Doesn’t matter, it was a Prototype Main battle tank. Therefore Light tank designation makes no sense. The Type-74 and a large plethora of tanks should be a light tank as well since it doesn’t have a lot of armor. By your logic.
You can flank on every map. You don’t even need to have a full side shot at that BR, since even a slightly angled vehicle can be easily penned.
Which has nothing to do with actually penning the said tank.
You should probably think twice before posting anything on this forum, you are all over the place with your statements.
Yes you can, not the game’s fault you as an individual aren’t capable of doing that, especially with a vehicle that has 29HP/t going against vehicles with well under 20 HP/t.
False, you can easily go through their track when they are slightly angled.
Nah, you were moaning how you can’t reliably pen Soviet tanks, I said you should flank which will, as a result, expose their side armor and at that point you don’t even need a dart to reliably pen their armor.
Everything I said was correct, you just failed to acknowledge it for who knows what reason.
Everything you said was pretty much dismissed, but somehow you think you hit my nerve, while you are the one writing toddler insults over the internet, so I think it’s quite obvious who is the triggered one in this argument.
You don’t even have the xm-1 or ever played it lmao. Cut the bullshit talk if you have no experience to back it. Go cry elsewhere because you died to one of them.
I thought a guy with 17k+ battles under his belt should know about “Test Drive” option in which you can conveniently test your dart against T-90A and T-64A. I did just that and guess what, shooting through their track while slightly angled worked every single time.
I don’t need any experience to test drive a vehicle and see if it’s dart can pen slightly angled enemies.
Your inability to figure out this thing after 150+ battles in said vehicle simply amazes me.
You are now delusional, who/what did rattle your cage ?
Never did cry about getting killed by XM-1, I’m here just to dismiss your ridiculous claims.
One day you will realise that the test drive has nothing to do with actual battles. Come to that realisation first and then spew out your personal shit at me.
Yet you are here seething about it
Against tanks more than 1.0 BRs lower than it.
The gun handling is amazing, but the overall gun is just mid.
M735 sucks at 9.3
You can, but on 80% of maps you will still meet people frontally, because that’s just how gaijin designs maps.
There are very few maps ingame where you aren’t forced into some corridor, and meeting lots of tanks head on.
Ah right, tracks and armor in general are different (paper thin) in the test drive for no apparent reason, right ?
Not like I’ve done it many times in a live game as well, while not even using darts, even 105mm APDS can do the trick.
Everything points at the fact test drive is pretty correct in this case, and you are just grasping at straws.
First delusional, now projecting. I think it’s way easier to admit you were wrong than to keep writing hilariously untrue things.
Even then you can have an advantage since you basically have top tier gun handling at 9.3, thus giving you very improved reaction times when compared to vast majority of other 9.3 vehicles.
Flanking is just an easy mode, you are more than capable of penning vast majority of tanks at that BR in
several frontal spots, which is, in my opinion, more than enough.
It’s 9.3. In that period, it doesn’t matter how much armor you have “against” enemies, only that you have more than them.
Comparing it to the KPz-70? MUCH more armor.
Comparing it to a Leopard 1A5? MUCH more armor.
Hell, have you seen the AMX-32?
True, I take back what I said about it as I thought it had a slower reload.
To add my own projection here.
I actually believe the XM-1 General Motors is currently missing a large amount of composite (NERA) armour in its UFP in-game:
A 300mm air gap is just absolutely massive for what is supposed to be ‘spaced’ armour. It looks like something missing is meant to be fitted between the two RHA plates. It’s rather strange the XM-1 GM would have NERA composite armour inside its turret cheeks but none inside of its hull. The Abrams MBT is designed with an emphasis on strong protection for its tank crew in mind from the very start of its development.
A counterpoint to this is that Full Scale Engineering Development (FSED) M1 Abrams were also called ‘XM-1’ tanks. However, there is an excerpt from Hunnicut Abrams: A History of the American Main Battle Tank that directly mentions the XM-1 General Motors Abrams with added ‘special armour’:
It is most likely that the XM-1 General Motors just as the production base M1 Abrams we have in-game would use the same amount of NERA in its hull as its turret. (which should then be approximately 260mm~ of composite)
If this missing historical armour issue is addressed and fixed. This inevitably would raise the XM-1’s BR higher to maybe around 9.7-10.0 which be more fair as it would decompress the BRs and make 8.3 tanks not have to face the rather ‘light tank playstyle’ current XM-1 at 9.3.
Chieftain Mk3 is in the wrong category too, it should be a heavy tank because of being such a SLOW ASS, and most late 40s heavy tanks are actually quicker and no excuse when you are 1960 being lighter but engine is so inferior.