BZ-176 - Tank Review - World of Tanks

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[@nc30guy]

This vehicle is bad for the game it's toxic.

[@roberthak3695]

Thnx but no QB. Wont play this game in the near future... thank WG for that.

[@alexzecha5950]

they updated stats of bz-176 on tanks gg? last time when I checked it was way better than Gonsalo on every aspect of gun handling and other stats but actually in game it was worse than Caliban. So it’s fixed now? They had on the website he and hesh as well.

[@roberthak3695]

Game is dying and fast. Only a blind cant see it. Played few weeks in Oct Nov. Played during all times of day, in both EU servers. I rarely saw purple or blue players. And even green players like myself were rare in the MM. Few years ago when the game was in a decent place these sort of players could be seen at least once in a few battles. Now they are inexistent. Good players have left the game and are not returning. Only wallet whales, and sub average players are left. And I suspect that a large nr of the accounts are bots used to inflate server numbers. Some of these are from boosting companies, some - conspiracy here! - I think are from WG, but unmarked bots, they inflate server numbers with these.

[@luiscanto1196]

EU nota working for me QB

[@ryanchapman2962]

This game went from being historically accurate to adding in tanks that are straight up science fiction. This tank should be in a one off mini game, not in the random queue.

[@b_man3179]

Miss the old days still only have and play the historic vehicles hellcat is my favorite but nowadays I get destroyed every game so I only play couple games then quit lol

[@mariuseu7493]

And this twat its making money after stoopid people by manipulating them to think that those changings are actualy ok.I\m glad i deleted the game 4 years ago

[@jaskakikkeritoivasdewqsdw2174]

I'm agree with you, science fiction. Hope they won't ruin the game.

[@johneden2033]

Rocket boosters were real though.

[@ryanchapman2962]

@@johneden2033 They were experimented with on soviet tanks and proved unreliable. Just because it existed doesn't mean it should be added to the game.

[@imsteevin]

Imagine going back even a couple years and telling people a tier 8 heavy would be released with a 160mm gun, 280mm pen 800dmg he rounds, 10 deg depression, crazy frontal armor, and rocket boosters.

[@celchronicles]

Welp it's 225 pen but yeah.....

[@Jacob-ldk]

@@celchroniclesIt can still destroy you tho

[@lordorion5776]

i would of believed you and that's what's scary here this isn't new for WG just more of the same thing

[@makemap]

@@celchronicles 225 pen is the best pen back in those days. Caernarvon had the highest non-premium pen which was the 20pdr before. This thing kills the T-32 and T-34.

[@imsteevin]

I should fix the pen number but they'll probably buff it eventually anyway

[@AnimalStomper]

The power creep in this game is so ridiculous.

[@robinkhn2547]

true, I still remember when the E-100 with the fat gun had only 235 mm of penetration. Now there is a heavy tank at tier 8 with comparable penetration but higher alpha. Absolutely ridicolous. This tank is pure p2w. I really hope this is not the future of future premium tanks.

[@thunder7135]

@@robinkhn2547 "I really hope this is not the future of future premium tanks", man, do you hear yourself? Sadly, this is the state of the game for the last three years AT LEAST lol. Trust me, it's gonna get worse, if you can imagine that lol.

[@davidfreeman2522]

You have light tanks that can pin you at two miles away on the move with snap shot.

[@ChicoAlpha]

​@@robinkhn2547or when the e100 would actually bounce shots, how it's armour is suppose to work. Everything pens it now, just load gold

[@bespinman4648]

@@robinkhn2547 honeslty bro, this game should of died long ago, but it’s people passion for this kind of game that keeps it going . As long as people buy the crates you will always see premiums like this

[@SerbianGamerBG]

So WT E100 is not balanced as tier 10, but this 800 dmg shot thing is totally fine, well done WG...

[@virviis]

You can't possibly compare this, WT auf E100 could destroy any tier 10 tank within 10 seconds...

[@ellieg1595]

Remember when we thought the T26e5 was OP? Good times.

[@noobtuber9625]

Ahh the day WG wanted to kill wot

[@Jimbo635]

i remember when he thought the defender was op too. both are nothing compared to this

[@imsteevin]

Cries in schwartzpanzer

[@durachoks]

@@Jimbo635 1vs1 Defender rapes this thing, BZ cant pen defender xD

[@marco002]

remember when the community was complaining that the IS-3 is OP? Good old times

[@ReXaZz]

Giving this tank armor, speed (with turbo), and high damage per shot is the most balanced thing WG done. 🤑

[@durachoks]

yes, me agree, it might be not as powerful as skoda, or 703 but design is just retarded

[@123mirc]

The whole game is a joke :) too bad that these implementations made me quit this game.

