Radkampfwagen at 9.7

Machinery of War Discussion Ground Vehicle
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Why is it that high? Doesn’t really get any gimmicks, gets a good shell and maybe better protection than most wheeled vehicles but it doesn’t even have thermals at 9.7.

Compare to the recently added CT-CV, roughly the same speed, slightly better HP/t for the RKW.
CT-CV gets an autoloader for a 5 second reload, RKW has a rather slow 8.7 second reload.
CT-CV gets the same DM33 shell and a tandem ATGM + a .50 on top, the RKW just gets the DM33 and a 7.62 on top.
CT-CV gets thermals, LWS + laser rangefinder where the RKW only gets NVG and laser rangefinder.

The protection on the RKW is the one and only real advantage I can see, but I don’t know if that justifies a BR of 9.7.

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Wait until you see it’s 10.0 now…

Anyways I totally agree with you, the peers of the Radkampfwagen 90; such as the Type 16 FPS or Rooikat either (slightly) outperform the Radkampfwagen 90 or are equally as good. The thing that bugs me is that the Type 16 FPS, Rooikat MTTD and Centaro all sit at 9.3 while the Radkampfwagen is 10.0, meaning you get CAS’d 70% of the time. Trust me, 11.0 CAS ruins every flank and it’s extremely aggravating.