AMX M4 mle. 54
AMX M4 mle. 54
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[Client Values; Actual values in
6,100,000 Cost |
2400480 HP Hit Points |
79.88/8536.33/85 t Weight Limit |
- Commander
- Driver
- Gunner
- Loader
- Radio Operator
12001200 hp Engine Power |
40/15 km/h Speed Limit |
2828 deg/s Traverse |
15.0233.03 hp/t Power/Wt Ratio |
NoNo Pivot |
// mm Hull Armor |
300/80/40300/80/40 mm Turret Armor |
AP/APCR/HE
AP//HE Shells |
1050/4800/810
1250/0/1035 Shell Cost |
400/400/515560/560/640 HP Damage |
270/315/65250/296/65 mm Penetration |
r/m ▲
6 r/m Standard Gun ▲
4.48 Rate of Fire Standard Gun |
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Standard Gun
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Standard Gun
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2400 Standard Gun ▲
Standard Gun
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Standard Gun
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2508.8 Damage Per Minute Standard Gun |
m ▲
0.33 m With 50% Crew: 0.409 m ▲
0.33 Accuracy With 50% Crew: 0.409 m |
s 1.8 s 2.2 Aim time |
3232 deg/s Turret Traverse |
360° Gun Arc |
-8°/+15°-8°/+15° Elevation Arc |
4030 rounds Ammo Capacity |
1515 % Chance of Fire |
m 390 m 390 View Range |
m 750 m 750 Signal Range |
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The AMX M4 mle. 54 is a French tier 10 heavy tank.
A variant of the AMX M4 heavy tank based on the Project 141 with reinforced front armor. It was planned to enhance the front armor by mounting a 280-mm armor plate. Existed only in blueprints.
The AMX M4 mle. 54 marks the end of the heavily-armed and armoured French heavy tank branch. Although it's characteristics are similar to its predecessor, it's definetly an upgrade. The AMX M4 mle. 54 is quite a large tank (Although smaller than it's predecessor) with a relatively small pool of hitpoints. However, it makes up for this with great frontal armour (especially by French standards) and good mobility.
This vehicle is essentially a more flexible version of the Pz.Kpfw. VII, the AMX has weaker (but still strong) hull protection than it's German counterpart, has far worse side armor and features frontal cheek weakspots. But it's better at sitting hulldown thanks to the extremely strong turret that is placed towards the front of the hull with good gun depression (-8). The vehicle's mobility is far better than that of the PZ VII, and is surprisingly mobile on soft terrain due to great ground resistances.
The AMX M4 mle. 54 marks the end of its French heavy line.
Modules / Available Equipment and Consumables
Modules
Tier | Engine | Engine Power (hp) |
Chance of Fire on Impact (%) |
Weight (kg) |
Price ()
| |
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X | Maybach HL 295 F | 1200 | 15 | 750 | 123000 |
Tier | Suspension | Load Limit (т) |
Traverse Speed (gr/sec) |
Rmin | Weight (kg) |
Price ()
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X | AMX M4 mle. 54 | 85 | 28 | B/2 | 13000 | 82500 |
Compatible Equipment
Compatible Consumables
Player Opinion
Pros and Cons
Pros:
- Two choice of guns; 120mm with excellent penetration, good aim time and accuracy, and 130mm with high alpha damage and still pretty impressive soft stats and accuracy
- Great upper plate armor
- Decent gun depression (-8) combined with it's extremely tough turret makes it good for hull down positioning
- Decent speed for its weight and size (40KM/H), good traverse speed. Good at ramming
- Quick turret traverse combined with fast aiming time and good accuracy allows the vehicle to snap shots off and switch between targets very quickly
Cons:
- Low HP pool despite its size (2200), greatly hinders it's survivability
- Overall armor other than the front is very poor, lower plate no longer can resist same-tier vehicles very well, the side and rear are susceptible to high caliber HE-shells, the tank performs bad against HE in general
- Frontal cheeks limits angling capabilities
- Very large (Comparable with E-100), tall hull and poor camouflage ratings. Very vulnerable against flankers and SPGs, especially when coupled with poor HP pool
- 120 mm gun has very bad DPM for the alpha (worse than E 100!); only marginally better than the tier 9, as well as rather lacking accuracy on the move, which greatly hinders it's capacity because it cannot neither outtrade other heavies with the alpha nor out-DPM them
- 130 mm gun has terrible DPM, poor shell velocity, very poor premium penetration and ineffective HE shells
- Low ammo capacity both on 120mm gun (40 rounds) and 130mm gun (30 rounds)
Performance
This tank prefers friends. It won't hold it's own when facing off against multiple equal tiered or even lower tiered enemies due to its all-in frontal armouring. However, with backup to cover it's flanks, this tank can be rather efficient, due to the strong overall front armor.
Like most heavies this tank is suspectible to premium shells but the upperplate and especially the turret can be extremely resilient to them when angeled properly (when above your enemy or when the tank is driving up a hill). While your tank does have a giant weakspot on top of the turret it rarely gets shot with most people preferring to shoot the lower plate or trying to pen the side.
When there is no hill for this tank to sit behind peeking around a corner in a way to hide your hull cheeks is a very good strategy to avoid taking damage, be careful though when doing this because your lower plate, while strong, is not invulnerable.
Should the situation ever arise where you have to fend off multiple enemies at once and retreating isn't an option, your best bet is to fight on as if you have backup and simply scaring your enemy into staying in front of you. this of course will only work for a short time if it works at all so either retreat during that time or finish your attackers off.
Early Research
- The only researchable module is the 130mm gun. This gun has higher alpha damage at the cost of rate of fire and small nerfs in aiming time and accuracy (although both stats are still great for such a big gun). But the most notable change is the penetration, with the standard shells being mediocre at best and very underwhelming premium AP and HE shells.
Suggested Equipment
Documented Tank and Crew Builds
For the 120mm: Tank Gun Rammer, Vertical Stabilizer and either Ventilation, Coated Optics or a Toolbox
For the 130mm: Tank gun Rammer, Vertical Stabilizer and either Ventilation, Coated Optics, a Toolbox or a Gun Laying Drive to get the guns aimtime back the the level of the 120mm
Taking food instead of a fire extinguisher is a viable option, but beware when the enemy flanks you. your engine and fuel tanks arent well-protected.
Gallery
Historical Info
See the AMX M4 mle. 45 and the AMX M4 mle. 49 history sections for more information on the AMX M4 development history.
Historical Gallery
Historical Accuracy Errata
* The AMX M4 54 is a fictinous combination of TCB 120 turret and proposed upgrade of significantly uparmored AMX M4 (49) with 280 mm armor plate combined together. The TCB 120 turret was developed years after the AMX M4 project became AMX 50.
- The actual frontal hull armor was to be 360mm (280+80) thick - as indicated by the in-game description of the AMX M4 mle. 54. However, in-game it's only 220 mm, with the upper part of lower plate being 240 mm thick. The armor of TCB 120 is unknown, so it is likely erronous in-game.
- The 130 mm/45 Model 1935 was a naval gun, and there are no known plans or proposals whatsoever to use it as a tank gun.
- The name "AMX M4 mle. 54" is fictitious - by 1954, the AMX M4 project had been renamed to AMX 50.