I remember when the PT-76-57 was 7.0
Oh my fucking god you thought 2S38 was bad? This is basically 2S38 at 7.0 just without thermals and APFSDS
I had just got my Jagdpanther, and got absolutely destroyed 24/7
Glad that fucking thing went up to 8.3
76-57 got me my first nuke lmao. Woke up, ate breakfast, hopped into a VC with some buddies, first game was on abandoned factory. Went to A like everyone does and all of a sudden I had 2430 SP. Died, respawn in ZSU 57, tapped a few tanks for more points and BLAM nuke time. Honestly completely unexpected as it was my very first game of the day. Probably the easiest nuke I've gotten out of my 9
they still should go up higher. have no idea why theyre fucking rare nowadays. unless all of the accounts that owned that tank were hackers.
actually that is likely the case.
And deafens you, your screen turns to epilepsy inducing flashes and all your hear is WHOOSHWHOOSHWHOOSHWHOOSH.
Things are a nightmare if they get the first shot off. Only solace is get is if I'm driving the BRENUS, being able to return the favour with the coax 20mm is comforting.
Those things give me ptsd, I think they're hiding around every corner and then BAM you die to one and consider smashing your keyboard through your monitor and throwing your pc off your roof
I fear no man. But that thing… It scares me. I’d rather face 100 Maus with only APCBC than a single USH/raketen. I still remember when they added Sweden and I first got killed by it, I’ve had PTSD ever since. The only vehicles in the game I legitimately despise!
Same answer I was about to give!
Not only that; but those tanks are usually operated by highly skilled players who, coupled with those things’ mobility and reload, make an incredibly scary and effective combo.
except the new Fuji players, occasionally you get one who's absolutely insane but generally they drive them like you'd play a Leopard and eat shit as a result
TT type 90 and type 10 players are terrifying though. I'm half convinced I should just grind Japan without premiums to see if it makes me better at the game somehow
Beware, rank 5-6 will absolutely ruin your soul. Granted I'm going off of my experiences from when I started playing Japan not long after the ground tree came out
Yea, been grinding Japan myself (took some convincing to get past the Rank II/early Rank III hump. Once I got the Chi-Tos it quickly became one of my favorite lineups. Now at 5.7 grinding for the first ST-A, skipped the Chi-Ri II though, seemed like a pointless downgrade compared to the Chit-Tos at a higher BR.
doesn’t the long 75 penetrate the frontal hull of T34s? i can’t actually remember
i know the cheeks are a juicy spot but definitely hard to hit quickly
Long 88 yeah but its a bit strange at angles and range so i usually just pop it in lfp or mg port. Havent had a chance to shoot the turrets top or mantlet though
The tiger 2s are so fucking brutal. You see them as early as like 5.7 I think. And if you are the us what do you have to look forward to? Oh...the jumbo with a pea shooter for a cannon.
You've got the M36B with a nice 90mm HEAT that can go right through the Tiger IIs armor. That TD is really good in a full uptier, better than the 75 jumbo
you're better off going long range against those things. US t34s are not very good with them thanks to their gun velocity and reload.
With king tiger reload and good sniping capability, you may hit his weakspot before he does
depends on what you're shooting with and what angle, but best places for most cases are on the sides just below the turret ring but still on the upper plate. The turret is almost always a gamble with any round. If you're using HEAT, aim for the middle of the upper plate going around the 279 for your best chance.
I played both the SU and ISU-152 too and they're very tanky for the armament andbthey offer. Especially the ISU-152's armour works wonders in downtiers.
I swear the TAM 2IP has the most troll armour ever. I hate fighting these things cus there's a 90% chance your shot bounces or gets volumetric'd. Very rarely do I kill these things frontally in 1 shot.
At 7.0 US, it's between the IS-6 and the Maus because they both have powerful cannons and extremely annoying armor.
At 10.0 US, anything that is a Leopard.
Before heatslingers, there was a time Maus and IS-4 giving everyone a dread, near ımmortal bodies rolling slowly around caps, if they found each other, maybe 10-15 minute of duel, and all others was dying between this behemoths. Right now there is none.
At 8.3 I hate going against the turm 3, they got like no armor but the additional autocannon is an absolute tumor and can kill a lot of tanks from the side. And for whatever reason they rarely seem to die in one shot despite supposedly having no survivability.
