B1 bis Char de Bataille is literally impenetrable

[Zack N. Disbawls]

By far the hardest tank I met. AP and APHE ain't working but only if I hit "hail Mary" on the turret ring which works like 2 out of 10. How do you deal with this baguette monster?

[Zalzany]

That flat bit on drivers hatch, shoot here, and its far from impenetrable its heavy armor sure, but many things its tier can kill it, problem is its mostly TDs that can and people don't want to use those. But Germany for isntance has 2.0 PZ IV horrible little snub nose cannon on it, but it can fire a heat round that go right threw the B1.

B1 is big and slow don't take it head on if you can avoid it, go for its sides there is tons of weakpoints on her sides you can pen and set it on fire. Only weakspot I know on front is that flat bit of armor near driver, I can pen there quite often from the front. There are plenty of tanks and TDs however that can pen it, problem is there not the most fun to play so not eveyr one takes them out...

[Kay]

what specifically are you driving?

[Stridswombat]

the front armour is 60mm thick which really isn't that hard to pen mate. It also has HUGE weakspots everywhere. There's a 19mm weakspot on the hull side, 38mm weakspot on turret rear, the whole turret ring is a 40mm weakspot. Those are paper thin and even the hull front is only 60mm thick if you hit it flat. 60mm thick shouldn't be all that hard to pen.

Heck you don't even need to pen it directly to kill it. The turret front is full of shot traps. A Ho-Ni bounced a shot off my turret front down into my roof armour and killed my whole crew.

It's easy to pen if you know where to aim. You don't know what you're doing mate.

Originally posted by Zalzany:

Only weakspot I know on front is that flat bit of armor near driver

The turret ring is a weakspot from any side.

[Zack N. Disbawls]

Originally posted by AK Rowling:

the front armour is 60mm thick which really isn't that hard to pen mate. It also has HUGE weakspots everywhere. There's a 19mm weakspot on the hull side, 38mm weakspot on turret rear, the whole turret ring is a 40mm weakspot. Those are paper thin and even the hull front is only 60mm thick if you hit it flat. 60mm thick shouldn't be all that hard to pen.

Heck you don't even need to pen it directly to kill it. The turret front is full of shot traps. A Ho-Ni bounced a shot off my turret front down into my roof armour and killed my whole crew.

It's easy to pen if you know where to aim. You don't know what you're doing mate.

Originally posted by Zalzany:

Only weakspot I know on front is that flat bit of armor near driver

The turret ring is a weakspot from any side.

I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ know where I'm aiming with it I tried the british 40/45mm AP shell in less than 10 metres and it says "not penetrated" the japanese HEAT and APHE which pens around 60/80mm deep in close range which rarely takes out the loader or the driver by aiming the front hatch. All I can do was take out one by one each crew which is risky because his teammate will probably take me out before he runs out of crew. Second of all the front hull is sloped so it will decrease the chance of pen drastically. And I'm playing in RB so i'm not quiet sure enough if I'm ever gonna hit that 2cm of thin armor between 2 plates of thick armor.

[Chungus Khan]

I fought one with my KV-1 earlier and had a blast. We were just two big bricks throwing water balloons at each other for five minutes until my buddy managed to get a flank shot on him. Advice? Get someone to distract him, then drop a few rounds into his booty while he isn't looking.

[RetroRun]

Wait till you get to face the B1 Ter

[GoreTiger]

Early tier french tanks litterly made me hate everything about my life.

[Mocha]

Originally posted by KrayToast:

Early tier french tanks litterly made me hate everything about my life.

Why? They cant hurt you and you can obliterate them

[I II II I_]

The best thing you can do is flank it. It is easier to pen from the side and its gun is pretty bad so flanking it should be that hard.

[Lain]

Originally posted by Nieumarły kotek:

Originally posted by KrayToast:

Early tier french tanks litterly made me hate everything about my life.

Why? They cant hurt you and you can obliterate them

Oh yes they can. Panzer IIs obliterate your armor, while giving 0 ♥♥♥♥♥ if you hit them. Same goes for M3 Stuarts, BT-7s, T-26s, practically anything that's not Japanese or French. The French deserve a good tank for its tier like the B1, it's sort of like an apology for the ♥♥♥♥ that is tier 1.

[GoreTiger]

Originally posted by Nieumarły kotek:

Originally posted by KrayToast:

Early tier french tanks litterly made me hate everything about my life.

Why? They cant hurt you and you can obliterate them

I meant playing as them.

[GoreTiger]

Originally posted by Rootin Tootin Putin:

Originally posted by Nieumarły kotek:

Why? They cant hurt you and you can obliterate them

Oh yes they can. Panzer IIs obliterate your armor, while giving 0 ♥♥♥♥♥ if you hit them. Same goes for M3 Stuarts, BT-7s, T-26s, practically anything that's not Japanese or French. The French deserve a good tank for its tier like the B1, it's sort of like an apology for the ♥♥♥♥ that is tier 1.

+1

Early war french tanks are a massive chore to get through. Nations like Germany and USA had fun low tier tanks but France is just terrible.

[Mocha]

I pretty much GE'd all the way to the B1 and then sobbed my way through the B1 until i got the M4A1, then things finally actually became good.

[Illusionyary]

Originally posted by Spacekiller:

Wait till you get to face the B1 Ter

Haha yeah, the B1 ter is ridiculous at 2.3 BR.

[Colonel Jason]

Originally posted by Rootin Tootin Putin:

Originally posted by Nieumarły kotek:

Why? They cant hurt you and you can obliterate them

Oh yes they can. Panzer IIs obliterate your armor, while giving 0 ♥♥♥♥♥ if you hit them. Same goes for M3 Stuarts, BT-7s, T-26s, practically anything that's not Japanese or French. The French deserve a good tank for its tier like the B1, it's sort of like an apology for the ♥♥♥♥ that is tier 1.

+1