Emil II

Emil II

The Emil II/2 is a Tier IX Swedish heavy tank from the European Nation. It features excellent turret armor for its tier. Its gun is also great, the Akan L/40, the same gun as the Kranvagn but with a nerfed penetration on all shells.

The Emil 2 is generally a faster tank than the Kranvagn but trades its armor for speed.

## In-game Description

The Emil 2 is built for hulldown. Unfortunately, it features one of the worst DPM in its tier, barely going above 2.2K dpm due to its autoloader's long clip reload.

### Pros

* Great turret armor.

* Excellent alpha.

* Excellent penetration.

* 1200 damage burst in 5 seconds.

### Cons

* Slower than most other heavies in its own tier and tiers 8&10

* Long clip reload.

* Turret weak against prammo of higher tier vehicles and standard of some tier 10 TDs

## Strategy

### As Emil II

A strategy is that you sit in hulldown and avoid brawling at all costs. It's rare you'll ever be able to beat an enemy in a 1 on 1 brawl due to your low dpm. Stay with your team as going solo will lead to your demise. Hit and run could also be a viable strategy.

### Against Emil II

The Emil II can deal an enormous amount of damage in five seconds, 1200 with its entire clip. Keeping this in mind, use your armor to prevent it from getting any shots off.

## Specifications

### Modules

#### Turret

 **Turret Armor** | Front: 175 mmSides: 70 mmRear: 37 mm
 **Max AmmoRack Size** | 60 for the 10,5cm, 48 for the 12cm shells

 **Terrain CrossingCapacity** | Road: 94% Ground: 81%Water: 61%

 **Terrain CrossingCapacity** | Road: 103% Ground: 87%Water: 66%

## History

The Emil II is one of three designs considered by the Swedish army in the 1950s with the threat of Soviet tanks in mind. It was designed along with the Kranvagn, thus they share many design features, such as the oscillating turret and autoloader.

A variant of the heavy tank developed under the project of 1949. In 1952, three heavy tank projects were proposed. The EMIL 1952 E2 was the second variant. Depending on the armor and mounted engine, the weight of the vehicle varied from 34 to 39 tons. However, at the end of 1952, development of the E2 version was discontinued in favor of the E3 version, which had similar characteristics but improved armor.

## Historical Accuracy

The emil 2 and kranvagn are practically the same tank, but one is a nerfed verison of the other.

The emil 2 ingame said as simple as possible, wrong in ALOT of ways. The historical emil tank project featured two turrets, the alt a and alt b(Not to be confused with WoTbs suspension names), the alt A turrets armor was 140mm at 44-40 degrees at the front.

The alt B turret was 170mm at 44-40 degrees on the front(Similar to the Emil 2 ingame), they both featured extremely weak side and back armor like the ingame tank.

The hulls upper front plate was around 75-100mm and the lower front plate sat at 120-145mm depending on the varient.

The emil 2 and kranvagn dont get the 150mm L/40 cannon which supposedly was able to be mounted on it.

The engines it has are also very under-horsepowered with the AV-1195 having 540 horse power in reality nstead of 400 horse power ingame or the AVS-1195 having 665 horse power in reality instead of 450 like ingame

## Trivia

* Random in-game and historical facts here.
* It exists

## Gallery

Screenshots and other images of the tank here.

## External Links

https://blitzhangar.com/en/tank/emil-ii

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil\_(tank)