- Yes
- No
The Panzerwerfer 42 is a rocket artillery vehicle that is currently on BR4, but is underpowered for the battle rating. This is due to a few factors, but one of the largest being it’s armor, which seeing as how it’s essentially a half-track, even heavy machine guns 12.7mm or bigger can destroy it, which you can strafe with on most US and soviet aircraft, can easily cut through the armor, not to mention any anti-tank weapons or cannons.
The self-defence capability of this vehicle against infantry is also limited, as the single MG42 mounted on the front of it has limited firing angles and overheats incredibly fast. The rockets that it carries, while quite good in themselves, have some drawbacks. They cannot be direct fired at enemies in front of the Panzerwerfer most times due to the cab interfering with the gunner’s vision, cannot be indirectly fired at enemies and forcing it to fire from a safe distance or be destroyed. There are also only 20 total rockets, 10 available at a time with a fairly long reload in between, compared to the Calliope’s (BR4) or T99 (BR5) with 60 and 44 weaker M8 rockets respectively, all while having fully traversing turrets with machine guns and cannons (75mm and 90mm) in them, allowing them to continue fighting even after running out of the large supply of rockets.
The Panzerwerfer used to be BR3 when the merge came out but was moved up to BR4 on the pretense it shouldn’t bully brand new BR1 players and was forgotten there, but now that matchmaking is ±1 BR instead of ±2 BRs, this would no longer happen. Therefore, I propose sending this vehicle back to BR3.