Some things to add: 1. Learn enemy tank weak spots! 2. Post pen damage means nothing if you can not pen! Use the PZGR39 ONLY! Though if you get in a fight with a Jumbo then a couple PZGR40 rounds can be useful but if you use tip one you will not need to use PZGR40. 3. Only carry 20-25 rounds max. The more rounds you carry the more likely you are to be ammo racked! Believe me you will almost never use all of your 20-25 rounds. 4. Tiger 1 H, has smoke launchers on the hull which can get in the way when angling or trying to get a gun on target. Always keep this in mind when using this Tiger! 5. Pay attention to your MINI MAP!! Can't tell you how many players get tunnel vision. It's not the tank that you can see that is the most dangerous! 6. Listen for the sounds of engines! Trust me pay attention to engine sounds you will get more kills and piss off more people. Nothing like getting called a cheater after a match! ;P 7. Learn the Maps - Knowing good places to position your tank can really help you rack up the kills. 8. Keep your turret moving when reloading. Trust me getting penned through the mantlet is a thing or even worse getting your gun knocked out. Good hunting!
that is not how it works the tiger is dogshit it is just utter dogshit its cannon wont penetrate if its not the sides or gunnerport it gets 1 hit from everywhere if not angeld and its just dogshit in genneral cuz youre team will not help or even hold youre flanks if youre new and coming into war thunder dont take germany its bad the planes are worse then from any nation and the tanks are just painfull
@@grim3023 my boy, have you even played the game for any decent time? Sadly rushing in and hopeing for the krupp stahl to save you isn't a bright idea. You have to predict and possition. Just think about this. A M18, The 75mm and the 85mm canon are not able to pen your front if you angle right exept for the cupola and the peace between the track and upper side. Use your terain to hide those spots or make it hard to hit them by moving. Is not that hard
@@grim3023 and i'm saying that that 250 were a waste because it seems like you learned nothing. Fact still stands but not everyone can actually play the tiger the correct way
0:00 - Intro 0:55 - Overview 2:21 - Variants In Game 4:06 - Roles 5:27 - Modules and Unlock Order 8:06 - Tips & Tricks 10:12 - Dos and Don'ts 11:29 - Strengths & Weaknesses 13:26 - What Ammo Type to Use 16:19 - Weakspots & How To Hide Them 20:39 - Final Advice 21:35 - Outro Hope these timestamps help!
Thank you!! I plan on making some other guides for individual tanks in the near future, like for the Panther, T-34, and Sherman. Get the common ones out of the way first, then I'll start making more specialized guides.
thank you for this. i rushed through BRs just to get to the tiger and was getting my ass kicked non stop once i used it. simply angling the tank as you mentioned has made my survival time so much better. ya got a subscriber out of me!!
you know what ive been waiting for a warthunder youtuber to actually dedicate videos to specific tank guides, like how to best utilize tanks such as the jpz 4-5 and others ! especially common or often used vehicles would be awesome maybe a vid on something like the super pershing or more unique tanks ? ! either way love this type of vid !
you were right.. I was frustrated when I got this tank @ first especially how it died easily when not angled.. when I learned to angle, this thing is a beast.. great video tank.. love the comprehensive series..
Every german newbie should watch this excellent video! Something I wanted to add: Gosh man you said people should angle that thing yet in your gameplay I see nothing but aggressive underangling. It is usually a reliable strategy to "overangle" to the point that your side 80mm and frontal 102mm plates are mostly immune to the common ally guns. That may expose the 62mm plate behind the tracks but for some reason most players I face dont shoot there. It is important to give your opponents minmimal time to react to you, both when you brawl and snipe so they can't exploit your weak spots (including the overangled 62mm plate). As you mentioned, shooting without hitting the breaks is very important, because it gives the enemy tankers a lot less time to aim, I think.
My first experience with the tiger h1. I took and held c point on a tropical map for almost the whole match. When I headed back to it just before the match was over. I saw two tiger tanks on my own team hiding behind a hill behind c. I was so pissed at them. The only good thing about it is I got 25 kills out of it. Had my reload speed been slightly faster, I would have got the tank that killed me.
For the love of God tankenstien, only bring max 30 shells in a match. Your not going to face 80 tanks, so that makes you a ticking time bomb to get ammo racked. Sorry for yelling at you
IN sniper matches, it pays to have a full ammo loadout. Less need to get out of position to get reloads. Tigers in WT aren't sluggers or brawlers, they're too fat and turret traverse is slow. Panthers are a bit better for mid range combat.
I as a Tiger player. Experience warhunder when they had it balanced against late war allied tanks. I was hard to pen. But I was invincible. I could deal out the kills. But I had to play smart. But they changed all that. I'm literally facing off against cold war tanks that can out speed, load gun me.
