It’s still worse than any other nation’s top tier tanks, and doesn’t have the reload to back it up. It’s easier to exploit it’s reload as an enemy, and it doesn’t have the mobility to counteract that.
No, in other words, it has worse armor than a 10.7 tank, and besides lacking the ERA, it also lacks smoke charges and thermals compared to the T90A, and has almost 50% longer reload.
It has armor that is worse than a 10.3 tank (Moderna, T-80B both have better armor bc of their ERA), so it makes sense to be 10.0 in that regard.
Even your needlessly extensive armor analysis shows its turret is made out of fucking paper. boo hoo, the UFP can catch a shot from a 10.3 gun. guess what, that guy can shoot you again before you’ve reloaded.
What hilariously idiotic unit is that? armor pen per second? if you already pen almost everything at your BR with 400mm pen, anything above that is useless. RPM is a much more important unit than “pen per second”. and the RPM for other russian autoloaders is almost 50% better.
Hell, the Type 10 is one of the best toptier tanks because it has the best RPM of all toptier MBTs with good mobility. That’s what makes a good glass cannon.
for people with the biggest aim skill issue, maybe. like seriously, even stock 120mm DM33 is more than enough at 11.7, a high pen round alone won’t make a huge difference. you need a good chassis to back that up. For high pen with slow reload, it would be much more preferable to be able to go hulldown well, so you can snipe.
On top of that, you don’t even pen all armor panels in the game. Leo2A5 and up still have enough turret cheek armor to withstand that round. So if they’re hulldown, you have to snipe the same weakspots as everybody else.
Same as you can’t pen challenger 2’s turret cheeks, ZTZ99A’s turret cheeks… they all have >700mm effective armor against APFSDS. Top tier Abram’s withstand it on the right turret cheek when facing them, too.
You don’t even have enough pen for the beak hull armor on the STRV122. Your glass cannon really is all glass and no cannon if you put it in toptier matches.
At toptier you either get strong side ERA (Russians) or better mobility to deal with flanking. Even just functional reverse to get out of there quickly can help alot, same as much better reload for not being caught with your pants down. If you shoot at something infront of you and you have to react to a flanker pushing you, even if you get your gun on target, those 10s will feel glacial in situations like that and get you killed.
ever had that weird thing where your aim is close to a wall or tank when you’re next to it and your gun goes up? it matters more than you’d think in CQC.
I’d also say you might shoot at heli rushers above you and need to get your gun down again quickly after that, but oops, the 292 doesn’t even have a roof MG.
you have worse gun handling than 10.3 Russian MBTs. That vertical targeting speed matters.
They all have ~28% better turret traverse, that isn’t negligible. British and Japanese also have much better reverse, half and less than half the reload time, and have smoke charges, so they have other important tools to react to tanks coming from other angles, too.
Also I think you’re looking at the outdated wiki page for the Leclercs. Check them ingame. They got buffed and have 23.8°/s turret traverse when fully stock, no relevant crew skills, no turret ring modification, no crew qualification. The 292 in the same configuration has 14.0°/s, so just barely over half of the Leclerc’s.
Like I elaborated earlier, it wouldn’t even fullfill the cannon part at top tier, and it won’t lolpen everything in the game, all the better armored turret cheeks are immune to it, same as Strv122’s beak. While it has better reverse than the T-72B3 and T90M, it’s still not adequate reverse. And it has worse armor than a russian 10.3 tank.
(also, good job for hand-picking the IPM1 for the 11.0 round for your narrative when the M1A1 already has the much better M829A1 at 11.0 and there isn’t really a good reason to play the IPM1 over the M1A1 now that both have the same reload ;))
all the other russian top tier tanks have almost 50% better reload that makes them alot better in disadvantaged situations. Anything beyond 1v1, reload really really matters. And even in 1v1, fail to kill or disable with your first shot and your enemy shoots back twice.
except its damage output is severely hindered by its reload. a type 90 can kill 3 tanks before you have your 2nd shot ready, and therefore can deal ALOT more damage. What do I need 700 flat pen and slightly more spall for when I already pen and one-tap enemies with the worse round?
This isn’t WoT where a bigger round deals more HP damage. I REALLY don’t get this weird pen >>>>>>>>>>>> every other parameter thinking.
the “extra damage” won’t matter in most cases and it is capable of less kills in the same timeframe as other tanks. so overall it will deal less damage than comparable tanks at 10.0, with a niche gimmick.
none of which have to rely on sniping because they have the reload and armor to handle CQC much better, and there pen matters alot less. if they do end up sniping, most of the other top tier russian have thermals for better spotting at long range, too. And smoke charges to help with falling back.
Same with Chinese tanks, but they also have much better reverse at top tier and better armor, gun handling and utility at 10.7 and up.
Japanese tanks have hydraulic suspension and therefore much better gun depression, did you only look at the stat cards?
(Israel is just sad and their tanks suck)
It feels like you really don’t know what is important at top tier. mobility and reload speed are key. The Type 90 has no reliable armor and an average pen round at best, but excells with its 4 second reload and is one of the best tanks at 11.0 that still works great in 11.7. THAT is a good glass cannon.
Hell, the 1s Abrams reload buff made them alot stronger. now the 292 comes around and adds 3s on top of what is already the worst reload speed at top tier, for pen and slightly better spalling that won’t matter for 99% of your shots because any other tank’s ammo is good enough already.
The 292 might not entirely be glass at 10.0, but it for sure also doesn’t fill the cannon part with abysmal reload for its BR.
