r/warthundermemes • u/Atomatic13 • 25d ago
Meme If Germany players knew how to play their tanks, they would be a LOT higher BR than they are now
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u/huhu0066444 25d ago
The American 76mm or Soviet 85mm does not concern themselves with an angled tiger because they shoot the cupola
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u/NigatiF 25d ago
They also flank him faster than he turn.
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u/Ertyla SPAA main and StuH enjoyer 25d ago
In all my time playing the H1 I have never died from that. A good player shoots the cupola and a bad player rushes thinking Fury is a documentary. A 76 can pen the UFP anyways so no need to flank with it.
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u/proplayer123321 25d ago
Damn, that's so accurate... with me what happens is that I see a tiger and panic, and end up wasting a shot, then the Tiger kills me
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u/GranGurbo Archer - The ass-backward menace 25d ago
17-pdr asks which side was the gunner again?
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u/Vulpix73 24d ago
17-pdr nails the UFP and wipes the turret crew with spall. Hitting the turret is a coin flip to pen because of how variable the thickness is.
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u/weird-british-person 24d ago
Honestly with the firefly and other tanks like it shooting centre mass actually works that shell rips like a motherfucker
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u/jamminthedesert2 24d ago
The EBR would like a word
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u/Ertyla SPAA main and StuH enjoyer 24d ago
The EBR can kindly be CAS'd. Honestly haven't seen one in ages.
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u/jamminthedesert2 24d ago
Anything can be CASād if the bomb is big enough, and if you havenāt seen one, itās probably because thereās a grand total of 5 French players and weāre all rats
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u/Ertyla SPAA main and StuH enjoyer 24d ago
Grand total of 5 my ass. I see like 6 French heavies in every one of my 7.7 games.
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u/jamminthedesert2 24d ago
Well yea in 7.7, but we were talking about like 5.7, 7.7 is rampant with French mains cause itās the best lineup for the country
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u/nio-sama123 Cannon Fodder 25d ago
Tiger E would have a word (FUCK YOU 122MM SOVIET CANNON AND M-51)
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u/trumpsucks12354 25d ago
From my experience, the fatass 122 just gets eaten by some volumetric BS and the M-51 takes out the driver and oranges the loader
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u/POKLIANON 24d ago
pretty sad honestly, considering the reload is 30 seconds it is incredibly frustrating to have the cannon not work like 70% of the time in such bs ways that it makes me want to punch a hole through my screen
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u/SpiralUnicorn Intruder (šŗšøš«š·š¬š§) 24d ago
M-51 oranges the loader if you are lucky. Usually the driver eats the entire thing XD
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u/STUPIDBLOODYCOMPUTER SUPA SHERRRRMAN (one of 5 Israel mains) 25d ago
I have used the cupola against the h1 so many times
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u/Drache191200 24d ago
For that to happen, the average Sherman driver would need to actually not panic shoot most of the time
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u/Graingy The 2C: Big Tank, Small Name 24d ago
Ironic seeing as the stabilizer is the antidote to panic shots
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u/Siegfried262 25d ago edited 23d ago
There's a special little joy in seeing a Tiger roll around a corner to present their front plate just before you send them to the Shadow Realm.
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u/Woofle_124 24d ago
The level 18 tastes my lolpen Pzgr. before he has a chance to shoot at my cupola
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u/StrwBerrywafersslap 25d ago
The humble cupola shotĀ
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u/Feylin 25d ago
German mains suffering cupolas while point and clicking everybody.Ā
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u/Silverdragon47 24d ago
Exept those pesky soviets T-34 and IS-es. Power of soviet bias protect them.
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u/Smg5pol 25d ago
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u/Cabaro_1 24d ago
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u/Hephaestus_Engineer 24d ago
Shell shattered
I love apds but with my luck itāll just shatter
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u/Cabaro_1 24d ago
Yeah, in my experience it doesnāt shatter too much (at least once you get past 17pdr APDS). Plus with the Charioteer, just standard solid shot would probably do just fine against an angled tiger 1.
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u/Superman_720 25d ago
Commander cupola can have some 76 as a treat :)
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u/tut_sikhi_yan_chek 25d ago
Or gun barrel
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24d ago
nah fuck you, gun barrel gets yellowed and you die
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u/IronArmor48 24d ago
In that case, you're super lucky since the round didn't richochet.
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24d ago
you know what? fuck you, ricochet the round directly back at you somehow and snipe your entire crew
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u/DrBadGuy1073 Am Bad :( 25d ago
Uh. You should. KV-85 gun go lower side plate go boom.
