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Realistic tank combat would be pretty lame, as it would just be a massive camp-fest. The HP system makes the game playable at the ranges in which it is fought and increases diversity between tanks.

Plus, you should not be using the 76mm gun on the T34. Its 57mm gun is probably the best gun in the game, given its tier.

wth? realistic tank gaming ain't that lame too dude, why the hell would you even possible thing like this? probably because you have never palyed a good realistic ww2 game ever before, right? And you think there are no campers in W.o.T? OH MY GAH i can sing you a song of this, the servers are full of them, finding the nearest bush and sitting in forest/bushes and don't move one inch from their position. But this is just part of tactics and usually wins. Once I took up a defensive position with my IS-7 on Karelia, at the right flank, when the enemy team advanced to my position I sniped the first 3 incoming tanks to death, and our artillery gave me fire support destroyng the other tanks, while the rest of my team defended our base (which is very important if you don't want to lose). I'm not saying the team should always CAMP but still it's a effective strategy.

Forgotten Hope 1/2 is about the only FPS I play regularly, and that's more realistic than any main-stream WW2 game. But then again, games are very poor thing to cite as what is realistic, even ones that strive towards realism.

And of course there is camping in WoT, but there is other play styles too. Camping is ALL that real tank combat is. There would be no artillery, you would need about 10 guns to even hope at hitting anything. There would be no scouts or light tanks (well, they were used but not for long). No special ammo (except HVAP/APCBC/PzGr39, ect, which would be all incredible overpowered, and HEAT which would be the ONLY thing most howitzer armed tanks could hurt anything with). Oh, and yeah, no tanks could really go 60 kph off-road, let alone through 2m deep water. Combine that with the fact that aiming was extremely accurate on most tanks when stationary, but difficult when mobile, camping would be all there was in game too.

And lets face, would you really be happier if you could kill a Tiger in 1 shot with a T34, but 5 out of 6 times(Going by the losses as Kursk) it shot you before you got with a kilometer of it? Or on the flip side, would you like spawning in a city map with your fancy Tiger only to find it's useless because everything can kill you in 1 hit anyways, and it doesn't even matter because your engine gives out before you even see an enemy tank?

im not gonna bother reading those 2 massive responses due to lack of time, but i gotta tell ya. try a good tank sim like "steel panthers" and you'll realize that tanks are not for camping, and at that, its very exciting (though stressful xD)

of course, maybe not sky high. Depends where it was hit ;D

For me, i just found it too much of a grind.