You do realize that this grove, the turret ring sits higher than it? I’ve been around enough abrams to know this before hand, but now I have used your own provided evidence. It probably sits roughly 0.5 of an inch out of that grove if not taller.
Well what I’m getting at, is anything but T-90m in game doesn’t have modeled armor around the auto loader. Even then, their is an inch or two around the auto loader of spaced, thus even if warped metal was twisted to “jam” it, the force it could probably move would still be enough to by pass that.
Well I think if they just buff the health up to a decent level, it may be better.
It’s hard to implement that kind of realism, of certain shots not absolutely destroying the auto loader if they miss pretty much everything.
Currently, even if a round goes through and hits nothing, it almost always fully disables the loader.