Got slightly burned out grinding the Israel tech tree, thinking of mixing it up and not sure if it’s worth it, how’s the AMX-50 120mm perform compared to its peers, so there are a bunch of heavy tanks in the same br, M103, T32E1, IS-6, T-10A, IS-4M, Conquerer Mk2, Carnaevon, Maus, E-100 etc. Based on my personal observations, seems like the AMX-50 is being slept on as nobody even talks about it? so anyone who played it, even better if you have experience in playing all of them, how do you rank the AMX-50 among others? The Maus gets more attention, and people complain about IS-4M armor, people forget about IS-6, the other heavy tank that get slept on base in my observation, is the British Carnaevon lol
From the paper the AMX-50 has a main cannon that is equivalent of American M103’s and the good thing is it doesn’t take 15 seconds to reload, armor looks bad enough though from the paper.
It’s closer to a medium tank than a heavy tank. I never rely on armour unless it is against autocannons. Overall, I think it is decent for a medium tank, and I find it fairly comparable to the standard AMX-50. It has an awesome gun, and a short reload, as well as adequate mobility.
Probably because there are more popular tanks for France at 7.7.
Its great when the gun works. Issue arises that it’s shooting a solid shell 120mm AP round that can bounce or do little damage post pen. You don’t have the armour of an IS4 or M103
It’s huge and is a massive weak spot. Lorraine 40T and Amx 50 (100) are just superior in most cases.
The France 7.7 as a whole really “sufers” from who you are fighting.
if you fighting against Germany it is a slughter. their 6.7 cant compeat nor can their 8.7 withstand your AP shells.
howevere if your fighting ussr or China you dont stand much of a chance. your not gonna have a good time agaisnt t-54 / t-55
The German armor really suffers until they reach 10.7 where they have their first mbt with decent protection, spading American’s and British’s 8.7-9.3 vehicles has been a walk in a park should you face Germany, because we don’t even need the top ammunition to punch through their paper armor as stock rounds does just fine, M60TTS for example, the M735 and M774 just feel the same if TAM’s or Leopard 1 shows up, the only armor they have is at 9.3 and it’s the T-72M1 lol
With how decompressed 7.7 is, AMX-50s perform amazingly. One even got me a nuke.
You trade armor for mobility + reload primarily.
If any further decompression occurs AMX-50 would go to 8.0 alongside all the heavy tanks you listed.
1- One is 7.7 the other is 8.7, you will rarely see them in matches. Statistically speaking you’ll see one every 5+ full uptiers because other players will deal with them before you get close.
2- They struggle against your team’s 8.7s too.
AMX-50 Foch is a beast, the Surbaisse isn’t too great in my opinion. The 100mm of the lorraine 40t can pen most of the same things while on a much more agile chassis (this is also why the TOA-100 AMX-50 isn’t great).