Preaching to the choir.
This isnt even a jumbo exclusive problem, this happens with german tanks also. Youre taking a problem that exists for the game as a whole and making it all about the jumbo.
german tanks still can be killed by other tanks though…
I just read a lot of whining, again with the camping invincible jumbo, a pz iv can do the same thing, every tank can do the same thing, dday is the perfect map for germans to do that and before u start again the jumbo cannon takes ages to kill a pz 4 unless the dude is dumb and exposes his side, they already told u this like 4 times and u ignored it every single time.
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Frontally by the jumbo while theyre in the same scenario you listed without closing to a distance where they can both pen each other anyway and the Jumbos armor doesnt matter? Absolutely not. The only one you have a case for is the Puma and the Panzer 3 MAYBE.
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german tanks have paper turrets that can be penetrated by all US tank and anti tank guns. A tank that cant fire is completely useless
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Then every panzer 4 I shot at the turret with is cheating and needs to be banned because they have paper turrets and are increasing the armor in every game im in.
I agree with you Nactall. Arty, constant plane and mortar spam is a much bigger issue than the Jumbo. They are simply not fun to play against getting your screen constantly rattled and losing most of your squad for playing the objective is a problem. Also it requires almost no skill just decent map knowledge.
The jumbo is a bit too strong IMO but at least it’s a fun challenge to kill sometimes.
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damage models are broken atm, the jumbo does pen the pz 4 turret no problem that is true but most of the time there is no damage and killing the crew takes 5 minutes
There is literally one spot on the jumbo that can be penetrated from the front. The machine gunners port. Good luck hitting that at any moderate distance, and by the time you do get within range, you’re screwed.
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Jumbo is strong, but you should keep it in the context of overall balance. German bombers are super strong and now that they have 2 planes, that fact alone makes the balance skewed towards Germans as soon as they get 2 good plane players on their side. Also, German end-game guns are arguably better too at mid to long range and it’s hard to get into close range now with arty and bombs so there is that.
When a good Jumbo player goes unmatched, you get this (not me, just saved cause was impressed).
But, when a good German bomber goes unmatched, I want to uninstall this game and forget it exists.
Yes and no. Atleast the a-20 can drop a 500 pounder and still defend itself from fighters. Unfortunately we cant rely on having Hans ulrich Rudel on our team every game.
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Nahh, it just means that your tanking really sucks. Your poor ability to hide mg port on hull is not an argument to Jumbo being balanced.
I’ve killed about a dozen of jumbos so far, killed multiple in the same match, but not because I’m good, it’s because those tankers where bad. When you meet a competent tanker that knows how to use pros of his tank well, you won’t do much to him. He will angle, hide MG port and stay back behind infantry. I’ve “killed” two of those by scouting them and waiting for CAS to deal with them, that’s a lot of “wasted” time.
Correct, but nothing else in the game, besides particularly skilled CAS pilot, requires some extra degree of cooperation. So why should one side, poses a unique piece of equipment that requires more effort from enemy team to deal with?
Like if we keep Jumbo for allies and give axis BV 238 with it’s full bomb load and being able to multi-crew the turrets. Even without turrets, it will take multiple resupplies for allied fighter and attacker to kill it. While it will be able to bomb the whole map in one pass. Does this sound fair and fun? I mean, what’s the problem, you can kill it, just need to work a bit for that. Sounds fair!
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Overconfidence and just plain getting tired of being in the Jumbo while my team refuses to go into the objective, kills me more than anything…
I think I’m going to redo all my tanker crew to Assault wannabes and make that thing an APC.
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That’s what I did. Had so many games where teammates just refuse to push a point, especially on D-Day and Airfield, even though I type in chat that it is cleared. Now if that happens, I just use the tank as an armor to deliver my assault tankers to the point.
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Both factions have pros and cons with equipment like the Germans have way better infantry weapons for example…
It can not really defend itself, its turn circle is shit and the weapons do not do that much vs planes if you can not line it up. Plus in the moments you do line up you dont have enough bullets to kill the german bomber anyways.
A-20 has 2 drops of 2 bombs and the germans counterpart 3. So that is 50% more bomb load for them. Would say they are stronger tbh.
Are you referring to the Focke Wolfe a-8 because i am not. The BF 109 G6 has 1 bomb, and the BF109 G10 doesnt even carry a bomb
There is also the P-47 and P-51
No those are fighters. The ju88