The issue with the 2S38 is not taking kill, the issue is it lol-pens most of the armour where it is more than 300mm thick RHA, I died couple of times with my abrams from the middle of the turret cheeks. And it is somehow Overpressure proof, 155mm HE shell on its turrets, or side does nothing most of the time.
I dont think it should share the same BR with the Puma, half the penetration, with no HE-VT shell, just a bit more armour, which is not quite helpful against soviet MBTs.
Either 2S38 should go up and meet with the HSTVL, could be 11.0, or some kind of decompression needed to be done.
id call it a sidegrade, fired in range and not in a diving aspect while supersonic the Red top is practically undodgable, the AIM-9B is more a minecraft arrow with a proximity fuze anyone with any airspeed can dodge it easily
(RB) MiG-29 (9-13): 12.0 → 12.3 (give it R-73s, remove its R-27ERs)
The plane is very much dragged down by its extremely subpar IR missiles. The MiG-29 (9-13) could really use R-73s to become the SMT’s WVR-focused sidegrade, with worse avionics and no long-range missiles but better flight performance (and, soon, no R-77s, which would completely justify its lower BR).
HSTVL is vastly superior to the Strf 9040C and 2S38.
2S38 should be 10.3, as it’s an Strf 9040C with more pen.
HSTVL is vastly superior to both though.
super hellcat +0.3. wtf, it’s not 60 hp that makes it op, it makes it playable.
m18 “black cat” +0.3. why since it doesn’t get the engine upgrade?!
zsu-37 -0.3. Remove it’s apcr!
btr152D +0.3. why?
bmp1 +0.3. Where is the atgm view for the konkurs?
amx30 dca +0.3. F off, there’s no way the itpsv (yeet it at 9.3, it’s op) isn’t better than it!
roland 1 -0.3. which one, the french or the german?
mirage IIIC -0.3. FINALLY!!!
Q5a +0.3. Why, because flares? Now it can face 10.3 without missiles and planes it can’t catch up…
mig 17 -0.3. NO NO NO NO NO!!! (lol 7.7 are gonna cry) Does that also includes the mig17AS?
ajs37 -0.3, yay a 10.7 viggen, good luck killing that in downtiers…
But it has worse mobility and literally no gun depression at all. I would not call it a complete upgrade over the bulldog I’d say it’s just a side grade. It’s very good but it also has some big downsides
Just nerf the reload on the T-34 1941 instead of moving it up.
It’s silly that it reload in 6.9s in the most cramped two-man turret in existence, while a Pz IV in a much more spacious three-man turret reloads in 5.9s.
The T-34 1942 has better RoF and a better armored turret, so it makes no sense to again put them on the same BR.
Just nerf the reload rate, it’s historical and “reload rate is based on vehicle balance” remember?
2s38 is also the best spaa at it’s br, it has literally everything and should be 11.0 at the very least. And basically same goes for the UD and the turms, that are just better vehicles than what is in the tree at the same br range. It’s premium bias, nothing else.
I could give you the replay if I can find them, both battles were like 1-2 months ago. if I find them, then, I need to be sure the replays are compatible with the current version.
I’ll look it for a bit. let you know when I find, one should be I ate the apfsds right in the middle of the leopard 2A5’s turret RHAs.
2S38 is an Strv 9040C with:
-60mm more pen
-Air target tracking (Strfs ar still missing it for whatever reason)
-4 hp/t more
-Twice as fast turret rotation speed (60 vs 34 º/s)
-Three times as high vertical gun elevation angle (75º vs 27º)
-Unmanned turret.
-Black hole fuel tank at the front that eats all spalling and even whole shells.
-Autobounce UFP.
-Commander thermals.
-Higher quality thermals.
Stronger engines give it better performance.
Additional 30 mm MK 103s improve firepower drastically and wing cannons have more ammunition than center mounted ones.
Can carry bombs like A-1 without having the weaker 15 mm cannons.
Only M36s and M36B1 received a mobility buff, M36B2s have not, and are in my opinion sidegrades to the other M36s due to their noticeably inferior mobility.
17 pounder has good penetration characteristics but it lacks the explosive filler of the aforementioned cannons (Edit: and I forgot, the accuracy is noticeably worse as well, same when compared to the US 76 mm). They end up 1.0 lower than the M4A3 (76) because the M4A3 (76) is just that much better with superior mobility, overall reload, explosive filler, stabilizer, and gun depression.
Just noticed sabre situation and its pretty bad bad.
F-40 sabre stay at 9.0 but rest moves down. CL 13B Mk.6 same br as F-40 shouldnt be a thing give it got so much more thrust. If you move CLs down move F-40 down. or dont move them at all. Doing one and not other isnt nice for that game.
My another feedback is that either decompress brs or just leave Sabres brs alone.
Italian CL 13 Mk.4 should be same rb as A-5 Sabre as well since it has its level of performance.
Fj-4 also not the best planes but never gets moved down maybe take a look at it.
More importantly, the 2S28 can look up. Effectively making it a better SPAA than the lvkv90 if you ignore the radar.
In terms of survivability tho, Cv-9040C definitely better
Edit:
I see now that my addition was listed.
I will note tho the Lvkv-9040C does have a laser range finder bug that makes that function unusable against helicopters or other long range horizon targets.
The T-80UD, Obj 292 and 2S38 all need to go up to 10.3 at a minimum. 2S38 would be fine at 10.7. All 3 of these are vastly more powerful than anything else at their current BR; the T-80U hulls have superior armor, the UD has a fast reload and K5 on top of excellent composite, and the 292 has the composite and overwhelming firepower. The 2S38 is categorically superior to every other IFV in the game and its BR should reflect that.
Would be nice:
The M60A1 AOS, RISE(P) and TTS remain the weakest tanks in the game at their respective BRs. This can be helped by considering the M60A1 AOS to be a RISE+ and giving it M735, putting it in line with the T-55A, its primary opponent. The M60A1 RISE(P) should receive M774, giving parity with M111 found on Magach 6 series, and the M60A3 TTS should receive M833, giving parity with the T-62M. None of these shells are overpowered for their BR, and the US M60 series is categorically worse than almost everything they face. They all used these shells in service, they can get them in-game.
The FJ-4B should be reclassified to “Naval fighter” and moved in the tree if necessary. As a strike aircraft, it is completely irrelevant with the existence of the A-4B and A-4E. Reclassifying it as a fighter not only reflects its historical role as a fighter-bomber, but allows it to serve as an upgrade to the F9F-8 in the missile-carrying fighter capacity, which the US otherwise does not get until 9.3.
Fox and M551(76) moving up are good changes, and decompressing subsonic air is probably for the best. Please consider these changes to further help highly compressed areas of gameplay and balance out historically underperforming tanks.