It can though, because it’s hellcats (and any american TD’s) hardcounter. Don’t you insult my puma, it’s perfectly capable and the only tank I’ll take over chaffee for it’s role.
I don’t think that’s an issue when you have at least 2 other nations on your team 🤔
The old days of one or two nations vs. another one or two are long gone.
The Shermans ARE far superior though. You get better mobility, better armor, and the stabilizer allows you to out-shoot everyone else.
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The Big 3 are generally pretty bad (USA, USSR, GER). Other nations have decent vehicles and generally a higher skill ceiling at low tier (JPN, FRA)
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Honestly not really at 5.7-6.7. When I played the Hellcat I was facing 1/2 vs 1/2 a fair few times. Not to say its common, but it isn’t rare either.
Posting wrong topic sorry
all of those were 1/2 vs 5+
yeah edited after i posted
I actually think it’s not that bad. The Pz3 M is one of my best performing tanks, its extra armor can deflect some shots if you angle it right not to mention its 4 second reload and 106 pen. It might not be the best tank at it’s rank but the Pz3m certainly isn’t as horrid as you’re making it sound.
However I play the 3m for the extra style from the side skirts and weld on armor, so don’t mind me.
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Every nation also has its own strengths, Germany is unique in the copious amounts of heavily armoured vehicles, positioning is everything. You can’t just say one nation is incredibly bad, they are all decently balanced. To quote a wise man, “skill issue”. Also a note on the Swedish flak trucks, of which I am guilty of using, just machine guns them. In a 1v1 panther vs Sherman, the panther has far better armour and a decent gun, just remember to position well and defend your weak side armour. The tiger gun will shred anything, but try to play in hull down positions so that the weak front plate can’t be exploited
The panzer four can one tap a Sherman and a Sherman can one tap it, the 75 is very nice. Sure, you can say the stabiliser plays a part, but it only works below 25km/h which makes it pretty ineffective especially in light tanks. Also, the stug is a beast, will only die to the m10 and will shred Sherman’s every day of the week.
IIIM has huge issues dealing with 3.7 Sherman, it can’t penetrate 3.0 1-shot wonder outside of tiny weakspots. M4A1 at f.e. 400m is a tough nut to crack, and got forbid Sherman uses terrain to add some angle to the fronr…
The gun is kinda good vs T-34s, as it doesn’t matter what you fire at the turret, it’s going to be whack-a-mole so 90 pen gun with hogh ROF is better than higher pen gun with low ROF.
But I generally consider it lackluster.
You should try disabling it and compare. People oftentimes don’t even realise how much it helps them.
Imagine this - you go 50km/h. You see enemy. You brake - once your speed drops to 25km/h - you can fire.
Meanwhile Pz IV has to slow down and stop the wobble.
Stabiliser is important for all tanks. Even if it worked at 5km/h - it would still remove the final wobble thus greatly improving the time to fire.
Also if you expect enemy, you just slow down. People go as fast as they can and then complain abour stabiliser. I go sround the corner at 23km/h and if the enemy is doing the same - he’s dead.
Stug is mid.
It has huge weakspots (the plates above the “almost flat ones” are getting penetrated a goddamn lot) mediocre mobility, mediocre gun depression and no turret and no MG. They are also using inferior mantlet for Stuf IIIG and no MG because that’s Gaijin for you.
M4A1 is IMO better than 4.0 Stug.
Vs 3.3 Stug it’s a no-contest.
M4A1 Sherman has better chance deflecting German guns, it can angle a bit (though corners are a weakspot, but not so easy to hit on a tank that can keep moving while firing) it can use terrain to add some angle to the glacis and make turret a smaller/harder target. M4A1 is not well armored vs 75mm (that’s what 3.0, 3.7 and 4.0 Shermans are for) but it can make you aim just long enough for him to reload and 1-shot you.
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Yeah I mostly agree u here. I used to like 6.7 germany, but nowdays you are just food for all thea heat/apds spam thats been added. ITs actually sad specially when uptiered.
So find a good position, and stay still. Also, refer to the survivabity onion. If you are being shot at in the first place, something has gone wrong
So basically stay back and camp and wait for CAS to end you or panic-rush caps because you’re clearly losing and get slaughtered.
I love German teams!
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If you hate cas, become the cas. You got a plane with a 75mm gun, the duck is funny. Also, I cannot count the amount of times I have been shot in the roof and one tapped by the narwhal me 262. The German tree definitely doesn’t have a balancing issue, and angled tiger can bounce pretty much every shell and the tank destroyers can be flat-out unkillable (jadgtiger, jagdpanther IV/70)
Is USA main player never touched Germany… a true expert !!!
Go and play it first.
Haven’t played it, couldn’t be bothered grinding, not spending money on a premium, but I have considerable experience against it and that counts for something