[@scarycircle]

quite literally everything that is important in a tank is present in bz 176 firepower mobility survivability like most good tanks only have two of these three (maus has decent firepower and good survivability but no mobility) and then they slap all 3 onto a tier 8 fucking premium tank

[@kivitelezo]

This thing is terrifying. Only one thing is more terrifying: seeing ppl be happy with this. Seeing players get exciting about this. Am I the only f2p player left in game? O_o

[@RokyR2011]

"Am I the only f2p player left in game?" Nope. Me also, so we are at least 2 of us ... Everytime I see this game and what it become I wanna puke...same goes for reviewers as is "Quickybabe" ...for god sake ...bruhh

[@senolis100]

no man

[@indoraptorspyce8310]

I fire only standard ammo

[@Hrrrrrrrrrreng]

@@indoraptorspyce8310I don’t. I make the exception for normal HE. gotta have me durp cannons.

[@LtCommanderTato]

you are better off going elsewere, this game have been dead a long time ago.

[@ihavenopantson.]

Don't waste your money on this tank, save your money for next year's large boxes and try to get the tank with wings

[@ricoschild9026]

bs

[@fleezy1579]

You cant get this Tank anymore anyways. It was only available during 2022 Loot Boxes. They never sold it again after that. I dont think they will ever sell it again because of how Broken it is.

[@dawid12301d]

@@fleezy1579 I can guarantee you WG will sell it in some sort of 'limited special offer' available for like a day or two. Of course you won't be able to purchase it for gold, it will be only available in an expensive package with some gold and consumables.

[@frankydoodles8769]

Didnt work out hahahhaa

[@marcel1311]

​@@fleezy1579 i hope so. But i dont think they dont sell this tank again. The money is worth it for that company. Same happend for the E25

[@devenstoyles5415]

With all the OP tanks coming in up top, I find myself having more fun at T5-7. More fun to just not play their game.

[@CrashTheChao]

Play the holy premium god tank TOG II* and you'll never have to deal with T8 BS ever with its premium MM :3

[@devenstoyles5415]

@@aimusicbora y’a but i play mostly TD’s and enjoy the sniping. I suck in heavies…

[@charlotteyuki]

T7 was a great game tier back in the days. However after OP T8 appear, T7 is hardly playable against those T8

[@0BlitZKieG0]

There is no point in researching any tanks just get op premium and play why waist time to research shit tanks if you can get bz176

[@Delimon007]

yuuppp, just came back to play, if you are not playing T5-7, this game is not even remotely fun right now. T9s have to fight T10s back to back and T10 is full of muppets since the newer players now all have T10s and plenty of creds to burn.

[@neokim5492]

Fun fact: You can still sharp turn during a jet boost by using hand brake (space bar on PC). It’s like drifting where your almighty BZ-176 just “skrrr” its fat butt around the corner followed by a boost start.

[@ElDominator1]

i bet that's a mistake on WG part

[@viscounttudon68]

@@ElDominator1 Nah, makes sense. You waste some of the burn time for the turn, seems fair enoigh

[@leafeon_gtr9223]

[eurobeat intensifies]

[@Direwolf13PS3]

Just to clarify 50.8mm on that section of the Conqueror's roof is accurate IIRC, its 2 inches of armor, thus 25.4mm x 2. In Warthunder for example its thickness is '51mm' which is simply 50.8 rounded up. Wargaming didn't make that up (at least). Also the fire chance is 12%, but Chinese tanks tend to have low module HP, thus higher chance for fuel tank or ammo rack damage, and fires or detonations.

[@ikbeckly385]

I've definitely noticed that low module health. Every hit I take hits the fuel tank or the ammo rack

[@xben9216]

@@ikbeckly385 me too, my Qilin loved to get ammo'd a lot of times.

[@Mr_AntiSocial]

@@leno7492man’s admitting that the OP is smarter than him, respect

[@ericleighton8483]

750 damage a shot is rediculous for a tier 8, my tier x tanks don’t even do that

[@muchoSangre]

*deals 800 with HE

[@Torx_U650]

@@muchoSangre he with 225 penetration

[@karlbradish6486]

But it's fine for a Skoda t56 to do 920 in 3.5 seconds or even more with he 😂

[@petrolveins725]

Yeah but your t10s will shoot 3 times before he is reloaded

[@wodthehunter8145]

yeah, I wont be reinstalling this game anytime soon, this is disqusting.

[@DMill791]

Been going against them all day. It's no different from the cobra in the sense that all anyone fires is gold.

[@MerpSquirrel]

Been playing some today and last night, and this tank broke the game. They are basically one shotting any T7 they are up against and T8 armor on any medium or light cant bounce their gun and are basically a two shot.

[@hoodlum1107]

With +2 mm this thing can see tier 6... WG are on drugs

[@explicitreverberation9826]

@@hoodlum1107 tf is +2 mm

[@hoodlum1107]

@@explicitreverberation9826 it's the +2 match making. So tier 6 can meet tier 8 for example, like a t150 versus a Skoda t-56.

[@explicitreverberation9826]

@@hoodlum1107 my 112 comes to mind..

[@nickc9375]

This tank is the latest example of WG struggling to balance a tank with a new mechanic, which is understandable to an extent. However, if they refuse to nerf premium tanks then why don’t they introduce new mechanics with tech tree tanks (which can be nerfed if necessary) and release premiums with those mechanics afterwards?

