So, I tried playing this tank again after the developer mindlessly raised its Battle Rating. It’s been years, and nobody even bothered to object to this stupid decision. They created a light tank at BR 3.7 with a top speed of around 40 km/h—yes, seriously, 40 km/h. And this tank constantly gets uptiered to 4.7. Maybe the developer could show us how to play against KV-1s and Shermans head-on? Those are at BR 3.7—let alone the tanks with even higher ratings.
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have you considered not doing that?
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Because there’s nothing to object to, still a great light tank
Have you considered that, with that level of mobility, flanking maneuvers are impossible?
Try moving away from the spawn point for once.
have you considered that flanking maneuvers are never actually impossible?
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Yes ofc
point: invalidated
reason: fabricated evidence
source: the actual map
if you have a point the least you could do is use the actual map
Yes, maybe your map is the original one but there are plenty of maps that make flanking in tanks completely impossible, we both know that.
The expanded area consists of open terrain with zero cover. You can’t just drive around unnoticed on that kind of map. There are already enough posts here talking about the ‘lack of flanking options’, so don’t reinvent the wheel now.
your definition of flanking is too narrow clearly young one
your hope for a good flanking route is too optimistic young one
the best flanking routes in the game are ones where your enemy doesnt expect you to be flanking through
even on this map that is probably one of the worse for ‘flanking’ you still have good light tank routes such as the more conventional ‘flanking’ style of the red lines and the more out there routes of the green lines, obviously you must be methodical and make sure that you first eliminate the people who might be overlooking your routes but that has to be done with any flanking anyway
an easy flanking route is hardly a flanking route because you will soon see heavy tanks taking that same route
some people are simply not imaginative enough, flanking is boring and old fashioned, all the cool kids exploit breakthroughs to wreak havoc behind the enemy front
On every route you take, you will face heavy or well-armored mediums head-on. So we are back to the original point that there is no flanking route. I agree with @_Ave_Dominus_Nox, the LVT4/40 is not in a good place.
on the green routes you can indeed see them, though on the red routes you will still often get side shots
the key thing to remember is uhhh you do have a team you know? and light tanks get this really powerful feature where you can scout anything you dont want to fight so that your team can know where they are
and also most of the time mediums and especially heavies dont really leave the highlighted areas
with lights or TDs (or anything else) shooting long range from the circled areas
like sure this isnt 100% but it is like 75% and thats pretty good
imo its not worse than the L-62 at 3.3, you dont have SAPHEI, but are more survivable and get scouting
Yeah, you’re right on a few points if the team doesn’t drop down to just 3 vehicles after 5 minutes, spotting can actually be useful. The Sd.Kfz 234/2 is great for flanking on the routes you showed because the vehicle is well suited for it. But in the case of the LVT and many others, there are zero flanking options, so have fun spending your entire existence sitting in the back just spotting random tanks.
more of a high BR issue lets be real, though seems to be spreading
I mean still no, speed only really matters for flanking at the very start of the game to decide who gets there first, but in the case of the LVT specifically its very good at killing those flankers as its slower so they get there first and then you have a 40mm which will basically nuke anyone who beats you to those positions
plus if youre really that adamant that it cant flank you can follow the mediums and heavies and just play full support by taking peoples tracks and barrels and letting your team deal the finishing blow
Never used it in spawn, always play the lvt4/40 aggressively