the Ts can survive several shots to the turret front, lower plate is bouncy, the only viable option is to either shoot their mantlet point blank or aim for the known weak spots and hope for the best. My point is that Tiger II is heavily outclassed by the T series. The Panther II is actually playable due to the speed but it's not a tank that can survive a lot plus it's actually slower than IS6 all though it has better top speed. However RU is premium so not every one has it. Plus, I don't have it myself, but if it apparently 'copes quite happily' in uptiers then maybe it doesn't need a downtier? Perhaps the T-series could do with an uptier (provided the KT's moved up too) but as said before it's a BR compression issue. It's also not like Germany has a very decent lineup at 6.7 with two Tiger II's, Ru-251 and Panther II. Sure, the issue here is BR compression, as it is in a lot of cases, but the solution isn't just to make one tank club and ruin it for everyone else. I see things like this more as a sacrifice for game balance tbh. If your Tiger II H dies, you might have an Tiger II SLA, but if you lack that, well, Tiger E comes into play and with 100mm of armor and a not so good penetration for handling the American T series it gets owned fast and then it's GG, your German team just got stomped. This clearly gives the armor and firepower advantage to the USA paired or just USA teams. While they have slower reload they have much better penetration (excluding T30) and if they hit Tiger II turret, poof, there goes your tanks while their tanks can eat shells like crazy, this includes the LFP which for some reason recently became very bouncy. If you consider American 6.7 lineup T29, T34, T30 you begin to question Gajins sanity as all the T series are gods of hulldown positions. The overmatch argument fell flat as as mentioned before all T American series mount big guns, up to 155mm. If it's dropped to 6.7 it would make a great addition to the German lineup as it could fill the role of a heavy hitter.

Tiger H already meets tanks that render ALL of its armor, including the upper glacis, useless, not to mention autoladers, HEATFS, APSDF, stabilized guns etc. Same armor as tiger H, better mobility but longer reload and horrible grind.

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