This mod also works with Company of Heroes and/or Tales of Valor. Opposing Fronts is not required! There are many features that I added, for example: - a much more realistic Weapon damage system - many new skins for infantry and tanks (and wrecks) also including many of my own made tank skins - many new units for all factions - modified and enlarged Commander Trees (now 16 Upgrades!) - new abilities - new sounds - recommended new maps included
New M4A3E2 "Jumbo"
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This is a preview of the new M4A3E2 "Jumbo" model that will be included with the upcomin v1800 release. Credits for the model goes to LoranKorn & Tankdestroyer!
FINALY the jumbo gets in
*uck yeah i love that tank
Holy **** its front armor is thicker that the Tiger haha!
bigger caliber too (105mm) "mwahahhahaahaaaaa" right?
I believe they were still using the 75mm and 76mm guns on the jumbos.
Yepp, the Jumbo still has the regular Sherman gun, but it's frontal armor is massive. It's a excellent break-trough tank, as long as it doesn't get flanked. Best used to draw the fire of the enemy on it while the other tanks follow it.
Sherman Jumbos used 75mm and 76mm guns.
Good tank model. =)
Great tank! Blitzkrieg is the only reason I still play CoH! (I've been playing CoH sence release day.) Great job guys!
It is known that the sloped front glacis of the Jumbo was never penetrated in combat. It was 101mm thick on the hull and up to 150mm frontal on the turret, which was invulnerable from the 75mm gun of Panzer IV. Even the Tiger I's 8,8cm kwk36 was incapable of penetratig the sloped front plate at any distance, by using standard APCBC rounds. Only when using the rare APCR round it could penetrate the Jumbo's front glacis at 800m distance. The only tank guns being able to penetrate Jumbo's front armor by using regular standard rounds (APCBC) were Tiger II's, jagdpanther's, Elefant's, Nashorn's 8,8cm kwk 43, Panther's 7,5mm kwk42 and Jagdtiger's 12,5cm pak 44 which could pierce the front armor at 1,500m distance (when using APCR rounds 2,000m and more). For its heavy weight the Jumbo lacked great mobility. That extra armor pushed the M4's Running gear to it's absolute limits. Some units issued with the Jumbo even reported breakdowns as well thus they were abandoned by their crews. Plus it had still very weak side and rear amror, thus the Jumbo could be knocked out by Panzer III & IV when they hit the thin side or rear armor. Jumbos were mainly used as breakthrough tank (like the Soviet IS-2) and were intended as a lead vehicle in US armored columns when advancing as they were invulnerable to 75 anti-tank gun fire by the regular Panzer IV. Only 254 Jumbos were built during WW2 and were considered a specialized vehicle by the US Army for assaulting fortified and well defended positions.
to correct myself, the Tiger I's 8,8cm kwk36 (only by using special APCR rund) could penetrate the sloped front glacis at 2,000 meters already (1,500-2000m distance = 110mm armor penetration at 30° sloped). And at very clsoe distance of 100m the 88mm could probably penetrate the turret front with regular APCBC round as well (though I'm not sure)
While the 8,8cm kwk43 from the Tiger II could penetrate the sloped glacis at 2,000m with standard APCBC round, the special APCR round was not even needed lol.
okay.....which means the other tank destroyers and the tiger II had higher gun velocites compared to the 8.8 kwk36 gun of the Tiger I? incredible...why didn't the germans just upgun the Tiger I to make it into the Tiger II gun standards....it would make a more potent (and deadlier)tank destroyer than ever
the turret of the tiger 1 could no acomodate a longer gun as you need more bracing to keep the gun from ripping itself out of the mantel after or even before the main gun was fired. but of course you might as well have said that the twin 800mm siege cannons should have been used on a flat torjectory and mounted on a gigantic turret, which would never have worked
okay i got your point