As you can see... only sell non-tech tree prems tier 8...

Having 2 accounts with same prem... sounds boring...

Not sure are we talking the same Foch 155...

The dispersion, during on the move or turret traversing, is quite different from 183mm calibre vs 155mm calibre. Even with same 0.35 dispersion on FV4005 pre-nerf.

Unless the player actually own the 183mm tanks, a lot of players duno how bad the Deathstar's gun bloom when moving its turret.

They will know how painful Deathstar accuracy when turning the gun and traversing with hull. (Only after the 23 millions wastage)

The bad part about FV4005 now is, 3.7 sec aim time + 14mm turret + 0 camo while aiming down + almost 0 retreat speed, but its forward speed still decent



Some ppl actually calculate the whole line of Deathstar => 16 millions in total,

so Foch 155 is impossible worth less than 10 millions no matter how useless (which I feel much better than Deathstar when driving & aiming...)

Btw I just compared the Foch 155 with nowadays TD standard, but I duno about pre-nerf 155 how OP it was...



This post has been edited by air: May 29 2019, 01:59 PM

Eh.... Foch 155 pre-nerf having more than 750 alpha damage pershot?

After checking and comparing the stats, I can pretty much live with Foch 155's gun bloom than Deathstars, since I am using FV4005's gun as benchmark

After comparing Foch 155 with all the TDs in my garage, pretty much it might behave a little bit worse than WZ-120-1G-FT's gun, since almost same stats but Foch's gun is bigger calibre.

Trust me, if you can survive in FV4005, and do decent damage, a nerfed Foch155 is nothing, but but but 0.38 gun bloom with super bad terrain resist on Deathstar, that my friend, I will avoid all cost hahahaha

Rammer + EGLD + VSTAB

You will need any equipment that can shrink down that aim circle asap to fully use that 248 PEN + 400 alpha, while reloading 13 secs per shot.

You will find T34 turret is allowing more rooms for errors than SKG if render line sniping is not possible.

This post has been edited by air: May 29 2019, 03:14 PM

The turret roof itself is overmatchable by any 115mm gun (not counting the weakest cupola), so any peekout engagement should be shorten as possible, EGLD do reduce considerable aim time along with VSTAB together.

Vents is more situational unless combine with BIA + Food.

I paling hate SKG's super huge gun mantlet + tall profile, so magnetic to enemy HE shell...

My path is more like snipe the First strike after then fight it over(Lancer), not snipe and relocate type, but seeing my garage, I do engage many different playstyle to learn the their flaws in short time

Usually the criteria I need as a First-strike tank:

1. Very high shell speed against fast and small targets (M4A1, IS-3A), SKG failed at this aspect on my side, and I traded it off to T-34 vanilla
2. Hits hard (300-400 alpha, decent PEN by tier)
3. remain undetected behind 15 m of bushes(any bush size, any tank class)

Well just like how I view the same as yours if:

- Nerfed FV4005, discontinued a while, now being sold at 23 millions but in fact, that reverse speed + 14mm gigantic turret is killing a lot of casual derper after purchased.
- Deathstar have decent turret armor, to compensate the terrible bloom, but thats about it.
- Rarity justify the 23 millions, what to do lo...
- I feel that Foch 155 should be price at 21 millions plus minus, since my guess on T34B price is off.
- By current meta Foch 155 masih playable, unlike FV4005 crippling 8kmh reverse speed.

Considering overall game balance and statistic, massive amount of progetto and LOWE will rapidly powercreeped the rest of the inferior heavies/MTs, result in full 15 v 15 LOWE/Progetto games.(Happens to Hydrostat sales)
Same applies to Deathstar priced at 23 millions, due to its MEME popularity nature, Foch 155 will be priced lesser since the Alpha per shot is significantly lower than Deathstar.

Ever wonder why they put 2 tier X tank destroyer despite both of them are extremeties opposite to each other? There are reasons...

So far I feel Foch 155 after nerf, is relatively balanced in current meta. Especially that 5 seconds interclip reload.

At least it wont let Bobject V4/705A rampage around...

Even if WUFE100 is released, it will somehow tone down the stats...

Seriously I feel that Foch B pretty meh.

So far Wheeled I feel the most, is they are dominating in FrontLine, get 1 prem wheeled and another tier 8 wheeled, keep using it with Progetto, easily dominate and destroy targets without being slowed down/tracked.

In tier 8 random games, wheeled always screwed current meta due to untrackable, but not as bad as Frontline.

Tier X games is highly unfavorable to Wheeled as their HP doesnt scale well with Tier X alpha and shell speed.


Sweedish MTs air suspension vs Sweedish TDs siege mode:





You can see from Dispersion + Reload time among MTs and TDs, Tier 8 might not see a lot of difference, but if you compare tier X counterparts, there is a vast gap between accuracy + reload time. Once you being tracked by STRV-103b, you will easily lose at least 1200 HP before you can back into cover.

and to enter Air Suspension mode, you need to lower your speed by 10-23km in order to activate/deactivate the mode, all this mode offers is extra gun depression up to 13 degrees only.

While TD's siege mode vastly improve aiming time, accuracy and reload time to outgun the enemies even if 103B is spotted.

Currently I am playing STRV-S1 as a ridgline medium as long as I know how to avoid confronting 122mm gun calibre face to face.

Rush, use handbrake to drift and activate X at same time, by the time Strv stabilize its own gun, its ready to fire anytime.

Most likely will be at 0000, if no last minute emergencies...

This source in Italian: https://www.mmowg.net/world-of-tanks-black-...drC8n4DaPoo-pZM

30th May 1800 time our Malaysia next day 31st May 0000

Means tmr 1200 pm is IS-6B.



