Comments on: Sturmtiger Spotted…. Again.

By: riptide109

riptide109 — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 01:17:44 +0000

YES! a 12 second reload 390 mm rocket launcher! TOTALLY BALANCED!

By: riptide109

riptide109 — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 01:16:34 +0000

the sherman was always like that, and besides, a tier 10 m4? no thanks

By: riptide109

riptide109 — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 01:15:13 +0000

they balanced the t49….

By: riptide109

riptide109 — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 01:13:42 +0000

the kv2 is pretty much tracks and a howitzer…

By: Joe Baker

Joe Baker — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 22:38:52 +0000

Jeez guys, think about this silly concept that “caliber=alpha” for just a few more seconds. I believe the reason this correlation comes about is because the game information displays both caliber and alpha, rather then shell weight and damage. The shape of a standard HE round is pretty consistent for pretty much all cannons despite their varying caliber, so it stands reason to believe that there is a nice relationship between caliber and high explosive the round carry’s. The problem is that the Sturmtiger does not have a 380mm cannon! The 38 cm SK L/45 “Max” is a 380mm cannon, and yeah that looks like it could one-shot most tanks (really, just look it up on wikipedia and ask yourself if you think the sturmtiger is as destructive as that) For its size the Sturmtiger’s HE round carry’s far less explosives then a similarly sized cannon would (as the rocket propellent takes up a lot of the rounds volume). This means to figure out how much in game alpha this should deal, it would have to be proportional to the weight of the high explosives. So if a T92′s HE round has about 160 kg of high explosives (I know that’s the round’s weight, but for the life of me I can’t actually find the weight of the explosives) and the Sturmtigers round only packed kg of high explosives. So we can approximate that the Sturmtiger’s round would only deal about (2250/160)x125=1758 damage. If we also assume its not penetrating it is going to be dealing less then 800 damage….. With these numbers it could easily be balanced, so please stop perpetuating this “zomygodoneshotseverything” rumor. It is that rumor that has probably barred this historic vehicle from entering the game (as I think the developers have fallen victim to it).

By: Chupambrico

Chupambrico — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 18:45:44 +0000

What… do you even know how games or programming works? They can do whatever they want, even put 1 damage per shell on a Sturmtiger, they “can’t” can only mean they “don’t want” to, because it would be conterintuitive or highly unrealistical, but not because they “can’t”.

By: Chiel vd Sande

Chiel vd Sande — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 17:38:25 +0000

15 kills and 14 teamkills? Sounds like victory.

And a ban.

By: Sturmtiger znovu spatřen ve WoT…

Sturmtiger znovu spatřen ve WoT… — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 17:16:06 +0000

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By: SeanPwnery

SeanPwnery — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 16:14:15 +0000

I’ve added this discussion at length on the NA forums – http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/topic/391563-how-to-fix-sturmtiger-vaporware-champion-emeritus-part-7/

By: SeanPwnery

SeanPwnery — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 15:28:59 +0000

They ALL fit… the argument is total b/s.

SturmTiger – Vaporware Champion Emeritus even fits.

Sure, it can 1 shot nearly anything – but WG’s fear-mongering and paranoia aren’t taking into account several huge factors here…

1. SturmTiger was severely overloaded frontal weight on a Tiger chassis = slow traverse, crap acceleration
2. The mortar launcher tube has the “fresh out of the pool look” (aka ultra-short barrel) – meaning it could/should/would have VERY poor accuracy
3. The shell would need to travel a certain distance away from the vehicle, otherwise the explosion would damage not only the target, but itself. (i.e. point-blank shooting would be suicidal)
4. 14 rounds – divide it into 15 minutes making it take 1 minute and 4.5 seconds per reload = 1 minute and 4.5 seconds of absolute vulnerability to a flanking, juking, fast light, medium, hell maybe even a heavy tank
5. Just give it a wide RNG damage sweep to keep the possible max-damage roll a rarity
6. The armor, at tier 10 can be penned by everything
7. Huge artillery target
8. Massive “Dogpile” target – see the threat, eliminate the threat