Can someone explaine me why the reload time of both ARL-44 are so long. The ACL1 has 7.5sec aced out. There´s no 7.5cm gun at 3.7 (AGB) that has such a slow reload time despite having a loading help. Same for ARL-44 at 5.3 (AGB) 10sec. aced out is crazy. It´s a 7.5cm gun not 10cm or more. The M26 has 7.5 aced, Panther, Tiger II same. The T-44-100 10.5sec aced.
By the way the M4A4 (SA50) has the same problem with 7.5sec aced while Firefly and M4 76 have 5.9sec aced out.
As has been mentioned before, reload time is used as a balancing mechanism (even though it often doesn’t make sense). I imagine that, due to the turret’s internal space, the M4 76 would fire the fastest, so its reload time in the game would be more or less correct. I think the M4 SA50 would also have a correct reload time, since it’s an elongated M4 75 turret, but with a fairly large barrel, and the magazine has to handle a bullet of the same size as the Panther’s. On the other hand, the Firefly should take longer to reload, since the magazine has to handle a bullet of a similar size to the Panther’s, but in the theoretical form of an M4 75 where only a little space has been added by removing the radio and putting it in an extension, so the Firefly should reload at the same speed or slightly slower than the M4 SA50.
Regarding the ARL and other French chargers with charging assistance, the developers don’t care. If they function minimally with that unrealistic charging time and omitting the systems they historically had, the developers aren’t going to make any changes.
You´re right balancing doesn´t make sense in these cases. Since they all shoot the inferioer steele slugs. So the M4 SA50 is the only long barreled M4 at 5.0 with that slow reload. None of the 3 is overpowered at all that they need to be balanced by the reload time.
This is the same bs with the reload time at some ships where they have insane long reload times for guns that are tiny.
Speaking of another issue that significantly affects French tanks, is it possible that the developers also use suspension roll as a factor in balancing the tanks? I ask because it seems to me that the suspension roll of the AMX-13 and AMX-30 is quite exaggerated for tanks that aren’t from 1930. Another one that also has a brutal suspension is the AMX-10M.