Ya 6.7 is a pain. I would love to play the tiger 2 but I just don’t feel like dealing with cold war stuff.
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M36B2s have noticeably poorer mobility/acceleration compared to the normal M36, which is one of the traits that makes the normal M36 so appealing to me in the first place, sacrificed in order to have HEAT-FS which can only really be beneficial against heavily armored targets in frontal engagements.
I think a 5.7 BR is fair.
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Really? Never noticed that, thanks for pointing it out. Need to check once im home.
Yes, 36B2 is my “uptier proof” vehicle for 5.7.
At 5.7 the normal jackson does just as well
They have increased weight (29937 vs 28120 kg), decreased horsepower (410 vs 500), giving them a far lower horsepower/ton (13.70 vs 17.78). On top of that they have slightly lower top speeds (40.17 vs 41.87 km/h) although that is less important.
The Japanese M36 keeps the 500 horsepower and as such doesn’t take nearly as much of a hit to the mobility. However it also just doesn’t have much of a 5.7 lineup in the first place as is.
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It went up when Gaijin upped BR the Tigers, panthers, and IS-2’s awhile back.
No, it’s fine
Sort of the point of a well BR’d TD I’d hope. Bit like guns on other TDs, yet they mostly are weak to HE shells (these open top TDs).
Indeed, Heavy Tank No.6 was a good tank to work around but now just a relic in the MP, so people can’t create the better lineup.
A M36 with HEAT-FS and 500 HP engine can easily compete at 6.0.
Didn’t even know that there was a M36 with HEAT-FS at 5.7 with that engine.
I also noticed it has the M3A1 cannon, which features a bore-evacuator.
Doesn’t effect gameplay but probably should give it some tiny advantage compared to the M36B2s with the M3 cannon.
Why should it? The bore evacuator is meaningless if a tank is properly ventilated. M36s are open top, so it’s fair to say they are.
Yep, but not everyone has the Heavy 6, it just allows the better lineup (imo) with the M36 and 76mm Sherman, which as you say can cope with 6.0 (just not best), the B2 giving that extra uptierability.
Probably. But it has some other benefits too. In cold climate, unburned powder can ignite when the breech is opened, potentially resulting in a burst of flame that can injure the crew.
Which is entirely irrelevant in WT, so it should absolutely have zero influence on BR placement.
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I was talking about how having a bore-evacuator is generally an advantage that would show itself in having a better RoF.
It’s obviously a bigger advantage for enclosed vehicles where gun fumes reduce the RoF and crew effency after prolonged fighting.
Unfortunetly Gaijin doesn’t really acknowledge technological advantages that affect the crew themself.
So RoF is often just arbitrarily copy pasted among vehicles with the same gun or gun caliber.
In part that’s because RoF is tied to guns, not vehicles. Tank cannons themselves have a frequency value (shots per second), and if a tank is to have a different shot frequency then it either has to specifically overwrite it in its own file or use a different cannon that only differs in frequency.
Either way the bore evacuator wouldn’t matter much for RoF in the M36s.
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