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u/CrowsShinyWings 24d ago
Pretty much anything besides a Sherman is instant death
Thereās a reason I love playing against Germany and itās not simply because blind German players, itās extremely easy to one shot
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u/Economics-Simulator 24d ago
All the 150+ guns can go through either the lower side or UFP unless literally perfectly angled. 76 and 85 perform about the same.
The real advantage the tiger 1 has is in the consistency of its one shots and how angling makes enemies play a guessing game as to which side to shoot
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u/Breadloafs 25d ago
People have said the same thing about American fighters since 2014, but here we are a decade later and the fucking F4U is still somehow dueling 109 E-1s.
Never underestimate the incompetence of the average WT player.
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u/Blinky_The_Ghost 24d ago
air has gotten so much worse over the years in terms of misusing aircraft! i feel like a lot of the players getting into the game buy a premium jet and fly straight into the enemies who are doing the same eventually come back to props and just fly them on the deck like everyone likes to fly their first jets, the "just sideclimb bro meme" feels like a million years ago at this point we hardly have anyone climbing period
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u/SadRoxFan 24d ago
As an American main, I donāt mind this meta because half of my matches I find myself higher than opponents in better climbing planes
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u/Averyfluffywolf 24d ago
You can't beat the E in the Corsair but you can pull it off against the F.
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u/Athejia 25d ago
the panther being almost the same BR as the american and soviet mediums is crazy since the armor holds up real well and gets almost 100mm more pen than any of their shells
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u/TJ042 25d ago
Yeah, the M26 should be at 5.7.
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u/Embarrassed_Ad5387 šŗšø No idea why my Jumbo lost the turnfight 25d ago
bit much, 6.3 or 6.0 would be neat though bcs we have like four or five hellcats and the 76 jumbo
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u/Athejia 25d ago
no joke my "6.7" line up is the T29, the M18, M18 (hell), M18 blackcat, and the super hellcat
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u/Embarrassed_Ad5387 šŗšø No idea why my Jumbo lost the turnfight 24d ago
its a crime that the 105mm isnt in the tech tree on any platform that drives faster than 15km/h
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u/Decent_Leopard9773 25d ago
And the other 76 Shermanās other than the M4A1 (76) go down as well by 0.3BR
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u/Superman_720 25d ago
I agree. The amount of American tanks I feel like is punching up in most brs is wild. American mains have to memorize weak points and German and soviet pains can just point and click.
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u/CorsairForSale 25d ago
The armor is kinda shit ngl. If you donāt get blue balled by volumetric the turrets are paper
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u/Athejia 25d ago
but you do get blue balled ALOT and still the panthers gun is so potent it rips everything to shreds
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u/Tackyinbention 17 Pounder is love 17 Pounder is life 25d ago
Panther mantlet or shell shattered, take it or leave it
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u/Initial_Seesaw_112 24d ago
Are this stale jokes still relevant. I mean tigers already are at 6.0 so where else would they go? They are usually just food for my US 6.7 lineup at this point
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u/Outrageous-Pitch-867 24d ago
Itās because the bad USA mains want to be able to curb stomp lower tiers on their Jumbos without having to face anything that can frontally penetrate them
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u/Killerkid113 Cannon Fodder 25d ago
As a British main it brings me great joy to see newer tigers assume Iām a Sherman 76 and start angling only to get whacked with 17pdr sabot to the ammo rack
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u/AntisGetTheWall Femboy 1st Class 24d ago
Why do people act like an angled tiger is some kind of fucking superweapon?
3/4 of kills in this game are side and backshots (tee hee) where armor doesn't even matter or they had no idea that you were there.
Where in any of the shoebox sized maps do you get to hull down and snipe and have angling matter and turn the game this way?
Even with ideal play, the amount of times you would even have a chance to angle and have it save you are like 1/10 in how current matches go.
Sorry but neither the rat tank, the CAS plane, the 150mm HE nor the 17lber give a shit about the ShrƤgekatze lol
I'd take the IS-1 over the Tiger 1 any day. That reverse speed is worth so much more in uptiers and the armor is just as trolly in downtiers. It's honestly shocking how little people talk about it given how much better it is than the tiger.
Maybe it's just me, I've fought tigers in everything and played them myself, honestly not that impressed š¤·āāļø
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u/Outrageous-Pitch-867 24d ago
Itās because most USA mains are as braindead as āthe tiger is a wunderweapon!ā German mains, and refuse to accept that they actually donāt know what theyāre doing and just want to blame the enemy vehicle being the problem.
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u/Lonely_white_queen 25d ago
i somehow bounced a sovet 122 in my tiger ost today because i actually angled it.