Pro tips: - Pzgr. is now better than PzGr 39. Difference being that Pzgr. always kills in in one shot due to the new overpressure system. Difference in pen is negligible and only matters when facing IS-2's at long range. - Angling your hull is not very reliable at close ranges as soviet 85mm's can pen your 62mm lower side at
@@Samuel.0.0.0 bro you just unlocked a core memory because when i made this comment i was a trash german player now im top tier in ussr and germany with 1000 hours
A thing to add: Don't front line brawl in the Tiger H1, as it can lead you to hyperfocusing on one target and leading to a quick death because the tank you're focusing on has support. You can brawl a little bit, if you know their weaknesses and if you're in the E, but the H1 is a no go, due to the S-mine launchers.
I find HEAT shells effective for enemies hiding behind small cover or hills. The lower velocity allows for a more angled shot. Literally the only time I use, so I only load up a few.
Thank you very much for the helpful video, I’m a new player and I’ve been grinding a couple trees trying to get my play style figure outed and I just ground out my tiger 1. Found everything in this video helpful and relative a year later after posting.
I recently got back from a year break from war thunder. A year ago playing with a tiger against my br and when angling was just ez. Now tiger is still good but I keep playing against 6.7, FV4005, Tortoises, IS-2, cant pen and angling is uselss.
Great guide! I hope this guide can help people who just got tiger 1, and maybe increase tiger 1 win rate a little bit(though 53% win rate is pretty good, i thought it was gonna be lower, idk how is 2 got 40ish% win rate)and make german player don't cry about tiger 1 br. Btw as I've noticed why did you bring so many round? 23 round seems enough for me and reduced ammo rack explosion significantly. Btw keep up the good work you're truly underrated WT youtuber
If you angle you live. Proof my first game of the tiger h1. Someone destroyed my cannon, so all I had was a machine gun. I hadn't finished researching Parts, because it was my first game. After taking out my cannon I kept angling and shooting my machine gun, and got 8 assets with no deaths.
Imma put down this stuff (my opinion on tiger 13,000 xp away) Treat it like the Panzer 4, it has a good gun but weak armor, so either angle or if you know the enemy has a really good gun hide yourself or the hull From what I have figured out and heard that 102mm plate wont come in handy if you don't angle, considering the Panzer4 literally has a 164mm pen shell, yeah angle Get the panther after because it's faster and will help in CQB maps ALWAYS look around corners in enemy territory, you are never tol paranoid Shoot the font of M4s near the turret because that spot is weak and most of the time instantly kills the enemy If your gun gets deded (or any part of it for that matter) smoke and run, kamikaze wont save you.
my own tip for playing the Tiger, consider the tank as a medium tank instead of an heavy tank, it has a decent reverse speed, a good turret traverse speed, angle in diamond shape ALL the time, the main canon can kill anything, the jumbo's weakspot is the machinegun port, your biggest weakspot is the space on the front, center of the glacis where the driver port is (one shot there and you're dead), the second important weak spot is the cupola, any shot to the sides will kill you, if you meet an IS-2 you will most likely die, you DON'T need to use the other researchable APHE shells, your basic APHE is already powerful enough to one shot everything, the other researchable shell loses penetration for more TNT. just use the tank as a support tank, sniper or a flanker, it is NOT meant to be used as a heavy tank in Warthunder. if you want an heavy tank at that BR, take a Panther and DON'T angle your panther, the front is strong enough for most tanks, if you angle a Panther you're dead (unlike the Tiger).
btw, i noticed Tankenstein is going to battle with a full ammo load, DON'T, check the wiki page for your vehicule, go to the ammo racks sections, bring the minimum "comfortable" amount of shells possible (which is 21 shells for the Tiger H1 in my opinion), that way if a shells hits an empty ammo rack, your tank will not detonate; it's good especially against solid shells. 21 shells on a Tiger H1 means the right side of the tanks doesn't have any shells in it and you will drastically increase your chances of survival.
Blowing this tank is simply a stress reliever for me. T-44, IS-2, Jumbo 76, and T29 (if the player purposefully uptiers it to 6.3 or 6.7) totally destroys tigers even in a 1v3 scenario (ive had a couple of games where i just drive around in my T-44 clicking on tigers while bouncing off their unaimed shots) Sadly this might not be the case anymore :( Also, i personally dont think angling the tiger will help much against 122mm D-25T used by various soviet heavies or even the 85mm D-5T. Especially if you have your left (right from enemy's perspective) corner of the hull exposed. It is barely 105mm thick, and a penetration to that area will 100% detonate the ammorack. The only way to even have a chance of surviving a fight against something like an IS-2 is to angle while completely hiding said weakspot using obstacles. Of course this is not always possible to do in every situation (e.g. on flat maps with minimum cover available), and you might just have to accept the 5k sl repair cost.
