To Kill a Tiger

[Old Hog]

Have you ever gone up against a KingTiger? Thoese things are F U C K I N G imortal. I had 3 M12s barage it simultaniously, barely scrathched it. Unloaded 3 whole artlarty units full of HE rounds. Dont get me started on HE instead of AP, nothing is getting through that frontal armor. My teamate lobbed at least 12 AT grenades, no effect.
It was like that sceen from war of the worlds where all of the soldiers firepower is concintratted on the martian tripod, and it barely scratches it.

Germany is op late game. If you hear that armor rumbling at their spawn, might as well quit, its impossible to kill a KingTiger.

Is there any suggestions on how to takle these beasts?

[QUANTUM MECHANICS c000021a]

Aim the AT grenade to engine area. Dont shoot to frontal armor its useless, try to disable the turret and then the hull.

[wraith_unleashed]

try to get behind the tiger there are diffrent tactic's to accomplish this. my favorite is to sacrifice 1 or 2 unit's with good armor and while they are getting shot at place another unit with good fire power (AT) behind the tiger. works great

[vOid ✠]

First, pls learn game fundamentals... throwing an AT grenade at 150+mm sloped armour is totally useless. So is Bazooka, and quite most of the time so is Panzerschreck- / faust even with 150/200mm penetration.
An AT Grenade isn't so "anti-tank" i.e. penetrating, it's nothing more than a little bomb, the german M24x5 means a standard "potato masher" bundled in five. So it's just 5 handgrenades against a tank. There are some (like the one with a little parachute, it was thrown above the tank and landed on the weak top side) which can be considered more anti-tank.
To kill a tank usually you have to use hollow charges.

A Kingtiger in veteran's hands can't be killed. Like in RL, just by a lucky artillery hit, air attack or failure.

So either try to detrack it, and then use a radio operator. If he isn't in range of the radio op, just keep shelling it with artillery so the repair crew gets killed. It hasn't to be dead, you have just to deny its ability to fight.

Try a decoy, and then flank it with 3,7" f.e. Try to understand his tactic, is he a cautious player or will he move with the KT without inf over a steep hill. As already mentioned the turret's sides are just 50mm, so they can be penetrated even at long range. A disabled KT without guard is dead.

Don't try to go head to head, usually you lose. It was the best tank in terms of firepower and armour.

[Simers]

yet another newbie playing in a high resource game vs germany.... stick with competitive default settings until you are able to fully understand the game. As mentioned above, don't ever buy 3 m12's - that's just not smart.

[Sunbeam]

idk why people complain about german tanks... http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/546393011953075724/06F49360C8E412570D2CAF210B0B4FD28D575332/

King Tiger is really slow and expensive, throw grenades to the engine or just burn it in fire with flamethrower
Also side armor is only 80 it's like killing Matilda that have 70

[Simers]

Originally posted by Sunbeam:

idk why people complain about german tanks... http://cloud-4.steamusercontent.com/ugc/546393011953075724/06F49360C8E412570D2CAF210B0B4FD28D575332/

King Tiger is really slow and expensive, throw grenades to the engine or just burn it in fire with flamethrower
Also side armor is only 80 it's like killing Matilda that have 70

yes you can kill KT with side shot not a problem within decent range - the only game I have ever gotten a KT (only because 1 teammate left - bc he lost his point- yet seconds later I got it back) - I had KT + pz4H vs 2 IS2's and a KV2, I took out one IS and KV2 but the other IS2 1 shotted me from the side, hull destroyed.

* note - the other teammate (3v3) I was with apparently went afk 10 mins into the match, as he didn't protect flank and did not purchase any vehicle the whole match nor responded to chat. *

[Quetzalcoatl]

Originally posted by simers:

yet another newbie playing in a high resource game vs germany.... stick with competitive default settings

This. Stick to normal ressources and competitive units. People who play Germany on high ressource settings are simply luring you into a trap, avoid it.

[terve886]

Originally posted by Quetzalcoatl:

Originally posted by simers:

yet another newbie playing in a high resource game vs germany.... stick with competitive default settings

This. Stick to normal ressources and competitive units. People who play Germany on high ressource settings are simply luring you into a trap, avoid it.

