Pershing / War Thunder

In 1942 the USA accepted a new tank into service. The name of the tank was… М4 Sherman. Its reliability and performance earned the respect of hundreds of tanker crews all around the world, from Western Europe to the far corners of the USSR… but the team that created the Sherman knew all too well that no glory lasts forever. After all, the Sherman was based on the M2 medium tank that was developed in the 1930s, and the new tank basically squeezed every single bit of potential out of this old design. In other words, the clock was ticking. The US needed a more advanced follow-up tank.

#WarThunder

[Renarde]

Nobody has mentioned the battle of cologne thumbnail.

[AndresRodriguez-kqwd]

I adore that voice, it makes everything sound better

[USA]

The pershing tanks make me feel so cool when I use them and they're just so much fun to use

[msheridan]

Pershing, Super Pershing, T26E5, and M26E1 are all in my 6.7 lineup, love em😂

[imanin]

the m26's repair cost is way too high for what it is

[sushiman]

The Pershing is probably my favorite tank in the game, it is so much fun to use despite it's sometimes annoying mobility and lack of penetration on its m82 shot. Just the feeling of seeing a tiger 1 shooting you and nothing happening is great. You know it happenes and they just kinda think "hmm, wel shid"

[dylanvogel]

If only Gaijin would lower the godawful repair cost.

[urdnotwrex]

what I thought about pershing tank? That Gaijin gave it unreasonable BR and repair cost.

[stCOMMANDER_TE]

I love all Pershing variants. Especially the T26e5 & T26e1-1. However
there is one more variant I hope to see added one day. The T26e4 is a
second generation Super Pershing. I think it’s interesting how many
people often confused this tank with the T26e1-1. The main difference
between it and it’s predecessor the T26e1-1, (other than the extra welded
armor), is the T26e1-1 uses the t15e1 90mm gun while the T26e4 uses
the t15e2 90mm gun. Also, the T26e4 doesn’t have the “Pringle cans” on
its turret. 25 T26e4 Super Pershings were built. However, only 1 still remains.

[ironhorse-]

The T26 E-1 is absolutely perfect it's one of my most favorite American tanks in history

[markgreiser]

All I know is my Grandfather turned in a Horse for a Stuart and commanded Tanks and Tankers into the late 1960's. He liked the Pershings. He was leading a troop in Korea and watched a noobie freak out and bail out of his Pershing along with the rest of the Crew and that Tank bounced down the side of a mountain, until it landed smack dab in the middle of a CP, at the bottom of the Mountain. He was much relieved, when he got down there and founded that the CP had closed shop and moved out the night before. He did weapon system evals, for the Joint Chiefs as a Command Sergeant Major. Very cool dude. God rest CSM Otha P Swicegood. 2 Wars, Life of Service, incredibly cool Man.

[Chilimans]

put the T25 back to 6.0 or at least give us the version with the stabilizer

[tarekitani]

Are we ever getting that water vapour effect on a jet fighter when pulling a tight turn? Feel like it would add some more realism to the turning process

[StellarGryphon]

“The designers knew that no glory lasts forever.”

Chile in the 1990s: “What?”

[hundiraisk]

I grinded it as fast as possible, when it was added to the game tech tree, years back.
Spaded it and it became my main tank to play ... Without using any GE, i've managed to get the crew level to 149, 5.
It lacks mobility, but it's reliable on any map and packs a punch, that no cat can take. With the 6.3 br, it sits at the best sweetspot of the game.
1049 arcade, and about the same number, realistic battles on its belt.

[CyberneticArgumentCreator]

The Pershing is so iconic and cool. I wish that they didn't uptier all of the US line with any armor on it into irrelevance. If you take the entire 3.3 to 6.3 US line of tanks and add a little bit of armor and then add 50% (!) to the main gun's penetration, you get the German tank line in that range. It's kind of crazy that that is still the case so many years running. Someone at Gaijin sees the Tiger and Panther at 5.3, every time they look at the BR sheet, then sees the M4A2 76 and M4A3 76 tanks and goes "these are the same".

I mean if you take either of those Shermans and try to line up at an optimal angle on the protection analysis, they are just painted fully green, from top to bottom and left to right, at 500m against the Tiger 1 and Panther D. They might as well be reserve tier armor. Now take the Tiger 1 and Panther D, angle them slightly, and do it again against the Sherman 76 at 500m. Almost unpenetratable with tiny slivers of green that volumetric will likely eat. There is nothing wrong with working armor! Just move US tanks to where they also have working armor. I like armor meta. I like fighting strong heavies in other strong heavies.

Same goes for the Pershing against the Tiger IIP at 6.3 and for any equivalent medium or heavy tanks for Russia or Germany.

What I'm saying is about 25% ranty complaint and 75% just wanting to play fun tanks without them being wet noodles with paper armor. I really want to play the US line but there are like 3 tanks before 7 BR that line up even remotely close pound-for-pound to Germany/Russia. Britain has the same issue. Help us play our favorite tanks without hating ourselves, Gaijin! Please!

[rosmontisastrea]

I feel like the Pershing was really short-lived, It was a good replacement for the Shermans and if it arrived much earlier in the war, it could've been developed on even further and it could've received a longer term of active service

[qcarr]

Love the Pershings, and the M26 is one of the best looking tanks every built! 😀

[fuzionzz]

I'd love to see a Pershing in the French tech tree. They did use them and France badly needs more vehicles at 6.3-6.7.

[HIFLY]

They were great when I played them 2 years ago but seeing all these T series tanks raised in br ruins them. I don't think the super Pershing should be on the same level as the t34 or even close to it. The t23 and 25 should be similar to panthers only less armored and more mobile. No reason to have them higher than all other panthers including the later versions when they no longer have stabilizers