Why are Shermans so slow?

[Coucheese]

Almost half the team is in the cap before I can even get close. Tigers are moving faster than this hunk of junk. Why do people say these are good again?

[Pec]

Stabiliser + respectable gun + good armour is quite a nice combo

[Druark]

You have a stock vehicle, upgraded vehicles will often be faster than stock.

[Lord Maximus]

Also the M4 in real life was no speed demon.

[CaptainSpacetime]

why does a sherman move at the speed that it does move at, a question for the ages

[FireFromBehind]

The diffrence between stock and spaded Shermans is just absurd. Stock one will be slower then most heavyes while spaded one will be flying. It isnt the top speed that sucks, rather the acceleration

[Pozieres]

ameriboo

[Charmander787]

play the tigers then

[♠Gamer3106♠]

Problem with shermans is that they have incredibly low acceleration and taking one slight turn reduces your speed by, like, 70%

The only shermans that I haven't had this problem with were the M4A3s thanks to bigger tracks, unfortunately the E8 is overtiered tho.

Anyway, M4A3 75 when, gaijin?

[D3M0]

The acceleration of the Shermans are really awful. When you get the M4A3 though, like hot jesus it feels so good to drive. Stock M4A3 felt faster than a spaded M4A2, like wtf.

[Coucheese]

Originally posted by ANG81ofh1s_Mercy:

Originally posted by GB:

Stabiliser + respectable gun + good armour is quite a nice combo

good armor on shermans on 5.0 against tigers , panthers , 85 and 122 mm soviet is a nice joke mate!

I understand that at one point they were busted. Almost any time I'm engaging an enemy they're moving faster than me and I'm already stopped. What use is the stabilizers if I'm basically crawling around anyways? I'm not using the Jumbo and don't plan to but holy crap is this a grind.

[Your_White_Knight]

Originally posted by Coucheese:

Why are Shermans so slow?

Almost half the team is in the cap before I can even get close. Tigers are moving faster than this hunk of junk. Why do people say these are good again?

Because not all tanks drive at the same speed.

[Root]

What you need to do is modify the engine by our mechanical genius here, Moriaty. Right?

These engines are the fastest in any tanks in the European Theater of Operations, forwards or backwards. You see, man, we like to feel we can get out of trouble, quicker than we got into it.

You can also get other secret weapons.

[Swag Messiah]

Originally posted by Coucheese:

Almost half the team is in the cap before I can even get close. Tigers are moving faster than this hunk of junk. Why do people say these are good again?

"It's not a fast tank why is it good?"

Trolly front armor, decent round for later shermans, 50 cals, stabilizer.

[Tehone]

play heavy then u will see how fast the sherman is

[Coucheese]

Originally posted by Quirked Up White Boy Goated With:

Originally posted by Coucheese:

Almost half the team is in the cap before I can even get close. Tigers are moving faster than this hunk of junk. Why do people say these are good again?

"It's not a fast tank why is it good?"

Trolly front armor, decent round for later shermans, 50 cals, stabilizer.

I keep seeing this as if it's supposed to mean anything for shermans before tier IV. I'm getting up tiered and I'm not even using the jumbo so armor BEFORE the jumbo isn't an argument since that's one tank out of a whole tree. Also you can't honestly think that stabilizers are the matchmaker when most engagements are you just waiting since it's a support tank.