Jagdpanther

[Stang]

Is this thing a piece of junk? Seems to die easier than a Sherman, not sure what gives but for me it seems awful for the price and the lack of a fully rotating turret.

[Volron]

Lower glacis gets ya every time.  If you are facing directly towards your enemy, someone who knows this will hit you there.  You want to have an angle as much as possible.

[Stang]

Hmm.

[Aspen]

Its weak down low and sides.  Great gun and great optics. 

[SmokinLoon]

The longer the range, the better the Jagd's are.

It has to be used as a TD. Not an MBT like the M4/76mm, Panther, Tiger, etc.

[bangsbox]

at 2k+ it is a extremely difficult opponent 

[MiloMorai]

Armour thickness
http://fhsw.wikia.com/wiki/Jagdpanzer_V_Jagdpanther?file=Jagdpanther_armour.gif

[Stang]

Awesome, thanks guys. I've never been a tank guy here learning this stuff like a noob.

 

[FBKampfer]

Find a small rise if you can and sit back from it a ways. They can't precisely target your lower hull without seeing where their shots are landing relative to it, and so most end up hitting your glacis plate. Plus it lowers your already small profile.

Finally, really work the range on that L/71. You're still punching through 211mm of armor at 1000 yds. At 200yds, it's 183mm if I recall correctly. The only thing that can punch with you is a Tiger II, and he doesn't have your optics.

[MiloMorai]

Find a small rise if you can and sit back from it a ways.

Isn't that called 'hull down'?

[MK-84]

Shoot the Lower glacis plate. It dies.

Easily

[bangsbox]

Find a small rise if you can and sit back from it a ways. They can't precisely target your lower hull without seeing where their shots are landing relative to it, and so most end up hitting your glacis plate. Plus it lowers your already small profile.

Finally, really work the range on that L/71. You're still punching through 211mm of armor at 1000 yds. At 200yds, it's 183mm if I recall correctly. The only thing that can punch with you is a Tiger II, and he doesn't have your optics.

I believe tiger 2 does have same optics, just press z to switch to higher magnification

[Lusche]

I believe tiger 2 does have same optics, just press z to switch to higher magnification

It has not. Tiger II has 5x max magnification, the Jagdpanther 10x

[WEZEL]

Jag's are fun, just gotta find the tricks in using them 

[TDeacon]

FWIW, I've had good luck with it, albeit mostly beyond 2,000 yards where they couldn't target a weak point (55 kills this tour, at the cost of 3 deaths, of which 2 were by bombs).  It can kill a Tiger II, and costs less than half as much. 

I do get the impression that AH models cumulative damage to armor, however (is this realistic?).  Thus once the opponent gets the range and your Jagdpanther is pinged, especially if it a large caliber round, you probably should reposition.