O-Ho

Modules

Tier	Gun	Penetration (mm)	Damage (HP)	Rate of fire (rounds/minute)	Dispersion (m/100m)	Aiming time (s)		Weight (kg)	Price ()
VII	10 cm Cannon Type 92	175/201/53	300/300/360	5.71	0.41	3.1		1792	68500
VII	15 cm Howitzer Type 96	121/150/75	700/700/890	2.73	0.54	3.3		1432	71200
VIII	10 cm Experimental Tank Gun Kai	215/253/53	330/330/430	6.45	0.42	3.1		2500	124000

Tier	Engine	Engine Power (hp)	Chance of Fire on Impact (%)		Weight (kg)	Price ()
VII	2x Kawasaki Type 98 V-12 (550)	1100	20		1020	51000
VIII	2x Kawasaki Type 98 V-12 (600)	1200	20		1020	77500

Tier	Suspension	Load Limit (т)	Traverse Speed (gr/sec)	Rmin		Weight (kg)	Price ()
VII	O-Ho	122	17	B/2		28000	19000
VIII	O-Ho Kai	130	19	B/2		28000	38500

Tier	Radio	Signal Range (m)		Weight (kg)	Price ()
VI	Type 96 Mk. 4 Bo	425		50	14000
VIII	Type 3 Otsu	550		240	22000
X	Type 3 Ko	750		560	54000

Compatible Equipment

Compatible Consumables

Pros and Cons

Pros:

- 2nd highest HP pool in its tier after the KV-5 (1700)

- Decently thick armor that lacks frontal weakspots, which is very effective against lower tier vehicles.

- The top 10 cm gun has fast reload for its caliber

- Very high mass makes O-Ho resistant to ramming

- Great gun depression over sides

- Gun is located extremely high on turret which means that O-Ho can shoot over almost any allied tank and many hills that other tanks wouldn't be able to

Cons:

- Mini-turrets heavily limit forward gun depression to as little as -3° (or -1° if the 15 cm gun is used), severely hampering the tank in a lot of ways and makes it even more clunky than it already is

- Huge profile; priority target to artillery and terrible camo values

- Awful mobility, 3rd slowest heavy tank in its tier. Only the VK 100.01 P and VK 168.01 P are slower

- Surprisingly mediocre armor for its type and size. The turret armor is rather easily penetrated even with standard ammunition, the hull armor itself is easier to penetrate with standard shells than the other Japanese heavies, and the armor is absolutely useless against many TDs, premium shells, or almost any higher tier vehicle

- Poor side armor; the miniturrets mean that the O-Ho often has to overangle to point its gun down, thus forcing it to expose its weak side armor, making it an ever bigger issue

- All guns suffer from terrible dispersion, aiming time and lacking penetration

- The 15 cm is a joke and completely useless due to its nerfs and HE rework in patch 1.13

- The 10 cm has poor alpha damage for a super-heavy tank and is mediocre to bad in almost every other aspect than rate of fire and DPM

- Doesn't get the top 10 cm from the O-Ni, making the stock grind much worse as opposed of being non-existent like it used to be back in a day (although its still short)

- Ammo rack is huge and easily damaged

- The view range is no longer disproportionately good for its tier, due to it not being improved from the O-Ni (380 m)

- Due to its size, and armor, mobility and firepower all being lacking, the O-Ho is absolutely useless when bottom tier

Performance

The O-Ho is one of the most unfortunate vehicles in the game. It has always suffered from several gun depression issues due to its frontal miniturrets, making it rather awkward to play. However, back in a day, it was fairly unique with its rapid-firing 15 cm derp gun, and armor that was very resilient against many popular vehicles such as the IS-6 at time. Thus, those who were able to put in some effort to mitigate the gun depression issue, the O-Ho was surprisingly effective, unique and fun meme machine. Sadly, those days are long gone. The 15 cm derp gun was nerfed significantly, having 5 seconds longer reload. The HE rework completely neutered this gun. Other than the addition of a premium shell to the (otherwise completely useless at time) 10 cm gun, the O-Ho has never been buffed. Because of this, the massive powercreep since 2015 has completely destroyed the O-Ho. Out of the massive list of tier 8 vehicles, the O-Ho is a contender for the absolute worst tier 8 in the game.

Despite being so dreadful, the O-Ho isn't completely awful at everything. Like other Japanese heavies, the O-Ho has no true frontal weakspots. This, with the combination of high rate of fire of its 10 cm gun, makes the O-Ho actually surprisingly menacing when its fighting lower tier vehicles. They cant penetrate its armor very well, and the O-Ho's fast rate of fire lets it destroy them very quickly. However, this is where the good things end.