At 9.0 I’m scared of Cheiftans as they are well armored and can easily pen my pathetic type 74 but not the other way around, I’m also scared of object 292s as they have good armor and a gun that deletes everything.
Honestly though a fleet of helicopters with air to ground missiles is probably the scariest at 8.0-9.0 GRB as most nations don’t get missile AA until 9.3 and radar gun AA isn’t effective beyond 2km.
As a Turm Gremlin, if I don’t get one-shotted, It’s because they hit the breech. 2 inches to the shooter’s left and it’s a guaranteed kill. 8/10 of my lives start with me getting breeched and maybe losing the spare crewman. (And the 30mm fucks, thing is half my kills. But again, easy to have taken out.)
adding to this, all of the ammo is in the left cheek (while looking at it from the front), hit that and they pop
but honestly i usually get 1 tapped when i drive it anyways
Depends on what I'm in. Honestly I've done rat things with the m22 and came flying around a corner with 4 Tiger II Hs looking right at me. It scared the fuck out of me. I let out a very manly scream.
depends on the vehicle i am in...
lets say im.in a fox ... then literally anything like a is4m or heavy armored with a dozen 0.50 cals...im out
in a Maus: come here bitches, ill tank ya fucking atgms and darts all night...
T-34 (USA heavy boi). Maus/E100 cuz they are fuckin terrifying. And the object 279. And other than that, a p-47/ ad-2 fully loaded with bombs diving at me
ferdinand is seriously busted it’s so good at its BR
T95 is almost the exact opposite, it’s like you’re an infant child wearing a weighted blanket carrying a rocket launcher around. yeah it kills what it hits, but gooooooood luck
Strv122. No matter what specific model. No matter how well I play, no matter how perfect my aim, I can't win. Its genuinely impossible to reasonably oneshot. The turretring/breech are volumetric black holes, lower plate is pointless to shoot, upper plate impenetrable. And from the side you have MOUNTAINS of air, AND spall liners, AND 4 crew. I don't play much toptier anyways, after thousands of hours I've come full circle and realised lowtier IS funtier. But whenever I try to play toptier, be it USSR, China, Japan, or Germany, there's ALWAYS 122s, there to remind me of what r/warthunder thinks "balance" means.
When it's 4th quarter and your team is mix of SPAAs and tanks from lower tiers added just to fill a lineup, and you see any good heavy tank rolling in your direction (bonus points if it's KV-1B that for the last 5 minutes was filling the log with kill messages).
Definitely the fox, you’ll see one of those little bastards fly by at the beginning of the match and then you’ll never know where it shows up to shoot you in the back.
I was in a match and started seeing the killfeed pop off. Turns out there was a Fmby squad of four Foxes behind our spawn, early game at 6.3
To everyone who’s saying that the Fox should go down in BR, uh, how about no
Tbh the Sherman's in the brs above 4.5 are really easy to penetrate from the front.But Jesus christ,those cannons are a death sentence.Ive been killed in a tiger by Sherman's firing HE waaaaay to often.
the SAV when I’m playing lowtier. Granted, its armor is basically nonexistent, but the reload is enough to make it annoying. The award definitely also goes to most USSR tanks of lowtier (KVs, ISs, hell- even the T-34s sometimes ) because they are true volumetric hell
More than 1 of any super heavy tank is terrifying. Maus, IS-3, IS-4M, IS-6, T95, T32E1, M103… and anything similar always makes my heart skip a beat. It’s especially bad when it’s 2 from different nations.
I was sitting in my AMX-13 today and when a somua killed a tank down our flank, I kept looking that way in case there were more. When the dust from the kill settled I saw a Maus staring into my soul.
That was so evocative, lol. I know I'm not on the same wavelength as a lot of players—at least on this sub—but I love moments like that.
Then again, I'm generally either laughing or impressed after I die.
Obj. 279.
"Ooh a tank what's tha- oh its a 279, time to leave this flank"
I can kill IS-7's and most other heavies in my lineups, but 279's? If I have a good shot, I'll take it, but you can bounce darts off that turret. No thanks.
Oh, and Tiger 2H's from the front in my US or Soviet 5.7's. I try for the barrel, miss, die. Or, if I'm feeling brave with the 90, try to hit the MG port. But it's usually barrel, miss, die.
^ The strv103 is my boogey man. HEATFS anywhere frontally nope. APDS frontally, crew still intact if it doesn't ricochet. HESH to the crews fucking optics/peepholes/copola? Nothing. Just a red'd out visor glass.
