It’s not just armour issues. There are a number of outstanding bugs and issues that could be fixed that would buff the CR2.
Even relatively minor things such as swapping the 7.62mm turret for a 12.7mm would be pretty major improvement.
But there are also areas of improvement that would nerf other nations, such as shell perforation that would heavily mitigate the T80BVMs ERA, that is not currently modeled. This leads to assymtrical advantages.
But Britain is not just weak because of the CR2. It’s weak due to overall TT issues and poor map design. I don’t think Britain will ever be good, but it doesn’t need to be quite so unplayable as it is currently
A mechanic I think they need to model eventually is the targeting system. I partially get why it’s not been modeled, but at the same time, not modelling it also heavily nerfs the CR2
A targeting system should come for all tanks anyway but Indo think at the moment it should only be for anti-air. But Gaijin won’t do that because less people will buy their OP top premiums.
Yeah, that’s true. But it would be assymetrical how good it would be. I don’t think many If any soviet tanks have anything even close. Would be good to give the sniper tank the ultimate sniper tools. Even if it was only an assist for things like lead
Wait untill we go to the data sharing option. Snapping to thing other aim at, pinpoint data to cas planes, marking enemies to shoot with turret autoaim at them, including those trageted by teammates. THAT WILL BE MADNESS
What I’d give for even the ability for things like drones to mark a target, it to create a CCRP target point, that then other aircraft could use. That would either snap the targeting pod to that position or that bombers could use for dropping/lofting bombs onto. That would be awesome. An SPAA thinking it was safe only to have bombs land on it that were thrown cross map by a tornado
Also thing like LG munnition guided by a ground vechicle. that is the future we are going to. Or this game will turn into cod with tanks, seeing how maps are going.
I thought were were already there. But yeah, they are either going to have to start adding these more advanced mechanics of modern tech or artificially start buffing the stats on things to compensate for their lack
The engine uprating didn´t take place. Primary sources indicate that the armor should be nerfed hard, same sources can´t be used to argue for a buff to L27.
“SRL4026” wasn´t a prototype, its the designation for the sum of requirements for Cr2 even as late as 1992, just before serial production started the following year.
Oh. It seems like late night stroll are doing me Bad again. But even that i still doubt it was not upgraded. UK mod would have to be stupid not to do so.
The sources specify that while Cr2 fully complied with SRL4026, there was still room for improvement (my interpretation, from another snippet, would be the addition of some kind of ERA). However that stretch in protection capability couldn´t be produced at least until 1996, when Cr2 serial production had already started 3 years ago.
In any case we can argue that the requirements for the tank were too optimistic or that the mistake was to not keep updating the tank afterwards as the Americans or the Germans kept doing with their respective platforms.
Just to be absolutly clear, the protection requirements for Cr2 were the following:
The “stretch capability” to protection would have uprated the frontal turret to 600mm KE / 900mm CE
On the other hand, these set of sources give the figure of “700mm” of penetration for L27. While I don´t see how thats possible given the dimensions of the projectile, the objective was to defeat K5 equipped soviet tanks. So this supports the version that said round has “anti-ERA” capabilities in the same way other contemporaries do (DM53, M829A3, etc.)
I believe that Cr2 must be nerfed however, what to do for UK?
