How do you use the soviet AT rifle?

[Roy]

I've had this on my hands before and i emptied about 2-3 mags into the back of an enemy medium tank, the shots seemed to penentate but alas the tank was unbothered and just slowly turned around to kill me.

Is there a proper way to actually kill tanks with this thing or can you only cripple them?

[PlazaLord]

It's pretty weak, so bad the devs had to add a bazooka to the lv 8 soviet class.

You can shoot at the tracks and get the tank stuck, so a player running a satchel can get it easily. That might be its best use.

Generally unless you have multiple ATs shooting the PTRS, it won't be effective as the tank can turn around and get you before hand. Its range is useful, so if you have a shot on the tank be as far back as you can so they can't find you easily.

[Shorty]

You'll need to dump around 6 mags clean into the back of a medium tank to blow it up.

[Roy]

I guess i'll just not use them in that case lol.
Only seems useful to track enemy tanks, i took HEAVY at rifle fire last round while in a light tank and it barely scratched us.

My driver was refusing to cooperate and got us stuck on a wall, we couldn't have been in a more vulnerable position while one or two at rifles shot at us.
Didn't even kill us after sitting there for apainfully long time, a satchel did.

It's like throwing pebbles at someone until they die of a head injury.

[Nasty]

From my experience I used it once to unlock to "Cleanup down aisle 3 achievement"
(Kill a soldier using the PTRS-41), and I took my two minutos and way more than 20 rounds to blow up a stationary medium tank. I believe I was shooting at the tank from the side.

It tickled for 3 or 4 minutes before it finally blow up.

[Roy]

Originally posted by Nasty:

From my experience I used it once to unlock to "Cleanup down aisle 3 achievement"
(Kill a soldier using the PTRS-41), and I took my two minutos and way more than 20 rounds to blow up a stationary medium tank. I believe I was shooting at the tank from the side.

It tickled for 3 or 4 minutes before it finally blow up.

Yeah i think i got that as well, seems pretty uselesss for anything else because tickling tanks isn't exactly what i signed up for lol.

At least you can tickle them from a distance i guess.

[tørfisk]

https://www.theline.gg/tankbible all you need, because everyone in the forum is wrong

[Feldhobel]

This video is a great help: https://youtu.be/M0wTm1nFTm8?t=220
tl&dr:
(Needed shots in the back to destroy)
Puma: 6 shots
Luchs: 10 shots
Panzer IV: 16 hots
Tiger: 18 shots

[TWB*Clell_Miller]

Originally posted by Roy:

I've had this on my hands before and i emptied about 2-3 mags into the back of an enemy medium tank, the shots seemed to penentate but alas the tank was unbothered and just slowly turned around to kill me.

Is there a proper way to actually kill tanks with this thing or can you only cripple them?

In reality, the best use was against top armor from an elevation. How well this is modeled in the game, I have yet to see.

[Feldhobel]

Originally posted by TWB*Clell_Miller:

Originally posted by Roy:

I've had this on my hands before and i emptied about 2-3 mags into the back of an enemy medium tank, the shots seemed to penentate but alas the tank was unbothered and just slowly turned around to kill me.

Is there a proper way to actually kill tanks with this thing or can you only cripple them?

In reality, the best use was against top armor from an elevation. How well this is modeled in the game, I have yet to see.

in reality they used the AT Rifle to fight tanks like Pzkpfw II, or destroy optics and other useful parts on a tank.

[[1stA]Zap Rowsdower]

It's really good at incapacitating tanks, but not killing them. An immobilized tank usually is a dead tank sooner or later, whether due to satchels or friendly tanks.

Yes it won't kill tanks very often but as a tank main rocket AT really isn't a threat when tanking with a competant crew. AT rifles though can be terrifying. Being immobilized by a player with an AT rifle from 100+ meters away and not being able to do much about it is far more dreadful than seeing an AT running up behind, swinging the tank around and blasting them away.

[TasteDasRainbow]

You cry between each shot to remind yourself that the germans get Panzerschreck at class lvl 1

[Fetzi d. kl. T-Mine]

The Soviets had nothing else except the anti-tank rifle. Perhaps the gentleman wants to introduce so-called Soviet dog mines, i.e. dogs with explosive devices on their backs, which should crawl under tanks in suicide actions. Unfortunately, these dogs were used to Soviet tank silhouettes and rarely attacked German tanks.

[Roy]

Originally posted by Fetzi d. kl. T-Mine:

The Soviets had nothing else except the anti-tank rifle. Perhaps the gentleman wants to introduce so-called Soviet dog mines, i.e. dogs with explosive devices on their backs, which should crawl under tanks in suicide actions. Unfortunately, these dogs were used to Soviet tank silhouettes and rarely attacked German tanks.

I knew about those dogs but i didn't know they'd target friendly tanks like that lol.

Maybe the dogs knew very well what they were doing and decided to just go full jihad on the soviets for involving animals to begin with.

[Gibber1sh]

Assuming you have unlocked the full AT class (lvl 8).

At short range use a Satchel.
In most other cases use a Bazooka.

The only situation I can see where it might make sense to use the PTRS-41 "Tank Tickler" would be at:

• Long Range.
  
• With a friendly support guy (to drop you the additional ammo).
  
• When the tank is facing away from you (so you can shoot the rear).

However in this situation (with a support guy to help).
You may as well build an AT gun.

TBCH if the only load-out you have unlocked on AT is the Tank Tickler you would probably be better off letting someone else play the AT role until you have ranked up the class on Americans or Germans.

[Roy]

Originally posted by Gibber1sh:

Assuming you have unlocked the full AT class (lvl 8).

At short range use a Satchel.
In most other cases use a Bazooka.

The only situation I can see where it might make sense to use the PTRS-41 "Tank Tickler" would be at:

• Long Range.
  
• With a friendly support guy (to drop you the additional ammo).
  
• When the tank is facing away from you (so you can shoot the rear).

However in this situation (with a support guy to help).
You may as well build an AT gun.

TBCH if the only load-out you have unlocked on AT is the Tank Tickler you would probably be better off letting someone else play the AT role until you have ranked up the class on Americans or Germans.

Sadly i don't have level 8 yet, only the AT gun.
I generally prefer the AT gun over anything else too, even with the bazooka i often have trouble taking out tanks despite hitting them twice in the back.

Feels bad firing your last rocket and having to watch the tank just continue it's business, usually people are happy to help you set up an AT gun and that thing can keep going pew pew