TIGER TANK

[THE EYES OF THE SNAKE]

i just bought the tiger tank but the game wont even let me use it. I wait in matchmaking sessions for literally five minutes and nothing happens, this needs to be fixed fast because i am royally ticked.

[MoistMayo]

Ursprungligen skrivet av ＦＲＥＤＤＩＥＢＯＸ:

Ursprungligen skrivet av Unexpected Variable!:

Yeah but realisticly speaking the enemy is going to have the moment of suprise since they just need to wait for you to drive past their location, quickly peak out and fire their Bazooka or throw their sticky nade if you drive past and then run away again and repeat this process. I do urban fighting myself but fact remains that you are faaaar more likely to die by infantry.

...And the golden rule when using a Tiger is never bring it into a city if avoidable. It is literally a deathtrap. I always keep them in open areas close to my squad.

Yes, read my previous post...

[Ocarina Bravo]

lol, I bought my King Tiger and treated it as a MBT Artillery piece. If that was acceptable or not is up to you as I single handedly defended a key point and managed to die only two times, All to planes doing their damndest to kill me. I love my King Tiger. I consider it a Donation, I was going to buy the pershing but instead bought warbonds.

The REALITY is that tanks in WW2 drove right into combat.. however, in REALITY Bazooka's and so on don't destroy King Tigers, and ontop of that not every single soldier on the battlefield had AT. (The Panzer Elite had Fausts but thats besides the point) In this game you should treat your tank more modern MBT.... that is to say, Sit back and provide excellent artillery support if the conditions allow for it. I usually do really well.

[MoistMayo]

Ursprungligen skrivet av AnenFairy:

The REALITY is that tanks in WW2 drove right into combat.. however, in REALITY Bazooka's and so on don't destroy King Tigers, and ontop of that not every single soldier on the battlefield had AT. (The Panzer Elite had Fausts but thats besides the point) In this game you should treat your tank more modern MBT.... that is to say, Sit back and provide excellent artillery support if the conditions allow for it. I usually do really well.

Erm what? Do you seriously think that? Wow just wow...TANKS in WW2 were used tactifully by experienced commanders and if there was a battle raging within a town then tanks were only used with heavy infantry support or as bunkers (If you are defending). Usually tanks would help an assault of a build up area by flanking around the built up area and making sure that infantry can take the same way to attack the entrenched enemy from behind.
Kursk. Alone that single word defeats your entire statement.

[Lord Nighthawk]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Unexpected Variable!:

Erm what? Do you seriously think that? Wow just wow...TANKS in WW2 were used tactifully by experienced commanders and if there was a battle raging within a town then tanks were only used with heavy infantry support or as bunkers (If you are defending). Usually tanks would help an assault of a build up area by flanking around the built up area and making sure that infantry can take the same way to attack the entrenched enemy from behind.
Kursk. Alone that single word defeats your entire statement.

But you still remember that this is a game and not reality, right? Nothing in here has equal stats to it it´s reality counterparts. This game creates sessions with heavy tanks and some infantry and tells you to take a town while inside infantry and pershing holding a church and a police station. And you will stand outside on a distance in howitzer mode with your precious little tanky beeing the most useless unit ever seen ingame.

Tigers where not made for town fights, thats clear, but if infantry can damage it quick with bazooka and sticky nades in this game i want to be able to maneuver it more quickly to support my troops, and not that my troops have to support me to stay alive for not to capture anything!

[Basho]

driving a tank into a city means surrendering it to whatever the infantry inside the alleys, rooftops, windows, etc can hurl at it, which is a LOT, without the ability to even see them or return fire. that lesson was learned even in WW2 and has stood since, as can be seen most recently in syria.

but by all means, keep em coming. i could do with the easy tank destruction ribbons.

[[1stNC(Co.B)] Rct Hadrick]

I got 4 med tank AT's ready to be upgraded and they're staying med till I see something better come out of heavy tanks -_- I worked hard to get them upgraded

[Basho]

Ursprungligen skrivet av bradstar316:

I got 4 med tank AT's ready to be upgraded and they're staying med till I see something better come out of heavy tanks -_- I worked hard to get them upgraded

if you use a tank team in a battle, are you, as the owner, guaranteed a slot if you want to play tanker?

