The Panther D is very hard to fight against, especially when I play a 76 Sherman. While the side armor is nonexistent, you are never fighting it on the side. It's always the front of the vehicle. The front of the vehicle will easily bounce every and every shell I fire into it, and the volumetric mantlet eats up M82 shots like it's nothing. However, the side armor is as bad of a situation as the Sherman. Even when angled I can (relatively easily) pen a Panther's side armor. Has the damage of an American TD and the armor of an American heavy. Very annoying to fight in the right hands. Use for sniping. Turret traverse is bas but if you play the M10GMC regularly then this should be a piece of cake