@@Tankenstein I like your help I would only add I face the front of the tanks 90 percent of the time making kills are the hardest on the front I can kill the crew 10 times but cant finish them on the front. In my opinion if anyone cares you should spend 90 percent of your advice on the front even a potato like me can make a side shot. One more thing I am always up tiered so my amo just bounces. I need that front shot. to make 3 shots me in a 2 them in a 3 tier so I came here looking for answers. Nothing about being up tiered every game. The 5 games I played in the last 7 years where I was up tiered it didn't mater where I shot the poor guy they fell to my guns. I felt there pain. Thank you good stuff.
Experienced Sherman players always play hull down make the frontal armour more bouncy. and the only hope on that situation is punching it on the turret , barrel or wait the Sherman comes out from the hull down position. And try avoid Sherman on urban, it has stabilizer and good turret rotation rate, make it easier to shot the enemy first while moving
Or play a Tiger I in urban maps and bait a shot by peeking a corner angled at around 160-170° (be careful not to show even a bit of your sides when peeking, i have died to showing my sides far too many times) to get an easy kill.
My rule of thumb is if I’m facing Sherman’s as a German, shoot the turret first on the side. If it doesn’t pen, then it’s a jumbo and I aim for MG port.
Tbh, I’ve been aiming for the small gun on the front plate, only had 2-3 ricochet out of the 50-60 Shermans I’ve killed so far. Fairly new to the game, Germany is nice.
When I'm in the Tiger, I look at all the Shermans and start laughing...until I find a Jumbo. Then I'm just like "Uuugh...great. You don't have a shot on my cupula, and I don't have a shot on your MG port...guess we're gonna just stare at each other until one of us dies of boredom."
Haven't watched the video yet but reading the title and being a US main, im just sitting here like: what is he gonna talk about? This is an M4. Shoot anywhere and you most likely will penetrate it and destroy it. If its hull down, dont worry, his pen is crap up till around 4.7 so dont worry about him.
@@insertname.5985 everyone and their mum knows this? tankstein, oddbawz, mikegoesboom and a lot of knowledge RUclipsrs have acknowledge t34s and kv1s at br 3.0 to 4.7 have significant advantages over say US shermans etc. I myself play all nations except china and t34s and kv1s are meta asffffff. Of course certain tank destroyers and german guns can pen these tanks anywhere but majority of med tanks are forced to shoot cheeks which are tiny spots when fighting front on.
@@George-cp1vc Against Sherman's they are hard to kill but playing against Germany omg is playing the T- 34 painful if you have no idea what you are doing.
@@envygd4902 whats so hard vs germany? they kill you in oneshot and you kill them in oneshot most of the time. Unless u shoot the areas where they have additional steel plates. Both have mobility, with the russians having an edge. The only disadvantages are long range engagements where t34 gun ballistics are meh and meh gun depression.
@@George-cp1vc That's his point, if players play tanks with proper strategy for those tanks it can be a pain in the ass, German tanks should always be used as snipers, this minimizes all their weaknesses and gives them an unmatched edge until higher tier, while US and Soviet tanks are always better used as brawlers, soviets especially, Americans are jacks of all trades but masters of none, just play flexible with them, you aren't good at anything in particular, neither you're bad at anything in particular
Today I was playing GRB in BT-7 and I saw a damn fleet of Jumbo's coming to the B point and I had to defend it, I called in artillery and got critical on one and 2 were taken down by a Stug III before that got shot by the surviving sherman. I had emptied 24 shells on it before I got Crew Knock on it... ZAMN
Guide doesnt apply to any of the tanks anymore. front of any sherman is now bouncing 150-200mm pen from any angle all the time, even upfront shooting from less than 10m. Gearbox is indestructable unless you shoot from below the tank. Machinegun port is useless too. shits indestructable form the front with the heaviest fkin guns, what the hell am i missing?