[Ocarina Bravo]

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Ursprungligen skrivet av AnenFairy:

The REALITY is that tanks in WW2 drove right into combat.. however, in REALITY Bazooka's and so on don't destroy King Tigers, and ontop of that not every single soldier on the battlefield had AT. (The Panzer Elite had Fausts but thats besides the point) In this game you should treat your tank more modern MBT.... that is to say, Sit back and provide excellent artillery support if the conditions allow for it. I usually do really well.

Erm what? Do you seriously think that? Wow just wow...TANKS in WW2 were used tactifully by experienced commanders and if there was a battle raging within a town then tanks were only used with heavy infantry support or as bunkers (If you are defending). Usually tanks would help an assault of a build up area by flanking around the built up area and making sure that infantry can take the same way to attack the entrenched enemy from behind.
Kursk. Alone that single word defeats your entire statement.

Drove right into combat as in they were not forced to sit in the very far back as we are in this game due to planes, unrealistic bazookas and stuff like that. I did not say "They drove right into enemy fire and took AT Guns and so on the face like a champion and kept on going".

[Free Luigi M.]

In real life you don't have infantry with bazookas driving jeeps in your ass and taking out your tank in two seconds. In real life you cannot even get close to a tank. In real life you don't have every man and his mom wielding a Bazooka or throwing sticky bombs.
This game went to great lenghts to limit and balance tanks, and then just let anti-tank weapons and infantry go freely. What happens is that usually the few tanks available in a match get swarmed by rockets and kamikaze jeep with sticky bombs. And no, they cannot be guarded by infantry, because infantry has better things to do. Like actually cap objectives. You cannot ask infantry to babysit tanks. No one will ever set for that. The simple fact that there is an AT-infantry assault team in the game, but is no different from regular infantry, is enough to tell something is off. Let AT infantry do their job and prevent regular infantry from covering the same role.

[Novak]

what about the anti tank tanks are they worth getting?

[GRU-Vy]

no, i hardly get any games where somone has put in tank destroyers. The german ones dont seem that much better than tanks, cant comment on US side.

[Difficulty]

Hellcat is amazing but TDs are rarely seen.

[Vasher85]

Ursprungligen skrivet av seagatebarracuda:

The heavy tanks are boring slow snail units and almost useless in their current state ... an easy swag for infantry on bikes/jeeps with sticky nades or bazookas.

Ursprungligen skrivet av Kebab Removal Unit:

you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ idiot, nobody fields tigers because people like you buy it with real money and somehow get it killed via stupid things such as driving it into a city

Driving a tank into a city...how unexpected cause thats what they are build for. Putting them at the city border would reduce them to artillery...how much fun is left with that?

Driving a tank into a city with narrow streets is just stupid. Probably the worst use for a tank i could think of. In real life, a tank in a city can be ambushed everywhere, from corners, windows, etc. In this game, a tank in a city can be ambushed in every corner by infantry with stickies or bazookas.

You really need to improve your tank tactics.

[Lord Nighthawk]

Ursprungligen skrivet av Vasher85:

You really need to improve your tank tactics.

And you need to understand that this is a GAME and that it is often creating stupid unit combinations.

And you should read the rest of the topic and not only stick on one of the first posts, we already got further that it´s about maneuverability. In it´s current state med and heavy tanks are that way slow that you even don´t need to get an idea of driving into a town cause you are insta-fragged by infantry on bikes/jeeps with bazooka/stickys even outside of anywhere due to the immovability of the tanks.

Currently you stand somewhere at the border, can´t support anywhere and after a short while you just hear the sound of something getting sticked at your back. At this point you don´t even need to try to turn around or anything else, you are done.

The ammount of infantry simply using jeeps and bazookas/sticky nades has dramatically increased the last weeks and makes tank driving not that much in it´s current state.