I see you saying that getting ammo racked is an issue with this tank, but if you carry 10-15 rounds, that might be less of an issue over your crew getting knocked out
I’ve always thought that gaijin should add a “historical” mode, where you can use the German heavies to great effect, and experience which country’s tanks were actually better in their time period. honestly I don’t think it would be super unfair, if you look around TH-cam you will find hundreds of videos with M22s and BT-7s killing panthers easily. I think it would be a good challenge for experienced players in allied tanks, and a good beginner friendly environment for newer German players.
RB is already a “good beginner friendly environment for newer German players.” Germany is so much better than everyone else at this BR that it’s like you’re playing Doom lmao. And since the BT-7 and M22 *can* kill a Panther, let’s just move those up to 5.7 because they’re clearly too op
I have tiger h1 but im not going to use it until i have the panther i already noticed on BR 3.3 with the Panzer IV that im not good enough to play at an even higher tier so i will stay at 3.0 and grind to the panther
"This is not real life, this is War Thunder" this needs to be said more lol. When silly mechanics kill you and someone says "yeah but in real life if that happened you'd be dead too"
guys just remember that if you use the pzgr. if you manage to pen you are gonna kill by overpressure the enemy i use it a lot and cant find the penetrating power difference betwen the pzgr39 and pzgr.
I guess Germans were confident about the vulnerable sides of this tank even though all the ammo is over there because they planned attacking as packs of tanks and all the other friendly combat elements around them. Do you think that's the case here?
Fun fact: on the official field manual for tiger one crew, in the section for tank commander it states to always angle the hull towards the enemy. Even dividing the four corner of the hull into into meal times; you have 10.30 the front left corner as breakfast, 1.30 as lunch, 4.30as coffee, and 7.30 as dinner. When encountering a enemy angle the nearest meal towards the enemy, if there are more than one angle towards one and shoot the other first.
Im 3,000 research away from getting my first Tiger, (the Tiger-H1) and this video helped me tremendously, however I have one question: What is the average kills per game for this tank? Plz reply with your average kills in the tiger H1 so i can get an idea thank-you!
Fun fact. Most tanks avoided the tigers. T34s could not pen front. This was common tank warfare lesser tanks avoided bigger tanks and called in artillery. And yeah the 2 advantages the tiger had was armor and range. In tank battles the experienced crews would have multiple kills before other tanks even got in range. They often decimated t34s and Sherman's had no chance until the brits got tired of it and added their own 75mm guns aka the firefly. The greatest tank victories for US and Russia was how many they could produce.
You've read my mind! I was thinking about doing the Panther, Sherman, and T-34 first. It might take two weeks between videos due to the amount of gameplay I need to actually make a guide video, haha.
I did! I'll be making a Panther guide in the coming weeks, so I'll be working on getting that gameplay footage. If you're in the Discord, you can join!
Shouldnt you research brakes before dampening? I heard online that the dampening does basically little to nothing at stopping the wobblyness when going so braking faster to get still would help more no? Just a thought. Im pretty new to this game anyways with only about 130 hours under my belt. I unlocked the tiger and took it into arcade just to get blasted in the first 30 seconds, your vids are really helpful thanks!
16:22 fun fact the Germans were the only country to develop magnetic anti tank explosives called "Panzerknacker"😂and applying Zimmermant was a pain in the ass and wasn’t all that safe so they just decided to cancel it. (Edit) this video saved my ass as a German main thank you ❤️❤️❤️
this is mostly great advice. that being said, do not shoot planes? that is not good advice. If you have a secondary MG turret, use it. kill those planes before they wreck you or your team. if you cant shoot down planes then take his advice, but i highly recommend everyone practices shooting down planes either in test drive or arcade survivals so they are not helpless when they run into good Close air support players. CAS dominates especially in the higher tiers but you have better chances if you at least try to shoot them down
For jumbos, the first thing to do is break their barrels. This would make them a lot less dangerous. Then, maybe a teammate will see what you're doing and finish them off, perhaps from their sides. Otherwise, while they're repairing, you can aim for their machine gun port. In my experience this works quite a bit. Otherwise they run away and that's okay. Also hitting them from the side, even at a angle, is a good idea to try before aiming for the mg port, since the latter is sometimes difficult. Or you can flank the broken barreled Jumbo. That works too.
how to deal with sherman jumbo : step 1 : load APCR step 2 : one shot the entire crew step 3 : profit if no APCR is acceseble please follow the following instructions step 1 : load APHE step 2 : shoot at the HULL 1919 MG step 3 : pray to the snail that volumetric armor won't fuck you over step 4 : profit
@@oliwer23pl95 I was referring to second half your comment I know weak my port but I play nations with good APHE ie Russia but never get lucky with crew kill. So other ways to counter jumbos be nice
Not too bad of a guide but one thing which made me cringe a bit was with the Tiger Befehlswagen on Sands of Sinai when you mention it and said it has more armour when angled and even angled it towards you enemy in the video. While yes this does buff the already extremely thick 200mm front plate to even more armour in effective thickness, you failed to mention the angled armour on the front corners of the tank which are much, much thinner, 82mm to be exact. For those unsure of what I mean look at this tank from above and note that unlike the E and H1 variants the corners are not at right angles, they are angled. The problem this causes is that if you angle too much the weaker plates in these positions become perpendicular to the enemy shooting you and thus they can penetrate easily. This tank is played with essentially no angling as it isn't required in most cases, doing so will result in a penetration of that weakpoint like I said as pretty much any gun shooting at you can penetrate that but likely won't penetrate the front plate if you are unangled. No hate or anything, just sharing my experiences.
