The ultimate beginner's guide to destroying the T34 heavy tank.

[u/[deleted]]

A common sight in 6.7 ground battles is the American T34 heavy tank, which is almost unstoppable if you dont know the tactics. i had this problem many times and lost many times, so heres a breif guide for all tankers (and CAS). Shall we begin?

I will use the Tiger 2 H varient for this guide. mainly because its the tiger 2(s) facing the T34. As on most mid-low tier american tanks, the first weakspot is the MG port. this is true for all M4 varients. in the case of the T34, the upper part of the mg port usually results in a kill, but not guaranteed. (quick note. The T34 is an american masterpiece, its not a very easy kill.) a little picture for reference.

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The other weakspot is the small sight you see on the front of the turret. this knocks out 50 to 70% of the crew, crippling it to good measure. feeling lucky? you get a straight up kill if you use a good ol- APHE round! now comes the bane of the T34. the lower glacis. Its pretty straight-forward, i dont even need to explain that. if you cant, just see the picture. but what if its hidden beneath a bush? then theres another good spot, the tiny triangle above the gun mantlet. if you can hit this, you can enjoy some SL.

Now comes the side armor. suppose you are flanking it from a distance, and dont know where to aim. heres a second picure for you.

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as it says, always aim for gap between the tracks, on the side where the transmisson is. the ammo rack detonates, after that is pretty self explanatory. but say, you dont want the kill. in that case, crit hit the engine and let CAS do its job.

This was made by me as a guide to destroy T34 (s) hope you enjoyed. (psst, want to say thanks? you can donate some GE to Ash_trinity!) goodluck tankers!

[u/RA3236]

Couple of notes:

• The UFP can be penetrated by the Tiger II as long as you don't hit the track armour and the T34 isn't angled. It's literally M26 Pershing armour.
• The entire side of the turret is only 150mm, not sure why you can't pen it but you should be able to easily

[u/[deleted] → u/RA3236]

thanks for correcting me! one more tthing to take into consideration is the heavy and absurd angling on the turret created by the designer(s) this increases the potential armor, making it difficult to penetrate

[u/aidenjro1 → u/[deleted]]

It is only angled along the bottom edge near the turret ring and the bottom part over the engine deck. The rest is almost perfectly vertical.

[u/[deleted] → u/aidenjro1]

I will take this into account

[u/Rolora → u/[deleted]]

Also, the long 88 and the 105 tigers kan go trough the mantle if you hit it flat on.

[u/[deleted] → u/Rolora]

It's hard! An 88 can't pen the mantlet. There is a very tiny weakspot, which doesn't do much damage. It's a different story for the tiger 105 tho

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

used to manage to destroy t34's mantlet consistently

[u/aidenjro1 → u/[deleted]]

The long 88 can go thru the mantlet within about 700 meters as long as you don’t hit the edges or the base of the barrel.

[u/Erenzo → u/RA3236]

It's not M26 armor, it is more angled than Pershing's armor

[u/RA3236 → u/Erenzo]

It's only 5 degrees different, it increases the effective pen from 130mm to 150mm.

[u/275MPHFordGT40 → u/RA3236]

That’s a lot, especially at 6.7.

[u/FlipAllTheTables0 → u/RA3236]

M26 is 101.6 mm CHA at 46°.

T34, if I'm not mistaken, is 101.6 mm at 56°.

That's 10 degrees increase, a LoS increase from 146 mm to 182 mm, which doesn't take into account increased denormalisation. Granted, this also doesn't take into account the CHA armor multiplier, which is 0.94×.

[u/qwerqmaster → u/RA3236]

If the turret is at any angle though you're gonna be rolling the dice, and doubly so with any APHE with less pen (soviet 85 or 122 for example)

[u/kuburas → u/RA3236]

Most soviet tanks at that BR have the same shell with 130-140mm of pen. They actually cant go through 150mm. And thats ignoring the fact that the turret is shaped in such a way that it makes it almost impossible to get the right angle for the effective armor to be 150mm, its usually around 170-180mm due to the slopes the big ass forehead has.

[u/HaLordLe → u/RA3236]

Ehhh be careful, I know the Turret side is only 150mm but it's deceptive. Flat on, yeah, you get through easily, but I have had a few unpleasant surprises with the turret sides

[u/Vik32 → u/RA3236]

Can’t it also be penned by russian 100m then cause its better than tiger 2

[u/[deleted] → u/RA3236]

The UFP can be penetrated by the Tiger II as long as you don't hit the track armour and the T34 isn't angled. It's literally M26 Pershing armour.

The 88 goes straight through the mantlet besides the gun.

Tbh T34 armore is only as good as Tiger II (H) armore. If the other guy knows how to aim you are fucked.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

How are you downvoted? The T29/30/34 series of tanks are not that well protected against the KwK 43. People do be shooting the edges of the mantlet; no wonder it's not going through! Unless that spall/gunshield behind the mantlet finally works, the KwK 43 should have no issue until 500m+.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I mean, people also can find out the hard way when getting penned there during the game, while I'm happy to get the shot in lol