there are multiple way to destroy the jumbo but first i need to elencate all the tanks and what they can do.
puma : mg port, visor on the top, visor on the turret
pzIIIN : mg port
pzIV J/H : same as the puma but can do it at more distance
panther : same as the pzIV but can also shoot between turret and hull
the same tactic that i’ve xplaneid in the panther post is viable also on the jumbo : angle yourslef (not with puma) destroy first 1 of the tracks and after the barrel, this will force the player to come out and repair the tank in the mean time you need to load an HE and kill some crew member.
It is often better to drive close, disembark and throw TNT until they fix damage model and stop adding overly armored tanks that are immune to most AT weapons.
but jumbo often shoots back and gunner is not behind hull MG so unless you are in Panther then good luck hitting it so many times in the same spot before it blows you up.
This tactic is good against the braindead Jumbo players who play with only 1 hand sitting in the gray zone, however it also heavily relies on both the damage models working and your shots hitting exactly where you want them to hit. Damage models have trolled me many times by refusing to break a part that should be broken (I refuse to accept a red transmission eating up 4-5 75mm shells without taking any more damage allowing the enemy to reverse into cover) and from my experience tank guns aren’t exactly laser accurate either (they aren’t bad though). Also if I was the Jumbo player I would start pivoting instead if I still had 1 track working.
Angling is a good advice, however even in my Pz IV I’ve had a Jumbo hit my turret somewhere well enough to damage everyone in there (luckily no kills though), so they had a fair chance of killing me if they noticed that, but it was our common gray zone zombie Jumbo player so they ignored that.
Exactly. It might have something to do with their “natural habitat”, the gray zone with the only threat being planes and a good tank player in the enemy team lol.
for no reasons you should ever go for the barell, nor the " square " gun mount situated at the " beginning " of the barell.
because you will not pen them. and i learned this the hard way.
with any tanks. even with panthers.
chances are ( just like happens for the majority of the time, ) you shoot his barelly, and it will just become orange. HE will shoot your barell, and your barell will become an open banana.
you also forgot that you can pen it on the little side skirt. PZ J, H and panthers can pen it.
it’s done already the the Jumbo was not powercreep the Allies acutally needed it due to the maps, Axis already had a the advatange when it came to the guns and the maps in it’s favor so the americans needed soemthign that can take panishment while not having a gun that deletes people therfore can be dealth with reasonably
No they didn´t and yes, unless jumbo tanker is completely incompetent, it was powercreeping. I have Jumbo as well, and until someone takes panther it is usually risk free tank/infantry farm for me.
lol it was, Gemrnay has the best guns and the maps in it’s favor, and the 75mm it has doesn’t delete the Panzer IV’swhich could actually kill it form the front especially in maps like D-day, i can be also easily outflanked by the Puma, the Axis Normandy had an advantage in everything else and jumo was the one thing that gave the allies the ability to push and now with the abality negated you see the results , but no you just gonna completely ignore that the maps are on the favor of the Germans on top of their vastly supeiror gear