Don't complain about getting ammo racked if you play with full load of ammunition, carrying 90 shells in a match(arcade, realistic, simulator, its all the same) is completely useless, take only about 30 shells, which you'll see will be put in the central storage of the tank, near the transmission, instead of the sides, you can also see it in the x-ray mode. Apart from this, good overall video
Tiger II Guide: th-cam.com/video/br3uvCznyHs/w-d-xo.html
Panther Guide: th-cam.com/video/SfaFtTdnYvc/w-d-xo.html
Some things to add:
1. Learn enemy tank weak spots!
2. Post pen damage means nothing if you can not pen! Use the PZGR39 ONLY! Though if you get in a fight with a Jumbo then a couple PZGR40 rounds can be useful but if you use tip one you will not need to use PZGR40.
3. Only carry 20-25 rounds max. The more rounds you carry the more likely you are to be ammo racked! Believe me you will almost never use all of your 20-25 rounds.
4. Tiger 1 H, has smoke launchers on the hull which can get in the way when angling or trying to get a gun on target. Always keep this in mind when using this Tiger!
5. Pay attention to your MINI MAP!! Can't tell you how many players get tunnel vision. It's not the tank that you can see that is the most dangerous!
6. Listen for the sounds of engines! Trust me pay attention to engine sounds you will get more kills and piss off more people. Nothing like getting called a cheater after a match! ;P
7. Learn the Maps - Knowing good places to position your tank can really help you rack up the kills.
8. Keep your turret moving when reloading. Trust me getting penned through the mantlet is a thing or even worse getting your gun knocked out.
Good hunting!
Thanks for the extra info! I'm researching the Tiger right now and I can't wait to try out all the stuff I've learned from the video and comment
Actually you can bring at max 28 rounds because that already eliminates most ammoracks spots
@@corsair1001 i was so exited when I bought it
I see thanks for some tips also i just want to say the smoke launcher in the hull aren't really smoke launchers they're anti personal granade
God bless wheriboos but not really
Step 1: angle
Step 2: aim
Step 3: why did you stop angeling? Angle again
Step 4: fire
Step 5: hope you're not in a 6.3 game
It didn’t, fucking bots.
that is not how it works the tiger is dogshit it is just utter dogshit its cannon wont penetrate if its not the sides or gunnerport it gets 1 hit from everywhere if not angeld and its just dogshit in genneral cuz youre team will not help or even hold youre flanks if youre new and coming into war thunder dont take germany its bad the planes are worse then from any nation and the tanks are just painfull
@@grim3023 my boy, have you even played the game for any decent time?
Sadly rushing in and hopeing for the krupp stahl to save you isn't a bright idea. You have to predict and possition. Just think about this. A M18, The 75mm and the 85mm canon are not able to pen your front if you angle right exept for the cupola and the peace between the track and upper side. Use your terain to hide those spots or make it hard to hit them by moving. Is not that hard
@@angrywehraboosnoises8016 i have 250hrs and what youre saying doesnt make any sense germany is a bad nation in warthunder i swotched to britain now
@@grim3023 and i'm saying that that 250 were a waste because it seems like you learned nothing. Fact still stands but not everyone can actually play the tiger the correct way
0:00 - Intro
0:55 - Overview
2:21 - Variants In Game
4:06 - Roles
5:27 - Modules and Unlock Order
8:06 - Tips & Tricks
10:12 - Dos and Don'ts
11:29 - Strengths & Weaknesses
13:26 - What Ammo Type to Use
16:19 - Weakspots & How To Hide Them
20:39 - Final Advice
21:35 - Outro
Hope these timestamps help!
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Thank you
Tip: carry 20 shells of ammo because it removes the tank shells from the side ammo rack
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Excuse me sir, i cary 10 rounds. 10 not 11 not 20 but 10. And there is still anmo on my side
you deserve way more views than what you get
Thank you! I appreciate it!
big true
No cap.
Agreed
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You should do more guides like this, it's incredibly helpful! Great vid :)
Thank you!! I plan on making some other guides for individual tanks in the near future, like for the Panther, T-34, and Sherman. Get the common ones out of the way first, then I'll start making more specialized guides.
