I’m not underselling them, I’m telling you what they are. There is just a mythos around them because of bad players and YouTube parrots. I don’t want to sell you as a brainless person, so I’m just calling you bad.
Here’s the difference: I play this game to grind. I don’t play this game to be the best. I just grind to the top, get all my tanks spade and the planes I want spade, then I use those in Customs/tournaments. Play how you want, but there is a stark difference between us. You play this game for God knows what reason, I play this game as a completionist and because my friends, for some masochistic reason, play this game too.
I’m biased to the Markava? I don’t even have the tank, and even if I did, I’d still know it’s not a real capable top tier tank competitor because of its historically inaccurate armor profile. Almost everyone I know who has them, even some of the best say it’s a bad tank right now.
I hold no bias to any nations, I’m just a realist and a technical guy.
As someone who has top tier American, Russia, (technically Germany), and italy, I can easily disagree with your statement.
I was stock grinding a Leo 2a4 with HeatFS, and frankly, I am amazed at how bad the ERA is most of the time.
Direct side shots to the era stopped nothing and detonated T-80s, and T72s, and T90s I faced, none survived being hit in the lower plate, because after the auto loader fix, and after the APFSDS physics fix, now all rounds bounce off the floor plate of these tanks. (I don’t really think they should, give it’s 20mm RHA). And goes right into the ammo.
Im pretty sure i know how to kill T-Series or any other tank much better than you considering you’re struggling to kill Abrams properly which is a tank that so easy either one shot or heavily cripple.