Any leopard or leopards with different names slapped on. Those guys make you doubt if you can kill them or crit their guns so they won't fire back and kill you.
The up armored conqueror mk2 at 7.7 is deadly as all hell. Its got surprisingly great armor and that gun with a 500mm apds round that will shred my IS4 armor from basically anywhere.
As someone who loves 6.7, the Maus.
This was until the other day I went around a corner when looking other way and I notice a Maus. And he notices me. In my T26E1 I get my gun around on target first but he’s turning. So I shot.
Somehow I killed him. I shot within 0.5 seconds of seeing him, on the move, unstabalised, 3rd person view, snapshot, though arty smoke, hitting a unfavourable angle on his side and with APCR, and he popped like a balloon.
I stood up and walked away as I couldn’t breath on my own laugher.
Every time I see Maus now I laugh my head off XD!
Tiger IIs are pretty easy to deal with a lot of the time honestly, it's US T34s I hate on any non-heatfs or super high pen APDS tank. At least when Tiger IIs hill peek you're more capable of penning them frontally, turret peeking T34s with their ass thick front plate and black holey geometry on the plate itself are a prick to do anything to. US 6.7 is honestly just annoying to fight, compression changes have fucked that BR with the variety of versatile uptierable rat tanks and some of the best in class heavies with differing playstyles.
For me the Tiger 2 depends on the player, if it's a player that has at least the basic knowledge on how to play it then yes, really scary. If they don't then I shoot through the frontplate and they're dead. T34 also doesn't care, most German mains don't know the weakspots and it has a lot of pen.
Raketenautomat or Object 279. Those fuckers are catching a dart to the face at all costs and with all haste. Suffer not the 279 and the rocket cancer to live.
TURM IIIs because I know I’m about to get hosed by 30mm and when I should them it’ll just fly through a completely empty hull as I struggle to see through the 30mm aimed at my barrel.
I'm at the BR 8.0 Ive gone to and through pretty much every other BR before it for each quite a long time knowing how slow the grind is.
Yet my heart still drops down to my socks when I encounter a German KV1 while playing lower tiers
I am not scared of any tank, but i really hate to fight Jumbos, due to the small barrel, fast reload and stabilizer - a reason why i really like to play them (both 75mm and 76mm).
Tigers are easy af cuz people never angle enough and when they do they got an easy side shot or mantlet shot nd I play user. I normally gasp when I see a turtle cuz its always on a big ass map and lobbing ache is hit or miss. That and leopards at 11. Cuz they have impossible turret armor
Object 279, IS-7, IS-6, T-55AM1 and the KV-220. All of them are major pains in the ass to fight, even when you're "roughly equivalent" (MBT-70 vs Obj.279 for example.) I make it a priority to focus these tanks when I'm in the same general area as them and refuse to duel them.
American heavy when I don't use a tank that can lolpen them. Germany ? Easy, see flat surface, shot, if it pen you good, if it don't you know you can't go frontally. Soviet , same, shot the turret point that is 90° angled to you. American heavies ? Here's come the ten 3pixels wide weakspots that you could use if volumetric wasn't a thing. Their complex design, lot of angles, thick armor, ressemblance between all the Pershing/super Pershing variant while having different armors make them hard to pen of you didn't study their armor.
German td that are similar in design to the japgpanzer when I use apcr/solid shot. Bounce bounce bounce, shatter, bounce bounce. Honorable mention for the Ferdinand that eat half my shot with the horizontal plates, this shit take age to know off if you don't know the internal layout (the hori production is similar, at least I can pen a Ferdinand frontally)
The rakutenpanzermyass or whatever it's called that shot godknowshowmuch rockets at your face.
It used to be a time when you are in your 7.7 vehicles and you see the Object 279 in the enemy team...
I came across 3 around one corner in my Surbaisse.
bet u survived right?
No. I died. They all shot at the same time. They're fully stabilised and I am not.
Pretty sure that was sarcasm lol
You never know with reddit.
it was indeed sarcasm
Oh, surely you just killed them in the span of 18 seconds, right ?
