I’ve come to the decision to buy my first premium tank. I have considered to tanks I want to buy. ither the TAM 2 IP or the T55AM1. I know one is light an on is a medium tank but i like playing both classes. I played through the US lineup until about 10.3 but i want to play another nation as well. I dont really care if its Germany or USSR . Now I want to know which premium tank is better at its BR and as vehicle itself as I am kind of lost at the moment because I herad good feedback about both of them. I’d like to hear the oppinoin of some other players to help me with thisd decision. Thanks in advance.
I’d suggest to taking TAM 2IP, it’s more forgiving than T-55AM. It fires great round, have good mobility and survivabiltiy (for some reason).
Ok thank you, I really didn’t think that the Tam is more forgiving because its a Light tank but thanks again !
It really survives, eats shells like it have spall liners, but it doesnt.
Get the E-100 when it comes out
You’re a very new player so I recommend not buying any premiums for a while. Throwing yourself into higher tiers may well get you completely sealclubbed making you not want to play the game anymore meaning you wasted your money, wait until you’re about level 40 or so before looking at picking up premiums. however out of the vehicles you mentioned ill say the TAM 2ip is an evil cancer of a tank that eats shells and is insanely survivable with a mighty gun to shoot back with, that and the Turms 3 are the best german premiums because of their toxicity to go up against.
The T55am1 is also a very strong choice of tank, it would be my personal choice of the two because its armour holds up very well against near enough everything you face and your shot will pen almost everything easily too.
It depends mostly on your playstyle on which will suit you the best so we cant tell you what to pick up with any guarantees for you
Alright thank you for the advice ! I played to US 10.3 on console but made a new account when I bought my PC.
I Personally Would wait for the next Sale (This Time there will be a GE Vehicle Sale Aswell)
Then you could buy the T55AM Pack and the TAM 2 with your GEs of the Pack + some extra Payment. But you still spend less Euros/ Dollars than without a Sale
Edit: you can use your PlayStation Account on the PC
you know a lot more than the average level 14 then, welcome to the PC master race btw lol. I’m fairly sure you can migrate some console accounts to PC, it may be worth looking into that before investing money into a new account
Ok thanks do you know when the next sale is going to happen ? Would that be the Halloqeen sale or will there be another in between ?
Theres no hallowen sale, the next one is their anniversary sale which is end of October, star of November.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/1doy8cj/war_thunder_calendar_of_sales_2024_2
Late October or early november
T-55 is absolute shit. No elevation speed, angles, mobility, armor, reload. Very bad tank for it’s br.
Alright thank you.
the AM1 has additional armour meaning not many things until 8.7-9.0 will easily punch through the strongpoints, its also got more horsepower so gets to speed quicker.
I also got the advice that compared to 9.0 the 8.7 br of the T55 is more down tier heavy but I don’t know how true that is.
Against heat shells, which is useless, because everyone shoots at you with apfsds. So useless.
Which is still not enough, because tam 2, turm 3, of-40, leopard 1 are faster.
i would say thats pretty accurate. 7.7 is a very popular BR (its one of the main ones I play too as it has my favourite vehicles ever made there) so you will probably see more downtiers with an 8.7 lineup. similar to how 9.3 is nothing but uptiers
not everyone gets a good APFSDS or any until much higher so it still holds value.
and of course there’s going to be more mobile things on the battlefield, but you arent that much slower with a lot more protection, all of them are easy food for someone like me using the fox but a T55 am sure as hell isnt
And which eats ‘OP’ APHE with 0 damage :)