Interesting stuff from WOT

[Warhawks97]

I found this page which is pretty cool. Its from WOT and everybody can keep it for himself whether he finds it a usefull source or not. But the guys behind WOT have made some researches about tanks. The yt channel from the Chieftains Hatch belongs to WOT.

The cool thing about it that you can check all tanks armor. Their armor plate thickess as well as their effective armor.
http://wotinspector.com/en/webapp?targe ... latform=pc


But you can also pit any tank against any other tank and calculate chances to penetrate depending on angle and distance. Pretty cool stuff.
http://wotinspector.com/en/webapp?targe ... 7444,18202

But it also shows how difficult Panther armor is to balance:
http://wotinspector.com/en/webapp?targe ... ,2340,4394

From close up range the 76 gun would pen with a 40-60% chance. Thats roughly the ammount we are suggesting in in the Panther topic which is quite funny.

But when zooming out to 500 meters, the chances to pen drops to lke 1% according to this source. So current Panther armor is too strong when being shot from close up range, but even too weak when being fired from a distance. In Bk, we sadly cant set values indpendently for every distance against any target. The range modifiers on the gun will always be the same.

But the same is true for churchills. Close up shots would with panther would have a higher chance to pen the MK VII, but ranged shots would have even less.
Its also quite impressive to see what kind of armored beast the Jumbo sherman actually was, even against heavy guns. The Pershing actually as well.

In any way, i had some fun with toying arround with it. Quite impressive and might help to shorten future debates about what armor which tank deserves.


But hands down, the Pershing had the much better armor when it comes to protection against medium tank guns. In BK its the other way arround and people still want the armor to stay as is while the pershing while having worse armor in BK does not gain such an attention.

Also, in any engament between Panthers/Tigers and Pershings, the Pershing should have the upper hand. That way Pershings would finally become a hard counter to these tanks.

[Wake]

Wow, very interesting to see that the Sherman Jumbo is almost invulnerable to a Panzer IV from the front, and the Jumbo's armor is also reasonably effective against 88mm guns at long range.

[Warhawks97]

Wow, very interesting to see that the Sherman Jumbo is almost invulnerable to a Panzer IV from the front, and the Jumbo's armor is also reasonably effective against 88mm guns at long range.

yeah. But make sure to have the tanks using the right weapon. Like when you pick pz IV, it will have a 105 mm howitzer. And Panthers will have the L/100 with "schmwalturm". So make sure right turret and guns are equiped on the units (for the attacking tank and defending ofc).


Also:

This Jumbo of 743rd Tank Battalion was knocked out on 22nd November 1944 near Lohn, Germany. It was hit by four 88 mm rounds from an anti-tank gun 800 yds (730 m) away. One bounced off the glacis plate and two off the manlet before the fourth actually penetrated through the gunners telescope opening (chalked ‘9’ by Divisional Intelligence staff).

https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/US/m ... sault-tank