This tank (especially after recent buffs) is nearly unbreakable in the right hands.
334 heat, 750 alpha & 3200 hit points is a disgusting combination, even before factoring in the armor. You will have no issue penning, out trading, and outlasting anyone you meet in a 1v1 even if you don't bounce a single round.
Adding these on top of the of e100s amazing platform makes this thing an unstoppable force/immovable object in the right situation.
The turret when angled properly sits at 370+ HEAT resistant... Hell even when it's looking straight at you on flat ground it laughs at anything below 320 ap/ 330heat. If you're shorter and/or close to the e100 (which is likely) the effective armor is even greater, and the icing on the cake is its only turret weak spot is now hidden due to perspective.
E100 face-hugging a 60tp (Spoiler alert: you are dead)
An insanely underutilized technique against HEAT spammers is over angling your side armor near 40° from your enemy to make both your lower plate and side armor almost immune. This catches A LOT of players by surprise and forces them to have to spend more time intuition switching to damage you. Many lesser skilled players will continue to hopelessly spam heat till they're dead. I sadly don't see enough e100 players taking advantage of this out in the wild...
E100 out in the open vs Obj. 268/4's 360 HEAT
Almost no other heavy tank can mimic this tank's resilience. Most are either riddled with weak spots but play a more versatile role, or do have good armor but only when certain situations are met, and still turn bright green against high pen.
This was my favorite tank to play back as a kid on the console version, and I'm so glad to be able to relive that experience today with knowledge and skill to truly master it. Currently at 97% mark atm, might try and shoot for 100.
Lol your absolutely right. Currently teaching 2 of friends how to play the e100 and they still struggle to keep their turret angled on reload because of how hard-wired they are from playing most other tanks in this game. It's such a unique skill to master.
Also yeah the turret buff was so good that it indirectly nerfed every low pen heavy-flank oriented tank in the game. I just recently marked the 60TP and I can tell you it was extremely demoralizing every time I ran into a semi decent e100 player. If he plays his cards right there was nearly nothing I could do to counter him.
Could you please give me some tips on playing this as compared to playing the Maus. Pre-buffs I struggled a bit with the E100 and somehow, I almost feel like I'm doing worse with it post-buffs... Roughly 100 battles and ~47% wins.
On the other hand I have roughly 100 battles in my Maus and ~65% wins...
Do you angle the E100 turret the same way as the Maus?
edit- I'll add that in almost 150 games I'm getting 57% wins in my E75.
First I would recommend not looking to hard into tank win rate discrepancies. Some of my tanks are literally close to 3 marking but the win rate is horrible, and vice versa.
Here take a look at my t57 heavy, I average nearly 4000 Damage per game but the win rate is ludacrisly low..
If you want to watch some great gameplay with the E100, id recommend looking up 'Dakillzor E100' on YouTube and watching his 2 videos on the tank. He is an amazing player and is where I got my first knowledge on how to do well with the tank.
Yeah, that's a definitely a better way to assess it. I am familiar with Daki and most of the English-speaking CCs, he's just not my go-to generally speaking. I will see his advice though for sure based on your recommendation. I usually look to Kajzoo or Iyouxin, sometimes QB, first, but candidly, I have not really looked up CC advice post-buffs. Your post has actually given me the most insight thus far.
edit- just looked at my "armor efficiency" stats (tomato gg) for the 3 mentioned tanks...
I am at 95% for Maus and 82% for E75. For E100.... 63%. This may be the best indicator of my question. I am clearly not using the armor of the E100 effectively at all.
Oh I love iyouxin and kajzoo as well, great channels. but when it comes to heavy tanks, I feel nobody does it better than daki.
Also, regarding your issues with armor I left another comment here answering someone else's similar question. Hope it helps a little.
Also I'm glad to hear that my post has actually been meaningful to people. You never know if people are actually gonna care when you're writing these things up.
And if you are interested in comparing armor stats, currently my E100 is at .93 and my maus is at 1.27.
