World of Tanks - Free to play Panzer MMO

**rajpoot** · 11-10-2011, 14:31

Originally Posted by Veho Nex

Every player should have Medkit Repair Kit and Fire extinguisher on them at all times.

Yeah I thought of buying some consumables but then I'm the saving type of guy.
BTW I like your sig. Was it you who had the one where a sprinter runs right into a woman on the track?

@ Sigurd

You're a premium player! I didn't know that. I thought everyone here played for free. How long have you been grinding for that IS4?

And does anyone have any tips about grinding in the KV? Because I'm planning to make a jump back to the arty segment from the KV, and I require a humungous 1,27,000 xp to do so I think (as opposed to just some 25,000 for KV3...very unfair).

**Sigurd** · 11-10-2011, 15:00

Originally Posted by rajpoot

@ Sigurd

You're a premium player! I didn't know that. I thought everyone here played for free. How long have you been grinding for that IS4?

Grinding for IS4? Since the release I guess.
But I was a no gold man until I finally got my IS3. Considering I am a married man with two daughters and a day job, I no longer had the patience for "sticking it to the man".

I know most of you are students with a tight budged etc... I am not and I have limited time to play.

First game with the IS4... yeah it is really tough.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

With the BL-9 and IS3 crew at 90% it was a good game. The ISU 152 thought it could finish me off with one or two shots... hehe not a chance bozo. Instead I took him out with two shots. Both his bounced.
The KV was a one shot kill and I battled the IS3 and took him down to 4% before some poacher took the kill from me.

**Veho Nex** · 11-10-2011, 20:10

Originally Posted by rajpoot

Yeah I thought of buying some consumables but then I'm the saving type of guy.
BTW I like your sig. Was it you who had the one where a sprinter runs right into a woman on the track?

Yup.

**Sigurd** · 11-12-2011, 20:46

I am grinding again without a premium account and are entering the German Medium line.
I have been playing for a while in the VK3601 and its 88mm... then, just when I was a few xp short of 39k and the unlocking of the VK3002DB, I played a game with another VK3601 who got 9 kills with a konisch.
What? ...
I wanted to try it out...
Oh, man. What a different play style and very beneficial for your team. It has a incredible fast reload and targeting. It doesn't do much damage, but it totally disrupts your enemy's ability to shoot you.
As a defender of a base that gun is just amazing. A team mate spotted a SPG, and I barely saw it as it was on the other end of the map. I just auto aimed and took it out from what must have been way outside my view range. What accuracy!!!

**Husar** · 11-12-2011, 21:06

The Konisch is meant to be used with Gold Ammo, that way it gets the penetration of the long 105mm (225mm pen) and more damage as well, I think it goes from 65 damage to 165 or so.
It's the only gun that does more damage with gold ammo, the downside of course is that every shot costs 5 gold, turns the VK3601 into a killing machine though.

**Sigurd** · 11-12-2011, 21:37

The exact numbers are:
125mm to 209mm penetration and 49 - 81 damage with the normal AP shells.
169mm to 281mm penetration and 124 - 206 damage with the APC shells.

My experience is that they near always penetrate, but does relatively little damage, unless you are lucky and kill the ammo rack, which incidentally happens more often with that gun.
The gun is just marvelous as anti cap when it only takes a penetration to take a 80% cap value to 0%. And since it can fire so fast, you can fire shells at several targets before they realize what is happening.

**Husar** · 11-12-2011, 22:50

I only look at average penetration because the chance to get the highest or lowest value is really small since the penetration is normal distributed around the average and it usually seems to be very close to the average anyway. Damage really seems more random to me, but do you use it with Gold ammo or normal ammo? I don't think it penetrates a KT from the front unless you hit the machine gun port.

To stop a cap it's also enough to hit the tracks I think.

**Sigurd** · 11-12-2011, 23:47

Originally Posted by Husar

I only look at average penetration because the chance to get the highest or lowest value is really small since the penetration is normal distributed around the average and it usually seems to be very close to the average anyway. Damage really seems more random to me, but do you use it with Gold ammo or normal ammo? I don't think it penetrates a KT from the front unless you hit the machine gun port.

To stop a cap it's also enough to hit the tracks I think.

I don't use gold ammo, but that konisch can definitely penetrate a E-75 if you target the lower glacis. On tanks like Tiger and IS, you can auto target and still penetrate. I haven't been up against a Ferdi yet.
I have switched to the Type as I need to rake in a million to buy the VK3002DB