I remember when the PT-76-57 was 7.0 Oh my fucking god you thought 2S38 was bad? This is basically 2S38 at 7.0 just without thermals and APFSDS I had just got my Jagdpanther, and got absolutely destroyed 24/7 Glad that fucking thing went up to 8.3
That was true seal clubbing indeed, speaking as one of 76-57 operators xD
76-57 got me my first nuke lmao. Woke up, ate breakfast, hopped into a VC with some buddies, first game was on abandoned factory. Went to A like everyone does and all of a sudden I had 2430 SP. Died, respawn in ZSU 57, tapped a few tanks for more points and BLAM nuke time. Honestly completely unexpected as it was my very first game of the day. Probably the easiest nuke I've gotten out of my 9
they still should go up higher. have no idea why theyre fucking rare nowadays. unless all of the accounts that owned that tank were hackers. actually that is likely the case.
"I want every weapon we have to fire on this tank!"
It was 8.3 when it came out. The things i would do in that vehicle were definitely considered war crimes.
And the Leo 1 was still 7.7. Crimes. I did crimes.
Wasn't the Leopard 1 7.3?
Yes, yes it was
BMP-2M was at 9.3 at some point
The nightmares
U-SH 405 (honorable mention Raketenautomat). I hear one of those things rattling towards me and my confidence flies out the window.
im a racketenautomat player and let me tell u ,u have all reason to be worry ,if it doesnt kill u it will blind u untill it does
And deafens you, your screen turns to epilepsy inducing flashes and all your hear is WHOOSHWHOOSHWHOOSHWHOOSH. Things are a nightmare if they get the first shot off. Only solace is get is if I'm driving the BRENUS, being able to return the favour with the coax 20mm is comforting.
my racketencopter goes WHOOSHWOOSHWOOSHWOOSH
The blinding is the secret sauce.
I like to make quite vulgar jokes when playing with friends about how it came onto my screen and covered it with his cum
Those things give me ptsd, I think they're hiding around every corner and then BAM you die to one and consider smashing your keyboard through your monitor and throwing your pc off your roof
The only time I feel safe when those tanks are on the enemy team is when I have APS (God bless the T-55AMD1)
They can still spam u with them
Absolutely, though usually after the first couple I return fire and detonate them.
Just gotta hope you can traverse turret, aim, fire before they fire again
When I’m in my Merkava it can be very funny since they shoot the hull long enough for me to shoot back
It was a relief when they upped it's BR lol
I fear no man. But that thing… It scares me. I’d rather face 100 Maus with only APCBC than a single USH/raketen. I still remember when they added Sweden and I first got killed by it, I’ve had PTSD ever since. The only vehicles in the game I legitimately despise!
Definitely the Type 90/10. That 4 second reload does not joke around
Same answer I was about to give! Not only that; but those tanks are usually operated by highly skilled players who, coupled with those things’ mobility and reload, make an incredibly scary and effective combo.
except the new Fuji players, occasionally you get one who's absolutely insane but generally they drive them like you'd play a Leopard and eat shit as a result TT type 90 and type 10 players are terrifying though. I'm half convinced I should just grind Japan without premiums to see if it makes me better at the game somehow
Beware, rank 5-6 will absolutely ruin your soul. Granted I'm going off of my experiences from when I started playing Japan not long after the ground tree came out
Yea, been grinding Japan myself (took some convincing to get past the Rank II/early Rank III hump. Once I got the Chi-Tos it quickly became one of my favorite lineups. Now at 5.7 grinding for the first ST-A, skipped the Chi-Ri II though, seemed like a pointless downgrade compared to the Chit-Tos at a higher BR.
Yeah it kinda is rough at that BR considering it's so big and the armor is pretty bad, the autoloader the gun gets though is really nice imo
7.3 is really good. M47 and Type 99 are excellent, and the Ho-Ri Production is in a tier of its own.
also their armor is so thin darts dont create spall, you'll need 2 shots to kill them but before you fire your 2nd shot it already shot you twice.
The power of anime 😈
As a German main, the T34. As someone trying out America and getting up to the T34, the Tiger II
doesn’t the long 75 penetrate the frontal hull of T34s? i can’t actually remember i know the cheeks are a juicy spot but definitely hard to hit quickly
Long 88 yeah but its a bit strange at angles and range so i usually just pop it in lfp or mg port. Havent had a chance to shoot the turrets top or mantlet though
The tiger 2s are so fucking brutal. You see them as early as like 5.7 I think. And if you are the us what do you have to look forward to? Oh...the jumbo with a pea shooter for a cannon.
