• War Thunder Mk.11 - Uptiered since 2013
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Any tips on brit tier II-III tank ammo choices? I just unlocked the sherman and its a pretty good tank but I have no idea about the ammo to use so I often just pick the highest Shot XX number. What brit shells are decent?
when i get into a turning fight there's your problem
Generally speaking APCBC all the way, best penetration characteristics and great spalling thanks to the AP buff. As for the Sherman, it has the same American 75 cannon and using the default AP isn't bad at all, APCBC is there if you need to turn a tank's inside into Shepard's pie
APCBC is good for sloped targets, but if you need penetration against flat surfaces AP is your best bet. You will be facing both in arcade, maybe even realistic. so a decent loadout of both is recommended. I am also intrigued how the 6pdr or the 17pdr don't get any APDS ammo until the Comet.
Balans )) Provided ammo selection for vehicles is totally arbitrary.
i thought the same thing but they still managed to get the italian firefly fixed in december
That's Dec, not Jan. Once Jan hits they're basically all incapacitated for a month.
Random fun thing I asked about on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/ae8lrw/did_the_122bis_get_canned_at_some_point_during/ tl:dr: yay more semi-fake vehicles
Now the 6.7 range isn't viable to play because of the metric fuckton of T29/30/34's Thanks Gaijin, I really like getting ROFLstomped
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/240016/37701d6e-dea4-40ba-8ba2-d082ded4218d/shot 2018.12.29 15.36.37.jpg reppuu good
Don't forget the "half their entire team" RU-251 spam thats been happening ever since the sale. 6.7 has become a seriously weird place where meme tanks fight eachother to the death and everyone else gets caught in the crossfire (just play spaget they shit on T-series tanks cos muh hesh)
@Archival That's the problem, I am playing Spaghet.
all the spam of 6.7 american heavies is really making me wish they'd hurry the fuck up implementing readyracks for more vehicles; the T30, T29 and T34 carry no ammo in the turret at all unless you've got a near-full ammo complement, and it's annoying as shit trying to hit that big rack on the floor of the hull
i really love the look of the ki-61-II wish it didn't suck so much ass
I suppose when EVERYONE is in the damn things it becomes a problem but so far the only tanks that can reliably kill my T30 is the wheely boy with the recoiless rifle. I was always annoyed at the T29/34 when driving germany since at that tier, nothing you have can pen them from the front without some bullshit luck. It should die down soon at least, the T30 while fun is a bitch of a tank with that reload. If you don't kill your target with that one shot you are basically guaranteed dead if they identify you aren't a T34
Against the T29/T30/T34, if you have a gun with more than 210-215mm pen at 200-500 meters, you can penetrate the gun mantlet of these tanks with a perfect head on (no angle) shot, say, if it is looking directly at you. Fuckers with 88mm L/71's and Soviet 100mm's are always doing this to me when I play my T29, which is most definitely Hitler when you consider APCBC rounds from Germany/USSR have HE filler. Also, shoot the MG port on the front of the hull, weak like a Jumbo. Shot-trap can also occur off of the gun mantlet into the roof, but it is not reliable. Trust me, bullshit Stalin-Magic has happened to me this way.
Unless you can fire through the walls of the bridge which the bt-5 was shooting at,it was completely oblivious about the panzer 3 f shooting 10 times at me somehow having difficulty blowing up a sturmpanzer ll https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/110569/f56ef612-4ff5-458a-a424-f07272235e46/20190110230134_1.jpg
Thats a bot
coincidentaly today i must have reached the point of going against human teams as the number of squads is now more than 2,also noticed curb stombs are more obvious.
How the heck do some people use the cold war era cheese wedge Parmesan cars in tier II WW 2 battles, dont those differ by more than 2 tiers. I'm seeing those Parmesan shits all over the place now in late tier II tank RB
The one with the 20mm AC on it is like 3.3br iirc.
Why do the MBK series boats have a 15,000+ lion repair cost? Getting the two non premium ones destroyed even at stock would cost you enough to repair and rearm the entire soviet destroyer lineup. Are these ships so strong that it needs such a big repair cost nerf? Do they expect you to earn 30,000 lions per battle in tier 2 naval?
Same deal with the B-29 having a 45k repair cost, there is no reason gaijin just spun the wheel to see what it costs
Well, played optimally (with help, friends,) the B-29 is also one of the more powerful machines in the entire game as far as match impact, so I can understand why they’d want to at least somewhat curtail it. Perhaps not 50,000 lions per game when bombers are so easily obliterated, but the reasoning is there. The MBK series on the other hand are just armored gun boats, in a sea full of mini battleships, flak barges and other gun platforms that make this particular repair cost look at bit silly in comparison.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/240016/7da61975-14f8-4710-a09a-5b3dfac6ed50/shot 2019.01.13 16.29.38.jpg hello??
2nd 15+ kill game and still no achievement
Its a known UI bug, it says received 1 so you have it. Just restart your game
Sad reacts only https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/222541/22b6f9de-47b1-47c1-a033-7be30a816869/fbjrw5.mp4 Also excuse me what the hell is this, m46 90mm, first time using heat, this isnt normal is it. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/222541/e3a4039b-becf-48d0-b238-b76f1634f1a3/m9suyg (online-video-cutter.com) (1).mp4
Only took 3 years, but the behemoth is finally mine... https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/216774/d61bdf0a-df5c-4ab1-b1b5-960bbca84e56/3yearsforthis.JPG
Someone needs to give this AVRE guy a new pair of everything. https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/211347/645d3af1-26f3-41a9-86f2-83cdd042a645/War Thunder 2019.01.15 - 12.45.45.24.DVR.webm
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