What if the What the F%$# got the short 128....
Yeah, its a long ranty wall-o-text. I'm bored.
As the title says....I haven't heard any news about this tank getting "rebalanced" and the whole "ITZ BALANCED CAUZE ITS GOT NO ARMOR" Argument does NOT work.....Neither does "LEARN TO ANGLE AND COUNT THE SHOTS" when the apcr in this thing can go right through the angled upper front plate of my E75.....Now I recently finished the Obj 268 grind and specifically got that tank for the retarded penetration it has, and to make Mauses cry with the heat rounds. Yeah I'm a scumbag, I admit it...but even then I have to aim those shots carefully because even the broken 450 pen that tank has will still bounce a LOT because of the lack of normalization, and its affinity for getting eaten in spaced armor....Last I recall the wth's long 128 has the highest the second highest pen APCR in the game atm and pretty much ignores most armor it it gets pointed at, much to the Dismay of my well angled Jpz e100. The only other tanks that get better apcr are the T110's, and they have a pretty slow rate of fire, along with thier other problems
This tank is the only tank that is an absolute ***** sentence if you encounter it....A bat can bounce a few shells...some tanks it cant one-drum.
A foch 155, even pre nerf, Wasnt always guranteed to **** what you managed to get ahold of, and there was considerable time between shells in the drum to get away, and due to the derpy nature of the gun, you had to sit and aim VERY carefully when you first ambushed your opponent.
50B cannot one drum many tanks it sees, Neither can the 57 Heavy. This tank with apcr loaded is pretty much the only one with a competent driver just removes tanks from the game with ease.....It doesnt have armor? Who cares? He tanks 1k from my jpz and drums me while i desperately try to angle, wiggle, every trick ive ever learned in the book to bounce his shots and it simply DOES NOT MATTER. Lack of armor doesn't matter when you are so far back you cannot be seen, or you don't care about taking a measly 400, 500+ 700+ hit to remove a tier 10 tank from the game in a matter of seconds. There have been games vs one of these tanks where we have 5 badly damaged tanks left and still cannot effectively **** this tank even swarming him all at once...he pretty much gunned us all down, or spotted us if we tried to snipe him from range with that tanks excellent view range and walked away with an easy mode pools medal....he didn't move probably 200 freet from his base area the entire game and just FARMED damage...Id like to see you do that in the "OP" foch. Even pre nerf.
"LOAD HE NOOB!!!" Yeah most heavy tank HE does about 600 damage tops if you get a high roll....get caught with HE loaded and an armored tank shows up and you just LOOK STUPID. THe guns that benefit from loading HE are the 750-1k damage guns, and take anywhere from 14-21 seconds to reload said shells...and if another target pops up, again you hit him with HE and look like a real dummy....doing this has cost me quite a few games when a different tank appeared in front of me while i was reloading.
Perhaps if this tank had the lower penetration 128 and the option of the e100 gun drivers of this tank would play a bit more cautiously....The gold is decent enough for your hard targets...Maus turrets, 100 turrets, and JPZ e100 superstructure if you aim carefully and catch him reloading, but not overpowering as to where it can just go though angled E100 and E75 upper front plates with ease. It can even get a reload buff with the shorter 128 to make up for the lack of penetration it has now and the lack of damage....45 to 40 seconds perhaps? NOW the tank would take a bit of talent to play instead of "GOLD LOADED! I SHALL REMOVE YOU FROM THE GAME NAW!!!!"
And before anyone says it, NO, this isnt complaining about gold ammo. I SLING MY FARE SHARE WHEN I GET LAZY, or get a hardened target that needs to die....unicorn in an e100? yeah hes gettin' gold. Hull down E3? too far out to snipe the cupola? Slap him in the face with the good stuff. Getting it fired at me? I switch to mine and fling it back. I even did it once today just to troll a Badger that was live streaming, much to his dismay and my joy. But even then, its not so freaking devastating in the tanks i fire it from....they mostly have long reloads and cant remove tanks from the game in 10 seconds like this one can. Sorry German fanboys, that thing needs work in the worst way....End rant.