The 75mm was effective against all enemy vehicles at the time it was designed and introduced, and the HE shell was very effective against infantry, AT gun emplacements, buildings and fortifications.
Commanders cupola offered good (for the time) all round visibility.
Started to cut down on the excessive amount of machineguns previous US tanks had to a more reasonable number.
At the time the M3A1 had the (not one of, THE) largest single piece armor steel castings in the world. It was made from cutting fricking edge industrial manufacturing technology. The same technology and experience would find its way into the M4, early models of which had cast hulls but all models had completely cast turrets, something that no other country could pull off until after the war.
IRL it was a decent tank, ended up being completely overshadowed by the more mobile, more easily produced and less logistics-devouring M4 and when post war born boomers started crying that M4 was a death trap because one hazy memoir with zero research triggered the boomers I KNOW SOMETHING THEY DON'T I KNOW I AM RIGHT I KNOW WHAT I GOT SONNY mode, thus some of it shaved off to everything Allied including the M3.
also
World of Tanks Black folk need to lrn2play. I was pretty good with it when it came out and 90% of the recent online b***hing about the M3 comes from youtube world of wankers smearing it because they don't know how to play the fricking game let alone the M3.
>WoT
It's been over five years and PC still hasn't ported the turret of the M3 over from console. You're playing a crippled version of an already tricky vehicle, I don't apologize for anything
It looks cool
It looks like something a kid would design which makes it an inherently cool piece of hardware.
it was an okay stopgap that let the user have a 75mm gun without having to immediately work out the kinks of developing the turret for it
The 75mm was effective against all enemy vehicles at the time it was designed and introduced, and the HE shell was very effective against infantry, AT gun emplacements, buildings and fortifications.
Commanders cupola offered good (for the time) all round visibility.
Started to cut down on the excessive amount of machineguns previous US tanks had to a more reasonable number.
At the time the M3A1 had the (not one of, THE) largest single piece armor steel castings in the world. It was made from cutting fricking edge industrial manufacturing technology. The same technology and experience would find its way into the M4, early models of which had cast hulls but all models had completely cast turrets, something that no other country could pull off until after the war.
It worked in the desert without crapping out
It's quite aesthetic.
Made the Japanese ree
It's pretty fricking amazing in war thunder
"Driver advance"
IRL it was a decent tank, ended up being completely overshadowed by the more mobile, more easily produced and less logistics-devouring M4 and when post war born boomers started crying that M4 was a death trap because one hazy memoir with zero research triggered the boomers I KNOW SOMETHING THEY DON'T I KNOW I AM RIGHT I KNOW WHAT I GOT SONNY mode, thus some of it shaved off to everything Allied including the M3.
also
World of Tanks Black folk need to lrn2play. I was pretty good with it when it came out and 90% of the recent online b***hing about the M3 comes from youtube world of wankers smearing it because they don't know how to play the fricking game let alone the M3.
you Sherman homosexuals are truly pathetic
boomer detected, probably sitting at a cruise ship casino as his crooked fingers typed this post
still not as bad as the Bradley
>WoT
It's been over five years and PC still hasn't ported the turret of the M3 over from console. You're playing a crippled version of an already tricky vehicle, I don't apologize for anything
it truly was one of the tanks of WWII
looks cool
can into HE and throwing of fog
is in defilade at all times
It enabled the Brits to kick Rommel's ass and it has a cute fluffy bunny painted on it.
it showed what not to do