And this is the Fury E8:
这个是Fury版的E8：

At first glance, you can notice significant differences on the hull:
第一眼看上去，车身上有两个不同点： 

– the original E8 has the entire lower part 101mm thick. The Fury has only a small strip of very thick armor on lower frontal plate (108mm thick), while the rest of the lower frontal plate is 50,8mm thick (easily penetrable)
原版的E8的整个底板都是101mm厚，而Fury版在正面的下半部分只有一小条是很厚的（108mm），其它地方的厚度都是50.8mm（很容易就打穿了）

– upper part of the frontal plate is 63,5mm thick for both models
两个模型的正面的上半部分都是63.5mm厚

– the frontal hull roof thickness increased from 19,5mm to 25,4mm, the sides thickness is more or less the same
车身前半段的天花板厚度从19.5mm涨到了25.4mm，车身侧边的距离好像差不多

– Fury has ticker space armor rim, protecting the turret rotator mechanism
Fury版的间隙装甲环更厚一些，保护着自己的炮塔旋转装置 

The biggest change however happened to the turret. On the pictures above, you can see how the mantlet covers the entire frontal of the turret in both cases. But there’s a catch. Check this out – this is the regular E8 Sherman turret, with the mantlet (in both cases 89mm thick) removed:
然而最大的改动还是在炮塔上。在上面的图片中各位可以看到炮盾是护着整个炮塔正面的。但是有一点不同，请看—下面这个是常规的谢尔曼E8炮塔，炮盾被移除掉的情况（这俩炮盾都是89mm厚）

And this is the Fury turret:
这个是Fury的炮塔（没了炮盾）：

In words – the old E8 basically has an 89mm mantlet over 76,2mm frontal turret armor, giving the deep violet zone a protection level of 165,2mm mostly. The Fury on the other hand has a giant hole behind the 89mm mantlet, which means that most of the frontal turret has only 89mm protection. Additionally, compared to the new model, the upper part of the turret (above the mantlet) was nerfed from 76,2mm to 44,5mm. Together, this all means that the Fury turret is MUCH easier to penetrate than the old E8 turret.
用文字表达的话—旧的E8在89mm厚的炮盾后边还有76.2mm的正面炮塔装甲，给了这片脆弱的区域165.2mm的保护层。而Fury版在89mm厚的炮盾后边就是个大洞而已。还有就是和新模型相比，炮塔的上半部分（在炮盾上边）的部分从76.2mm砍到了44.5mm。总之结果就是Fury的炮塔比旧的E8炮塔更容易击穿 

Additionally, the Fury is 4 tons heavier (this is unhistorical according to Hunnicutt by cca 1 ton), gun depression nerfed from -12 to -10 (historical) and has lower maximum speed (nerfed to 41,8 km/h, this is historical). But is the armor nerf historical? Is there a really such a hole in real life?
还有，Fury版E8比原版重了4吨（Hunnicutt说这个还是比史实的差了一吨），俯角从-12°砍到了-10°（史实角度）极速也比较低（砍到了41.8km/h，这个是史实的）。但是装甲是史实的吗？现实生活中真的有这么个洞吗？

Yup. There is. So, why was it modelled differently until now? Well, two reasons really.
没错，的确是有的。所以为什么现在才在建模上体现出不同？有两个原因： 

– the original M4A3E8 model is very, very old, it was in the first American line and all that. Back then, the developers didn’t really care about historical accuracy that much.
原来的M4A3E8已经非常非常老了，是美国线刚有的时候它就有了。在那个时候，开发团队还是不怎么在乎史实度之类的

– at that point, instead of accuracy, the developers cared about the “line continuity” and the “distinctive feature of American tanks”, which were, as you know, very tough turrets. And so, they buffed the turret unhistorically by not using the “hole” behind the mantlet at all (earlier 75mm models had it smaller, but it still was there) to produce the “tough turret” element at the expense of historicity
在那个时候，开发团队关注的是“科技树的延续性”和“美国车的特点”而不是史实度，你看大家都懂的，美国车的大铁头。于是他们就通过对无视炮盾后面的那个“洞”的方式来对炮塔进行非史实的buff（早些时候的75mm模型有那个洞，但是很小。好歹还是有个洞的），以史实为代价创造出“大铁头”的元素。 

Things have changed since then, the boundaries between lines have blurred. French are no longer the only ones with autoloaders, Germans don’t have long range fighting exlusivity in the game anymore and not all Americans have tough turrets. What this however means for us is the fact that when the original E8 gets reworked to the HD standard, its armor will probably change to resemble the current Fury layout. According to Storm, it will not happen anytime very soon, but it will happen at some point. So be ready.
时过境迁，不同系之间的区别也变得模糊了。法国也不再是唯一一个有弹夹炮的国家了，德国再也不是游戏中唯一一个可以从远距离进行打击的国家了，也不是所有美国车都有大铁头了。然而对我们来说这意味着原版E8在高清重制之后，装甲可能会改成现在Fury版的样子。根据Storm的说法，这个高清模型一段时间内搞不定，但是总归会有的。做好准备吧。