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sherman: P4 and infantry killer

24 Apr 2014, 16:48 PM
#1
avatar of nwglfls

Posts: 240

Effective against medium tanks,
test, one P4 vs one sherman,
P4 die, sherman half health

sherman with decent speed and acceleration, more important, it kills infantry like a boss, any infantry squad can no longer stand for 2 more rounds.
24 Apr 2014, 16:55 PM
#2
avatar of Tristan44

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How the hell did you test that so fast? And how many times and in different scenarios? Seems a bit early to make judgements.
24 Apr 2014, 17:13 PM
#3
avatar of Napalm

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Am I to assume that PIV is supposed to be, and always be, the best medium tank?
24 Apr 2014, 17:20 PM
#4
avatar of Katitof

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1 test will tell you nothing and thats exactly what OP did.
After a 1v1 with friend his sherman was blown up and my P4 still stood with 25% hp.

Sherman is decent, but P4 is better and cheaper.
24 Apr 2014, 17:26 PM
#5
avatar of Burts

Posts: 1702

jump backJump back to quoted post24 Apr 2014, 17:20 PMKatitof
1 test will tell you nothing and thats exactly what OP did.
After a 1v1 with friend his sherman was blown up and my P4 still stood with 25% hp.

Sherman is decent, but P4 is better and cheaper.



must of been a RNG gods blessing. In my game it decimates the PZ IV
24 Apr 2014, 17:27 PM
#6
avatar of Omega_Warrior

Posts: 2561

I think it has a high rate of fire. If it gets close to or flanks the P4, it has a much better advantage.
24 Apr 2014, 17:44 PM
#7
avatar of Kreatiir

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Play a week or more and than talk about OP-ness / inferiority instead of talking about 1 situation :)..
24 Apr 2014, 17:47 PM
#8
avatar of Puppetmaster
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jump backJump back to quoted post24 Apr 2014, 16:48 PMnwglfls
Effective against medium tanks,
test, one P4 vs one sherman,
P4 die, sherman half health

sherman with decent speed and acceleration, more important, it kills infantry like a boss, any infantry squad can no longer stand for 2 more rounds.


So you mean its similar to the past if you replace PzIV with T-34/76 and Sherman with the PZ IV? ;)
24 Apr 2014, 18:55 PM
#9
avatar of MilkaCow

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jump backJump back to quoted post24 Apr 2014, 17:13 PMNapalm
Am I to assume that PIV is supposed to be, and always be, the best medium tank?


Panther ? :p
24 Apr 2014, 19:03 PM
#10
avatar of Cruzz

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No wonder americans won the war if shermans were this good ;)

...Feels pointless to make T3 against them especially with how the StuGs got changed. Shermans are old T34/85s on steroids without the ram.
24 Apr 2014, 19:03 PM
#11
avatar of The_rEd_bEar

Posts: 760

Is this a sherman op thread? Do you know how easy it is to kill it? its the ultimate glass cannon.
24 Apr 2014, 19:15 PM
#12
avatar of Baionetto

Posts: 90

but that the world PIV loses against sherman? i tried and piv kill sherman.
24 Apr 2014, 19:33 PM
#13
avatar of Mr.Deeds

Posts: 105

The Sherman feels like a T70 on steroids.
24 Apr 2014, 19:44 PM
#14
avatar of FestiveLongJohns
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ATGs are a great counter to armor now, as they should be. Also its a little to early to make judgements on the game w/o enough context. Lets play more and then decided how we feel.
24 Apr 2014, 20:00 PM
#15
avatar of Basilone

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The one game I used it I was chasing a Pz4 getting all rear armor shots while he was hitting my frontal armor and I won with about 60% hp left. So a tank that is doctrinal, slightly more costly, and getting rear armor shots is about twice as effective- sounds fair to me. I think the biggest problem is the fact that the Pz4 is so inaccurate vs infantry and even though supposedly its a multi role tank in reality its only a moderate AT platform.
24 Apr 2014, 20:14 PM
#16
avatar of W00tlol

Posts: 27

What I have seen so far is that the Sherman is seriously awesome. Strong against Infantry and Tanks aswell. Haven't seen its performance against heavier tanks yet though.

EDIT: It actually penetrates the front armor of a Tiger pretty well.
24 Apr 2014, 21:07 PM
#17
avatar of FichtenMoped
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Maybe the STuG can help... Oh wait they nerfed it -.-
25 Apr 2014, 07:35 AM
#18
avatar of What Doth Life?!
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Maybe the STuG can help... Oh wait they nerfed it -.-


I trust the guy with 2 losses total games played ;)
25 Apr 2014, 08:14 AM
#19
avatar of Von Kluge
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It was nerfed, it serves as an infatry support gun now.
25 Apr 2014, 09:15 AM
#20
avatar of Highfiveeeee

Posts: 1740

Well as long as my Puma tears the M4s apart I don't see any problem in here lol.
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