Leopard 2A7V is a 10/10 tank
Challenger 3 (TD) is a 6/10 tank
DM63 would make Challenger 3 (TD) 8/10 tank
DM63 would make Leopard 2A7V 12/10 tank
Challenger 3 (TD) needs to be 8/10 to be able to compete against 10/10 tanks like Leopard 2A7V
Leopard 2A7V does NOT need to be 12/10 to stomp even more on <8/10 tanks like Challenger 3 (TD)
as i said above, it doesn’t need to be 2a7v, the important part is the nation that produce and one of the biggest user also get it in atleast 1 of their tank that compatible (hopefully techtree one)
its germany “toy” so germany should also get to use it when other tree get it
i mean look at all the US and UK vehicles that are in other trees and not in their country of origins trees. it happens to fill a gap so gaijin do it. or if not can we finally have the biggest travesty of WT fixed M22 to UK and removed from USA as they were the ONLY country to use it
2A7V just stomp on everything with a bit of knowledge of weak spots, DM53 take care of the rest. Best MBT in the game for me, just well made ( i have survived lots of ATGMs and AGM the turret face just eat it all).
And that is why a long time ago I suggested the shell for Leopard 2PL, which, unlike 2A7V, could actually use it for balance… a thread that, by the way, was ALSO met with criticism and counterarguments, funnily enough:
Being an all-nation player is exhausting. Every time I try to advocate for improvements for (X) MBT/Nation, I get bashed by (Y/Z/T/Q) mains who do not wish for (X) to be remotely comparable to their MBTs/Nation.
Every time I have advocated for Leopard 2PL, or any Abrams, or now the Challengers… it always goes down the same way.
I just want all- ALL of the MBTs and nations to be balanced and enjoyable… but many mains only want their own MBTs and nation to be above all others.
Your asking something like, mhh lets give mienengeschoss to to english and american captured 109´s but the german ones dont get it. Same aws way in the past with japanese tanks getting german top end rounds while german tanks had to use rounds that where out of comission for years not even in use with said tanks.
i wouldn’t bother, the best way to show the point is to get them to play the challengers after playing the leopard. the challenger 2 is like hard mode and the leopards are casual mode, same with the leclercs and arietes (i mean these 2 are hard mode)
It’s the curse of War Thunder being a primarily free-to-play game with a heavy grind. People are primarily going to focus on their nation of choice, and view any improvements to another nation as a direct impediment to their own progress.
hmm haven’t seen that thread yet, but in any case the nation that produce and use it should be getting it atleast alongside other tree one way or another
Part of the problem is compression. Challenger 2s use to be quite good, but after the buffs to every other nation and the intervening 2-3 years of top tier additions that get exponetially better placed at virtually the same BR. They begin to feel their age. Also Gaijin likes to artificially nerf the Challys. That doesnt help either. We fought rather hard for improvements, so we got a dev post where they made up information, like the aluminium backplates for the TES/OES. 100% fake, was proven so within about 3 days of the dev blog. Bug report is still up and acknowledge and never got fixed
The R&R threads tend to get out of hand a bit sometimes, once we have already had Dev Servers and full Dev Blog seasons. I guess it’s the pre-update chaos, hahah.
Also, this time also happened that someone and myself got confused for a moment and mixed posts on threads… bound to happen when you are multi-tabbing different threads and drafts save among tabs lol