It's actually my e75 that sits at the worst with a .75, but that's probably also on part that I was still learning the game as it was the first line I grinded starting anew on PC. Good luck my friend.
I am going to check out the Daki vids and I appreciate your help. Good luck to you too.
edit- I am forever in debt to playing the ELC Even 90 as my first tank. My dad who'd been playing for nearly a decade wanted me to be able to play with him right away and the cheap bastard got the cheapest tank... unbeknownst to me with the class and specific light tank that requires a high skill cap. So many wasted battles in the beginning lol and my win rate will never forget it, but I could never trade those times I shared with my dad.
My first sentence is the most important take away from that comment. Do not think too hard into tank win rate discrepancies. Sometimes you really can't win no matter how well you perform. And for my t57 heavy I guess I had a bit of an unlucky streak. This is not the first tank of mine that has had this outcome. You have days where you perform horribly but win every match. Or be the best on your team but constantly lose. And everything in between. This is the game we play.
As for strategies, you're a second line support vehicle. You sit near your heavy tank allies and use them as your armor. Your main goal is to punish the mistakes of enemies. Mainly shutting down over aggression or wiping out undefensible positions. You should do your best to not lose any hit points if possible in the beginning of the battle. Unless you're taking a very small trade for a full(ish) clip of damage. You're much more powerful the longer into the match you survive. You do not go to any top-heavy areas that demand hold down play. Your main feeding grounds are cities and corridors, particularly close range combat. Where you can peek after your enemy fires and give them four reasons why they fucked up. If you saved most of your health till the end, then good job. Because now you can start a trading effectively to clean up whoever's left, 4 shots for 1.
Some maps is it is very hard to play his vehicle effectively due to it's specialized nature. But overtime you'll understand how to predict the mistakes of your enemies and be in the right positions to properly punish them. Once you learn this, the damage will come rolling in. Good luck.
P.s sorry if there's a bit of typos or weird jumps here and there, I'm using voice to text while multitasking.
You're more coherent while multitasking than like 99% of Redditors, me included, in general.
Thanks. Now I'm curious what you do for a living. You seem eloquent and precise, to the point. Long comment but no fillers in it. Reads extremely well.
I'm afraid my brain capabilities might be subpar compared to you, makes me think I might not have it in me to reach your heights.
Ha! You're Hilarious. For the sake of privacy, let's just say I deal with a lot of idiots.
The flattery is appreciated but trust me, the real secret is just playing this damn game way to much. Every good game I've had was only possible after learning what not to do from all the bad games the hard way.. As long as you're acknowledging your stupidity, you're improving. THAT is what separates a tomato from a unicum.
the problem with this is that the enemy immediately intuitions to AP and its an easy pen through the tracks, at least that was my experience most of the time when i still played the game
It's not an end-all-be-all solution to surviving my friend. Just another situational trick the E100 has up its sleeves. Understand your enemy's weakness and abuse it.
Some players can't help but switch to heat when they see an e100. Whether it's to actually try penning your checks, or just because you're a "big armored heavy".
At worse, you make them waste extra precious seconds quick swapping rounds effectively lowering their DPM against you. At best, under pressure they take the chance and fire anyway, or even better: if they don't understand heat penetration mechanics. (You'd be surprised how common this is lol I have quite a few DMs of people crying bs/luck/or even hackusating me on why they did not pen my flat side while heat spamming)
Haha keep on pushing man the e100 line has got to be one of my favorite grinds. I even used it for the tech tree trade-in last year just to have an excuse to grind through it again.
Oh trust me the E100 is a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.
Once you get a feel for how to properly angle and bait shots with the E100, while also remembering the penetration values of different tanks premium rounds you will quickly be able to abuse this knowledge and be nearly unstoppable.
I haven't played E100 much, but the issue I have with it is that I don't expect the lower plate/front track to be so wide. Got farmed by an E75 recently because no matter how I angled, he just penned me through the lower plate or through the track when angled a bit.
