Walking stuka

[Redgaarden]

I'm having a hard time killing these things. They shoot super fast, rockets hits so fast that you can't react.

Sometimes they survive 50.cal air strike, closeish bomb hits from 105 arty. Dircet fire from 75mm tanks.

I would like to know how much hit point this thing has. And I would like to know if there is anywhere I can hide my infantry so it wont kill them. Will infantry survive in Trenches? Houses? heavy cover?

[kwok]

315 hp

I was going to say that damage modifiers on cover is 50% so that might do something... but then i checked the damage of this sucker... whopping 350 lol. I don't know of any inf that has more than 175 HP.

Best way to survive is probably make your daily sacrifices to RN-Jesus.

[Warhawks97]

Its german vehicle vet from vcoh. Reduces received damage and even boosts HP or something. German vet HT´s can be really sturdy at times, at least wehrmacht.

[Krieger Blitzer]

it's shooting big rockets.. so damage dealt is understandable, but i agree it sometimes feel very hard to kill using arty as a counter... Could probably get some HP reduction.

[Consti255]

agreed. Maybe get the vCoH Vet modifers reduced?

[Diablo]

I agree. With that damage potential (especially the quick delivery unlike howitzers), a glass cannon approach might be better suited. But since Walking Stukas are apparently the only arty unit that nukes itself on death, don't drop their survivability completely.

On a sidenote; are there other explosive vehicles? I can only think of Ammo trucks and Goliaths. Would a nuclear death for Priest/Hummel/Wespe/Grille etc. make sense?

[Redgaarden]

I think the stuka death is purely visual. Haven't seen it do any dmg to anything nearby.

Haven't seen anything other than tanks cook off in video games. But I wold think exploding vehicles usually only kill the crew and pieces flying over 100 meters.
With my limited experience with dynamite I would say that it's quite unlikely that it would produce a very big death zone.

[Consti255]

Especially when 2 piece ammo is used with the big 150mm guns. You have a pure shockwave, without r few gramms of fragmentation. Which expire its force pretty fast when in an open top SPG.