Yeah, doesn’t seem to matter where I hit...even in the side it basically just eats my rounds. Thing is indestructible.....when I play StuH G (I believe that’s the one) with the added armour I sit face to face with Sherman’s and our shots just repeatedly deflect off of each other until one of us gets 3rd partied lol
I admit sherman can be annoying at low BR with M4A3 105, though when you climb up the ranks you will be easily able to mouse over the sherman and make it explode, most of the time.
Exactly. I have no idea what these people are complaining about. Even a T-34 is able to penetrate a Sherman with zero íssues. That is definitely not true in reverse.
After watching I still have no idea what the fuck I’m doing, specifically the turret mantlet as I’ve shot that thing with things with more than a 100mm of pen and the turret remains un damaged maybe a broken machine gun but it survives
Squeezing a shot above that transmission is not nearly as hard as it looks. As long as your good at that shot you will be able to from plate Sherman's all day.
The rank 2 panzers can't do anything to shermans. If you can't hit the MG port or a side shot, gg. Even then, there's a good chance that's not enough to knock their crew out.
The sherman is the easiest thing to beat in war thunder unless they are sniping you because the Shermans are only effective at far range because of their terrible armor
Yeah right. Im playing in the t34 from 1940 to the t34stz and I cant kill a m4 with a basic ballistic caped shell. They are like the Maus of the 4.0 br.
People are having trouble penning these things? One shot anywhere does them in whenever I play them... I may get the occasional ricochet, but it is extremely rare.
why is this a video? ive played every variant of sherman in the game and i get 1 shot through the front , no matter where im shot from or what angle. literaly a shit tank besides the jumbos
@@Tankenstein well not like that,I meant more on the tactics side of things (like how to take advantage of its little shortcoming and counter it) You'll get publicity if it's done right,dude trust me ;)
I took om this tank and the other variants of it and still haven't killed this fucking thing I'm currently using the Germany class of tanks currently 3.0 to 3.3 br .. i shot its face the turret from far to ramming this tank and shooting dead on and still haven't... this tank killed every tank I had in a game
The sherman is already butter and ur making a guide on how to counter it?... Meanwhile there's Tigers and Panthers that are just Juggernauts with sniper rifles and smoke.....wow
German main and Russian players are braindead they're so used to 1 one shot a tank they immediately search tutorial when karma Hits them. American tech tree is hard so the players get more experienced and look for weakspots and angling
Really? I main American tanks all the time I still get killed insanely easy by anything really, doesnt matter where they shoot me. It's not hard to kill American tanks at all. At higher BR's they get better though. But low and mid BR they still get killed easy. Around 4.7-5.0 the fire power for American tanks get far better, and get a bit better with armor but it doesn't matter when Tigers H1s and KVs are about cause you still get schooled no matter what. The tank destroyers are great though.
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i swear the number of times i've shot Shermans front on with a Pv IV J and it bounce is ridiculous
Don’t.
I just ran protection sims shot exact same place that nukes whole crew on sim “hit” not even a crit.
@@aguy607 protection analysis is known for lying about some shots.
After watching this guide I have certified that the Sherman will continue to be hell on wheels.
Why, he pretty much says at the end of the video if you got any shot on the Sherman just take it lol
It's terrifying when your SU-122's 122 mm shell does diddly squat to what looks like a medium tank, thank you.
Subbed, finally a channel that focuses on weakspots
Thank you! Do you have a preferred tank that I do next?
@@Tankenstein I like your help I would only add I face the front of the tanks 90 percent of the time making kills are the hardest on the front I can kill the crew 10 times but cant finish them on the front. In my opinion if anyone cares you should spend 90 percent of your advice on the front even a potato like me can make a side shot. One more thing I am always up tiered so my amo just bounces. I need that front shot. to make 3 shots me in a 2 them in a 3 tier so I came here looking for answers. Nothing about being up tiered every game. The 5 games I played in the last 7 years where I was up tiered it didn't mater where I shot the poor guy they fell to my guns. I felt there pain. Thank you good stuff.
