Idk I go back and fourth, because you know how important reverse speed is. However, with my recent experience, the ERA and auto loader are eating my shots pretty regularly. So I’ll side pen it, era eats it. Or I’ll side shot it, and spall liner and fuel tank eats it. Or spall liner and autoloader eat the round with black ammo(somehow).
So I either didn’t play it enough to notice it before, or I’m seeing more t90’s now instead of bvms because these things are starting to make me pull my hair out because it’s so RNG based damage that kills every other tank in the game except a bvm(for the odd era black hole shots) and Leo’s.
With all that said, it still has trade off for its armor and spall liner, unlike Leo’s. So i don’t think it belongs in the same BR per se, and could see why it wouldn’t… but the RNG and spall liners I could also see why it would… but I wouldn’t be arguing for it to be at the same BR as a Leo.
I don’t have it myself to speak on it, just my Bvm. However, playing against it, is annoying as absolute heck sometimes.
I know for a fact a few days back, I put 6 rounds into the automaker hitting ammo on a t90m, black ammo… didn’t detonate. It was the only shot I had, so I kept repeating it and was gobsmacked it didn’t blow up. Then he repaired and drove off.