While only Gaijin themselves know why the Radkampfwagen has a higher BR, my guess would be that they see the better survivability and the higher power to weight ratio (resulting in overall better mobility) as enough of an advantage over the Rooikats to give it a higher BR.
However, I have to say that I sometimes feel like someone on the dev team has a certain level of bias towards the South African vehicles lol (except for the TTD, that thing is just a bit sad overall)
It can keep the DM33. The pen advantages DM33 gives it over other light vehicles @ 9.0, such as the PTL02/WMA, are balanced out by other factors, including its lack of mobility (for a light vehicle), trash-tier thermals, etc, etc. Heck, WMA301 even gets HE-VT in addition to roof 12.7mm, giving it great anti-helicopter protection (and any jets that choose to get too close).
What factors balance it out with the PTL02? Because that thing doesnt get the HE-Vt or the atgm, so it only have a better thermals than the MTTD, meanwhile the MTTD gets a better round, much better reload, better protection against .50 cal, better gun handling, commander override, better gun depression, and better mobility (dont know why you claim that it has worse, when it has better hp/ton, better reverse and top speed), heck the MWA only get HE-VT and the atgm but also trades with a much worse apfsds over the MTTD. Not sure what other factors are you claiming…
Such a bad change, like making Chieftain MK10 a foreveralone without a proper line up is a good choice lol what the hell they were thinking? just remove the dm33 and move it back down. Brits only have one mbt at 9.0 and it should have roll along with the Rooikat. Ru so bloated as they has four mbts at 9.0 and Germany has one and the TAM, USA has two mbts and no light tank, once their main vehicle dies you are putting 8.7s/8.3 up agaist 10.0s during an uptier.
USA also 2 usable SPAAs but look at how stacked the Chinese 9.0 is.
Oh the chinese how can I forget that, two ztz-88s which is better than t-55am everywhere, one m60 that recently received the dm33, one td that shoots 3bm42 equivalent and having 5 seconds reload timer, and one busted ATGM carrier. And don’t forget the premium type 69 that also shoot dm23 and carry hevt, so they have four mbts
And all the Brits have is ONE Chieftain? LUL
China actually has 9 9.0 vehicles lol.
M60 TTS, ZTZ 88A, ZTZ 88B, PGZ 09, PTZ 89, PLT 02, AFT 09, WMA 301, T-69 II G
Admittedly USSR also has a lot of 9.0 vehicles but many of them are overtiered. Germany doesn’t have a ton either and the Leo 1A1A1 is kinda mid but the Alpha Jet at 9.0 is just vile.
The Rooikat is more mobile than the WMA/PLT especially in reverse. The survivability is what sets them apart. The Chinese wheeled tanks just don’t want to die sometimes and the 5 crew do help with that compared to the 3 the Rooikat MTTD has.
Germany has like two vehicles if we don’t count that barn-sized goofy-looking light tank, admittedly chieftain mk10 that doesn’t expose its hull will easily solo these two, along with a bunch of T-55s and chinese version actually has no match against it, head-on they are like 50/50 as non of them could take a hit from the 120mm, facing a hull-down chieftain they are 9/10 time fked. But hey, the chinese has a mediocre line up at top tier so this is the only br they shine lol
German A1A1 is no slouch if you sit back and snipe, get that market place barn then you will have two heimdall with 15.9x gunner sight zoom, more zoom than any top tier mbts in the game lol
why rooikat is slow?
Good thing many players can’t think and justbrun into you repeatedly. As soon as the Chieftain gets pressed the cracks start to show and the -11kph reverse and aced 7.5s reload turn into a problem. Maybe if the ammo was placed better it could work in cqb but the wall of charges in front of the engine guarantee that a shot into the hull kills you.
What about the CV90120? Doesn’t it have some insane zoom too?
Commander sight yes, at 24x but gunner only at 10.5x. Only Italian puma beats them at 16.7x lol
German Heimdalls with 15.9x gunner sight:
Leopard 1
Leopard A1A1
Class 3
Leopard 2K
Radpanzer
PT-16
anything to get those bricks moved lower to maybe stand a chance
Vfm sucks balls my ass it’s like the best 9.3 light tank.
Amazing punchy gun. Great traverse speed. (Small side thing: turret ring is actually sloped forward a little bit which gives another degree or two to gun depression. I haven’t tested it but from battle experience seems to go to certain spots -10s cant.) 7 round ready rack replenishes quickly. Tiny size with amazing mobility and quiet engine.
But that’s just paper stats. It’s real secret I’ve seen or heard nowhere else is it’s ungodly, unholy survivability. Sure it’s armor is shi. But it can survive wayyy to much.
Things I’ve survived (just a few)
-Multiple direct hits of 120mm+ APFSDS. (By direct I mean to center of mass/ driver hatch)
-Direct turret cheek hit of 152mm apfsds- commander and gunner survived.
-Multiple Abrams hits to same turret cheek- only commander wounded
-Sustained fire from Beglietpanzer 3+ seconds into hull
-Sustained fire from BMD-4s 5+ seconds
-~7 seconds of marder a3 shooting side (with APDS)
-Bursts of fire from XM800T (with APDS)
-Over 8 3UBM22 (2s38) penetrations
IDK if it’s just me but it literally is one of the tankiest vehicles I’ve ever played. I think it’s cause the modules are relatively big cause 105 gun and traverse stuffed into tiny tank. But I absolutely love it and have no problems with my VFM5 (or vfemy as I call it)
See my above reply.
Also: commander optic 1-8x and zeros vertically and horizontally when you laser rangefind. (So same aiming as scope basically) Plus it has drone to know of stuff around you and you can shoot in 3rd person. Personally I do the test drive track in 3rd person again and again till I can nail the t64 at 1200m. (In all my like ~8.7+ vehicles)
Even if the FoV does restrict seeing a guy as I mentioned above its ungodly tanky and you probably won’t die. (Which can’t even be said for the Chally 1s)
Vickers Mk.11 is the most horrible light and is horribly overtiered like the Desert Warrior. VFM is a massive upgrade over it.
And IMHO having thermals is a privilege not a right or anything. If you need thermals to do good that’s a skill issue.
Yes yes Britain does get them sort of early but gen1s are basically useless. (Like yes they can sometimes occasionally be nice) But with drone and 10x you should have no trouble. I hardly even use drones to aid myself (if I use it which is rare it’s to help my team) and I still think it’s completely fine.
Hell yeah the Olifant Mk.1A is the best 8.3 in the game you cannot change my mind.
South African vehicles typically are pretty good and great fun. The TTD should definitely go down to 10.0 or they should fix the composite armours multipliers (doesn’t stop like any atgms and is like 0.5 against kinetic. Easily gets penned in full downtiers.)
But TTD can certainly be very fun and I don’t mind it.
Rad 90 is faster, has better handling, better armor (really, it’s far more survivable and nigh immune to a lot of autocannons), among other things.
and for this is 10.0 “better armor” yeah vs 25mm canon max + no thermal…
I don’t think you quite understand. it can tank any autocannon to the turret, some APFSDS/HEAT/APDS, most autocannons to the hull, has 7 more HP/T, turns like 4 times better due to all-wheel steering with better response and more degrees of turning. It fixes most problems with wheeled vehicles.
The Rad 90 can tank autocannons while the other ones die to 20mm or 50 cals. The armor absolutely matters in this case.