Q's about bombs, M24 and artillery

Game Discussion Arcade Battle
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I have three questions:

  1. Does aircraft bombs seem only destroy vehicles belonging to the other team?
  2. Why is the M24 tank rank II in the USA line up, but rank III in Italy, Japan and China?
  3. Is my artillery fire also destroying my team members vehicles?
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Allied airplane bombs and allied artillery barrage can destroy allied vehicles. About the M24 Chaffee it may be intentional or some mistake, consider reporting this to the CBRS.

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1 Kills both
2 Gaijin does not care
3 Kills both

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it’s probably a safety layer against teamkilling, you need to aim on literally your teammate’s roof to destroy him. If that’s the case, it should be removed. CAS players must learn to discriminate or to aim better their bombs.

Both the American and the Chinese M24s are rank II, Japs and Italian M24s are rank III, and all of them are 3.7. I genuinely don’t see the issue, as the most relevant statistic (its BR) is equal across all of them, the rank is just relevant to progression and tree design.
Don’t bring unnecessary stuff, as it tends to feed the classic troll gang eager to make blood out of the US.

Yes. Be careful.
Friendly art is probably more dangerous than friendly bombs nowadays.

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Can kill all.

Because of the full rank III for USA

Yes

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Unnecessary?
It’s common that to be able to receiving goals you need to battle with a rank III or higher tank.

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Yes, your point was quite unnecessary. Shame that i have to do the tedtalk.
Compare both rank II and III across all those nations and notice how the M24 works as a filler for them in the rank it suits the most with a possible lineup.
US
JAP
CN

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What we don’t need is a tank in a higher rank without a proper lineup, unless you grind GRB as a chronic backup buyer or a one death leaver.
If the latter it’s your case, just uninstall and don’t bother anymore.

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What we don’t need is a tank in a higher rank without a proper lineup, unless you grind GRB as a chronic backup buyer or a one death leaver.
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Could you please explain this. I often mix ranks in my lineups i a way that BR are pretty much equal. Is there any disadvantage doing that?

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You are allowed to mix ranks as much as you like, but:

  1. It’s up to you to lose RP whenever you’re mixing ranks/place yourself at a disadvantage—uptier, don’t claim that it’s unfair to have vehicles spread across two possible ranks as a bias or as some kind of unfairness, because what matters at that point is the BR, and they’re 3.7. That’s it for that regard, end of story.

  2. let’s assume someone progresses innocently through the tech tree, it needs lineups to do the proper progression adequately and do the RP-cascade effect to eventually replace a majority of its lineup at once to grind the next set of vehicles. There’s no point on placing every M24 at rank III or even II arbitrarily when there’s no possible vehicle that can go alongside it, every M24 was placed at each rank depending on its context, otherwise you’re suggesting that the american M24 goes alongside this:
    US
    or this for China:
    CN
    Notice how suboptimal are those vehicles and their potential lineups for a M24?

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Well this grinding problem isn’t any problem for me. I’ve played WT for several years now and have so bloody many tanks - but I’m still a lousy player :-)

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It’s a pretty massive punch to the balls that the American one is rank 2 instead of rank 3 though.

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Nah, massive overstatement. It wouldn’t have a lineup at rank III. I can see why Gaijin used the M24 as a buffer to some nations for some ranks and for others it was a decent light filler for their rank III.

And, again, i can’t see the big deal about its rank placement at all.

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False. It would have the M44, M19A1/M42, and multiple Rank 3 CAS options. That is a full lineup, even with a 6th crew slot.

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At Ground rank II (and overall, 3.7 matchmaker) it gets:
M4
M3 Lee
M10 GMC
P-51C-10
P-51 Mustang
SB2C-4
If you consider to uptier the M24 to 4.0, you can also choose:
P-51D-5
M4A2
T-77E1
Add both rank II premiums available and you get over 10 vehicles, literally on the technical limit. The M24 is better placed in the US at rank II, it’s a fact. Go complain over its placement on other trees instead.

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Looks like all the others haven’t realized that you asked about arcade. The right answers are:

  1. yes. It was changed a year or two ago. You can no longer bomb you team mates.

  2. Nobody knows!

  3. Yes arti is one of the few ways to do team killing in arcade.

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Thanks SadLamer! That explains why some tanks survive a massive bomb.

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M24 is fine at 3.7. It should be rank 3 though.

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M24 goes with BR 3.3