WoT Supertest: MBT-B

The MBT-B, a new Tier X American heavy tank, has excellent mobility (the top forward speed is 55 km/h) but mediocre armor for its vehicle type (200 mm at the front of the turret and 105 mm at the front of the hull). By the “protection/mobility ratio” this tank is close to the AMX 50B. The MBT-B wields a 120 mm gun with a maximum depression of –10° and a 5-shell autoreloader with a short in-clip reload time of 2.5 seconds. The reload times of the shells are non-typical, which has tactical implications:

The first shell’s reloads in 22 seconds, which makes it a “reserve” shell: This round should only be used in critical situations.

The second, the third, and the fourth shells reload in 8, 10, and 12 seconds respectively. These are your main “working” shells, and staying on the second one provides the best DPM.

The fifth shell also reloads in 22 seconds, making it a “bonus” shell. Whenever you stay inactive in battle (intentionally or unintentionally), you will get an opportunity to have a full clip that can be treated either as a 4-shell clip (ending with the best-DPM second shell) or a 5-shell clip (if the risk is worth it).

With a one-time damage of 400 HP, this configuration provides not only a potential 2,000 HP of damage per clip but a lot of tactical flexibility—but requires you to always keep track of the situation.

22 thoughts on “WoT Supertest: MBT-B

      1. Basically a reverse-autoloader that wants to shoot whenever it can.

        The hull will be trash.
        But if that mantlet can actually work then this thing will be broken very easily.

        Otherwise, it will still be an extremely good tank if you can make it work obviously.

        1. If the mantlet works, the 10 degrees of gun depression will make it great on ridge lines (maybe a bit too good).

      1. Which I just don’t understand.
        I didn’t have the resources on my account when Lion was released, so I skipped it. I tried it (20-ish battles) on a friend’s account and I have to say it’s a beauty of a machine. Sick DPM, if you hold to the 3rd shell, good mobility, even the turret can work every now and then. Only the gun handling sucks, but Vents + VStabs + IRM do magic.

        A totally underrated vehicle.

  1. make it a fucking medium tank. there are already way too many mediums that are heavies, and heavies that are mediums and they fuck with the matchmaking.

  2. My first thought was that would be a better T110E5, but the armour seems to be unreliable at best (which for this kind of a gun system is good). But I wouldn’t go as far as to say it’s an American AMX50B because 50B has waaaay worse turret. But still, if you hold to the second to last shell, you have a base DPM of 3k. Very interesting tank. Candidate for next Clan Wars campaign? Maybe

  3. This tank is already on console, I think the turret armor is much better and it’s is a single shell firing tank. In fact the just buffed it in someway. God this game is going to complete crap. Console is out of control and they are running off all the player base, sadly. 😒

  4. More autoloaders, GW can’t think of anything else, clips and clips and clips, used to be 2 to 3 per games now it’s 7 to 8 per games, camping and snipping from afar and then coming to rape your arse when you are low life … no point into playing anything that else than those turd tanks, autoloader and clip op tanks are top five of the winning team….
    And always the same kikoolol kiddos having a hardon with their World of MarioKart Tanks … pathetic game is has become

      1. That was an amazingly useless comment, thanks for your contribution…
        So that you can go to bed less stupid, I’m just a decent player with a large minimap in-game, 60K games, 55.3% WR and I play all tiers, all nations (safe for Polacks) and all types with about +/-10K games in each (with Lights at 9800 games and TDs at 14100 games), so your useless comment couldn’t have been more off topic, congrats

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