The entirety of tow2b is wrong.
Tips for Bradley M3A3 - Don’t play like this guy:
Frontally its resistant to quite alot thanks in part to the engine.
Irl 30mm apt struggles to kill a m2a3 with its BUSK kit frontslly and ot needs sustained fire
The m2a3 is bad but the desert warrior is worse
The desert warrior has better armor though?
Now there might be some discussion about the 10.0 but i will not stand for this slander of 8.7 variant.
Its not without issues, but for 8.7 its kit is kinda goated.
Hold on a second. The TOW-2B’s warhead (I’m aware it’s actually supposed to have two of them) is an explosively formed penetrator, weighs 2.4 kg, and penetrates 100 mm. The RB 56 BILL II has the same type of warhead, which weighs 2.08 kg, but penetrates 510 mm. How is that possible?
I play it more like a support vehicle.
Park behind a hill, hop in commander sight, spot and spam TOW-2B. In a direct 1 on 1 fight you will almost always lose against an MBT thats aware of you.
i can agree the 8.3 is alr bc of the lack of armor at the br.
Yeah, the 10.0 one is pretty awful honestly. The 8.3 one was decently fun but I really dont enjoy the 10.0 one.
I found it ended up just being easiest to take the TOW-2Bs, sit below a ridge, and fire them at people behind cover for the top attack. You dont have to expose yourself much for it and you dont have to wait for them to expose themselves.
Then just gun down anyone you get convenient side shots on.
Take another vehicle on close range city maps or maps where you cant find good hull down spots.
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Unfortunately for the in-game Brad it doesn’t have the BUSK kit. It would be nice if it did.
I’m gonna disagree.
Lmfao. Gotta disagree. It’s basically the same kit with zero benefits because Tow-2B is borderline worthless.
Because Gaijin refuses to re-code the TOW-2B penetrators correctly and while at the beginning they worked like they were supposed to they got ahistorically nerfed into oblivion because of IvanBoos screaming bloody murder that their overperforming armor was getting absolutely ganked by top-attack munitions.
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Because gaijin doesnt want to for some reason. Tow2b should be unaffected by eoof era and it should do at the very least double the damage it does
But at the same time, there’s a Swedish vehicle in the game whose top-attack ATGM works as it should, and it’s not nerfed. And it’s at 8.7.
That won’t help — the magic soviet ERA gives 200+ mm of protection when fired at a perpendicular angle.
Yes, somehow it was overlooked. I’m not mad about it, though. All Gaijin needs to do is undo the ahistorical nerf of the TOW-2Bs.
Brother, it IS a support vehicle.
I feel i missed something or geniunely didnt understand your comment, but the 8.7 doesnt have 2Bs?
The CM25 gets TOW-2B at 8.7, and I’d still never use it. Especially with AFT09 .3 BR above it. Maybe if they ever rework the 2B I’d give it a go.
I well aware it is a support vehicle, however the average player might try to mindlessly rush with it, like a BMP-2M.
No. The M3A3 is basically the same as the first Brad - The only real exception is the TOW-2Bs - Though it doesn’t matter because they’re garbage thanks to Gaijin so it’s a higher BR’d Brad with zero benefits.
Trust me as someone who was really exited for Desert Warrior (since OG warrior is one of my most played vehicles), composite screens doo absolutely nothing for you and only slow you down, at 8.3 they were at least somewhat useful, D. Warrior has worse acceleration then M3A3 because of all that dead weight, lower pen makes huge difference between not penetrating nd penetrating side of soviet style MBTs and honestly I would prefer to have deployable launcher to give me abilitity to shoot ATGM from cover rather then having to poke out ma head and instantly get sniped (also 7° gun depression isnt helping that either, not as bad as on russian tanks but worse then most western IFV for sure).
Basically what I am trying to say is that D. Warrior sucks at flanking because of bad mobility (for light tank) and bad pen but cant even play that well as ATGM carrier bacause of gun depression and launchers placement.
Of course I will respect your opinion as I did not play Bradley, just wanted to share my opinion of D. Warrior as someone who played decent amount of battles with it.
Also to Badger, just wanted to point out aside from low rof it also suffers from fairly slow turret traverse speed for fairly modern light vehicle.
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