wautd wrote:Just maxed it out and it's awesome. I didn't want to sell my Panzer III (since that's a fun raider as well), but goddamn it's a beast. At high tier matches you can still be a decent scount and artillery killer, but at low tier battles you completely dominate the battlefield. Sometimes I feel that the only things limiting your killing sprees on low tier matches is ammo and the fact that you can't be everywere at once (so others steal your righteous kills).
Oh indeed. I advanced to Leo by accident when I failed a spot check on the tech tree and did not realize that it was not connected to the vehicles below it. FiguredI might as well get it since I was there anyway, and it looked like a baby Panther. I made the mistake of taking it out before I had much equipment upgraded and "goodlordthat'salotofkingtigers..." That match ended badly, and it still seems that 4 of 5 matches throw me in with heavies (got to see a Maus). But now I have it maxed and am enjoying it. Most matches still end with that one track disabling hit of doom or ram interception, but every so often you pull off that epic light tank awesomeness.
Case in point was the first match where I realized that I loved my Leopard. We were on the big open map with the train track, and the game got a 1 on its automatch balancing roll. We were shorted two people and all the artillery. They got two KVs to our one KV-3. Everyone immediately began predicting our doom. I managed to slip into the enemy rear area. Spotted their first arty, another guy popped it. I then found their second and killed it. An A20 belated tried to come back and stop us. I killed him too. Two of us circled the flag once and spotted their last arty nearby. We finished him off quickly, then tag teamed a T-34 though my teammate bit the dust. Meanwhile the KVs had cleared the field (completely) and were lobbing shots from me at long range as I drove broad circles to drive up the capture counter. They lumbered slooooowly back to stop me, so I just slid in behind a hulk for cover and waited out the timer. Bam, victory for Zim. Top scorer on my team with 3 kills. My crew is now up to 81%, so I can unleash a lot of hurt on the move.
On the Panzerjager I front, my friend and I got in a tier 1-2 match last night that we knew from the getgo would be awesomely fun/unfair. We were the top listed people on our side and at least half of each team was level 1 vehicles. And judging from their lack of speed off the starting line, most of them were fresh players. It was Lakeville so we covered the valley. Predictably it took a long time for contact to be made and it was all in the center. A 35(t) came over the hill, and I two shotted it. By now our team was getting the worst of it, but that just mean fewer people to steal our kills. As they broke through to our base with a half dozen vehicles, we turned our murderous cannons around and annihilated them reverse slope style. Their last two feeble machines tried to circle around one of the valley mounds. First guy died, and then my friend flushed around to draw out the last LTraktor, giving me a perfect shot into its rear. I ended with 6 kills; my friend (also a TD) had 5.
