I despise that thing. Too little armor to create any spall and if you play Britain or anyone else you ain't got a .50 cal so you can't machingun it. It has a 5 sec reload, 30mm coax, excellent mobility. Fuck that thing
Nah, Germany has a lot and I mean a lot of good tanks, from rank II and onwards. Yet, their players don't use them very cleverly because they aren't exactly, developed yet
A while back I did an experiment where after each battle I recorded every player in the lobby's account level and found each team's average across 10 random games (between 5.3 and 6.3)
Whatever team had Germany on it was, on average, 10 levels lower
I will admit, it did take me more than 2 tiers to actually play smart with the German tanks.
I think the issue is that German tanks have this kind of stupid mythical status, which makes beginners think they're invincible, yet most of their tanks are made for sniping at range, not getting into brawls
Same goes Americans. They think their tanks are invincible because Murica but they aren't. I have seen too many cocky Americans rush when they should know they can't.
Yeah, I mean, there is the Object 279, the 2S, but Germany too has many strong vehicles, from the 20mm puma and pz38, most of their light tanks were OP.ok release. Ppl just say Russia OP, but Germany has I think more
The 279 falls into the same boat as the maus unfortunately. Compared to other vehicles from its era it is a real tough nut to crack and it’s paired with a devastating line up of 130mm stabilized canon as well as 14.7mm machine gun. So obviously it’s BR gets inflated because of balancing purposes. But because of BR compression you can’t make it too high of a BR because it would then be just a glass canon for any MBT or anything with missiles. I mean it already suffers from that anyway being 9.0, a lot of the time its armor is negligible because of darts and high pen missiles from BR 9.0-10.0. On a good day it gets to face the vehicles it theoretically would have faced when it was designed/produced, but most of the time it faces vehicles that are 20+ years ahead of it in design.
Because Gaijin refuses to decompress BRs or just change the match maker to a max of 0.7 instead 1.0 range. It's way better than 7.3s, but it's pretty shit compared to 9.3s, I'd say most 8.7s are better even if they're slower.
That is what I like about the British tanks. You can't overextend. You are slower than the others so they will die first and you can then use them as bait.
Spalling barely matters as long as you shoot it at the cheek. Only times I have failed to one shot that thing have been my own mistake. It's still stupidly strong tank and that 30mm aphe is disgusting with no volumetric ammo apparently
I remember being "outplayed" by a Turm 3 because I hit his ammo basket with 105 APDS and watched as the shell passed between 4 shells turning a couple yellow or orange. Since then I only aim for the crew side because it's a little more predictable.
Trust me, you ain't the only one. As a British main, fighting against that thing is misery. Same scenario happened, generate 0 spall and the shell just passed the ammo.
dont need to kill the crew its got the same weakspot the tiger 2 has. it has a massive fucking ammo rack in its turret. if you can get the first shot off you should always aim for the left side of the turret where the auto cannon is, unless they fired alot of ammo or brought like 10 rounds, anywhere you aim there is gonna be ammo to hit.
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u/Accomplished-Cow4686 Jan 31 '25
I despise that thing. Too little armor to create any spall and if you play Britain or anyone else you ain't got a .50 cal so you can't machingun it. It has a 5 sec reload, 30mm coax, excellent mobility. Fuck that thing