You can do that by performing the armour angling manoeuvre, also known as the diamond/ invincibility position. If you’re driving one of such unfortunate vehicles, you need to learn how to “artificially” slope your armour plates, thus optimizing their effective armour thickness and raising your survivability as a result. In fact, some vehicles are easier to penetrate than others, partially because of the differences in armour thickness, and partially because of the plates being badly sloped, if at all. As a result, driving heavy tanks, for example, does not mean you can expect similar levels of sturdiness and protection between individual machines. Those differences may relate to the size, shape and armour layout, with the latter providing better or worse protection to the vehicle at large. If you’d like to learn more about the mechanic and/or see how it works in the game, you may find the following guide helpful:Īs you have probably noticed by now, various tanks tend to differ greatly in design, especially when comparing them in the span of the tiers and classes. Here’s a handy table illustrating how much an angled armour plate increases its effective thickness value:Īs you can see, the more acute the impact angle, the more effective the armour. Besides boosting your armour effectiveness, this design solution has one more crucial advantage – the higher the angle, the better the chance of a ricochet. This is precisely why so many armoured vehicles you see and may be driving don’t resemble perfect boxes, but rather have “leaning” and/or “steep” armour plates. The higher the angle, the higher the effective thickness. In short, the effective armour thickness may vastly outmatch the value the given plate has on paper, depending on the angle the plate was installed at towards incoming fire. The difference between armour thickness and effective armour thickness is the often major discrepancy between the theoretical and factual values.
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