OK. Take notes: Ive never said any of this b4 and don't plan on telling it again.
#1. For ranging. The "H" key on your key board locks and un locks your mouse cursor, when you are ranging a tank from +3200 you simply place the mouse cursor on the tank you are firing at (i like to place it on the lower right corner of said tank, wether that is a track or whatever) fire off a round and try to quickly move the mouse cursor back b4 the round hits the ground. Unlock the cursor and as the round hits put the cursor right on the hit point... if you are close you can simply place the point of the cursor on the hull of the tank and BOOM in 2 shots your ranged, and a 1shot kill. (if you have a tank that can kill the enemy tank from said range)
#2. Turn off skins. most every "good" tank driver turns off the skins because the defult for panzer's and tigers and t34/85's is a crappy non-green that sticks out from 7,000yds away.... So now there is rarely anyone outside an M-4 "hiding in the trees and bushes". M-4's defult is still hard to see but that's the only one"
#3. Go to your video settings and turn both slidebars down to there lowest settings for
ground detail and object detail range. Object detail should be set to
faster and
ground detail range should be at 0.5miles.
After setting both of them you need to hit
Shift +F4 for
Ground Vis range. This allows you to see "through trees..
" really what it does is take away the bushes and stuff that you
can shoot through and leaves the things you cant shoot through, to a point... You will notice that some barns you will not see until you get close to them (this works to your advantage sometimes as you may have a tank in them and you can see the tank and not the barn, the easyest way to tell if there is a barn that a guy is hiding in, is that you will see your round explode as if hiting a tree or a hanger). You will also notice as you pull closer to the forrest that you liked to hide in b4 the small shrubs will appear just a few seconds before you get there. So when you shut down go to your turret to make sure you can see properly when you shut down.
#4. Shut down! Most good GV guys will turn up the volume of external tank sounds and turn down there own in the options, game sounds, settings..
This allows them to hear you coming from a range of 2.7k away... Also most good IL-2 flyer's and various other anti-tank aircraft drivers will shut off there engines in flight to hear you driving in (2.7k is 2.7k from air land or sea) so, if you are driving in and are alone and have a guy in the air hunting you find a quick place to hide and
shut down and stop moving.
#5. Game sounds, like in #4 there is sounds for external and internall engine and track and wheels etc. etc. turn your internals down so you can just barley hear them and turn the external to 100. This way you can hear the other guy coming even if you are driving yourself.
#6. Go up the hill. It doesent take that long if you try... Having a nice shot from a hill gives you a few good advantages...
A. You can shoot down on the soft tops of enemy tanks.
B. You can put your tank in neutral and roll down the hill super fast if you need to get out of there with kills and are under heavy attack.
C. You can see the battlefield better. If 2 guys are fighting in a tank battle you can find an enemy's hiding spot easy-er when your up high looking over the battle.
D. After you start climbing hills regularly you will find out what hills you can climb and in what tanks... The tiger climbs hills the best. the M4 and panzer are 2ND and t-34's are 3rd best at climbing hills. but on steep hills the T34's will climb up some backwards when other tanks will not climb up them at all (this being a more difficult hill climb).
#7. If your shut down and need to move forward just ever so slightly some (not all) tanks allow you to move forward and reverse with the motors off by putting the tank in reverse and 1st gear. But this is inverted (if you want to go forward just slightly you put the tank in reverse and push the stick forward, If you want to go backwards you put the tank in 1st gear and push forward on the stick) this way you can get your turret into the perfect position. This will also help if your hanger is camped. If you and a friend are trying to get out of a camped hanger, put it in reverse and push forward as the tank is starting when spawning in with a friend. as your buddy takes the 1st rounds from the camper(s) your tank moves forward and doesn't get hit. Allowing you enough time to start and move out as the campers are all reloading.
#8. Set your controls. If your having trouble pinpointing your rounds on tanks, go into control settings and mess with the deadband of your joystick untill you can put a T34's turret anyplase on a tank with pinpoint accuracy from any range. (the T34's turret moves the fastest and as so, is the twitchest). Any good tank driver has his stick set so he can put a t34's turret on pinpoint with ease.
#9. As in #8. with setting the stick. You need to be able to put a round right in the perfect spot to kill a tank in one shot.
Good tankers know just what plase to put a round and will do so in one shot, for the one shot one kill. I will not go into what area you need to hit on what tank from what range with what tank. But it all
does come into account.
To simplify it the best spot to hit a tank in the side is just above the track, and below the turret. From head on, it is lower than the turret, in the hull. From the rear it is as low as possable without missing.
#10. Folowing all the rules i have just stated will get you bombed by more guys than you know what to do with, to the point that you will give up tanking after a few months because no one will fight you one on one, or two on one, or three on one. In fact you will most likely face 3 or more guys on the ground with the 4th and 5th guy bombing you as the 6th guy trys to outflank you... Have fun...
