US TDs are all over the place. They obviously end up with the T95 which has incredibly armour and a low profile making its front almost impenetrable and a seriously powerful gun but is the slowest tank in the game while the T25 AT is one of the fastest TDs. It has TDs with a turret (mid-tier ones atm but it will eventually have the T30 as a T9 TD).
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Don't neglect the french tanks, they are a lot of fun to drive. Can't take many hits but are quick and fire 6 shots in quick succession from about T5/6 onwards. The AMX 13 90 is staying in my garage as it's a great little tank to drive around and annoy the bigger ones, surprisingly good penetration as well.
Soldato
Hmm, think I'll stick with the Russian and German ones then, the KV for silly fun, and the maus grind for normal play.
I'm currently focussing on the two light tanks rather than the TDs in anticipation of the new patch which is going to make the TDs cheaper, figure I may as well spend my money on the tanks rather than waste it on the TDs which are soon going down in value!
Soldato
I love my US TD's, T25 is an abosolute beast for its tier, and the T95, well thats much like the bat chat, i have a love hate relationship with it, played over 1k battles in my T95 and with a decent team or platoon its unstoppable, but your limited to where you can go to be effective, most of the time its either choke points such as himmelsdorf or base camping for the majority of other maps.
Yeah if you can't get in close there is no bigger deterrent to trying to push than the front of a T95 looking at you. Only arty and flanking can take them down.
Got my AMX12t now. The gun depression is horrible, I cant hit anything slightly below me and its penetration is really unimpressive. Really can't handle anything higher tier than itself as it simply can't penetrate.
I need to get used to playing fast light/meds anyway. Outside of sniper mode its almost impossible to aim them at close range and it does my head in when you shoot over a tank from 3m away.
it can be done and KnightStalker knows it
and the new US td's that are coming in 7.2 are a good addition, the M18, T25/2 and T38 prototype are great
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Soldato
Oh no, chipps just knows my weakspots as we test them out all the time lol so we know when we come up against another we can take it out pretty quickly.
You can pen the front quite easily in 2-3 spots, but im not gonna say where..
and the fact the armour has been bugged since it was introduced doesnt help, but apparently thats fixed in 7.2 even though i couldnt see any evidence of that on the test server as the russians dont know how to shoot full stop, so actually having anything shoot me was far and few between.
You can pen the front quite easily in 2-3 spots, but im not gonna say where..
and the fact the armour has been bugged since it was introduced doesnt help, but apparently thats fixed in 7.2 even though i couldnt see any evidence of that on the test server as the russians dont know how to shoot full stop, so actually having anything shoot me was far and few between.
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yeah we play around and try stuff in test matches and you can find some interesting things out, like there is a spot on the T95 where even a leopard (tier 3 gun) can pen it using ap rounds
another thing we found out when testing the effects of ramming French meds is the the Lorraine can't hit something shorter than it (my pershing in our case) if it is being face hugged
and i have to agree that Russians on the test server just cannot play the game (either that or they are all mucking around and not even trying to play sensibly)
another thing we found out when testing the effects of ramming French meds is the the Lorraine can't hit something shorter than it (my pershing in our case
) if it is being face hugged and i have to agree that Russians on the test server just cannot play the game (either that or they are all mucking around and not even trying to play sensibly)
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did someone from our clan call you a noob ? (i'll put money on it being Plat
)you do realise that for every enemy tank killed your whole team gets a little more xp so if your team was in a really good position sometimes killing all is the better option to maximise your xp from the game.
personally i only cap if it is the only way i think we can win the game or they only have 1 or 2 tanks left that are hiding but i don't tell others not to cap.
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I had 85% of the cap. I'll take my invader thanks but 2 OCUK members were screaming at me for their 0.05% extra XP.
A win is a win, go to your next game and make it happen.
In this instance it didn't matter as the last tank was killed at 90% of the cap anyway, but come on show some respect for your fellow players. If you are in the cap zone then the XP gained from your cap %age far outweighs the spread XP for total kills, especially if you have capped single handedly (for invader). Selfish? Maybe but this is pub remember... If it bothers you, then get to the cap zone and get your XP, don't be shouting N00b.
Anyway I'll stop moaning now, it's only a game!
A win is a win, go to your next game and make it happen.
In this instance it didn't matter as the last tank was killed at 90% of the cap anyway, but come on show some respect for your fellow players. If you are in the cap zone then the XP gained from your cap %age far outweighs the spread XP for total kills, especially if you have capped single handedly (for invader). Selfish? Maybe but this is pub remember... If it bothers you, then get to the cap zone and get your XP, don't be shouting N00b.
Anyway I'll stop moaning now, it's only a game!
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Soldato
Sorry, I gotta pimp this one:
http://www.box.com/s/c73deab781193dd7a1ed
Victory!
Battle: Siegfried Line 29 March 2012 00:01:04
Vehicle: T32
Experience received: 2,619
Credits received: 95,626
Battle Achievements: Steel Wall, Top Gun, Sniper, Defender
That makes my highest score so far.
http://www.box.com/s/c73deab781193dd7a1ed
Victory!
Battle: Siegfried Line 29 March 2012 00:01:04
Vehicle: T32
Experience received: 2,619
Credits received: 95,626
Battle Achievements: Steel Wall, Top Gun, Sniper, Defender
That makes my highest score so far.
did someone from our clan call you a noob ? (i'll put money on it being Plat
you do realise that for every enemy tank killed your whole team gets a little more xp so if your team was in a really good position sometimes killing all is the better option to maximise your xp from the game.
personally i only cap if it is the only way i think we can win the game or they only have 1 or 2 tanks left that are hiding but i don't tell others not to cap.
Isn't the increase pretty minute? The people who tell others to stop capping are the real selfish idiots. They want more exp/credits for themselves for dealing damage to the last enemies because they aren't in a position to get exp/credits from assisting with a cap. Its got nothing to do with anything so noble as gaining a tiny fraction more exp for the team for killing more of the enemy team.
The matchmaker is really starting to drag tonight. After about 10 rounds, the lowest tier my KV and AMX12t were put into was T7. Pretty much every round I was in with T9s. Its nice for exp when things don't go **** up but most of the time things don't go that smoothly.
RE capping vs killing - its what I like to call "Selfish XP". Lets face it, if people are screaming at you to stop capping and kill the last remaining tank somewhere on the map its because they are normally too far away from the cap to assist and want extra xp (however minute!) for themselves. The kill all approach probably adds a very small percentage of xp amoung'st the team and is the more democratic victory. Capping on the other hand only adds xp to those adding cap points so is beneficial to them only - although I have yet to see much eveidence that capping gives you a lot more xp.
Still - I've seen games where they scream at you for capping and you stop just to see what happens and you end up losing the game - great, I could have capped twice but got killed by the one remaining E75 - nice one team! Those doing the screaming usually go very quiet at that stage.
Still - I've seen games where they scream at you for capping and you stop just to see what happens and you end up losing the game - great, I could have capped twice but got killed by the one remaining E75 - nice one team! Those doing the screaming usually go very quiet at that stage.
Well it is a heavy tank with thick armour, you can't have it both ways!!!
Wait till you get to the E100 or MAUS, you'd think your E75 was a T-50-2.