If there’s a “town” in some cases it is limited to 1 section of the map - think Maginot Line or Sinai or Vietnam. So 1 cap area.
Mozdok
Kuban
Karelia
Jungle
Frozen Pass
Finland
Carpathians
Vietnam Hills
Ash River
a few flat areas but lots of big hills and most of the terrain is “lumpy” - does not take much to disrupt the aim of Russian guns. In many of these maps the vehicle will be fighting on terrain that is not suited for guns with depression of -5 or worse.
Then there’s maps like Arctic - you are confined to the gullies or sitting up on top of the snow-hills as an easy target.
Stalingrad is a city, but there is so much rubble in there (historically from previous artillery) that it is not all that suited to armor - ironically it applies more to Russian armor than most other nations.
Normal T-34-85 is already a very good tank, far surpassing the M4A3 (76). Considering the fact that the M4A3 's only advantage is its stabilizer, I’d say 6.3 is very fair.
Yeah, guess it’s gonna be impossible to convince this community that cannot look at the entire vehicle’s capabilities and arsenal when it comes to judging vehicles fairly.
yeah and there 5.7 and do amazing at that tier as there one of strongest 5.7s at the moment First shot first kill is always theres the actual tanks that kept it from dominating no longer fight it at its br so basically there screwed
All this talk about comparing the M4A3 76 with the STP when there is already a Sherman at 6.3. Sure, it might have worse mobility, but the armour is far better. But US players have for years asked for it to be moved down because the gun doesn’t work at that BR.
Shermans have no place above 6.0 (In the TT, uptiers are a fact of the game), T34-85’s do.
Though i didn’t get my STP yet,but i have his US cousin:T20 medium tank
Looks T20 is similar to STP ,their low pen in AB are so bad,RB maybe a bit better but…i think they can not even pen weak point in uptiers.
So i think gaijin should lower both of them to br6.0
I recently killed Jumbo with it. Penetrated 2 in a row, then he resigned to his fate and I shot him in the MG port with 8.8 APnuke.
Then it turned out I managed to hit 2 tiny spots where APCR can actually do angthing vs the mantlet and I should have gone for the MG port or transmission instead.
It would be useful if Tiger actually faced Churchill VII or if Jumbo’s mantlet wasn’t over 200mm effective almost everywhere.
Some time ago I penetrated side od Jumbo’s turret with APCR and then proceeded to kill 2 tanks with it, one being a 1-shot vs IS-1 through the driver’s port, lol.
In that single battle I scored more APCR kills than in the last 5 years, outside of forced APCR grind on some tanks.
Because in some cases it is the only option when the PzGr 39 can’t pen.
The PzGr 40 has better pen even at 30 degrees sloped armor. Does not have same post-pen damage, but if the PzGr 39 can’t pen the target, is it not good to have an option that does?
But the catalogue of things APCR would work against consists of… Well… 2 small spots on Junbo mantlet and maybe some part of black prince turret if you happen to meet one. Other than that it’s kind of sad.