That chat in the 2nd (Glacier) battle. 🤣🤣🤣 I didn't realize how much of the blame game people were playing on my team.

Hey Taugrim. I really appreciate the knowledge you empart upon us. I feel so much more confident in my game play since I've started watching your videos aswell as 4tankersanddog's where to go map videos. I would love to see some mal tactics video's from you as well. keep up the great work. thank you

Thanks for taking the time to do this. In my opinion the difficulty involved with running this tank is a great for training in mediums in general. It's unforgiving nature requires thought for every move and heaps of patience. These are virtues that translate most other meds with much better armor and mobility. In short in an excellent trainer and victories feel more rewarding it.

Working through eliting the PTA right now, so good timing - for me - on this one. Appreciate your calm, thoughtful style, as always

This is a fabulous series man! Between your videos, Lemmingrush, and TruVooDoo I've learned so much about the game. Keep up the awesome work!

another great analysis. well done. I think I enjoy this tank a little more than you do, but always appreciate your perspective.

Thanks for the video dude, I’ve started watching you over the last month or so and my game has improved so much!! I’ve already gone up ~400 points and I’m having a lot more fun as I play. Keep up the awesome work!

It’s crazy that in a game where the tier 10 mediums used to only do like 320 alpha for the most part, 420 alpha at tier 9 isn’t considered “crushing”. The game really has changed a lot since I first started playing. This is my first tier 9 tank and I love it, thanks for the content

I don't even play the game anymore but I still love watching your videos. You're doing great!

Thanks Taugrim - great Video on the Leopard PTA - You always have great informative content and we are all very much appreciative of your calm and insightful commentary...

"Damage before position" Guilty but thanks for these 3 head (mine) slapping words

Tbh the Leo 1 seems to be one of the most meta MTs right now. After the recent buff it is just like the PTA a pleasure to play. Of course it is not as idiot proof as the Objects and it is pretty hard to stand your ground on small maps with no opportunity for vision control.

I appreciate the timing of this video.. I just started up this line. About to research the tier 8.

The PTA is my all-time best stat & favourite tank. It's a glass cannon to the max, yes, but the gun and the mobility make it one of the most rewarding medium tanks. For me the funny thing is that I have great stats in my PTA and terrible stats in my Leo 1. I should also mention that I really like your Road to unicum videos. I've got so many new ideas, spots and angles I never thought of.

With 35 mm of side armor, you can side scrape anything with a 105 mm. But, that pretty much is anything non-Russian/Chinese, so it limits the potential - LOVE that you listed 8 positives that all get neutered by the 3 negatives. Oh German tanks... designed for RL greatness but reduced to sadness, in WoT. Another great video, Taugi... keep it up!

Love your channel!

Love you so much for making this Video. The Leo pta is officially my favorite tank, despite its short comings. After 350 Games my % has stabilized at 55 ( which is super high for me). Ive got a nicely Trainer crew and put the captured gun rammer on it, so the reload goes down to as low as 8,4s! Dont even know wether or not I should Upgrade to T10 to be honest.

Hi Taugrim. I have started watching your videos for the past 1 month or so and I find they are quite informative about the gameplay, mechanics as well as the thought process needed. I have been playing WoT for the last 4 years on console and one thing which I have observed is that there is more cover (bushes etc) available on the PC version for tanks as compared to on the console version. The gameplay on console version seems to be more of brawling / blitzkrieg whereas PC version gameplay seems to be more of positioning, tactics and using the strengths of your tank. And I love this gameplay over the console yoloers. This is why I have installed the PC version of WoT on my laptop and started playing on it. I tried using the tactics which you have shared on console and I realized that either my team has steam rolled the opposition and I have not done enough damage or that my team has been steam rolled and I am left standing amongst the last few tanks playing to my tanks strengths with positioning in mind.

i really do not understand how you have a viewer base that's so little. The content you produce is great!

Wonderful play

I've been watching you videos for a long time now and I have come to the conclusion that you are VERY underrated. @Taugrim

Great video thanks. I like playing the PTA because of the good gun, but its quite hard to play really well. I also have the Leopard 1 which on reflection was a waste of time because of the reason you mentioned in playing. The British 7/1 is still a better tank even taking the larger profile into consideration and the extra gun depression is a bonus.

