How does tank vs tank battle work?

[Igyzone]

Is the tank supposed to have same strong/weakpoints as when firing an AT weapon?
How to increase the chance that the tank shell hits and doesnt just bump off the enemy tank?

Like I tried hitting a soviet lower class tank with my german lower class tank (cant remember the name models) and it never did any damage. Then the enemy hits me and always makes it a succesful hit. But when I looked up the details about these tanks, I noticed than both of them should be hard to penetrate on front side so it doesn't make any sense why does my tank get hit on front so easily.

(and yes, I'm using AP rounds)

[twitchsopamanxx]

Tank v tank battle here is a little biased; german tanks have more accuracy, while russian tanks have better armor and better short range damage. You did do damage by the way, its just that the tanks have no health bar.

[twitchsopamanxx]

oh, and twitchtv/sopamanxx for RO2 streams

[BeZi]

Doesn't. Few years ago you could switch to RO1 with DH mod, but then 'they' started to try to turn it into sth e-sport'ish... RO1:RP is dead.
RO2 while more fillled with eye candies, offers poor tank vs tank combat (tank vs inf is fine), full of BS ricochets and similiary senseless penetrations.
You can try to aim for weakspots, but even then, sometimes tank can sink in many shells in WT-style

[Bison]

German tanks have flat armor so they are easier to pen unlike the russian tanks which have sloped armor which is hard to pen since the ap rounds usually bouce of it.

But you can always angle your tank a little wich will usually make enemy rounds bouce off of your tank.

As for the frontal weakspots of russian tanks they are the turret rings or any other flat surface. (That applies for ap shells not for AT rifles)

And for the lighter version of the german tank it really depends where the enemy hits you since the added frontal armor can stop incoming rounds but smart enemy will shoot at drivers view port or the gunners view port in turret since there is no extra armor.