Tag: TIER 11

Taschenratte

• Amazing armor
• Solid gun
• Powerful special ability

While the Maus is a very solid tier 10, it’s just really easy for enemies to penetrate its turret cheeks if they load HEAT rounds. Taschenratte has that problem mostly fixed, but you should angle your turret while waiting for a reload to improve your turret armor thickness. This tank also has an incredibly strong upper plate, lower plate, and side armor. With proper angling, you will give real headaches to your opponents. Gun has received a minor alpha increase and a decent penetration boost.

Its ability is called “Auxiliary Weapons“. Pressing the activation button fires your vehicle’s auxiliary weapons at the target. This additional firepower comes with its own reload cycle, independent of the main gun. It can be very powerful to penetrate lightly armored targets or to track your opponents while the main gun is on the reload.

Mobility is the only limiting factor of this vehicle, which shouldn’t come as a surprise, coming from the Maus.

Rating: S Tier

T803

• Staggering DPM
• Great gun handling
• Snowballing special ability

Probably the best tier 11 currently in the game. It can do pretty much everything, and it doesn’t have real weaknesses. T110E5 is a decent tier 10, but this is a huge upgrade. Armor-wise, you have a lot smaller weak point at the top of the turret, better turret armor, a bit worse upper plate, and a better lower plate. While on paper the DPM seems to be the same, it doesn’t count the bonus from the special ability. With “Semi-Automatic Ammo Rack“, every time you hit an enemy with a shell, you gain a reload efficiency level, temporarily boosting your gun’s reload speed. Levels accumulate with each hit. Destroying an enemy vehicle with a shell grants additional reload efficiency levels.

This tank can murder its opponents with its DPM and snap shot like a boss while doing so. It is even better on the ridgeline because the weak spot is mostly hidden.

Rating: S Tier

KR-1

• Amazing frontal armor
• Ramming god
• Solid gun

This is a tank you can research by playing the IS-7. It has a very similar playstyle to the IS-7; you are a heavily armored and mobile heavy tank. In terms of upgrades, you got on the KR-1, your standard penetration went up by almost 20 mm, so you don’t have to spam gold all the time, as is the case on the IS-7. Your lower plate is going to be really hard to penetrate for anyone with less than 260 mm of penetration, so you are very safe against standard rounds from tier 10s and lower. Your mobility stayed the same, pretty much. The special ability is Ramming Configuration, which gives you a bonus to the ramming damage you would apply to an enemy vehicle. This makes it a hazardous tank while played in platoons.

Derpines of the gun is retained from the previous tier, unfortunately. While the extra ramming damage is nice, it’s hard to make it as effective as for example the T803’s special ability.

Rating: A Tier

FV4025 Contriever

• Powerful double shots
• Ridgeline powerhouse
• Solid armor

Contriever is the only tank that does not receive any kind of special ability compared to the tier 10 predecessor. Other than the fact that it looks similar to the Canopener, it plays the same. In terms of upgrades compared to the tier 10, you have a slightly better alpha damage, slightly better penetration, and dispersion values while in double shot mode. Contriever doesn’t have the weak spot anymore in the center of the frontal hull, but it has a very weak turret cupola and a huge lower plate, which are both easy targets for your enemies.

While the tank itself is not bad, tier for tier, it is a lot worse than the Canopener since the soft stats boost is not enough to be on the same level as the rest of the tier 11 heavies.

Rating: B Tier

BZ-79

• Infinite boosts
• Great alpha dmg gun
• Underwhelming armor

BZ-75 is one of the worst tanks at tier 10, so it would be quite an achievement not to be better than it. The successor has quite a few things going for it; it has quite a bit more DPM, 300 DPM more to be exact. Gun is a little bit less derpy and has higher alpha damage. Mobility is exactly the same if we don’t take into account the special ability. BZ-79 has Liquid Fuel Boosters, which enable it to have infinite rocket boosters. The only downside to it is that the ability has a cooldown, but here you don’t have to worry about running out of boosts until the end of the battle.

Unfortunately, the top of the turret is very weak against 151 mm guns and higher since they can overmatch its armor. Also, the lower plate is very big and not well armored. If you have BZ-75, it’s definitely worth working your way up to the BZ-79.

