The maneuverability of the Maus is what one would expect from a super heavy tank - slow and cumbersome. The low damage output of the 12.8 cm gun means that the Maus is best served as a team's front line vanguard, forcing a breakthrough and drawing the bulk of enemy fire while it's teammates follow through and return fire back at the attackers. The 12.8cm main gun is similar to the 130mm cannon of the IS-7, dealing the same amount of damage but sacrificing penetration for improved accuracy. In fact, most of the aforementioned weaknesses can be negated by simply positioning the tank in a way that makes incoming shells impact at an angle.

This can be quite difficult to achieve, however, if the driver turns the turret away to angle the armor. Another weakness when engaging this tank from the front is to shoot at its turret 'cheeks' because despite their sloped appearance and high armor values, the turret cheeks are mostly flat mid center and will rarely withstand a shell with sufficient penetration. Additionally, weaknesses in the frontal armor such as the lower glacis plate are fairly large and can be reliably targeted. However, the lack of sloping anywhere on the tank, except for the frontal armor, can allow tank guns with adequate penetration to punch through the sides and rear with relative ease even more so if the Maus is not angled properly.

Combining that immense hitpoint count with some of the thickest tank armor around means that if an enemy vehicles gun lacks any significant penetration capability, fighting the Maus will not go well. The heaviest (although, thanks to the Type 5 Heavy, no longer biggest) tank in World of Tanks, the Maus is certainly a mammoth tank, with the largest health pool of any other vehicle currently in the game. Developed from June 1942 through July 1944, with two prototypes produced, only one of which received a turret and armament.

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