K.18 (105 mm)

Description

There is currently only one tank in the game using this cannon. That is the German tank destroyer (TD) Dicker Max.

Vehicles equipped with this weapon

• Dicker Max

General info

There is not that much info about this gun, since the Dicker Max was only one prototype. It takes 13 seconds (stock) and 10 seconds (ace) to reload the big gun.

Available shells

These are the types of shell used by the Dicker Max and their penetration.

Penetration statistics
Ammunition	Type ofwarhead	Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
		10 m	100 m	500 m	1,000 m	1,500 m	2,000 m
PzGr	APHE	155	153	144	133	123	114
Gr.19	HE	23	23	23	23	23	23
Pzgr.rot	APCBC	187	184	174	162	151	141

Comparison with analogues

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Usage in battles

This gun is at its best sniping the enemies from the other side of the map. One important thing to remember (especially in AB) is to hide behind natural cover when reloading. If there is no natural cover drive back and forth. The gun reloads slowly, so you should not go to close combat.

Pros and cons

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Pros:

• Great damage
• Great gun depression

Cons:

• Long reload
• Long gun (easy to barrel-snipe)

History

Only two of these guns where made. One was a prototype (never used). The other was deployed in Stalingrad as the Dicker Max. It was later captured by the Soviets, having 31 kill marks on it. The prototypes faith is unknown.

Media

An excellent addition to the article would be a video guide, as well as screenshots from the game and photos.

See also

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• reference to the article about the variant of the cannon/machine gun;
• references to approximate analogues by other nations and research trees.

External links

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• topic on the official game forum;
• encyclopedia page on weapon;
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