Alright let’s have a discussion about moving premium dicker max to br3.
First of all, initially dicker max was added as a premium countermeasure to KV-1 (which is BR3 in current state of the game)
Secondly, all open top vehicles are vulnerable to any type of damage: “fire, grenades, bombs, rifles, knifes, HE shells”, however M18 for Americans has pretty high maneuverability and speed, so it has chances to escape some heated situations, while Dicker Max is incapable
Third point comes in connection with another problem the game has in current state, that BR1 get sent to BR3. If BR1 played separately and BR2 and BR3 played together, then Dicker max would be perfect fit to BR3. It has very bad armour and any BR2 tank has possibility to pen Dicker Max frontally, while it can pen them back. So in that case with dicker max, if br3 played with 2-3-4-5 then it would be matched very well against tanks on BR 2-3-4 considering it’s damage and penetration.
Also, we have Sherman with same 105 calliber on BR3 (I get that I lacks penetration, but it has armour, turret and a machine gun)
So what are your thoughts guys? I believe that if it got moved to BR3 then it would be a nice premium choice for a tank destroyer.
No. Screw your Dicker Max. May it suffer in BR V for all of time
I get a sick satisfaction seeing that bane of my existence suffering after it deleting me so much in WT
Personally I like strafing them with .50’s and slowly kill them over several passes as I know they can’t do anything to me in the air
Especially satisfying after they crossmapped me
if we had larger maps the dickers would be BR3
if tankers were not married to the gray zone dickers would be br3
if the HE rounds were airburst the dickers would be br2
the front hull of the Dickers is 50MM same as standard Sherman
i don’t see anyone taking the dickers out of the gray zone so only the weaker front of the turret is a real weak point
my question is there anything on the allied side that can take a hit from a dickers and bounce it
Dicker max has 30mm 90degree top plate surrounding the cannon. Hitting it there gives you at least -2 crew and almost all the time it gets ammo racked.
The top plate above transmission which sloped is only 12mm.
The transmission and two small front plates are indeed protected by 50mm armour (which are also at 90degrees)
I believe that only Sherman jumbo for allies and KV-1 has a possibility of surviving a shot from Dicker Max, possibly IS-2, if you get very lucky.
I’ll tell you one thing. Before the merge, in a more civilized age, dicker max could not match up against any vehicle that is currently BR4 and above.
Dicker Max only fought against BR 1-3 vehicles. By today’s logic, a dicker max would be a BR2 vehicle.
But for some reason the developers changed their minds and moved this vehicle to BR4. So now it can only face BR 3-5 vehicles.
M18 Hellcat has less armor than Panzer IV or Panzer III, but having a gun that is better than Panzer IV and worse than Panther - it should also sit in BR3
