OK
Because the other guy was talking bollocks.
lol right !
Are you now agreeing with me or being sarchastic? (serious question)
It’s 50/50 currently .My attitude is light tanks equate the ability to hide, if I am going out lit up like a Christmas tree I want armour.
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But ligh tanks are not lit up in AB. This is a big misconception that people hold. A player still has to “spot” you to be visible.
And you’d be suprized how effective light tanks are in AB. You can still hide, you can still flank with high effectiveness if you know what you are doing.
Its been a while since I played so you may be right. If I remember you are surrounded by Red letters and can’t deal with them all. Yeah people do play in a dream tis true. I sometimes wonder what they are looking at when I’m right Infront of them expecting to be killed and Im not.
You mean a name tag?
But as i said, somebody still has to look at you (or you have to be scouted) in order for that to be displayed.
I don’t get what you meant to say.
BS. They are not very effective compared to well armored vehicles.
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No. it is called “skill issue” on your part.
Nope. This is called an objective fact.
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Again, if you can’t play with light atnks in AB, then you migh not be a light tank player.
Saying that they are bad in AB tells that you just have a lot of skill issue.
Because they are bad compared to heavily armored tanks. They are very vulnerable to aviation (they even primarily target on lightly armored vehicles because they are much easier to kill), artillery fire and in many cases even machine gun fire.
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Yes. And here comes in a player having skill, and being able to deal with all those except CAS.
Or I’ll just take an armored tank and not have to deal with anything and pray that the plane doesn’t choose me as next victim.
Again, a skilled player can use a light tank much better than an armored vehicle. The higher speed, and scouting on a light tank is just a really strong and powerful weapon to have. Much better to not get shot, instead of relying on armor, which can be countered easily.
In the arcade, a fast moving tank is very easy to hit, so mobility doesn’t help much (+ you must stop when you want fire). What really helps is a strong armor that can stop an incoming shot and high survivability that allows you to withstand a penetration. You yourself say that a light tank requires skill. Why play hard when it’s easier with a heavily armored tank?
It is. But not for the average WT player.
Regardless, if you move in the middle of nothing where the whole enemy team sees you, then don’t act suprized when you get killed. If you use a ight tank that way, then again, you have skill issue.
A light tank’s speed can be used to take on early game positions to get easy kills on unsuspecting enemies, to quickly relocate, flank, or to retreat when needed. None of these can be done with an armored vehicle. If a group of enemy tanks want to yolo you in your armored tank, the situation would be similar to this:
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And you’d be that girl in that situation…
While with a light tank, you can just relocate/run away, and keep on fighting from a more advantageous spot.
If you are skilled, you can reliably shoot on move with pretty much any tank, even with those, that are whobbling like crazy (ZiS-30 for example).
There are also stabs on light tanks at higher BR, as well as low tier lights (at least many of them) have a shoulder/low speed stab, that helps a lot.
Again, you can take early advantageous positions with your speed to get easy kills. And you can shoot on the move too, it just takes skill.
Never fully rely on your armor, because there will be many times, where you just meet a mildly skilled enemy that negates your armor completely, or, by some luck, and enemy shell hits a weak spot on your tank.
None of this happens when you don’t get shot in the first place.
Yes, there are times where i do rely on my tank’s armor, but it is not the norm.
Something taking skill to use effectively != you need to tryhard with it.
A skilled player can use a light tank with the same amount (or even less) of focusing than an armored one.
Or even more easily. You don’t have to focus on things, like angling. You just see the juicy Tiger player going sideway, you take a quick peak, and 1hit it.
For example, mi have over 8 K/D with the italian M24, while my K/D in the P40, at the smae BR is lower, despite it having a much better armor, and gun, with better reload, and damage (and also has HEAT with 100mm pen, so it can just upper plate a T-34 at any range).
A light tank’s speed can be used to take on early game positions to get easy kills on unsuspecting enemies, to quickly relocate, flank, or to retreat when needed.
It’s an arcade. Successful ambushes are so rare that this advantage is absolutely negligible.
If you are skilled, you can reliably shoot on move with pretty much any tank, even with those, that are whobbling like crazy (ZiS-30 for example).
Yes you can. But you can shoot this way only at a very short distance (in addition, if you want to hit the weak points of a heavily armored tank), where you will once again become an easy target for the opponent.
Never fully rely on your armor, because there will be many times, where you just meet a mildly skilled enemy that negates your armor completely, or, by some luck, and enemy shell hits a weak spot on your tank.
It is ideal when the opponent has no chance to shoot at all. When you shoot the first one, he won’t be able to shoot back. And it’s faster to shoot a tank when you don’t have to target weak points (and there is usually bigger probability of penetration and kill).
For example, mi have over 8 K/D with the italian M24, while my K/D in the P40, at the smae BR is lower, despite it having a much better armor, and gun, with better reload, and damage (and also has HEAT with 100mm pen, so it can just upper plate a T-34 at any range).
At first. Statistics in the arcade are the most unreliable thing ever because the kills from the planes are also counted in the kills of the given vehicle. For example, look at my statistics with the Strela-10M2, with which, according to the statistics, I would kill more tanks than I lost these systems. I would like to see how I kill the MBT with that 7.62mm machine gun xD. Secondly, 100mm HEAT has a terrible post-penetration effect and the difference in penetration to the M24 Chaffe is not that great. You will relatively rarely kill anything on the first hit with that HEAT what cant be said about M24 APHE.
Again, skill issue on your part if you can not pull these off.
Not if you are a skilled player.
Again, if you just yolo in the middle of nowhere, then don’t expect anything else. Another example of skill issue.
Which is true. But due to many factors, such as RNG, you messing up your shot, the server deciding that the enmy shot first, so your shot does not count, etc can negate this.
Again, better not to get shot.
I rarely use planes, mostly when i revenge kill a CAStard using their own way.
You can also not get a 8+ K/D using only CAS? nor can you inflate it.
First, it is not a 100mm HEAT. It has 100mm pen.
Secondly, it does not lose pen at distance.
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HEAT also has a better angle modifier than APHE, so with the M24 you can only reliably pen a T-34 in either the neck, or turret front. Can be tricky to hit at distance.
HEAT can pen it’s upper plane, and if you know where to aim, you can take out the gunner and driver. Wait 5s, and finish it with the next shot.
Again, skill issue on your part if you don’t know these, or can’t do these.