Don’t want to be that guy but you just contradicted your own statement.
So, T-90A Vs a Vehicle at 10.7 it’ll commonly face, M1 Abrams. Round: M774 APFSDS, Prot Map
For Comp: T 80 U (I’m writing it like this as it’s how it’s stylized ingame, it looks horrid) Same Round, Slightly different angle
Looks decently similar, right? There’s an issue, have you spotted it?
T-80U is 11.3, M1 Abrams is 10.7. Here is the prot map against a tank of comparable BR, if we disregard the ability for downtiers
- M1A1 Abrams, Round: M829A1 APFSDS
You’ve likely noticed, they’re literally Russian tanks. They have horrendous weak spots. T-80U has slightly more armor holes than a T-90 does, but when we look at the tier they’re at the T-80U is significantly underarmored.
Throughout our whole arguments we’ve each stood beside the decompression stature and while yes, we need to fix “OP” vehicles first, simply put decompression is the way to do it. Just adding one, maybe two more BRs to ground will fix a lot.
I must also mention a stunning lack of 2S38 on this list, alongside a stunning lack of US vehicles being lowered. I must also mention, T-54 going down to 7.7. While yes, I do agree, I must ask. Should a tank built three years following WWII see vehicles from 45? Well the Pansarbandvagn 301 is from the 60s and sees early war tanks, why is it not raised to it’s rightful BR alongside other tanks from that era? The answer to this question is balance. Is this balanced?
As opposed, M82 V T-54 (1949)
3BK-5 V T26E5, sure it’s HEATFS and early at that, but wouldn’t a well versed individual shoot the ammo racks? Now let’s go to the IS-3 at 7.0, in the case of the fullest of full down tiers, does this look fair? Does this look balanced?
(Tiger E vs IS-3 Best APHE, IS-3 vs Tiger E best APHE)
Yes, this is a biased look at the front plate of each vehicle, though it’s really where it matters most. Any side shot well placed can take out anything, but head to head you’re down to the weak points and I wonder who will come out on top here?
I also must ask, why not lower the Obj 292 to 10.3? It’s literally a naked T-80, all it’s got going for it is the cannon?
And sure, maybe it was the only one I put much thought into, but I’d much rather try to debate off more than one topic next time.
*Side bar with info is not there due to the system I used for the screenshots, all of these were 500m with the round of choice, you can fact check for yourself.