Doesn’t matter for most engagement the extra angle pen won’t change anything.
Also the PA doesn’t highlight the whole are. The ufp can be penned by the D shell at this angle.
Why are you aiming at the edge? BR-471B doesn’t pen the overlap either.
BR-471B isn’t nearly as reliable as you make it seem.
It does.
Posting a video where a round should have penetrated but didn’t, is not a proof for anything.
I can go to the test-map right now and pen the Tiger IIs side armor at a much greater angle at that range.
The difference is small but it gets bigger, the thinner the armor becomes. Hence why the round can penetrate the Centurions 50mm side armor much earlier then the APC round.
The B round is also less affected by spaced armor, because whenever it overmatches something, the armor resistance decreases considerably.
So the track armor on the Tiger II Hs turret has much lower resistance at an angle compared to the D shell.
If they don’t hit the overlap both pen. If they do they don’t pen.
What are you trying to prove here?
That the B round will penetrate tanks in more cicumstances than the D shell.
The B round will penetrate a Panther IIs front when it’s not angled at close range, and will penetrate the turret or hull sides at angles where the D round can’t.
Unless it’s thick vertical armor, the B round is always superior and the difference is so small that it hardly ever is required to use.
No it doesn’t. In most cases the D shell can simply pen the tank somewhere else whereas the weakspot that can be penned by the D shell can’t be shot at by the B shell.
The D shell can always shoot the side of the turret that’s pointed at you.
The D shell can kill hulldown T29/T34, oneshot Ferdinands through the turret up close (the B shell can’t oneshot them) and can kill Ho-Ris/Tiger 2s at longer range.
IS3 vs Jumbo
T26E5
The T26E5 is in fact one of the best 6.7 heavies.
Yeah it’s better against 3 tanks in particular circumstances but worse against all others because the B shell will always have superior slope armor performance.
Ferdinant at close range, is just never going to happen and it’s easier to pen the 60mm lower sides with the B shell.
Bruh the T26E5 is very good and it’s a direct upgrade of the M26 which is the same BR. How can this be your pick for the worst 6.7 lmao.
The BR-471D can pen tanks when BR-471B would fail to do anything. For most B weakspots the D shell can simply be shot at another weakspot and kill the tank too. The slope mod isn’t needed most of the time.
The edges are a 2 shot kill. 40+s for a single kill is terrible.
Goes through pretty easy.
Yeah from 100m. Congrats. Sure I’ll carry the D shell just in case I need to kill a Ferdinand from 100m.
Just angle 10° and the D can’t pen anyway. And just so you know, the Ferdi can traverse the gun 14° to either side.
Even trying to do that is just suicide.
Again this is one of the thing the D shell can do it’s not the only use.
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If the Ferdinand angles its hull you can still go for the edges. It’s just something you can keep in mind in case you do want to kill a Ferdi in 1 shot. In close combat you need to kill people as fast as possible if you have a 20s reload.
I found a use for the D shell :)
But if I want to take out a Panther from 1-1.5km I still take the B shell :3
the m26 is ass
No, it’s quite alright.
Maybe it’s just me but I feel more comfortable in a M26 than a T-44.
It’s a heavy tank without the heavy but still having the slow (intentionally grammatically incorrect)
It’s not the most mobile medium but it also has very good armor for a medium + a pretty potent gun.
The T-44 is clearly more mobile and has good overall armor as well.
It can not get one shot through the front plate like a M26 by a Tiger II H but at the same time it can get killed through the turret by a number of vehicles and can’t do a whole lot against a Tiger II H from the front.
The M26 90mm APHE is stronger than the T-44s 85mm APHE and 90mm APCR can damage vehicles that the T-44 can’t.
The mantlet is very strong and has 5 crews. Even when someone gets through the turret, it has a good chance to survive.
While it’s rather slow, it’s still has better mobility than a Tiger II H.
Is it better than a Tiger II H in a downtier? Probably not.
Compared to the T-44 it’s indeed more like a heavy tank.
Mobility compared to the T26E5 is almost the same which makes the M26 more like a worse back-up.
The only thing the M26 has going for it is its above average gun for 6.7. The T-44 is just better in every way except depression and penetration which both can’t fully rely on anyway. The T-44 can survive the long 88, it has better mobility, and it has a smaller profile.
This is one of the things World of Tanks did better than WT GF.
It gave vehicles soft stats like the aim time, vision range, accuracy etc. that are determined primarily by how spacious and well layed-out the crew positions inside the tank are. Is this realistic? No. But neither is disregarding these things completely, like WT does. In this game contemporary western tanks are bigger, heavier and less armoured without any positive qualities that these designs were meant to provide.
