28 thoughts on “8.9 – Detailed vehicle models”

1. Time to load some more HE rounds

2. First

   What about S-Emil??

   • You were second…

     But yes. What about Sturer Emil?

3. Oh man, all this green.

   • Can you read?

     • I can, though I’m not sure what you’re aiming at with that reply.

4. Time to buy back my arty and scouts and go hunting :D

5. A MS-1 with the 20mm cannon can overmatch the sides of the Tier V TD :D

6. Thing is though, german TDs never rely on armor and mobilty in the first place so I think its ridicolous that they should have better guns just to balance it out, not to mention turrets of some TDs. This line is badly implemented and balanced. Simple too much alpha and penentration in some tiers.

   Ask yourself, if youre driving your tier 7-8 german TD, can you really aford to get shoot at from the first place? No you cant, only differance is that you have 490 alpha and 230 pen at tier 7 and a buffed 128mm gun at tier 8 or a 750 alpha gun with 215pen, that people possible will use gold ammo withand derp around. I really dont see why the 2nd german TD line even was implemented from the frist place, since it alreaddy has solid TDs that are fairly good balanced compared to the other tanks.

   • ur arguments are invalid, we want Sturer Emil and nashorn, and what stuff u want else? more US crap?

     This line seems quite interesting, and 10x better as another fail us line, if i was WG, i would postphone all us junk and jap crap, and put cool stuff first, turreted brit tds, french heavy, more russian heavys, sturmpanzer line (brumbar and Sturmtiger), some unlockable lowe thing, MOAR PORSCHE tanks, more ugly KV`s, i can name 10 things more important/needed as boring US tanks…. (US is like the most boring nation (equal to chinese) yet they keep giving updates for them :XD)

     • How are they invalid? Dont you see the problem with so many high alpha and penentration guns, specially when TDs are according so some people alreaddy too many in servers. As it was before you had only a few high alpha TDs in the tiers, for example tier 7 had isu-152 with 750 alpha and the ferdinand with 490, yes only 2 TDs of all tier 8. In tier 7 you had the jagdpanther with 320 alpha, the su-152 with derp gun and the ac amx 46 with around 300 alpha as well. Now these new tanks have at least the same alpha but better rof/aimtime than alreaddy existing guns, or other high alpha but low penentration guns, which most possible will be used with gold ammo.

       I dont see the need for 2nd german TD line since the TDs alreaddy existed were fine.

       • You can’t read? I agree with the anon above. We want real cool tanks like Nashorn and Sturer Emil.

       • With WG you want the most OP? Get (Buy free XP) the latest branch..
         & on.. & on.. & on..
         Game be a mess soon if not already. ( I own FV183..)

         Regards

     • I agree, us tree is very cramped.. and ugly.. but I do want japanese tanks, and hope they implement it in 9.0

       this TD tree is cool until the tiet 7 (emil is awesome) but im not sure about the tier 10 I wouldnt care anyway since I dont play that tier!

   • “german TDs never rely on armor”

     I daresay hull-downed JTigers and JPE’s beg to disagree.

   • i thought that was the gimmick for this line huge viewrange and good guns, this is more then balanced with horizontal gun arc (Pz Sfl IVc, Nashorn) and all have pathetic armor for there tier.
     in other words glass canon. add to this the low penetration on 150mm gun selection, i my opinion WT Rheimetall-Borsig at T8 can use it but at T9-10 it just doesn’t cut it without gold.

     the Sturer Emil has an amazing gun true, good penetartion, damage and amazing gun depression, but this is balanced by:
     * low RoF (4,35)
     * Low shell capacity (15)
     * small horizontal gun arc
     * bad armour layout
     * slow speed (25 kph)

     it does have good traverse, but not enough to out turn a attacking light !!!, because make no mistake the 2nd german line will be on everyones hitlist (arty can oneshot even when missed with splash and scouts just flank and kill you of quick.

     * huge size

7. How does the advanced model on the E-50M look with the now correct gun mantlet?

8. IS-3 armor model, please.

9. SS, thanks for you hard work. Will there an article about the “rebalancing” of other tanks in 8.9?

10. About that type 64 gun depression.. did i read it right? -7 if the turret is facing forward and -10 if the turret is looking at the back?

    • And also.. what do these impulse stats mean?

      • Hope your female I_Like_CoCS..

11. 7,200 gold for T-44-85? That’s as much as a Super Pershing…Panther M10 is only 5,750…

    • and its pretty crap for that, I don’t know why they made it T7, it would have fit T6 quite well with that armor and that gun.

12. Did i miss something or will combat car get introduced in 8.9???

13. Why is the Sturer Emil not getting the historical gun?

    • Ummm, I played test server, it gets its historical gun.

      • The 128mm L61, it’s got it, I believe it’s its top gun if I remember correctly.