True. I have had that happen a couple times.
That 88mm Gun just sucks in shots like a magnet.Fire up into the sky and you will smash the Tigers Gun one shot.Just a silly physics like the Turret ring in the M1 Abrams.Hitting the center of a dart board from half a mile away : )
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This is one of the first things I aim at as it kills the whole crew in a turret or at least a gunner, making Tiger H1 basically dead.
I always prefered long 88 or 75 from panther.
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I might argue the 5.7 panther is more useful that the Tiger H1. What do you think? I find that really early Panther at 5BR also works like an M18 on the right map with a bit of luck and cover.
I belive Panthers are superior to Tiger I as they lack the frontal plate weakspot.
Some might know about MG port, but it is still better than flat plate.
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Just out of interest and a touch off topic,do you bother with bushes at 6BR or not?
If I have to be honest bushes distract me more than give me any real advantage.
When it comes to playing I don’t normally play with bushes. I have some bushes still on some tanks and because of being lazy I don’t take them off.
But it is always amusing to read some comments of people who are angry about bushes.
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I’m super angry about bushes. I only put them on a few TDs and always in a way that would allow the vehicle to function.
But I get so pissed when I get shot by an enemy that I didn’t even see because their entire tank was hidden.
You can just park besides a wreck and with only your gun sticking out it’s impossible to see the outline of vehicle or turret from afar.
Let them have bushes but allowing bushes to cover optics and allow the whole vehicle to disappear is just a (enter curseword).
So you dont get pissed when you get shot by vehicles you didn’t see without bushes?
Personally I cant decide whether my bright green mobile hedgerow stands out more than my tank would without bushes.Very few maps match the bushes available.You can blind yourself with bushes in GRB as well if you do it wrong.
They can be blown or shot away now as well which is a kick in the teeth for anybody who purchased them(Thanks Gaijin)
Anyway ,I lead us off topic so into the sin bin with me.
Anyway ,do you not need the Tiger H1 in order to progress anyway? With or without bushes?
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How did we go to talking about the tiger h1 to bushes being annoying?
Hah, a WT Forum classic.
There are some people here who manage to derail pretty much every thread with their internal bickering.
The best thing to do is just try to ignore them.
Edit: Shit, and now I did the same.
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I’m late to the party, but yes, it’s definitely worth having the Tiger in your lineup.
Read the discussion?
For its bad armor and rather big size, Tigers face too much super op shells and even sometimes ATGMs. Heat was recently buffed and tiny tincans like Pt-76B might easily pen your armour and osk you, even when angled. All this Heat-FS, ATGMs, alot advanced shells it never met irl, planes with dozens of FFARs mean you factually have no armor. Ppl just spam things like PT’s, M-51, cold war howitzers with precise 155mm guns etc… Good luck while angling :)
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Yep
Tiger is a bit of a trap. You feel like you’re going to be clubbing T-34s and M4s, but then everything you face can just blast you in one hit frontally or through your thin sides if you try angling. Panthers are far more scarier to face if your gun can’t go through the upper front plate.
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I think the OP meant if it was worth spading. Which of course is “yes” even with the shot magnet copula.
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I find Tigers better for all the wrong reasons.
Tiger has a bigger shell with much more TNT equivalent, it in fact overpressures things like IS-2 does with PzGr. shell (not Pzgr. 39). Panther has a very long reload for a 75mm gun, it just isn’t enough at a BR where you get nuclear German 88mm, Russian 85mm and American 90mm with the same reload time. Shermans have 76mms, but also reload faster and have stabilizers.
It has much better reverse speed and better armor for urban combat. I don’t mean that Tiger’s armor is good, I mean that Panther’s side armor is very weak and it has a much weaker turret than a Tiger.
Tigers are better at brawling, which is the only thing that matters in this game, brawling on a capture point in a claustrophobic space.
Edit: I also much prefer Tiger E over Tiger H1, as it doesn’t have the annoying, not usable smoke grenade launchers, that block the gun at the near ideal angle to maximize armor and it doesn’t have a huge cupola.
Doesn’t really matter that much. Panther can OHK or just destroy the whole turret making vechicle disabled and basically dead.
It isn’t that long.
Tiger H1 has much easier to aim at and pen cupola weakspot not to mention that his whole frontal armor is just a weak spot.
When it comes to Panthers, not a lot of players know about mg-port waekspot and the turret gets the same damage penned as Tiger gets after cupola shot.
If You want to brawl at the point, then Tiger might be better than Panther, but overall that is not a tank for it.