[@Jimbo635]

because money. the better the premium the more people will buy

[@0BlitZKieG0]

You know its a fantasy but i wish i could just turn off mm with premium tanks so i could play against tanks from tech tree and zero premium tanks. Amazing feature but it will never happen

[@mothermoy]

wows started nurfing premium ships...it has just become a pump and dump. release an op ship get all the money then nurf it into oblivion. i wont spend money on ships anymore....i hope tanks doesnt do the same

[@outka5tz]

Everybody wants the new mechanic now so they know they'll make more money if they sell the first tank with that mechanic before anyone has a chance to actually see if they like it. Looking at you M-IV-Y 👀

[@Jimbo635]

@@outka5tz I like the new mechanic it's pretty cool and balanced well. It's the rest of the broken tank I have a problem with

[@M4RIAN]

Got into a game with 6 of these on the enemy team. Fun times.

[@mylatedroid101]

Would've been fine if it was a glass cannon where it would have no armor but has the damage and boost mechanic

[@vojtechralis6075]

No heavy tank should have such gun, if you take into consideration how much do tanks like isu 152 sacrifice for such alpha damage...

[@SheerluckHolmes]

O-I has had more alpha at tier 6 for years.

[@mylatedroid101]

@@SheerluckHolmes not as much armor, slow as hell and it has the two boobies that are not only weak spots but stop the fun depression

[@StudioChrome]

@@SheerluckHolmes in exchange for that you get easy to bypass armor, low mobility, gigantic hitbox and very limited field of fire. Not comparable in the slightest

[@Delimon007]

@@SheerluckHolmes The O-I is slow as hell, easy to flank, and it's armor is absolute garbage. T6s tds regularly have 200+ pen because they have to fight T8s. The O-I is an XP piñata.

[@HortnBattlefield3]

I log in to the game once every month or so. I play my T95 and chill with a cup of coffee. I scratch my head over the new broken tanks that has been added. Italian TDs with insane ridgline performance, EBRs still running around spotting everything and now this beheemoth. Awh well, there is always that "quit to desktop" button. Dubble klick Minecraft and all is well again. 🥰

[@retwistfate8828]

It never should have been like this, WG failed its playerbase and no other company will step up to the plate and create any kind of competition

[@kuderedev9108]

WG is my favorite company and their absolute mess of the games to prove me and my friends that games should not be f2p, because it like pay to win without excuses and then farming 20h copper in valheim feel less like a boring task.

[@82ndSarge]

Had a platoon of two of these come at me...face on...in my T6 Jackson...but I was bushed, so...while I was unable to pen them (which I discovered rather quickly)...I did keep both of them tracked so others could flank them...one of them was able to apply its booster...and then boosted right on past me... allowing me to get the kill shot🙂

[@robinkhn2547]

If you were to show this tank to WG when WoT was first released in 2010/2011 and ask them at what tier this tank would be, they'd definitely say it is at tier X. But reality is that this tank is at tier X. Powercreep is over 9000

[@Winterx69]

Ran into a platoon of these... in my T34-85... oh joy...

[@dominic.decoco]

That new BZ should have been a tier ix. If you dont have armor it derps the sh.t out of you and if you have armor it overmatches you anyway. Plus, it has great armor and its gun handling is much more that acceptible for that kind of caliber. And as if these were not enough, it has f.king rockets on its back! It is outright better than the tier ix chinese premium heavy tank they sold earlier... I don't know what WG is trying to do.

[@Delimon007]

I took one look at this thing and knew that it has the stats of a T9 tank, not a T8 tank. This thing is F'in stupid and the WR shows it.

[@Asusexp]

Neither does wargaming- they don't know what they are trying to do - that's why people should not work when they are on all manner of drugs know to man

[@Mystro84]

It's like the T-56. I'm sure it was going to be T9 and they nerfed the mobility and pen (same in the case of the Skoda) and made it a T8 instead leaving the other T9 stats in place.

[@sethcarter9833]

Tanks like ISU152K become obsolete by the release of the BZ - and that's not only for that high caliber gun premiums...that armor combined with thegun just makes it the best premium in the game imo

[@lovrosedej7655]

I returned to World of Tanks just when this tank was released. I was grinding my KV-4 along with my friend who also hasnt played in years, and you can imagine how fun this was for us, every game had multiple BZ's and we were taking up the heavy tank slots in non BZ tanks so yeah..

[@Potatotenkopf]

I returned just recently and rarely see a Bz, though then again I don't play anything above tier 7 so maybe I'm just very lucky.

[@lovrosedej7655]

@@Potatotenkopf it used to terrorize tier 8 matchmaking for a while after its release, but luckily the novelty has worn off and you dont see them as much anymore

[@Potatotenkopf]

@@lovrosedej7655 Thankfully, I would never survive grinding credits with my f2p reward lights and super hellcat :(

[@TrevorHempen]

Something that should be mentioned is that the jet boosters can get you up slopes that no other tank could traverse making it incredible at appearing in weird locations. Best example I've seen is on Outpost in the North "town" area. The BZ can boost up the slope from below into the alleyway of the West side.

