German Tank destroyer paper front?

[Saftig]

I get permanently one shot trough my frontal armor wth?

[Egro]

that normal, almost all of the German tank have paper armour.

[Tankfriend]

Which tank destroyer against which enemies? What distance? Did you angle yourself or not?
Too many unknown variables here to really say anything.
All I can say from personal experience is that as long as you're not fighting stuff out of your league, you keep your distance, and you try to angle your tank as much as possible, you can actually take a lot of punishment sometimes.

[Der Lachende Mann]

If it's a StuG I'd say they shoot you through the driver's viewport, pretty much instant death.

If it's a Marder, well, then it actually is paper armor, more or less.

As to angling, can't really do much here with german tank destroyers (or soviet, at that)

[Tankfriend]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Tomwyr:

As to angling, can't really do much here with german tank destroyers (or soviet, at that)

Well, I feel differently about it. It's nowhere near turreted tanks for obvious reasons, but you can work out a surprising amount of extra angle if you exploit your gun traverse to its fullest. And every single bit of extra protection can mean the difference between surviving, or getting killed, especially at longer ranges. It also makes it more difficult for an opponent to actually hit you in your weakspots, because you're not presenting them as clear a target profile as you usually do if you face them frontally.
Besides, there's no reason not to exploit this potential, unless you are either tracking a moving target, or have to cover multiple approaches to your position at the same time.

[[501st]Mr.Fox]

Easy, you're playing as Germany and the devs. are Russian. There's your reason why the armor is basically useless. Same goes german and soviet planes.

[Cathulhu]

StuGs are easy kills, just aim for the drivers viewport and you have a high chance to kill the driver, blow up the ammo or setting it the StuG on fire.

[panzertek CS-BL.com]

German TD are not very good, the only decent ones are the Stug A and F, after that the armor doesn't improve enough to fight in its br, for instance the Hetzer can and will se Tigers and IS-1, perhaps only later with the super TDs it might get better, but even a few forumers posted how the Jagdtiger can be easily pen.TDs are not good in this game and only a handful is useful, the russians have some good ones but the SU-122, SU-76 ( being open sucks) an zis-57 ( a pain to drive and aim) leaves a lot to be desired, also later mediums and heavies get stronger to overshadow the TDs.