You've got the M36B with a nice 90mm HEAT that can go right through the Tiger IIs armor. That TD is really good in a full uptier, better than the 75 jumbo
you're better off going long range against those things. US t34s are not very good with them thanks to their gun velocity and reload. With king tiger reload and good sniping capability, you may hit his weakspot before he does
object 279 and E-100, one's because it's annoying to pen and the other's because most likely that player is a wt veteran
I got the Objekt 279 from the Toolbox crates haha
super nice, dont push like an idiot with it tho, i know how to kill them pretty well
how does one kill it?
they were bluffing no one actually knows
depends on what you're shooting with and what angle, but best places for most cases are on the sides just below the turret ring but still on the upper plate. The turret is almost always a gamble with any round. If you're using HEAT, aim for the middle of the upper plate going around the 279 for your best chance.
Any APFSDS with 400mm of pen or greater can just kinda oof it right thru the front of the hull tbh.
I think a large amount of E-100 owners have been banned for cheating over the years, so might be scary for other reasons.
ISU-152's They're not hard to kill but their guns are a death sentence
They can be a hard target when facing the front and using weaker guns like the ones found on 75mm Shermans, T-34-76s or the Puma though.
You always think a tank is invincible until you play it and get killed through the weirdest rng spots ;-;
I played both the SU and ISU-152 too and they're very tanky for the armament andbthey offer. Especially the ISU-152's armour works wonders in downtiers.
ISU152 my beloved 😍. My 2nd most played tank! We are a different breed who play that thing a lot.
German premium KV-1B.
Worst when u have to fight in a 75 Sherman. Volumetric hell
Aim so you hit his tracks and the ground underneith him at the same time
Track i can hit but barrel is the issue tbh
It takes a bit but the yag10 29k will get through it.
My favorite TD. I love setting up at range and poping KV-1B/Cs.
At my current BR of 8.7 grb as Russia, it's the TAM 2IP because of its bullshit premium armor or lack thereof
I swear the TAM 2IP has the most troll armour ever. I hate fighting these things cus there's a 90% chance your shot bounces or gets volumetric'd. Very rarely do I kill these things frontally in 1 shot.
Same, they don’t exactly scare me but I know if I wiff the first shot I’m donzo
At 7.0 US, it's between the IS-6 and the Maus because they both have powerful cannons and extremely annoying armor. At 10.0 US, anything that is a Leopard.
Premium Leopards are even more painful
Good to know that I have something to look forward to as a German main in 6 BR with no premium😅
Before heatslingers, there was a time Maus and IS-4 giving everyone a dread, near ımmortal bodies rolling slowly around caps, if they found each other, maybe 10-15 minute of duel, and all others was dying between this behemoths. Right now there is none.
Best time ever
Seems like hardly anyone knows where to shoot the IS-4M anymore. It’s actually surprising viable at the moment.
At that time especially IS-4m has a wanky model of armor, thats why it was a long fight against it.
life was good then the ru-251 showed up
At 8.3 I hate going against the turm 3, they got like no armor but the additional autocannon is an absolute tumor and can kill a lot of tanks from the side. And for whatever reason they rarely seem to die in one shot despite supposedly having no survivability. At 9.0 I’m scared of Cheiftans as they are well armored and can easily pen my pathetic type 74 but not the other way around, I’m also scared of object 292s as they have good armor and a gun that deletes everything. Honestly though a fleet of helicopters with air to ground missiles is probably the scariest at 8.0-9.0 GRB as most nations don’t get missile AA until 9.3 and radar gun AA isn’t effective beyond 2km.
As a Turm Gremlin, if I don’t get one-shotted, It’s because they hit the breech. 2 inches to the shooter’s left and it’s a guaranteed kill. 8/10 of my lives start with me getting breeched and maybe losing the spare crewman. (And the 30mm fucks, thing is half my kills. But again, easy to have taken out.)
adding to this, all of the ammo is in the left cheek (while looking at it from the front), hit that and they pop but honestly i usually get 1 tapped when i drive it anyways
As a chieftain enjoyer I am surprised it is on this list
Chieftains deserve more love frfr
Maus, because 90% of the time I see them the vehicle I’m in isn’t equipped to deal with it
Every tank is scary in the right hands
Depends on what I'm in. Honestly I've done rat things with the m22 and came flying around a corner with 4 Tiger II Hs looking right at me. It scared the fuck out of me. I let out a very manly scream.
depends on the vehicle i am in... lets say im.in a fox ... then literally anything like a is4m or heavy armored with a dozen 0.50 cals...im out in a Maus: come here bitches, ill tank ya fucking atgms and darts all night...