[@roberthak3695]

EBR can do that too

[@TrevorHempen]

@@roberthak3695 EBR also doesnt have armour and 650/800 Alpha but point taken.

[@StarkRaven59]

It's almost as if Wargaming doesn't test these things with any degree of rigor before throwing them into the game.

[@nightsounds8366]

What upsets me even more is they thought the kranvan was too good at doing exactly that but yet it’s only to make a tank that could go 40 up slope at tier 8 and punch for 800 damage with the same pen…

[@roberthak3695]

@@nightsounds8366 WG didnt nerf the Kran because it was op, but a mainly because it was played by almost everybody. WG has no problem with leavin OP tanks in the game, hence they create new OP lines. The problem is that once the majority has researched a certain line, WG doesnt get more money from it, so they nerf it, or they buff another tank line which isnt played/researched by lots of players... So the players constantly grind or spend gold to free exp it...

[@HarverTheSlayer]

I would like to point out that, historically, the Caliban was designed with a 160 mm gun, instead of the 6" one we got in the game (because WeeGee couldn't be assed to model it at the time). Not only that, but it was also supposed to fire HESH rounds, just like the BZ-176 does. Quite honestly, if I had bought the Caliban when it came out, I'd feel insulted.

[@stolfygaming]

Caliban at least has 600alpha AP rounds worth firing (300+ pen!) And the HE does do 850 a shot. Also the two round clip I think makes the Caliban still a worthwhile option, although it needs a tonnn of equipment to help it's gun handling

[@azi2g]

I like them both the caliban is hilarious and the BZ is fun caliban has a much higher pen on its AP round and it's he is the low cost round so I find caliban to be a much better credit earner. BZ is pretty much doomed if it sees armor it can't pen with 208 normalized angle(AP) or 225 flat(he) All of this said the bz is still hilarious.

[@stolfygaming]

@@azi2g now that the type 5 is on track BZ will be easy farming for type 4s being able to overmatch the roof

[@RobotNacionalista]

​@@azi2gbz 176 is very very very best than caliban...and can fight vs tier 9 and 10 heavy, as have 160mm gun can shoot solid armor with 208 225 pen beacuse have a high caliber

[@azi2g]

@@RobotNacionalista kinda late reply but caliban can be crazy too. It just has to be played like a support heavy behind the other heavies.

[@watercannonscollaboration2281]

Skoda T56: cries in the background because it’s not the most OP anymore

[@stolfygaming]

Skoda T definitely is still the best, that 3.5 second clip is crazy good (and this thing takes like 2.8 seconds to aim down to .48 anyways lol so it's not much faster). Also it's worse for credit making, especially with gold rounds.

[@thienlongnguyen9649]

bouras is the most op tank

[@durachoks]

skoda still the most op... to be truly op this thing lacks reliable gun with pen

[@explicitreverberation9826]

The hell tree is that lol. Nothing but original lines here. 👌

[@cummins24421]

This is going to be the new Type 59. Matches are flooded with it already.

[@LilGamingYes]

Well it's new, of course matches are flooded with it... personally I see the Iron Arnie still being played 6 months later while the others will be forgotten. I could be wrong, but I have more fun in the Iron Arnie than any other new tank. Obj 283 could be the exception too, I didn't have the chance to try it yet.

[@stolfygaming]

Once Xmas is over they'll be rarer, as nobody will be able to afford the premium HE rounds.

[@viscounttudon68]

That’s how it was with the vipera the first few days, now you see almost none of them because they end up not as good as people thought

[@retwistfate8828]

Doesn't matter when you just load this thing up with standard rounds and overmatch everything you shouldn't be able to pen

[@OneWorldHistory]

I shredded one of these last night (a hulldown fight) with the Lowe I bought ten years ago. lol… good accuracy rips that weak roof.

[@SeudXe]

Yeah the BZ sucks against tanks with decent armor.

[@ClockworkBananaMoon]

QB: "It's alright, you'll fluff some shots, has a weakpoint when depressing the gun." Regular player experience, when getting hit by three enemy BZs in quick succession: "F*** this game, I'm done."

[@azhrei77]

It was so nice logging in yesterday and having half the combined tanks in a fight being these things. Reminds me of the annoying days of those stupid Italian tds

[@ThePadadada]

im glad im not palying this anymore

[@ericleighton8483]

Way to op

[@Hagurmert]

I met some of these tanks and they didn't seem like a big issue, could just be because they weren't good players Strong players can probably make the opponent's suffer though

[@wassup2ify]

I quit palying long ago and have never looked back. Still like watching gameplay though

[@rogiro5759]

Totally true bro. I still play this, but grinding lines is so painful becuase of these broken and OP prems. I am currently grinding the IS-4 (I am currently with the ST-I) and It will be my last grind, is horrendous playing stock tanks nowadays. Believe me, you made the right call bro, now is World of Premium Tanks (after the grind, I will only play my few prems or my tier Xs)

[@LilGamingYes]

@@rogiro5759 I grind free exp on premium tanks if a stock tank is too horrible nowadays. It helps, I have fun and unlock a new tank in a decent shape all at once. ---------- The BZ isn't that broken. If it can shoot you, you can shoot it back. It's a good tank for sure but you can do something against it easily.

