Complete guide to play USA Tanks

[AgentSly]

Play anyone else, even japan. just don't play USA

[Shyue Chou]

Why is that?

[Neckstabba]

US tanks are good. Skill issue if you can't defeat enemies when you have Stab's in mid tier and probably the best CAS in any tier.

[Wandering Flare]

"My 75mm cannon didn't front-pen a Tiger in the turret, tank bad" moment.

[♠Gamer3106♠]

Step 1) shoot barrel
Step 2) .50 cal tracks
Step 3) ???
Step 4) you can now freely sexually assault the tiger

[frick]

big 3 main cope because one thing didnt go his way thread

[9imperator8]

USA literally has some of the best tanks...

[Thundercracker]

Oprindeligt skrevet af alarik98:

USA literally has some of the best tanks...

depends on the BR. i've had nothing but pain from 2.0 to 4.7, so far.

though, it's gotten a bit better once i've unlocked the other shell types for the 4.0 and 4.7 in my lineup right now.

i still get ridiculously oneshot, though, but i suspect this has to do with the damage model not accounting for the actual densities of the various materials a projectile is passing through. the one that still sticks in my craw was catching a hit to the sideskirt covering my sprocket, the round passing through the sprocket, through my transmission, through my hull, and into the turret. from almost a full kilometre away.

[9imperator8]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Terrorsaur:

Oprindeligt skrevet af alarik98:

USA literally has some of the best tanks...

depends on the BR. i've had nothing but pain from 2.0 to 4.7, so far.

though, it's gotten a bit better once i've unlocked the other shell types for the 4.0 and 4.7 in my lineup right now.

i still get ridiculously oneshot, though, but i suspect this has to do with the damage model not accounting for the actual densities of the various materials a projectile is passing through. the one that still sticks in my craw was catching a hit to the sideskirt covering my sprocket, the round passing through the sprocket, through my transmission, through my hull, and into the turret. from almost a full kilometre away.

Even at those BRs USA has some great vehicles. They may not always have the best armour or overall protection. But when they lack armour, they have nice mobility. The stabilizers on Shermans are also very handy and will give you an edge in urban areas. Their guns are also quite nice as they get decent filler rounds.

[Jerroser]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Terrorsaur:

Oprindeligt skrevet af alarik98:

USA literally has some of the best tanks...

depends on the BR. i've had nothing but pain from 2.0 to 4.7, so far.

though, it's gotten a bit better once i've unlocked the other shell types for the 4.0 and 4.7 in my lineup right now.

i still get ridiculously oneshot, though, but i suspect this has to do with the damage model not accounting for the actual densities of the various materials a projectile is passing through. the one that still sticks in my craw was catching a hit to the sideskirt covering my sprocket, the round passing through the sprocket, through my transmission, through my hull, and into the turret. from almost a full kilometre away.

3.7 to 4.0 is still a fairly good spot once you've unlocked the ammo thats actually good. Then you're more or less on even terms with the other major opponents you can be matched against. But things do get more awkward again when you hit 4.7 and are very much the underdog in most engagements.

[Shortpower]

USA consistently has above 50% WR in every tier.

[Thundercracker]

Oprindeligt skrevet af alarik98:

Even at those BRs USA has some great vehicles. They may not always have the best armour or overall protection. But when they lack armour, they have nice mobility. The stabilizers on Shermans are also very handy and will give you an edge in urban areas. Their guns are also quite nice as they get decent filler rounds.

stabilizers are great and all, but they do little good when your round just cannot pen the target.

that said, and remembering that i have unlocked the good ammo, i DID get a pretty sweet kill on the move last night.

[9imperator8]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Terrorsaur:

Oprindeligt skrevet af alarik98:

Even at those BRs USA has some great vehicles. They may not always have the best armour or overall protection. But when they lack armour, they have nice mobility. The stabilizers on Shermans are also very handy and will give you an edge in urban areas. Their guns are also quite nice as they get decent filler rounds.

stabilizers are great and all, but they do little good when your round just cannot pen the target.

that said, and remembering that i have unlocked the good ammo, i DID get a pretty sweet kill on the move last night.

Penetrating stuff frontally isn't always easy, but the good mobility does make flanking easier and quite rewarding.
Of course as someone already pointed out 4.7 is a bit hard BR for USA, but that is just how the game is. Every nation has some weaker BRs and some stronger ones.

[↯Zindy⛦]

US is jack of all trades, master of none. because of this they lack generally in some way compared to other nations. US doesnt get a low br Puma, or a mid br heavy tank with a good gun like the 88 or 85mms even. Their planes, though typically well armored, arent able to utilize said armor because they get shot down easily in quick engagements provided they don't waste their time half the match climbing above their base, so they can only groundpound and die basically. The american spaa is also just trash all around compared to germany or even brits (crusader mk2), and china (pg87). At higher Br's they get into things like T34, T29, M26e1 etc which are again, hopelessly weaker than their opponents with IS-6, IS-3, IS-4M, KT, not to mention heatfs and atgm's, but you have to slog through these tanks only just to get to more trash like the M48 and m60which has only heatfs and no stabiliser, built on the slow asf (and weak hp/t ratio) patton platform.

in high tiers you get meh vehicles like mbt 70 and m3 bradley which have nice big weakspots among other things like no fire on the move ability like what bmp2 has.

US only excels in 9.0+ when they get xm-1. m901, LAV-AD, and XM8 if you have it. these are just my 2 cents.

[Mr. Hatty]

You know the Soviet meme of "If we throw enough men at them, they will eventually run out of bullets?" Yeah, that's what we did. We made things fast, numerous, and cheap.

[Ash]

Nah just keep playing and learn.