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[TheBronzePickle]

The Tiger never was the beast most people think it was. The only really scary part of it was the 88mm gun.

The armor was thick, but it was flat. No angling at all, so as long as the shot had enough energy, it would pretty much always go through instead of having a chance of bouncing.

It was pretty damn fast for a heavy tank, but the engine wasn't made for the strain, and the Tiger broke down easily. Not that this is represented in-game, though.

The ammo was stored in dry racks on the sides. A good side hit means the Tiger's probably going up in a violent explosion.

As someone who drives the Tiger a lot, this thing doesn't scare me any more, assuming I'm not wholly outclassed by it.

[Playergamer]

Yeah, the reason the tiger is so iconic of the Western Front is that nobody on the Eastern Front would take them, basically. The thing would break down in the mud, it used way too much fuel, and it just wasn't needed in that situation, against that army.

[RedKing]

Finally reinstalled this the other day after seeing US tanks had been introduced.

Matchmaking is still hilariously broken, and low-tier US tanks are just godawful, WTF-were-they-thinking pieces of design, but they're fun.

I've learned to treat the M2 as a tank destroyer because seriously....dat traverse speed. Were they manually turning the turret with a crankwheel or something??

So glad to see them add tank MGs finally, although it appears to be a very uneven implementation -- lot of German and Soviet tanks with MGs that aren't being modelled in-game yet.

[Playergamer]

The Lee, Stuart, and M13 are all pretty fun. The weird sticking out of the side gun on the Lee can be very much abused, if you use cover.

[LoSboccacc]

Tiger was superior for a while as long as the enemy couldn't field their new tanks, but because matchmaking and high BR it always gets matches against su-122 which can't penetrate at range and have a turret which eats them

[Sonlirain]

Ok playing as the germans i must say... the american tanks are pretty much broken.
At least the HVSS Sherman.

Let's see... frontal armor is even better than the one on KV-1 pretty much bouncing everything at tier that's not APCR at close range or the PzIV F2.
And being at clse range is suicidal because the 105 mm gun can oneshot everything upto (and likely including) KV-1s.

Playing germans is even more of a chore now because the only tank they have that can stand up to it is the long 75 mm PZ IV and even that only in realistic and at long range because one shot wrecks it completely.

Long story short.
Merikans rek fais.
Nerf plz.

[Aseaheru]

Thats the Sherman Firefly, right? Or is there another insane sherman?

[Sonlirain]

No it's a 105 mm derpgun. I think it might be a jumbo. because it sports a lot of angled armor at the front but i can't tell for sure.

100% sure it's not a firefly tho.

[Aseaheru]

That sounds like the things used for clearing mines... Or its a priest...

[TheBronzePickle]

A lot of people forget that the M4 tanks all have relatively thick and highly angled armor. The armor is 50mm thick (or more for later variants) and is angled almost as much as the Panther.

With the way War Thunder calculates bounces, the front of any M4 variant is extremely likely to bounce most shell types. Basically, you have to treat them like a T-34. Machine gun port or turret ring or you're going to bounce.

The M4A3(105), by the way, is not a Jumbo. It's got the same armor pattern as the base M4A3.

Don't worry too much, I'm sure they'll find a place for the M4 and its dozens of variants. Probably against the Tiger or something.

[Sonlirain]

Well currently this thing is enjoying wholesale slaughter of PZIIIs Also it's front has more than 50 mm. it's 62 i think. if it was only 50 PZIII's could pen it with the longer 50 mm gun.

As it is it's a abomination.

[TheBronzePickle]

The M4A3 was up-armored to 62mm.

The 105 is definitely way too low, though, I agree with you on that. Like I said, they'd probably be fair against Tigers.

[Naryar]

So apparently I racked up three kills in my Fw190 in arcade, by turnfighting.

I feel dirty.

[Naryar]

So, I was having a domination battle, first arcade battle in which I bring my newly bought Do 217 E-2.

I start with that bomber, then i realize the middle B airfield is exactly between both spawnpoints, and more it points at both. And I get a great idea.

So I dive towards it as fast as I can.

725 km/h, approaching the runway maybe at 100m altitude. Over maximum speed already.

Enemy fighters are going to land towards it, and I apparently am outspeeding the fastest fighters of my team.

I have 26 50kg bombs.

I proceed to carpet bomb the whole runway.

Two kills, possibly more hits.



Belly landing a H6K4/PBY in domination matches was fun before their DM got nerfed to oblivion, but now I know what I am going to do in domination !

Then I promptly die in the following enemy furball. Totally worth it.

[TheDarkStar]

It's really to watch as the plane following you dives into the ground when he can't turn fast enough.

Also, I once saw a plane fly into a mountain with at least four others on it's tail (who also hit the mountain all around it and blew up).