No armor only benefits you when you don’t fuze shots. Panzers are in the position where they very much do fuze shots, yet get shredded by fast firing guns anyway. Panzer armor has no upsides, they’re literal glass cannons.
I could see 5.3 but 5.7 is too high.
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good point but enemies ive played against in it have never rlly done much damage to me
I’m somewhat skeptical of the turret traverse rate of Chi-Ri (12dps) that comes from a US report, which is the only known value. This value is also repeated for the Chi-To, and I feel that it may have been a placeholder or rough guess.
While it means little on its own, the electric turret traverse rate of earlier Japanese tanks seems to have targeted about 30dps. For example, Chi-To (57) achieved 29dps. Ho-I is said to have achieved 36dps, although I don’t personally have the document for the latter. Of course, these are much lighter and smaller turrets, but their motors are also weaker.
It appears that the Chi-Ri had an appropriately powerful turret motor for fast traverse. The motor was rated at 2.5PS, while the turret + gun assembly mass was 7.64t.
For reference, this is over twice as powerful as the Westinghouse electric motor used to traverse the turret of some Sherman tanks, which was rated at 1.14PS. This gave those Shermans a turret motor PS/t of about 0.28 (the 75mm turret + gun assembly seems to have been 4.12t), and this Westinghouse motor was capable of traversing the turret at up to 24dps.
T-34-85 had a 1.83PS MB-20 motor driving its 5.91t turret + gun assembly (0.31PS/t), and reportedly had a maximum traverse rate of 25~30dps.
The Chi-Ri has a turret drive PS/t of about 0.33.
The power of the turret motor is insufficient to know its traverse rate, which depends on the speed and gearing of the traverse mechanism. To my rudimentary understanding, though, it seems like it implies that the capacity for high-speed traverse was there, relative to its contemporaries.
(That is, it seems that the limiting factor on the gearing of the turret is sufficient torque to traverse on inclines, where the weight of the turret comes into play. Because the PS/t of the turret is comparable or superior to its contemporaries, it would seem that it can account for this).
A requirement for the Chi-Ri on the early plans was “the turret must be able to traverse quickly, easily, and precisely”.
Anyways, it’s not enough for a bug report, but I figured I’d mention this incase someone has a better understanding of this.
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Source or it didn’t happen.
Japan wasn’t really know for their weapon technology.
A Sherman had 24°/s, a T-34-85 30°/s but useless for aiming because it took a second to accelerate and decelerate.
Source for what?
I’m not making a claim that “it could traverse at XX degrees per second”. I’m saying that it seems like the current rate is uncharacteristically slow given the specifications relative to its contemporary vehicles. Of course, my understanding could be flawed, which is why I did not pose it as a conclusion.
The source for the 2.5PS turret drive motor is the electrical diagram of the tank from the document 「チリ車説明図」made by MHI in March 1945. The copy of the document was physically published by Kunimoto Yasufumi in 2024, and parts of it also appear in the magazine “Ground Power” issue October 2009.
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