Tiger II P isnt way worse than the H though. The gun in the same (and already OP) and the hull armor is the same too, just worse turret armor, which you can angle. M26 has a front plate you can oneshot with a 75mm or short 88, and a gun that cant pen a Tiger II H without APCR, meanwhile every other variant at the same BR either has armor that can withstand a long 88 or a gun that can kill a KT
It can pen a Tiger II P with APC, so that kinda makes the Tiger II P worse and the M26 not as bad.
You can also angle the M26 and easily stop Panther 75mm going through the front.
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If you hit the small turret cheeks, and dont miss the middle section, because the angled parts will deflect your shell. Though I agree it isnt as hard as I make it sound, its still easier to pen the M26 using the KT than it is to pen the KT using the M26
Since forever? It has more pen than long 90mm and a reload about as fast as a short 90mm. With plenty HE filler
Oh my bad if you hit the super small gunner port at head on you can maybe pen it
Not to mention the KT is tall and chances of being 0 degrees to an enemy anyway are near zero
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This game is more than your biased nation vs Germany. USA have acces to 90 mm HEATFS in 5.7 for example, but the op is the long 88??? typical USA main crying.
Sorry i forgotten USA mains cant aim to weak spots.
False, again. Is possible and not hard to do.
Lol, USA biased in ground, good one
What makes you think that I think thats ok? I don’t like seeing HEATFS against heavy tanks either because it defeats the purposes of heavy armor
typical germany main crying
Its aiming for like 4 pixels on a tank taller than you that you need to hit close to 0 degrees. a slight angle of the turret will negate the “weakspot” entirely.
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No, you are biased and by the way USA is one the most easy nations for play.
Long 88 in not the same so is far from be OP.
Just because you cant doesnt means the other players cant too.
I personally, do not agree that they should be changed to a heavy tank, the reason the M18 was changed to a light vehicle as it functions like one IIRC. The M26/M26A1 function like a medium tank, okay gun, okay armour, where as their heavy tank counterparts T26E-1 / T26E5 function like a heavy.
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and you arent? sure pal
True
False
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I play all nations.
I checked your stats with Tiger 2 and in the best case is 1-1 in K/D ratio, so how this possible if according to you is op???
So do I
And i dont care? Stats are a representation of lifetime performance, not current
If they add a lower BR T26E3 with the non-good M82 shell then yeah I’d maybe see that as a heavy tank
But the issue is that the Pershing’s direct analogue is the Panther, which is classed as a medium. So unless the Panthers are also changed to heavy, the Pershing shouldn’t be
You are extremly biased toward to USA only.
BS. the fact you sucks hard playing long 88 armored tanks is a clear indicator the long 88 is far from op. When a gun or vehicle is clearly op even a monkey with one hand can do well with it.
Just lower its br to 6.0 without changing its class. The Panthers are better than it anyways.
it should just be 6.3 again
No.
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Flak, the tiger 2 P is an amazing tank for 6.7. The tiger 2h is even better. When looking at the M26, it is significantly weaker than a tiger 2P and H. It has significantly less armor, lower pen and shares around the same mobility even though its a medium tank. The tiger 2h has 10.74hp/ton, the tiger 2P has 10.21hp/ton and the M26 has 12.02hp/ton. The M26 will win a drag race but short sprints will not be all that noticeable. Something like a panther A (despite the bad reverse) has 13.27hp/ton. This is because the M26 has a 500hp engine on a 41 ton chasis. What im getting at is the M26 boasts weaker protection than the Panther A at 6.0. Dont believe me? Do an analysis in the hangar. Against a long 88 at 500m (average shooting distance), the M26 has 159mm of frontal protection on the upper plate, around ~143mm-225mm on the gun mantle and 96mm (on the ends) - 200mm(center) on the lower glacis. Against a long 88mm at 500m, the Panther A gets 165mm-195mm of protection on the upper plate. It gets 183mm-201mm of protection on the lower glacsis and 94mm-262mm on the gun mantle. So protection wise the Panther A, a medium tank at 6.0 has better protection against the tiger 2P than a 6.7 US medium tank. Mobility wise the Panther A is also faster with a Horsepower to ton ratio of 13.27 compared to the M26’s 12.02. The Panther A also gets nuetral steering making manueverabilty a bit easier. The M26 only beats the Panther A at reverse speeds 10mph for the M26 vs 2mph for the Panther A. In terms of firepower the Panther A reloads slightly faster at 7.4 seconds compared to the M26 at 7.5 seconds. The Panther A also penetrates more armor at 192mm at 10m at 0º compared to the M26 with 185mm at 10m at 0º. In terms of post pen the M26 does have significantly more HE filler with 137.2 g of TNT equivalent compared to the Panther A with 28.9 g of TNT equivalent. In terms of fire power while an M26 is much more likely to one-shot a penetrated target, the Panther A can more reliably get an initial pentration with better muzzle velocity leading to easier targeting. In all honesty i would say the Panther A has a better gun, but both tanks destroy reasonably well. So, with all of this technical talk, youre probably wondering why i brought up the Panther A when we are talking about whether an M26 should or shouldnt be 6.7. Well the reason is the M26 is pretty even or mildly worse than a similar tank which is at 6.0. The M26 isn’t 6.7 because it has amazing armor, firepower or mobility its 6.7 because of purely player stats. I feel more competent players play US and a lot of people choose germany because of their amazing tanks. The problem is those same players over rely on their armor or guns and play poorly. US teams perform better at 6.7 than german teams, thats just a fact. So, in my opinion the M26 should be lowered to 6.3 and the Panthers A, G and F should be raised to 6.3. That or the M26 should be 6.0. Maybe some suffering will push german teams to start playing better.
M26 is much better than any Panther specially after his movilty nerfs.
Wrong. M26 is 6.7 because Gaijin in his last and failed decompression atempt move up a lot of vehicles just because looks similar. Thars why m26, T26E5 or Tiger 2P and H are 6.7.
Thats wht the move up even vehicles with bad stats.
US players are the same trash as Germany the only diference is the bettet vehicles, lineups and of course the insane op CAS.
Perfrom better due his 6.7 is inane better than Germany and US dont suffer from the brutal hole in the TT like Germany.
Before Gaijin pulverizd Germany in the last BR changes that fact dint exist.
M26 was perfectly fine in 6.3 and maybe could back but move Panther to 6.3 with his movility nerf is stupid.
Germany players are not the problem the problem is Gaijin and his changes.
Before and after stupid BR changes and map sniping nerfs.
