Could we talk about the souma SM

either sabo or heat either one is the most common round

Any 8.0+ sabot will have no issue with the somua. Heat has inconsistent damage but if you aim well you can just pen the hull. Also most stuff below 8.0 uses aphe/heat

you need 240mm + of pen to go through the front plate and both HEAT and sabo will only get the driver and machine gunner same with solid shot

correct but both sabot and heat has enough pen for that

I am gonna boot up wt to test

shoot the turret with solid shot

this isn’t WoT… stop advocating for fantasy nerfs like gaijin can just decide on a whim that the penetration is “too good” and needs to come down. The game has never worked like this.

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Separately, the Somua SM could be rebalanced but all you could do with it currently is make it 8.0 because it can’t and shouldn’t go higher










And so on

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lorraine also goes twice as fast…

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Somua used to qualify for discussions around being OP, but then they added a boat load of big HE slingers to the game and nothing melts a Somua quicker than a HE shell to the turret.

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Well, panzerhouse 2000 is also known to be undertiered))) ofc undertiered TD beats strong heavy tank))

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France has one vehicle that actually has fair treatment and people screech, crazy.

I gotta be honest. I have been on both sides against 7.7 France, but the people thay complain the most are people like this, essentially inexperienced players who don’t know how to play their own tank let alone deal with their enemies

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People do that with the STRV103 and even Maus (fire your 75mm and they think you fired your 128mm). So funny to see. Goes to show how much vehicle familiarity and situational awareness matters in this game.

Somua is fine, great vehicle, not OP. Lorraine 40t and AMX50 TOA100 are better.
These vehicles are essentially 8.7 as they get near a 100% full uptier at this point. It’s one of my favorite lineups in the entire game but I don’t play them anymore because the uptiering is so extreme… constantly fighting tanks that have darts, stab, better armor and mobility gets old after the 67th max uptier in a row.