Got a subscription from me, I can tell you put alot of work into these videos. keep it up brother, youll go far.
thank you for this. i rushed through BRs just to get to the tiger and was getting my ass kicked non stop once i used it. simply angling the tank as you mentioned has made my survival time so much better. ya got a subscriber out of me!!
Sameeee bro
you know what ive been waiting for a warthunder youtuber to actually dedicate videos to specific tank guides, like how to best utilize tanks such as the jpz 4-5 and others ! especially common or often used vehicles would be awesome maybe a vid on something like the super pershing or more unique tanks ? ! either way love this type of vid !
I'm happy that my grind finally feels like it payed off. I was able to take out a t85 and pantherD after this.
Crazy that I’m watching guides to tanks I don’t have just yet, man I’m excited
you were right.. I was frustrated when I got this tank @ first especially how it died easily when not angled.. when I learned to angle, this thing is a beast.. great video tank.. love the comprehensive series..
Every german newbie should watch this excellent video!
Something I wanted to add:
Gosh man you said people should angle that thing yet in your gameplay I see nothing but aggressive underangling. It is usually a reliable strategy to "overangle" to the point that your side 80mm and frontal 102mm plates are mostly immune to the common ally guns. That may expose the 62mm plate behind the tracks but for some reason most players I face dont shoot there. It is important to give your opponents minmimal time to react to you, both when you brawl and snipe so they can't exploit your weak spots (including the overangled 62mm plate). As you mentioned, shooting without hitting the breaks is very important, because it gives the enemy tankers a lot less time to aim, I think.
sorry this is late
it's really easy to get gaijined by the roadwheels (?) supporting the track, they sometimes eat the shell
@@geostorm2860 It doesn't happen often to me when I face tigers but I figure it's enough to force you to exploit other weak spots.
My first experience with the tiger h1. I took and held c point on a tropical map for almost the whole match. When I headed back to it just before the match was over. I saw two tiger tanks on my own team hiding behind a hill behind c. I was so pissed at them. The only good thing about it is I got 25 kills out of it. Had my reload speed been slightly faster, I would have got the tank that killed me.
For the love of God tankenstien, only bring max 30 shells in a match. Your not going to face 80 tanks, so that makes you a ticking time bomb to get ammo racked. Sorry for yelling at you
most tiger miss 90% of there shots man. they need unleast 40 shells to get one kill !
IN sniper matches, it pays to have a full ammo loadout. Less need to get out of position to get reloads. Tigers in WT aren't sluggers or brawlers, they're too fat and turret traverse is slow. Panthers are a bit better for mid range combat.
I as a Tiger player. Experience warhunder when they had it balanced against late war allied tanks. I was hard to pen. But I was invincible. I could deal out the kills. But I had to play smart. But they changed all that. I'm literally facing off against cold war tanks that can out speed, load gun me.
Finnally ill end matches like Otto Carius and not Michael Wittman
Great stuff.....thanks man. Love the intro music...
12:33 nice shot!
Its shots like these that make me love war thunder
Pro tips:
- Pzgr. is now better than PzGr 39. Difference being that Pzgr. always kills in in one shot due to the new overpressure system. Difference in pen is negligible and only matters when facing IS-2's at long range.
- Angling your hull is not very reliable at close ranges as soviet 85mm's can pen your 62mm lower side at
I actually believed that I would be invincible when I purchased the Tiger tank. Imagine my disappointment after getting wrecked right left center😂
If you want to feel the Tiger's mythical power you need to play with IL2 Sturmovik Tank crew DLC before any of the true counterparts arrive!
That Toturial came a few weeks too late for me XD
The Tiger I was an amazing tank in WWII.
You're not going to play against tanks from WWII though :^)
But it better that king tiger ,tiger 1 face less tank that design after WW2
step 1: play game for 6 years
Or buy whit the card of your Parents Premium top tier
@@Samuel.0.0.0 bro you just unlocked a core memory because when i made this comment i was a trash german player now im top tier in ussr and germany with 1000 hours
Bwhahahaha. True
No money payed one month later I have tiger. Only playing 2 hours a day. Get better at war thunder bro
bro i have top tier in germany and ussr as you can see my comment may be 2 yrs old grow sum eyes
A thing to add:
Don't front line brawl in the Tiger H1, as it can lead you to hyperfocusing on one target and leading to a quick death because the tank you're focusing on has support. You can brawl a little bit, if you know their weaknesses and if you're in the E, but the H1 is a no go, due to the S-mine launchers.
So should we snipe ? Can you give me some advices because i cannot figure out how should i use Tiger H1
@@barbarossa9591 Essentially, you wanna hit targets that are distracted.
I find HEAT shells effective for enemies hiding behind small cover or hills. The lower velocity allows for a more angled shot. Literally the only time I use, so I only load up a few.
Thank you very much for the helpful video, I’m a new player and I’ve been grinding a couple trees trying to get my play style figure outed and I just ground out my tiger 1.
Found everything in this video helpful and relative a year later after posting.