Rating: A Tier

AMX 67 Imbattable

• Awesome mobility
• Good gun
• Paper armor

Imbattable has the same playstyle as the AMX 50B, which means you will have to work your butt off in order to make this tank effective in combat. It has absolutely no armor; in fact, it has a lot less armor than already badly armored 50B, to the point where high penetration HE rounds will be able to go through your front armor.

While the gun is decent with the autoloader, it received very minor upgrades compared to the tier 10 in the form of a 10 alpha damage increase. Everything else is almost identical to the 50B. What gives you an opportunity to be more dangerous to your opponents is your special ability. The autoloading system automatically begins loading a new clip when one shell remains in the current one. You can still fire the final shell during this process, but doing so adds several seconds to the remaining reload time.

It’s a very niche tank and probably not worth grinding for in the current meta filled with heavily armored tanks, arty, and corridor maps.

Rating: B Tier

AS-XX 40 t

• Great clip potential
• Decent DPM
• Bad camo rating

Successor to the Bat.-Châtillon 25 t, unlike the rest of the tier 11s, this one doesn’t keep the same playstyle as the tier 10, due to the multiple differences. The biggest one is the actual size of the tank, which gives it a much lower camo rating than the BatChat has, meaning that it can’t replace the role of a light tank in a battle. BatChat works well only when it comes to assassinating tanks and then running away to reload. AS-XX doesn’t have to necessarily do that since its special ability allows it to reload shells one by one by pressing a button as long as there is 1 shell in the magazine. You can do multiple smaller engagements as well.

You will have to avoid long-range engagements, though, because it only has 1,000 m/s shell velocity, which is a 50% decrease over the BatChat’s APCR. Tier for tier, BatChat is still a much better tank.

Rating: B Tier

Leopard 120 Verbessert

• Decent DPM
• Horrible base dispersion values
• Weak armor

Leopard 120 takes the cake as the worst tier 11 tank in the game, and it’s not even close. I highly suggest that you don’t spend your credits on this tank while it has these statistics. Reason for the amount of hate this vehicle has been getting is the fact that the dispersion values outside of the ability level 3 are actually a lot worse than the tier 10 predecessor, which makes absolutely no sense. You get a very small advantage when your ability, which gives you bonus dispersion, is charged all the way, and this takes quite a while. Also, it can carry 20 fewer shells than the Leopard 1, and it’s slower.

Just keep the Leopard 1 until and if the 120 gets a much-needed buff.

Rating: D Tier

Object 432U

• Capable of insane trades
• Lackluster armor
• Horrible base DPM

Quite a similar situation as it is with the Leopard 120, this tank is in 99% of cases a downgrade compared to the previous tier. The DPM is around 15% lower compared to the 430U, which is a huge deal.
The rest of the gun stats are just a touch better, but you won’t notice them; they are that small. Armor, on the other hand, seems like a direct downgrade; you have huge shoulder weakspots on the frontal upper plate and a big turret weakspot, neither of which the 430U has. 430U can also sidescrape a lot better.

The special ability that is supposed to give a big advantage to the 432U is prepping the shell. The longer you wait, the more alpha damage you will have, but if you wait for too long, you will get a lockout period when you can’t fire. In practice, it’s very hard to use this ability effectively; either you will fire too soon or your enemies will recognize what you’re doing and will force you to overheat your shell and go into the lockout.

Either way, using the ability makes the standard DPM, which is god awful, somehow even more pathetic.

Rating: C Tier

CS-67 Szakal

• The fastest medium
• Not much armor
• A monster in engagement mode

It has a great gun, amazing mobility, and pretty weak armor. The tank that is on paper is slightly better than the CS-63, but the special ability really gives it an edge over the tier 10. Over time, you increase the charge level, which you can use on either of your modes. If you use it in turbo mode, you get significantly higher top speed and overall mobility, while you sacrifice dispersion. This is the mode the CS-63 already has, but what it doesn’t have is the new engagement mode, which, when used with charge, gives you a lot better reload time, aim time, and dispersion.

Frankly, the tank is not so easy to play; you need to know when to use which mode and when to use your charge levels. If you manage to master this, you will be one of the most powerful tanks on the battlefield.

Rating: A Tier

XM69 Hacker

• Godlike gun handling
• Dependable turret armor
• Weak hull armor

Without a doubt, the best tier 11 medium tank currently in the game. The gun has been changed from the M48; it now packs a 110mm barrel with 20 extra alpha damage and around 5% DPM increase. A big change was made to the armor layout of the tank. M48 is known to make the same miracle bounces due to the boat-shaped hull armor. Hacker has a very flat hull, it makes the frontal hull easily penetrated by all the opponents this tank can meet.

