Tanks, the true Beasts on the Battlefield
One of the best and most famous tank battles is one you can watch here. Powerful and mobile vehicles that can take and dish out large amounts of damage, tanks are a must use for players in various games.
Here are 15 of the best games where you can use a tank to reign supreme.
15. Heroes and Generals
Heroes and Generals Tank Gameplay
This game allows players to fight through the battles of WW2 as various characters, including members of a tank crew in massive first-person shooter combat. To play as a tank crewman, players select it at the start before crewing their first tank. Much like in real life, certain tanks have advantages of speed, bigger guns, and ideal opponents.
Playing with a tank can bring several advantages to a group of players, especially if the tank has multiple seats. With one player able to fire the main gun and the second using a machine gun on pesky grenade-wielding infantry, communication with a teammate can bring victory quickly. Battles against tanks often force players to present their armor towards their enemies and target the weak points of the enemy tank to disable or destroy it.
As long as it’s not moving, a tank can provide great cover for you!
What’s better than a troop carrier? A troop carrier with a gun!
14. Battlefield 5
Battlefield 5: Tank battle tutorial
Battlefield 5 takes place in a chaotic World War 2 era with up to 32 vs 32 multiplayer PvP combat. In addition to the single-player campaign, the game features a multiplayer mode that pits tanks and infantry against one another.
With a customizable and upgradable tank armed with camouflage paint, the player can master the battlefield by changing the loadouts to match the map, enemies, and situation. Either choose to batter down armored tanks and vehicles with shell barrages or use heavy machine gun to cut down soldiers and light vehicles. This will further specialize your personal tank for anti-vehicle or anti-infantry roles.
I wouldn’t want to have all of these tanks waiting in ambush for me!
Customize your tank how you wish, but be sure to take advantage of that big gun!
13. Arma 3
Arma 3: Tanks Gameplay
Arma 3 is a sandbox war game taking place on open world battlefields, allowing you to battle with combined land, sea, and air vehicles and customizable weapons to match every tactical situation. The game offers a heavy moddable single-player campaign as well as multiplayer, where you will have to team up with and battle against other players.
As always Tanks are a featured gameplay staple, with various tanks existing in the game. From weapon platforms and troop carriers to tanks designed to destroy other tanks. Playing in one is a massive experience and your tactics and strategies will change depending on the tank you use. Will you seek out and destroy other tanks with heavy shells or provide cover for infantry assaults with your heavy machine guns? Regardless of which you choose, getting inside a tank is one of the best ways to survive the chaos of Arma 3.
Let’s get this bad boy fixed up and ready for battle!
As long as that explosion wasn’t you, I think it’s okay!
12. Company of Heroes 2
Company of Heroes: Tank Gameplay
Stepping away from the FPS world war games, Company of Heroes 2 brings the war to RTS with the players playing as the Soviet Union fighting and repelling the German invasion. With weather mechanics, cold weather survival, and historical orders and tactics as a main feature of the game, the Soviet Winter will heat up as the war for Russia continues!
Most vehicles can be used as rams to destroy trees, sandbags, fortifications and even men. When fighting the German tanks with your own, flanking around them to take advantage of their weakened rear armor is often the best chance for survival when you can’t hold the line. And against these invaders, the line will fall, it’s just a matter of how long you can hold out.
Send the tanks forward! All of them for Mother Russia!
Tanks can provide excellent infantry support units. Blow the fortifications away and your troops will do the rest!
11. Panzer Corps
Panzer Corps Tank gameplay video
This game puts you in the shoes of the Axis, playing across a large and detailed campaign with more than 800 unit types available. Every victory or defeat leads you and your army down a different set of scenarios for the war. Lose too many battles and you may not have enough troops to stand firm when it really matters.
Tanks are very versatile and all-around good units to use in any scenario. Whether they are leading an all-out attack upon the enemy. Flanking and destroying support forces, or being defensive against enemy counterattacks. Tanks are good in open warfare but will suffer when facing an entrenched fighting force. By keeping your tanks well supported and using vulnerabilities in fortifications to your advantage, any player will find tanks useful in every scenario.
