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Its that time again folks! Gaijin have launched the pre patch 1.47 hype by confirming the Mighty Maus! In this video we take a quick look at its weapons, armour, speed and what tanks it will likely face.  Link to post discussing Battle Rating (in Russian) http://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/208740-bvv-answers-about-tanks-and-tanks-only-answers-in-russian/page-9#entry4096725  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_VIII_Maus  http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerkampfwagen_VIII_Maus  https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%81_(%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA)  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3APanzerkampfwagen_Maus_front_view.JPG By Danila Batalin (DSC05910.JPG) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panzer_Maus_kub1.jpg Photo taken on September 10, 2006. Source: Photo by BVV  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3APanzerkampfwagen_Maus_damages.JPG By Danila Batalin (DSC05909.JPG) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons  Social Media ⬇️ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/toreno.bsky.social Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Toreno4 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toreno170 Mastodon: Toreno17@mastodon.social Threads: https://www.threads.net/@toreno170 Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Toreno17 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/toreno5/videos   Game: War Thunder  ⬅️  #warthunder #maus #superheavy #tank #panzer #kubinka #toreno

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00:00Hello everybody and welcome to a War Thunder patch 1.47 episode, yes it is that time of

00:06year when we get new patches and they have launched the patch information or patch build

00:12up with the release or in development dev blog of the Maus or Panzerkampfwagen 8 Maus,

00:20the mighty Maus as I call it.

00:22This was a huge tank as you can see here, there's a little comparison down here, that's

00:29a T-34 and it just dwarfs over it.

00:33We don't get that much information in the dev blog unfortunately, it's mainly about

00:40the development of the tank unfortunately, there are some little snippets like about

00:45rubber membrane sealing the tank because it wasn't meant to cross bridges it was meant

00:49to go underwater, about the grenade launcher, that's on it, I don't know if we get to

00:54use that.

00:55We also get some possible information on the battle rating and where it will be, it says

00:59that it will expand the range of the top ground vehicles in the German tree, now I don't

01:03know if that means there will be more in the higher end of the German tree or if it means

01:07it's going to be going beyond the Tiger 2, which it ends at at the moment, but anyway

01:13we'll quickly move on and I'll give you some more information on the tank hopefully

01:18and possibly where it will be in the tech tree.

01:22Now a little disclaimer before I actually get started, I don't have many books on the

01:26Maus unfortunately so we'll have to rely a little bit on internet sources for this,

01:31I do apologise, I have ordered in some books but I haven't got any that deal with the

01:36Maus in my possession as of this moment but when I do I will try and give more accurate

01:42information.

01:43The other thing, the Maus was a real tank, I know there's probably some people who

01:47think it was actually just one of those crazy designs by the Germans but as you saw from

01:52that picture that is in the Kabinka tank museum in Russia, there was actually two prototypes,

01:59one with a turret and one without if I'm not mistaken, the one with the turret was actually

02:06blown up at the end of the war, it destroyed the hull but the turret survived and from

02:10what I understand they just got the two prototypes, shoved the turret on the one without a turret

02:17and voila, you can see it's pretty big, you saw the T-34 comparison earlier, then you

02:24saw the picture of the man, and this has a huge old gun, it had a 128mm main armament

02:32and secondary armament of a 75mm gun that is currently, I think it's the one that was

02:38in the Panzer IV, the short barrelled variant, so yeah they just completely skipped the coaxial

02:44machine gun and just went for the death defying howitzer type weapon, as well as having an

02:51insane amount of armament it also has an insane amount of armour, you can see some pictures

02:55here I presume from when the Russians tested it, I assume they put it on a firing range

03:00or something to see how the armour stood up, the thinnest armour is on the hull side and

03:04rear at 190mm of armour, the thickest bit is about 460mm or 18 inches in the area of

03:14the mantlet, the turret front is 240mm, the hull front is something like 200mm, this is

03:22just an insane amount of armour, unfortunately this does come at a price, it only does something

03:28like 8 miles an hour, so it's going to be very very very ridiculously slow, there's

03:36a reason this wasn't particularly practical, like I was saying earlier it wasn't actually

