Apparently the shell is brittle enough to shatter on a 5mm plate but stays perfectly in shape after penetration.
Sim balance doesn’t exist and Gaijin will never fix it. I don’t get how people still enjoy ASB.
Those are actually all pretty good tanks tbh. The Charioteer is quick, the FV4202 has good armor, the Vickers series are more mobile than their Centurion counterparts, and the VFM5 is a smooth operator.
Because it was, at least moderately balanced before the decompress and then Gaijin Over BRed many and has just proceeded to under BR those that werent over BRed whilst not touching those that are
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I’m assuming it plays like the Avenger and the reverse got me to hate it even though everything else about it was good.
Isn’t it even less mobile than the Cent without the reverse gear?
These actually made me consider grinding the line but I chose to go for the South Africa line to get the MTTD for the 9.0 lineup and now they moved it to 9.3. If I knew these BR changes I probably would’ve gotten those.
No idea about this one. Seems to be pretty good but looks extremely ugly.
Last time I used the Conqueror my shot went straight through an R3 without significant damage, no idea how anyone is expected to play these big guns if their damage is so atrocious but you still get a 20s reload.
Idk what changes they made in the last few BR changes but when I was thinking about getting into high tier ASB the balance was so bad I just stopped caring immediately.
Unronically if you want to enjoy the Conqueror you have to memorize the ammo racks of the 50-100 different tanks it regularly meets in battle.
The Conqueror just just get APFSDS spalling on its APDS and a reload buff then move to 8.0.
Hunters got screwed over in the last BR change (French hunter F6 is 0.7 lower than the RAF F6 or FGA9)
10.7 and below is fine for the most part though. So things like the Jags, Bucs, and FRS1e. Even the Javelin and Sea Vixen is very good in Sim
Tornado F3 is well placed at 12.0 and very strong in the downtier bracket. Same for the FA2 (though very unfinished)
F3 Late is pretty pointless at the moment though.
The issue is that they just dropped the Mig-23MLD down to 11.3. So it shares a BR with the Phatnoms and the FRS1 (SQV) so neither are really playable and the Tornado Gr1 now infact has a higher BR than the Mig-23MLD, so you are still trying to just evade a wall of Mig-23MLDs without really any fighters on your team (the best bluefor counter for the Mig-23MLD is maybe the FGR2, or you have to just hope you have a load french of Mirage F1s). Better to play it at 12.0 just because you actually have fighters.
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The Sim BR brackets are just terrible as a whole. Some vehicles dominate and others are useless but having no dynamic matchmaker will always give you pointless stats to judge a vehicles performance. I don’t know why Sim can’t just get an AB or RB type matchmaker but the current BRs make no sense and they are terrible in GSB battles too.
Hell no. Sim Brackets are 100x better than random RNG.
At least I know, without fail, that if I play a Tornado F3 at 12.0 in the 11.0 - 12.0 bracket. I will be facing 11.0-12.0 aircraft and there to not be a random (but quite likely) chance that instead I will only be fighting F-16s, Mig-29s or Su-27s at 13.0.
There are just a few at the wrong BR and they really need to reinforce bluefors 11.0-11.3 line-up at some point with some slightly better fighters, Not sure what though.
Top tier for Redfor side also needs buffing but thats just a tech issue more than anything else and im sure that’ll be fixed by next major update or december update
Sims MM is decent because it theoretically allows all planes to be good at some point, and it removes the perma-uptier that is common in RB. If anything, RB should use Sim brackets.
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Might be good for 12.0 but for 11.0 it will be an uptier 100% of the time.
Using Sim BRs will be a perma uptier for some and a perma downtier for others. If you put 5.7-6.7 into a fixed BR bracket no one will play 5.7 anymore. You always have to play the highest tier tanks that you’re allowed to pick making matches even more boring than they are now. Imagine a whole team of T34 vs Tiger 2H every game for a week and when the brackets change you get M4A3E2 vs Tiger 1H until it changes back.
Only for that one bracket. 48 hours later, it changes and now the F3 is facing AMRAAM slingers and instead there is a Bracket where 11.0 is facing 10.0-11.0 100% of the time. Thats the beauty of the system, 1 rotation Tornado F3 is very good, the next the Sea harrier FRS1 (if it was at the right BR) would be very good, the next maybe its something else
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Yes that’s the point. This system tells you when to play an aircraft and you can only play the aircraft of your choice every 2 days.
Sitll prefer every vehicle being viable, than only the few that can cope with being in a full uptier.
That’s better than being uptiered 100% of the time. Plus, there’s nothing saying that you can’t take out a plane that will be fully uptiered.
ok after having played a bit of 9.3 britain after the update, i can tell you the goods and the goods and the bads. the goods, you dont see leopard 2a4’s, t80b’s, abrams anymore which is great. the olifant 2 also works great with the chieftain at the br. thats about it for the goods. the BADS are what we got in exchange for losing a few of those mbts in the br range. what ive noticed is that russias best 10.3 lineup is in literally every game ive played. i have never once begged so hard to have a stinger or literally any missile spaa before. russias su25k is in every single game and there isnt a single spaa you can use to shoot it down. additionally, you are also in the br range of the 2s38 and bmp2m which as 9.3 britain is now, is certainly HOPELESS for you. if you play aircraft in britain 9.3 you get to meet the strela [so fun]. i dont have many complaints about the other nations as i find them balanced now against 9.3 britain believe it or not but being in the range of 10.3 russia is asking to be sent to premium hell. the most common premiums you will see at this battle rating are unsurprisingly the 2s38 and su25k. 2/3 of my games are uptiers into 10.3 and due to this i can confidentally say, that the premium blackhole at 10.0 was NOT fixed. but if you ignore the fact that you are totally defenseless against jet aircraft due to not having a normal spaa until 10.0 and the fact that you will constantly be fighting premiums at 10.3, you can actually quite enjoy the lineup because its pretty decent
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I would have been fine with the Chieftain Mk 10 going to 9.3 if they:
- Removed L15A3 and replaced it with L15A5.
- Removed the fake L23 and replaced it with L23A1.
- Added a new rank IV modification that turns it into a Mk 11 with TOGS. Should be fairly simple, the only model change is replacing the IR light with the TOGS box.
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the conqueror will only deal damage when you hit a solid piece of armor and no spaced armor, you can see this effect on the is3 at 7.3. go in hangar and shoot at the front plate then shoot one of the two tracks on the front plate of the is3 which essentially act as spaced armor. you can see theres a significant difference in damage and penetration when you hit a solid piece of armor vs a spaced armor piece. the conqueror will actually deal a pretty decent amount of damage if you 1) dont overpen 2) dont hit any spaced armor at all
if you keep these two rules in mind while shooting the conqueror gun, you’ll be able to use it a lot better