Battleground Europe has many WWII combat vehicles and weapons that all have unique abilities and performance.  Sometimes players don't fully understand these unique attributes, leaving them with often inaccurate expectations of how they will fare in battle if it's assumed that everything performs based on being equal. In fact, every weapon performs relative to each other based on how they are different, and not how they are similar.

Tanks for example, all have their amor protection and anti-armor gun performance based on what they actually had, and not based on each side having the same thing in a different colour. This is because the real weapons and vehicles of WWII were different from each other and we draw on these differences to model them.  We want them to behave like the real thing in as many ways as possible.

In this transparent render of a StuG.IIIg, you’ll note that the front isn’t just a single thickness rather a complex arrangement of different plates, the thickest of which is 80mm, with additional plates overlapping the main ones. This is why frontally StuG.IIIg’s are tough nuts to crack. While the different colors pictured above represent different thicknesses of the object properties, they aren’t a fixed colour/thickness value for all tank models. They vary in range relative to each plate, not each vehicle, from thickest to thinnest. You can see the thickness values of each vehicle as they are modeled in the game on their relevant WWIIOL: Battleground Europe WIKI pages.

The same approach is done with aircraft, trucks, armored cars and so on. While the damage model is particularly useful in helping tankers defeat enemy vehicles by matching gun power to armor thickness, pilots will find valuable information in the WIKI as well. All pilots should know that fires, or ammunition explosions are also based on where the fuel tanks or ammo is located on the aircraft in question. You might wonder why you’re not flaming enemy planes like everyone else seems to be able to do, and the answer is you’re either missing more shots than you think or that you’re not hitting the fuel tanks very often.