Look at that glorious army!
Move your Tanks against the enemy to secure a tactical victory!
10. Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad.
Red Orchestra 2: Tank Gameplay
Returning us back to the Eastern front and the Titular battle of Stalingrad. Red Orchestra 2 sees the Germans and the Russians fighting a heavy and bloody battle to take the town for themselves. With an immersive first-person view for every single action and desperate attack and defense missions, this game takes a singular battle to a whole new level.
For tanks, the game delivers a first-person viewpoint and fully modeled interiors, making you feel like you are in the belly of the beast as you and your crew battle in and around the city. The tank is historically accurate in terms of armor placement. Forcing you to delve into the history books to discover the weak spots and use the correct tank/ammunition to penetrate the armor of a certain enemy tank.
Every Tank features an extremely detailed interior, all the better to battle in!
Forward! Press the attack!
9. Panzer Elite Action: Gold Edition
Panzer Elite action fields of glory gameplay
This game has players command either German, Russian or American tanks in three scenarios. With each scenario putting a player controlled tank platoon into the thick of the battle. While you command one tank, the crew for the other members of your platoon can be selected based on the skills they have, which can level up after each mission.
This game is pure tank vs tank action, forcing you to use the speed, maneuverability, and both the tank’s main cannon and machine gun to destroy targets. Unlike other tank games on this list, the game also features ammo crates and repair stations. You will be forced to not only manage your tank and the tanks of your platoon, but also the amount of ammo you have! Running out of shells isn’t an option during a firefight this time!
Move your tank through the town and destroy all in your way!
Open fire and keep on dodging to survive tank vs tank action!
8. War Thunder
Tanker’s mindset gameplay
War Thunder is a war based MMO that sees players commanding land, air, and sea vehicles and battling it out in team-based combat. Various maps with over 1,000 vehicles to choose from exsist in game. You could try to destroy an air raid from the decks of a warship, or fight the enemy team in a large tank battle. The choice is yours, and with new content and maps being added constantly, you’ll never run out of things to do in the endless war.
The tank gameplay is similar to other MMO’s but does include research options that can give buffs to your tank mid-battle. Did you lose your secondary gunner in a fiery explosion? Use a Crew Replenishment upgrade to replace him. Get strafed by a fighter plane? Research the Parts upgrade and then you can repair your tank in the field! With so many options, customizing your playstyle has never been easier!
Beautiful battlefields await you, and what better way to admire them than inside a war machine?
Roll out men, roll out!
7. World of Tanks
World of Tanks gameplay
This player vs player game sees you choosing a tank, and then being dropped into the battlefield with your teammates inside your stronghold. The match consists of your team either destroying the enemy team or capturing the enemy stronghold, with various types of tanks able to be chosen depending on your playstyle.
Tank battles are often team-based battles that force players to use their brains and the advantages of their tank class to defeat their foes. . Heavier tanks have different advantages than tank destroyers and vice versa, and only through communication and strategy can players blow their enemies away in flaming balls of shame!
Working with your teammates and allies will often be the key between victory and defeat
Whew! That explosion just missed us!
6. Steel Armor: Blaze of War
Steel Armor: Blaze of War Gameplay
This game is a tank simulator. And has players scouting out and picking the battlefield, training and repairing units, and setting up a position before entering the tactical mode of the battle. Four factions can be commanded in the game, with each one demanding a different set of strategies from the player, with battles consisting of escapes, defenses , or acting as support for an infantry assault.
This game sees you completely confined within your own tank, able to switch positions and command the crew. Commanding the rest of your forces relies on a map that is inside your tank, forcing you to make real-time tactical decisions in the midst of battle. You will not be a soldier nor will you be a general, instead you will be a mix of both, forcing you to keep a cool head as the shells rain around you.
