[KnightFandragon]

There is no sure fire, 100% way to destroy tanks. You have to consider things like your own gun;s caliber vs their armor factors, range, angle....Also, Artillery isnt very effective against tanks, it fires HE and HE doesnt do much for "Hull Destroyed" on tanks. The best you will hope for is broken tracks, maybe a broken gun. Of course if you must fire Arty, atleast the large caliber 120 and larger guns, aim for their roof, make the shell hit the paper thin roof of the tank or the top of the engine block, you might light the engine on fire or hull destroy by penetrating the turret top. Also, some guns just plain wont penetrate other tanks. Take for instance, the Panther tank, almost no US gun besides the 90mm at fairly close range will penetrate this thing from the front. Your best bet then is to properly manuver, flank and get side shots at which point your smaller caliber 75 and 76mms will work. On the bigger tanks like King Tigers, you can ONLY kill them with side shots. Their frontal armor is so significant that you will NOT pen them.

If you want to learn the attributes of different tanks, you can start a Multiplayer game, pick a nation, ready up and go in solo. You can then right click the pictures of the tanks and examine their capabilities and then compare then to other tanks of other nations. It will give you a general idea of what you'll need to do.

Also, one thing to know in this game is Direct COntrol.....learn it, love it, use it....it seems this game was made for it. It isnt always feasible to Direct Control everything but when you can, its probably best you do. Direct Controlling infantry throwing grenades is one fine example of this lol.

Also, if you simply want to practice without going into SP or MP, open up the GEM Editor, its in your Men of War folder, you can go in their and simply place a ton of tanks and just play around, get a good feel for the game, DC, units abilities...I have spent prolly hundreds of hours in that editor...its quite fun lol.