AMX M4 mle. 54
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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.
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Modules / Available Equipment and Consumables
Player Opinion
Pros and Cons
Pros:
- Very good alpha damage, good DPM
- Excellent aim time and accuracy for a 130mm gun
- Very tough frontal armor, for both hull and turret
- Good gun depression (-8 degrees)
- Overall responsive - good acceleration, hull traverse, and turret traverse
Cons:
- Premium ammo penetration for the 130mm gun is low
- All the armor is concentrated at the front, sides and rear are very weak
- Turret cupolas are obvious weakspots
- Massive profile (as big as an E-100) and poor camouflage
Performance
This tank prefers friends. It won't hold its 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 weak to premium shells but the upper plate and turret can be extremely resilient to them when angled 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 much higher alpha damage at the cost of rate of fire and small decreases in both aiming time and accuracy (although both stats are still great for such a big gun). The main downside of this gun is its shell velocity and penetration, which are both poor for a Tier 10 tank.
Suggested Equipment
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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 fictitious 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.
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