Chinese premium med tank T-34-3

First there was the T-34-1 then the T-34-2 aaaand well, guess what comes next? Why the T-34-3 of course!

Well, stranger sights have come and gone from World of tanks and (yet) another tier 8 prem tank is hardly surprising.

Now, whats the deal with this one?

Well, since we are talking chinese tanks - our comparison will have to be with the T-34-2, the other tier 8 chinese meds.

Compared to the T-34-2, the MK-3 seems to have a bit of an upper hand.

Armour wise hull and turrets are as follow :

UFP 90mm LFP 70mm  sides 50mm  Turret front: 190mm Turret side: 150/120mm for the MK3 compared to 70/45/45 hull and  180/12/60 turret for the T-34-2. As you can see the advantage is obvious. Better turret and better UFP cannot be denied.

As far as mobility goes, the MK3 has slightly worse power to weight ratio, since it weights 2 tons more but thats it. In terms of hull and turret traverse it has the same values as the MK2.

In terms of gun... - 122mm DT with 40 shells onboard. Very poor RoF - about 4 and 3.4s aim time but hey, who cares?!

All in all the T-34-3 in this configuration is exactly like the T-34-2, even with some advantages. Oh and you have prem tank status so you can farm all you want. Its NOT in the league of the T59, allthough it has more (and harder hitting) ammo onboard so you could potentially out dish out more damage with the MK3.

Basically yes - the tank breaks the doctrine of "inferior" prem tank compared to the regular of the same tier. Not so blatantly like the T59 but it does.

World of tanks 8.6 Chinese tier 8 premium tank - 112

Wargaming is not like Blizzard. When Blizzard's mountain of cash starts looking smaller than Mount Everest, they just ask themselves - okay what we have NOT done yet? Thus we get things like king-fu pandas. Of course they might run out of ideas at this rate but hey, thats their problem. Wargaming on the other hand knows exactly what to do. When in doubt - release another premium tank with the potential to overshadow regulars from the same tier. It was tried and tested with the T59, the SU 122-44 and IS6 and now we get the chinese 112.


But what do we get actually?


First of all - we get a very well armoured tank.  120mm UFP with decent slope, I think its 55 degrees but I can't be sure. That your front will be invulnerable to anything under 200 mm penetration, and even to those at a distance. The turret is very respectable - even the commander cupolas are well protected. Basically we get a vehicle with very tough front - better than the IS 6 and roughly equal to the IS 3, though in some areas it beats the IS 3 too. You just can't find a fault here.

Things would be fine, except that the 112 has a top speed of 45 kmph too - enough to push it forward, even if only downhill. All in all its going to be at least as fast as the IS 6. If not faster...

Biggest gripe now...the gun. Yes its a good olde 122mm(175mm pen - 390 dmg for AP) of sorts...5 RoF, very good aim time 3.1 seconds. Aaaand a 300 mm HEAT shell....and high ammo capacity - 45 shells. Combine this with all above and add the decent view range - 380m and well, I believe everyone can connect the dots. The 112 has the potential to dominate tier 7-9 at least judging by the stats.

Not funny Wargaming...not funny!