Yes, it means today's time is running out. Bad Internet connections make for some shitty upload times...
Anyways, I'm only managed to get three videos uploaded to YouTube as of now. All that hours and this is the result... sigh
But enough complaints. Today's post is focused on a tank that's been around for about a couple months, so it's still quite a new addition. The tank is none other than the AMX M4 49, the Tier VIII [or eight] Premium French Heavy Tank that truly brings the 'Heavy' in Heavy Tanks.
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| The FIRST French Heavy Tank. |
This tank came with a unique 'Liberte' version which is all painted in the colors of the French flag, but I chose the 'Non-Camo' version instead. I prefer to add my own camouflages for the three different 'biomes' [or weather]... and I never liked the paint scheme.
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| The painted versions are just... ugly. |
This goes for every other pre-painted tank, none of them are nice to look at... at least to me, though.
Anyways, as from the title of the post, this tank is different than all the other French Heavy Tanks in the game. What is it? Well, it has armor... and not like one small highly armored strip, no no... It's full-on thick armor, from the front at least.
Well then, now's time to stop talking about tank details and onto some replays next!
From the replay above you can clearly see that the armor is definitely reliable. But the quite large cupola is a prominent weakspot as it's lightly armored, and that even light tanks can penetrate it with ease, too.
With all that armor you'll be able to shrug off small caliber tank shells and even big ones with a lil' bit of angling knowledge. But the front of the tank still has another weakspot though: the front 'shoulders'.
This is because they work pretty much like a pike-nose design: over angling makes them weaker. But unlike many Russian pike-nosed tanks, the AMX M4 49 has that cupola weakspot. So when using the tank, you'll have to not only always show your front to the enemy and avoid over angling, but you'll also have to constantly keep 'fidgeting' [A.K.A keep moving back and forth, not keeping still].
The next video shows how sturdy this tank is when fighting enemies, and also it's glaring weaknesses.
The original French Heavy Tanks are designed for mobility, so they sacrifice armor for that. This new addition however does the opposite: sacrifice mobility for armor.
It's quite sluggish, probably worse than the Chinese Heavy Tanks. Although it has armor, it's only at the front of the tank that receives it. The areas other than the front are very poorly armored, comparable to that of original French Heavy Tank armor standards.
This means you must never show anything other than the front, ever. High Explosive will mess this vehicle up really good, as what the next video shows when it received a direct hit by an Artillery shell to the weak back.
Yeesh, that massive health loss. And it's not even an Armor Piercing Round, either.
So I guess this tank is still typical French Tank after all, when given the chance to strike at it's sides and rear.
Well, that's all for this post. Anymore and it might be tomorrow already. I still have another 3 more videos to go through, and they will be up later instead... and that later is of course on Monday.
...and that's all for today. See ya'll next post...
-Panzer Fist-
