Change the panzer IV E as replacement to a better penetating one or give it HEAT

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The replacement tank for BR 1 germany is the panzer 4 E which is a bit troubleing for me as the max pen of 50mm is worthless if enemy BR 3 tanks are on the field.
If you can spawn it it means that you either face a t 34 or a sherman where you ability to fight back is VERY limited and mostly dependent of pixhunting the odd yellow spots or are facing KV 1 which you just can not pen as even the REAR ARMOR is to much.
So why did they give a purely HE lobbing tank to fight a tank?

Did DF look through the list BR 2 tanks which could fight a KV and noticed that even they would be bad still and just gave up?
The IV E can only try to hide from the enemy tank which is garanteed to be there or you could not replace your tank in the first place.
Why not move the brand new Marder down to BR 2 and use that instead?

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Heats are feature of premium Pz IV E.

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I think they should simply give us PZIII J1 as alt tank.

4

And you believe that DF would give you a Premium tank for free?
I assume that the IV E in the resources is the usual TT one which has it not.

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In fact, you can’t even purchase it at the moment lol.

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But even the J1 isnt exaclty great when dealing with KVs as you will be stuck with just yellow spots most of the time that might not even kill it while beeing green and one-shot everywhere yourself.

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Maybe, but I think infantry support tanks that using howitzer should not be used as alt tanks. The meaning of alt tanks should be giving player the power to fight higher BR tanks, not enhance their anti-infantry capabilities. If I’m a BR1 player and I got PZIV E, I’m definitely going to harvest the infantry and score, not challenging BR3 tank.