Hello ladies and gents
Tonight i’m here to propose a talk about our good old T-54 one of the most mass produced tanks ever.
Right now in War Thunder we see 3 main variants of the T-54, all of them the early production versions before the main T-54A arrived in 1955 and later the main modernization in the T-54B in 1957.
(T-54Bs on the move)
I want to talk about mainly about where our current T-54s sit at in war thunder, which is kind of a tough spot the '47 sits at 7.7 with only APCR as it’s best pen shell, and it can face tanks with full stabilization and apfsds like the M60A1 RISE (P) (Yikes!), the 49 and 51 are technically the same in-game in all but the the overhang at the rear for the '49, saw somewhere that the '51 irl has a TDA smoke generating system, which might mean it has ESS? Not sure tho, anyway they both sit at 8.0 whilst being unstabilized they can face the Leo a1a1 m60a3 tts and xm803 which all have stabilized guns with rangefinders and apfsds (Bruh!).
(Before i propose the changes to the BRs of the current T-54s i want to talk about the current BR of 3 heavies in particular and how lowering their BRs would create good and fun line ups to play, starting up with the Is-3, it should head to 7.0 making a new line up together with the T-44/100 and the ZSU-57-2, at a full uptier in 8.3 it’s armour is useless and so is it’s gun, the Is-4M faces the same issue but at a worse br in 7.7, it’s appropriate it goes down to 7.3, and finally the T-10M what do i have to say? It’s a really good tank at a bad BR, constantly facing APFSDS and Laser Rangefinders with a long ass reload and with a gun that can’t handle those 9.3 threats, 8.0 would pair nicely with the addition of the T-54A which i’ll explain down below)
I want to propose a change to their BRs and the addition of the T-54A or T-54B (maybe both?)
The T-54 '47 should go down to 7.3 (while were at it, move the Is-3 to 7.0 so it’s a good line up with the T-44/100, move the Is-4 to 7.3 so it’s a good pair with the T-54 '47), it’s not that good of a medium tank to warrant 7.7 due to it’s main thing being 20mm more of UFP armor than it’s 2 other brothers which is useless against HEAT ammo that is common at 8.3 and 8.7 BR, it should be an introduction to the early cold war medium tank designs that still thought of WW2 doctrine and tech making a good line up with the Is-4M at a lowered br in 7.3.
The T-54 '49 and '51 should go down to 7.7, being kind of absolute PEAK of what the WW2 medium tank design could possibly achive marking the end of an era and starting the introduction of new strategies for the player at the intermediary BR of the 7.7-8.7 bracket, pairing it together with the Is-6 or T-10A if you’re rich or played it’s event.
Now i want to suggest the addition of the T-55A and T-55B.
The T-54A saw as the first real modernization of the T-54 to the status of an main battle tank, as it received the vertical STP-1 “Gorizont” gun stabilizer and a new gun being the D-10TG with a massive fume extractor on the end instead of the small counterweight. We already technically have it in war thunder, being the Type 59 in the chinese tech tree. 8.0 would be the perfect BR for it pairing it up with the lowered BR’d T-10M and the shilka, it would make it a competitive and fun line-up.
The T-54B was the second modernization, substituting the D-10TG with the D-10T2S coupled with an STP-2 “Tsyklon” 2-plane stabilizer (“Cyclone”) on vertical and horizontal planes, allowing it to use more modern ammo like the 3BM25 we see on the T-55A in-game, this would be more of a filler for the current empty 8.3 line up for the soviets, and as this version of the T-54 was…
MASSIVELY
(sorry it’s midnight after a long work day i couldn’t help myself)
Sold to the DDR it would be a good addition to the german TT to complement the M48A2 G A2 and the Gepard.
Alright this marks the end of this topic, give your opinions if these BR changes + new tanks would be a good changes/additions to the game, if your counter argument is “Ah but X, Y, Z tank is at the same BR as these tank currently are and they peform just as them! Shouldn’t they go down too?1!? Soviet Bias!” I’m fine with those tanks also receiving a br reduction, i mainly want a revival of the 7.0-8.0 br range so any changes similar to those i suggested (which i only suggested after a long time playing those tanks) are welcome by me, anyway good night and see you all in battle!
