World of tanks supertest leak - Japanese tank stats

Some kind soul leaked all the japanese tanks in elite configuration.

I don't know, on one hand - not much to look at - non-existent armour and they are not exactly fast. Well, we will see them in test server next week. STB-1 seems to have quite the DPM...7.5 RoF with 390 damage - not bad - thats 3k you got there. About the rest - well I have to see them first. Except the Renault...thats the 3rd Renault we see ingame with a different paintjob. I know the Ft-17 is the granddad of all tanks but come on now...

Wot Supertest leak - Object 430 v.2

Looks like yet another rear turret tank to me...Can't guess on the modules or stats since there are none provided. By the ammo supply and type of shells I'm guessing thats one of the top 100mm guns. I would not expect much from it honestly. Its decent continuation of the line leading from object 416 but thats it.

Supertest leak - the E-25

2 words people!


Its...beautiful!

 Ahem, but I get a bit over excited, especially over a premium tank... But hey, we get one hell of a sniper package.

Anyway. The E-25 in its current form will be a tier 7 premium tank destroyer. It will cost about 3k gold aaand its natural competitor will be the SU 122-44. But can the German steel stand up to the russian totally not OP tier 7 TD? The answer is...It has a decent chance actually.

The E-25 is at mere 26 tons, carrying a 700 horsepowers engine. That gives it 25 hp/ton, more than enough to use its top speed of 65 kmph(20 reverse) Hello Hellcat 2.0! Tracks traverse at 42 degrees so its going to be speedy enough alright  Its hard to say yet, but afaik - its going to be like a shorter Jagpanzer IV, so you are in luck - good camo rating, and being a hard target at distance will be 2 of its perks. Taking forward positions fast, won't be a problem. Just make sure you don't get shot because...

Armour wise - the E-25 is again like a shorter Jagdpanzer or rather, a bigger Hetzer, except a tier higher... so basically - everything you meet will penetrate you frontally. The gun shield might bounce a shot on a lucky day but thats it. with 830 health you can't afford to tank shots either. The 25 tons become a problem in this area too - don't get rammed.

And now the juicy part - the gun. -8 +15 degrees depression. Allmost 19 RoF, 0.31 accuracy, 1.5 aim time...198mm penetration with AP rounds....and its a 75mm so ammo will be cheap. Sold already? Wait there is more - view range is 360 meters, bonuses and equipment not included - that means a binox can make you your own scout if need be, especially when we mention the size and speed. Basically the only bad thing about the gun right now is the ammo capacity - 60 rounds, that will run out in no time, and (perhaps) the gun horizontal traverse, which we don't know yet.

Will it be good? Yeah - you get a fast, nimble, probably stealthy machinegun sniper. A Panther with a TD's camo rating and freakish RoF. The good penetration and accuracy will likely even out the alpha damage of the Su 122-44, because you won't have to use gold shells often(if at all) and you will rarely miss a shot.

World of tanks - British Artillery - the tier 2 Loyd Gun carrier

Unlike with the Birch gun, here we can with certainly say - this one will be tier 2.

The Loyd (Shortened from Carden-Loyd) Gun carrier will be the humble start of the british artillery line...when we get it that is. 

The only problem at hand is...eh which conversion are we talking about? The British made a lot of then in the early days of the war, using both the Carden Loyd carrier and the universal carrier. I think this one might be what we are looking at, or at least one of its versions. 

The Loyd carrier is mostly identical to the Bren gun carrier, so much can be deduced by looking at the existing British tier 2 tank destroyer - the Universal carrier 2 pounder. With the same top speed - 48 kmph, same size, same weight (well probably a bit more...the gun will be heavier but I doubt it will be more than 5 tons tops) and hell, even the same V8 Ford engine, we are looking at a small, nimble and fast moving artillery piece. Of course armour wise you will be dead if someone just looks in your direction. 

Still, it will be fast, light, hard to spot (same size as the Universal carrier) and probably armed with something shooting very fast. I do believe we are looking at T57 "light" - you will be able to move together with the main force, rather than stay behind. Needless to say - the Loyd Gun carrier will probably be the ingame vehicle with lowest HP, or at least sharing the first place. 

As for the guns....Arrrgh, now thats the biggest problem with speculating about British SPGs! They loved their 25 pounders and thats it...

More 8.5 leaks - stats of the Leopard, Aufklarungpanzer panther and the soviet light tanks

Well you wanted Leopard 1? Here, catch! By the looks of it, arty is already drooling at the prospects of another paper tank. Its going to be faster than the E50M, more agile, and gasp - a better sniper as it seems, but unless the gun shield works as intended, expect results equal to the FV4202, great on paper - but only on paper. Oh and we get HEAT as prem rounds, not HESH.