This post has been edited by air: May 30 2019, 12:10 AM

32% disocunt on this Black HP Pinata.

Its pretty meh offer considering Black Market level.

Currently I have 27 million in reserve, 212A and T30 is ready for 0000 reset tank selling limit. Thus I will have 30 millions.

After all these selling, I learned that:

Tier by tier:

1. TS-5 is much better than T95 and T110E3
2. FV4005 now is pure shit as in 0 mobility, 0 armor, and 0 camo, which against my idea of being barely playable(VTU at least have camo)
3. Deathstar is a super trap that everyone is being blinded by its 1750 HESH alpha, effectively ignore the terrain resistance, and gun bloom
4. I will recover those prem tanks which is easier to play in Frontline which require mobility & accuracy. (CAX, M4A1, and Blackdog)
5. Instead of re-purchase back those sold tier 9 and tier 10 tanks which yielding 1.7 millions & 3 millions NET LOSS, I going to purchase new playable tier X which I unlocked.

I was like super jumpy when the page when blank for 10 sec, keep refreshing BM...

I feel 25m silvers more well spent than that 23m Deathstar...

cause I like massive damage on AP shells, instead of 8000 silvers on derpy gun...

I been having heartburn since few days over midnight sales hahaha now can sleep soundly~

After you tasted 183mm super derpy and inaccurate HESH which cost you 8k silver at a slight MISS, and deal 300-500 damage to super heavies, you will know why I pick this Foch 155 over FV4005 and Deathstar hahahaha

I know, FV4005 can 1 shot KO most of the MTs and LTs, been there done that.

Deathstar current and forever annoyance:
- Its terrain resistance + crippling gun bloom + long aiming time => struggle to get accurate shot with 0.38 dispersion, very very sluggish to even relocate.

FV4005 current unplayable issue:
- Its not about putting that 1 shot only, its about survival after that 1 shot kill.
- Klaus kellerman even tried FV4005 after nerf and said: "while you still able enjoy the 1 shot kill, WG made everything else are just excruciating painful now"
- How do you feel with 8kmh reverse speed when launching 8000 silvers HESH with 0.42 dispersion with 3.7 aim time?
- Current nerfed FV4005 is basically having almost same mobility as Deathstar.
- 0 camo/armor/mobility is basically asking this current FV4005 to pay its 1 shot kill by its own HP.

Initially I was double diappointed when, WG made it look like FV4005 was nerfed heavily specially for Black market Deathstar sales, but after know Foch 155 is in the list, I found my new salvation on Massive AP shells nuking solution with great mobility + workable armor + workable camo.



This post has been edited by air: May 31 2019, 01:13 AM

Haha yeah, I also love heavy damage but in AP shells, since WG have no love for 183mm AP shells, I found mine in Foch 155's 2250 AP nukes.

more than 50% of my fav hard hitting tanks now, are casemate TDs:

WZ-120-1G-FT
SU-122-44
STRV-S1
TS-5
T95
T110E3

Next step will be preparing for Frontline hulldown mobile tanks...

Its a legit payback if you derped with Deathstar since it has decent turret armor to engage close range...

But derping enemy turret with FV4005, I afraid ppl derp your FV4005 14mm turret back with 100% effective HE...

CAX (fast aim time, fast reload, and solid turret, reasonable mobility, best choice so far other than RAAC which I wait for discount)
M4A1 (mobile, small profile and hits hard with high speed shells, but slow reload)
Charioteer (since my FV4005 is sold until further notice)
TS-5 (slow but very fast aim time + well-armored)
T34B (Hits hard & solid turret, but sluggish)

I am picking 3 tanks to cycle in Frontline among these 5...

SKG is still okay due to tier 8 and its alpha not really warrant FV4005 level kind of attention, these 2 tank play very different on each own due to camo/mobility difference.

Sorry to ask, but recently have you played a couple of games after Fv4005 being nerfed to oblivion? cause its mobility is the only weapon it has to survive... now it cant even move away in time from SPG splashes... 1 simple splashes => pretty much dead even under medium cover...

15m away from bushes + render range sniping is very situational on small-medium maps... and the availability of LT spotting for FV4005...

Haha actually SKG to me => Conway with 120mm (Charioteer superior than both of them as mobile sniper role)
Shitbarn => 0 camo => requires very different spots to survive and use the massive alpha

After using Conway + SKG + FV4005, I traded away SKG because, I feel SKG's alpha damage is being limited due to credit-making capability, despite all the flaws it has.

1. Both of them camo values pretty similar (yes despite tier by tier MM difference), thus their sniping style is pretty similar
2. SKG is better than Conway in term of MM difficulty, Alpha per shot and credit-making capability (Most of the premium tanks have contradicting flaws against its role, SKG = shell speed and floating shell arc)
3. Conway is much better than SKG in term of DPM and handle well in close range, and having super great turret traverse and bloom control.

Some might think that, Conway cannot be compare against to SKG due to MM and tier difference, but their playstyle is very similar due to camo values when it comes to positioning.

Old Shitbarn, require skills & mobility to punish the enemy and survives well
New Shitbarn, skills only required for 1st shot, if spotted, there is no skill required in manuever the shitbarn to safety, FV4005 are require to pay its whole tank HP by mandatory.
These shits happens because, good players over abuse its massive rewarding alpha to get away with skills. And majority of the average monkeys still failed to counter such.

The 1 hit kill fun of FV4005, is 100% negated by 0 camo/0 armor/0 mobility now. Its far worse than playing Arty... at least arty can have skyview and shoot over mountains...

my case I rather wait my 50% heroic coupon and use on RAAC 5/1 or AMX CDA 105 if got chance.

You got any use of T-44-100? crew? or just pure love?