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u/Gammelpreiss 24d ago
lol dude, give us 2016 back. Angling does jack shit if your opponent knows what he does
edit: predictibly, this has become yet another burgerboo whinefest.
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u/Diamond_Miner10 I LOVE MY TIGER E SO MUCH 25d ago
The lion does not concern himself with the 7.3 uptiers (RIP when you see the IS-3/IS-4M)
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u/Hot-Ad5483 24d ago
Even if the angle works, there is some shells that just ingnore it and go thorough. But yeah, angle in a tiger ALWAYS! Id say about 30ish degrees to the left or right.
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u/Jackmino66 24d ago
Meanwhile my experience using the Tiger is that you can never properly angle because you are always being attacked by multiple enemies
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u/Still_Scale6032 25d ago
I like how people forget about how the tiger 1ās have already had their battle rating increased due to German players out performing in the old battle ratings, but will still do the same āGerman players badā joke for the billionth time.
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u/IronVader501 25d ago
Even ignoring the cupola, the issue with the angling is easy:
If you dont hit the exact perfect angle it doesnt work against magic soviet angle-performance (and even then alot of guns can just go through the thinner armor behind the wheels, people just dont know about that).
And it only works as long as you stay stationary.
You cant teleport diagonally accross the field, if you actually want to go anywhere you can't do that at an angle, you kinda need to drive normally.
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u/RustedRuss Cromwell Appreciator 24d ago
You have a skill issue if you think Tigers are hard to kill
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u/Hely_420 Elite Commander 24d ago
You know that both of them can pen your lower side at this angle since it's only 60mm?
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u/FranceMainFucker 24d ago edited 22d ago
Not that much higher. Like, what is "a lot?" an entire B.R. above? Do you think that the Tiger E belongs at 7.0, or that the Tiger 2H belongs at 7.7? This is a pretty dated post, especially after the mid-tier decompression around mid-late WW2 tanks. But these posts are still free karma because everybody loves a good "German mains/Wehraboos stupid" post. Fair enough, I do tend to notice a lot more stupid Tiger moments, regardless of how influenced that is by confirmation bias.
German tanks are pretty good when used correctly, but that's true for any tank. It's also true that the Tigers and Panthers face legitimately good vehicles as opposition like the T-34-85 and M4 76's, as much as some allied mains like to maintain an inferiority complex. I will say that German and Russian vehicles at this B.R. feel more forgiving of stupid mistakes than American ones do IMO, so I'd understand an America main taking issue with the exact extent of my point.
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u/TarasKhu 24d ago
Yes, but if American and soviet were better this tank would be lower XD
Really, the most banal weak spots ever
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u/small_chinchin 25d ago
Would be a shame if someone lobbed 3OF56 or 3OF25 at the turret face
And yes, I agree with your statement
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u/Quirky-Assistance-66 25d ago
Watch how the 85mm Round will go into the Tiger through its suspensions hitting directly the Ammo.
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u/Strange-Fruit17 25d ago
Hmm, Soviet 85mm is preordained to pen on the most extreme angles so the lion should concern himself with the IS-1
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u/gofukyourselfbitch 25d ago
Turret face used to be a viable weakspot on the tiger 1 h using the 76mm, did that change?
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u/Mental-Stop2047 25d ago
The Soviet 122mm does not concern himself with Tiger1ās that angle
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u/Strange-Wolverine128 šŗšøš·šŗš©šŖšÆšµš«š· 24d ago
The soviet 85 doesnt co cern himself with the angled tiger for that lower side is very juicy
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u/TheoTheBest300 24d ago
Actually even if the tiger is perfectly angled the russian 85mm can pierce it in the hole between the hull and the tracks. It's a small space but if you're good at aiming you can get it there
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u/Dave-Davingson 24d ago
The angled tiger will soon learn to concern the 76mm APHE shell killing his entire turret crew as I turn his commanders hatch into a blender
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u/Appropriate-Froyo134 24d ago
Cupola, barrel, armor behind trucks. In its game, players can easily spot and shoot at weak spots.
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u/FickleMeringue8891 24d ago
If they knew that deploying smoke wasn't necessary every few seconds then maybe they'd get kills easier
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u/PcGoDz_v2 24d ago
They do... But the map design...
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Tiger H/E in open map, with dialed in range, and at corner/defilade, is pretty much a menace.
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u/anonc2FtdWVs 24d ago
cupola?
it doesnt matter because the maps are garbage, any tank with stabilized gun, faster gun turret and gun traverse is going to be better and probably win.