The new soviet light tanks offer nothing really interesting. It seems at least the T-60 is quite well armored for its tier, the rest though are average.

The second most cried about german tank to be included in the game on the forums - the aufklarung panzer panther, or the schwere Leopard or whatever you want to call it - well you got it and its as bad as you can expect. A tier 7 Panzer IV-V with the koniche. The first tank in the game that has to rely on ramming as a main weapon, not a tactic of opportunity.

VK7201 SuperLowe - third time lucky

More information was leaked about the VK7201 yesterday - namely well... everything. 

We get the armor layout, the gun stats, the module stats, the vehicle stats like health top speed and so on. 

All I can say is...This may not be such a fail tank after all, if we don't count the horrible looks. The turret is very well protected - the front is 240mm + another 240mm gun shield that covers most of it. Even the neck is well defended from the 120mm thick spaced armor collar that gives a combined 280mm protection, angles not included. It seems the turret can hold its own even against premium shells. Only the commanders cupola is vulnerable(as usual).

Side armor is 160mm thick, not counting the tracks, so you can side scrape with it with ease.

The gun is the same as on the E-100, with the same statistics to boost. Gun depression is -7% which is quite nice.

Fun fact - top speed is impressive - listed as 43 kmph but the power to weight ratio is about 10 horsepowers per ton so don't get excited. Still, downhill ramming with a 120 ton tank at 40-50 kmph? Count me in folks! 

The real cheese now - frontal armor is 240mm, LFP - 240 mm. Basically that means that the VK7201 will be impervious frontally to tanks like the Maus and IS7. The LFP is slightly angled - 20-30% which means that even 260mm penetrating guns will have problems with it. And lets not forget the 160mm side armor which means you can always angle slightly and get 300mm LFP.

Its not all roses though. The engine deck is thin 70mm and 40mm which means that artillery will have a field day delivering fire and brimstone to your poor head. The lack of spaced armor and side skirts will surely help them in this. 

Still I'd say we get a very good defensive tank that will take away the role of the Maus as a brick. As if the Maus was any good at it nowadays....

Supertest leak Aufklärungspanzer Panther

Oookay take a deep breath and...well behold?

So yes - thats the new tier 7 german scout. If you think the chinese tanks were copy pasted, take a closer look here - panther hull, VK2801 turret with leopard turret as stock and the 10,5mm derp probably 75mm and(take a deep breath) the 75mm koniche as top gun. 850 HP engine. I mean...really?



Ok ok, let's be reasonable here first!

We wanted the Aufklarungspanzer Panther...I guess we simply did not know the thing we wanted in the first place.  Here's a model of the thing which shows what would be the stock configuration if things stay the same.

In a way the dev's had a cruel joke with us this time. They delivered EXACTLY what we wanted. No more no less.

Right then - about the Aufklarungpanzer Panther in detail. Ahem well do you have a Panzer V-IV? No? Well you can read up about it on the wiki and you will know exactly what to expect, since the Panzer V-IV is the same thing - a Panther hull with a Panzer IV turret, while the Aufklarung is a Panther hull with VK2801/Leopard turret. The difference is that one is tier 6 the other is tier 7. Of course this MIGHT change...but don't get your hopes up yet.

Anyway, if we use the Pz V-IV as reference, things don't look bright. Yes the tank will be mobile, since its going to be lighter than a panther with about 7-8 tons and with 100 horsepowers more. However that does not translate into scout like mobility - A T71 will be able to fly circles around it. The choice of guns is...rather stale if you ask me. The 105mm derp gun is a tried and tested one, but on Tier 7 it starts losing some of its oomph. The 75mm konich? No, just NOPE! Its a pay to win gun on the VK3601 and it WILL be the same on the Aufklarung, unless they change it. I mean - 65 dmg per shot? Really now?

Now on the other hand if you give it APCR as normal ammo you get a scout that significantly outguns the normal Panther I, hell it will outgun the heavy tanks too!

Oh yeah - the last fun fact. Gun depression on the V-IV is barely -3 +17. Same as a chinese tank. That means the Aufklarung will handle very poorly in hills. Needless to say - its a much, much bigger target than the other scouts too. Hopefully they will give it more health, however with the Panther one sitting at 1200 HP, they can't give the Aufklarung more than say - 1000/1100.


All in all, not everything is bright in the new german line.