[@falcon6329]

many t8 tanks cant even pen the lower plate with gold 🤦‍♂️

[@goldenfiremonkey96]

This tank feels more like tier 11 than tier 10.

[@yrots300]

And in fact it is tier 8 🤷‍♂️

[@wolfaja755]

Everyone thought the vipera was pretty op but this thing has a fully traversable turret, better mobility and better armor at only the cost of the pen and dps. The vipera and bz176 have comparable pen for both standard and gold pen. Just op all around.

[@MaxGuides]

You missed that the rockets also push you through the air. So you can jump over some rocks for rams that you used to not be able to & stuff.

[@djzonex3539]

Guys, do you still remember good old days when standard IS-3 used to be OP? Yup, good old days...

[@The_Nametag]

I got this tank after opening exactly.... 1 box. Yes. The FIRST large box I opened had this baby in it, my new Derp Daddy.

[@gangfire5932]

You got me beat, I got the BZ-176 on my second box (but I got those three boxes as a gift).

[@robinkhn2547]

This tank is the very epitome of pay-2-win... Watching those replays one could think that this is some kinda fun-mode where every gets to play this tank and derps around.... but no, reality is different, p2w different... And seeing how many of those tanks are on the battlefield, shows how many players have bought lootboxes, which in turn again means, that Lootboxes are gonna happen more often in which new content is hidden. Unless you buy lootboxes because of the gold (since it is good value for the money), you are the reason why lootboxes and micro-transactions have become the de-facto standard in the gaming industry. With that you have lost the right to ever complain about lootboxes again, since u literally bought some urself. So thx to every player who bought those lootboxes for making everything in the gaming industry worse.

[@soldier22881]

it is an insane tank, most matches i see these things do 4-5k dmg. occasionaly ill see these tanks lose but thats usualy pilot error

[@rustedniddleslinger9475]

It feels like it has what was once the ridiculous gun handling of the Skoda 56 where it hits every single shot. Meanwhile techtree tanks with 0.3 accuracy misses at 100m. Soon as a new lootbox tank is available this gun will experience the Skoda 56 treatment.

[@retwistfate8828]

I pray to the gods that this happens.

[@REgamesplayer]

WG had stooped into new lows by releasing completely broken tank. This tank clearly should had been Tier 9. If Wargamming will not balance premium vehicles and will not do a big overhaul to entire pay to win economy, this game is running on fumes and I recommend people to start looking for others games to play. OP premium tanks and BS premium ammunition is the biggest thing which kills my desire to play this game at the moment. This tank just had raised bar for all other tanks and only select few vehicles are even good enough to be competitive against this nonsense.

[@TROLGUY999]

This tank is just yet another example of the greed and incompetency of wargaming. A tier 8 with incredible armor, decent mobility (cuz of boosters) an insane gun with 850 or 650 alpha, 10 degrees of gun depression and good viewrange. The powercreep in this game is just ridiculous wargaming is running this game into the ground with all those toxic brainless tanks.

[@stolfygaming]

This tank not only has the same premium HE pen as the BZ-75, but also has the same AP alpha as the BZ-75 with a 160mm gun instead of the BZ-75's 152mm gun.

[@pabojoe]

Against a KV3, I hit for close to 800, caught him on fire for another chunk of HP, then I hit the rockets and rammed him to finish him off--all in about 5 seconds.

[@hempmaster]

I noticed that the view points are broken. I was in my type 59 spot the BZ at probably 150 meters over a ridge. Then he backs up waits till he's unspotted then kills me with out me spotting him. And there's no bushes, he was using the ridge with his depression. Never spotted him even after he killed me. This happened twice

[@1337Painless]

Sounds like a miniature FV215b 183 with it's gold shells.

[@charlotteyuki]

That’s what I thought. It just like enhanced 183 in T8

[@davidtian2809]

It’s kinda pain to play in world of tanks while first days of a new patch, especially Christmas event which involves many new overpowered tanks every year.

[@outka5tz]

I wanted to grind some exp in the is-m... then I remembered I'd have to fight 4 BZ's every game so I just went to bed

[@robinburt5735]

My mind boggles at the complete disregard for the laws of physics on this thing

[@robinburt5735]

Also Quicky, that arty shell was not the closest you have ever seen. I have seen ones that have hit you...

[@ashwinnair2k]

You might think people would use AP to take advantage of the overmatch mechanics, but no, all the gold zombies I've seen don't press anything other than the 2 key

[@retwistfate8828]

Why bother pressing anything other than 2 though, the rest of the tank plays itself why shouldn't the ammunition? Fuck it. At this point they should just allow aimbotting at this point. Not like it would do much anymore.

