What a surprise that a light tank has no armor. Ever considered that armor isn’t everything? This is like saying a tank should be sent to 1.0 just because it can be penned by 1.0 guns.
Light tanks in this game are legit more annoying to face than mbts with working armor, because of no-armor-best-armor bs you will constantly find your apfsds deleting one crew at a time, furthermore they often hit harder than mbts of the same br.
playing russia 10.3 now is like playing handicapated mode, combination of shitmodes/teams on crappy tanks, the crying entitled gringos achived to make this BR unplayable for CCCP.
I agree they’re not very strong but today i was playing the strv 121b I shoot a turms, basket turns red, he turns his turret and one shots me, just like that, that’s the average experience of playing against them using the leopard. I’d take a t-72b 1989 over the 2a4 any given day, I’m a soviet tank guy, screw leopards man, all of them. Rant over.
I started germany and then did russia because of percived bias. Armor really doesnt do a whole lot for you because average engagement range is probably 400m at best and going for weakspots even without rangfinding is trivial for most players in higher tiers.
Lack of gun depression (please dont say some bs about lower profile making up for it) and terrrible to mid reverse gear is what makes russia a pain to play. Ground meta is all about abusing 3rd person camera behind cover and quickly shooting and getting behind said cover. Taking 1-2 seconds longer while exposing yourself to get depression then reversing significantly slower than HATO tanks on most cases means you probably expose yourself 2x as long peeking out of cover which is awful, if you are scouted forget about it.
Russia gets all the hate from either bad players who cant shoot lfp/breach or deserved hate for egregious imbalance in spaa and pretty cancerous helis and CAS but that gap is starting to close at least some.
Russian air is still been mid as hell forever, r27ER still out best missile 3? Years later. R77 is such a dissapointment compared to aim 120.
Funny how you never mention that your Russian tanks don’t do well against the US Tanks in upper tiers. There’s a reason for that. If you think 10.3 Russian is bad? Give the US tech tree a shot LOL.
Those simulators provide ZERO data when compared to in-game. That 2S38 takes main gun rounds from modern tanks and results with ZERO damaged components. It’ll pen, but will it actually disable or damage any part of the tank? Different story.