Sherman firefly, its so slow, gun handling is below average, ammo is unpredictable, armor is unreliable. Only thing it has for it is good pen.
Despite me having decent stats in it, I find the T-34-85 very annoying to play. It’s armour weighs it down, its scope is awful, and I hate facing Panthers.
It was good in AB when I switched to that, in RB you have basically a Bf109G with a permanently orange engine. No performance at all.
You have about 10 seconds of WEP before it hits red tempuratures, and after like 10 minutes (usually over half of which are just flying to target in ARB) the engine is completely heatsoaked and you cant even hold 100% throttle without it overheating, you get stuck at like 90% max. On an engine that was already pathetically underpowered.
It has zero energy retention either, and the climb rate is of course abysmal, but being a bf109 airframe it doesnt turn either, so you are forced to energy fight. That means you only got one good dive on an enemy, and no way to regain enough of that altitude again to survive if you missed, or even maintain your airspeed to extend away, and thats it. You’re done.
The 20mms give some great firepower but when you were already hopelessly underpowered, you really start asking yourself if you genuinely want the extra weight.
I hated it so much, it was unplayable.
I know I’m probably alone with like, 4 others in thinking this, but the Sherman Firefly has always been one of my favorites. Being able to absolutely demolish Tiger 1s and Kv-1s with a 4.7 sherman has always been so nice.
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Zachlam Tager
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HE says: poor M36B2.
Avenger is a lot better by far. Firefly is a wobbly gun. Best Tiger killer is the AEC II with 4.0 sec reload and a short stab.
You must have 2 accounts since doesn’t appear you have it in RB?
Yeah I have an abandonned “Sign in with Steam” account.
Ah!
Be careful since multi-accounts is against TOS. I doubt you don’t “own” two user names in the game then, and this one appears pretty darn active/well used.
Shot Kal Alef, S199, Shturm-S, P51-D5
The A7s in Airb RB. Useless flying turds and the last airframe type I need to spade in rank 7 US. Absolute trash.
Have you spaded F-84F?
I Second this,
I’m an Israeli Main and this vehicle breaks my heart. The Israeli Tree has its faults but for me it is the most fun.
Bro why is everyone hating on the Zachlam?
Because it’s a stinky truck with only 6 damn MCLOS missiles, it can also only shoot forwards and has no secondary weapons. At least you don’t need to reload after every shot so I guess it’s not totally unusable?
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Yea, I didn’t think it was too bad in comparison to the A7s.
I would say it was this pile of poo.
So why even play it ? Well it’s a good earner as a premium.
If by some miracle you do get a few kills in it then you will be rewarded greatly especially with a premium account but its no pleasure to play and despite the supposed armour I have never been one shotted so many times in any other tank.
Its like those panels at the side of the lower glaces are the worst kept secret in the game.No amount of bushes hides the antennae, telling every one what it is, it’s slower than a Tiger and you cant angle.
I would take the regular Tiger over it any day just as the Nazis did.
I have gotten kills with it sure but its a slow, underwhelming, depressing collection of bolts and zero enjoyment.
That sums it up pretty well. I like the Idea of it. However it’s a glass cannon.
Maybe you’re just not using it in the proper M901 mindset. Btw, sniper scope from gunner view actually helps on it.
Will go for every nation that at least has had a progress
USSR: KV 2 Everything bad that a tank can have, this thing has it, slow rotation, slow speed, slow recharge, almost impossible to hide, the armor although is thick it does not have angle to protect correctly, the first moment that uses it I abandoned to never used again.
France: AML 90 Despite its low profile and good velocity, it does not help you for the inconsistent of the damage of the HEAT, in addition to their survival rate is null and anything kills you, in this case I prefer the AMX 13-90 because of the auto reloaded.
Sweden: CV9030 Finn despite having a much more powerful engine than those following, it is slow and his survive capabilities is weaker compared to the other CV, and that cannot do not help a lot to make a ton of damage.
United States: T25 That damn acceleration, more than once they have ended up killing for not getting to the necessary points for combat, making it very difficult to reach any point, in addition to having a not very good armor to resist be it That you face it was, but a least is compensated a bit for the weapon and reverse.