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Sounds like maybe you need to try and stay at longer range? And keep a green or two nearby that can help if you get rushed. it works on my TD (only tiers I-IV). A lot of players think glass cannons are no longer viable.
If you are an awful player then maybe you just need to improve your basic skill sets on other glass cannons at lower tiers. It seems a common complaint, but you will encounter skilled players way more often as you go to the higher tiers. Players who know how to deal with your tank, so maybe ask in chat someone who has this tank.
There is an old thread (2015) on the official forums that might give a few useful hints. Search for How do you play the T49?
I've not played anything in tier V, but I spent a lot of time at tier I/II to improve my skills. Have you rushed up the tiers too quickly. After nearly 3k battles I'm moving up to tier III, although I do have 446 battles at tier IV that is a whole other story.
I know you say you don't want to be told 'play better' or L2Derp' but a lot is down to the skill of the player and those skills need to be honed so they become instinctive. I only have <3k battles so sorry if you are more experienced than I am. Just trying to be helpful. I doubt there is a magic button that will solve your problem. I struggle with most new tanks and it's trial and error before they click for me.
Are you experienced in other TD? I like to get at least 40-50 battles in a tank before I feel I understand it.
i think i know why.
from what i see, T49 is very similar to RU 251 tank in terms of overall.
both tanks their armor is very weak, high speed, good guns.
so if you need advice, ask those who uses ru 251 tanks on how to use T49 tank.
i went to see their stats and compare their guns, both tanks are on par with each other in terms of overall.
the only advice i can give is this one
1) either stay back and snipe the enemy by aiming at spots not colored red or run around them and shoot at same time.
i recommend you aim their flanks or rear.
But yeah if you have speed then hit and run and being an harraser works pretty well.
I just drop back to a lower tier (currently II but looking at tier III)
Starting with light is good, just be aware that some lights are more like heavies, so maybe look at fast lights with speed and light armour. Cruiser III is a good tank at tier II. Puts out a lot of damage but fast with hardly any armour. So you have to keep mobile. I even switch flanks in that one.
Anyway good luck on the battlefield, and keep asking questions.
I haven't got this tank but looking at it in the US Tech Tree. its got paper thin armour a max of 25mm hull front and sides 19 mm rear and 25 mm all round turret. It's also got an insane max speed of 72KPH. Given that in the Tech Tree its Tier 8 I looked in Tankopedia to see it's history/development and guess what? I can't find it listed!
Still with 72 KPH get ready for take off because with that armour you dont want to hang around too long.
Comparing T49 to Ru251 is a mystake. both tanks are lights, but that's all !!!! Ru is much more maniable than T49 ! You can use Ru to spot and even go first line because it has a great gun, with a good reload time, so you can turn around heabys or tank destroyers easily if they have no cover. On the other hand, T49 (with Derp gun) has 15 sec to reload!!! So you just can't play it like the Ru ! T49 is excellent as a 'pick & boom' tank, because it has a huge amount of alpha with Derp Gun, so you stay in 2nd or 3rd line, and help the meds by doing big damages, but stay in cover to reload !!! you need to move to stay safe and to continue to put damages. T49 is not a rucher.... Ru performs much better if you choose to rush or even spot. Those tanks are completely different and they need to be played differently. I got both ;o)
Nobody will tell you to play T49 like a Ru or it's a big noob... T49 is funny coz of the huge amount of dmg, it is like a SU152 or KV2 in a light. The key is to look at the map to see where your teammates are and to help them providing huge amount of dmg ;o)
As all the lights, it has some better camo values so don't forget to reset your camo ;o)
Moreover, don't count on bouncing shots with T49, if you manage to bounce you are very lucky !! It is not the T54ltwt ;o) When T49 spotted, run to cover coz all the guys will try to kill you, it is the game you can do too much dmg ;o)
I like to play both tanks, but I have to say, T49 costs much more credits (coz of HEATS ammo) and 9/10 games i am loosing credits with it.
Also I tend to believe that T49 would be absolutely smashing as a sniper tank too. If you get some very good camouflage it can be used to potshot other tanks from a reasonable distance or even from behind the cover as well.