Experienced Sherman players always play hull down make the frontal armour more bouncy.
and the only hope on that situation is punching it on the turret , barrel or wait the Sherman comes out from the hull down position.
And try avoid Sherman on urban, it has stabilizer and good turret rotation rate, make it easier to shot the enemy first while moving
Or play a Tiger I in urban maps and bait a shot by peeking a corner angled at around 160-170° (be careful not to show even a bit of your sides when peeking, i have died to showing my sides far too many times) to get an easy kill.
@@ITSMRFOXY I play panther A in urban and panther F on ranged, it has worked pretty well for me
Me: **watches this video so i don't get killed easily and use up all my Shermans**
Same 😂😂😂
Me a Soviet player:
I fear no panzer, but that thing,(Sherman) it scares me
Why tho😂, as a Sherman main my most feared tank is t 34 and stug tanks
@@sulthanfirjatullah3197 fuck stugs, they make me angy
@@sulthanfirjatullah3197 Im was at the area where the soviets had trash guns which made it harder to kill shermans
@@peknive8331lol, but somehow a normal t34 (1940) can penetrate my sherman front hull with ease
@@nattybird1146 those things are quite easy to kill from the front
Me: bounces eight 50-75mm shells in a row from long Kwk cannons off the front glacis of a 3.3 M4A1 at 200-1000m.
Finally i can not waste every single on of my ammo to kill a sherman
My rule of thumb is if I’m facing Sherman’s as a German, shoot the turret first on the side. If it doesn’t pen, then it’s a jumbo and I aim for MG port.
The bush can hide their weakness, even their side of turret cant even pened by 85mm 😭
Its too late if you shoot their mantlet, the jumbos gonna shot you
The jumbos don’t have the big muzzle break and their frontal hull armor is thick. That’s usually how I know it’s a jumbo.
Tbh, I’ve been aiming for the small gun on the front plate, only had 2-3 ricochet out of the 50-60 Shermans I’ve killed so far. Fairly new to the game, Germany is nice.
I play t34 at 3.7-4.0 br and those shermans are my nightmares. Always killing me
I play M4 at 3.7-4.0 and those t 34 scare me. I can never pen them withou a weakspot shot.
facing these in my french B1 there is NOWHERE in the front I can pen then, and somehow they can shoot me through my front plate!
great educational video, especially for those that don't own a lot vehicles
Love this series! Well done old boys, well done!
When I'm in the Tiger, I look at all the Shermans and start laughing...until I find a Jumbo. Then I'm just like "Uuugh...great. You don't have a shot on my cupula, and I don't have a shot on your MG port...guess we're gonna just stare at each other until one of us dies of boredom."
T34's maybe? I haven't played War thunder in like 3 months because of how strong they are and I only get kills when shooting a low tier tank.
What tanks are you using?
The weakness of the t-34 is the neck and the turret cheeks
@@Mangk89 Also if your playing Germany it's easier, if they Angle hit there turret, I get killed in my t-34 all the time that way.
@@Mangk89 t34 turret cheeks ignore 75mm and the ring ain't much better. But Sherman's are easily killed from hull shots and the turret has weak spots
@@Mangk89 if tanks does not have weakness in front its not balanced and overpowered every tanks must have frontal weakness
Great vid! Well worth the wait !
i always panic everytime i see an m4 aiming its barrel at my panzer
I have british shermans and I cant penetrate them anywhere other than the rear but other shermans 1shot me from the front
to this very days, there is no reliable way to play against this
Haven't watched the video yet but reading the title and being a US main, im just sitting here like: what is he gonna talk about?
This is an M4. Shoot anywhere and you most likely will penetrate it and destroy it. If its hull down, dont worry, his pen is crap up till around 4.7 so dont worry about him.
for real, I feel like I have to just flank and get side shots because if I'm seen, I'm dead.
