Can't kill Russian Heavy Tank - What am I doing wrong here?

[Skeleton]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-tMrxcOv6o

[Mr.Kill]

I mean it died at the end of the video. Issue is that it didn't drive close enough to the AT guns to be taken out and most of the shots were either going to be glancing hits or front armor. Ideally you'd like a perpendicular shot to the side or a direct shot to the rear. That or get a higher caliber AT gun. I believe some irregular groups in skirmish get a big flak gun that completely owns everything it can shoot at.

[Ch53dVet]

That looks like the German Skirmish map for Kharkov. It depends on what doctrine you've chosen and what other CP's you've captured prior to encroaching that side of the map.

The Offensive and Irregular Doctrines give you the Nebelwerfers that I like to have on hand before encountering heavy tanks, those rocket launchers will suck the life out of those heavy tank crews, thus, giving you a better edge on capturing them for your own use. The 88 mm Flak cannons, that are available in 3 of the 4 Doctrines will cut them to shreds too, 2 Doctrines give you the Tiger Tank but, you wont get anywhere near the cp point that gives them to you until you own 90% of the map as that cp is deep in the enemies rear area.
That cp that the tank came from will give you bomber AC that will knock out the heaviest tanks the AI will throw at you.

[Skeleton]

Thanks for the advice :)

[Andy Mil]

u not do anything wrong. it just Kv is that thiccc soo load Panzer 3 late series with APCR then try go for it manlet or turret
grab panzer 4 if u can

[mr zensky]

As other users have already said, the Soviet KV tanks are basically indestructible without heavy AT guns or close range shots with medium-heavy tanks. They're a nightmare to deal with.

[Name]

i take it you haven't played war thunder and understand how armor angling works. in that situation, get head on angle with tank guns or if that's not possible use HEAT. lastly, howitzers have a decent pen APHE round - provided you can get within suitable range to account for the range velocity drop off and attack angle it'll work.

[Metal Izanagi]

Oh, a KV-1E. Yeah, the Nazis were similarly frustrated at how heavy the armor on those things is when they dealt with them irl. Gotta get a close, direct hit to a flat surface if possible. Angled shots will just ping off that big chungus.

[kampfer91]

It Kharkov , all Special Strike CP will give you access to bomber and Tiger and is easier to take compare to Heavy tank and heavy arty CP.

That KV1 is at the perfect angle though . But you can try disabling the turret and the gun instead . Marder 3 7.5 is suffice for the task

[Eagletanker]

Get the flammewerfer

No seriously! Flamers are the best AT units in this game, so dc em and toast any tank that comes your way, whether it be Finnish, Nazi, Soviet, or US. Regardless of the armor present, 2-3 seconds aiming at the rear will set it on fire and thus destroy it and kill all the crew.

[dibil]

1. its a KV tank it has like 75-100mm frontal armor and like 60mm side armor minimum.
2. the angle is suboptimal for you, try shooting directly at the front or directly at the side without an angle
3. dont rely on arty to kill tanks, only a direct hit from 15cm HE might kill it but accuracy is awful, just dont use arty agains tanks unless its like a 300mm arty and even then you have to get lucky with your accuracy
4. panzer 3 long 50mm or the 50mm pak38 just isnt going to cut it against KVs most of the time, hell i mean they will even struggle against well angled t34s. i honestly never bother with the german long 50mm guns, because the only soviet tanks they can reliably kill (light ones) can be just as easily killed by the 37mm pak
5. you even had a marder in the video, its pak40 is more than sufficient to kill the KV if you shoot directly from the front without an angle, aim for the lower plate, or just hit it directly from the side

[Urk_da_WAAAGH!]

Originally posted by who??? cares:

1. its a KV tank it has like 75-100mm frontal armor and like 60mm side armor minimum.
2. the angle is suboptimal for you, try shooting directly at the front or directly at the side without an angle
3. dont rely on arty to kill tanks, only a direct hit from 15cm HE might kill it but accuracy is awful, just dont use arty agains tanks unless its like a 300mm arty and even then you have to get lucky with your accuracy
4. panzer 3 long 50mm or the 50mm pak38 just isnt going to cut it against KVs most of the time, hell i mean they will even struggle against well angled t34s. i honestly never bother with the german long 50mm guns, because the only soviet tanks they can reliably kill (light ones) can be just as easily killed by the 37mm pak
5. you even had a marder in the video, its pak40 is more than sufficient to kill the KV if you shoot directly from the front without an angle, aim for the lower plate, or just hit it directly from the side

Artillery is usually enough to disable it so a infantry can approach and finish the job

[kampfer91]

50mm APCR can penetrate the driver view port on the front too .

[John_Reznov]

Originally posted by Tenko:

This exact thing actually happened IRL where a single KV1 defended a whole town against a cordinated attack, where the crew of the KV1 basically just hid inside of it unable to do anything, and the germans unable to kill it (aka set it on fire) were repelled.

Armor angle, Shooting the sides/turret. Even shooting the main gun helps.

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