Supertest leak the Leopard 1

Now hold your horses and don't get too excited. This is not a modern version of the Leopard 1, as much as we wish so. Actually though I'm not sure, this looks like the 2nd Leopard 1 prototype(Disregard that, I do believe we are looking at Leopard 1 A2), not even the real thing. I could be wrong of course. Anyway the differences between the ingame Leopard 1 prototype and Leo 1 can't be that great. What I can see is a much thicker gun shield that would be more at home on a US high tier tank destroyer. Apart from that, hull armor can't be that different, so don't expect anything nice on that end. The weapon would still be the british 105mm L7, with HESH as the premium ammo as rumours go.  I'd say our best bet is to look at the british medium tanks when trying to speculate about the Leo. Compared to its t9 predecessor, Leopard 1 will probably get more horsepowers, giviing it faster acceleration with the same top speed, stronger turret front combined with good gun depression AND better RoF. Whether the RoF will be better than that of the FV4202 is still an enigma. Leopard 1 was a tank designed with the idea that you will hit first, and leave no room for retaliation - so accuracy and aim time should be on par with the E-50M, or even better.

Supertest leak - the Leopard 1 Prototype

It seems the supertesters are already busy preparing for patch 8.5. This is going to be a new tier 9 for the German tech tree - the Leopard 1 Prototype.


What can we expect? Top speed of 65 km, very thin armor and the british 105mm L7 gun. Prem ammo will be HESH.

Oookay so how does that package translate? A flanker tank with the speed to actually close in and use the high damage of the HESH rounds? The FV4202 is certainly anything but a fast med. 65 kpmh will put the Leo 1 on par with bat chats.
 Arty bait? Time will tell. There are no side skirts to absorb splash.

My hopes are for a fast med tank with good sniper abilities and moderate hull down options. Now of course we might get a piece of scrap but...too soon to say.

Supertest leak the M60 Patton

Oh, sorry I meant the 105 mm Gun Full Tracked Combat Tank M60.

Well then, at least for this one there can be less speculation than the german paper prototypes.

What can we expect from the M60?

You will get the same top speed of 48kmph, and pivot turning.
The real one had a 750 hp Continental engine (15hp/per ton), I imagine a chance of fire 20% like the other continental engines ingame. M68 gun which we already know and love. Gun depressin and elevation at + 19 -9 which is quite good.

The turret - gun mantlet is 110mm with 180mm front armor which creates a decent hard spot of 290mm armor. where they overlap...which is about 3/4s of the turret front. The rest however, will barely protect you from T8 heavy tanks.

I'm not sure what step will the devs take with this tank since while it was a significant improvement in the real world, in World of tanks, the M48 Patton already offers much of the same - namely the M68 gun, a bigger engine, and allmost the same armor.

Supertest leak the Indienpanzer

It may not look like much, but looks are often deceiving. This is a leak of the new  Indienpanzer, as part of the 2nd German med tank tree.

It should be a tier 8 tank, starting from the DB, probably leading to Leopard prototype as tier 9 and Leopard 1 as T10 meduim.


It seems to be sporting a version of the lowe turm, a big mantle piece(though it does not seem as thick as the original). The gun looks rather thin, probably under 105mm. The armor is supposedly weak, however the frontal slope looks like 68 degrees to me, which means more than doubled value of the actual armor. The tank is supposed to have an ungodly engine too.

I'd say a tank not too different from the DB - it will be faster and with  a bit more bouncy bits than Panther II (the turret and frontal slope would see to that) but with a weaker fast firing gun(so no long 88).

A new tier 8 german flanker?

 

Supertest leak the VK7201 Lowe tank

Recently an image was leaked from the World of tanks supertest, that showed a (supposedly) new german tier 10 Heavy tank - an upgunned, uparmored version of the VK7201 Lowe with a rear mounted turret.

Not much is known about it for the time being (well, nothing really) though the drawing below of a Lowe version seems to be one of the sources. So what do we know, or believe we know about this tank? Its all speculation drawn from the drawing, the screenshot and what we DO know about the existing ingame Lowe tank premium tank.

First of all, the gun does seem to be the 150mm KwK, taken straight from the E-100. Whether thats good or bad news remain to be seen. It will be quite hilarious if that gun can shoot faster in the cramped Lowe turret than in the huge E-100 house-for-a-cupola-because-we-want-it-huge. Doesn't mean that the Lowe turm is bad though. It keeps the trademark huge gun mantle which means the front will be quite bouncy even without increasing the armor of the tank to do the job. The rear placement of the turret though, leaves gun depression as a wild card. Old Lowe has -6 +17. This one might have a bit less depression because of it.

The frontal slope seems the same on both the new and the old Lowe - 55 degrees, which if the increased armor rumor is true, will give us at least adequate UFP. The image quality is poor so I'm not certain, but it seems the new Lowe lacks the traditional Lowe's frontal weakspot with the flat area of armor. Can't be certain though.


So where does that leave us?

We get a heavy tank with a rear mounted bouncy turret and a really big gun with (slow reload). Sidescraping and hull down tactics will likely be your best friend. Its unlikely the new Lowe will get more than 2500 hit points at best.