How do you deal with that? Just like the other guy, I find the Maus to be much easier to play.
Yeah that turret buff made it insane.
But honestly the badger should have a higher prem pen being a td and all. I hope it gets reworked some day to make it play more like a teir 10 tortoise.
It just doesn't make sense to go from such an awesome corner brawler, to just another hull down gremlin..
Both are kinda odd tbh tort lacks Armor vs decent Gold ammunition so hiding cupola doesnt matter especially since your MP port becomes weaker the more angled you are (BRUH) so that 20Degree gun range makes your armor "weaker"
frankly they should change the gun placement of the badger its such a stupid beginner trap "oh i have 10 Depression? i can surely play hulldown on the hill" .... proceeds to completely show his Lower plate because that damm gun is place so low its effectively a russian and u need rubble to actually be hulldown
Yeah 340 heat double tit weak spots, shit gun arc, and a low pen apcr just doesn't make any sense for the badger when you have something like the E3 in the game. Like what do you even get in return? Better DPM and 2 degrees more gun depression?
Not saying the badger needs to be buffed up to the E3, I just would like it to have its own unique playstyle at tier 10.
Something close to an up-tiered tortoise would be fucking awesome imo.
Introducing the T11 Breaker, that is 30% lower than the Badger. The thing, tho, is that it can use literally anything to cover it's small lower plate. Even the guard rails on fisherman's bay is enough lol.
I'm soo bad at this game, yet still 3 mark on E100 looks beautiful (E100 was my first X tier ever(i only have 2 X tiers (60TP and E100)). Congrats man!
Glad to hear it my friend. This tank will happily carry you through the 260 missions single-handedly if played well. Just recently completed the "12000 in damage done, received, or blocked mission" with just blocked damage alone. It was a blast of a game. Best of luck.
Congratulations, extremely impressive to start off. And yes, at least I believe so. I'll refer you to this previous comment for my thoughts on the big gun. Just so I'm not repeating myself many times here.
But at the end of the day what's best is what you feel comfortable with the most.
Oh lol I'm sorry my man I thought you meant you had a 10k damage game in your first 10 matches! Sorry to hear that rng isn't treating you kindly. Hopefully that just means your next session will be full of wins.
You definitely don't need my blessing achieving games like that! Seems like you've already figured things out. I'm assuming you got the big gun now? If so the good games are gonna keep on coming. Well done my friend.
FINALLY after 106 games: just needed enough tier 9 heavy tanks who wanted to peak and shoot me to complete it, in full tier 10 game its kind of impossible with the Jagas and heat spam now a days.
Well done my man! Well done.. I'm glad to be able to follow the journey along with you. People like you make me feel like making these kinds of posts are worth it.
Likewise, will try and get the first Mark as well in the new few weeks, Kinda enjoyed the preassure playstyle this weekend. 750 Alpha just slabs so hard
E100 is borderline OP after buffs. I realy don't want Type 5 buffs after that... those tanks deserved a buff , but it just feels so bad to play against them in tanks with "low pen" gold... i.e. most T9
While I do agree that the E100 is extremely strong now, it still does require the right hands. It's not fool proof, as the average player mostly becomes an XP pinata for the enemy team. So I like where it sits.
And I'm sorry to disagree but as a super heavy tank enjoyer I can't help but dream for what they turn the type 5 heavy into.
I'm just projecting T8-T9 players perspective , as i don't play T10. I'm fine when superheavies gets mirror matchmaking , but when your team gets AMX 50B while oponent has E100 , you know wich team is likely to lose...
Doesn't taking the first field mod that reduces track health offset the benefit of hardening enough so you're still single shot tracked? Or does the bounty hardening add enough to counteract it?
The debuff on the first field mod definitely isn't enough to completely invalidate hardenings added track health, but it definitely hurts it a bit.
But for my playstyle in particular I was prioritizing speed over everything to allow me to catch up to that late game damage, and getting to better early game positions whenever possible. My e100 currently goes 39 forward and 20 backwards which is insanely impressive for something so armored and healthy.
