Why i only have 40 bullets of APDS?
Because the Gepard was only meant to have 20 rpg of APDS rounds for self defense against lightly armored targets. It was not conceived as a tank destroyer as the Gepard in game would make you think
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Not a bug, apds was only there for self-defense.
apds isn’t even the good shell on the gepard, the real treat is API-T (actually APHE)
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Well the Gepard now IRL uses a FAPDS belt as main ammo for increased range and it has the same pen as the standart APDS rounds
Because people whined about SPAAG too much, then today those same people continue to whine why CAS is OP when they keep nerfing the counters they expect other people to use to kill it with.
Doctrine means little in this game, that is a lazy excuse. The Gepard literally only needs a very tiny computer adjustment to tell it “oh hey APDS is in the main belt too!” and it works perfectly. The main belt can fit the round, therefore there is zero excuse not to allow it and all other Oerlikon 35mm platforms full sabot belts if they so desire.
If you want to solve the “problem” of SPAAG going tankbusting, hate to break it to you, but if nerfing AA for over a decade hasn’t made the average player stop, it’s not going to stop. You may as well reverse course, peel back all the bullshit nerfing of SPAAG-TDs, let them be spammed, and let those spammed AA make CAS’s life a living hell.
The actual problems pertaining to SPAAG hunting tanks are 1) barrel damage existing 2) city maps enabling them to get close 3) old armor models full of gaps and holes and 4) APHE postpen. None of these are unique to SPAAG, SPAAG only happen to be good at exploiting these mechanical flaws via high RoF.
It has the same pen as the standard rounds? I find that surprising given its designed to shatter more easily for anti-aircraft fragmentation damage effects. But if it does, it does.