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Are the U.S.A tanks any good. If not who does have the best tanks.

You mean the MMO type thing right?
If it's perfectly historic then the Germans.
Otherwise i'd say there is a balance between the various countries tanks with German ones being harder to kill and harder hitting but slower than the Allies...

That said that is a total guess.
Would be amusing to see whether i'm completly wrong or not...

U.S. Tanks tend to be underrated. The Sherman is actually pretty good once fully upgraded and it leads to the Sherman E8 and the Sherman Jumbo both of which are fairly good for their tiers. The T29 (the teir 7 US Heavy) is arguably the best in its tier. There are some bad tanks, I'm glaring at you T1. Your horrible. The M3 Lee is the crux of much of the US development line and that tank can be painful (or very easy it seems to vary by person). US Tank Destroyers up to the M36 are very fun.

This is how I look at the nations in WoT:

U.S.A.: Armor starts off light and then gets heavier into the trees. Fast firing accurate guns. A lot of flexibility in their vehicles. American tanks tend to have decent all around stats and towards the end have extremely heavy turret armor especially in the heavy tank line. US mediums are very well rounded.

Germany: Armor starts of average and remains so throughout until the very end. The Maus and E100 have the heaviest armor in the game I believe. German tanks have some of the best guns in the game imo. They accurate and powerful with decent rates of fire. A lot of late German tanks have severe draw backs, either very low speed or very poor armor. Tier V and VI German tanks are probably the best in their tiers, especially the PzIV and the VK3601.

USSR: It depends on how you go. Early Russian tanks are fast, lightly armored, and tend to be very powerfully gunned. Further into the tree they remain some of the most mobile tanks, with heavier armor. Their guns are powerful but tend to be poor in accuracy.

France: starts off with slow heavy armor vehicles and transitions into lightly armored very well gunned vehicles with good speed.

Generally thats how I see it. Vehicles are okay in balance, but the matchmaker has a tendency to screw people and some tanks are outclassed by a mile by their compatriots (the Tiger sucks compared to the US T29 and the Russian IS).

I personally think that the American SPGs (artillery) is the best in the game. There is definitely allot of "Bull S T i should have killed him" moments but other then that its a blast to play with some friends.

I'm finding that i prefer to use the Tank Destroyers and artillery the most, but i am working towards the T-29 heavy tank and the IS heavy tank.

If you feel like adding me im Tazz_Azrael in game

German TD's are some of the best, The Marder is probably the best low tier tank of all, it's got nice speed, accuracy is good and it's profile is quite low so it doesn't get hit lots.

If Im not mistaken the Marder also packs a 76mm fully upgraded (75?). Either way its a pretty beastly gun for a tier 3 tank. Higher end German TD's suffer the same draw back as US high teir TD's. Poor a gak turning. I think that in the high end the Russians have the TD department won pretty handedly.

My russian tanks get wrecked all the time by german TD and US mediums. The french tanks are just really hard to damage and they have some good guns on there too, but once you figure out where to shoot them they are in trouble.

Thanks for the help. I will do a mix of the armies. In a few days I will tell what type of tanks I got. Also my name is Kingtiger55.

Personally I love the American Mediums (finished the mediums not to long ago) Once you hit the M4 Sherman and onwards the Americans have the best medium tanks IMHO

Enjoyed the USA TDs (Almost finished the Slugger)

Disliked USA arty (recently got the M-41 which I actually enjoy, the Priest was so bad)

Hated the USSR mediums (Unlucked T-43, havnt bought it yet though)



Thats all Ive done so far

Just got the American T-29 heavy tank and holy heck that thing is destruction incarnate.

I agree on the French tanks being armored to hell, especially mid tiers. They give arty from all source issues, until they turn away from you.

Yeah they do, I hate plinking at those damn french tanks. Best way to kill them with an actualy tank is aim for the turret, I have some pretty good success hitting them there.

Just for fun I wanted to have a French tank. Should I do the heavies or the lights?

The lights

They are fething horrifying

Ok thanks

If you are afraid of success in battle then avoid the lights like the plague.... and hope that you dont get one shot

The French light/medium line is pure, unadulterated sex. From the AMX 13/75 up, you will have an absolute blast.

The US heavies are not great, with the T29 being the exception. The US heavies are plagued by poor hull armour and guns that rely on DPM, which will suffer in peekaboo fights or where the enemy has plenty of hard cover. The US mediums, however, are fantastic. I only really played the T20 and Pershing, but they are excellent little tanks. Takes a little extra work to get them to shine, but if you have the knack, they'll treat you well.

