Suggesting M8 Replacement

[Softail]

Replace the M8 with the M18 Hellcat.   M18 is almost as fast, better armour and carries a heavier 76mm gun.  Still open top so it is vulnerable to aircraft, it would pack more punch than the M8 and actually have a fighting chance at disabling or killing an M4, T34 or Tiger.  Right now, the M8 is only effective vs Panzer.  Shots to the M4 turret are useless so you have to shoot the M4 in the side armour at least 5 times at 800 range... or 3 times point blank.   M8 vs T34 will only take out an engine...after about a dozen shots and it has NO effect vs a Tiger.

Keep the speed,  beef up the armour and give us a fighting chance at T34's and Tigers.   Replace the M8 with the M18.

Since it is a late war vehicle....go ahead and perk it.

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[Selino631]

I have killed T34, M4, and Tiger in a M8

[snowey]

i have disabled a tiger i knocked out a tiger by diableing it i hit the turet and engine i disabled both and i hit it about 32 times total in the side and rear and back of turet

[Raptor]

Keep m8 and add M18

[Softail]

I have killed T34, M4, and Tiger in a M8

I believe the M4.  I didn't say you couldn't I said you could not penetrate the turret even at point blank range.  Best shots are at side armour and you will need at least 3 close and 5 at 800+ out.

 The T34?  Maybe if it was unmanned and just sitting there and you drove up to it and started firing away right into its arnold with no repsonse from the driver.  

The Tiger?  No way.  To that Sir I must call BS!

You may have put enough rounds on the Tiger and someone else blasted it...so you got "the kill" but I would have to say absolutely not on the Tiger.   Just today I shot a tiger 8 times from 400 yards square in the arnold and sprayed it with machine gun fire.   Then someone blasted it with an M4 and killed it.   I got "The Kill" message, but I did little to no real damage to it.  Was just marking its location for the friendly M4.

I would gladly sacrifice a Tiger in the MA to see this done.    Of course if it takes 20+ shots it doesnt matter because any mediocre tanker could easily kill an M8 by the time the 20th round was fired.

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[Softail]

i have disabled a tiger i knocked out a tiger by diableing it i hit the turet and engine i disabled both and i hit it about 32 times total in the side and rear and back of turet

32 rounds and you lived to fire them all?   That is one bad Tiger driver.

[Urchin]

The M8 can kill a T34 from the front and the rear, not sure about the sides.  I have never killed a Firefly in one, but I imagine it could kill it from the sides and rear. 

The M8 cannot hurt a Tiger, at all, from any angle.

[Softail]

Keep m8 and add M18

I would have suggested this but thought it would be "undoable" by the power that be.

Don't get me wrong, I love the M8.   My best day with one saw 23 tank kills!   All panzers.   However, its gun is very very limited.  

Generally, if you kill a panzer in an M8...they just up a T34 and hunt you down with almost total impunity.  With an M18, they would still have to be very wary.

[Softail]

The M8 can kill a T34 from the front and the rear, not sure about the sides.  I have never killed a Firefly in one, but I imagine it could kill it from the sides and rear. 

The M8 cannot hurt a Tiger, at all, from any angle.

Firefly from the sides and rear...just not the turret don't ask me why...its thinner than a panzy's.  Add to that you can kill a Panzy turret by hitting it square in the Mantle!  The thickest part of the Turret....but rounds to an M4 Turret just bounce off. 

I have never seen an M8 survive a frontal attack on a T34 but I have knocked out the engine on a T34 after 20 rounds while hiding in a town.  I would venture that true T34 kills in an M8 are rare.

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[Latrobe]

With the M8 I've killed Panzers, M4s, T34s, M3s, other M8s, jeeps, B-25 (hehe), and lots of other planes. The M8 OWNS!!

[EskimoJoe]

If we removed the M8 I'd have nothing to hunt down jeeps with 

[snowey]

i once did a large killing spre against panzers all you have to do is shoot them in the tail while going around them at full speed

[Latrobe]

Not to mention the M8 is the funnest gv to use in TT. Doing Drive-By's with it is too fun to get over. 

[Urchin]

It doesn't own... it is pretty pathetic actually.  Not really sure why they put it in to begin with. 

But once something is in, it stays in.

[Matador]

m8 killing a tiger is not BS unfortulantly I was killed by a gang of m8s in my tiger, fortunantly it was only 7 perks. that turret is just so damn slow