I have the tanks pictured. The inferno chimera, asterion, and gornych have the best win rates it looks like, are they the strongest? Easiest to play? I want heavy/medium tanks. Asterion fun for ramming? I also don't know if I can make enough points if I don't take a tank at gornych/hollenhund.

I'm new and not terribly good yet. I play mostly tier 4 right now, my tier 5s mostly aren't upgraded and don't feel playable yet, I can't pen anything with the stock guns.

Arachnid

Notes: 

• Release Date: Oct 2022
• Balance History: none
• Dispersion: 
  • Turret: 0.08
  • Movement: 0.12
• Weight: 47 tons

Overview: 

• Its a lower armored version of the AE Phase 1 armed with 2 shot 105mm gun. 
• Also its a giant spider.

Pros: 

• Psychological warfare against those vulnerable to spiders. 
  • Various degrees of reduced competency in aiming, planning and platoon coordination. (warning limited amount of surveyed “targets’) 
• Good 400m VR
• Good dispersion values
• 10 degree of gun depression 

Neutral: 

• Average HP 
• Average enough damage potential 

Cons: 

• Low top speeds
• Lower mobility 
• Below average accuracy 
• Lower single shot damage 
• Lower DPM (average for a autoloader)
• Bad pen
• Compared to same tier meds, its has poor shell velocity 
• Heavy tank level of camo 
• High engine fire chance 
• Large and easy to hit ammo rack

Armor: 

• Armor at list angle [armor against AP with 5 degree of normalization] 
• Turret:
  • Front: Bit hard to talk about, but ill try my best. The area around the gun is quite strong as its at least 254mm thick and small. The 190mm area is the main section of armor that will be hit. Its ranges around 57 degrees so about 345 [308]. The 170mm section just above it is about the same. 
  • Sides: as a bubble shape its not going to hold up as well, but at least its decently thicker on the front half. The 190mm section should still block a good amount of lower tier shots. The rear half is pretty weak at 50.8mm. 
  • Roof: the whole of it is pretty good at 50.8mm for the front half. Block overmatch and a lot of HE shells. The rear is only 38mm which only affects arty and at tier 9 they will have enough pen to go through. 
  • Cupola: N/A… well there is a tiny gunner sight thats 215mm but yea good luck hitting it. 
  • Camo: well most tanks don't have large visual only obstructions on the tank, so i suppose i should include the fact that the large spider head and legs do make it hard to identify and aim at any specific location on the turret. 
• Hull: 
  • Upper front: 101mm at 64 degrees, so 230 [196]. Its not half bad for a medium tank, though this isn't the best. Its gonna rely mostly on using gun depression to make it auto bounce. The upper front sides are 76mm at 78 degrees when viewed from direct front and remain above 70 degrees even when the hull is angled. 
  • Lower front: 120mm at 33 degrees, so 143. Yea not much but its block HE at least. 
  • Sides: a flat 43mm covers most it. Its good enough to prevent 12.8cm overmatch but thats it. The turret bulge on the other hand is something to discuss. The front section is 177mm which does block a good amount of shots when the tank is straight. When the hull is angled at 15 degrees its only about 50 degrees so about 275 [250] which still block a lot of standard ammo. This means you could side scrape if you feel lucky. 
  • Rear: not much as its only 38mm at 40 degrees. It may block 105mm HE and thats it. 
  • Roof + Floor: 19 / 25mm meaning it wont matter which im talking about as its weak and will be penned. 
• Overall it's pretty good for a medium… or heavium i suppose. Strong turret and quite useable hull. 

Gameplay:

• Well its mostly a hull down pew pew and retreat kinda tank. Its far too large and slow to be a flanker. 
• As mentioned in the armor overview the armor is good enough to side scrape depending on your enemies, but not that reliable. 
• Its mobile enough to get around as its PTW even with the meh terrain resistances means its gets up to speed often enough. Still want a turbo to get a higher top speed. 
• Equipment: 
  • Vents
  • Stabilizer (for better 2nd shot accuracy)  
  • Turbo 
  • Optics 

Counter Gameplay: 

• Shoot the left side. Its holds the ammo. Or just the entire rear turret. 
• It's mostly a hull down heavium so it doesn't hold up as much when on flat ground. 
• In terms of ramming its not the best target as its of decent weight so only tanks 60+ tons I would recommend even bothering. 

