CS game tanks survival rates

[Jumbo]

Hi Jorge,

It appears you may have just been getting some poor die rolls against them. In a game I'm currently playing, I destroyed a 2SP Jumbo platoon with successive shots from a 3SP Panther platoon from long range! ...

If anything the CS game may still have this unit slightly under valued IMO. Jumbo's were far and away more heavily armored than standard Shermans. And better protected than any other Allied or Russian tank for that matter. This tank was designed to approach German AT defenses head on and survive. If the record books and writings about this design are correct, Then it actually excelled at that ( it was considered a highly successful design and were in high demand ). One only needs to see what German AT gun and tank guns of the day were capable of as far as armor penetration ability. And then look and see how thick the armor was on the Jumbo. That thickness ( 178mm thick gun mantlet / 152mm turret thickness on the front, sides and rear / 102mm thick front superstructor at 47 degrees angle / 140mm to 114.5mm thick transmission cover that was rounded and angled from 47 to 56 degrees ) did infact make this tank extremely difficult to put out of action by pretty much anything except for the most powerful German guns. At least that's what most writings will say and what German gun armor penetration tables will bear out.