The BMD’s both have IRST to lock air targets which the BMP-3 does not have. I have all 3. The BMD-4M also has the optional extra armor, which I use, which often can protect against machine guns.
EDIT: Ah you did point out the IRST:
BMP3 is still more survivable to cannons and machine guns (I still agree BMD4s are .3 better, though)
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And that also increases the weight quite a bit on the bmd-4M, making your slight mobility advantage that you gained from being lighter, gone. Often times I’ve really only found the add on armor to be useful in two circumstances.
- .50 cal’s cant really pen you frontally as much.
- Some auto cannons, if they spray and pray, will likely bounce frontally.
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I agree the bmd-4 is .3 better,
But:
Bmp-3 = bmd-4m
I still find the extra armor to be worth it, it also sometimes helps against bombs that do not land right on top of you. MAYBE sometimes helps against HE over-pressure, but not so much to be really noticeable on that point.
Eh, I fully disagree. The BMP-3 and BMP-4M have the same hull armor without the extra add on armor. The extra add on armor does not show in the stat card when you enable it. It makes the BMD-4M have more armor than the BMP-3, just not on the turret, but definitely for the hull. Furthermore, that add on armor acts as spaced armor in multiple areas.
Idk, having used it both off and on, I haven’t really been able to decided if one side is worth it or not. You don’t have the increased mobility of the BMD-4 to get to a lot of these good early game positions with or without the armor.
I feel like it’s a choice of what you want to hunt.
IFVs? Take the armor.
MBTs? Don’t take the armor, fire once, and sprint away as quick as you canz
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Yeah, I agree it can definitely be a toss up. I am in the fortunate position to have both, so I leave the armor on the BMD-4M and just take the BMD-4 when I want the speed.
Fwiw, the engine power and gearboxes being different between the BMD’s makes it a bit more complicated, especially in Arcade. The fewer gears of the BMD-4 makes it silly quick in acceleration. I notice less of a difference in Realistic as the extra gears in the BMD-4M “seem” to make it feel less heavy with the extra armor added. But that is more of my “feeling” rather than any sort of “proof”.
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That is quite nice. I could’ve gotten it, had they explained the events better way back when.
I am happy with the BMD-4M but there are tanks on the battlefield that put the fear of god into me when I’m playing. Mainly spaa, but the MBT-70 / KPz-70 / XM803 are volumetric hell and often it’s spaced armor just eats my atgm and i relentlessly 30mm it until it kills me.
Edit: BMD-4 has a better reverse too, over the 4M
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Lol, I got lucky and got the BMD-4 last year from the crates. I did buy the BMD-4M the moment it was released, but I ADORE light tanks, and the BMPs/BMD’s are some of my absolute favorite lights, so I jumped for it 😂
Yeah you are the light tank guy. You gave me a whole class on the 2s25 and the cv90105 :)
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WELL, if you are burning your SL’s right now, it can drop from the current SL crates 😄 If you are, I wish you the best of luck getting it 🙏
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Lmao I love the Bradley, I’m surprised it’s still able to see late WW2 vehicles this many years later. My personal favorite is probably the M41A1 (from Vietnam… but 6.3 for some reason).
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I LOVE THE M3A3 Bradley! If they made a premium Bradley I would probably buy it immediately too 😁 I just cannot get enough of the light tanks with IRST 🎯 I think I have almost all of the IRST lights, maybe only missing one or 2. If that BMD “clone” in the China tree has IRST, that might be the only one I am missing. The Chinese ZBD04A Ah yup, the ZBD04A does have IRST, just double checked on the wiki.
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I wanted the KV-220 to fit snuggly into my 5.7 USSR lineup, but I saw they made it a 6.0… not sure why or when, when it’s pretty much the IS-1, now I’m turned off that even.
Granted the KV-220 is still probably decent, I know you’ll just get shot through the breach and lose half of your crew instantly.
Kinda just want the IS-7 as a show piece, but since it’s 8.7 and sees plenty of HEAT-FS it’s another dead heavy.
Edit: I have most of the other vehicles, but the F3D thing would be sweet
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I think I have 3 nukes in my Bradley…?
Only 1-2 in my BMD-4M, with vastly more playtime… sadly just hasn’t worked out for me. Not that WT has been great as of late.
I swear every enemy I see is like the perfect counter to me everytime X’D
I’ll get like 1 good game of every 12.
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Now that’s a borderline great tank. I think it solves the mobility issue, while having a good amount of frontal armor and slope, but it’s cannons are the same as the bmp-3 I cannot recall if the turret was upgraded or not.
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KV-220 is greta biggest problem are the 6.7 tanks occasionally but its great at 6.0 with the T-V
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Le sigh.
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