the skink is mediocre, and anyone who says otherwise is lying.
The only redeming thing it has is a bit of armor, the cannons are ass compared to other spaas at the same BR, especially the russian ones.
“they were anticipating the flood of toxic US mains”
"Average US mains intelligence level: "
“Wow I love the obviously biased merican propaganda channel.”
“Guide to American discourse: anything that is evidence of Soviets’ success = SOVIET PROPAGANDA. (edit) Any uncomfortable truth they don’t like = REPORTED.”
“What he means is that, many US mains are commonly toxic and hostile. This would be fine if they were only toxic and hostile to each other, but they go into many threads and spew their hatred. The solution is for more US mains to learn to be nicer and more logical. Lmao, post flagged.”
these are just a few of the stuff you write about americans (it took me 2 minuts to find), but i take it it’s all written as a joke, right?
Of course it’d be higher BR than SPAAs with comparable firepower but no armor whatsoever. Why would it be completely superior to others at the same BR?
to be fair my view. i would just like to see if USA can have missiles that lock onto helicopters that are more then 12k away XD or planes for that matter (LAV-AD now at 10.0 with everything at that br being able to stay way far away from its line of sights)
Comparable firepower to what? Wirbelwind? The guns are worse in nearly every metric except the magazine size. Wirbelwind is also 3.7, you think a BR jump of the Skink at 5.3 is justified because it has an enclosed turret? 4.7 was fine, that’s an entire 1.0 jump over the Wirbelwind.
I mean, you see people uptiering that thing even when they should be using the superior Ostwind 2 and still do okay in the wirbel. Its main flaw really is that it will die to any bomb or rocket that lands in the same gridsquare as it, and the turret can be easily penned by .50s.
4.7 was probably fine but I can see why it’s at 5.3 now.
I still haven’t found if it had an actual designation or if it was the work of some mad man.
I’ve never understood the US’s obsession with multi-caliber armed SPAAs. Since each gun has different ballistics, if you’re leading correctly with one you’re missing with the others, unless the plane is at point blank range. It’s a decent chunk of why the M15A1 is so miserable to use.
Accordingly, the Elco is going to be either 4x 20mm or 2x .50 cals, not both at the same time. Which will be effectively worse than the Skink due to it not being armored.
Well the truth is they didn’t really. Most of these are designs that never actually made it.
The M15a1 is really the only exception and it used the 50’s as spotters to bring the 37mm to range, and also to bait some planes into coming in closer thinking it was older M13’s
Gaijin has a game setting letting the player fire both primary and secondary weapons at the same time. We see this in vehicles like the M3 Lee or Churchill Mk I.
If i can kill planes with the M16 easily with just 4x .50 cal, I can imagine how fun and easy this thing will kill with 6x 50. cal and 2x 20mm. I so want this!!
Four 20mm M3s is quite the upgrade firepower wise over the skinks even if on a much more vulnerable platform but the M3s would give the US it own Whirblewind with arguably better firepower as the M3 for a long time as been a fantastic all rounder 20mm with great velocity ( 850 m/s ), good rof ( 750 rpm ), and very good damage for a mid to high tier cannon often times one tapping most targets it hits
Yep, and you get 2 versions of this as well. One with 4x Oerlikon’s and another with 4x Hispanos. The Oerlikon’s are basically Skink level firepower but with 60 round drum magazines instead of 30 round box mags. Hispanos have far better rate of fire and velocity, then potentially more ammo types if Gaijin ever add them.
US getting Skink was just typical Gaijin laziness. They didn’t need it and could have been made up for with actual US vehicles.
