To be honest, I’m a little shocked by this update “Line of Contact”. Let’s think about which nation got the strongest in this update? Russia, Mig-25, Su-30SM2 with absolutely dominant radar and LTX, Two terminators that broke the balance at low levels, a huge buff for reloading Soviet T tanks, and this is what I remembered. And what did the others get? The USA got a pathetic F-18E, which is named the worst top-end aircraft, then it’s a terrible Booker M10, Jaguar 2 is generally a joke, more or less it’s Ajax, but it’s also passable. And it will only continue to grow. There will be updates purely for the Soviet Union. Yes, other countries will receive some kind of stubs that will simply fade before the Soviet power.
If you spend millions of SL and countless hour or GE, sure. If you don’t? It’s not faster. Just because it can reload faster hypothetically doesn’t mean it actually does.
CAS? Are you sure? Not the BMP-T destroying everything? One of the most broken premiums, along with the T-58?
Yes, but it’s what it adds on. Russia already has good armor and decent rounds, and the autoloader certainly helps when you’re down a crew. Also the fact of the matter is when you pair it with its lineup like SPAAG and CAS, no one has Russia beat.
It’s 900,000 silver for an expert crew at 12.0 no matter the nation, unless you’re doing a premium vehicle which makes it 1.56 mil. Really not that bad. I only do it on vehciles I like tbh.
If you get a talisman, or are just really good in a particular vehicle it flys by getting the Ace crew, which in the T series, you don’t ever get a buff to reload
But yeah I agree that the Booker has been really solid for me at that BR. It’s just that Demokrat has a terminal case of skill issue when it comes to tanks.
To be perfectly fair, they’ve been powercrept for a bit now, The entire Helicopter and CAS lines were basically invalidated thanks to new SPAA whose range is double to triple the range of the ENTIRE MAP.
They depended on their CAS to be good, but had mid tanks, it seems that since their CAS crutch was taken away devs thought it’d be best to buff one of the branches of tanks from average to peak level.
I disagree with the T-80 branch being the one to buff though, they were already strong, T-72/T-90 branch needed the buff way more with their reverse speed, considering that the buff would affect Chinese tanks a lot more too bringing their MBT’s to level field with others. Since Chinese MBT’s would get a reload speed reduction down to 6s, a whole -1.1s buff, with their reload speed and armor that is huge.
I disagree to your disagreement. T-80Us and the BVM are some of the weakest top tier tanks, because of their reload, it’ll be more balanced now that they have their true reload. Just like how the hstvl, rdflt, and T58 all in the USA tree have their true reload