Oh, you can absolutely drive several of them backwards. The engine and co eat a lot of shots, and they’re separated via internal wall so APHE tends to not do much of anything to them. It’s not as impactful as for the IS2 and co. But it absolutely does work.
Hell, even the M24 at a much lower br of all things can engine soak a surprising number of different shells. Is it reliably? No. But being hit in the front kills you while being hit in the engine often times only damages you.
I do the backwards sacrificial engine strat with the TOG and can be very good against noobs that are only used to APHE one shotting no matter where the penetration is.
The Chaffee is undertiered even without weird damage soaking issues. why tf is a light tank with the same firepower ok at the same BR as an initial sherman
I will not accept this Chaffee slander! And likely because it has zero armor and can be 50cal’d. It’s a great rat though.
Nuh uh! Sweden doesn’t have a 4.3 battle rating tank 🤓
You mean, like a M18 at 6.0?
Surprise, it’s a light tank.
I also haven’t died to .50cals in a M24 a single time.
It’s not a Puma that has zero armor on the sides.
I killed Chaffees in my Chaffee with 50cal before. Can absolutely be done. And yes the Puma has way worse armor, I’m not arguing that. And doesn’t the M18 have like 40+mm pen on the M24, and is faster too?
What’s the Tiger II H equivalent in USSR.
You can’t say IS-2 1944 because it isn’t really.
I find it sluggish. Does not move like a light tank - it’s underpowered. Was not winning many races offroad against medium tanks.
For my 4.0 US lineup I swapped it out for a m5A1 Stuart. Sure it gives up a lot of firepower, but the mobility and speed getting to Caps first seems worth it.
Chaffee is slow to accelerate, but it’s definitely fast. It’s much better than the Shermans
You take a 37mm solid shot cannon over a stabilized 75mm APHE vehicle?
Just so you can grab a few spawn points from rushing a cap?
I’m not picking it to kill tougher tanks. It’s there for better mobility and for scouting.
I was not happy with the m24 performance so why not try something else? Doesn’t cost me anything.
Sure, you can do that. But the Chaffee can do all of that and is genuinely dangerous to many vehicles it faces.