PT-811

PT-811

PT-811

USA

IV Rank

Battle rating:

AB	RB	SB
3.7	3.7	3.7

Class:

PREMIUM

Motor torpedo boat

Boat

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Description

The 94 ft PT-811 is a gift rank IV American motor torpedo boat with a battle rating of 3.7 (AB/RB/SB). It was introduced during Update 1.95 "Northern Wind" in the Operation F.R.O.S.T. event

General info

Survivability and armour

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Mobility

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Armament

Primary armament

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Secondary armament

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Anti-aircraft armament

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Torpedo armament

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Usage in battles

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Pros and cons

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Pros:

1. SPEED! - With a max speed of almost 140 km/h, this thing goes fast and rivals the speed of first tier boats and is the fastest boat in the American Boat Tree. No questions asked this is the sonic of the American boat tech tree, so use it as if you're supersonic blue hedgehog and flank battleships (abundant with the 3.7 B.R.) by ideally attacking from behind or behind their turrets. Your speed also favors you with small arms fire too since opposing boats (and especially battleships) will take a little bit more time to lock their aim on you if not experienced enough (this can apply to you as well if inexperienced at attacking other boats at high speeds). However, don't rely this as your saving grace, once they lock onto you they can hit hard especially if it's a battleship. The best thing you can do with this speed however is to rush the furthest point and give your team the edge.
2. TWO (useful) DUAL MACHINE GUNS - Don't get me wrong, machine guns are great but these dual .50 machine guns on this boat are excellent tool in tackling other boats (especially torpedo boats). This boat has one dual machine gun at the top right and one at the bottom left, but they can both fire their guns on the same easily with fairly big arcs as long as you're firing to the right and going circles around enemies. These machine guns are great but they don't cut the job when attacking enemies to the left because the top right machine gun gets blocked by the mortar canon on the left, but this wont matter much as long as you land your 20mm cannon shots on the enemy (which magically jams slower).
3. MORTARS INCLUDED - I may have played this PT boat I have not found a great use about this weapon. However other players may have used this to destroy torpedo boats with ease and harass destroyers with it. Other than that I don't have the experience with to tell anything about this (someone do this for me). However it does appear to share with the machine guns' MASSIVE firing arc, so if you know how to use this weapon to the highest extent, use it.
4. I'M BULLETPROOOOOOOF (not exactly) - Just like the term bulletproof this thing may take up more bullets but it's not bullet resistant (which battleships have extensively, making machine gun fire on them useless). However with less armor thickness than the average PT boat this boat makes that up by what that 10mm thick hull consists of, STEEL. Having steel makes your boat more resistant to any machine gun fire because you can legitimately ricochet bullets. With this account, you can resist angled machine gun fire at a moderate level, assuming the other boat is a brain-dead machine gun torpedo boat and not a F*KIN BATTLESHIP (and I will keep emphasizing this).
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Cons:

1. YOU'RE A F**KING ROCKET-POWERED TIN CAN - I'm not shitposting here but it's the fucking truth, that 10mm of steel I (same guy who wrote bulletproof) mentioned earlier wont make you a battleship. Yes having this type of armor is beneficial but it doesn't do justice, you are still are PT boat which means you still have to the unofficial rules a PT may have, which means no going Rambo the other team. You may be fast and mean, but you're broken in between. And breaking in half you will see a lot of because holy shit you will get blown to bits by them A LOT! Which leads to the next point.
2. YOU ARE BATTLESHIP CANNON FODDER - By attacking the furthest point you signed a contract to be a moving target like always however with a B.R. of 3.7 you will see destroyers. Additionally if you are very unlucky, you will encounter a metric F**K-TON of battleships, all of them which will also barrage you with maelstrom of shells at your little boats. As a result, most of the time you will get sawed in half by battleship Phil Swifts that the destroyers bring. In addition to that sometime you can get ambushed by these battleships from afar by experienced destroyers in one shot, ONE SHOT, meaning that you will have no warning to react when attacking the furthest point.
3. YOU CAN IRREVERSIBLY BEACH YOURSELF - If you thought you a bad time getting aground in boat battles you will have a horrible time beaching yourself with this boat. This boat's speed is fast enough to beach yourself to the point where there's no chance for redemption, even if other boats try to save you. In short, PAY ATTENTION and avoid going at a sloped surface at full speed.
4. TORPEDOS - Self explanatory, when shot at it can explode, insta-killing you. So make sure you drop your torpedo when fighting by side or remain at an angle where you DIRECTLY look at the enemy to minimize torpedo explosion.

History

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