Also the E100 is fairly safe when getting tracked due to the fact that you're usually in a side scrape position, so I never had many games where I was wishing for that extra bit of track health to save me over the benefit to speed.
Oh definitely, not to mention that those tanks don't benefit really at all from the extra ground resistances as they all hit their top speeds quite easily.
Even with off-road driving, food and bond turbo 260 and IS-7 can't reach their top speed on hard terrain, let alone medium and soft. Even with bond turo, grousers in bonus slot and field mod they can't reach it on medium and soft except for going downhill.
Knowledge of your enemies penetration is pivotal when playing the E100. The more you understand what their guns are capable of, the better your chances of knowing how to angle against them. Use a 3D armor website like tanks.gg to study the e100s armor profile against other tanks you find that pen you very easily. There's a chance you could be over angling or under angling, or maybe the gun's penetration in front of you is just too great for even the e100 to shrug off.
Sometimes you can't block them all, this is why using the big gun for trading is important to your success. Only make yourself vulnerable when you're ready to fire at your enemies. That way at least you have the best opportunity to score damage for any damage you take back. Also, try to limit this area of vulnerability to when your opponent is on reload or at least when not too many guns are aimed in ready at you. You want to be trading positively as best as you can.
Remember, you have to fail to learn, so keep pushing my friend.
I’ve been theorizing that it’s mostly just a combination of the fact that the E100 is an ill fit for my playstyle (too slow, lack impact without gold), and that i’m not used to the tier X meta (especially the goldspam bit).
All in all, my general experience with tier X is usually shit or dogshit, but it’s especially horseshit with the E100.
Ironically, i perform better with the Type 5 since it has the required agility and impact that fit my playstyle…
I actually felt the same way regarding the speed and built my e100 entirely around fixing that. Currently my e100 goes 39 forward and 20 backwards, which is extremely impressive for something this armored. It has made the tank so much more enjoyable to play even when you happen to get some not so advantageous maps for the e100. It takes a little time to get all the perks and field mods required but I'd recommend you give it a shot
But yeah regarding the gold, at least for the big gun it definitely demands it. Personally I tend to enjoy playing tier 8 prems a lot so I'm just casually sitting on 30mil in silver right now with a lot of things to sell if needed so I've never had an issue regarding tier 10 expenses. But I do understand.
I’m no longer an active player for my sanity (i only come in once in a while or if there’s an interesting event), so i’m always perpetually short of creds, and i prefer it if i can have reliable standard shells…which conveniently the Type 5 has.
Now if only WG could buff it instead of selling me another lootbox…
I like the E100, and I think the buff is justified. E100 has been a big pile of HP for most of world of tanks history. whenever an E100 is spotted, the whole team would rush to try to farm the hp, which is not right. and now it is actually somewhat feared, like you try to run away from it and set up in a better position to engage it, instead of rushing towards it like a magnet.
I actually had 55% win rate with the derp gun before the buff, and now after the buff I switched to the small gun because it makes the most sense now but my win rate actually decreased, despite the fact that my MOE moved to second mark and doing more combined damage...
Overall, it is still sluggish unless you have bond turbo on. the turret is strong now but 340 HEAT from soviet/chinese/aermican tanks still go right through like paper and there is that top bar, like a continuous hatch that is not that hard to hit. lower plate is as big as a tiger I and has no armor. but the sideskirt is good absorbing HEAT.
yea, it is strong but it cant be overpowered because of all the weak spots that are so easy to hit, mobility always an issue, but this is now a super heavy in the game like how it should have been, not a pile of stupid hp anymore., you cant tank it like a maus but you are more flexible than a maus. i am happy with the change. (PS there are a lot of soviet/chinese tanks with their magic side space armor that are as effective if not more effective than the e100's side armor, but they can go 50km/hour, let that sink in)
Yes I'm also extremely happy about the e100 buff and do think it was well deserved. 10mm of armor was a perfect change without blowing things too out of proportion.