Thanks Taugrim I’ve been thinking of going up this line

Thank you for doing these videos, your ability to verbalize your thought process sets your tutorials apart from the other WoT KZfaqrs. My best damage game ever is in the Leo 1 (8700 a few months ago) but the Leo 1 and PTA are incredibly punishing of mistakes. I probably have 2 terrible games for 3 decent games. Also, pre-buff I was terrible in the Leo 1 (42% win rate vs 53% overall). I would rank the Leo PTA behind the AMX 30, Cent 7/1 and E50 as far as tier 9 NATO tanks are concerned. Those three can do everything the PTA can do but they also have some armor. I think the Leo 1 is a pretty big upgrade, mostly because I don't think armor is important in tier 10. Every game is nothing but gold spam (at least on NA) and I find that in all my mediums, my best games come from playing patiently and not making myself a target at the right times. The DPM and on-the-move gun handling upgrades in the Leo 1 are significant enough to give that tank the edge to brawl with your saved HP in the late game. I mostly think of the PTA as a turreted TD with the speed to flex around the map.

How convenient I'm going for the Leopards now

Leo PTA, what a surprise from you Taugrim! I unlocked it before the techtree rework with blueprints, because I wanted to get both Leo PTA and Ru while they were still branched after HWK 12, to avoid going back to tier 6 all the way up through indien panzer. I heard about Indien pz to be a worse Pershing. I didn't manage to make Pershing work (lower tank wn8 than my recent), let alone a worse one. It is why I really enjoyed your video about Pershing. Watched it at least 5 times to learn from it. The HWK 12 btw, is such a pain when enemies have Lynx or EBR 75. Your pathetic potato gun will hardly hit them, while you are a yummy snack for them. They just yololo and left click-right click to do 400-500 damage per shot/clip with HE, as soon as they see you. Hardly going to win any vision game against one of those. I ended up rage selling it and unlocked Ru with blueprints too. Nice video as always Taugrim. 1st battle, personally I never go to center in the out way from south spawn because there is no hard cover. The houses there are destructable so cannot rely on this. I didn't know about the bush you were using. Nice location to balance out the big rock on the north part, definitly will try it later. But if enemy had more forces with Skorp & Indien Pz or had they pushed up, the retreat would be a long way in the open. It really limits the potential of this location for the southern spawn. 2nd battle Glacier, I would not stay in E6/F5 if I notice our team have not control over the K/0 hill or the carrier hill. Really happy that it worked out for you. Speaking of the southern hill, I would go there with an Obj 430 for example, expecting to shoot at enemies in the center. But in a tank with usable gun depressin, I would definitly go center. Funny fact : 11:50 I was expecting you to get shot by that E4 earlier camping in the map corner. I then realized he vanished during your skipped part of the video ;) Congrats for your Ace tanker! I haven't got mine yet after 152 battles. I averaged 2458,57 wn8 and 54,61% in it, making it one of my better performing tanks.

The PTA has been for a long time my favourite tier 9er, even before the buffs. It's so rewarding when played right. It has taught me (the reaaally hard way) about patience in this game and, most of all, positioning. However, that dispersion on the move is just hor. ri. ble. It has tested my Zen limits on so many occasions.

I watched this, then went to play. First battle I got Empire's Border with a spawn on the south side. I thought, "wow! I'll try the same strategy!" I got out spotted from where you spotted and shot the Skorp and was dead within 30 seconds of the start. Short replay available!

I would have thought you would like this tank a lot more. It was one of my first tier 9s back in the day when it came after the RU251. I recently rebought it to 3 mark and honestly it is my favourite tier 9 medium after the StandardB. That gun just excuses every possible shortcoming it may have. Out of the holy trinity it has firepower and mobility in abundance. Personally I do not need armor. It is somewhat more stressfull to play since you need to be aware of everything all the time, no room for mistakes. But that is okay, too.