Alternate title: what to defend on your sherman so you stop being one shot
Hi dude, t 34s are insane to kill after volumetric change. Mind doing one on those?
As a t34 player you are....
wrong
@@insertname.5985 everyone and their mum knows this? tankstein, oddbawz, mikegoesboom and a lot of knowledge RUclipsrs have acknowledge t34s and kv1s at br 3.0 to 4.7 have significant advantages over say US shermans etc. I myself play all nations except china and t34s and kv1s are meta asffffff. Of course certain tank destroyers and german guns can pen these tanks anywhere but majority of med tanks are forced to shoot cheeks which are tiny spots when fighting front on.
@@George-cp1vc Against Sherman's they are hard to kill but playing against Germany omg is playing the T- 34 painful if you have no idea what you are doing.
@@envygd4902 whats so hard vs germany? they kill you in oneshot and you kill them in oneshot most of the time. Unless u shoot the areas where they have additional steel plates. Both have mobility, with the russians having an edge. The only disadvantages are long range engagements where t34 gun ballistics are meh and meh gun depression.
@@George-cp1vc
That's his point, if players play tanks with proper strategy for those tanks it can be a pain in the ass, German tanks should always be used as snipers, this minimizes all their weaknesses and gives them an unmatched edge until higher tier, while US and Soviet tanks are always better used as brawlers, soviets especially, Americans are jacks of all trades but masters of none, just play flexible with them, you aren't good at anything in particular, neither you're bad at anything in particular
If you are watchin sherman in front lf you. Shoot at the left side of front armor it penetrates trough to the ammo storage wich makes it explode.
If you’re struggling to kill a Sherman of all things you should just give up
im watching this for enlisted lol
the music the memories
Today I was playing GRB in BT-7 and I saw a damn fleet of Jumbo's coming to the B point and I had to defend it, I called in artillery and got critical on one and 2 were taken down by a Stug III before that got shot by the surviving sherman. I had emptied 24 shells on it before I got Crew Knock on it... ZAMN
If you are playing BT-7 at Jumbo BR then that is a you problem
Hol up… a BT-7?!!!
everytime i shoot the gun port it always absorbs my bullet :c
i find its relaiable to shoot just above the transmission.
have pened it with a kv1 70mm pen shot.
one shot one kill. (not always)
I love you for this
I love you, too.
no trust me you should feel our pain with Sherman’s we litteraly are the weakest things at 4.0 and 5.0
Thank you I'm tired of all these ricochets and non pens
As an U.S main, i know how weak it actually is.
Armour is like cardboard. Thats why cover and teammate as shield is important.
Hehe you got it
in mid tier sherman armor is really weak and even front plate cant survive panther
Reason why we sherman bois tough bc we slope our front amour
Me, a Germany Main: "Hmm, yes, very useful"
They needed to boost the Shermans stats for the purpose of the game . The US Army had thousands you have one .
Guide doesnt apply to any of the tanks anymore. front of any sherman is now bouncing 150-200mm pen from any angle all the time, even upfront shooting from less than 10m. Gearbox is indestructable unless you shoot from below the tank. Machinegun port is useless too. shits indestructable form the front with the heaviest fkin guns, what the hell am i missing?
I know this is a month late but if you have heavy gun shoot their barrel then circle around
Yeah, doesn’t seem to matter where I hit...even in the side it basically just eats my rounds. Thing is indestructible.....when I play StuH G (I believe that’s the one) with the added armour I sit face to face with Sherman’s and our shots just repeatedly deflect off of each other until one of us gets 3rd partied lol
Ur absolutely right. Shot a sherman from the front from far away in my t34 like 4-5 times. He shot me once he killed me lol
I admit sherman can be annoying at low BR with M4A3 105, though when you climb up the ranks you will be easily able to mouse over the sherman and make it explode, most of the time.
Exactly. I have no idea what these people are complaining about. Even a T-34 is able to penetrate a Sherman with zero íssues. That is definitely not true in reverse.
