People get obsessed over pen numbers, an Object 120 has 450mm pen or whatever, so what, even at half that it would lolpen practically anything anyways, and the moment anything has armor, Gaijin increases the BR to where the majority of vehicle can kill it frontally.
If it hits you, it pens, the same thing for the 6614, doesn’t matter if it’s BR 7 or BR 5, it performs practically the same, don’t get hit by it, and in return you one shot it. Having a 7 degree turret rotation speed, a 13 second reload, 8mm of armor and no tracks means anytime you don’t instantly kill something you’re dead, any American tank will kill you with 2 bullets of their magically controlled .50s.
Continue to open and spade vehicles. I have most spaded for Italy (only Freccia and AMV are in progress).
Some vehicles can be better some worse, but for me the worst is M113A1 (TOW) - atgm carrier with an exposed gunner, can’t shoot at speed higher than 5 km/h. This one was quite hard for me to spade, though it used to be a top of the line with increased research costs of mods. Other hard vehicles to spade are both SIDAM-25s as a stock belt can barrely kill anything on the ground, the same problem is with OTOMATIC.
IMO light vehicles line is the most interesting and I always recommend to focus on it. For example Breda 501 is just awesome, Gaijin increases its br but it still remains a wonderful deadly bus. Also as many line-ups rely on light tanks with an active scouting ability I recommend to research planes and in the future helicopters and always place 1 or 2 aircraft in line up.
If you want to listen to stories about Italian WW2 vehicles, visit suggestion section (including the old forum):
PS if you aren’t there yet there is a discord of Italian suggestion makers:
Sidam 25 has IR tracking which is why it’s 8.X.
As for the rest, they’re light tanks. They were under-BR’d and likely still are, as all light tanks are.
Doesn’t warn the person you’re locked onto, which is why it’s a higher BR.
S players only shoot once there’s high chance of hit, which leads to its current BR.
No warning to the pilots, just sudden death cause something was locked to them via optics rather than yelling.
A-4s just drop Walleyes from space, hardly going to matter if it knows I lock on or not, plus locking on is just a nightmare with how bad radars are, I’d still rather have a radar to know where planes are at than IR tracking.
My advice is that you either learn to fly or give up playing on the ground. I’ve worked my Italians up to where I have two 9.0 vehicles, and need to unlock at least 3 more rank VI ground vehicles before I can start researching rank VII. I lost interest in them while trying to spade my 6.3 vehicles.
