Guide on Tank fighting

Good post OP.
Also
Never forget, the power of…

“flank it bro”.

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This is golden :laughing::+1:

This forum is about Enlisted game, not War Thunder.

Games use same engine, and devs themself said that all things related to tanks in enlisted are same like in War Thunder. Im using war thunder in pictures beacause it has tools to visualise things like post pen dmg, unlike Enlisted in practice mode which most model dont have crew for example, or there no ammo penetration shown.

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You make long post about shooting cannon when I simply toss detpack

Det packs are included in this guide to use even if you are using tank :stuck_out_tongue:
Its in part of a guide for Valentine MK1 and for Grant I

On the other hand I would not rely too much on WT since they nerfed dm/ buffed HP and I believe even post-pen spread in Enlisted to make armor vs armor more tennis. Or the overbuffed armor on the AB.

I agree, but still its closest thing to show what can you do, as i said i dont have tools to make this guide in Enlisted and most thinks i wrote here are from my experience.
About AB i wrote that i dont think i should write anything about since its bugged/overbuffed - (still can if people ask me)
Should more updateds change more things in game for tanks, I will rewrite guide or discard it and make new one.
It just to give new players some guidelines on how to deal with stronger tanks and show that you can always do something to them no matter in what vehical you are.

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I guess we have to praise RNGesus.

The AB41 is super easy to kill. Just hit the ammo racks. Can even be done from distance with the Boys AT rifle. Also the SBD-3 eats AB41s for breakfast.

AB-41 that let you shot it enough time in ammo obviously wanst the smartest one in the world, since good player if you shot at him will to two things, either hide since he dosent know where shot came from or engage you right away, on A13 you need on average 1-4 shots in ammo rack for it to explode, and thats if he is not moving so you dont accidently hit another one and if he is not shooting you back in gun mantlet where is your cannon breach and gunner, by doing that he gets rid of your crew and disables you, and when it comes to AT Boys rifle if you managed to do preety similar thing which is shot him from 1-4 in the ammo rack, if it was 1 shot you were pretty luck if it was 3-4 its obvious that AB wasnt smartest, and i wouldnt expect it to be, most AB41 are new players.

SBD-3, well its attacker, its hard for attacker with 1000Ib bomb to not kill AB-41 unless he missess bomb, and all attackers can easliy kill tanks, and before nerfs they could also rekts sometimes entire team, my recored before all nerfs to planes was 58 kills in less then 20s of match begging, and it was stuka in moscow. Point is planes can “eat” anything for breakfast, lunch and dinner. :slight_smile:

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+1 very well-made and in-depth guide. gj dude. (would do more than just +1 but that would break the universe prolly :stuck_out_tongue:

Excellent Guide, one more thing to add about the Panther is that if you get the M8 Scott, its got HEAT, and a low velocity shell which means you use the arc of the shell to just smash through the top of the Panther. Your not gonna be able to fight back whatsoever if the Panther sees you, but the M8 serves really well as a Tank Destroyer, even better than the M10 from my experience.

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Thats nice to know, i tried similar things in WT with low velocity shells, but there if you try things like that shell will richohete,(even rockets there richohete xD) good thing that HEAT in this game dosent do that :slight_smile:

I have been playing the Tunisian campaign since the open beta came out and have noticed that currently the AB 41s are almost indestructible (I use the Daimler and A13 tanks, both of which use the same 40mm qf2 pounder cannon)

Today, I fired over 15 armor-piercing rounds from the daimler (all with green sights) until I ran out of ammo and couldn’t destroy it.
On the other hand, the AB41 hits me 1 or 2 multi-shot bursts with its 20mm lower barrel and in 5 seconds it destroys me as if my tank were made of cardboard.

40mm pounder when it shows it can pen anywhere, there are only few places where you can hit AB 41 to do dmg i will post screen shots for you here.

1.Turret where gunner is - shotting here most of the time will knock out gunner with one shot, and if you continue shot there the AB 41 should have hard time shoting you back
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2.Driver view point - that place is no go, even 75mm Grant cannon has troubles to get there since model of viewer blocks all shots and AP dosent leave shrapnel behind (that red thing on x-ray is what blocks most of shots)

  1. Lower fuel tanks - as you can see if you shot there, there is a good chance that AB 41 will catch fire (its not a gurante though), then AB 41 has two options mostly run and try to find place to extinguesh, or burn to death which takes from 5s to 30s.

  1. Ammo rack, behind those lights and a bit lower is ammo rack, depending here on your lack and distance you can one shot AB or it can take up to 5 shots there

Important notes are: if you have AP your shots need to be on point, since this game has almost no shrapnol for AP if you miss just few mm there is a chance of doing no damage.
Other thing as i find out from my experience with fighting it and playing with it (AB41), if you angle your turret as A13 or move when AB starts to shoot its way less chance that his shots will connect where they need to.

And dont use Daimler - it gets shred by every tank and AT weapon, it has no armor but worse thing is that his entire crew is very close to each other often leading to one shot and speed isnt worth it, A13 speed is good enough and it can get to any places that Daimler can.

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Thanks for the info.
I read on some other post’s that currently, the AB41 damage model appears to be bugged, and the penetration sight does not appear to be working properly in all cases.

I have questions about fighting the Grant , det pack doesnt seem to work well or at all on it and the anti tank rifle also seem to do nothing any help to use them?

Like except if he stay immobile i wont be able to easily put a det pack under it and If you could give use very thin weakspot for the antitank rifle that woudl help a lot.

Its the only tank i truly struggle about as infantery so any tip will help thankj you in advance

With det pack you have 3 options really cook it and throw it up since upper armor is weak and i will destory tank, secend is as you said is under and third is near track also often works.

AT rifles cannot pen him, german ones have lowest pen of all, but still you can shot tracks with them to immobilize Grant, and then use det pack or make him leave tank to get repairs.

Expection here is when you get GrB-39, this one if you aim right can and shoot in ammo will often one shot Grant but thats a long way to go, my advice is for you to not think of AT rifle as a tool to kill tanks but to cripple them, destorying track, damaging thier guns etc.

And for last Anti Tank mines are also good answer, most people dont pay attention to the road ahead since they are rarely used by any, but they often one shot tank and at worst will immoblize it.

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