I’d rather see Solid shot overall just get buffed.
But I have no hopes of this happening.
All rounds are now more likely to blow up ammo.
I got a lot more kills (one-shots) with 90mm HEAT-FS against all sort of tanks.
The Fox is also proof. APDS with 100mm pen instantly blowing up a tank with a hit in ammo was almost never going to happen before the update.
The 76mm M1 was always just a misinterpretation of the gun of the ACL-1 prototype, it was never actually planned for it. You can find plenty of poorly cited pages online saying the ACL-1 had the 76mm M1.
I also don’t believe the ARL was ever planned to mount the 17pdr and I’d be curious to know your source for that.
Here’s a very good article detailing the history of the ARL-44. No mention of any other guns. Tank Archives: The Last of the Char B
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The main things Gaijin need to change is the reload time.
Both ARLs use an assisted reloading system.
It’s here, it’s modeled in 3D, it even served as a reason for a “recent” nerf on the maximum degree in wich the gun can aim lower, BUT they never counted it for the reload time…
Both ARLs should reload around 6s afaik for the turret ammo storage, it would be a really cool buff.
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Admittedly, that info came from a brief scan of its Wikipedia page. If you have better sources stating otherwise, then by all means those should be applied.
Personally though if it was planned to mount any of said weapons in the turret instead of the current atrocious 75mm, I’d add in such versions if the guns can physically fit in the turret, in addition to giving all versions the missing assisted loading system, then move all ARLs to the heavy tank line including the 90mm one.
The problem with the ARLs more than anything is their terrible post-pen damage. It takes at minimum 2-3 shots to kill most tanks that other nations can destroy in 1 hit because of their explosive filler.
The 5.3 ARL has good hull armor, but terrible turret armor.