen meters in all directions as the turret was heaved six meters off of the burning hull. Blinded temporarily from the intense flash, I pulled away from my periscope to clear my sight, but I continued to verbally encourage Comrade Ivan to continue hunting the Huns. Moments later, as I took sight through my periscope once again, I saw the turret of the Panther lying on the ground in front of the smoldering hulk. If my hunch about the Panther crew was correct, then this was their lucky day because no one would have walked away from that impact.

 

Moments earlier I had commanded tanks 4, 5 and 6 to move three hundred yards to our port side at full speed  behind the cover of the hills. Then they were to make a left flanking maneuver to help close this engagement down for good. One of my platoon's Shermans, to my starboard side, had taken a hit and hastily backed out of the fight. My wing man and I pressured the Huns to engage our two Shermans so that we could cover our Comrades while they carried out their flanking maneuver. All during this time German rounds were hitting short and kicking up dirt clouds to our bow along with the screaming sound of salvos missing us high overhead. My Platoon was in the superior position and we had caught the Huns out in the open. As Comrade Ivan and my wing man's gunner both put rounds on the Panzer IV almost directly in front of us, I witnessed, through my periscope, the commander of this Panzer IV running away from his tank.

 

 

While I viewed the commander's escape on foot, I also observed the driver as he began to climb from the port side turret hatch to attempt to run from his doomed tank. Comrade Ivan then sent another round into that Panzer IV, and I saw the body of the Kraut driver thrown clear as the tank was disabled. We would soon find him dead on the sandy road when we rolled up on the scene. My wing man and the flanking Shermans pumped  more rounds into the final Panzer IV which then exploded with quite a display of fireworks as some of the rounds cooked off in the burning hulk. That was the proper end to this tank battle. I popped on the intercom and said, "Иван, это для тебя три убийства! Вы опытный стрелок. Я рад, что на твоей стороне!" This had been a fierce battle, and we were Victorious because of our element of surprise and for the reason that we kept our Shermans in a superior hull down position that gave us a strong advantage. Five victories and only one Sherman lightly damaged was quite acceptable for being pitted against a formidable enemy such as the Panzer IV and the Panther. The Germans were a worthy opponent, but woe to them as they were a disdained enemy whom we hated fiercely for there heinous crimes against the Motherland! Our revenge was only beginning, and we would see it through until the complete destruction of our hated foe was achieved.

For the Motherland Comrades!

 

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed this little AAR. I am no tanker guru so if I made any blaring tanking errors please forgive my ignorance.

 

S!Blade<><

Edited December 5, 2020 by BladeMeister

[Heliopause]

[murkz]

[=J18=FritzGerald]

[=J18=FritzGerald]

Hans "That's a nice Christmas tree over there!"

Erik "The only thing spoiling the feeling of Christmas now is that big oil tank"

Edited December 12, 2020 by GALM=Leftenant_Gerald

[Leon_Portier]

The new terrain bumps are nice!

 

[Leon_Portier]

Dragging a Panzer 4 crew to hell

 

Teamwork! U - 2 spots for me.

 

Battered but not broken! Gonna take a while to repair the tracks tho

[BladeMeister]

One pretty amazing skin.

 

S!Blade<><

 

[Leon_Portier]

The pilot gestures work in TC too!

 

 

[BladeMeister]

KKKKAAAAAAAAA

 

BBBBBB000000000

 

OOOOOOMMMMM!!!

 

MUZZLE BRAKE!

S!BLADE<><?

MERRY CHRISTMAS?

Edited December 24, 2020 by BladeMeister

[BladeMeister]

Tomi_099 definitely has Mad Artistic skills. S! Sir.

 

S!Blade<><

 

 

 

[BladeMeister]

And one more. Surveying the kills.?

 

S!Blade<><

 

Edited December 26, 2020 by BladeMeister

[BladeMeister]

Having a lot of fun playing Tigre88's Campaign, 'Belgorod' and I really liked this pictured from the 1st mission. I am now in the 5th mission and really enjoying it.

 

S!Blade<><

 

[RIVALDO]

 

[BladeMeister]

And let this be a lesson to you boys and girls. Always paint your Tiger! Never leave it out in the rain while bare naked!

These are some pictures from mission 5 of the exciting Belgorod Campaign created by Tigre88.

S!Blade<><

 

Pulling up beside my wing man to coordinate our strategy so as to assure our coming victory!

 

Two Tigers clawing their way up the slope about to crest a hilltop and lay waste to several T34s.

 

What is there to say? The awesome firepower of the Tiger's heavy assault cannon!

 

Let the carnage begin!

 

Passing the burned out hull of one of our brothers tanks, I scour the landscape searching for our next conquest.

 

One more from my quick mission in the Panzer III. Surveying the damage I inflicted upon the resupply truck convoy which I caught on open ground.

Edited January 2, 2021 by BladeMeister