Can anyone defend the 90/53 M41M?

[YaBoiBeanz]

I took it out once and immediately discarded it as trash. Just wanted to see if I was missing anything about it.

Alternatively, are there any other vehicles you took out once and then scrapped it?

[Mirage]

Yeah, it's fantastic, 150mm of pen at 3.7 with a lot of filler means you one shot everything, just have to make your shot counts, don't push ahead of your team and ideally stay near a capture zone for ammo.

[DeepSpace]

that thing is more devastating than modern ammo if it penetrates. They should make small amounts of ammo like they used to.

[Chaoslord 87]

It´s fantastic for mid and long range fights and it´s low profile makes it hard to spot and hit at a bigger distance.

As Mirage already mentioned, stay near a cap and snipe and support your team from the distance.
When fighting on urban maps or close range in general, drive backwards with your gun pointing out of cover. Since half of your crew sits in the hull front, you can always retreat if the gun crew got killed.

[Panzer]

I love that little TD, the gun and ammo at its BR are fantastic. The only complaint i really had about it when i used it was the low ammo capacity (8 rounds i think?) but given the gun and ammo it has at the BR it's at, unless you whiff you're almost guaranteed to 1 shot anything you shoot so you essentially can get 8 kills with it.

Maybe give it a bit more time before you write it off, it's honestly a very decent TD.

[Lucky_Star_Fan]

It has an amazing gun. Also despite appearances it can survive several shots at times as you have two crew in the hull and the angled hull can bounce shells. I'll be honest, with 8 shells that good you should easily average 4 kills(assuming you live long enough to fire them all).

[YaBoiBeanz]

So I gave it another try at y'alls recommendation, even using some of the tactics mentioned but I stand by my original assessment. It has way too many flaws and very little good going for it.

Originally posted by Mirage:

Yeah, it's fantastic, 150mm of pen at 3.7 with a lot of filler means you one shot everything, just have to make your shot counts, don't push ahead of your team and ideally stay near a capture zone for ammo.

Is the 150mm of pen in the room with us now? I have yet to hit a OHKO with it despite the stated pen. Pretty much the only gun of this size I struggle to do that with. I even just cheeked a KV-1 (L-11) to no effect.

Originally posted by Chaoslord 87:

When fighting on urban maps or close range in general, drive backwards with your gun pointing out of cover. .

Solid tip but limited horizontal traverse means you are still backing out at a steep angle. I could seeing getting tracked or "squash headed".

Originally posted by Panzer:

Only 8 rounds is a major draw back, especially given that it is suppose to be a sniper. So you have to be a sniper... that stays close to a cap point... essentially defeating the purpose of being a sniper. Most battle positions close to caps are too close to be "sniping positions" but still too far for your little 38 km/h engine to get you there effectively. Add to all of that only -5 depression?!

Like I'm glad y'all can enjoy it, and thank you for giving me insight into it, but I still see very little value in it. Here's to one last try in it before I completely write it off.

[hellbilly]

I take it out when im playing with the squadron and mostly just stay with them and play the support role, usually when people like a certain vehicle or not it depends on their play style, some like to stay back off the front lines and pick off the enemies at a distance, some like to rush in and brawl and others like to play support, most vehicles wont play well outside of what they're intended for, i catch myself doing this a lot and once i correct my game play i notice a huge difference in my survival, kills and just all around success in the match.. one of my favorite vehicle is at 2.3 the ZIS-30 i can run out there hurry up and get to a nice flanking spot and drop 4 to 5 enemies only downfall is it has no armor its open top, machine guns can take it out, but i play it well because i keep it mobile and constantly flank get a kill, flank again but because it is easy to kill you dont see that many people playing it the M41M probably just is not your vehicle, i feel the same for BMPs i just cant get with it in those.. lol