The Somua SM is an almost undestroyable enemy, when facing an uptier, 50% of the time I can’t even pen the tiny (apparent) turret weakspot I should be able to penetrate from the front with a King tiger.
The Tank itself also has the best reload at this br just like every french 7.7 tank and the gun can pen everything reliably at its br and eaven at an uptier.
A lot of Somua SM players just sit somewhere on the map behind some rock, and get a nuke just from that because no one can do a lot against that. Especially not when the cas players don’t see him.
I’d suggest moving it up in br further (it’s doing fantastic at the battelrating it’s at right now) or decreasing the frontal turret armour and fixing the armour so that you can actually shoot where the armour analyses tells you, you should be able to penetrate (green).
As information of people reading this, I am not a new player, I am a experienced lvl 100 and I waited with this suggestion a long time, yet nothing happens, so here is my suggestion.
(Ornage are the spots where you can somewhat realiably kill the turret crew in one shot, though it only works 50% of the time in battles and is really small, and almost impossible to hit at distance before being destoyed.
I am not a Kingtiger main, I am also not maining germany, I just took the Kintiger as an example, as its one of the most played vehicles and has a strong gun. This reply is also not constructive xD
In any case, you should know that the King Tiger has a very similar weakspot profile compared to the Somua. And with solid shot the driver and transmission is still there so you can reverse back into cover.
Yet this does not kill the Somua and with its turret turn rate, it would get me before I can retreat.
Also the Kintigers turret weakspot is way bigger and more reliable to penetrate then the little two spots I showed.
No, because the KT’s is covered by a volumetric hell mantlet, so it’s literally a small strip around the gun. And the angling of the armour plates around the frontal face can cause ricochets, plus the cupola is very small.
I am not crying,
I agree, with you here, though the 76 Jumbo is not a brawler when uptiered and this is not what my suggestion is about, when you want this to change, do a Forum post yourself.
I’d also like people to react to my suggestion with what I said, and come up with things they think is unfair on other tanks, thx :)
Bloodie, 7.7 France is the least good you’ll find in the entire ground tech tree. Somua SM in fact is a tuff vehicle to fight because the volumetric goes crazy when you hit the turret base,
Some months ago Somua SM got this Major buff on the turret armor but the vehicle is not a problem, it has what every other heavy tank should have: armor, if you struggle to destroy it, focus on the very middle point of the turret you’ll get something with that.
What is this forum good for, when everyone who replies is just a biased yapping person, who just complaints against a suggestion of others, not doing constructive criticism and bringing the discussion on a whole new toptic with every reply?
If you dont have something serius to say about my suggestion, or are just biased against any german doing a suggestion, then please just go on an other forum or go talk about how bad german mains are on some discord server, please, this is not a constructive converation at all.
be upon ye’