With the addon of the new cas planes there is one of them which is over performing every cas plane for its br, that being the L-39ZA/ART which has CCIP on rockets which are zunis and they are very good even for higher br’s and with the lack of good AA at 7.3 you can get many kills with it (either remove the CCIP or move it to 8.7/8.3. Also there is the Ho-ri production, a very good tank destroyer at 7.3 with a lot of armour good mobility and a very good gun with the reload speed too fast (its fictional and unlike other fictional warthunder vehicles it didnt get removed and you can research it) should be moved up to 7.7. also its stats are not realistic because i dont think japan had a 1000 hp engine back then.
Slower and worse than a prop in every regard
It’s already a free kill at 7.3 if you bring a plane or a good SPAA like M163 or Yenisei, and don’t stand still so it can’t rocket you from 2km away.
worse armor than Ferdinand
Like the Chi-Ri, the Ho-Ri’s cannon has a loading assist. Its real rate of fire is much faster than in-game, where it was between 10 and 12 rounds per minute. That’s a five second reload.
could you stop spreading misinformation, the ho ri has 225 mm frontally and a lil bit of 200 mm just like the ferdinant + the angled armour near the driver transmission and machine gunner
there is no real rate of fire because its fictional buddy.
zunis can be launched from 3 km and still hit because they have a lot of explosive and CCIP
if you dont lose speed you can outrun most of the planes in its br bracket


Even the mantlet is quite thin.

Now Ferdinand:


What’s this then?

Press W to move
Which is not possible as it loses incredible amounts of speed in a single turn, and accelerates slower than any prop.
thats the type 5 gun, they can ofcourse bring up to 10 crews to load it and claim it took 10 seconds to load it.
Claim created in imagination just to argue
zunis have enough explosive to take a spaa down from meters away from where it exploded
- they can guess the future location of vehicles if they move
only open top. It’s 8kg, most SPG in game have more. Flakapnzer 341, skinks, and other ‘closed’ tanks needs a direct hit.
gun was never tested in a tank so that means we cannot know its reaload speed.
are we ignoring other parts of the armour?

The tank is wide and there are 4 people in the turrret. Take out commander and gunner, that’s 2 loader. With the place in the tank (they can even stand up), it should have a better reload than another low tier 105. That’s the cause with the Tiger II 10,5, it reloads 2 sec slower.
a+b
at this point, it’s just you. This game isn’t point and click. This is an heavy tank. Not an M18.
It doesn’t work so but okay this argue is anyway proofless
Anyway doesn’t cancel that your “up to 10 crews to load it and claim it took 10 seconds to load it.” just self-made imagination
The Experimental 10 cm Tank Gun (Long) was developed exclusively for the Ho-Ri. You can’t fit 10 people in a Ho-Ri, and you can’t get 10 people to load it either. It’s a 2-person job at most. We know its reload speed.
Zunis are not that deadly. Just move a little, or get behind cover instead of standing out in the open.
Do you need me to tell you to not shoot the strongest parts of a vehicle? Better move T29 to 10.0 with this kinda protection!

Not really.
Anything with 220~mm of pen can go through the super structure if both vehicles are flat against each other.
So while the ho-ri can angle to negate this, doesn’t solve the gun shield being thin, and doesn’t negate the limited gun depression at the angles, and the fact it’s a rear mounted super structure.
That’s underestimating them.

