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As above. To my experience, there aren't any tanks that have reliable survivability. You can tilt the odds in your favor of being able to take a hit, but you cannot guarantee anything. The best thing you can do is estimate how many rounds you plan to fire on a map, and take that many. I've seen a lot of people take a full ammunition load and had slim to no chance of being able to take a single penetrating hit.
"The best guaranteed survivability is simply not getting shot at" aside... If you know you're going to take a hit, and it's probably/certainly going to penetrate, try to put as much as you can between where the shot is coming from, and where your crew is. For things like this (circumstantially) I would say vehicles like the STRV 103, Merkava's, and "tanks driven in reverse" like the IS-2's and TOG have better-but-not-perfect survivability. There are quite a few US tanks that seem to have a large transmission in the front of the hull that can soak up a lot of hits- but only if that's where the enemy shoots, and many of those tanks have very, very weak armor elsewhere.
The Maus also seems to be reasonable- I've one-shotted many a maus (usually because of too much ammunition carried), but I've also seen them soak up hit after hit.
"The best guaranteed survivability is simply not getting shot at" aside... If you know you're going to take a hit, and it's probably/certainly going to penetrate, try to put as much as you can between where the shot is coming from, and where your crew is. For things like this (circumstantially) I would say vehicles like the STRV 103, Merkava's, and "tanks driven in reverse" like the IS-2's and TOG have better-but-not-perfect survivability. There are quite a few US tanks that seem to have a large transmission in the front of the hull that can soak up a lot of hits- but only if that's where the enemy shoots, and many of those tanks have very, very weak armor elsewhere.
The Maus also seems to be reasonable- I've one-shotted many a maus (usually because of too much ammunition carried), but I've also seen them soak up hit after hit.