I once won a 50K resource game against Germany.
It was a 3 vs 3 and I was playing in Commonwealth.
I spammed alot of AT units in the start of game and took out kingtigers as they aproached my AT troops. Later I got myself few landmatrresses and made wrecked really many King Tigers with a well aimed rocket barrage. Those that didn't broke were disabled from since their tracks were broken.

[Simers]

Originally posted by terve886:

Originally posted by Quetzalcoatl:

This. Stick to normal ressources and competitive units. People who play Germany on high ressource settings are simply luring you into a trap, avoid it.

I once won a 50K resource game against Germany.
It was a 3 vs 3 and I was playing in Commonwealth.
I spammed alot of AT units in the start of game and took out kingtigers as they aproached my AT troops. Later I got myself few landmatrresses and made wrecked really many King Tigers with a well aimed rocket barrage. Those that didn't broke were disabled from since their tracks were broken.

its very possible... thats not really what the statemeant means...

the comment is meant to say if you play non default settings than you should expect a non balanced game. the game is balanced around default competitive settings... anything additional is out of the realm of balancing.

[Ditchy]

Originally posted by terve886:

Originally posted by Quetzalcoatl:

This. Stick to normal ressources and competitive units. People who play Germany on high ressource settings are simply luring you into a trap, avoid it.

I once won a 50K resource game against Germany.
It was a 3 vs 3 and I was playing in Commonwealth.
I spammed alot of AT units in the start of game and took out kingtigers as they aproached my AT troops. Later I got myself few landmatrresses and made wrecked really many King Tigers with a well aimed rocket barrage. Those that didn't broke were disabled from since their tracks were broken.

17 Pounders FTW! Love those AT's...used them other day and took out 2 tigers and 1 King Tiger (had to manual fire at that bad boy tho)...2 of them rage quit.

Oh and sometimes I think it can be down to bad luck if you cant kill a King Tiger in the rights spot...I had a devils bde guy behind 1 and he fired an AT and threw 1 AT grenade at the rear...was gutted as it just carried on going with next to no damage!

[terve886]

Originally posted by Simers:

Originally posted by terve886:

I once won a 50K resource game against Germany.
It was a 3 vs 3 and I was playing in Commonwealth.
I spammed alot of AT units in the start of game and took out kingtigers as they aproached my AT troops. Later I got myself few landmatrresses and made wrecked really many King Tigers with a well aimed rocket barrage. Those that didn't broke were disabled from since their tracks were broken.

its very possible... thats not really what the statemeant means...

the comment is meant to say if you play non default settings than you should expect a non balanced game. the game is balanced around default competitive settings... anything additional is out of the realm of balancing.

I wasn't saying it is balanced to play 50K MP games against Germany, I was just saying that I had fun when I was able to "avoid the trap" by outplaying the Germany.
I haven't played any over 4K resource games that have Germany in one side for really long time. I even avoid all the games that have the unit settings as "all" if there is Germany as one of the playable teams.

[Mad_House]

Ok. Here's a solution:

1. Direct control.

2. Equip Dynamite.

3. Send your soldier running at the back of the tank.


Enjoy results.

[Quetzalcoatl]

New players (which are numerous lately) are unlikely to know how to deal with such a big threat. They don't know the units and the interaction between them well enough to disable a King Tiger. It requires a fair amount of game knowledge to deal with that situation. Such games create problems that are very difficult to solve for new players and they are often created by fairly experienced players hence I think they are "traps".

Even if there are ways to win such a game I don't think they are any fun for new players and instead of teaching them how to play unbalanced messy games I would rather just recommend them to play on normal settings.

[Old Hog]

Originally posted by Surlaw:

Ok. Here's a solution:

1. Direct control.

2. Equip Dynamite.

3. Send your soldier running at the back of the tank.


Enjoy results.

1. Direct control
2. Equip Dynamite that has a 8 second timer
3. Send your soldier running at the back of the tank to be gunned down by the infantry and/or light armor support
4. Cry when the KingTiger drives away from the dynamite before it dentonamtes

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[Mad_House]

Originally posted by Commander Rourke:

Originally posted by Surlaw:

Ok. Here's a solution:

1. Direct control.

2. Equip Dynamite.

3. Send your soldier running at the back of the tank.


Enjoy results.

1. Direct control
2. Equip Dynamite that has a 8 second timer
3. Send your soldier running at the back of the tank to be gunned down by the infantry and/or light armor support
4. Cry when the KingTiger drives away from the dynamite before it dentonamtes

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