This happnes too if the shell explodes near any of the 3 other hatches on the turret roof.
Yeah with it’s tendency to get OPd…
For that one shell that will tear off the addon armor…
At least you can shoot a warning shot at the enemy…
Nope. It pens the mantlet layer, explodes behind it, and triggers OP if it has enough explosive mass (~200g tnt), or just shrapnels the ready rack charges and the tank explodes. Happened to me with a bloody Panther, and it’s awful 27g tnt equivivalent…
Dont use tanks.gg. it only takes the base angle without any angle modifiers.
I dont think a 37mm APCR should have over 50% chance of penning the T-34 upper plate…
This is more realistic:
Yes, you shouldn’t use it for Wathunder. It’s calculating effective thickness using rules from WoT, where the shell subtracts obliquity(-5°) from the target, so it’s effective thickness is always less than simple line of sight thickness. Its very unrealistic and makes sloped armour much less effective, but that’s what you get.
Yes that is decent protection against a round that can lolpen almost everything that it sees. And I also say decent protection because that incorporates more than a one directional concept of protection. The crew are spaced out meaning that he has to pick his poison: gunner (commander override), breech (which is a diceroll shot), or loader.
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I have played hundreds and hundreds of matches in this vehicle and I can not once recall an instance where I have been killed in that manner, thats such a niche way to kill the vehicle, maybe the person doing it deserves that kill for thinking outside the box.
I was hull down in this thing and one of those exact AMX TOA losers tossed 10 rounds into me non stop, emptied his loader and I was just a stuck fish, he ran out of his stupid auto loaded ammunition and had to crawl back in his pit giving me time to repair. I later one shot him. Lets not pretend that everyone who faces you is an expert on tank knowledge.
Bros mad that he isnt invulnerable to ammunition that can basically lolpen everything, and as I said earlier, the Conqueror is much better protected against HEAT than most other heavy tanks, especially 90mm and smaller.
A BMP shooting the UFP with the spaced cover will struggle to penetrate.
And you can say sometimes if you want, sometimes a M22 can kill a top tier tank, and?
I have more experience in this vehicle than anyone in this thread most likely, I will tell you, overpressure of this specific instance is extremely rare. I have never experienced it in this way. I have experienced overpressure when a massive round passes through the mantlet, and for some reason, sometimes when one actually fails to get through the breach armor.
You should look at likelyhoods, APHE to the cupola (which I havent experienced in a long time likely due to bushes), rounds passing through the breach, Lower Front plate, not a super rare instance of someone using HE when most people dont touch it, or HEAT overpressuring the crew which is probably a bug.
No. My issue is that this tank is shit in every meaningful way possible.
I dont want Op armor, in fact i very rarely rely on armor at all. However the tank itself forces me to rely on the non-existing armor of this pile of crap.
I wasnt even talking about anything similar to this.
Have you seen single atoms with your eye? I bet you haven’t, so this means that atoms are very rare!
Yeah buddy that makes a lot of sense!
Not even attempting fair play but okay.
HEAT means “High explosive anti tank”. You know, it has EXPLOSIVES in it. The hatch is 17mm cast, so the effective thickness is ~15mm, so somewhere around ~8-900g of TNT (I dont remember the exact value) in ANY shell will overpressure the whole tank.
90mm HEAT is due to armor hole around the mantlet, but 100-105mm HEAT and higher will just normally OP it.
If you dont understand it then again, visit a doctor.
How how often this happens?
Well, i almost exclusively use this method to deal with the Conq.
A HESH or HE(AT) to the turret roof, or to the turret front and the tank is gone.
I could put up with the poor mobility, large silhouette, long reload, average armour… If for once the gun would just do some damn damage without the spall levels of a rifle round or the shell shattering like it was made of glass… I simply cannot justify playing this tank anymore when it’s gun is laughably bad for it’s size and post pen damage. With a reload that long you simply cannot afford for shell’s to shattered on stupid things like a leopards side skirt or an m26s add on armour or quite honestly anything that takes its fancy, there’s no reason for it. It’ll happen point blank to a vehicle and the muzzle energy just simply blinks out of existence… Because of the trash shell shatter mechanic that quite honestly should be removed until it actually works correctly. That’s what is affecting this vehicle the most imo.
