M41 Walker Bulldog Additional Info

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Hello everyone,

as you know, yesterday, Walker Bulldog pictures were leaked. Here’s a bit more info from supertest about it. Keep in mind that this is totally preliminary, some of the 9.3 vehicles aren’t even modelled yet.

Elite gun: 76mm M32 (Late)
Penetration: 175
Gold penetration: 210
Damage: 150
Rate of fire: 17,9
Engine power: 550hp
Maximum speed: 72,4 km/h
Maximum reverse speed: 24 km/h
Power-to-weight: 23,41 hp/t

Terrain passability is allegedly “very good”- but again all these data are preliminary and can still change 100 times!

41 thoughts on “M41 Walker Bulldog Additional Info”

  1. This is a lot of alpha for a 76mm gun. Seems unfair since pretty much all the other ones of similar caliber have around 135dmg. (Especially all German ones)

    • Short 76ers: 110Mid tier 76ers: 115OQF 77mm (really 76mm): 140T71′s gun, 17 Pounder: 150

      The only odd thing is the L/100 having 135 alpha, should be 150 IMO.

  2. For now it looks great, speed, ptw ratio and gun. Thanx SS for new info. One more question: what about traverse speed ?

  4. And give it the same level of camo, view range and gun handling as the chaffe and we have a new most fun tank in game.

      • Nerf proof tank if it gets released like this. 90% of the players will fail hard in a high tier light tank with no autoloader.

  6. The DPM looks extremely high so that will probably get nerfed, but again Chaffee has over 2k DPM. View range? Guessing 410m.

    • Expect Chaffee to get nerfed and have it’s MM reduced to be in line with other tier 5 lights… okay, there’s only two of those and one is the ELC, but you get what I mean. Chaffee will likely lose it;s top gun and turret, and get new upgrades that will likely be significantly weaker.

      • well, technically, crusader is a tier 5 light, but it plays more like a med.

    • If DPM is so amazing, then try to see how well you do with it. With a big tank like the M41 its not gonna have much camo, it only has like 25mm of armor and about 910 hitpoints. Even with the high DPM you’re not gonna win a head to head fight with a tier 8-10 heavy tank, which is what this thing will be facing. The enemy is not going to sit and let you shoot him over and over. He’ll blast you for 320-490 damage and then pull back into cover.

  7. I really doubt this will stay. This gun offers 2700 DPM, after all. If it also has big gun depression like most American tanks, it totally obsoletes WZ-131, seeing that its mobility seems rather awesome.

    • Haven’t played wz-131, just type62 and it’s worse than Chaffee in everything.
      I think that Chaffee is at least balanced (quite OP at tier 7, ok at tier 8, grrr tier 9 and ensk), type62 is useless – speed bleeding in turns, no gun depression, 144 penetration is nearly same as 137, agility is surprisingly worse than centurions, view range is worst of tier 7 scouts, just camo is perhaps better. Not talking about possibility to get ammoracked in nearly any small jumps. As scouting is obsolete cause only idiot can cross open areas, that are removed to make life easier for those anyway , and any nearly any high tier medium has enough view range, crew skills and stationary camo to outspot scouts i think that light tanks should be buffed. Not something that can be just as useful in tier 8 battle as hellcat and inferior mediums in tier 9 and above.

    • It needs that Dpm considering that you have the mm of a tier 8 heavy tank. The m41 is a pretty big tank. It’s a bit smaller m47 Patton. Hence also the reason its hp is higher than normal tier 7 lights.

      Mind you the entire light class is gonna get some buffs soon. 9.1 was just the first step.

      • I just hope that the buffs will be in view range…nothing like loading up my 59-16, parking in a bush in a good position, putting up my binocs & net, thinking I’m lighting up a ton of enemies and getting massive spotting damage….and seeing a big fat 0 in the post action report because there was a medium parked 20m behind me that had 30m longer view range lighting everything up. It makes scouts frustrating as hell to play, since active nearly suiscout tactics are about the only thing that works any more with the lack of viewrange, and the tendancy of higher tier, better view range mediums to follow the scouts around and outspot them.

  12. I already fell in love! <3
    If this is true, how the T49 will be more brutal?

  13. I’ve seen two Walker Bulldogs in New Zealand. Apparently someone told me there were three. But there’s one in Waiouru Museum and Palmerston North (Linton Military Camp).

  14. After these statistics, I have one more question: Why would I choose the WZ-131 instead of this OP-ness?
    I know, its stats might and will change, but still, this thing is brutal.

    • You don’t!
      The case will be identical to waffles and other lately introduced tanks – they put it in trees with OP state, wait for as many people as possible to freeXP them and later on nerf them to your WZ state.

  15. 9.1 were the first steps in light balancing. I’m pretty sure most of the scouts are going to get some sort of buff as they are simply underwhelming to play even with lowered mm.

    The m41 is gonna be more of a fragile medium than a light because of its rather large size for a light tank.

    • Aufkl. Panther?! Simply shit as scout tank, big size, slow turning etc and: It doesnt stops WG from nerfing it a while ago and it stays shit now….

      So dont hold your breath for M41…

      • Not exactly wg’s fault that the auf panther is as it is. The Nazis somehow thought it was a good idea to make a scout tank out of a big and clumsy panther. Oh and it did not have any usable weapons either. WG gave it the konisch to help it a bit.

    • I agree there, its frustrating when you’re losing out on your primary role to a medium who can pull up 20-30m behind you and still see farther than you can…its almost like WG wants suiscouts to be the only effective scouting role. I almost never get good games in my 59-16 for just that reason…there’s always a 2-3 tier higher medium following me around with 20-50m better view range, and basically doing all the work I’m trying my best to do…hell, I’ve even started taking shots now, since its the only way I can get xp it seems (when I do manage to light up enemies, nobody shoots em…but that’s pubbies, and most of the ones I THINK I lit are credited to some other tank).

  16. I was really hoping this tank would be a scout and somewhat a fighter..I fucking hate scouting but I like to play as the tanks..what a let down