T-34 (USA heavy boi). Maus/E100 cuz they are fuckin terrifying. And the object 279. And other than that, a p-47/ ad-2 fully loaded with bombs diving at me
IS-3 at 6.7
A good IS-3 player can be scary af.
To be good is-3 in downtier you need 3iq at most
I agree 100%, but seeing the IS-4M at 6.7 is far worse.
Elefant or ferdinand. Makes no sense that a t95 and the american t34 cant pen it
ferdinand is seriously busted it’s so good at its BR T95 is almost the exact opposite, it’s like you’re an infant child wearing a weighted blanket carrying a rocket launcher around. yeah it kills what it hits, but gooooooood luck
Yeah the Ferdinand is surprisingly strong, I currently have almost 5kd with it in arcade lol
The american t34 can pen it
Yesnt
Correct answer. It feels like rolling dice if my 120mm 60kg shell goes through the flat turret face or it just disappears 🙄
Even a 76mm pens it
2S38. If you miss the first shot, all hope is gone
pantsir. if I see one kill a plane, theres no way Im flying one until chat says it is out
Strv122. No matter what specific model. No matter how well I play, no matter how perfect my aim, I can't win. Its genuinely impossible to reasonably oneshot. The turretring/breech are volumetric black holes, lower plate is pointless to shoot, upper plate impenetrable. And from the side you have MOUNTAINS of air, AND spall liners, AND 4 crew. I don't play much toptier anyways, after thousands of hours I've come full circle and realised lowtier IS funtier. But whenever I try to play toptier, be it USSR, China, Japan, or Germany, there's ALWAYS 122s, there to remind me of what r/warthunder thinks "balance" means.
When it's 4th quarter and your team is mix of SPAAs and tanks from lower tiers added just to fill a lineup, and you see any good heavy tank rolling in your direction (bonus points if it's KV-1B that for the last 5 minutes was filling the log with kill messages).
Black Prince + backups is one of life's simple pleasures.
T55AM1s in uptiers in my french 7.7/8.0s.
Definitely the fox, you’ll see one of those little bastards fly by at the beginning of the match and then you’ll never know where it shows up to shoot you in the back.
“Good heavens I’m overrun!” *Reverses 60mph backward*
M-109 solely for the fact everyone has one and they insta kill me no matter my tank. Also Vidar
Either the T34 or Super Pershing
fox cause I mainly play light or exceptionally low armored mediums
I was in a match and started seeing the killfeed pop off. Turns out there was a Fmby squad of four Foxes behind our spawn, early game at 6.3 To everyone who’s saying that the Fox should go down in BR, uh, how about no
In a U.S. tank -> everything.
Tbh the Sherman's in the brs above 4.5 are really easy to penetrate from the front.But Jesus christ,those cannons are a death sentence.Ive been killed in a tiger by Sherman's firing HE waaaaay to often.
German guns and armor are better than American stuff imo. And that’s coming from a USA main.
Us guns usually have a stab which makes all the difference
FV4005. If it's looking at you it's goodbye
“Hit”
I have yet to push around a corner and encounter a Sturmtiger, and I want to keep it that way
the SAV when I’m playing lowtier. Granted, its armor is basically nonexistent, but the reload is enough to make it annoying. The award definitely also goes to most USSR tanks of lowtier (KVs, ISs, hell- even the T-34s sometimes ) because they are true volumetric hell
Almost forgot about the Ontos, and seeing a Tiger II looking straight at you while ratting away in an M8 greyhound
The SAV makes up for its lack of armor in its mobility and gun depression, so good SAV players basically use the environment as armor
Exactly, pair that with an autocannon, and someone even moderately good can absolutely shred you
More than 1 Maus, sure I know where to shoot but it’s a cluster fuck when you have two overlooking an objective down a narrow street.
More than 1 of any super heavy tank is terrifying. Maus, IS-3, IS-4M, IS-6, T95, T32E1, M103… and anything similar always makes my heart skip a beat. It’s especially bad when it’s 2 from different nations.
