As the title says. In War Thunder, both MBK 161 armoured gunboats are modelled very weirdly. We know small vessels have hull sectors themselves acting as “crew boxes”, and on MBK-161s things are just, sorry for my rude, stupid. The vessels were modelled with 2 armour boxes fully enclosed above the waterline, sitting in the middle and near the bow. And another semi-enclosed one near the stern. The thing is, the hull sectors were also modelled in 3 parts, making only the middle one fully protected by armour.
I think Gaijin should rework it. They should receive a 5 sector hull instead of the current 3, which will make their armour boxes make more sense. And similar thing can be done with several other armoured gunboats.
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Seems reasonable… although do people actually use hte 161’s?? :)
Probably worth making it a suggestion.
I play a lot of coastal fleet and I haven’t seen those gunboats in game for a long time.
They are very slow and Russia has better alternatives in its BR.
Yes same - I use the 2 186’s instead - the 161’s are unfathomably higher BR’s.
I’d even use the 191M before either of them normally - love 4 x 14.5’s as buzz-saws! :)
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In the past, I play the event 161 a lot with my friend. But obviously, protection on this vessel is more or less a joke, not to mention slow speed and the 76mm guns can’t aim in waves. Didn’t ever play the boat after they brought Pr.201 into the game.
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Biggest issue with the river gunboats is how most maps have rough seas, making their primary armament useless. Maybe a solution is to simply reduce sea state up to 3.7. I certainly would like to not exclusively use the secondary armament on those things to be effective.
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