I play a lot with my friend that has the 2S38 and that thing is also 10.3, why?
What does the PUMA get that 2S38 doesn’t?
Sure, it has better protection from heat but that’s irelevant at 10.3 and I don’t think the IRCM ever worked right and even if it did, it still does nothing at 10.3
it has AHEAD? yeah, but it sucks, you shoot slow, enemy has to be close AND not going away from you, it’s OK at shootin down drones though
You can die for the smallest HE to your IRCM
There are 0 things that justify the 10.3 BR
UPDATE: I have just tested the IRCM and it is still not fixed. Well done Gaijin. Reported ever since the PUMA came out and it is still not fixed.
PUMA is impossible to kill in a hull-down position, you can take an infinite amount of hits to the turret and burn through all your ammo still your crews will remain 100% healthy.
It’s also surprisingly easy to earn 1500-2000 points from scouting, kill assists and you have one of the best optics in the game, 15x zoom and high resolution thermals. If you like to drive around a lot and head-on the enemies, 2S38 will perform better this way but you will mostly kill one enemy then die, as for passive/camping? PUMA every time, twice on weekends bro
is a german light tank so it must suck ass. even the begleit is better. not to mention the swedish monster light tanks, which you can play aggressivly with the pen they have.
Carry full ammo, that’s a total of three chinese new year fireworks for everyone, repairing + replenish ammo through the belt is around 25-30 seconds for expert veteran crews depending on the amount of damaged modules in the turret. You will survive most repairs after firework shows unless you try to cqc everyone, I would avoid spawning it in maps like advance to the rhine or sweden where you can’t utilize its strong points.
PUMA has significantly more armor than the 2S38 while retaining slightly better mobility.
PUMA has a significantly worse gun, but that armor mobility combo caused it to perform really well.
1000+HP on 43 tons is very good.
I think the 5.7 M4 Jumbo is the closest example of what happens when a tank has notably more armor than its peers despite having a gun that’s not ideal for said BR.
Against chemical munition puma kinda does resemble a jumbo, in a world of darts it’s waay worse. Puma is alright at 10-10.3, it’s just 2s38 isn’t supposed to be this low.
PUMA could’ve been the best infantry fighting vehicle if wasn’t by the terrible performance on all 30 mm autocannons, even APDS-FS struggles sometimes. My guess is that, trying PUMA as a frontline vehicle isn’t the best. The mobility in other hand is the best resource for this vehicle, playing as support in urban maps by flanking may be the best route to counter the terrible firepower that houses in every 30 mm autocannons, when only 35+ mm can actually deal damage, example is the Type 89, which at the moment may be the best western infantry fighting vehicle available, the only drawback is the ATGMs, everything else is great.
Just dropped another, it’s surprisingly easy to reach the requirement, you don’t even have to kill every enemy you saw. Never underestimate PUMA, facing it is annoying, I’m pretty sure when you play it the enemy hates your damn guts too lol
See the range, you have 15x zoom, if anything you are going to hit whichever spots you wanted to. This is only one, want me to post another 10 >1km kill on T-series?
Yeah… not really. 120-125mm HE will pop it open no problem. What am I saying even HEAT will do the trick. If you face anyone who is sane enough to carry a couple of non-apfsds rounds you will die considerably fast.
Getting nukes doesn’t prove a lot, you can get a good game with anything and every time I faced a PUMA I killed it, the damage on the 30mm is so low, I at best lost 2 crew and some modules
Literally the entire thing was designed by Heschel Wehrtechnik (Rheinstahl AG <1975, Thyssen Henschel after)
Bofors supplied the gun, ammunition and maybe helped with FCS related stuff but even that is not confirmed.
If they were so involved then surely Henschel wouldnt have fucked up the gun-orientation…
3 times…
How does it not prove a lot? one can get nukes easier in the PUMA than in any other 10.3s he played, only thing I hate about this vehicle is how often I have to repair the turret, even autocannons set off the fireworks, no big issue with the offensive because you damaged most things you hit even from the front, seconds later you receive kill assist and quickly notice that your are close to nuke. Any other light tanks would lost their crews when taking hits to the turret, PUMA doesn’t care. Have you tried playing passive? This thing is amazing
The gun isn’t a laser, the spread at 1km is not ok, unless you get a 1 or 2 weakspot lucky kill. I’m even suprised you killed that T, the 30mm apfsds has very low damage and spal. I’d pick the 2S38 every a time, higher damage, proxy rounds and it’s tanky
