4.3? Really? KV-1B is 5.0. Just about the same tank.
The game as it is isnt worth playing at this BR unless you play Russians that is. You get 4 or 5 KV1Es and they just charge and you cant stop them. I for one am sick of it and am ready to stop playing tanks because of it.
M44 HE to turret it will stop with one shot
Or if you have it the 17pounder can one shot it from 1 kilometer through the front
The firefly is all but impenetrable at that range just so you now
To the kv1 and t34 76 at least
KV-1E, M4A2, etc are slightly OP.
Not as OP as Jadgpanzer IV is, but they’re OP.
3.3 and 2.7 get a little shafted in general.
KV-1E’s aren’t all that anymore, there are many things that can easily counter it. Learn the weakspots or use tanks that do well against it, like lucas mentioned, the M44 or Firefly.
They really should be 4.3, because they are unreasonably good at 4.0 in my opinion.
I bought it, and it’s by far the most undertiered tank I own. I shouldn’t be getting a K/B of 4, when I can’t even do that in the Ka-Chi.
As an option, don’t play for some time on BR KV-1E, now many have bought it, but later it will be difficult to meet even one such tank.
By the way, now the KV-1E constantly plays at 4.7 and the abundance of M44 high-explosive shells simply destroys it in silhouette
What? KV-1B also has 4.3/4.0/4.3
Nope, Ive had the M-44 have no effect multiple times, more than it kills in fact. Can it kill it? Yes. About 50% of the time. Which is bullsh*t.
Sorry, I meant the KV-1C The German KV-1E
You are thinking of the KW-1C 7,5 cm KwK 40 L/48.
This topic is about the KV-1B/E 7,62 cm F-32 gun at 4.0.
2 whole different tanks.
The point being is when you play at 3.3 you dont have a Firefly. And the M-44 (which is 4.0 not 3.3) only kills it 50% of the time. Not to mention a mg kills the M-44. I have seen game after game after game where they steam roll the battle. Most people get killed by them and leave the game. And I dont blame them.
If the game aint fun, then why play it?
I keep playing airplanes until they fix it. And if they never fix it, then ok. I just wont play it. I play 3.3-3.7 tanks. I have tanks up to the top (11.7). I dont use them. I have FUN at 3.3-3.7. Or used to that is…
The Cromwell can be good at 3,7 if you play it right can pen him from the side if you now what you’re doing best place to pen a kv1E is from the back right under the turret there is a flat area of only 75mm if you pen him there it’s a one shot
At 3’3 you get the 17 ponder on I forgot the name but that has all the same ammunition as the firefly
I never cease to be amazed, you have 46 thousand battles but you still don’t know that the German version of the KV-1E is the KV-1B, and the KW I C 756 (r) is a completely different tank
The penetration of the KV-1E shell is 88 mm, while the penetration of the German KV-1C is 145 mm
Think about it
If you want to bully the kv1 use the Churchill 7 its all but indestructible iv been bombed I’ve been shot by 6 kv1s at a time and killed them all but be prepared for barrel torture they can’t pen you but you can. shoot the driver port on the kv1. angle for added protection.
Churchill VII has it’s weakspot, which are vulnerable to Soviet APHE rounds with wild angle modifiers. Besides that’s a 4.7 tank, just like Firefly. KV-1E might not have amazing penetration, but it’s still plenty enough against all those vehicles which have potent gun to threaten it.
So if both can penetrate each other then aren’t things balanced? Well no, since it’s not 1vs1 for whole match. M44, Dicker Max and other big gun TDs are free food for planes, lower BR light tanks, AA trucks and artillery. Even Panzer IVs remains very vulnerable to all those things. Meanwhile none of those are much issue for KV-1E. Big gun TDs are usually dead if they can’t completely disable their target with one shot.
This is not specific only to KV-1E, but many similar cases where better armored vehicle does better than tank with better gun.
The KV-1 L-11 is 3.7 and has very good armor but then comes the KV-1E and when you thought you had a chance to pen the L-11, now you can’t because of extra armor.
The Pz IV H is 3.7, slow as snail and super weak sides.
The Chi-Nu II is 4.3.
The medium tanks with the best armor penetration.
You can probably roll around in a KV-1E just having HE loaded to dispatch any open top TD and just switch to AP when you encounter any other vehicle, because they most likely will not pen you anyway.
The turret is insanely strong, even from the sides.
Even when you can pen, chances are it does this:
Personally I think KV-1s and T-34-76 are long overdue of a RoF nerf, which would make them less effective, balance them or bring them down in BR.
Yes, I have 46,000 battles and the KV-1E is SUDDENLY a problem. Think about THAT…
And honestly, I “only” have 22,700 realistic tank battles…
problems with skill, there is nothing easier than breaking the protruding breech of the KV-1E gun
If you still think that KV-1E and KV-1C (5.0) are the same, then there is no point in continuing the dialogue
