Did you even play it recently? The max speed increase completely butchered the smooth acceleration of the Somua SM. Now after you go to 4th gear, you will have significantly worse acceleration and struggle to speed up if there’s even the slightest slope. I literally have to keep the tank in gear 3 with any kind of slope unless it’s already fast, because it struggles to speed up in gear 4.
It Is fine.
Armor isn’t very good. Unlike IS-4M And M103, both also 7.7, it can’t bounce first shot APDS rounds (which most people load as their general purpose round) and
The turret armor is trolly but has large vulnerable area
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well people view things white and black. Le can pen T-72 but the somua sm realistically can pen a small aspect of the T-72 which is stabilized and has an massive first shot advantage (you don’t really have time to choose a fancy weak spots)
like a extremely small area that can be penned? yeah this isnt practical in actual combat because T-72 will fire first before you have time to line up a perfect shot
The whole vehicle has incorrect armour according to the bug reports on it, it would be fine at 7.7 if it was given it’s correct armour.
Again, the problem is decompression of BR’s :(
guess what, german main
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I feel like France 7.7 as a whole should be nerfed
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Just nerf france overall
Ridiculously OP nation all under BR’d
ARL 44 to 8.7
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Don’t forget EBR to 11.7
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more front hull armour maybe.
not all too special for that BR tbh
M103 and conqueror both beat it on pen and armour. however its ROF is better.
TLDRL: its strong but not OP by any means. France mains are also competent unlike the majority
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SM can Tank/face multiple vehicule with its fast reload, armor and with good players, nuke is here.
The hull (Better angle for the same armor UFP, but the ROF is weaker, less exposed than Tiger to be M-kill with transmission) + the turret is better (190-500mm thickness), more difficult to one shot in frontal.
The only thing is, the SM is weak if the vehicul is angled ( shot at 650 meters with Shot mk.1):
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I shred them in scimitars all the time. sometimes even front on they are a pretty free kill.
It’s main thing going for it is that it filters noobs that just shoot centre mass on everything
It’s a ton better than Conq and M103. But I agree it’s not OP. Especially with all the big HE slingers that melt Somua with a turret hit.
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Love killing Somuas in Tiger IIs. Keep em at 7.7.
U do realize they’re BT-7 food from the side right
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only edge it has on conq and m103 is rate of fire. other than that it is a worse deal.
8 rounds meaning you can wipe out half team in around 20 seconds and then wait some minutes for full reload and hope the ones you wipped respawn
Wipping half team in such short time its insane,expecially when most of the vehicles it faces are literally WW2 era tank that wont be able to react in time to such tank as the Somua,i dont struggle to kill it but its extremely annoying to deal with,with any tank
by that logic,all of MBTs are L3s food since the L3 can still pen MBTs somehow
So we are lying once again…
Hardly,the M103 might have better turret armor and good gun but lets not forget the pathetic mobility it gets and the insanely long reload
Conqueror is…uh…questionable choice
How reliably can u pen MBT with L3 vs pen Somua with BT-7