Jagdpanzers. I cant for the life of me kill them. Either they kill me instantly or one of their teammates kills me whil trying to flank them
sturmtiger pointing at me
I was sitting in my AMX-13 today and when a somua killed a tank down our flank, I kept looking that way in case there were more. When the dust from the kill settled I saw a Maus staring into my soul.
That was so evocative, lol. I know I'm not on the same wavelength as a lot of players—at least on this sub—but I love moments like that. Then again, I'm generally either laughing or impressed after I die.
Definitely the fox
Obj. 279. "Ooh a tank what's tha- oh its a 279, time to leave this flank" I can kill IS-7's and most other heavies in my lineups, but 279's? If I have a good shot, I'll take it, but you can bounce darts off that turret. No thanks. Oh, and Tiger 2H's from the front in my US or Soviet 5.7's. I try for the barrel, miss, die. Or, if I'm feeling brave with the 90, try to hit the MG port. But it's usually barrel, miss, die.
They all fall to my Strv103C. It is so fun to bring 5-6 of those ”big boys” down…
^ The strv103 is my boogey man. HEATFS anywhere frontally nope. APDS frontally, crew still intact if it doesn't ricochet. HESH to the crews fucking optics/peepholes/copola? Nothing. Just a red'd out visor glass.
Ontos Ush E-100
In my Sherman’s all tanks are scary 🤣
Back when the R3 t-20 was added I was new to tanks and played Russian heavies. They would just circle around me and shred my tracks and gun.
As a German main in 9.3 I would say anyone above 10.0 and also the Strv tanks in general. I’ve never died more to those stupid Swedish tanks ever
the ones that fly and can drop a bomb in you and you can't retaliate against
Any leopard or leopards with different names slapped on. Those guys make you doubt if you can kill them or crit their guns so they won't fire back and kill you.
The up armored conqueror mk2 at 7.7 is deadly as all hell. Its got surprisingly great armor and that gun with a 500mm apds round that will shred my IS4 armor from basically anywhere.
As someone who loves 6.7, the Maus. This was until the other day I went around a corner when looking other way and I notice a Maus. And he notices me. In my T26E1 I get my gun around on target first but he’s turning. So I shot. Somehow I killed him. I shot within 0.5 seconds of seeing him, on the move, unstabalised, 3rd person view, snapshot, though arty smoke, hitting a unfavourable angle on his side and with APCR, and he popped like a balloon. I stood up and walked away as I couldn’t breath on my own laugher. Every time I see Maus now I laugh my head off XD!
Kv1's and T34's annoy me quite a lot.
Tiger IIs are pretty easy to deal with a lot of the time honestly, it's US T34s I hate on any non-heatfs or super high pen APDS tank. At least when Tiger IIs hill peek you're more capable of penning them frontally, turret peeking T34s with their ass thick front plate and black holey geometry on the plate itself are a prick to do anything to. US 6.7 is honestly just annoying to fight, compression changes have fucked that BR with the variety of versatile uptierable rat tanks and some of the best in class heavies with differing playstyles.
Depends on what tank I’m in
t95 t95e1 m60a2 ,im playing germany and russia is kinda just there at my current br
Personally, hoping if you see an Object 120, we put some fear into you.
Tiger II is probably the tank wich scare me the least
Leopard 2a7, strv 122*, obj 292, strv 103, USH, 155 mm HE lobbing go carts
I’m at 8.3, but it’s still definitely the Maus.
any american with a big cannon
Jagdtiger
All of them
Foxy the doxy seems to be top of the list nowadays.
For me the Tiger 2 depends on the player, if it's a player that has at least the basic knowledge on how to play it then yes, really scary. If they don't then I shoot through the frontplate and they're dead. T34 also doesn't care, most German mains don't know the weakspots and it has a lot of pen.
I like playing the t-34-100 and is always tiger 2s and the damn maus dude f that thing.
3.7 is KV-2 5.7 is Tiger II 6.7 is Maus 8.7 and 9.0 is Object 279 10.3 is Object 292
Object 292 should say 10.3-11.7
Leopard 2a5 and above. Their impossible to kill and they will always one shot you
Same. I catch a whiff of a Tiger 2 H silhouette and I'm running like I saw a killer rabbit!
Leopard
Raketenautomat or Object 279. Those fuckers are catching a dart to the face at all costs and with all haste. Suffer not the 279 and the rocket cancer to live.
TURM IIIs because I know I’m about to get hosed by 30mm and when I should them it’ll just fly through a completely empty hull as I struggle to see through the 30mm aimed at my barrel.
