brother in christ HEAT is an explosive ordinance
So is a shrapnel shell, doesn’t mean it can be used like HE or HESH
it literally has the overpressure mechanic, it works better than HESH (excl AVRE and 4005)
you’re saying shrapnel works better than HESH???
have you played hesh recently? it was fixed for a while but got messed with again
Yes, it works just fine. Better than HE of similar calibre, and certainly more useful than HEAT. If you can use HEAT there’s no situation where APFSDS wouldn’t be better, while HE of HESH allows overpressure of cupolas/roofs/mgs, side scrapers, indirect fire, and anhiliation of light vehicles
Yes and no, heat against light tanks works wonders and will often overpressure just like hesh would, but the general utility of heat in war thunder is just better than hesh because it can semi reliably penetrate armour, unlike hesh.
The problem is that high caliber he and heat just does it better, and more reliably.
With the new system where the hesh “Penetration” equalizes on the plate you can sometimes not do any damage where heat would probably at least take out one crew member, especially because of the buff to heat, giving it a much larger cone of damage. (hit the left side and kill crew on the right kind of cone)
Although there are times where heat won’t overpressure where hesh would it’s just too rare to be a viable alternative.
(also I got a kill with heat where apfsds was not going to kill so ha ha)
You say that but a HESH round going off on a tank is still going to do damage heck if you have a 165mm or 183mm HESH shell impact a turret that turret is going to be in a rather poor state of repair if not removed from the hull it was sitting on.
Even if the composite armour can absorb the shockwave that is still a lot of bang taking place in close proximity to the target…