As I don't play much, and only more now, due to Lockdown, I've had my eye on the Leo onlycuz I used to work on them ;) But I finally got my Leo PT, and I'm liking it. Some say to use it as a support tank - I play more like a TD, as I'm decent at sniping, but until I started watching tutorials, I was a bit of a muppet and got killed a lot lol Leos were fun to drive IRL, and I was the loader/radio op. Funny story - I ended up on the same c/s within 3 yrs - first, as driver, then 2 yrs later as loader, after driving the track Amb 113 ;) I am starting to pick vehicles based on stats, and not history, or from names I had to learn from doing Recce . Thanks for sharing!

Nice. I love this tank. I played through it to get the Leopard 1, but my Leopard 1 sits gathering dust because the PTA feels so much better at its tier.

My favorite tier 9 medium tanks are the standard B, amx 30, leopard pta, skoda t50 and udes 16 in that order. Each tank has it's strengths and weaknesses and are fun to play.

Great playing with you the other day in my derped T49 (ign: biocrim). Funny thing... you made the comment to the team to control the bridge and I responded: "listen to this man, he knows what he's talking about". When I sent that message I didn't know it was you... lol! Then I looked to see your name and was like, yup, definitely knows what he's talking about. We smashed that team... gg.

I really enjoy playing tier 9 meds in this game. Even though the PT A shouldn’t have been good compared to its medium counterparts, I found that I had the highest dmg per game in this tank. I think because I knew the tank had glass armour that I was extra careful and did not rely on anything but good positioning and my gun. With other tanks I get too ballsy and aggressive. So I surprisingly enjoyed this as a sniper/ support tank. Also thanks for the vid!

Hello I really like you'r content , showing usefull playgame and more important playing without gold amo, thing's I do because I hate gold . Even I lost I try to find the weak point when I play. Will you do a video on the Leopard 1 ? I have bad time with , I'm really more efficient in the PTA . Any tip's ? Thank's for the work you do :)

I was surprised several times in the PTA when after shooting I was not spotted. The camo value is surprisingly good.

Had an amazing win rate with Leo PTA but now with Leo 1 it took a lot of games getting used to. Especially with EBRs running around. You really have to play the vision game well and it only works if you have a pimped out tank with a skilled crew. You cannot let them catch you out in the open. And winning does depend on your team a lot more. But if you can keep a bush and some hard cover between you and tanks at around 445m, Leo 1 is awesome fun.

Ty T 👍👍👍👍😎 very cool

Love the PTA! Great vision, great flexibility. Great gun! Leo 1 is better!

Great Tank

Heyy love the vid I've just been grinding this tank 100k to go

Personally I love the PTA. The Standard B is my fav t9, but the PTA is my 2nd fav. It basically plays the same as a Standard B in single shot mode, but you have better alpha, accuracy, gun handling, & insane shell velocity. The combo of gun, mobility, & gun depression just clicks with my playstyle and does a lot to circumvent the tank's glass cannon nature... same as how the Standard B's clip & mobility negates its lack of armor.

My best tier 9 tank hands down.

Hey taugrim, the turret can sometimes work along a ridgeline where it's angled the most, it can sometimes ricochet tier q0 shots

OMFG I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS TAUGRIM! ❤ Finally a decent Leopard video with in depth analysis. I've been confused on what to get either this or the E50M and I still am torn between both, any ideas on what I should get as my first German Medium?

One other thing of the Leo PTA but applicable to any paper armour tank is the inability to bully lower tier tanks as nearly everything can damage you.

Taug, Nice video as usual. I've heard you comment on map stats before and wonder where you get you info them.. Is it self accumulated or is there a site that compiles it?

Can you talk about the indien too?

I'm about to get the Leo PTA. Based on all the vids I've seen it does seem to be like an M41 90 mm on steroids. Similar power to weight, decent camo (though not great) with good gun handling, but a fairly large profile and no armor.

would you say that the indien should be played simalir?

I also play my Leo PTA and Leo 1 when I have a mission that calls for high damage. The rest of the time I play mid tiers and my ELC EVEN 90 to build up my credits.

