I honestly have nothing against with the new event cycle except that it will be non stop grinding and that you have to play a certain mode to grind them.
Personally I would like it to be that you can play whatever you want to grind the event rather than having to play a single game mode over and over again for weeks. It becomes too repetitive and burns players out in my experience.
The problem here is that these vehicles get locked at all and never to be made available again aside from extremely rare drops in crates sometimes, that’s a design problem and shouldn’t result in minor nations never getting anything from these events.
Are you for some reason denying the existence of arietes by that statement or what?
3BM60 can still UFP any NATO mbt thats not Strv122/2A7.
And before air superiority patch, it was only swedes out of all western mbts who got actually working frontal arc protection on their tanks, outside of hulldown.
If it is just 3BM42, which in game is modelled as 18x505mm, just changing the velocity to 1980 m/s brings it to only 522.7mm@0° point blank. Seems a bit underwhelming but at the same time it’s still like M900 performance. Which could mean with the bad armor, that it can be a lower BR.
Event should be soon, so hopefully the stats will be revealed soon as it’s implemented in game.
3BM60 was added as a response to DM53 being in the game doing damage.
And 3BM60 is still significantly weaker, though people have done well with it.
But yeah, IDK what test rounds they were firing in the 1980s out of 152.
People are too concerned about Russia especially when all the skilled players fled from it to Germany & Sweden finally.
There has been claims of 50% muzzle energy increase. So as a raw figure it could be as high as 2082 m/s if it gets all that increase when firing mango.
While it does not reach flat pen of DM53, DM53 cant UFP the BVM while BVM, prior to air superiority, could UFP any western tank that wasnt Strv122 and outside of some odd angles on some of those, but even then that was usually compensated with weak armor everywhere else.
That’s basically the tradeoff for having a huge list of other disadvantages, like reverse speed, gun depression, exploding fuel tanks, densely packed internal layout, slower reload than aced 120mm guns, the armour behind the ERA is just bad too, your only protection is from the ERA.