I recently got back from a year break from war thunder. A year ago playing with a tiger against my br and when angling was just ez. Now tiger is still good but I keep playing against 6.7, FV4005, Tortoises, IS-2, cant pen and angling is uselss.
Straight and to the point, just a high quality guide. Very deserved like!
Great guide! I hope this guide can help people who just got tiger 1, and maybe increase tiger 1 win rate a little bit(though 53% win rate is pretty good, i thought it was gonna be lower, idk how is 2 got 40ish% win rate)and make german player don't cry about tiger 1 br. Btw as I've noticed why did you bring so many round? 23 round seems enough for me and reduced ammo rack explosion significantly. Btw keep up the good work you're truly underrated WT youtuber
Is2 has lower winrate? That thing seems impervious to tiger shoot.
This guy's the best! ❤
Loved this guide.
In maps like the poland map, i like to camp under the arches. Its very good at keeping aircraft away and you have a good defensive position.
Tldr: ANGLE GOD DAMN IT
More specifically, point one front edge towards the enemy
Amazing guide!!! I’m gonna share it with my friends.
Nooooo! how will I dunk on bad players with my bias machine
i play brits for a while got to rank 4 and i was just sick of dealing with tigers ,panthers and leapard so i joined the german nation lol
@@dieudujambon haha lol when I played Russia at 7.7 I was always killed by leopard 1s so I grinder all the way to Germany rank 5 to bully Russians
@@elkrumb9159 Hell yeah mate i got my tiger like 3h ago it pretty nutty tank lol I cant wait to have a nice 5.7-6.7 german line up
@@dieudujambon ikr my first match I got 8 kills lmao just remember to angle and most things will panic land just shoot your angled fp
@@elkrumb9159 i got 9 kill in one game my highest ever 😅
If you angle you live. Proof my first game of the tiger h1. Someone destroyed my cannon, so all I had was a machine gun. I hadn't finished researching Parts, because it was my first game. After taking out my cannon I kept angling and shooting my machine gun, and got 8 assets with no deaths.
Imma put down this stuff
(my opinion on tiger 13,000 xp away)
Treat it like the Panzer 4, it has a good gun but weak armor, so either angle or if you know the enemy has a really good gun hide yourself or the hull
From what I have figured out and heard that 102mm plate wont come in handy if you don't angle, considering the Panzer4 literally has a 164mm pen shell, yeah angle
Get the panther after because it's faster and will help in CQB maps
ALWAYS look around corners in enemy territory, you are never tol paranoid
Shoot the font of M4s near the turret because that spot is weak and most of the time instantly kills the enemy
If your gun gets deded (or any part of it for that matter) smoke and run, kamikaze wont save you.
or shoot the m4 on the side that also one shots them
@@veronicaearly4250 schlawg this was 2 years ago I'm almost at top tier now
watched this and got first place on my team. good content man
little thing to know, the tiger h1 has been moved to br 5.7, also, just reaserch all modification, it give you a reaserch bonus for a reaserch vehiule
best war thunder video I have seen ! .. Thank you.
Just got the Tiger yesterday
Great job, thank you. I always thought those were weld beads, now I know.
The biggest weakness is probably CAS.
I'm pretty sure I've been killed more times by a bomb than a tank.
Tiger 1 started in WW2 as heavy tank but at the end of the war it was medium tank by german standards.
Its amazing that i just watched a few vids like that just to play the tiger properly xD,man you gotta love or hate war thunder to do it :D.
my own tip for playing the Tiger, consider the tank as a medium tank instead of an heavy tank, it has a decent reverse speed, a good turret traverse speed, angle in diamond shape ALL the time, the main canon can kill anything, the jumbo's weakspot is the machinegun port, your biggest weakspot is the space on the front, center of the glacis where the driver port is (one shot there and you're dead), the second important weak spot is the cupola, any shot to the sides will kill you, if you meet an IS-2 you will most likely die, you DON'T need to use the other researchable APHE shells, your basic APHE is already powerful enough to one shot everything, the other researchable shell loses penetration for more TNT.
just use the tank as a support tank, sniper or a flanker, it is NOT meant to be used as a heavy tank in Warthunder.
if you want an heavy tank at that BR, take a Panther and DON'T angle your panther, the front is strong enough for most tanks, if you angle a Panther you're dead (unlike the Tiger).
also i forgot, expect to be uptiered 90% of the time.
and also the best line up is the 5.7 lineup by far.
btw, i noticed Tankenstein is going to battle with a full ammo load, DON'T, check the wiki page for your vehicule, go to the ammo racks sections, bring the minimum "comfortable" amount of shells possible (which is 21 shells for the Tiger H1 in my opinion), that way if a shells hits an empty ammo rack, your tank will not detonate; it's good especially against solid shells.
21 shells on a Tiger H1 means the right side of the tanks doesn't have any shells in it and you will drastically increase your chances of survival.