[@rogerreed100]

I got two shot in is5 , seriously considering not playing anymore

[@D3cyTH3r]

My E-75 just got chewed up by one of these in a city brawl. It's insane, it's like fighting a t10. Tree tanks are so bad now -and researching a tree takes a lot of time and money.

[@RobotNacionalista]

And bz have more armor than t10 jaja

[@anotherrandomtexan25]

I vaguely thought about buying some boxes... until I saw this piece of power creep and all those thought went right out the window

[@atlantisq]

Remember when the patriot was considered OP at tier 8?

[@AdamArdito]

We played some tier 8 skirms with 6 of these bad boys. We won every engagement. Probably one of the more fun tanks to play, even against other BZ-176s.

[@dt5690]

22:53 me who actually skipped the armor review: "Why do I feel like a student who gets called out in front of the classroom by the teacher?"

[@tamaskosa4456]

Next year's Tier 8 premium tank will be a laser cannon hover tank with energy shield. To get it all you'll have to do is gamble 1- maybe 2000 $-s on christmas lootboxes

[@gangfire5932]

You say that like it's a _bad_ thing . . . 😛

[@tamaskosa4456]

@@gangfire5932 True! Why not? 😂

[@gangfire5932]

@@tamaskosa4456 LOL 👍

[@philipbgardner]

amazing review of a tank I'll never be able to own, thanks for sharing

[@korbendallas5318]

Wargaming just nerfed every premium tank in the game, something they promised they wouldn't do.

[@stolfygaming]

Wha

[@MrNigelTBean]

Outrageous is the word. I got one in the Christmas boxes. Played it a few times and sold it. It is the most OP tank I have ever played.

[@solidmaker3973]

No,you certainly did not…

[@RobotNacionalista]

How you selled the great bz 176?, bad decision man

[@sgt_loeram1933]

Well we just got the BZ line in Blitz, not sure if they’re gonna bring this 176 in the game but oh boy if they do it will fun!

[@justdoingitjim7095]

The best thing to do when playing against this tank is AVOID IT! Let your teammates fight it and maybe get a few lucky shots in and wear it down some before you end up having to fight it!

[@stolfygaming]

I'm pretty upset that not only does this tank have the same HE pen as the tier 10 Chinese heavy (with only 200 less alpha), but it's AP is THE SAME ALPHA as the tier 10 and has them both on the same gun! The tier 10 will honestly be worse than this tank without a doubt if they don't adjust it before release. Otherwise you either get an HE option with a useless 75mm pen standard HE (it should be 90 for a 180mm gun lol) or a 650 alpha gun that is arguably the worst 150+mm gun in the game (also the small gun actually gets 90mm of HE pen!)

[@IdunRedstone]

"Da lets make FV4005 t8 with prem HE pay to win gun but also go as fast as light tank into position at start of game while having actual armour VERY BALANCE"

[@blatherama]

Great review. I bought my annual small batch of loot crates (just 12 this time) and got this tank. Now I get to go fall in some noob traps.

[@phanhuan227]

This tank killed all other t8 tanks ...I don't why others youtubers aint telling the truth about this broken tank.

[@pourlemerite]

Speed, armour and massive one shot damage potential, sounds balanced to me WG. Yes like everything else it will be surpassed by the next OP tank and everyone will move on, but let’s be honest, at the moment it is OP and ruining every game it appears in.

[@sefribu4159]

don´t worry, the next one will have a crew with brothers in arms and intuituon... you can´t stress enough how important "intuition" is... honestly. intuition.....

[@emirmorankic2985]

Remember when they removed the BL-10 gun from the ISU-152 because it was "to strong" for a tier 8 tech tree tank, few months later they make a premium version of the ISU with that same BL-10 gun 😂, right from there i knew this game was becoming p2w.

[@badweathergaming4929]

So got this thing today and its VERY strong, definitely the new best T8 heavy if not best T8 period. Within 10 games Ive already got an Ace and upset my personal best for most damage in a game. Made it onto the fill on Cliff and managed almost 7.6k damage. Honestly its only downside is its reload if people all in you or if you get stuck against higher tier tanks and you cant get side shots on them.

[@luckyme5063]

Very broken

[@garysimpson8860]

So a tier 8 is doing more damage than nearly all my tier 10 TD ‘s !!! And reloads faster to what a joke why bother playing now and can’t imagine there’s to many happy players now unless you own one off these tanks , well done war gaming

[@1337flite]

THey shoulda got the LT432 designers to design the turret/gun trunnions, then it could have 10deg depression and still have a flat roof - no need to pivot the gun up and create a weak point.

[@seanwalsh2488]

Wow. I havent played the game in a few years. Just coming back the other day and facing tanks like this and the caiban. Wow, seems like every tank today has crazy alpha damage.

[@rishabhrekhi]

How is this not PayToWin? Isn't this like the type 4/5 back in the day when you load good shells you have better pen and more alpha? Pay to do more damage and have more pen.