Epic battles, detailed statistics, and some good looking tanks await!
Let’s hope there are no snipers here!
5. Armored Warfare
Armored Warfare Gameplay
Armored Warfare sees you casting aside the rules of warfare and allegiance to a superpower. Putting you in the shoes of a power-hungry mercenary seeing to build an army of war machines. Players must team up with other players and battle the overwhelming numbers of enemy forces in epic combat on dozens of locations in epic 21st-century warfare.
Various light, heavy, and other tanks are able to be customized and used by the player. Main battle tanks are basically a giant gun on wheels with heavy armor. While light tanks are armed with the same level of firepower but are also more maneuverable. Every single tank has a different purpose on the battlefield, and it’s up to you to use them alongside your team to get a victory for your mercenary company.
Tank melee combat! For when cannons just aren’t awesome enough!
Nothing’s cooler than a Tank that acts like a snowmobile.
4. Graviteteam Tactics: Operation Star
Operation Star Gameplay
This game returns players to the Eastern Front of the German-Soviet War with the battle of Kharkov. What makes it different is thar the AI js able to make moves based on your own. If you prepare an ironclad defense then they might sneak around, and if you lay a trap there is no guarantee they’ll take it. Soldiers have fatigue and morale to worry about, parts of vehicles can be damaged separately, and the environment will show the scars of your actions.
Tanks in this RTS are often used as building destroyers and support for infantry assaults. Besides, nothing’s more fun than blowing up a building filled with enemy units! Since tanks can be damaged in various ways, you’ll have to think on your feet when a tank column suddenly gets their treads blown out by a mine and can’t move. Against the adaptive AI, you’ll have to think really fast in order to survive!
Keep your tank moving to avoid damage, one hit to the wrong system and your battle plan might be in pieces!
See what I mean?
3. Valkyria Chronicles:
Valkyria Chronicles: Tank Gameplay
If anime and tank action ever had a baby, well that would sum up what Valkyria Chronicles is all about. In a land ruled by two superpowers, you are the leader of a militia of a small country that has a resource both sides covet, putting you in a three-way war to defend your home against impossible odds and super-powered soldiers.
The game blends RPG and real-time action, especially in its tank battles, where players can direct their allies and party members. Then delve straight into the battle with a tank that has multiple hit locations and is mostly immune to small arms gunfire. Just like in real life, if you need to destroy an infantry platoon, these tanks are for you!
Customize weapons and ammo types to destroy different types of enemies.
Use your tank along with your allies to secure victory!
2. Planetside 2
Planetside 2 tank gameplay
With three factions fighting it out for territory and resources, players will be forced to join one of the factions and battle one another in massive brawls. With hundreds of players, ground and air vehicles, and a slew of objectives to take and defend, Planetside 2 forces players to team up with various other classes and work together in massive clans to survive.
With infantry working to capture buildings and command posts, Tanks are mostly delegated to defending these points and providing cover for their own team’s infantry assaults. Communication with other players and fielding tanks as a unit will increase your chances of survival, as well as having (or being) a tank repairing engineer for support. While also using maneuverability to avoid enemy shots and return fire, turning your enemies into piles of blood and scrap!
If nothing else, posing behind a tank is pretty cool!
Communicate with your team and keep pressing the attack!
1. Battlefield 1
Battlefield 1 tank gameplay
This most recent game in the Battlefield franchise takes players to WW1, where trench warfare reigned supreme, almost requiring tanks to advance. Unlike in other games, if the player character is killed then they are instantly given control of another soldier on the battlefield instead of respawning, forcing them to rethink their strategy as they are teleported into different classes of soldiers in different places.
The game features WW1 era tanks that are controlled by Al, with the exception of the seat the player is in and each tank has a specific role and comes in different variations depending on Player customization in singleplayer and multiplayer.
Double destruction! Don’t you love it!
Shrug off even the mightiest shells with ease, proper positioning, and a little luck.
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