The german tank Pz.III is hot trash. I always easily get one shot by cannons and other tanks while my own shot always easily rebound on other tanks armor. Their side track take the hit normally but that’s it. That Pz.III main cannon is either bugged or completely worthless.
There is no point in fighting auomatic heavy weapons-submachine guns-snipers lazer beams with pea shooters. Me, having to painfuly land every bullet on a squad head over the course of many seconds, cannot fight a dude wiping out my squad with 0 effort in less than 2 seconds without aiming at all. If only range or a higher time to raise your weapon could make a difference but no. Fix this. Add some recoil and fight the cheaters for a change.
dunno about pz3 as its one of those unlock once and forget always tanks.
PZ3J1 how ever, does pen fairly well but the post-pen dmg is horrible.
Often got to hit couple times to ammorack or snipe the crew one by one.
Well it does struggle against KV-1, KV-2, M4A2 and M4A3 but thats to be expected from uptiers while III M is very good at BR2, most people struggle to destroy it in BR1-2 matches.
I very much love it, one my favourite premium squads.
no offense but your rant sounds like you have some skill issues.
The cannon simply do nothing against other tanks. Explain how this is skill related?
The real problem is the balance between BR is complete shit because they want to sell stuff. So there is no point in trying to fight a higher BR unit or weapon. It’s clear as day.
Are you sure you are using the correct shells?
APC against tanks
HE against infantry, lightly armoured vehicles, transports.
Pz III M’s 50mm kwk39 can pen 106mm of armour so that should more enough against most BR1-2 tanks while against BR3 tank (uptier) you need to be smarter and aim for weakspots.
I have destoyed every single tank with III M it can face its in BR range, so Im speaking of experience.
I do make sure I’m using armor piercing shells. Ha well it’s worthless unless you already know how to use it I guess. Between the opponent tanks, cannons and air planes I don’t have time to learn much.
It has great pen values on its APCBC shells (106mm) alongside one of the best armors in BR2
This entire rant feels as if you have some high BR weapon in your lineup and get uptiered to BR5. Not to mention how little cheaters there are in this game
Dude let’s be real this game is certainly not magically immune to cheating and I seriously doubt they do much as long as they can sell to both type of customers. Let’s not waste time on that issue.
For the rest your comment sounds like a fair assessment but it sounds a bit speculative. I die constantly to 75mm cannons while mine is 50mm. My tank easily get once shot by cannons and tanks while I can barely hurt the opponents tanks in return. How can this only be a skill issue?
I win almost all of my sniping duel with regular firearms so aiming and reaction time shouldn’t be a problem. What would be a solution then? Learning the weak points of every tanks I can face? I’m not being sarcastic I must also have a skill issue so how could I get better with the said tank in my present situation then?
Im all aboard if we’re shitting on devs laziness and absolutely stupid decisions.
But for one thing im ready to give them credit and thats the near non existent cheaters.
I dont recall ever seeing a spinbot or anything like that.
Might also be due to fact that game is what it is so there isnt really demand for cheats to develop.
Most 75mm has rather good post-pen dmg, while the 50mm is and has kind of always been absolute lackluster.
Dunno, is it bug or did they intend it to be such a pea shooter.
Above mentioned post-pen & all the tanks has theyr own weakspots, the ammo rack hits usually provide he best outcome.
Pretty much.
Anyway, top right corner usually provides “x-ray” after hit → there you can see where the ammorack / fueltanks are located and correct your shots to hit them.
75mm are Sherman caliber. Those are the tanks you are facing with significant post pen damage. It’s an uptier and they easily pen you in through the hull
Pz3M doesn’t have capped shells which means it works poorly against Shermans sloped armor. You can aim at the MG port, turret ring or the turret armor (iirc)
You can check all the tank armor values at different angles of impact and where their ammo is stored (Open US tank squad, click to select a vehicle, extend the ‘show unavailable for this squad’ list and find the M4/Sherman tank)
You can check the ordnance stats of each tank in Euthy spreadsheet (it’s pinned in the forums)
Then you can just use the Pz3M in practice range and try finding different pen spots on the Sherman by looking at the pen indicator (green = penetration, red = no penetration)
Also the tank mechanics work very similarly to war thunder so you can check guides from there (though keep in mind not every mechanic is ported to Enlisted. Voloumetrics are not iirc and this allows you to exploit more weak spots than in WT)
Theres some truth to this rant, pz3J1 for example has fairly poor post-pen dmg and against KV1 for example its absolutely random when you hit the turret cheeks.
To get that post-pen shrapnel to hit anything vital is between 1-20 penetrating shots.
For a while I really though the J1 has just AP rounds due to absolute horrible post-pen but some WT tank nerd corrected me and ensured J1 ap rounds have just as much HE filler as panthers ap.
To clarify a bit I have no idea what rounds PZ3M has, but apparently it atleast has same gun as J1
Yup, it’s one of the best tank I have played at BR2.
Also It is not “Bad” facing BR3, with 100+mm of pen and decent mobility you can still deal with most tanks. Sure you need to aim for weakspots as Shermans, T-34s and KV-1s have good armor, but it is still one of the best (if not the best) BR2 german tanks when uptiered.
But it doesn’t do well against uptier… it’s added armour doesn’t work against br3 guns and will explode in one shell of anything br3 sovs or allies have
It CAN fight br3… if it remains unseen… and preferably flanking.
