SELECTABLE GRINDABLE AMMUNITION FOR GROUND MGS/AGLS
INTRODUCTION
Not every vehicle or nation in the game has standard crates of only one sort of ammunition or the order of the ammunition of the belt itself. Some carries several additional boxes of various ammunition to choose from depending on the situation, maybe not the coaxial weapons but the roof mounted or external mounted machineguns. High explosive mixture for soft targets like infantry, Armor Piercing and Semi armor piercing or High explosive if not all of them, for situations where the infantry is hiding behind obstacles and walls, if there is a need for close air defense, this might be suitable or if they are facing lightly armored vehicles and such, and more armor piercing is needed. In war thunder as it is now, you are only given one standard belt with a set belt mixture, i don’t know whether or not this mixture/order is randomly set or based on actual mixtures/orders from its service or the nation’s most usual way of doing it, which it should be tough this data is not known about every vehicle.
THE IDEA
I came up with an idea, as a system like this would have many positive effects on the game and the ground battles and that i believe is needed. This would give players the ability to select the ammunition that they believe will be best suited for theirs and the vehicle’s use, as well as it would highly likely affect the cost of the ammunition, as some ammunition types are way cheaper than others, while others are expensive. It would also give a more diverse gameplay experience, as this would allow for new sorts of ammunition to be brought into the game, as there are tons of different ammunition used by many nations, some with very high armor penetration, like the M903 SLAP Saboted Light Armor Penetrator that can penetrate over 35mm or RHA armor compared to the usual ammunition this is more or less double the penetration, as well as other types which for example has above average explosive value. This would potentially make the gameplay more enjoyable, as well as adding more content to each vehicle at all battle rating ranges. This should apply to all Coaxial, roof mounted and so on machineguns and automatic grenade launchers on ground vehicles in-game that are belt fed with ammunition crates.
HOW IT WOULD WORK
The Modifications card should be extended like this, separated from the other modifications of the vehicle. There are rarely more than 2 different machinegun calibers on one independent vehicle, and the most common combination is 12.7mm roof mounted machinegun and one 7.62mm coaxial machinegun integrated in the hull or the turret. The different calibers should have their own separated lines, like the 12.7mm sketch i made in the picture below, it should be continued rightward of that one. each tier would feature it’s ammunition crate with its own ammunition mixture, the mixture will then either be the usual that the specific nation regularely uses or that can be documented used on the specific vehicle. Personally, i believe this ammunition should be optional to grind, and be separated from the vehicle modifications like parts, some main cannon ammunition or upgraded engine parts. Another option could be to make the ammunition modifications much cheaper to avoid making the grind significantly harder.
As there is often brought several crates and belts of ammunition on the vehicle, in the screen you get when joined a battle and you can choose how much and what ammo you will bring into battle, you should be able to select 3-4 different crates of ammunition with you, this would look similar to this, which you get when your vehicles main cannon has several ammunition types available to bring into battle.This would probably affect the ammunition counters that appear on top of the menu in-game, i don’t know what would be done with those, but i would guess either some short initials to be added to them or perhaps the name/description of the crates itself, but that issue would be then, if it would ever be added.
POLL
is this something you would like to see implemented in the game?
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