Yup, 4x crew XP is nice. I've been rotating the Tiger 2, E75 and E100. To my surprise, my Tiger 2, which I've said on this forum I didn't like too much, is 1.8% away from my 3rd Mark of Excellence....
It's not a bad weekend if you want to grind crew XP for your E100 line. x4 crew XP (since they stack). Didn't realize that till my last game of the night where I played my E75. Going to play my E100 a lot over the next two days. At 95% on the second skill. Going to get it into the 3rd. And maybe play E75 to get it into the 4th skill.
I managed a I think 58% win percentage with mine over 150 games. It has the best record of any of my tanks actually. I found the VK36 to be far superior to the VK3001H. But you really need to put the 88mm on it. And when you do play it, play it like a heavy medium. It cannot be used like a true heavy. Oh, and armor angling is very important.
The germans don't have any "true" heavies until you reach the E-75. The Tiger 1 has paper armor, the Tiger 2 and P have obvious weak spots.
Been playing the VK30.01H like a medium Pop in,get a shot in and let heavies do their work then add in another shot if i can.I simply don't go anywhere alone in this so i follow groups of heavies.Guess that game play can be carried to VK36.01H.
The gun has been a big debate for me,8.8 has less pen but did you find yourself having to use gold for pens or is it really a tank that you just had to crawl through?The 220 damage really makes it appealing though.Need to research a turret and maybe even suspension before that 8.8 can be put on.
The way I played the VK36 was as a support tank unless I was top tier. The short 88 is accurate enough to do mid range sniping and be pretty consistent. If I was in the suppor tank roll, and it was against a Tank I cannot pen (like a T29), just track them over and over while others hit them. You still end up with a lot of XP for assisted dmg.
i keep getting ctd's right when battle starts or @ end battle right before going back to garage....
The germans don't have any "true" heavies until you reach the E-75. The Tiger 1 has paper armor, the Tiger 2 and P have obvious weak spots.
eh, that's not true at all. Even the E75 and E100 have "obvious weak spots", heck you can pen the VK4502B frontally if you aim at the weak spots as well.
The Tiger and Tiger 2 can be proper bullies when they're top tier, but they play better as snipers than brawlers. tiger 2 is difficult to pen hulled down and the tiger can bully mediums pretty easily.
The Tiger II is also an amazing side scraper. I have had games where I have blocked 2500dmg all because I was properly side scraping. As long as a Tiger II can properly hide the lower glacis plate, and angle the turret when not firing they can block all sorts of damage.
Every tank has weak spots. Even the biggest heaviest tanks can be penned by AP rounds easily if you hit weak spots.
my point precisely. Saying the tiger and tiger 2 are not good heavy tanks because they have "obvious weak spots" is like saying the e75, E100 or the IS7 are not good heavy tanks because they have "obvious weak spots".
Any advice on crosshairs mods that help me aim for weak spots? I used to use Jimbo's (Jumbo's?) but the last few game updates made them WEIRD.
And experienced game lock ups. Maybe I got a bad download (s)?
I REALLY stink with the "given" crosshairs.... these old eyes need ALL the help they can get LOL. Thanks in advance.
Ppl are so over-reacting when I fire HE shells in my E100 in a city map. As soon as I saw a M103 showed his turret thru a pile of rubble I fired an HE shell for 300+ damage, and the 103 asked me "do you know you are firing HE?", and a teammate called me idiot. I think HE is an effective way to deal with hull-down tier 9/10 and side-scrapers in city maps, and switch to AP or prem shells when I expect a brawl. I ended up with the most damages in my team with 3.3k while blocking 3.1k damages. The other E100 did 2.3k damage and the E4 did only 1.5k damage for firing only AP, and of course we lost.
Quit Raptr if you have an AMD card (or remove it entirely, it sucks). It has a known issue with WoT.
Thankfully if this happens, you can relaunch and it puts you right back in game where you were, which is pretty cool.
No, HE is not an effective way to deal with that. HEAT deals with hull down nicely. And don't bother to shoot side scraping with either. HE will do crap to tracks and other spaced armor (which most 9/10s have). I am not going to waste a 16 second reload for 300 damage and any competent opponent will then rush me knowing I am spamming HE. Now I have HE loading again and either have to deal with another ~300 damage shot or switch ammo mid reload.
The *only* times I am firing HE out of my E100 is when dealing with hard targets at a long distance (IE I can not get rushed after I fire), or I am dealing with a sub 100HP tank.
will check it out, is it installed by default with catalyst drivers?