The O-Ho technically comes with two gun options - the top 10 cm AP gun, and the 15 cm derp gun. Keyword being "technically" - while the O-Ho is intended to have two guns to choose from, the 15 cm derp gun is completely useless. The combination of nerfs and HE rework has rendered this gun into being a awful joke. Its so horrible that despite being able to get those highly damaging HE penetrations on lightly armored targets, that its still not fun to use even for memes. Using this gun is actually detrimental to your team 95% of the time. It is extremely recommended to avoid using the 15 cm derp gun and use the 10 cm gun instead.

The 10 cm has good rate of fire and DPM, but those are the only things it has going for. Unlike every other tank in the Japanese heavy branch, the O-Ho has rather mediocre alpha damage. While most of the Japanese heavies have several problems in general, at least having great alpha damage is a mostly universal benefit they have. Not on the O-Ho, however - 330 alpha damage is pretty mediocre for a super-heavy in 2022. The gun also has sub-par penetration, terrible aiming time (having some of the slowest in tier, despite the tier packing heavy tanks with 440-490 alpha damage nowadays) and poor dispersion. The awful aiming time and lowish penetration make using the good DPM a bit trickier.

The O-Ho is huge, slow and extremely cumbersome, so naturally it compensates for having strong armor...right? Nope. The frontal armor is no thicker than 200 mm, and its pretty flat. Even standard shells of many same tier heavies can go through the hull, the sides are huge and weak, and the turret cheeks, while fairly small, are actually pitifully weak for a super-heavy like this. Premium ammunition, TDs and higher tier vehicles completely neuter the O-Ho's armor. Overall, the armor of the O-Ho won't bounce shots very reliably if its not fighting lower tier vehicles. More often than not, it has to fight same tier vehicles and sometimes higher tier ones, so it cant really do the one thing it does really well as often as it wants to, which is bullying lower tiers. The armor also means that the O-Ho can't even use the one good trait of its 10 cm gun that well - lowish alpha damage but good rate of fire means that the O-Ho has to expose itself a lot, which means its actually pretty poor at trading blows, which is ironic, as this tends to be a strength of super-heavy vehicles.

The single biggest flaw of the O-Ho is its miniturrets. They limit its gun depression significantly. This means that another strength of the O-Ho's already fairly limited list of strengths is often completely negated and made into a weakness, instead. O-Ho often has to overangle itself to let it point its gun down, exposing its weak side armor. As if the O-Ho wasnt limited enough, the miniturrets greatly limit the O-Ho, as not only it has to deal with its poor mobility and huge size, but it also needs to consider its gun depression issues when positioning the tank.

Overall, the O-Ho is an absolute dumpster fire of a vehicle. It has very few strengths and a massive list of weaknesses. Even though its a super-heavy tank, its mediocre armor, clunky gun depression and gun that is inefficient for trading blows often forces it to play it like a very bad support vehicle. It relies on being able to meet lower tier vehicles, as against them, it maybe, just maybe, can perform its intended role of being a frontline dreadnought. However, other than that, it is vastly outclassed by tanks like the KV-4, which is not the strongest tier 8 heavy by itself, either. There's a reason why the O-Ho has very poor overall winrate as of 2022 - it is one of the absolute worst high-tier vehicles in the game. It is highly recommended to skip the O-Ho whenever possible, be it through free XP, usage of blueprints or not playing this tank at all. Its poor mobility, underwhelming gun, extremely bad armor profile, gun depression issues and large size means this tank should be avoided all but for the most dedicated masochists out there.

Early Research

If you have enough free XP and/or blueprint fragments, completely forget about the modules and skip the O-Ho entirely if possible. If you're not able to do either of these and be unfortunate enough to actually having to play through the O-Ho, then mount the top engine, as it is shared with the O-Ni. When stock, you're stuck with two guns that were available at tier 6; unsurprisingly, both are absolutely dreaful. The stock 10 cm is bad at everything, while the 15 cm derp gun is a terrible joke. Latter CAN still do significant damage to lightly armored targets, so it might be worth using it over the stock 10 cm and hope for lucky games. Get the top 10 cm gun ASAP. Its still a bad gun, but its at least much more usable than the other two.

Fortunately, the O-Ho doesn't require the top tracks; they don't really improve the mobility or gun handling that much, so it can be worth skipping the tracks and go for the Type 4 as soon as possible. Again, if possible, skip the O-Ho entirely if possible.

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