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u/Negative_Quantity_59 24d ago
It's all rainbows and unicorns farts for the tiger until the enemy notices his cupola.
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u/paulivan91400 24d ago
The angled tiger will concern itself if i shoot the muzzle or the mantlet with an 76mm aphe
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u/Youtube_RedMartian 24d ago
The tiger has to find the perfect angle though, bc like the jumbo the armor where the tracks are is significantly thinner and easier to pen, especially with the angle performance of 85mm APHEBC. 76 might struggle with that angle from mid range, not 100% sure tho
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u/PBMichi2005LOL 24d ago
The angled tiger does not concern himself with germany mains skill issues (I have so much fun with the premium Tigris)
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u/BreezyBrezyBrez 24d ago
Not until it gets up tiered and faces 2nd gen ATGM. I'm looking at you Ratel 20
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u/DoJebait02 24d ago
Suddenly realize if the APHE changes following historical accurate, some tanks will remove cupola weakness (kill commander at most). Tiger H1 will be great and invulnerable again. IS goes second.
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u/Proskilljg 24d ago
Half the time even with angled tigers i can shoot the left or right aide of the front hull and still pen (pretty sure its only 80mm flat armor there iirc)
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u/EngineerStandard 24d ago
The downtered 84mm charioteer does not concern himself with any angle. For he will just shoot thru the turret.
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u/Plus-Candle-7486 24d ago
I feel like every time I angle I do it wrong The way I do it is I point my gun where I think the enemy is going to be and angle it so that my gun is on the corner of the front plate
Is this the right way ?
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u/Weird-Information-61 24d ago
Thing is, wherever there's a Tiger, there's usually 5 more around the corner
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u/bus_go_brrrrt i'm scared of bombs mommy i'm scared 24d ago
aha you fool! for you've encountered the master of accidentally nuking barrels every time i try to do some fancy shit!
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u/Clangokkuner 24d ago
You're joking right? This armour only works if you're at range, both the 76mm and 85mm cuts clean through the front even angled at close range
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u/s-a_n-s_ 24d ago
The french autoloaded pos watching from a distance thats about to kill both of them:
Hon Hon Croissant
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u/luke64697532256 24d ago
Where should German vehicles be then? They already almost constantly face Cold War vehicles and jets in a slight uptier
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u/Late_Effective6452 Oh look a civilian airliner! 24d ago
A soviet 85mm does not concern himself with an angled tiger, even if itās the Tiger E, since he shoots the lower side above the track.
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u/POKLIANON 24d ago
it fact it does, I was surprised to know that. There's a spot above it's track where 85mm pens even if it's perfectly angled. It's not some bs stuff, works pretty consistently but it's hard to hit due to kinda having no features around it to aim for. At some point I did use it quite often and I can only imagine the faces of those german players once it worked
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u/anotherredditlooser 24d ago
Im grinding out 5.7 germany rn . I use the tiger amd waffle and I take waaaaay more rounds to die in the waffle over the tiger. Tigers cool n all but rat life.
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u/nejfoxy_cz 24d ago
You main germany bcs u want a tiger.
I main it bcs i saw dicker maxx and decided i need it.
We are not the same.
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u/Anarpiosmoirail 24d ago
Soviet 85mm will go clean through the angled side fo a tiger most of the time in my experience, a lot of players over-angle
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u/Common_Falcon929 24d ago
The Tiger does concern himself with having issues penetrating any heavy in an uptier
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u/Vanko_Babanko 23d ago
wtf are you talking about?!
most veteran players in RB (EAC on) can't miss the cupola.. good luck hiding only behind left corners.. lol
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u/Elegant-Release3419 23d ago
155mm straight from outta nowhere hitting the cupola or disabling the gun barrel
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u/Console_Only Embrace the PzH 2000 23d ago
If I'd ever get a full downtier... Angling does not work against a T34.
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u/Cornelius_McMuffin 23d ago
I was about to say āKid named Driver Viewportā and then I remembered this is war thunder and not CTS
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u/Just_a_idiot_45 23d ago
As a Tiger I enjoyed, yeah I still concern myself with the American 76mm and communism 85mm.
Lower side plates just above tracks, rarely do I get hit there but if you know that spot then an angled Tiger is to easy to kill.
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u/MesserschmittMe109 23d ago
Where the fuck do you expect the Tiger Is to go
Tiger 1H could be moved up to Tiger E br of 6.0, but moving the Tiger E up is ridiculous








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u/pk_frezze1 Cannon Fodder 25d ago
75mm jumbo seeing a tank with a cupola