The M103 before the major update had LFP hull armor what could actually mostly hold up against 122s and Long 88s. Now these weapons see an M103 and it’s a; Point. And click.
Even the weld point where the UFP and LFP meet have a massive drop-off in protection for seemingly no reason.
In my opinion having a somewhat strong LFP made it so you could actually brawl against the soviet heavy tanks if you wanted to and now you’re just Conqueror status with a near useless LFP but without the Stabilizer that the Conq gets.
Maybe skill issue but that’s my thoughts.
it got nerfed because of T58 since they share the same hull they get the same nerfs and it really shouldn’t have 7 peaces instead of 1 big LFP and UFP peace it used to have way to many peaces
I get that but, isn’t the issue with T58 not the hull but the turret which is volumetric hell? So why nerf the hull? (Armour-wise the reload is the worst problem surrounding that)
it’s not a nerf, it’s just better data for the damage model. But I do think that it should be moved down to 7.3 (I felt it was overtiered even before the change)
the hull could eat Abrams rounds if you get lucky
this is the old hull of T58 (shared m103 hull) since m103 got design reworked this update it got a new hull
I agree, the heat round is pretty awful for being a 120mm and you have solid shot which is okay but you get a unrealistic reload meanwhile the French got the same gun but with a 6 second autoloader.
Sure France doesn’t have armour but you don’t really need it with the firepower you get with that.
it is a nerf sort of while it is more realistic it can no longer eat APFSDS rounds like it used to since it doesn’t have 7 different levels of armor and it sees 9.7 with much better tanks going against it and some APS too