Halloween gameplay: 

• Its gun is whatever as it's not really that useful outside the occasional damage. 
• The main strength and of course the reason why you play this is the jump ability where you can deal devastating squish damage. The cooldown isnt the bad so you can follow up on jumping pretty quickly. 
• You generally need a bit of speed to actually jump on a tank, as otherwise you just only move forward like 3m. 
• In terms of tanks to look out for… 
  • Well anything with a flamethrower is scary. 
  • Asterion is also a risk as while its easy to eat, it can easily bully you if you miss with it ram if you get stuck. Though you have a better cooldown rate for your ability in comparison. 
  • The Bellerophon is a risky play as it can easily trade with ram damage. 
  • Light tanks in general are hard to catch and your DPM otherwise is pretty low. 
  • You main prey are the Revenants are they are slow and easy to eat. Pretty much anything else thats slower and doesnt have a weird trump effect. 

Cosmetics: 

• One of the best tanks in the game in terms of looks. Who doesn't want a giant spider? Okay a few people dont, but there is a skin for that i suppose. 
• Anyhow the tank is based on the AE phase 1 a US heavy tank project. Which is of a unique enough shape at least with the angled front hull, giant bulb turret that spills out over the sides and 4 track set up. 
• Hull: 
  • In terms of details there isn't too much as just a fat heavy tank. Well outside the fact that there is giant exhaust on the sides as this tank is partially based on the original Fangula. 
  • Okay there is the giant spider web draped over the tanks which is pretty neat as gives a small 3d effect.
• Spider turret:
  •  Well its a giant spider of brown and black color. The rear end may or may not be a bit extra large to cover the whole fat turret. 
  • Well… not sure exactly what I can say outside forming your own opinion on this.

• Skin Turret: 
  • Its mostly just the original turret exposed with the spider web continuing onto it along with a giant spider on top of the turret. Though i do say its a bit funny looking as the spider has a lifting eye right on its mouth. 
  • Its also curious that the cupola is visually modeled but not part of the armor scheme. I suppose the skin was made after the tanks release (i think), so it would make sense to not bother updating the armor model just for the skin. I guess this is a small gimmick you could play with them shooting the fake cupola. (though its pretty far back on the turret so it be hard to aim at in the first place.)
• Cosmetics: 
  • Emblem: one on the upper front hull 
  • Inscription: N/A
  • Flag: eh it sticks up on the rear left of the spider's butt. 

General Thoughts: 

• Im curious why this didnt get a smidge of camo advantage of the AE as heavy tanks generally have a penalty compared to medium tanks. 
• Yea this should get some extra pen… and interclip… so yea just general gun power. 
  • In terms of gun power im mostly just thinking of the TL-1 LPC. that has a extremely quick 2 shot 280 damage 90 with inter of 1.13. So maybe not that quick but something closer to 2.0, but im more interested in reliability. 
  • In the goal for reliability, its pen and accuracy are my main desires. Mostly thinking of increasing the pen from 238/280 to say 248/310. This is mostly just the gun from the T54E1. 
  • Outside the pen just a smidge better aim time and accuracy. So 2.5 to 2.4 and 0.37 to 0.35 mostly.
  • Would this be enough? Eh id say so. Having the pen and gun handling buffed should be enough as the tank otherwise is good enough. Only other thing i can think of is a small increase of 50hp. 
• Its a shame that we didn't get a cool spider commander to go with the tank. Not sure what kind we should get if we did. A simple just giant spider, an Arachne? Heck, I'd like a licensed version of Kumoko (for those in the know).

Buy?

• Harder sell even with the 30% discount for the 2026 sale at time of review. Tier 9 tanks are expensive and while fun in the halloween event mode its performance the rest of the year is so so. 
  • Even more so as it has the old 17.5k value instead of the new 14k standard for tier 9. Also the fact it comes with a skin. 
• It is fun, the power of a two shot autoloader is quite good and the armor is useable. The halloween even version of the tank is also just fun to jump on other tanks to “eat” them. 

In the race to the garage

What equipments should I install on it? Same for the commander (are the skills the same for STRV 103-0 and STRV 103B?

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