Ekental, on Jun 15 2011 - 05:29, said:

Actually, the gun hit box does not extend the entire length of the gun. Also, uh... yeah... tracks are accurate as of last patch.



You also didn't mention the myriad # of weak armor points that stud German tanks in general,



i.e. that your transmission extends the length of the tank, and that a shot on the underside will often go straight to your engine.



Or that the machine gun port on your hull as well as the tracks themselves have 30 and 60mm of armor, respectively. Anyone aiming for those will not only pen, but often hit the driver, who I guess.. sits there.



Also, the micky mouse buds on your turret have 30mm of armor, and you take full dmg when you're struck there.



Many tanks have similar issues, it's just that the German tanks tend to be the ones most studded with... poorly armored important bits, and that means that you are more likely to be randomly crippled every hit.



Although on the flip side, many people aim for your exhaust pipes, expecting to hit the engine, when in reality that's not where it actually sits.



Anyhow, yeah.. TL;DR getting hit on German tanks is bad, would avoid if possible.



There was a game on mountain pass a few days ago where a leopard was poping rounds off at my side while I was distracted with the numerous guys in front of me. First few did damage, the one I noticed was the one that damaged my ammorack. So I waited for him to pop out again and threw an 88mm round in his face in hoped of realizing how deep under he was and would back off (took him down to about 48%). So I went back to focusing on the group in front of me and used my repair kit to fix the ammorack. A minute later with around 700 HP left I spontaneously exploded and the camera went to the leopard behind the rock. I nearly pissed myself as I saw the little bastard had ammoracked me. A tier 5 light ammoracked a tier 8 medium, with his shells costing about 60 credits each, he inflicted 14,000 credits of damage to me and took away my ability to be of use to my team.Another story would be the one that happened yesterday, not as shocking but still BS none the less. I was in my panther and MY objective was to rame my buddy to death in his T46 light russian tank. I was chasing him all over himmelsdorf. I said he could fire at me as he pleased. Well, he did pop off an exhorbant ammount of ammunition at my frontal but a good number of them actually penitrated my frontal armor enough to do damage. I told him to switch to penitration rounds to see if it would bounce but his reply was that he was using them. I thought he was using EXP because there was no way a gun on a tier 3 light tank could damage my panther fromt the front. Well, he did...Honestly you cant tell me there isnt something drasticly wrong with that picture. What could it be? Lets take a look at what wargaming has royally screwed up here.It could be that...-Ammorack is too vunerable and large-Side/front armor is WAY too thin-Panther gets into matches it cant handle (not likely)