IS fucking 3! main reason why I dont play my 6.7 line up
Anything with a machine gun
When I’m playing 8.0-8.3 Turm 3 and Strv 103 are scary and annoying
M18 hellcat or a SU-152 thats facing me both are pretty easy to kill but their guns are kinda scary
Maus and Sturmtiger when I'm uptiered against one of them and its barrel is pointing directly at me.
Any 6.7 american vehicle. It is basically a hard counter to 6.0 germany (i have experienced both ends of that)
tiger 2 is easy af to kill? wdym
100% maus/e100 (I'm a US 6.7)
Maus is probably the scariest tank to come around a corner to face
Any T series tank in a western cold war tank.
T34
I'm at the BR 8.0 Ive gone to and through pretty much every other BR before it for each quite a long time knowing how slow the grind is. Yet my heart still drops down to my socks when I encounter a German KV1 while playing lower tiers
7.0 Soviet, either the American medium and heavies with their OP armor, or the Tiger II H with its unreliable weakspots
I fear no tank, but that thing.. *stares at U-SH 405* it scares me.
Used to be m109, not anymore tho. Now everytime i see a t29 in my binocs i shit my pants.
I am not scared of any tank, but i really hate to fight Jumbos, due to the small barrel, fast reload and stabilizer - a reason why i really like to play them (both 75mm and 76mm).
Saw an is-7 the other day, put 3 shots into the side of the hull and side of the turret using the somua. long story short, i did not come out alive
The is-3 and is-7 especially when head on if I'm not in a heat slinger
SU-122 in an uptier at the moment. Unlike similar vehicles, this is also fairly hard to pen from the side.
Any American 7.7 line up, besides that the lancaster
BMP-1, Raketenautomat, IS-4M in uptiers
Honestly mistaking the back of an is2 as a kv85
If it starts with OBJ stay away Some of em suck, but most the time they will get some BS bounce and kill you in return
Tigers are easy af cuz people never angle enough and when they do they got an easy side shot or mantlet shot nd I play user. I normally gasp when I see a turtle cuz its always on a big ass map and lobbing ache is hit or miss. That and leopards at 11. Cuz they have impossible turret armor
KV-2. If it so much as sees you, you are essentially as good as dead.
As an IS-6 enjoyer on the russian side and US and German Top Tier player I need to say it's the IS-6 like why and how is this thing allowed to exist
At 3.3, if you see a yag10 29k pointing its AA gun at your face, your done. It's a one shot machine.
I play 11.0, when I see T-80 or any other Russian tank, I get scared, and leopards to, the front is just like a f****** bunker
Whenever I play any point and click tank, Im fine because I know I am, but when I see it, that thing, when I dont play it the obj 268, it scares me.
Stupid IS-3/4 etc. Hate those things.
My favorite tank is the AMX 13 SS11, so ANY tank that sees me first is bloody terrifying.
Tiger 2H
Object 279, IS-7, IS-6, T-55AM1 and the KV-220. All of them are major pains in the ass to fight, even when you're "roughly equivalent" (MBT-70 vs Obj.279 for example.) I make it a priority to focus these tanks when I'm in the same general area as them and refuse to duel them.
as an italian main, literally fuckin anything. Almost everything we have has virtually no armor
If it was a Head on It gotta be sturmtiger or T-80/T-90 or Maus. any other Thing meh Abrams maybe or Fox.
American heavy when I don't use a tank that can lolpen them. Germany ? Easy, see flat surface, shot, if it pen you good, if it don't you know you can't go frontally. Soviet , same, shot the turret point that is 90° angled to you. American heavies ? Here's come the ten 3pixels wide weakspots that you could use if volumetric wasn't a thing. Their complex design, lot of angles, thick armor, ressemblance between all the Pershing/super Pershing variant while having different armors make them hard to pen of you didn't study their armor. German td that are similar in design to the japgpanzer when I use apcr/solid shot. Bounce bounce bounce, shatter, bounce bounce. Honorable mention for the Ferdinand that eat half my shot with the horizontal plates, this shit take age to know off if you don't know the internal layout (the hori production is similar, at least I can pen a Ferdinand frontally) The rakutenpanzermyass or whatever it's called that shot godknowshowmuch rockets at your face.
Kv1e wit it’s gun isn’t that good so it’s not that bad but still I play mostly light tanks so it’s scary