03:41meant to cross bridges, it was meant to go under the rivers and stuff, you'd have one

03:48mouse on one side providing power to another mouse and that mouse would then go under water

03:53and use a snorkel, it's just insane, it was an insane thing in real life, in War Thunder

04:03it should do quite well because most of the problems it had, excessive fuel efficiency

04:10and speed, shouldn't be that much of a problem, well the speed might be a bit of a problem

04:15but the fuel efficiency shouldn't be, the other thing is it's extremely tall and long

04:20and wide so it won't be exactly hard to conceal, so sum it up, good point, very good gun and

04:27secondary armament plus I think a machine gun and possibly the grenade launcher, very

04:33good armour, very thick armour and some of it's sloped so it might actually be effective

04:39thickness might actually be better, downsides, speed being the main thing, people will be

04:47able to outflank you pretty quickly, I don't know what the turret traverse is like but

04:51if it's quite slow then it'd be easy for enemies to flank you, I mean it doesn't matter how

04:55good your armour and gun is if you're flanked by about 5 IS-4s then the rest of your team

05:00isn't able to help unless they actually distract the rest of you, they avoid going after the

05:06rest of your team in which case they can deal with the IS-4s but that really depends

05:10on the team and the tactics of the IS-4, I'm not really sure what other weaknesses it could

05:16have, I suppose it would be a huge target for aircraft, I mean it's a lot bigger than

05:21most tanks and well it's not going to be able to dodge many attacks effectively is it?

05:28Now before we end the video we're just going to pop over to the actual game itself so hopefully

05:32we'll be able to see where it will be in the tech tree, it'll be tier 5 at least but

05:36maybe a little indication on what battle rating it will be or what tanks it will face.

05:41Now here is the German tier 5 tanks, Jagdtiger, Tiger II, Panthers, blah blah blah, Jagdtiger

05:48is what we want to look at because that has the same gun as the Maus, the 128mm gun, now

05:55if we look at the penetration, stock penetration, 240mm to 167mm so we've got to remember those

06:02numbers, it could go up to 255mm though if you get the advanced ammo, so 255mm is the

06:09maximum it could be going against, if we go over to the Russian tree, IS-4, 215mm, thickest

06:18armour, T-54, 200mm, so if stock ammo is going to be struggling quite a bit against IS-4s

06:25it can deal with them if you aim for the hull but for some of the turret shots it's

06:29either impossible or you're going to have to get in quite close, and this isn't taking

06:35into account the sloping of the armour so it should be able to handle the T-54s but

06:42this seems like more of an answer for the IS-4Ms, which I've heard quite a lot of complaints

06:48about German players who end up going against these and basically not being able to deal

06:52with them in any way whatsoever, and so it's understandable that they would have to bring

06:57some sort of answer out for their IS-4s, the Americans haven't got so much, there's not

07:04much of a problem with American tanks because they've got thinner armour, although the M103

07:09also has a shell that should be able to penetrate the mouse, yeah, 380mm, so why would we have

07:18to worry about some of the shots from the M103? This does seem like it would be a good

07:24match against the IS-4s and T-54s, or a better match than what is already in the game at

07:30the moment. What would it be? It would be after the Tiger II, it would be on this line

07:35I'm assuming, I also think it would be a barrel rating of 8 or 7.7, 8 is what the IS-4 is,

07:427.7 possibly because it may struggle to penetrate the IS-4, but then the IS-4 might struggle to

07:49penetrate the mouse if we see here, yeah, the mouse might struggle a little bit, the IS-4 might

07:57struggle against the mouse a little bit, so probably even against these tanks both struggling

08:02to penetrate each other, but yeah I think it would be after the Tiger II, barrel rating 8 or 7.7,

08:08where's the T-54? That's a barrel rating of 8, so it would be 8 or 7.7. Sorry if it's been a bit

08:17long-winded the video, thanks for sticking through it, yeah, thanks for watching the video, I will

08:23do some more patch type videos when we get more information, I'll keep you appraised of any

08:28developments, if you like the video leave a like, subscribe if you like these sorts of videos,

08:33leave feedback, could always do with more feedback, thanks for watching, I'll see you next time!

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