Reduce the M3 Bradley's Combat Rating to 9.3

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It’s a shame to see the only US IFV being rendered completely useless by its high combat rating.
I propose lowering the BR of the M3A3 Bradley to 9.3.

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Compared to its counterparts from other nations, the M3A3 has **no real advantages.

  1. Mobility
    The M3A3 is slow. It is slower than many tanks that are at the same BR or even higher.
  2. Armor
    It effectively has no armor at all. Any hit usually results in a one-shot kill.
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  1. Armament
    The armament is extremely poor. The Bushmaster cannon struggles to penetrate even Soviet IFVs.
  2. ATGMs
    The TOW-2B, the only truly interesting ATGM, is not properly implemented and rarely deals any meaningful damage.
    The TOW-2A is very slow: it first dips down and then climbs upward, and due to its low speed it is extremely difficult to hit targets at range. Even when it does hit, it often fails to deal damage.

I believe this IFV is unjustifiably placed at such a high battle rating.

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I hope this BR is because they are planning to fix most of the bugs, that could justify it.

I at least want the spall liners somewhat made.
Right now, it’s just a sprinkle of protection and the TOWs wiggle like shish on 500+ meters.

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They have been planning those changes for years…

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Yeee, but there’s still a little bit of chance…
Same for Leos, Abrams, PARS, JAGMs, you name it

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bradleys underperform its kinda sad.

meanwhile BMPs…

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They’ve been fixing the TOW-2B for three years now. And they still can’t give the Bradley ERA and LWS. And I won’t even mention the APS.

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i can see it being 9.7 or something, 9.3 might be too low

…but 9.7 has not lineup so ughhhhhh

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Best 9.3

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As a persistent hater of US mains, I do however agree with the fact that the 10.0 Bradley is one of the most dogwater ifv I’ve ever played, I’ll give y’all a list of flaws this vehicle posses which makes it mediocre

  1. Slowass, acceleration only tiny bit better than the Maus, feels like it

  2. Missile pod retracting, if you are moving and suddenly encounter an enemy, you are not going to be quick enough to use the missile

  3. TOW-2B, produce very dogwater damage, unlike other top attack missile of other nations

  4. Low binocular view height, for some reason when you use your binocular you actually exposes your turret dome and missile pod to the enemies, while other vehicles remains completely hidden when you use your binocular to peek over the hill

  5. Turret crews sit in jerk off distant, this reduce the survivability because you almost always exposes your turret no matter what you do, by sitting so close together any penetrating hit send both crews to the Valhalla, which means death. A stray 30mm autocannon will simply Punk’d you with one hit

If this thing got moved down, then the Warrior will need to be even lower than M3A3 by .3 because it’s an even bigger dogshit than the M3A3 in terms of FCS and firepower, this thing is no match against the BMDs

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It does the exact same terrible damage as the BILL on the Strf 9040
That’s the only missile it can be compared to

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Its crazy how it shot up to 9.7 because the 2B’s where bugged and moved to 10.0 over getting 2A’s.

Meanwhile they just added the Jaguar 2 which gets both at 9.0 on a faster platform with as much launcher depression, Granted it has an exposed gunner and no cannon, But in exchange it also gets 28 missiles in total (14+ammo box) while the M3A3 only has a max of 12, And it also doesn’t need to pack its launcher up when moving.
And the Wiesel at 9.7 is basically the same but in a significantly smaller and even more nimble package making it easier to hide and ambush in.