I believe this placement is wrong. The M55 should be placed in the first line after the Flakbus/M44 group. It would fit better, because all the large caliber tank hunters and howitzers are situated there already. The M44, the M109, etc.
Moving it there would keep the integrity of both lines, and also not break the “only 3 down in a rank” “rule” by Gaijin. The whole mess of these two lines were reorganized for a reason back a while.
Additionally, the M44 could be taken out of the current group with the Flakbus and moved into a group with the M55 before the Flakbus. Since both are the same BR, it would make more sense.
The logical process would be not to put these anywhere near 4.0… it will basically face nothing that it realistically was developed against… At what part of the war did this face any PzIV or Shermans or T-34 or KV-1 or anything WWII related?? The same goes for the M44… How is this remotely okay to anybody?
It have a 203mm cannon… The Brummbar have 155 and is at 4.7 in arcade and 4.3 in RB have a muzzle velocity around 200+ while this thing have a 500+ m/s it built around the Patton hull have much greater mobility than any of the PzIVs…
I don’t even understand why it was added in the first place.
It’s the exact same BR as the M44. It has a bigger gun but only 10 shells and a nearly 40 second reload. I’d consider it a side grade to the M44 at best. Gaijin could have added one of the dozen different lightly armoured tank destroyers that Germany produced but the constant additions of American howitzers makes that less likely to happen now.
But the lack of a completely traversable turret, 30~40 second reload and relatively poor mobility means it really won’t be great whatever BR it ends up at, as it only really functions to hard counter Light & Heavy tanks though conversely it isn’t much effected by BR until at least 8.0 or so when the average mobility of combatants really starts to improve.
I don’t know if 30 seconds is stock or ace. Brummbär gets 22.4s basic and 17s aced. It also gets decent armour and better gun depression, but much worse mobility and no MG vs a .50 cal. Considering that the Brummbär’s only offensive option is that round, I do agree that these SPHs are a little undertiered. I expect them to go up in time, because most WW2-era equivalents that will be added in the future are going to be worse, and right now that’s not really been reflected in the BRs imho.