Hello Taugrim. Could you do a video on the Object 140? I would appreciate it. Thanks! o7

I miss the all chat so much

maybe you will do a platoon with Orzanel in the future

Hallo Taugrim - Thanks for covering the Leopard PT A. I really enjoy playing the Leopard I, even though as you mention, it's one of the weakest tier 10 mediums in important ways. I break tanks down into those that are the most fun to play and those that are the strongest tanks. For example, the 430U is arguably the strongest tier 10 medium on the tech tree, but the Leopard I is more fun to play. Though you are forced to play it as a support tank or a sniper. It probably isn't a great tank for a unicum since you need to be able to initiate encounters and I'm guessing it's more difficult to carry, even though I've had 6k damage games (still only got 3rd class). Do you agree that some tanks are more fun to play, even though they're not the strongest contenders? Do you ever take out your KV-2 or Deathstar just to enjoy a game, even though you won't have as much of an impact as if you were in a more competitive tank?

I love this tank. The main problem is that you need to adapt the gameplay, enter sneaky sneakymode. And the amount of toxic comments about it in chat is just AMAZING. Ppl want me to brawl with this papertank. Heck i get reported every 10 game because im "afk" when im in snipermode on one side of the map. I do not mind the "papertank" issue, its easy to adapt to. But the toxic rage snipers gets is just fubar lol. Thanks for a great guide,i learnt some good lessons here and its shown in my games today. Thanks alot @Taugrim

I think you are to harsh on the leopard pta (and leopard 1) after the buffs they are really good tanks, but with a high skill cap.

My avg dmg on Leo PTA is 2.5k, but on Leo 1 is 2k, I enjoy to play tier 9 more, because in tier 10 I am bouncing many shoots (apcr thing).

My fave tier 9...

Tau how you remain calm in your play, when I see my team giving up map control just to cap in encounter.. I rarely keep calm

I always kind of think of this tank as a slow light tank without the benefit of camo on the move. I think it used to be better, but in the current meta it suffers a little, in my opinion. Definitely a higher skill cap.

This tank is disgustingly good ... the damage farm on most maps is so easy it's ridiculous. Yes, you have to play more conservatively but the results you can get are hilarious

I would highly encourage you to give the Leopard 1 an honest shot-- the upgrades that it gets compared to the PTA with regards to mobility and DPM are substantial.

Hey have you done the T-100-LT yet

I just bought the amx30. I think it’s superior to the PT A in every way except accuracy. At medium range I pick the PT A apart with my now favourite tank. There is something with french lights and mediums that make them enjoyable. I must extend a thanks to you Taugrim. I have not played wot for 2 years. When I stopped playing my averages where 2000 wn8 and 56% over 1000 battles. Recently I have started playing again and after averaging 600 wn8 and 50% win in my first day’s. I started to watch your videos, they have both been helpful and enjoyable. I am not what I used to be. But I average 53% win and 1500 wn8 and most importantly I make less stupid mistakes. I would like to see how you approach underpowered heavys. I only have 50k exp until I unlock the IS-4. I have problems with st-1 but fear it will be much worse in the IS-4

Yay

Taugrim please can you reveiw amx 13 90

You have 2 bullet points which contradict each other: "+Good camo (~30 with BIA + Concealment skills)" and "- Somewhat large profile". Usually a large profile means poor camo, but this is a tiny nitpick. I don't have the tier 9 nor tier 10 leopards, but from facing them the best aspect to me is their top speed and dispersion which means easy flexibility. Even if the armor is not the greatest, a reliable gun and maneuverability can make a tank much more seamless to play.

I don't get it, when did they change stats of a tank?? looking ingame it has worse DPM, dispersion 0.34, aim time 2.5.... it's terrible, this video was few weeks ago and you have such better everything that even with crew and modules couldn't reach, did it get just nerfed or what happened?? Indian 2 sec aiming time feels like 4 seconds with good crew and equipment, if leo 2.5, it's basically will be like a heavy tank... please explain....

Think you can do the E50 and E50M next? I know they where the first tanks in the road to Unicom series. However, after 5years and buffs to other mediums like the PTA, they seem the one of the worst if not the worst medium at there respective tier in the current meta.

that is a great tank, bush wack save hp mid late game performer, dont brawl, play vision.

