Bought the Sla. 16 during the massive sale, and kept getting killed repeatedly by everything. My lowest was a 0.2 KDR, and made me really upset, because I bought a year of premium on a whim too, and I thought that the game was over. Kept getting uptiered to 7.7, and facing bias-6s I couldn't pen even at point blank, which was very depressing. PZ IV F2 for contrast, as it was the tank I used before the Sla. 16

I wanted the Sla. 16 as I like KTs, even built a scale model of it (see my profile)

Then I learnt a lot from AB, of all places, such as staying as far away as possible, facing my armour to the front at all time, or at least, angling it. Jumped into the tank 4 days ago, and pulled it up from 0.2 KDR to break 1.0. Highlights include a 1-shot 1-kill shot at 1600m, and a 2000m crawling shot at some hulldown ATGM.

Things I learnt were:

1) Hull down, front forward, in the shadows is super underrated, will save your life, and really makes good use of the Tiger II's armour. Its a waiting/ambush game for the KT.

2) bino shooting is awesome! Shot many tanks where I couldn't see them through the turret, but through the binos. Hold the MB, tap to turret view, and it'll auto-fire a shot. Saved my life many times too. Binos should be used as often as possible.

3) Rangefind objects while waiting, to see how far you need to adjust. There were many times I had to pull off shots on the fly, but for 100% reliability, I rangefind the buildings and ground near where I think enemies will appear.

That's all, pretty happy I can at least pull my weight now. Also, planes are cancer.