I think it’s a bit odd that the KV-1s have very slow reloads overall. Compared to similarly armed T-34’s, the turrets are a lot roomier, and they have some turret ammunition stowage. Oc, the current reloads are just a balance decision, but I’m curious how giving them 6~6.5 sec reloads would affect their BRs, if at all.
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The US 75 cannot do this. Getting roof shot with a Churchill is actually fairly common when you’re playing against the Soviets. Put a good amount of time into the Churchill 3 if you don’t believe me. I know the weaknesses of my tanks because I play them. You don’t know the weaknesses of my tanks because you are hard carried by the early soviet tech tree. And besides, longways through the tracks for an ammo rack (or an overpressure if you’re using your lower pen round). Churchills are not hard to kill. That’s besides the point anyway. The angled performance of soviet APHEBC makes up for the lack of raw penetration a huge amount of the time, it’s part of why T-34s are insane. Put some time into Churchills and get back to me.
Also what are you talking about. It’s straight up penning the turret roof (you can see the straight line through the armor). It might look like it’s skipping to you because the line is comically long but it’s a penetration. You can prove this with the Churchill VII shot because the KV-1 literally cannot pen the cupola of that tank as it’s 115mm cast.
The KV-1E’s reload used to be 5.9 secs. But it was nerfed, as well as its br.
But with your ammo storage statement, it seems like ammo gets placed everywhere it shouldn’t.
The IS-6/4 are pretty good example of ammo being everywhere.
But the KV-220 is all stored in the hull unless you bring full ammo. ( again why is this 7.4 secs to load? It isn’t the roomiest turret, but it has 2 loaders.)
Well I can respect your taste in tanks at least. Anyway this 100% penned.
The shot on the VII didn’t even stay inside the top of the roof that went into the crew compartment.
Yes, as I said, it’s seemingly rare, but most shots seem to pen more near the commanders hatch correct ?
In your video, both kill shots were near the commanders hatch, and especially on the Churchill 7 it looks like it dug in a little, then hit the commanders hatch and exploded.
If you think the KVs are bad. Try a Pz.4 G or similar 75mm. Those will just pen you every where.
Honestly the biggest weakness of the churchills are the lack of APHE
NA75 lol, unfortunately that one suffers from just having terrible armor
Churchill’s turret roof is 20mm and the L-11s fuse sensitivity is 14mm. It fused, APHE just doesn’t detonate instantly. And even if it didn’t fuse immediately on the Churchill III for whatever reason, it went through so much material that it would have fused regardless. Also also it’s detonating way past the Commander’s hatch on the III.
Also Panzer 4s can kill me instantly but they are WAY easier to kill back than KVs.
NA75 is honestly very good I just kinda fell off of low velocity 75s after playing so much with the 6 pounder. I think the churchill 3 is easily the best one
Generally the church hills can pen KVs way easier than a KV can pen a Churchhill, again the trade off is HE Filler.
And, yes 14mm fuze, however, the plate is angled and the shell is digging into metal, making the 20mm into more like 60mm of armor.
So yes it makes sense why it fuses. And if it’s that low armored, you aren’t stopping a lot.
See I like the Churchill 3 but the NA75 is just so meh compared to it for me
That would make sense if anyone else at the appropriate BR could pen a churchill’s turret roof. Except they can’t. That is an extreme angle for a round to go through and most rounds just don’t have the angled performance to do it. I can definitively tell you that the US 75 cannot, and that has more raw pen than the L-11.
If have to look but I’m 99% that a Pz.4 will
Put the SAV 201248 at 5.3. Being squishy isn’t a balancing factor, it’s a ridiculous vehicle. Vehicles that shoot full caliber rounds with that kind of reload shouldn’t even be in the game in the first place. Why not 5.0? Because I play 4.0 and I don’t want to f*cking see it in every single uptier I get (almost every game because the matchmaker was made by monkeys).
It has 95mm pen. Also just use a plane. Whenever sav goes on sale I just play aircraft and reap the plentiful open tops that think they are gonna be a menace lol. Swedens doesn’t have any scary aircraft or SPAA to stop me even with the new BR.
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“lol just use a plane” God you people are ridiculous. Let’s drop the firefly to 4.0. Just use a plane bro it’s so simple! That’s not an argument, it goes for literally every vehicle in the game. And having mid pen matters way less when your reload is that fast. Good for you that you spawn a plane, I don’t want to have to do that. Same kind of person who thinks the T58 is completely fine at 8.7
No? But I’m also not gonna act like the Sav is a threat to me.
90% of the time if I die to one of them it’s because I didn’t see them. It definitely didn’t need to stay at 3.7 but I’m not gonna pretend like it’s the strongest vehicle lol.
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Just because you specifically don’t have issues with a vehicle doesn’t make it not broken. There’s a reason it’s not on permanent sale and it’s because it’s broken. In my opinion it should be completely deleted but that’s not gonna happen.
Or it’s on sale because gaijin knows they can make more money buy selling it for Swedish ground forces day every year alongside some other bundles…
Do we count all the other holiday vehicles as OP?
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HE? Never heard of it? This must be some new ammo