The tradeoff is that while it faces stronger opponents, it's transmission doesn't ever randomly break. 😂
I would get tracks before crew replenishment, for mobility
tracks are better, better neutral traverse meaning faster angling meaning more chance to survive
Blowing this tank is simply a stress reliever for me. T-44, IS-2, Jumbo 76, and T29 (if the player purposefully uptiers it to 6.3 or 6.7) totally destroys tigers even in a 1v3 scenario (ive had a couple of games where i just drive around in my T-44 clicking on tigers while bouncing off their unaimed shots) Sadly this might not be the case anymore :(
Also, i personally dont think angling the tiger will help much against 122mm D-25T used by various soviet heavies or even the 85mm D-5T. Especially if you have your left (right from enemy's perspective) corner of the hull exposed. It is barely 105mm thick, and a penetration to that area will 100% detonate the ammorack. The only way to even have a chance of surviving a fight against something like an IS-2 is to angle while completely hiding said weakspot using obstacles. Of course this is not always possible to do in every situation (e.g. on flat maps with minimum cover available), and you might just have to accept the 5k sl repair cost.
Just play ussr for stalinium. What a pro
Also a tip: carry minimal amount of ammo, I find 20 plenty
Also if you have no other option use ur engine as armour
now i'm waiting for tiger 2 guide
Play like the panther in the tiger 2 P play like the tiger 1 in the tiger 2 H
firing on the move is great and all but, unless you are fighting a jumbo, "back it up, back it up, nah, nah, nah, back it up"
I see you saying that getting ammo racked is an issue with this tank, but if you carry 10-15 rounds, that might be less of an issue over your crew getting knocked out
Tiger 1 vs Crusader?
Oof
That wouldn't even be enjoyable.
here you go mate you deseve it happy holidays dude
I’ve always thought that gaijin should add a “historical” mode, where you can use the German heavies to great effect, and experience which country’s tanks were actually better in their time period. honestly I don’t think it would be super unfair, if you look around TH-cam you will find hundreds of videos with M22s and BT-7s killing panthers easily. I think it would be a good challenge for experienced players in allied tanks, and a good beginner friendly environment for newer German players.
RB is already a “good beginner friendly environment for newer German players.” Germany is so much better than everyone else at this BR that it’s like you’re playing Doom lmao. And since the BT-7 and M22 *can* kill a Panther, let’s just move those up to 5.7 because they’re clearly too op
sturmpanzer can kill modern tanks to bro
@@sabriskaguvensski8590 you mean brummbar
I have tiger h1 but im not going to use it until i have the panther i already noticed on BR 3.3 with the Panzer IV that im not good enough to play at an even higher tier so i will stay at 3.0 and grind to the panther
a very good tip for everyone playing wt is to bring 10-15 ammo so you dont get ammo racked
I literally never play germans and i want to try em thanks!!!
Great informational vid appreciate it‼️
Thanks for all that job, it will help !
"This is not real life, this is War Thunder" this needs to be said more lol.
When silly mechanics kill you and someone says "yeah but in real life if that happened you'd be dead too"
_Camp Thunder: Who Stares Wins_
guys just remember that if you use the pzgr. if you manage to pen you are gonna kill by overpressure the enemy i use it a lot and cant find the penetrating power difference betwen the pzgr39 and pzgr.
I guess Germans were confident about the vulnerable sides of this tank even though all the ammo is over there because they planned attacking as packs of tanks and all the other friendly combat elements around them. Do you think that's the case here?
well thought out guide.
Amen, finger
I watched your videos everynight till i fall asleep. I hope you make a flanking video guide. I don't know how to flank properly. Thank you
Fun fact: on the official field manual for tiger one crew, in the section for tank commander it states to always angle the hull towards the enemy. Even dividing the four corner of the hull into into meal times; you have 10.30 the front left corner as breakfast, 1.30 as lunch, 4.30as coffee, and 7.30 as dinner. When encountering a enemy angle the nearest meal towards the enemy, if there are more than one angle towards one and shoot the other first.
Im 3,000 research away from getting my first Tiger, (the Tiger-H1) and this video helped me tremendously, however I have one question: What is the average kills per game for this tank?
Plz reply with your average kills in the tiger H1 so i can get an idea thank-you!
I really need a Guide on how to use the tiger h1 i really appreciate it
Fun fact. Most tanks avoided the tigers. T34s could not pen front. This was common tank warfare lesser tanks avoided bigger tanks and called in artillery. And yeah the 2 advantages the tiger had was armor and range. In tank battles the experienced crews would have multiple kills before other tanks even got in range. They often decimated t34s and Sherman's had no chance until the brits got tired of it and added their own 75mm guns aka the firefly. The greatest tank victories for US and Russia was how many they could produce.