*looks at side of sherman*
firework time
After watching I still have no idea what the fuck I’m doing, specifically the turret mantlet as I’ve shot that thing with things with more than a 100mm of pen and the turret remains un damaged maybe a broken machine gun but it survives
Squeezing a shot above that transmission is not nearly as hard as it looks. As long as your good at that shot you will be able to from plate Sherman's all day.
Why you didnt mention the MG port on the front? It's always a one shot with a APHE
The rank 2 panzers can't do anything to shermans. If you can't hit the MG port or a side shot, gg. Even then, there's a good chance that's not enough to knock their crew out.
Please show a vid on how to pen a tiger lV
I kinda have one already. Also, I've got a Tiger II guide coming out on Saturday, if that means anything.
It’s only really a problem if you don’t use a German guns as those are the biggest everything else not so much
KV-2
Now i can stop being sniped
I play germany and the only thing that kills me are the Sherman's and sometimes the comets
You forget the KV tanks
why cant i pen this when having over 120 mm of pen
I dont understand how the just appear out of no where.
The sherman is the easiest thing to beat in war thunder unless they are sniping you because the Shermans are only effective at far range because of their terrible armor
Yeah right. Im playing in the t34 from 1940 to the t34stz and I cant kill a m4 with a basic ballistic caped shell. They are like the Maus of the 4.0 br.
People are having trouble penning these things? One shot anywhere does them in whenever I play them... I may get the occasional ricochet, but it is extremely rare.
Take out their turret then flank the side and boom
Just shoot anywhere on this damn thing and you’ll kill it. Angling does nothing either just shoot it
I surprised that my Tiger can destroyed by Sherman 😂. And I didn't even penetreid the shell with my Tiger
why is this a video? ive played every variant of sherman in the game and i get 1 shot through the front , no matter where im shot from or what angle. literaly a shit tank besides the jumbos
Can you do the same for the R3 T20, especially for TDs/SPGs? It'll mean a whole lot to the playerbase
I dunno, man. Don't you think it might be too difficult to pinpoint the tiny weakspots on the Italian lunchbox?
@@Tankenstein well not like that,I meant more on the tactics side of things (like how to take advantage of its little shortcoming and counter it) You'll get publicity if it's done right,dude trust me ;)
That's a good idea. Thanks, dude! I'll check out what I can do!
Np,hope it goes well
I know, if you're in a tight spot, you can try to mg the ammo belt next to the cannon.
I took om this tank and the other variants of it and still haven't killed this fucking thing I'm currently using the Germany class of tanks currently 3.0 to 3.3 br .. i shot its face the turret from far to ramming this tank and shooting dead on and still haven't... this tank killed every tank I had in a game
Shermans are hell
89mm on front mentlant
Now look at mine face while driving KV-1 (with L-11) gun
😱😨😵😭😭😭😭😭
The sherman is already butter and ur making a guide on how to counter it?... Meanwhile there's Tigers and Panthers that are just Juggernauts with sniper rifles and smoke.....wow
German main and Russian players are braindead they're so used to 1 one shot a tank they immediately search tutorial when karma Hits them. American tech tree is hard so the players get more experienced and look for weakspots and angling
I need help guys i have pz3m and i trying but they just one shot me
What about the op t-34
I cant find that protection analysis?
Go to preview, click where you go to get crew skills and look for a tank icon option and it should be there.
Really? I main American tanks all the time I still get killed insanely easy by anything really, doesnt matter where they shoot me. It's not hard to kill American tanks at all. At higher BR's they get better though. But low and mid BR they still get killed easy. Around 4.7-5.0 the fire power for American tanks get far better, and get a bit better with armor but it doesn't matter when Tigers H1s and KVs are about cause you still get schooled no matter what. The tank destroyers are great though.
Yeah, you'd be surprised. This is one of my most popular weakspot guides. I get dozens of views per day on it, haha. I used to get more, too.
shermans were a trash tanks only in this stupid games they are OP.