okay so, basically what’s been happening with me, the 50mm Kwk 39 cannon is excellent for BR II, it can pen most tanks and even some BR III Tanks if u get uptiered, the issue, its HE SUCKS, i can literally shoot at 1 cm of the enemy it wont kill him.
this needs to be fixed, i dont know any other way to get attention to this topic, since the only 2 tanks with such cannons are the Pz 3 M and J1, but this needs to get fixed, ik this prob happens with other tanks as well, so why not DF do a major HE Rework?
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the 50mm HE is fine as is, its certainly no worse that 37mm HE I find, maybe it could be a bit better I guess.
For Comparasion
50mm HE from the Pz 3 vs 57mm HE from the 6 Pdr, a gun which in real life was described to have terrible anti infantry ability.
Though looking at it a bit closer, 37mm HE has about 40g-ish of TNT, which is odd considering it performs only a little worse than 50mm.
I use Panzer III J quite often in BR1 matches - they often counter Crusader and M3 Lee’s, its HE isn’t as good as other German guns, but its definitely good enough.
Its got good mobility, a nice gun and great armor for BR1 ( only at BR4 Germany gets something that has more armor that 50mm ).
The only issue that tank has is a very slow turret rotation, but that can be dealt with by turning the whole tank together with the turret - its good and stabile turns alow for this.
I honestly think its the best BR1 tank in the game right now.
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I prefer the M41 75 over it, personally I think the M5A1 is better too.
thing is, the HE could atleast be boosted up a little bit, since shooting at a enclosed building full of enemies sometimes dont give me a single kill
im talking about the Panzer III J1, not the regular J
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yea unfortunately HE shells are joke with this tank but still good to use I believe
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wait, shouldnt those have the same HE? the caliber is the same or isnt it?
thats what the fuck im saying, the cannon is excellent agaisnt tanks, but its HE is so shitty agaisnt infantry, WHATS THE LOGIC
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Indeed the Panzer III J is a God send on BR1.
It does struggle a little in AT capabilites but has very decent HE for a BR1 tank, its 50mm frontal armour is nice too, its enough in BR1, not so much for Pz IV on BR3 or BR4 though (its a Gaijin quirk to overtier vehicles just because they have a gun stronger than their armour, while vehicles with trash gun thus get lower tier than their armour like KV1).
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yea but reason is probably its gun has worse HE historicaly also its real purpose is to fight against tanks considering pzj is able to fight even kv1 its understandable to have bad HE
I don’t play tanks, but I cannot kill a single person standing under a roof with any kind of plane bomb.