Tiger is great in it tier. U got the deadly gun, use it. Alway angle your armor. Never go alone.
can you do panther next
You've read my mind! I was thinking about doing the Panther, Sherman, and T-34 first. It might take two weeks between videos due to the amount of gameplay I need to actually make a guide video, haha.
It's litterally a block of butter in WT
you saved my life thanks
You can also use less shells so they put it in a safer place
Hey, can you make tips/guides for leopard 1?
That would be grateful
Yayyyy you got it done!
I did! I'll be making a Panther guide in the coming weeks, so I'll be working on getting that gameplay footage. If you're in the Discord, you can join!
@@Tankenstein if you need Panther footage let me know. Got a bunch of 10+-0 matches. I also main the Panther A so I'm pretty good with it.
Shouldnt you research brakes before dampening? I heard online that the dampening does basically little to nothing at stopping the wobblyness when going so braking faster to get still would help more no? Just a thought. Im pretty new to this game anyways with only about 130 hours under my belt. I unlocked the tiger and took it into arcade just to get blasted in the first 30 seconds, your vids are really helpful thanks!
thanks
16:22 fun fact the Germans were the only country to develop magnetic anti tank explosives called "Panzerknacker"😂and applying Zimmermant was a pain in the ass and wasn’t all that safe so they just decided to cancel it.
(Edit) this video saved my ass as a German main thank you ❤️❤️❤️
I am not a good angler to say the least, I have gotten better, but to practice i usually run with 15-20 shells and make it count
Who needs a guide to play the most OP tanks?
Thank you for this.
What kind of ammo loadout do you recommend? And how do you angle if you don't know you're being sniped?
this is mostly great advice. that being said, do not shoot planes? that is not good advice. If you have a secondary MG turret, use it. kill those planes before they wreck you or your team. if you cant shoot down planes then take his advice, but i highly recommend everyone practices shooting down planes either in test drive or arcade survivals so they are not helpless when they run into good Close air support players. CAS dominates especially in the higher tiers but you have better chances if you at least try to shoot them down
Fun fact: noone used magnetic mines widely, it was most likely used by germans
You will still be sniped from a mile away by a Tier one scout car .
So it seems to me that the Tiger is more or less a tank destroyer with a turret that has some armor on the front
The A variant of the 85mm would like to know your angled armour's location
I only hold about 15 to 20 rounds in my tanks usually, I don't have my ammo explode alot more now
5:50 is where you need to go for the modifications
Even with this the tiger problem is still going
I played the tiger after 3 matches I never touched it again because all it fights is 6.0 and up just a cardboard box with a nerf gun
"Tiger is a heavy sniper"
Me german main: ok time to play Soviet
Hope you cover some other tanks 5.3 5.7 br like jumbos are nightmares to deal with.
For jumbos, the first thing to do is break their barrels. This would make them a lot less dangerous. Then, maybe a teammate will see what you're doing and finish them off, perhaps from their sides. Otherwise, while they're repairing, you can aim for their machine gun port. In my experience this works quite a bit. Otherwise they run away and that's okay. Also hitting them from the side, even at a angle, is a good idea to try before aiming for the mg port, since the latter is sometimes difficult. Or you can flank the broken barreled Jumbo. That works too.
how to deal with sherman jumbo :
step 1 : load APCR
step 2 : one shot the entire crew
step 3 : profit
if no APCR is acceseble please follow the following instructions
step 1 : load APHE
step 2 : shoot at the HULL 1919 MG
step 3 : pray to the snail that volumetric armor won't fuck you over
step 4 : profit
@@oliwer23pl95 I was referring to second half your comment I know weak my port but I play nations with good APHE ie Russia but never get lucky with crew kill. So other ways to counter jumbos be nice
how to kill a jumbo:
play french tanks
point and click
@@deathmetalkamerad1743 but I'm Russia.
Not too bad of a guide but one thing which made me cringe a bit was with the Tiger Befehlswagen on Sands of Sinai when you mention it and said it has more armour when angled and even angled it towards you enemy in the video. While yes this does buff the already extremely thick 200mm front plate to even more armour in effective thickness, you failed to mention the angled armour on the front corners of the tank which are much, much thinner, 82mm to be exact. For those unsure of what I mean look at this tank from above and note that unlike the E and H1 variants the corners are not at right angles, they are angled. The problem this causes is that if you angle too much the weaker plates in these positions become perpendicular to the enemy shooting you and thus they can penetrate easily. This tank is played with essentially no angling as it isn't required in most cases, doing so will result in a penetration of that weakpoint like I said as pretty much any gun shooting at you can penetrate that but likely won't penetrate the front plate if you are unangled. No hate or anything, just sharing my experiences.
Don't complain about getting ammo racked if you play with full load of ammunition, carrying 90 shells in a match(arcade, realistic, simulator, its all the same) is completely useless, take only about 30 shells, which you'll see will be put in the central storage of the tank, near the transmission, instead of the sides, you can also see it in the x-ray mode. Apart from this, good overall video