I’m finally grinding out higher rank Russian tanks again, which means playing T series tanks with awful reverse and basically half the gun depression of most NATO tanks. Coming from Germany and playing the leopards and finally getting half decent at GRB pretty much 80% of the spots that a leopard can dominate in with the good reverse, and gun depression is absolutely dreadful in something like a t72 or t80.
The match that got me to even make this thread im trying to play it here on spaceport, I love this spot on the leopards, its absolutely amazing place to play this map.
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But the hills here just do not work with 5 degrees of depression, you will die before you even get guns on most times, you’ll get flank and bullied because you can’t really duel people that barely show the top half of their turret when firing on you… it sucks.
Playing aggressive in this game is absolute suicide, or just waiting to die to people camping these spots like im showing above. Im at the point where I have to remind myself it is NEVER worth it to cap a point in this game because 99% of the time it puts you in a bad posistion, it lets the whole team know where you are at, and you will probably just eat it when you try to leave the cap.
Spots like these work, and because you are low profile these spots really only work with russian tanks
It has a gentle enough slope that 5 degrees works, it might not look like it but im behind cover enough that fast velocity rounds aren’t going to touch me and only someone looking at that spot exactly with thermals might catch my commander sight or radio wires to know im there, and it has a good sightline, its hard to flank without being heard, but these spots are hard to find, and im guessing not nearly as numerous as ones applicable to 9 degrees of depression.
How are people playing Russian T series tanks and doing consistently well with them? I feel confident playing leos, but I just can’t grasp how anyone plays these and it isn’t just a massive dice roll playing aggressively and waiting to die to someone playing a meta spot eventually. 2S38 and 2S25M have been the best experiences I’ve had, just because at least they can reverse quickly and that opens up playing behind hard cover like buildings without immediately dying if you don’t kill them outright or take their gun out, or exposing yourself too long to a 3rd party. But not all maps are great for this some don’t have any.
Maybe to reiterate a bit of my frustration here, im not doing absolutely awful in these, im probably 1-2kd on them, but I keep finding myself in situations where I don’t feel like I have any control. Meaning the only way I die is if I do something wrong, getting greedy, having poor situational awareness, missing shots etc. A lot of matches I just feel like I don’t know what I am doing, and when you die in these situations you can’t learn from your mistakes and if you can’t be conscious of what you are doing wrong you can’t improve at the game, only get mad.