[@hauntered31]

because there are many drawbacks to the tank, once people learn to play against it then it will be a lot worse

[@alexxu3004]

it's not really p2w, huge alpha yes but you need to know weak points to pen, rocket boost fast yes but on average you are slower than fast heavys like skoda, and in a bz vs bz situation ap is actually the shell that can do damage by overmatch the turret roof.

[@roberthak3695]

It is p2w. QB today is again streaming another game because he understands it this game is going to collapse soon.

[@stolfygaming]

It's basically an alternative to the Skoda T, although I think that tank is still better than the BZ. But yeah the gold HE is OP, in fact it has the same pen as the Chinese tech tree TIER 10 180mm GUN

[@rishabhrekhi]

@@alexxu3004 i dont understand giving it more alpha AND more pen. Do either or

[@sanguinius3248]

id just like to say that even tho it says it has .46m acc that round goes down the center fairly often compared to some other deryp guns imo

[@simasbagdonavicius9623]

yes its very accurate in my experince

[@dasstuurm34]

Yes…the double secret Sigma factor makes it a very accurate gun😂

[@Jack_Gibby]

I think the number of boosts should be reduced, maybe 1 or 2 less. I just think the player should really need to think when to use them, and not just use half of them at the start of every game.

[@robinkhn2547]

debatable. What I think would be more appropriate is to increase the cooldown of the boosters, so that you cannot basically use multiple in a row like QB did in the first replay on Malinovka.

[@Jack_Gibby]

@@robinkhn2547 Don't think it will matter that much

[@stefancarking1337]

I see this tank as public test, if they will add this kind of tech-tree, and to actually balance tech-tree that is coming in, if it's coming at all.

[@retwistfate8828]

But what does that matter when this thing is still here, ruining games from t6 to t10. And because of how good it is its going to be flooding matchmaking until the tank with wings and lasers comes out next year. And let's think about the tech tree it would introduce, if it follows the trend of every other release then you'll see a slightly worse version of this in t8 then a horrifically STRONGER version of it in t9 and a mediocre improvement in t10. Now tell me, with how strong this tank already is at t8 what on earth do you think a t10 is going too look like.

[@stefancarking1337]

@@retwistfate8828 shitbarn 3.0?

[@retwistfate8828]

@@stefancarking1337 shit barn 3.0 but with excellent mobility, super conquerers armor and gun depression and the fv4005s gun.

[@TempleTonne]

how long ago did historical accuracy go out the window

[@NeSeeger]

About 4 years ago.

[@minchkin8936]

Honestly I'm really disappointed that WG released this. It hits HE pen is too high. The fact that it can pen the frontal plate of most tier 8 heavy tanks (except the heaviest of the Germans) is completely broken if you ask me. For example if I'm playing my IS3 then a platoon of 2 BZs can drive around the corner and end my game with no counter. It has 3 strengths... pen, damage, and armor. One of them needs to be nerfed to make it balanced.

[@roberthak3695]

U understand now, WHY WG nerfed normal HE? lol... every thing is for money, not for game balance. lmao

[@eniff2925]

It also has speed too

[@luckyme5063]

Heaviest of german?no it pen me twice in a row on a vk100 frontally

[@Bohdisattva326]

Iron Arnie is the real giga chad get to the choppa vehicle 🚗. Happy holidays 🎉❤

[@TVTransmo]

I opened 48 boxes and got the AMBT, the Iron Arnie and the BZ-176 ....I probably should feel lucky, but I only play Arty and didn't get the Bat Chat skin... :/

[@fuksoup]

In my 8 years of playing WoT, I've never seen a tank that is so utterly OP for it's tier. Who the hell allowed this?

[@luffy-h9s6g]

11-year player here can confirm that the guy who designed this tank was a complete asshole

[@thewhiteowl9885]

Developers are killing the game. Come over to WT

[@fuksoup]

@@thewhiteowl9885 I main WT, I have like 27 tier 7's, devs are kinda killing that game too with all the premiums

[@thewhiteowl9885]

@@fuksoup well considering anything can oneshot anything I would say the odds are better in war thunder lol. I have been playing WoT since 2011 but the powercrept premiums and equipment seriously changed the game. When switching to war thunder in 2020 I never looked back. Edit: no gold spam in WT

[@fuksoup]

@@thewhiteowl9885 I play WT 99% of the time, but I still keep up with WoT, compression is a huge problem in WT, almost as much as premiums in WoT

[@cipher66th88]

I love this tank, it's such dumb fun. Most fun I've had in this game for a while, especially when in a platoon with another BZ

[@ChristWolf]

Of course its fun for you, not so fun for players against it.

[@user-zf3ue4nr5g]

Silly comment as hell... 🙃

[@daxxorus5575]

@@ChristWolf thats what he said, stop crying

[@mircorporation4905]

So it’s the same as the old KV-1S was back in the day. Fairly quick, killing you in two shells. Except this one has armor and doesn’t even have to pen in order to smack you for 400 dmg. I don’t have words for this. It’s ridiculous

[@NeSeeger]

At least that was a tech tree tank so everyone had access to it.

