It’s official, WoT gets all kinds of crazy

But yeah, the Matilda is one of the tanks that’s on my list of “Tier 4 tanks that don’t suck so bad to drive”, which consists of the Matilda, Hetzer, Panzer III, SU-85B, Chi-He, T-28, AMX-40 and even the M3 Lee (though it takes time to master it – I have a friend who has pulled off AMAZING things in the Lee, and makes use of its bad reputation to psyche opponents out). Of course, the caveat for those are that they need to be full-upgraded, and in top tier to really be fun (with a couple of exceptions, namely the Panzer III and the Chi-He, the latter of which I’ve used as a passive scout with notable success).

Note, I’m not counting premium vehicles here, because if I were to count THOSE I would say hands-down that the one I’ve found most enjoyable is the Panzer B2 (pretty much the only low-tier premium German Heavy, and it’s almost never sold because of its special matchmaking). Why, you ask? It’s always top tier, with the downside of being unable to platoon with anything other than other Panzer B2s, Lend-Lease Valentines or tanks below its tier unless one is willing to risk the chance of it getting into games higher than tier 4 (and trust me, it NEEDS that special matchmaking – one only has to look at the regular Char B1 or the DW2 – which was a nightmare I do NOT want to repeat – to know how it would perform against tier 5s). The lend-lease Valentine would have come in as a close second (it gets the same MM as the B2) with its trollish armor (in some places, and not as good as the Matilda’s or AMX-40′s armor), but that armor lost most of its value when premium ammo became available for credits.