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Internal crits farming guide for 279e missions

Cliff notes version- high rate of fire is king, see bottom for missions suggestions for each branch.

First the basics:

Module	Percent chance hit damages
Obs device, Fuel tank, engine, Turret ring	45%
gun	33%
crew	33%
Ammo rack	27%

Which means that the best places to shoot tanks are:

cupola (commander and obs device)
front side of tank (disable track, hit fuel tank, ammo rack and driver)
back of turret (ammo rack, loader, gunner, commander)
back of hull (start engine fires)

Module Damage:

separate characteristic of every gun
is subject to RNG
most tanks fit into a few basic categories, TDs do more, bigger guns do more

Assuming you are penning and hitting the module and getting past the saving throw:

Tank	Module Damage	Module DPM
Shitbarn/Deathstar 183	244	488
jpz 100	228	532
Foch 155	210
T110E3, T110E4, T30, T95	210	741 for E3
114 SP2, 60TP, E100, Grille 15, 268v4, 268v5, 705A, VKK, WZ113GFT, obj 704, sheridan HEAT, T49 Heat, Type 4/5, everything with a 15cm gun pretty much	203	114 SP2 has unusually low damage for this category and high rof, 845 module dpm per minute
Conway, 14cm jap heavy guns	191	Conway top gun is best in this category, 795 module DPM
IS7, E100, AmxM54, Maus, 277, Rinoceronte, Vz55 basically all the 130mm guns	180	Jagdtiger short 128 is 990 mDPM, wt pz 4 128 also very good
All the 120-122mm guns pretty much	165	Tortoise 120mm has 1394, Conway 120 has 1269
32 pdr guns, 100mm guns	135	Tortoise gets 1446, cent 7/1 and conq small gun are both close behind, K-91 1286, Shitpak 1500
88-90mm guns	120ish	tort 20 pdr- 1647, type 61- 1464, E50 long 88- 1298, Leo PTA 90mm 1220, etc
75mm stuff	100	E50 long 75 1579, E50 short 75 1714 mDPM, Pershing 76mm 1909 mDPM, AT15, Panther L70, Cent 77mm, Caer 17pdr, etc etc. Tier 8 is full of this type of tanks

So… in conclusion it looks like the guys who said high rate of fire is king were right. The maximum output of module damage is tier 8 tanks with stock guns firing gold.

Best tanks for doing 279e module damage missions are therefore:

Alliance- Tier 8 Pershing with 76mm firing gold at module locations. 105 module damage but you can get reload down to 2.5 seconds if you go crazy. Just keep resettting until you get a tier 6 game and then murder everything. The AT-15 has slightly worse reload but much better pen at same tier. Tort with 20pdr has even better pen.
Coalition- Shitpak? Has 135 module damage and ~4 second reload.
Union- actually quite a few choices, look for 85mm tanks w/115 module damage, T-34-2 gets above 1500 mDPM, T-44 85mm is close, LT-432 also close, K91 and 907 semi-close
Bloc- E50 at tier 9 has 7.5cm choices that absolutely puke out module damage. With the long one you don't even need to use gold ammo.