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Ascender, on 03 March 2012 - 03:01 PM, said:

If I remember correctly it was more a "siege gun" or "assault gun". Though ... the is the issue here. It was never clearly defined what actually the Sturmtiger should do. Well the idea of teh design was born with Stalingrad if I remember correctly. To have some vehicle that could level any building with a single shell. Though at the point the Sturmtiger saw action there have not been many fightings like in Stalingrad anymore. So the panzerwaffe had now a specialiced vehicle but not really any clue what purpose it had because other weapons could do its job much more efficiently. For example in the role of infantry support they had the Brummbär and the Stug which did already some excelent job. The Sturmtiger would have been way to heavy for that and it had not enoug shells. Using it as artillery was as well not without issues. The rate of fire was rather small (it took around 50 min to reload it I think because you had to operate that little crane on the back to assist in the reload). And the vehicle had not much amunition. Artillery support was also better with the traditional self propelled guns like the Hummel/Wespe and the usual field guns since they had a bigger range and usualy fired with much more units. really the Sturmtiger is much more comparable with the KV2 or the Churchill AVRE then anything else since they had somewhat a similar target on the battlefield.

However if used correctly or if the situation was in the favour of the Sturmtiger it was pretty effective. Particularly on the morale of the enemy. Like the situation of a Sturmtiger which managed to destroy a whole pulk of Shermans with a single shell. There was a Sturmtiger in the ardenes which used a Coalmine as cover to reload. It was not possible to destroy it and it caused much damage to the allies.

But all in all the Sturmtiger was rather a very interesting curiosity then a really usefull vehicle.

they will probably make this version
jagd sturmtiger

The Rocket Launcher of Sturmtiger needed 30 Minutes to Reload I hope it can make only one shot per game radius 100 Metres over 5000 Damage LOOOOLLLL xD

Aqarius, on 04 March 2012 - 06:40 PM, said:

That plate proves nothing, they even removed the extra 100mm bolted armour of the ferdinand front, you also seem to lack an understanding as to what it takes to move almost 16 tonnes of metal, that is the weigh of the Tiger II turret.
As for your third point again your wrong I have a nice picture of a ferdinand that took a direct hit from a 152mm shell at the front of the fighting compartment and the only thing it did was making a little dent on the point of impact, the crew is standing in front of their vehicle as it's sitting on a flatcar.

Dreachon, on 16 March 2012 - 12:42 PM, said:

200mm of steel ftw (thats 20cm, thats almost indestructible...)

however a Sturmtiger shoots 380mm shells, that equal to ww2 bombs, and while a bomb falls, these 380mm things crash into the tank with 900km/h, and if 380 kg of steel hits ``something`` with 900km/h, that ``something`` is broke, no matter what it is, if an modern abrams (or leo2 or T90 or whatever) gets hit @ its turret by 1 of these, the sheer kinetic force would just rip off the turret, and if it hits the side, the entire side would ``explode``, a tank is built for point shaped shells, not for surviving a bunker buster, these shells dont penetrated armor, they just crush the armor, and after that some 150kg of HE will make sure that tank is toast, these 380mm things pack more punch then some modern 150mm piece of shit, these 380mm things are huge....

Well the gun is almost a battleship calibre weapon, the shell carries 127kg of HE compared to the 28kg of HE that the 152mm ML20 get's, that makes for one big difference.

The thing is if you shot in a area were 5 - 6 tanks a hiding you would proably kill all if not damage all heavily. accuracy will be something like 2,0 i think ^^

Esourze, on 16 March 2012 - 01:29 PM, said:

With the blastradius of this weapon you don't really need to hit them just land close enough, the Sturmtiger will be perfect when your with teammembers that know how to get the enemy to group togetehr as then it will do a lot of damage to them.

as a premium TD it would be the ultimate Trollcannon

camo net & 100% camo skill...find the nearest bushes and wait

Maus comes along doing its mausy thing....wump..twirlly whistle...KABOOM...................maus player sits in confused & shocked state..........he commences rage book in the chat box
ST player giggles counts the silver he just made with 1 shot and moves to another bush
http://forum.worldof..._teethhappy.gif

You can just imagine after a few games, everyone will know how long it takes to reload. So there will be a mad dash to get

GOOD cover before the first shell comes in.

Sturmtiger, ALARM.
Das Boot

Just in case an emplyee reads this - no 380mm, no buy.

Dreachon, on 16 March 2012 - 12:42 PM, said:

When did they make a sporty version of the KT at just 16 tonnes?




Maybe...

^


Also:

Dreachon, on 16 March 2012 - 12:42 PM, said:

Is this where I say "propaganda"?

Aqarius, on 17 March 2012 - 03:03 PM, said:

Do by all means but the picture is published in a book, combat history of schwere panzerjager abteilung 653 by Karlheinz Munch.

Higher arc means you can shoot over stuff and the shell will be landing on the targets top (weaker)armour so theres more chance of a penatrating hit even with HE.

steview162, on 16 March 2012 - 05:05 PM, said:

funny that you say this since if I remember correctly that 380mm rocket/mortar weapon was actually meant to fight submarines or something like that. But since it never was used they decided to squeze it in a tank.

why do people say it will have an 30 or more min reload time.


well i guees they meant irl but that was when they loaded the ammo in to the tank and when they loaded the shells into the "gun" it dident take that long time IF i REMEBER right.

im also quite tired.


/ a little rant time of roebuck 34  

and its quite redicolus loading times in the game allready ive been in hetzer t-34-85 and sherman when you will load it dosent take more then maybe 2 seconds but thats with shells that dosent wight as much as the sturmtiger bada BOOM gun shells does.


even so in the marder 2 its super easy to load you can do it 5 seconds relaxed and talking now think in the battle people are trying to kill you how fast will you load now. /my little rant is now over thank you who read it if any one did read it  

and sorry for my bad english dotation etc etc

crnivuk, on 19 March 2012 - 01:30 AM, said:

Not exactly but this seems a common mistake, the weapon was not intended for taking out enemy submarines but actually to allow a submarine to attack targets inland.

Fonsyfun, on 03 March 2012 - 12:18 PM, said:

The Sturmtiger is a Siege tank, just like the T95. It have a "rocket/mortar" gun not a normal "gun" as we know from wot td's fx. Its a combination of a arty gun in a TD shell. Its armor keeps it safe until it gets close enough to deliver its massive shell to level a building with anything/one inside. It was deployed on the Easten Front agenst the russen' but it never saw mass production.

Dreachon, on 19 March 2012 - 03:49 PM, said:

hmm. Yeah. I just remember it was a weapon from the Kriegsmarine (naval forces). So might be correct. Still. Interesting were some weapon systems end.

mr3awsome, on 05 March 2012 - 08:22 PM, said:

For the love of God....Bison didn't have any armour. Unless you call a quasi mesh steel plate armour that is.
You cant POSSIBLY tell me that 150 mm armour at 47 degree is meant to be an SPG??
Sure classing it as TD would be awkard, but still the best solution. Ffs, the classification light would be suited as much as the classification SPG...