Hey everyone!

My name is Jeff Gregg, and I am the Lead Designer on World of Tanks Mercenaries. Welcome to "Lets talk about tanks! Waffenträger auf E 100 edition".

The goal is to highlight specific tanks, one at a time, and really dig down into what makes them tick, how they are being used, and how approaches may be taken to improve them if necessary.

As you read you will see a lot of charts and data. All of this data compares the tank to every other tank of its tier over a sixty-day period. All data is pulled from Random Battles only.

This article focused on the Waffenträger auf E 100. Let us begin!.

All data is taken from Random Battle over a fixed 60 day period. Both the Xbox Live and PSN environments were used.

BATTLES AND POPULARITY

The Waffenträger auf E 100

A Tier X German Tank Destroyer, the Waffenträger auf E 100 enters battle with one of two guns. The stock 12,8 cm Kanone L/61 or the upgrade package's 15 cm Pak L/38.

The vehicle is fairly popular and resides in the upper range of battles per day when compared to all other tier X vehicles:

When we look at the packages, we can see that the stock package with the 12,8 cm Kanone L/61 gun is used much more frequently than the upgraded package.

So how is this tank doing with these players? Is it dominating? Is it suffering? According to the data, it is performing at a very solid 50% win / loss rate:

Lets look into the win-rate based on package. No wonder people want the stock gun, it seems to be ~ 4% more likely to win:

Let us take a deeper look into win-rate. An average of win/loss doesn't tell us as much as some may think. As always, we should do is evaluate WHO is using this tank when it comes to skill.

Below we see a grey curve (representing the skill of ALL players) and a blue curve (representing the skill of the players using this tank). The higher the curve, the more players at that skill level are using the tank. We can see that most players are right in the middle / are usually successful at ~ 50% win/loss. The lower the skill and the higher the skill, the fewer the players.

Now we might ask: "there are players with a 100% win rate?!" or "there are players with 0% win rate?!" Those are likely players that played once in this tank and won or lost and then stopped. Super low occurrence outliers.

This tank seems to be slightly more attractive to lower skill players than higher skill ones. That doesn't mean that using this tank indicates the player is at a lower skill, but it does seem to attract players that are slightly less skilled than on average:

Edited by RaiBOT01, 20 April 2020 - 06:20 PM.