Grille 15 next perhaps? :)

I'm very confused as to how there is still all-chat in this glacier match, when glacier was added after all-chat was removed. Your post game stats even says the game was played in April of this year. Aside from that, the video was great.

Hi Taugrim, could you do reveiw on t-54 and obj. 140?

I once went into a game in this thinking I selected the Ru 251, played it as such. And came out with a mastery badge 😂

And how would you have played Glacier if there was the normal 2-3 arty instead of 0 arty? That's what ruins that map for me - no arty cover outside of the heavy lane.

Just wondering how does the Amx 30 line compare to the Leopard line (advantages and disadvantages)?

I know this is a PC and I'm a console player. But I absolutely LOVE the leopard pta. I bounced a maus off my roof other day lol. I'm still fairly new player and only have 300 battles in the leopard but I'm almost at second mark and just loving the tank in general. Leopard 1 however I don't like at all 😂

I really don't like those paper tanks like Leo and Standard B. Imho, in the german tech tree with the last buff the E50(/M) is an easier way.

honestly, not having armour doesnt feel like a drawback to me. If you dont get shot, but you shoot a lot, it works really well.

the Obj 140 is pretty much the Russian equivalent of the Leopard, right?

Thank you for this video which reinforces my opinion that this tank is not for me.

i only have 2 or 3 skill crew in mine, either way, the tank is super, i dont even feel i need the tier 10 as the tier 9 is so good and competitive.

How you got through the Indien Panzer I have no idea.

Do obj 263 unicum guide.

Is there any differences between cannon from PTA and Leopard 1?

sold this after unlocking the leopard 1 Standard b is it just for me it a better leopard pta the same size etc. but it has a 3 shot autoreloader but i seem to average both on them 3K damage and 1K assistance when you get yolo'd by a russian tonk in this tank you're basicly fucked and when you have 3 shots in your clip people will not yolo you that fast or if they do they get 1080 clip damage in 6 seconds but stats wise i tend to do the same with both tanks but i rather play the standard b pure because it has a clip and a autoreloader

Well the funny thing is that banning maps does nothing as it only bans standard battles on that map and not other modes so u still land on ur banned maps

In my opinion going straight behind the house(the one that you are hiding at 1:00) on empire's border is too risky even though there are no lights in the match.

Does it play like the panzer 58 Mutz?

I kinda like the leopard 1, though you really can't play it as a medium. It's a highly mobile TD/light hybrid that really cannot take a hit. It is an incredible gun platform though, by far one of the best guns of any medium tank

I take 2 repair kits in PTA. Very ofte, you get tracked and ammo racked in 1 shot, repair, and get ammo racked again.

I mean, there is absolutely no downsides for gold other than cost, Shell velocity 1600m/s, 323mm pen Jesus Here's a fun thing to try, 5 battles with Leo PT A with only gold, then switch to Caliban and it's cool shell velocity of 300m/s xD

Do you still play wot taugrim?

Armor on meds are overated anyway,so PTAs no armor make me play a little more carefully and carry more games than for examp. with obj.430....still believe standardB is best med. Tank on tier 9 (also doesn't have much armor)

I recently unlocked this tank and tried to earn the modules but I ended up with the most awful win rate and hated playing it with the base gun. There was almost no reward when taking a shot with that puny alpha and you feel defenseless if someone figures out where you are and advances on you. So I spent "free" XP on the gun and am doing better now. However, I get endlessly clicked by angry people when I hide in bushes and use this more like a turreted TD than a medium. Such is WoT.

I got a bit of a laugh seeing budha on your friends list. How anyone could put up with that dude is beyond me.

Personally I would disagree with the opinion that the Leopard 1 is not worth it. I do have a strong liking for it and manage to do and average of 3500-4000 dmg increasing my wn8, and overall just having lots of fun in it.

PTA is simply a padder tank tbh. The tank is outstanding tier for tier vs the leo 1. But then again most tier IX are padder tanks. They are outstandingly more balanced than tier X, and have a better match making than tier X themselves solely for the fact that most of the times, tier VII and tier VIII are wayyyyy undergeared to fight a tier IX vs a tier X playing against tier IX.

Gg as always but unlock the leopard 1 u wont regret it