What are these little things in front of them? It also looks like it has tracks
BT-5 and 7 are indeed much better than any other tanks on their BR. This would certainly be an improvement. Some very also captured by Finnish, but they weren’t used.
+1. It would make reserve tier more enjoyable for players of other nations.
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apparently the BT-5 also had the ability to use wheels instead of tracks would like to see it as a modification or a setting in the pre game menu
thos are T-27 tankette
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They’re still AP shells with no explosive filler, meaning much less damage than the soviet 45 mm.
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So then, if you look at the 37mm BT-2 cannon, there is said that the AP shots there pen 40 and 45mm. For example, APHEs for the QF-2pdr - the Cruiser tank canon - do 50+mm of penetration, and the APs there do 80. Meaning that this cannon is obiously MUCH LESS powerful.
Compared to the A13 Cruiser, the Bt-2 features a much higher top speed (72 km/h vs 48 km/h), and higher hp/t (31,82 vs 24,6), meaning it’s significantly more mobile.
Other than that, it’s also smaller, making it a harder target to hit.
The 37 mm of the Bt-2 is enough to pen almost all 1.0-1.3 tanks with no problem.
The only exception are some of the french tanks, like the H.39, R.35, D.2 and S.35. Still, the AP shell would be able to pen them.
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it IS a good point, but you must mention that turret rotation speed, vertical aim speed woud be worse. And it also has LESS crew members (twice less), which makes the turret rotation speed disadvantage fatal.
Thats just straight up a lie. BT is LONGER as it uses a Christi`s chassis, the hull length is bigger, the height is also bigger. The turret is smaller, tho with two crew members you dont really need to hit a turret.
And then its the 45 mil of penetration. Such a small pen means it would be USELESS against 1.7-2.0 tanks ( even the pz38 would whistand that shot). And again: cruisers posess the APHE with BETTER penetrarion YET given a second solid shot wth 80 penetration.
40 is just straight up not enough.
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Do you even check your facts?
The A13 is not a demon when it comes to turret rotation and elevation speeds.
It has only 1 crew member less (3 vs 4), so not 2x times less.
Again, you are guessing stuff.
The A13 is longer (6 m vs 5,5 m), wider (2,54 m vs 2,23 m) and higher (2,59 m vs 2,17 m).
It can still flank the tanks you mentioned, being much more mobile.
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4 Crew members - a reserve A13.
And its turret rotation is QUITE better than a BT-5s, so i suggest its better than a BT-2s anyways.
If i rememer right, the A13s rotation speed can be up to 16 or 18, and the BTs less than 10.
Ingame model does not agree with you. And the mobility is quiet biased with you:
“flanking” would be the only option of using BT-2s, not so “balanced” if you ask me.
The BT-5s pretty much balanced on its own rn. Nerfing USSR reserves does not look necessary to me.
Lol, german 37 isnt much better. (Stay away from Pzgr 40.) The Bt 2 would still be better than Pz III B.
Maybe. Thy, when the French reserves showed incompetence, we just gave them a better ones. We did not degrade M2s, BTs and others to the R35 37mm state.
turns out i had unintentionally nerfed the gun’s performance.
it appears I had unintentionally kept the performance of the PS-1 or PS-37 gun
I adjusted the gun with the proper velocity after having double-checked the sources. the AP round was removed. the APHE gains a fair buff now reaching 55mm at point blank and 35mm at 500m.
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Conciddering Caids comment, its better than the German 37mm.
it’s even better than the 37mm SA38 as the round is an APHE
I wouldnt call the Sa 38 an good gun. Shot weight and velocity are meh.
The BT-5 is definitely not balanced. It’s overpowered at 1.0, just like the M8 greyhound.
Both are the only reserves that often get picked by players at higher tier, and are able to score kills.
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And now with the fixed stats, the 37 mm would be more than enough at 1.0.
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