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sirtenko's avatar
sirtenko
7 years ago

Re: Tiger Tank too weak

PZIV has additional Armour on the sides and turret, Sides and front of a Tiger are Very flat, Front of a churchhill is angled while the sides take 3 shots to kill with a Faust, same as Tiger (If I hit the flat, sides directly.)

On the new map I had someone try and circle strafe my tiger with the 37mm upgraded gun, I held my gun on the left front corner of my tank and turned the tank with him. He did 20 damage to me after I managed to get 5 shots off and kill him. (It took 3. 2nd disabled, remember others have 10% Max Health repair too but I didnt use mine.)

APCR 2 shots a upgraded box tank to 99dmg To the front from a tiger.

The Greyhound thrives on getting around behind tanks. But headon always loses to Tigers.and the Tiger was just a fear factor and most allies couldnt tell the DIf between a PZIV with the 76 and a Tiger (Also the tiger has the same armour thickness as a Sherman 😉 )

The only thing I will agree on, is that the Germans need a Armored Car like the PUMA to counter the Greyhound.

5 Replies

  • Eggbrt's avatar
    Eggbrt
    7 years ago

    Maybe because of the tiger's 88mm, but in almost all war stories states that tiger's shot pierce through sherman armor like butter. I know churchil has a better angled armor design, but I shot a churchil from the side perpendicularly with apcr and only deal 25dmg, which felt like nothing as tiger is classified to be the stronger tank by how it carries less ammo like the churchill gun carrier. Churchill has the same ammo count as the Pz IV so they should be on the same level, also faster reload speed and turret turn rate. :/

  • sirtenko's avatar
    sirtenko
    7 years ago
    If you look up some Wot- Chieftan where he debunks most accounts of "Tigers" there was only less than a handful of Tiger battles on the Western Front and The'Fear' was that of the PZIV with the rifle gun which was Prevalent that could also Cut through Sherman armor like butter just like most Tanks of the time. Remember, the Sherman wasn't built for tank battles, It was built for Supporting Inf and Tank Destroyers (M10/M18) we're to be used for tank vs tank.

    The Tiger with the HEAT-T round is much more dangerous than the APCR. Shooting the turret of a Churchhill once Disables tf out of the tank in all ways.

    Only thing good about the GC is the Passenger MG. It needs the buff.
  • RobotPandaSolda's avatar
    RobotPandaSolda
    6 years ago

    This is so incorrect I had to correct you even though its an old post just so others can read it. The Tiger has much thicker armor than the Sherman. However a shell hitting a Shermans front from a perfect angle will have to penetrate almost as much armor as the Tigers flat front armor. But even so the Tiger tanks had far better Steel Quality and effectively a Tiger could not be destroyed by the Sherman cannon at all (only from the rear from very close) , the same goes for all Tank guns at the time , it wasn't possible to penetrate the Tiger armor unless using a very big shell like the Tigers own 88. Tiger tanks usually weren't destroyed in battle at all. They were abandoned by crew and blown up by them when running out of ammo and fuel. Infantry could not destroy it with something like a panzerfaust. The same goes for the Shermans front armor, a Panzerfaust wouldn't go through, but it would from the sides. If they had made the Tiger realistic only rocket tanks and planes would be able to destroy it in the game and dynamite but probably only by climbing onto the tank and putting it onto the weakest part, the roof. 

  • rozmood's avatar
    rozmood
    3 years ago

    They had to make the tiger a lot stronger and possibly more realistic and can only be obtained with score points, maybe that would look a lot better than turning the tiger into a cat

  • ElliotLH's avatar
    ElliotLH
    Hero+
    3 years ago

    Since this thread is a few years old now I'm going to close it. 

    However, as BFV no longer receives large scale updates, there aren't going to be any sweeping changes made to the game at this point.

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