Royal Tiger

[bar91]

Why are they so powerfull even when they MOVE. They must have MOVEMENT penality, no? (Ardenne campaign at the end). Even from the REAR and at RANGE Sherman cant shoot them! Is the 75mm caliber unefficient for TR from rear?
They do a real massacre in every conditions. Difficult to win in such conditions. Sherman are like matchboxes .

[DocMogs]

King Tiger Armor is 170 front, 120 side and 90 rear.

Sherman Armor piercing is between 76 and 169

Sherman Armor piercing even when adjacent will never get above 83 % which means the max it will get is 140. So it needs to be a shot from behind almost always unless you are within 2 squares side on and get pretty lucky.

Contrast that with the KT that has AP values between 166 and 369 against the sherman 80, 40, 40 armor. Most tanks have a 50% reduction in accuracy whilst moving but that still means the KT can crush shermans at range easily.

Best way to get KTs is to bombard it until its moral is below 0 and then get adjacent to make it surrender because i have only rarely got them to pop.

[bar91]

Hi and thanks for reply DocMogs. I get one in a multiplayer game in the way you said (with artillery="déroute"...surrender). The best way to survive is to retreat when you dont have artillery. Dont know yet how to win this scenario with two panthers and three Royal Tigers but its the challenge.