Hopefully when I play I get players like you on my team ;)
It’s the same channel as in the videos I’ve linked. You can check out the rest of the channel from any of those three videos. All the same, here is the link to the channel itself:
https://www.youtube.com/@warblunder1999
I’m not really trying to be a fancy CC or anything. I just like the music video format that was popular on YT when I was a teenager and I’ve been using it on some matches I’m happy with. But I think you can still find useful gameplay tidbits in there.
Still one of the more egregious things that can be done due to the APHE overperforming in damage output. If you have 2 foch facing eachother they cannot frontally penetrate afaik. But they definitely cannot kill eachother in this way. But any decent gun with aphe can just pen the cupola and nuke the entire crew because it has explosive filler.
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Yep, it’s ridiculous. On the other hand, it’s also why the Foch is 7.3 and sees WW2 vehicles at all. In reality it would merrily shit on all of them.
It’s incredibly ironic that one of the primary obstacles to having the “historical matchmaker” that some people demand is the very over perfornance of APHE. If APHE and solid shot worked historically the BR cutoffs would look very different. Instead we (by literal popular demand) live in a world where APHE makes WW2 vehicles extremely competitive against much newer machines.
historical MM would work if the armour and ammo war realistic, but then it is a game … and that annoys me no end . . . Tank battles where never about racing around the battle fields with quick flick shots or giggle peeking … generally tank on tank battles took place at max range and was a slogging match. That is one of the reasons I deleated WoT. Ramping a tank of any kind would generally break something or bash the heads of the crew against the steel interior of the tank. I however would like to see a REALIST battle to be as Realistic as posible.
WT has struck a goldmine by pairing realism of the visual model, complexity (but not necessarily realism) of the damage system, and arcade shooter mechanics. This makes the game accessible for a much larger audience. Look at how many people play sim instead of RB and you’ll rapidly get an idea of the relative sizes of the audience.
There are other titles that focus more on hardcore realism. They have smaller audiences because they are niche products. And that is completely fine.
I think they should not be added the way the current tech trees are.
They should be removed, other than the US one…
Reasoning:
The BR and rank is wrong - at least on German Tech tree - West Germany (post WW2-era vehicles) should be at rank 4 minimum, but I prefer to have them at even rank 6 (Which basically leaves Rank 5 as prototype range for WW2 what-ifs).
Frankly, West and East Germany should be separate (sub)trees at least, which should also allow the NATO vs WPACT battles. I prefer battles with context (axis versus allies). So, moving to cold war era should also be made to accommodate this context.
If the issues in reasoning are addressed, I would be in favor of having more borrowed “traitor” vehicles.
But as of current issue - the M55 (4.0) in the place where we see panzer 4s (3.3-3.7) duking out against Shermans (3.3-5.7) and T-34s (3.3-6.3), this just looks jarring, for someone who’d like to see semi-historical matchmaking.