Regarding armor fixes; hull would change nothing, to be fair. The best bet would be the turret; but even then, only a fixed turret + fixed WAR kit would be useful.
Fixed turret without WAR would still be Challenger 1-level only, which, at Top Tier, is basically like nothing (470mm KE).
Fixed turret + fixed WAR kit however, would be able to provide around 560mm KE; just enough to withstand lower end shells like 3BM46, 3BM60 (at some ranges/angles), DM43, OFL F1, L27A1, etc.
That would be nice already, WAR kit not being dead weight would be an awesome improvement.
I mean I would rather have Centauro 2 than another broken AMV.
Lol it was like 12 seconds back then, its good enough for 12.7 lineup with recent suspension buff. Hstvl looks better but i can’t play with 300p thermal anymore.
It can get Shard, they don’t have it in service, but Ariete is listed in its brochure, which should be enough since we already have DM53 for Ariete.
For AMV or better PT2 (or C2), it can be interesting, but for other Arietes I would rather had a proper (lower) BR with fixed armor (and removal of DM53 and RoF buff).
Yeah, much the same as the CR2. With armour and RoF buffs it could stay in the fight, but honestly would be better off just at a lower BR where it did not face the meta tanks 24/7
Back when Ariete had CL3143 and everyone else was capped to DM33-level, it still had useless armor; but it excelled in firepower like no one else, making it a pro favourite niche glass canon.
Then, it became just a… glass.
With SHARD, it could become a good glass canon again with a strong selling point through its firepower.
Ariete and Ariete PSO should be 11.0s limited to their historical CL3143 shell.
Ariete AMV, Ariete AMV PT2 and C2 Ariete should be Top BR with SHARD.
All of this, including armor fixes, of course.
Italy is currently the only nation I haven’t grinded, and I have no plans to do so at its current state. But if it suddenly got 3 1,500hp Arietes with SHARD and a 5 second reload on top of Leopard 2A7HU… I would even consider it.
Man it would be so nice if it was put down to its historical 6.0s reload. I imagine the Stryker would probably only go up to 10.7 or 11.0 if that were the case too considering the other drawbacks it has (ie. gun depression, poor acceleration, and bad reverse gear).
