Russian tanks are overrated as hell

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as someone who is grinding russia.

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i have felt the MBTS are not good at all, they are squishy, bad gun handling, mediocre rounds etc

the armor is extremely bad, its so squishy its insane, i have gotten pennerated on ufp by so many rounds on the T72B3 and the T80U its insane, the armor isnt reliable, and you get killed in a instant when you penetrated, fuel explosion are the most common, even got shot in the engine and i died because of fuel explosion, its pretty bad, the survivability is basically zero. the only tank i was able to be somewhat aggressive with was the T90A, thats it maybe it will get better when i get the T80BVM and the T90M right?(coping hard)

bad gun handling is to a important point, only the T72B3/A, T80BVM, and T90M have good gun handling and even then the gun depression and gun elevation is rather abysmal all around for the whole T72 and T64 family

the rounds you get are fine, but those at top tier feel kinda lackluster to like M829A1 and DM53 on L/44 guns, i guess they do the job, just wished for better ones.

the some what good things i can say is the speed, they are HELLA fast its crazy, with only being around 46~ tons and having over 1000+BHP is crazy, but thats where the good part ends, the reverse is the worse thing about, 4km and 11km feels EXTREMELY low, making the good fast top speed completely useless

oh yeah also the turret roof, you can just shoot above the breach with 500+mm rounds and it will take out one of the crew(or sometimes both) and will everytime disable the breach, its kinda annoying and only the T90M is immune to this, sadly.

the reload is fine, 7 second is kinda long but its fine, usable no complaints, and 6.0 for the T80s, is good, only the T80BVM gets 6.4 for 3BM60, reasonable because its longer rounds probably harder to load for the autoloader, no complaints here

the teams are so bad, even worse then USAians or german teams, because of the premiums

overall they are mediocre/okay MBTS for top tier, compared to leopards 2, abrams and challengers they are worst tanks i have laid my hands on, im not someone who is isnane at the game, but yeah, im VERY disapointed with how overhyped the russian MBTS are, its insanity, because of them i thought they will good i bet, but nah, hella underwhelming, might have went for france so i could’ve gotten leopards and leclercs and better teammates
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my win rate this month is 50% rn, but i remember played them start of this month and went from 64% last nov to 43%, the teams are not good at all, and at 11.7 they arent great either, they are enemies in blue kinda and barely help you, oblivious and many more things

so youll ask “why am i grinding them?” CAS, thats the reason, i wanna play my SU34 and SU30SM i grinded out in grb, thats it russia ground only is bad, the cas is the main reason its good, other than that id rather play italy at this point :p

thats all

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Guess what. Someone is still gonna call you russian bais.

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PLEASE expert your crews PLEASE
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I disagree with several aspects, but I understand you. Someone who plays with Abrams, Leopards, and Challengers will often try to use Russian MBTs in the same way, but do you know why the hype is exaggerated? Because people simply play badly.

Maybe they’ll show up and call you a liar, say you’re bad, call you a Russian or something like that.

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I really want to see the stats for the M1A2T… I really want to compare its stats to the USA Abrams… and I’m gunna guess that’s why USA mains don’t want it in other TTs.
so bets? it the ChinAbrams gunna be preforming better or worse stats than the USAbrams?

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you know that already haha

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I don’t think it’s going to perform much better than the US one.

US and Chinese players performed very similar in their M36, M55 and M48A1. Chinese M60A3 TTS currently has slightly better stats than the US one, but that might also be because it somewhat recently received DM33. So I’m not sure how much better the Chinese players will do in the Abrams.

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i only expert tanks i like<3

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I honestly haven’t looked at the China player numbers, given the population base of China it could go either way. It will be interesting to have a non-USA reference for the Abrams either way.

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Compared to Challengers???Russian bias enjoyer

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what

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You’re grinding after people started realizing that in CQC, side armor shots against T-series tanks is extremely strong.

You’re also getting the BVM which will be a turret armor reduction of ~30% compared to T-80U.

T-90M will be an armor upgrade, though.

T-80U has a surprising amount of non-ERA covered area people can shoot for, so much so that when HEATFS had 650mm of pen, that was the tactic to hit ammo… just shoot the tow hook of T-80Us.

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Most of this is complaining because you don’t understand the vehicles. Some of it is justified.

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I agree. However some of those heavy tanks I can literally repair and get shot while doing so and one shot them 🤣

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Its getting worse and worse…its almost not playable any more. Gijin is killing there own game. By making godmode vehicles. take for example the bmp-t Terminator. “Russian No Bias”…dont let me laugh. And its getting more and more ridiculus. Gijin self destruction is amazing. Just sell the damn game in stead of ruing it.

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Tanks? My one glaring issue with them is the LACK OF A REVERSE GEAR!!!11

But other than that the ever so calming peace that follows after realising you have checks notes at least 4 aircraft with Kh-38MT or 2 lives’ worth of Buk M3 to terrorise lobbies with so you dont spend another second on the ground.

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Struggling with one if not the most armored and fast mbt in the game?

Im playing chinese ztz96a (p) which its like a russian tank but worse, and its incredibly strong, turret and upper chasis armor tanking sabots, autoloader protecting me from ammunition explosions, very fast with decent reload, etc.

I had like 2 nukes the same day, It was years since I had a nuke.

Most of the maps are almost flat (the only one you may struggle its japan), so depression not much of a problem, in hull down you are almost invinsible.

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It’s a decent tank, but it is very much not fast, and 7 seconds is not a very decent reload. It’s one of the slowest MBTs for its BR, and I’ve found that even the Turms outruns it.

Even then, that things UFP is massive, and not being one shot means you’re facing people who can’t aim.

No Russian tank is anywhere close to the fastest either.

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then tell me, id love to hear you why am i wrong?