[@tomislavandric6476]

I think tier 6 should never see tank like this in their life. This tank is more powerfull than some tier 9 tanks in game. I hope they move it to tier 9 some day , keep it as it is tbh it would be still good tier 9 tank lol

[@RobotNacionalista]

More life and is tier 9 or 10

[@NeSeeger]

Bring back the original KV at tier 5

[@Bombaclot46]

Basically a maneuverable and properly armored td

[@TheBlobik]

With a turret, strong frontal armor and mass for ram kills if it needs to. I do not really know what drawbacks does it have. IMHO the rocket boosters should be targetable, and hitting them should make BZ loose its charges. Just so you can strip it of its overpowered characteristics a bit.

[@Tonixxy]

I remember when original Type 59 was considered OP with 175 pen lol

[@NeSeeger]

Or the original KV-1S.

[@timberwolfe1645]

So basically a completely OP tank. That reload is not even bad. For 800 dog, they need at least 40 secs. Just not fair and horrible to face as a scout

[@kmarcika]

Superpershing and t-34-3 had been my favourit tanks, so that I could avoid t10 goldspamming statpadders. But now I will face the bz all the time.. no thank you. It was a fun jouney

[@Legionthecomrade]

I did enjoy the fact that you can absolutely punish this thing when it fires.

[@johneden2033]

Yeah it's crazy vulnerable after it shoots. The first time I encountered one yesterday, one rounded a corner, fired at me and missed, I tracked it, and me and two other teammates killed it before it could get a second shot off.

[@GiovanniRuffinengo]

@@johneden2033 amazing, you won a 3vs1

[@viscounttudon68]

@@GiovanniRuffinengo Wow, almost like working with your team and jumping a vulnerable tank is literally how you’re supposed to play

[@johneden2033]

@@GiovanniRuffinengo Yes, conveniently I was playing a team-based 15v15 videogame.

[@retwistfate8828]

Now do that while it's gun line protects it from the back like they normally should every game, the watch this thing continue to round the corner while you can't pen it until you die.

[@-moominremix-3280]

The tank is crazy, but i wouldnt call it the best tier 8 heavy because of the inconsistency it offers.

[@ianhollanders501]

Skoda 56T still wears that crown with no competition in sight.

[@stolfygaming]

Yeah if it had a premium AP round it would be the best in tier 8. For now tho the Skoda T is supreme

[@-moominremix-3280]

I agree with both of you

[@roberthak3695]

Lmao delusional.

[@wallachia4797]

I just came back to this game after a 3 year break, first thing I see is this thing that I can't pen and which did 700 alpha to me with AP.

[@matthijsvos2315]

Imagine you havent played WOT for more then a year. You finally join again with your t9 heavy and this tanks boost straight past you and shoots you in the ars only to then seem impenetrable because he ended up behind a rig. Guess this will help a lot

[@DDWorldTechnologyLifestyle]

And this and similar pay to win tanks are the reason why I stopped playing my beloved WoT in November 2018 .... and although I feel like playing WoT from time to time, I look and see lootboxes and pay to win tanks and mechanics again and the desire passes ...

[@MarkiMcMark]

To me it ruined Tier 8, at least when it comes to grinding tanks like the Pershing. You can avoid other high dmg tanks like the ISU or FV at Tier 10 because they are TDs sitting in the back, and Japanese HT don't usually pen with their derp gun. But getting into close quarter combat & meeting a BZ just fucken sucks. If I'll ever grind any meds or heavies, I'll skip the T8 from now on.

[@LilGamingYes]

Just give it a few months. People will even forget this tank exists.

[@stolfygaming]

Once Xmas is over these tanks will die out. People will get bored of them like usual, but more importantly they can't make credits in this tank with HE

[@MarkiMcMark]

@@LilGamingYes yes you're probably right, as with all new premiums it's a few days of excessive playtime and then it will disappear. Just sucked right now because I right now stuck at the Pershing, which is two-shot for every BZ :D

[@danielkilaz5417]

@@LilGamingYes Really?

[@LilGamingYes]

@@danielkilaz5417 You don't see one in every battle anymore, let alone 5+ per side. I'd say that in essence; yes, really...

[@zaster500]

and i Called it 2 months ago ... Feels good beeing a oldschool Wot veteran

[@kreepykoopa]

I got the BZ on my 1ST box lol, before you say FU i have tried to get tanks every year with boxes and this was the first year I did.

[@justin-iq2od]

This thing is an absolute powerhouse of a tank, the only thing that "balance" it is the bad accuracy

[@MarkiMcMark]

Which doesn't matter if you stand in front of your enemy.

[@justin-iq2od]

@@MarkiMcMark yeah, thats why i put the " around the word balance😅

[@elooouan]

the accuracy actually isn't even that bad

[@stolfygaming]

I mean to be fair the Skoda is just as "balanced" and the Caliban can out damage it

[@alexxu3004]

i hit more than skoda actually, gun handling is amazing, the pen makes it not fool proof unlike the 290 pen heat in supertest, and honetly wg made the better choice here

[@quinzing]

the stupid thing is, the shells are expensive, but when you pen enemy tanks you still have profit