Armor Angling

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## What It Is

Armor angling is a skill that many experienced WoTB players use. It combines the thickness of your frontal and side armor and maximizes them, getting the fullest potential from your armor. It takes a lot of time and practice to get it right, so don't feel bad if you can't do it at first! Armor angling, if used correctly, can sometimes almost double the effective thickness of the armor, depending on the tank.

## How to do It

The trick to armor angling is to turn your tank slightly away from the enemy. While this seems like a bad idea, if you turn about 10 to 15 degrees away from the enemy, the effective armor can be increased by a lot. This makes it much harder to penetrate your tank. Also, if you are being chased or someone is too close to you, wiggle your turret and tank back and forth. This will make it harder for the person to lock on to a vulnerable area, as it is constantly moving.

## Effective Armor

Effective armor is not the actual thickness of the armor, which stays the same no matter how you look at it. Instead, the angle makes it harder for the shell to penetrate and more likely to ricochet. This makes it much harder for shells penetrate your armor, which in turn lets you live longer. An example of how effective armor works can be seen below.

## Examples

This example was made using https://armor.wotinspector.com/?targetVehicleId=5137,10514,8467,66836&mode=xray.armor&platform=pc. In the Fig.'s, the actual armor is shown on top and the effective armor is shown below. A Tiger II was used for this model.

As you can see in Fig. 1, if the tank is ninty degrees to the enemy, it is much more vulnerable. This is due to the fact that the effective armor is very low at this angle, which makes it very close to or the same valueas the actual armor. This is because the angle is very shallow or even nonexistent. This means that the effective armor is almost the exact same (82mm) as the actual armor thickness (80mm).

Fig. 2, however, is a very different story. If you face ten to fifteen degrees away from the enemy, it gets much harder to penetrate the armor of the tank. As you can see in Fig. 2, the effective armor has more than quadrupled. This is due to the fact that it is much harder for the shell to penetrate at that angle and would probably just bounce off. This is because the since the actual armor has been turned from ninety degrees to about ten or fifteen degrees. The actual armor (80mm), gets much stronger when angled and becomes almost impossible to penetrate (335mm)

## Conclusion

In conclusion, armor angling is exactly what the name implies, setting the armor of the tank at the angle that will most maximize its potential. This can be used by anyone and any tank can be used, although some are better than others. It does take time and practice to pick up this skill, but it is necessary, especially in higher-tier battles. You will probably see rudimentary use of this at tiers 4-6, but at tiers 7-10 almost all players have at least a basic understanding of this. Armor angling can be used from basic, don't point your back end at the enemy tactics to looking up the precise angle necessary to coax the maximum potential from your vehicle. There are many levels, so don't worry if you aren't a pro yet!