However, like any models, you can adapt the tank to your own playstyle. But to be effective, you have to have a profound understanding of what a certain model can or can not do for sure. Because the T49 is very vulnerable you wouldn't want to play it when 4-5 tanks are going to converge upon you because you aren't going to survive that by any means. I hope that as I grow my roster I can play around with it more however.
A little tip (if it can help you), sometimes to perform with a tank, you need to play it another way, I mean don't play a Tank Destroyer like a Tankd Destroyer, a Heavy like a Heavy:
in exemple, FERDINAND is a great Tank Destroyer (big armor, good gun, no turret, slow...). You can play it staying behind the lines and providing fire to support Heavys or Meds that are in the first line, BUT don't forget Ferdi is a massive tank, that doesn't have good CAMO value. So when you have been spotted you will be targeted !!! I love to play it like a Heavy instead of playing it like a TD in 3rd line: you push to a good position where you can bounce (25/30° angle, no more) and then put some damages on the red team rushers, and when the way is clear, you continue pushing and help the heavys of your team. This way you can deal some heavy damages and maybe Master it ;o)
I also play Su122-44 like a Med as it has very good maniability, it bounces a lot when correctly angled and does massive alpha (400-450;o) for a good reloading time. Same thing for Su152, with the IS motor it has a very good maniability so you can provide to your team heavy firepower and do huge amount of damages. In my humbly opinion, it is harder to Master a TD if you play it like a TD staying behind and waiting opportunities to shoot. You need to make your own opportunities ;o)
For the T82 this is exactly the same thing: push where the lights might come, shoot, take cover to reload, then push, shoot...
Regarding T49, I play it like a 'pick & boom' I mean you choose a target that has already lost some HP and then fire to kill it. Never push, this is not the same thing as T54ltwt or even Ru251, T49 has less maniability values, and very good camo value, so think about it ;o)
he(TheGrimReaper) is wrong though somewhat.
because of one thing
1) he is talking about T49's gun 152 mm gun-launcher XM81(conventional).
that gun's reload of course will be 15 secs.
T49's gun 90 mm Gun T132E4 reload speed is almost the same with RU 251's gun 90 mm rheinmetll DM1
though RU251 can use its HE ammo more than its AP ammo compare to T49's 90mm gun T132E4
but if you ask me, i have to agree that T49 is better to be used as a sniper..........like Rhm-B.WT tank.
- Ru has much much better maniability, better speed, better acceleration... It is easy to turn around a Heavy or a TD with the Ru because of the maniability, and the rate of fire. But it is much more difficult with T49 because the acceleration is slightly different and less powerfull. You will never be at full speed turning around.
- HE with 90mm... naaaaa ! you just have forgotten one thing: tiers 8 have strong armors, HE 80% of the time will do no damages or eventually 200 alphas one time on 5, and forget HE against tiers 9 or 10. Armors will just absorb HE ;o) With the less penetration values of the 90mm gun, compared to the 152mm it is just useless, I mean HE can't be as efficient as they are with the 152mm gun. You just can not take advantage during the game with 1 90mm HE compared to 1 152mm HE in the same situation of fire (i mean firing at the flank or rear of a tank of course). Moreover, Ru's gun has much penetration values for the same dmgs than T49's one but it can fire just 4 more shots per minute, so can do much more DPM.
For sure you will have more shots to fire during a minute, but don't forget the time when you need to go outside cover to shoot, in a light tank, 1 more second without pulling back to cover can be deadly ;o)
My opinion regarding T49, there is no true, just my opinion and how i find it funny:
I dislike to play it with another gun than 152mm because T49 is not designed to rush eventually. Ru251 and T54ltwt are much much better tanks in term of maniability and armor. T49 is a light, it has very good camo value (even if you move coz it is a light). Ru and Ltwt are funnier to drive, while T49 is funny with the big gun coz it is just another way to play a light ;o)
A last thing, by this time T49 is very hard to master 3500 dmg and 3 kills is just 3rd medal... You need at least 5k dmg and some kills ;o)
I hope you will like my feedback on this tank (even if you disagree ;o)
Have fun !