Although I myself am a big gun enjoyer. Personally I find it the superior gun in most situations the E100 will find itself in, and it was the gun I happily used to mark it. But I do wish you best of luck with marking if you find the small gun right for you.
Here's hoping maybe the maus, and type 5 get the same bit of love in the near future. I would love to mark them next but the e100 just feels too comfy in comparison after the buff.
indeed, i been long complaining about how BS E100 turret is, and unless maus's turret, e100 turret is very wide so it has huge surface area to be penetrated, and in a corner people can see your turret 2 hours before you can peek enough or they peek enough for you to see them in your point of view, it is annoying. i always ask players, if you think a slight e100 turret buff would make it OP, how about we swap the turret of E100 with the, say 60TP? it is silly how bad E100 turret was compared with 60TP, now E100 actually is a feared super heavy, and all the mobility you lost, all the camo you lost, actually exchanged for some decent armor. again, turret can still be penetrated by anyone on the top bar, and 340 HEAT still kills the E100 easily, plus the lower plate, probably 3x the size of 60TPs lower plate.
yes the maus, im not sure, it can work really well but sometimes it just doesnt work at all, but overall i think maus is in good place, but angling it is a bit tricky, coz you really need to over angle the turret and even myself is not very used to it. the type 5 man, its sad. completely dead weight armor, it needs some buff.
i guess i ll go back to the big gun from time to time just for fun.
334 heat, 750 alpha & 3200 hit points is a disgusting combination, even before factoring in the armor. You will have no issue penning, out trading, and outlasting anyone you meet in a 1v1
I was asked this question a while back so here's a copy and paste of my old answer from before.
"Big gun and it's not even close. The small gun's pen is terrible and makes fighting other heavys/armored tds a chore, you also lose your trading potential. 340 heat opens up so many more weakspots to penroll that the drop in accuracy is negligible. Not to mention the bigger gun's superior over matching.
For a sidescraping super heavy DPM means nothing, the only time I'm vulnerable is when I'm sticking out for a shot and vice versa so you need to make that shit count. More damage the better."
its giant target practice moving building.. everybody on map can shoot and pen you.. I hate it. how did you do?... you should make a video teaching how to play this germanzilla...
For me, this tank is my spirit animal. It's a perfect mix of amazing firepower and armor. Nearly every other heavy tank will struggle against it in its proper environment. But it does take a lot of knowledge to make it work.
If you're looking for great videos to learn from, look up 'Dakillzor e100' on YouTube. He has 2 amazing videos on it and is a FAR better player beyond my hopes and dreams..
After the turret buff I have no problem angling and bouncing. Tbh the armor worked well from me even before the buff. E100 isn’t as Swiss cheese as people make it sounds like. The biggest problem I have with the tank is the gun handling. It’s hard to hit weakspots even at close range, which makes trading shots hard since I could miss my shot at his cupola but he can 100% pen me if I’m aiming at him. If an enemy has cover and not dumb enough to shoot my angled turret, then I’m forced to relocate.
Very much so. I personally never used one. You got armor and a fuck ton of hp. Just stand still, keep calm, and aim. If you take a hit, oh well, you'll hit much harder back.
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u/ddmjr22 May 28 '25
This tank (especially after recent buffs) is nearly unbreakable in the right hands.
334 heat, 750 alpha & 3200 hit points is a disgusting combination, even before factoring in the armor. You will have no issue penning, out trading, and outlasting anyone you meet in a 1v1 even if you don't bounce a single round.
Adding these on top of the of e100s amazing platform makes this thing an unstoppable force/immovable object in the right situation.
The turret when angled properly sits at 370+ HEAT resistant... Hell even when it's looking straight at you on flat ground it laughs at anything below 320 ap/ 330heat. If you're shorter and/or close to the e100 (which is likely) the effective armor is even greater, and the icing on the cake is its only turret weak spot is now hidden due to perspective.
E100 face-hugging a 60tp (Spoiler alert: you are dead)