Well, I did say it was coaxial, so yes, it would have the same gun handling as the main gun.
But that’s better than not having it.
Well, you’re basically describing the Abrams here, but you can make the turret armour work well if you play hull down and try not to expose the turret ring.
Bad shots are plentiful because not many people expect an M60 out of all things to be tanking shots.
I think you’re underestimating how good the Gal Batash is hull-down and in CQC (especially because it gets access to thermals and ESS).
That’s true, but why would anyone go only for the mantlet if they think they can go through the turret cheeks?
That may be true, though I’d say their general skill ceiling is similar. Using mobility to the best possible use cases is quite hard to master but you can often use ESS + Thermals in a lot of precarious situations that the Leopard 1A5 may either have to extensively work around or hope their good positioning wasn’t ever compromised in the first place (which can still happen, especially if you need to take capture points).
In general US 8.7 and 9.3 line ups are very opressive, it takes a combined effort, maps and some uptiers to stop them. However T-30 has a 24 second reload it stays 6.7 T-58 needs to get its shot nerfed it has to aim, if it remains the way it is then it should be moved to 9.0. If it becomes aim at turret ring and hatches then it should remain 8.7 cause its slow. As for T-34 its reload is too slow, if the T-30s and T-34s go up so should Tigers II and Hori mori pori as well. In general vehicles with DM-33 rounds and top tier mbts style turret rotation should go up. T- series tanks are way to slow and can never reach places on the map. (On the Soviet side IS-6 and 4m should have their frontal armor relaxed a bit and down in br.
I mean, I can see where you’re coming from.
Those are certainly good traits to have.
100%
The Leopard 1A5s are pretty good for 9.3, but even without these features, I’d say the Gal Batash makes up for those shortcomings.
It’s not like the T-72A where it has nothing really to offer other than armour that’s only really good in a downtier 😅
What BR increase for a shell with at max 10mms better penetration??? The weight doesnt matter either since there is not a single short rod APFSDS for 105mm L7.
DM63 is basically the most pointless shell of the game when DM33 does the same thing.
Your own video shows shells will still go through the engine, perhaps not 100% of the time, nor was I trying to say it’s 100% of the time.
But I have recently gone back to the T-34-100 for a day, and it was awful.
That reload is so bad that it got me killed so often, and that’s merely because multiple enemies would push at once and there wasn’t much I could do except stare.
(And before you say, “you pushed up to far” or something along those lines I did not, and was even playing with a buddy)
T-34-100 is so heavily reliant on being a far away sniper or being to heavily covered by the team that with its optics it can’t snipe as well as others, and most teams don’t understand the concept of teamwork.
I think of it more as a glass cannon brawler, where you HAVE to hit your first shot, and not be shot in return.
For premiums alone for rank 4 it’s 23rd on the list out of 32 vehicles… so I can’t say it’s preforming very well overall for such a “good” vehicle.
Yes, it does go through sometimes, but that’s if they shoot perfectly, and it won’t one-shot your vehicle (even with one-shot PzGr).
I mean, you could honestly say the same with the IS-2s and T-44-122.
I mean, that’s true. Though I won’t say it’s that hard to get the first shot off against non-stabilized tanks considering its good mobility and great gun handling.
I wouldn’t say it’s such a good vehicle to the point where it is very strong at its BR. I’m just saying it’s good but nothing special.
Maybe a 9.8s reload would be reasonable.
Object 248 is strong at 6.3 but I’m not sure if it necessarily needs to get nerfed.
It’s an IS-1 at 0.6 BRs higher with slightly worse mobility, -3 degrees of gun depression, and a 1.5s longer reload… but gets a pretty good round for the BR.
Turns out I didn’t spade the KV-85 but playing with my best friend… it reconfirmed what I thought.
The Kv-85 is terrible compared to the VK-30 I couldn’t even spade it in a single night.
My KDr in it is a 1.38~
And my VK is like a 2.3~
I wish I could say it was staged but that thing is slow, weak, and the lack of gun depression / smoke grenades makes it a very meh tank.
Its opposition blows holes through it with ease.
From the replays that I have seen, you have been playing it rather recklessly, and not using the IS-2 strat with it when appropriate. You also seem to have been using the wrong shell:
I haven’t used mine in a long time and I’ve managed to get a 3.3 K/D in it (and this was before it had received the 7.0s reload buff:
It’s very good in CQC because of the good reverse speed, gun, and (now) pretty good reload, which are almost all the key characteristics needed to do well in those kind of situations.
If you’re literally playing it in reverse then that’s just scummy.
(Btw I was playing it like I was playing the VK30)
I don’t even do that with the Is-2…
Either aphe shell is plenty good enough.
And no I wasn’t playing it recklessly, had some crap luck sure. But it didn’t help that a couple games we ran into the same cheaters.
But all that mobility you were talking about previously doesn’t seem to exist unless you’re in reverse. It’s a very slow tank for some reason. Even the Kv-1s feel faster
They are quite different, with different strengths amd weaknesses.
KV is much slower forward - but way faster in reverse. It also has much better flank armor with a turret rotation more than 2x better than the VK. The KV is a brawler for CQC and the VK is a sniper for open fields and deserts.
Meanwhile average “obvious weakspots” T14 gameplay:
that means I dont agree. T14 has no place to be 4.7 tank. When angled hull and slightly angled turret its nearly impenetrable by most tanks of its br let alone in full downtier. Only german tank destroyers and lucky shots are capable of dealing with T14 in full downtier. Should be at least 5.0 or 5.3. Hell if absolute shit like Chi-ri can be 5.7 where its the worst tank at the br I see no reason why this stayed at 4.7
