Brief Description: Relatively fragile M36 Tank Destroyer has a powerful gun that can outrange most enemy armored vehicles.
Deployment Conditions: Needs Major unlocked.
Deployed From: Battalion Command Post
Quote: Kill those stupid bastards.
Abilities:
Vehicle Crew Disembark: The Vehicle Crew squad exits the vehicle. This Vehicle Crew is armed with M3 Grease Guns and can repair vehicles and structures or capture territory.
T30E16 HVAP-T Armor Piercing Rounds: Switch to firing HVAP-T shells that offer substantial improvements in armor penetration against very heavy targets.
Veterancy Levels
•Rank 1: The unit can use HVAP (High Velocity Armor Piercing shells, giving the tank destroyer better accuracy and armor penetration.
•Rank 2: Advanced vehicle training improves vehicle sighting weapon accuracy, and rate of fire.
•Rank 3: Veteran crews are better able to target weak points in enemy armor, increasing penetration in addition to rate of fire.
Description:
Built off the older M10 chassis the M36 Tank Destroyer was designed to counter heavy German armor such as the Panther and Tiger tanks which could engage US Forces from a distance over 500 meters. Designed with the M3 90 mm gun the first M36 prototype was completed in the spring of 1943 and appearing in European combat in the fall of 1944.
Like all American tank destroyers the turret is open-topped to save weight and allow for better observation.
The M36 provides an excellent counter to the heavy German armor that you may encounter in the field; however it lacks protection and is weak to anti-tank weaponry. Use it to engage with the enemy from a distance and keep it protected with more durable units acting as a buffer.
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