I went Russian heavy and medium first, and I love the Russian heavy line. I'm almost done the french medium line, just researched my Patton, almost done the Russian medium line, and nearly completed the Russian heavy line.

The Americans are getting two new tier 9 and 10 heavies, so we'll see how they perform.

Feel free to hit me up in game. Same name as on here.

You ever have people actively hunting you in game?
Happened to me a couple times with my T57, one guy even "called" out my name when the battle started. That guy I smoked.... apparently for the third time.

helgrenze wrote:You ever have people actively hunting you in game?
Happened to me a couple times with my T57, one guy even "called" out my name when the battle started. That guy I smoked.... apparently for the third time.

Never. Unless I load up a match with a clan member on the other team. I have had some 12-year old spaz threaten to hunt me down and kill me...for winning the match. Oh well, kids with bad parents will be kids with bad parents.

Blacksails wrote:

helgrenze wrote:You ever have people actively hunting you in game?
Happened to me a couple times with my T57, one guy even "called" out my name when the battle started. That guy I smoked.... apparently for the third time.

Never. Unless I load up a match with a clan member on the other team. I have had some 12-year old spaz threaten to hunt me down and kill me...for winning the match. Oh well, kids with bad parents will be kids with bad parents.

I love it when kids shoot their mouths off on these games. I don't normally troll people in games since i hate it when people do it to me, but when people do that my inner troll comes out from under the bridge.

well i have been playing WoT since closed beta so i have a pretty decent stock of tanks. i have played tanks from every tree except for SPGs because i don't like them.

My current garage looks something like this:

US M4, US M6, US T82, Ger VK3001P, Ger Panther, Ger Tiger(Elite), USSR T-34-85, USSR KV(Elite), USSR KV-3(Elite), USSR IS-3, USSR SU-100

Currently working on my M6 to get the T-29 so i can replace my Tiger with a Tiger II.

Nice garage you got there, Deathklaat. I can't stand playing the German tanks, so I'm mostly a Russian/American player, with some French thrown in.

I just got my Patton, and I'm a day from researching my BatChat, and a few more days from my T-54. Also two thirds done the grind to the IS-7 on my IS-4. The problem now is credits...so many credits I have to grind...

Oh well, still loving the game after nearly 3,000 battles. Joined a great little clan with some fun guys, and participate in tournaments, companies, and regular platoons. The game is a lot more enjoyable with some good guys on Teamspeak to joke with.

Back when I played I was mostly using tank destroyers. I'll have to look in to playing again at a later date.

Just got the M4A3E2 working on getting the M6. Got a stug3 15.5k away from JagdPz4. Then I got BT-2(just got), SU-85b,SU-26. Plans are to get the JagdPz4. Then work on getting the T-54.

Lets see i got : T-29, M4 Sherman, M41, T-40 (i think thats the tier4 american TD), StuGIII, AMX 40, and a SU-5

Lol. Uhm.

I think I had the first four or five german tank hunters, had some Russian artillery, and was working on my American tanks and had just gotten past the Lee.

But it's been over a year...

oh the Lee how much fun that was, and the SU-85 with the 107.

Oddly one of my favorite tanks for gameplay/credit farming is the KV with the 107mm gun. I killed a Type-59 that had 63% health left with a single shot. I guess those Chinese tanks carry lots of fireworks.

i am nearing 500 battles with my KV, some day i will have to retire it.

Deathklaat wrote:

i am nearing 500 battles with my KV, some day i will have to retire it.

One does not simply retire a KV.

I almost have an IS-7 and I still kept my derp KV for the lulz. There's no more fun to be had than loading up your derp with gold rounds and run around derping anything that crosses your reticle. Bonus points for penetrating some tier 8 tank and causing 700+ damage.

Granted, its always good to keep some tier 4 and 6 tanks for medium level tank companies.

I have to ask this, but why would you just throw away money on gold rounds?! sure i get it youl kill stuff allot easier but the ammo is a waste o money. On a side note i hated my Derp KV, but it turns out i was jsut being a tard and not using HE shells

the 107 is vastly superior to the 152, sure you can do silly damage but you only carry a handfull of rounds, you have a slow as hell reload and you accuracy is bad on a good day. i love sniping across half the map with my 107.