It seems Gaijin loves adding crucial modules for the most popular western tanks, i just noticed there is a module called power electronics, which if hit, will stop you from aiming completely. I want you to take a wild guess if Russian top tier mbts even have this module. The main problem is here:
As you can see, all the modules in this photo will disable aiming of the main gun, and as you can see Gaijin thinks the leopard needs this very desperately. Now even shooting the back of the leopards turret will disable gun controls.
Now here you can see all the same modules for Russia. Their top tier MODERN mbts dont even have power electronics, and mainly, they dont even have the extremely unrealistic (more on that in a sec) turret horizontal drive every other country has at this point. Of course Gaijin wont add this “power electronics” module for Russian vehicles, but will add it to USA, Germany, Britan, Italy and Israel.
Countries that dont have this extra module for handicapping: Russia, Japan, China, France.
Now this isnt even my main problem. My main problem is the god forsaken horizontal turret drive that should have never been in in the first place.
Russia is the only country Gaijin seemed to want to keep the realistic turret ring. The part circled is the only part of the turret ring that if destroyed, will stop horizontal aiming. The rest, as seen in the leopard xray is the turret basket, a compartment for the turret crew to actually reside in, and being hit in it should not break the turret ring. I agree that the turret basket should be modeled for more realistic spalling, but it is NOT a part of the horizontal aiming device and should not stop horizontal aiming if hit. If someone who actually knows this stuff better could confirm i would appreciate.
The problem with the UNREALISTIC turret drive in the REALISTIC vehicular internal module based game is that it doesnt give the one who is shot any chance to counter the enemy, because the same shot that takes out your horizontal aiming also takes out your engine. This gives no fighting chance to the person that is shot even once, and makes top tier just that much more brainless. It barely requires shot placement skill nowadays, except of course against Russia because they dont have this problem, usually when their engine is disabled in a way that the enemy is in the front of their tank, their horizontal drive is completely fine, alas they can counter still if they can see the enemy. Makes you question Gaijin you know.