Somehow I've recently ended up with three premium mediums, all of which get rave reviews from various corners of Blitz-dom. I've got the Progetto 46, the Panzer 58 Mutz, and the AMX CDC. I should preface this with a disclaimer: I suck at mediums. I've always preferred heavies, although mediums can definitely be fun. A couple of times I've put some effort into learning to drive mediums, but I've come no where close to my skill level in heavies. I read the forums and I've seen videos, I know all the theory to being successful in meds, but I have a lot of trouble shooting on the move and my medium hull down game still needs work. Feel free to look up my stats and laugh at my suckitude. Anyway, it's a slow day on the forums so I figured I'd talk about my impressions of them, maybe some of our newer players could benefit from a non-unicum look at some of our premiums.
Progetto 46: This tank is all about the auto-reload-er-er. Disclaimer: I don't have any of the tech tree autoloaders, so I don't know how it compares. But I do know this reloader is awesome. You have the capability to clip a tank with three shots and then you can shoot them again just a few seconds later. So this thing can put out a good amount of damage pretty quickly. And it also moves really well, it's decently fast and maneuverable, rarely feeling out of control. It's not going to block a lot of shots, I'd like the turret to be a little harder, but that could push it to OP territory. It's got 9 degrees of depression which is really nice. All in all, I like this tank and I think I should be better with it. According to Blitzstars it's got a 55% WR, and I'm rocking a 53% WR, although 30 day I'm a 40%er. I've had some bad streaks lately though, I expect that to come back up pretty quickly.
Panzer 58 Mutz: I think this is my favorite of the three. People say it's a better Indien Panzer, although I've never had that one. Other people have said it's pretty meh, which I don't disagree with. To me, it's a swiss army knife, it seems to have the tools to do any job. It's only got an average WR of 50% on blitzstars, but that sure does seem low to me. It has 10 deg of depression, a pretty fast firing gun that seems to pen most of what I shoot at, it's not fast at all but it feels very solid. The turret seems to generate some bounces, it also seems to have pretty decent hull armor for a medium. After 30 battles I was at a sucky 37%, but last night I did much better in my 10 battles, raising it up to 47%.
AMX CDC: I just got this thing, I've only got 4 battles in it. It's fast, it's fun, it dies easily. Even though I've just got it, I've played against it plenty, and it seems that it needs to keep moving to do well. The gun was a pleasant surprise, it does better than I thought it would. I don't think this is going to be a great tank for me because your best bet is to not stop and shoot them on the move, and I have trouble with that. However, it seems to have a pretty high fun factor so I might end up falling in love with it. Oh, and 4 games, 25% WR, it's got a 50% average. Hopefully I get there.