I have just watched the chieftains old video on the b1 bis, and he mentions it had the “naeder” steering system which was operated by the driver to precisely aim the hull gun. This information is also confirmed here and probably in the manual that I cant find cause I dont speak french lol.
As we know, currently in game the gun has ±1° of traverse which is just gaijins workaround for the problem, not an actual solution. In reality the gun was completely fixed in the hull and traversed via aiming the hull with the steering system.
So I propose the b1 get the same hull aiming game mechanic used on the strv103 and others, instead of the crappy workaround.
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we dont get hull aiming on churchill, TOG, m3 lee/grant or anything else with a hull canon and turret. all have their own quirks to it
B1 shouldnt be different
those tanks all had actual horizontal traverse built into the gun mount, and no precise steering systems afaik.
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just like the Char B1 the hull gun is its secondary.
Its not like a S tank at all
Okay but those don’t have hull aiming since they have horizontal traverse. The B1 specifically did since the gun was horizontally fixed. It should be different because the B1 literally is different.
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I dont see why it being the secondary gun would make it any less true that it had the system irl and does not in game. Especially since as opposed to other vehicles with secondaries like the churchill and tog you mentioned, this one actually has a proper anti tank use for its secondary instead of just being a smoke launcher. I just brought up the strv103 as an example for the game mechanic, since its probably the most well known tank that has it. But stuff like the VT1-2 also has it on the horizontal axis the same way the b1 should, and it aims its secondary gun with it too.
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