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Lmao. I thought you tried to say I was Alvis / Alvis was me.
Irony that his / my user names equate to the tanks manufacturer, and the tank. I legit had to look that up.
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no no the CVRT platform was produced by the automaker Alvis. I know who you are far too well to make that mistake
and yes i own a LOT of manuals and brochures related to CVRT/W
ive done every single accepted bug report for the fox and scimitar other than the turret rotation nerf (there was insufficient information for a report to realistically have ever been accepted) and the scimitar/striker brake force report (but i did provide the information to create that report)
CVRT is my thing in WT and im proud of how much ive gotten fixed on them.
Scimitar was unusable in the beginning, it would have struggled at 6.7 let alone 7.7, now its very well modelled and perfectly balanced. Need to find info on the armour thickness as its very incorrect at the moment but I am going to bovingdon tank museum in a couple weeks with a tape measure
(should note the armour changes would almost certainly not be large enough to warrant BR changes, only the turret face will see significant improvement, russian HMGs will almost certainly shred the poor thing still)
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I can’t tell if you mean that in a good or bad way…
that fox thread directly after the turret rotation speed got halved making it go up before winrate stabilisation
call it
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Tbf the fox was owning the whole 7.3 - 8.3 br range. That is undeniable.
You cannot fault me for seeking balance, and not you, but the other brit mains who quite literally emboldened me to work harder on my crusade to get that bumped in br, because they told me I was incorrect, consistently belittled me, and so on.
Yet, I have the stats, and had the proof necessary to deem it worthy of a br increase. I still don’t mind playing the fox post nerf to this day.
Hate me if you like, it wasn’t personal.
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it was absolutley yes. the thread was just very bad timing which has now made a previously fun vehicle be in an extremley poor spot considering the extreme compression it now faces.
I have a near 60% winrate in the fox and scimitar. this isnt really from the vehicle itself but because im playing a light vehicle correctly and being a team player. realistically i could pull off near the exact same thing in a harry hopkins in fact I have several times taking it to 6.0 to hunt m18 hellcats.
me neither, I make it work and bully top tier vehicles in them frequently. couple weeks ago i kicked a fuji to death frontally in a scimitar and proceeded to chase him across the map to finish them off.
Id do the same for a LOT of undertiered and overperforming russian kit (obj 906 and BMPs) but theres already enough threads on them and gaijin isnt gonna listen to russian nerfs
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I mean they do nerf Russian stuff all the time.
But if you wanna talk shop over the bmps / ovj.906 you know what thread I made about proposed br changes that it can be discussed in. Ngl tho, I think the obj.906 is balanced, it can be 7.92’d frontally lol. Its strong, but not breaking the bank.
That thread wouldn’t have become so popular if the far leaning “your wrongers” never showed up lol.
im just waiting for them to fix the T64s armour as its currently far too powerful, L15a3 should defeat it but thats not the case rn
low profile, with good shells. most importantly its mobile with a stabiliser when lots of stuff still doesnt, main reason why the RARDEN lights including the LEP and mk2 scimitar really could never be higher than 8.0 is because they have no stabiliser. yes even with good thermals, I wholeheartedly thint thermals are overrated.
certainly worth balance discussions on a lot of light vehicles overall. so many are both very overtier and just as many are undertiered
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dont even get me started on some people in that thread bro.
id like to think im in a rather ok spot to have a say on its balancing considering a huge amount of my hours in this game has been using them.
906 is a super glass cannon, its heat rnd is bad, APHE kinda requires careful aiming at that br.
Is it was more survivable, id agree.
I’ll discuss it more here:
I’m considered a “very good player” according to statshark, and I have a 2.0 KDr in the fox, and a 3.3 in the conq mk.2
Also lol, funnily enough people have such a grudge against me I have 2 downvotes on my statshark profile 😂
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with how fast my K/D in scimitar has recovered from the initial 0.2 to above 1 ever sice i got the FCS removed and a wave of other fixes, especially after the neutral turn and brakes fix it wont be long until my scimitar is very firm in K/D, especially as the XM800T spam is far less now (still should move up to 9.0) so im not hard countered too frequently until i face a maus or the rare sight of a competent major nation player
Just imagine it:
Scimitar Mk.2, Scimitar BGTI, Scimitar 235, Striker, Scorpion 90, Scorpion Kastet, Storm(er) 90, Stomer FVT-925T, CV-21, Scorpion S530.
shame the limit on crew slots is 10, so room for variants is limited
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Don’t suppose you happen to have a copy of AESP 5858-D-110-741 or AESP 5855-D-110-711, do you?
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what are their normal titles?
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They’re the CES (Complete Equipment Schedule) and ISPL (Illustrated Spare Parts List) for ESPIRE
I saw they’re selling copies of it on vintagemvmanuals / greenmachinesurplus where they sell various parts and manuals for people restoring surplus military vehicles, and wondered if that might be where you collect manuals from.
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I have a CES for scimitar yes but it appears to be for the basic scimitar.
one problem, its from 1999 and has stamps from 2015. as its not in the 50 year rule and the MoD didnt get back to me on if its declassified i can NOT use it.
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Yeah, these copies are nominally from the 2006 AESPs (though a ESPIRE technical description AESP from when it was introduced in 1999, is also listed as available). So figured these would probably not be kosher for bug reports if I purchased them, without contacting the MoD for their release status.
A shame since I can see from the thumbnails it shows the turret layout with ESPIRE installed. Will be difficult to prove conclusively to Gaijin that the LEP doesn’t have the old L2A1 SS100 NV telescope installed otherwise.
I’ve got a photo of the empty housing on the BGTI Scim, and HCR published a YouTube video showing inside the turret where we can see BGTI is too big to have the L2A1 behind it the way it’s installed under the No.52 day sight on the Sabre, the orignal Scimitar, and Fox. Which would also cover the Scimitar Mk.2 since MSPIRE is known to have the same gunner station as BGTI. It’s just imagery of the ESPIRE periscope fit that’s elusive
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i know of green machine surplus, when it gets to such modern manuals its getting quite iffy though.
ive seen one too. Do hope the old passive night sight is closed on the models when they are added
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