A frustrated review of the Jpz E100

Let me start this by saying plain and simple that I thoroughly discourage ANYONE from getting this tank.

I have several hundred matches in this tank with a 51% winrate, 2.3k average damage, so not particularly good but also above average. But let me tell you, the vast majority of games have been nothing but pure pain and misery.

TL:DR
Good luck hitting wheelies, armour is useless, gun is derpy and unreliable, even though stats say otherwise. Don't get this tank.

Let's start with the mobility of the tank:

It's a super heavy so obviously it falls short in this category but the most annoying part is how small the gun arc is.
This has given me so much trouble when trying to hit those ridiculously fast wheelies because to give enough lead you need to turn your tank, which blooms the reticle to the size of jupiter and if you don't fully aim your shots you wouldn't be able to hit the sun if it was right in front of you (more on this later).
That jagdtiger is so much better in this regard as it turns noticeably faster and can actually get in a shot or 2 before it starts getting circled (unless, again it's up against a wheely).

Armour:

Being a super heavy, this tank is supposed to have extremely thick armour. Which, on paper it does, but unfortunately it's flat and not in the shape of a dome so it's useless.
In the current meta, I'm sure you'll have noticed how the vast majority of players just spam gold left, right and centre so anything with 290+ mm of pen will go through your cheeks like butter, as they are 280mm effective, 320+ and your entire superstructure becomes paper (apart from the gun mantlet).
The only scenario in which your armour is effective is against tier 8 tanks as most of them, even with premium rounds will not have enough penetration.
Artillery also seems to hit you for 300 minimum if it's a direct hit cause arty doesn't give a flying fuck if you have armour or not.
Overall the Jpz E100 is highly dissapointing in this category as it's major selling point is it's supposedly high survivability, but until war gaming nerfs premium rounds to the ground this will always be the case, and let's be honest war gaming won't touch premium rounds as they make money off them (indirectly).

And finally we come to the gun:

Now this thing's gun can be EXTREMELY satisfying. Hitting people for upwards if 1000 damage, there's just nothing quite like it. 299 standard pen is pretty darn good but 420 mm of HEAT, oh boy can you do some ridiculous things. You can go through so many supposedly impenetrable turrets, 705A, S.conq, 279e and even the t95 fv can be penned on the top left. The only turret that seems to be extremely resistant to these rounds is the is7's turret, it can be penned right next to the gun but most of the time you will bounce anyway (even if this part of the armour is only about 350-300mm thick).

The reality of the situation unfortunately is not quite as good as it seems. The gun is extremely derpy, even though it has .35 base dispersion, with the right set up you can bring this down the .30, which on paper is very good, in reality it feels more like a russian heavy, without the amazing snapshots. You will miss shots that will either have you crying, slamming your fist through your screen or jumping out the window, I'm talking aiming for a lower plate at essentially point blank range and either hitting the dirt below it or the upper plate. And don't even try to shoot when you're not fully aimed (you will miss 90% of those) unless you know you won't get another shot for a while. Again, the jagdtiger feels SO much better with accuracy, even though on paper the dispersion values are really similar

The RNG on this gun feels more like +0% -50%, rather than +-25% on it's penetration rolls when you fire HEAT, I have yet to penetrate a 60TP's upper glasis even if it's nowhere near 420mm thick.
The HE rounds on this tank are probably the best feature, they have about 100 mm of pen so there's plenty of tanks you can blast for 1400 damage and when you just get fed up of all the bullshit RNG can throw at you, you can shoot sidescraping heavies for 500-600 or hulldown, domed turrets for 300-600.
Overall though, the gun just feels like a cancerous RNG fest.

In conclusion, this tank is 130 tons of dissapointment. The armour is useless, the mobility sucks, and the gun is unreliable. Save yourself the trouble and stop at the jagdtiger, which tier for tier imo is a far superior tank with it's outstanding dpm and WAY more reliable gun.