Does it actually protect you well or are you still an easy kill for BR 3 tanks even with the 80mm front?
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its not much better than the default stug 3 F
Nope you will still get killed easily by enemy tanks. And Infantry sees you as free XP/Silver.
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personally, i wouldn’t really recommend it.
you might as well just use the panzer IV H with an actual turret, good turret traverse, a coax, decent gun depression and overall cheaper.
but if you want to compare it to the stug F, the stug G has more shells, and slighlty improved survivability.
but it lacks smoke canisters. and because of the side skirts and tracks, you lose a bit of acceleration ( but not top speed )
STUG F
STUG G
so… the choice is yours.
with that being said, the stug G is iconic.
but, i’d wait for the STUH 42 which it’s in the editor.
if and when will ever come out.
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hopefully the G and the STUH 42 get their pintle MG at some point
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its in a shamefully weak state. its missing its MG on top and is one of the weakest tanks in br3 for germny. it would be a very good tank on br2 (which it deserves to be as a very erxpensive premium) but gaijin still hasnt downranked. same for the short stug, which should either get downtiered to br1 OR get his weak aphe removed and instead get only HEAT shells, with a slight buff on their current performance.
Its 80mm + 20mm tracks on it which is decent for BR3 front armour and shermans used to struggle against it in Normady but it has no MG and limited number of shells, not to mention the lack of turret so in my opinion its better than the StuG F, but not really better than the IV H.
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My daily post that that Stug 3F at least should move to BR2.
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its got very very good armor, but also weak spots that make it vulnerable to even BR2 vehicles.
its a rather fair vehicle at BR3, but its lack of any MG makes it rather pointless.
Doesnt matter spgs on this Game really suck… And het overpowered by better options like the PZ IV F1 (Pz III N sucesor…)
It would however absolutely shred in any uptier while as you say, not stomp in a downtier due to its nature as a casemate TD.
Yep.
Its armor is often very underrated. And less knowledgeable players can struggle against it.
Plus you can do the same troll thing like with JP IV (without obscuring any of your important visors).
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i would love to see the stug G with it’s mg working, i would probably buy it then.
but it’s much harder to model the stug mg than the hetzer’s. the hetzer mg can be controlled from inside so no extra work is required.
now the stug G would require the loader to open the hatch, raise the shield and then place the mg, either through the hole to fire at ground targets, or above the shield for AA. even with simplifications it would still need unique code. for now only il-2 tank crew has that stuff working.
There’s no need for Stug G to have pintle mounted MG. It should get coax MG instead.
It is significantly better than the F’s armour - you will notice it.
But it has various other issues, as has been noted.