Rework of the AMX-40 and potentially adding the variant E4

the AMX-40 as it is in game is just… it has nothing except the shovel and is used only to grind the top tier to get the leclerc , and his X-Ray model is just to old , there is so many modules that are not present that has been added to the game , and it’s stats are not even the reel one , only the turret flank is correct ^^’

so i decide to search , and search , and search… and i understand why it was empty , there si so little info of the tank , and even little for the interior ; little but not nothing!

so here is my suggestion that you can debate if i’m dumb or not that i want for the french tech tree

so lets start with the biggest problem , his armor , the AMX 40 were design to resist , chassis AND turret up to 100mm heat-fs and up to 75mm apfsds on the frontal part of the tank , something clearly not the case in game , but the dev made the armor of many tanks without knowing the looking of it and should have at least respect the armor , for the flank the amx-40 were suppose to resist up to 23mm cinetic ammo (it is like a said the case for the turret in game but not for the chassis)

his engine is 1200 hp and the tech in it like the thermal are suppose to be almost leclerc level , because it was suppose to be an export tank yes , but also a tech test , with many tech when it was scrap used for the leclerc

the armor has a hole in the turret to let pass the 20mm and it’s movement systems and the ammo are in a safe rack(idk what mm of armor it is) to prevent the whole tank to explode , the 20mm ammo are suppose to have a ammo belt like the AA that the crew just take and put when a belt is empty (if add in the game can be a a weak spot)

it doesn’t have driver module , proper electric module , and the aiming component aren’t exact

for my suggestion , there is a egyptian variant with correction that was suppose to be buy by them that never got achieved (only 1 fully fontionnal produce )
that has big number of correction like the 20mm replace by a simple machinegun to be able to close the armor hole
the frontal armor is upgrade to be able to tanked up to 105mm heat-fs AND apfsds , no change for the flank armor
the shovel isn’t here and the motor pass to 1300hp

for my link to support what i said , there is not many because of idk the reason , i will post them just below with some info

here you jave more detail information and even some video of the interior that can be used to help correct modules

this link is more info :

https://dev.armyrecognition.com/europe/France/vehicules_lourds/AMX-40/AMX_40_France_description.htm

for the screen i got here it is :

a draw of the interior of the tank (not very clear with a comparison of the X-Ray in game )

for the E4 variant here it is a screen break in 2 where you can see (in french) all the modification made and the hole in the turret armor even wrote in it :

(for the 2nd part of the screen you have the redesign done on it )

i hope i don’t ask to much , or i hope it’s the right place to publish this

edit : in the draw from the last screen , from the top , you can clearly see the “armor block” draw ,that can help in case they add the E4

2nd edit : to ease the search for the video i will post it directly (hope don’t break my post), in the video you can even see the safe ammo rack , and how it work

last edit , it has commander direct control , with the possibility to fire from it (like the leclerc)

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I’d like to see more domestic vehicles to fill the gap from 9.7 and not copy-paste stuff like we already have in other trees (Leo 2A4 etc.)

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that totely fair to say , it would be better , and france have many pottential vehicule to add for the gap 9.7 to 11.7 , but before asking gaijing to add new vehicule and so vehicule model when they discard france italy and japan , it could be better to start by suggesting things that don’t need as much work

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by the way a made the video able to be seen directly on the post, i hope that will help

new udate of the amx 40 in game ,he has the secure ammo rack , but in the draw we can see he has only a 14 rack , but the empty space seems to have the electronic of the turret

One thing is there are no images of the E4 variant so, were you able to verify it existed, also I have only seen the blueprint of it but even then if there is no proper documentation it is hard to know if it existed especially cause seems the whole front of the turret was redesigned.