Good news starts when we take a look at the turret, which doesn’t have a big turret weakpoint, which the M48 suffers from. Premium rounds will be able to go through your manlet, but overall, it’s a lot more solid and dependable turret.

The special ability really makes this tank a beast. By activating it, you get a lower aim time, better mobility, and 0 dispersion values on turret and tank traverse. Since the ability has a relatively short cooldown and decent duration, it helps you a lot in combat without you having to sacrifice any stat in return.

Rating: S Tier

leKpz Borkenkäfer

• Small size
• Great top speed
• Great camo rating

While Rheinmetall Panzerwagen is not really a fan favorite, you should probably get your hands on the Borkenkafer. Statistically, it is the same as the Panzerwagen, but it has a much smaller profile, which is important for camo rating and to not get hit that easily once you are spotted.

Borkenkafer features a very unique ability that improves your spotting capabilities. By activating the ability, your next shot applies an effect based on the enemy’s spotting status. Hitting a spotted enemy will mark them—they will remain spotted longer and receive more damage. Hitting an unspotted enemy will highlight their location with a special marker.

This way, you can deal damage and also provide spotting assistance at the same time. While the tank is not broken, it does offer a different playstyle for light tank enthusiasts.

Rating: B Tier

AT-FV230 Breaker

• Impenetrable upper hull
• Really good up-slope mobility
• Amazing DPM

A very similar tank to the Badger, but with even more DPM and even more armor. Frontal hull is only possible to penetrate by the highest penetration HEAT rounds with over 400 mm of penetration, but if you use the gun depression, nobody will be able to penetrate you. It does have a weaker lower plate and a cupola at the top with around 250 mm of effective armor.

Side armor is really surprising, though. You can overangle it, and it will still be an auto ricochet, or you are going to have around 300 mm of effective armor, which is kinda crazy.

Special ability allows you to go faster and have more engine power the longer you drive in a straight line, which helps especially with climbing the hills. This negates the only weakness of the tank, and that makes it overpowered in my opinion, just people haven’t realized it yet.

Rating: S Tier

Hirschkäfer

• Horrible base alpha damage
• No armor
• Uneffective ability

A tank that doesn’t have a whole lot going for it. It seems like Wargaming overnerfed all the base stats because they thought the special ability would make such a huge difference. Compared to the Grille 15, it has a lot lower base alpha damage, which makes it horrible as a tier 11 TD, and that is the main reason why the tank is so weak at its tier. The only areas where it was improved over the tier 10 are slightly better dispersion values and the camo rating.

Special ability is called Propellant Thermal Control System – Remain stationary or move slowly to build preheat, increasing your next shot’s damage and accuracy. At maximum preheat, penetrating an enemy with fewer HP than your average damage causes an ammo rack explosion, destroying the vehicle. Maximum alpha damage is around 820, but it takes too long to preheat the shell, and then your DPM suffers tremendously.

Personally, I would avoid buying this tank as the Grille 15 is a lot more consistent at its tier.

Rating: B Tier

Strv 107-12

• Pinpoint accuracy
• Decent armor
• 2 tank modes

103B is the best sniper at tier 10, the Strv 107-12 gained an additional mode in which you can be apart from the standard “Siege” mode. 107-12 has received a very subtle increase in the penetration and DPM, but the alpha stayed the same. In my opinion, the 390 alpha at tier 11 feels way too low if you are meeting health juggernauts such as the Tashenratte.

Armor layout was changed, while the 103B has only a cupola weakspot at the top, 107-12 has incredibly weak shoulders, and when you use your gun depression, your whole lower plate is completely paper. So, the armor is a lot worse than at tier 10.
The new mode, which you can activate, is the “Pillbox” mode. It completely disables you from moving forward or backward, but it gives you better gun handling and DPM boost, making you a glass cannon. In theory, this mode sounds great, but if you are spotted, you can’t move at all; it takes time to get out of this Pillbox mode, and by that time, you will be nailed by enemy tanks and artillery.

It is nice to have more options on engagements, but it feels like you sacrifice too much when it comes to armor in order to receive these options.

Rating: B Tier