You do have a point there, extending the BR range or making the differences like 0.2 instead of going to 0.3 0.7 and 1 would make it easier to balance vehicles, especially stuff like the Maus that while not absolutely horrible at 7.0 would be relatively strong with a good player. It does however seriously complicate the balance process, hence the reason I think Gaijin hasn’t done it.
And yet we put the IS3 with a similar tier of armor at just 7.3 with a similar reload, much better mobility, and a .50 MG for light stuff and say it’s not oppressive.
IS3 which you can reliably one shot through the drivers port with anything similar or better than the us 76mm gun, doesn’t have a secondary gun which can fire smoke/snipe barrels, and much weaker side armor.
Different because for starters it only has one 122mm gun with a big muzzle brake and less armor compared to the Maus in some areas like the sides or rear the 12.7 mg can be taken out by other mg the same cannot be said about the 75mm the Maus has not to mention the Maus has way better survivability compared to the is3 due how big it is inside and the number crew members
I mean just look at the x ray for the is3 their surround by ammo
? the is3s lower sidearmor is 20 mm, not 200. the upper side armor of the hull below the tracks is 90 mm.
It has several areas on the turret top with 20 mm armor.
theres areas on the back of the turret with down to 80 mm armor.
the engine deck is 20 mm
it doesnt have a secondary gun.
and the primary gun has about 2 sec slower reload for a much worse shell
it is more mobile though to account for that, but funnily enough still 5 kph slower in reverse (though ofc acceleration is much quicker)
and has an awesome dhska 12.7
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Exactly, you can kill it on a flank too and it’s more equipped to deal with it. Seriously, just think about how you would deal with a Maus if you saw one in say a T26E5, I know that sort of thing from playing customs and fighting them that way. Just go behind it, most Maus players won’t react in time and “in time” is like as you start moving, it takes ages for that thing to move.
And far worse gun depression
In customs in public lobby’s you won’t flank a Maus so easily as their usually supported by other players
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Dont let it get to your side or back and even if it does he needs apcr to kill the maus and he needs to hit the exact spot where the ammo is. smoke, angle and dont let him shoot your guns.
with m82 shot he cant pen you even if hes point blank looking at you flat on.
If you cant handle a t26e5 in a maus i got bad news for you.
A wiesel 1a5 can pen the is3s lower side with 20 mil dm63 apds. and get the ammo if hes lucky. Basically anything can pen the is3s lower hull side once hes unangled,
All it can do to a maus is take its tracks and then take ages to get the main gun if youre not staring at it completely braindead only to get shwacked by the secondary.
Having played the Maus a decent amount myself I can tell you that they almost always wind up isolated because they can tank a couple more hits, all their teammates get wiped out and they’re left alone with maybe another guy who’s usually not super helpful. I have an exact instance where I got flanked by a T55 and trying to rotate to deal with him got killed by a T44. It’s really not that hard to imagine a balanced Maus at 7.0, as of right now I’m seeing a good bit of confirmation bias where every single thing just supports what you think, true and effective or not. I do the same thing half the time.
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You mean the tank that can never even hope to kill you ? And you can you one shot it by gracing it with the 75mm heat
Actually from the back he was a pretty big threat.
He isnt, can only break your traks or break the barrel, it cant pen you to begin with. It is more than an annoyance than a threat
The T55A has as much as 390 mils of pen. You think that’s track and barrel only?
Pardon? You thought I was talking about a 4.3 premium fighting a Maus and being a threat?
It is😭 you your self admitted how survival
The Maus is and how much effort it takes to killing one
Dude you only have 5 games in the dam thing you don’t have enough experience yet at least play 100 games in the dam thing
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people use the to troll people quite often in higher brs, also t without a dash means american prototypes tanks soviets tanks are T-
Okay arguing with you is useless at this point. I’ve killed dozens of them and have plenty of points and you’re determined to oppose.
They arent similar