For those who don't know, the crest of a hill is NOT a firing position!

Brock7142, on 05 May 2011 - 07:55 AM, said: To start, to ensure we are all on the same page, teh "Crest" of a hill, is the top of the hill, the pointy end. Where both slopes meet.
Being at the edge of the cest with your hull down, good to go. But if you're in a Tank Destroyer, and you're trying to do "Hull down" you're not going to shoot jack crap!
That said, DO NOT SIT AT THE TOP OF THE CREST I DON'T GIVE A FLYING CRAP HOW "GOOD OF A SHOT" YOU HAVE. It goes BOTH WAYS YOU are PUTTING yourself in an open field of fire. Artillery cannot hit at the point the hill goes downward, on either end. Especially if you have another small hill-like terrain feature.
If you maneuver amongst terrain features, i.e. the lower portions of hills/dunes, you'll notice DRAMATICALLY how much both Indirect, and Direct fire will hit you much, much less, if at all. If you're in a Tank Destroyer, not at any point should you EVER be traversing over the crest of a hill. Same thing goes for slower tanks.
I was just in a game where our best tanks (the highest on the list) were literally leap frogging crest to crest, to the point they held all the crests of each dune, and were utterly blasted to the next decade. systematically pounded by Artillery, and the lower tier tanks of the enemy team. Literally allowing the enemy team to steamroll across a group of at least 9 tanks tier'd 7 and 8.
If you can't mentally comprehend a crest of a hill is an amazing firing position for them to shoot YOU, I'm sorry, but that's just completely stupid.
I just took a loss for the record that, in all aspects was so stupid I'm still having trouble believing people of much higher tier tanks could be this stupid. Nevermind going "Hull Down" never mind staying to the lower parts and maneuvering across the lower ends of the crests... Nope, can't do that, that would shield me from enemy fire, nope, not me, I can't do that... I think I'm going to be stupid and make a firing position on the side of the crest towards the very top-most, highest peak of each crest and expose myself completely to take shots at enemy tanks, and then I'll whine and cry how everyone on my team is a bunch of noobs because I was too mentally stupid to comprehend the use of using terrain as cover to flank the enemy tanks.
Nice.
Gentleman (and ladies) please, when you play on maps with hills and crests, please learn how to use your brain, and use a crest for cover, not as a means of opening your entire tank to enemy tanks you can barely even get a shot on.
Please?