Worst Shell In The Game

[OtherACTION]

What is the worst shell in the game that is utterly useless in your opinion.

[OtherACTION]

HE-TF* - High-Explosive with Time Fuze (self-destroying)

You have to set the fuse before shooting for it to detonate but because they are ideally used against aircraft, the shell never hits because it explodes with the set distance from rangefinder, so it will always explode further away than the plane that the distance was set for.

In the end, it would be better to use a normal shell against aircraft since you don't waste time trying to adjust the distance for the shell every second when you could use that time shooting and adjusting your angle.

[GIJoe597]

I have seen people use that against soft top tanks. When they range you, then set it to explode above you, it can kill. Does not require a clear shot as you can shoot from behind cover and still get a kill. Or hit a tank in cover/behind something.

[Chaoslink]

Either the one mentioned above, or those APCR shells on the low tier French tanks that have like 20mm of pen.

Though an honorable mention goes to the rockets on that Russian low tier rocket tank. Them things can only kill open tops and the platform they're on doesn't do that very well.

[Akagi]

Those shrapnel shells on some earlier russian tanks like the T-28 or KV-1. I've honestly never seen anyone use that thing (even ironically).

For planes practice shells in some british stock belts. Those things shouldn't even belong on the battlefield

[Raider]

HESH.

worse than HEAT-FS in every aspect, maybe besides against soft targets.

[Pec]

Originally posted by -󠁳⁧⁧♥♥♥:

HESH.

worse than HEAT-FS in every aspect, maybe besides against soft targets.

Hesh is fun with a laser rangefinder since you can get the roofs of enemys behind hills

[Suthirak_D42]

Originally posted by GIJoe597:

I have seen people use that against soft top tanks. When they range you, then set it to explode above you, it can kill. Does not require a clear shot as you can shoot from behind cover and still get a kill. Or hit a tank in cover/behind something.

You mean HE-VT?

HE-VT will explode when it close to object(tank, plane both teammate and enemy).

HE-TF have to set range and it will explode at that range or when hit. If you miss it, it will not explode over enemy roof.

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by Suthirak_D42:

Originally posted by GIJoe597:

I have seen people use that against soft top tanks. When they range you, then set it to explode above you, it can kill. Does not require a clear shot as you can shoot from behind cover and still get a kill. Or hit a tank in cover/behind something.

You mean HE-VT?

HE-VT will explode when it close to object(tank, plane both teammate and enemy).

HE-TF have to set range and it will explode at that range or when hit. If you miss it, it will not explode over enemy roof.

Right, but if you can set the range to say 450 when the target is roughly at 440 behind cover, you can kill open tops with the overpressure mechanic simply by having the shell go off nearby.

Niche, but it is a viable use of the HE-TF.

[Canadian Guitar]

Shrapnel rounds

[Eftwyrd]

This is going to vary heavily by mode because the HE-TF shells loaded into my cruisers secondary/tertiary batteries are fantastic to have because I don’t have to handle the micromanagement

[karabaş 🐕‍🦺]

HESH i still dont know how they work properly or i know but game doesnt still cant figure which one

[zerox]

Originally posted by yee yee a$$ kat:

HESH i still dont know how they work properly or i know but game doesnt still cant figure which one

A HESH round is basically a weaponized soft headed shaped charge. It goes "splat" against the hull of the vehicle, and then detonates, setting off a shockwave that travels through the vehicle and causing internal spalling. It was designed to, in essence, look at every Soviet tank and go "I don't care how thick and curved/slanted/sloped your armor is. I'm going to turn the inside of your crew compartment into something out of Event Horizon."

It's not just War Thunder, WOT also can't get it to model correctly. Gaijin just has no interest in making it work properly because that would negatively affect their bottom line, since more people fight tanks that use HESH than buy tanks that use HESH.

[karabaş 🐕‍🦺]

then i know how it works... i remember shooting T-44s UFP from 10 meters away and somehow i only took out his barrel

on the other hand WoT uses HESH as high penetrating high explosives they dont care how it works IRL they bend them for their own purposes

[SpiralRazor]

In this game, APCR

[TheTrashMan]

It is the APHE for the old reserve French AMC tank, not only does it have less pen than a 50. cal machine gun but it takes 9 seconds to reload and you don't have any other option. Some of the ♥♥♥ tanks at 1.0 get an even worse shell but they actually have an alternative. Otherwise it is any HE round on any map full of bushes or trees.