Yes but you need consider numbers .for example Germany and Italy only have 1 A7
And NATO in fact 2 years do not get any new top MBT, but Russia at 2025 join 3 new top power tank(B3A BMPT BMPT72) BMPT is cannot be ignored factor , many times BMPT is more eff than any MBT
No way is the T-72B3A considered a proper top tier MBT, that thing is actually trash.
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At least they do, rather than like in Germany, 6 months <45 win rate and only get boxer
tbh the IFVs for top tier on russia are kinda eh. Dont get me wrong, shit like 2S38 and BMP2M are very strong especially for their low BR, but for 12.7-13.0 personally if i want to play a good light tank and not just try to get into a plane as fast as possible (the main use of the russian light tanks for 13.0 for me) id rather be in something else.
That doesnt mean that the 2S38 or BMP2M are bad at top tier, far from it, but they do have some negatives. Coincidentally both have been far overshadowed by BMPT as it is everything BMP2M is but better. Even without scouting it is able to generate SP very fast and easy and has much higher staying power (broken damage model) than regular BMP2M that you are able to overpressure by hitting the grenade launcher ammo on the rooftop.
While BMP2M and 2S38 for 13.0 were generally glass cannons, being able to just style on MBTs if they were able to get the first shot out, the BMPT is just a tungsten cannon.
the best probably not, but in the top 3 after leos and abrams personally yes.
I used to put abrams below the T-tanks previously, but i played a shitton of Sep and SepV2 pre SM SV addition and while it is significantly more fragile than a T-Tank i prefer it over them as they feel a bit more nice to play with the gun handling and transmission.
As for the russian survivability.
Not every engagement is going to be in an isolation where people can say “just shoot the LFP” and added armor can and does make a difference. Russian tanks are at the same time much more forgiving and easier to play (literally had a match with T90M where I got shot by 122, it penned and only damaged autoloader after which i just killed it because my drives were unaffected) and more annoying to play than western tanks. You have good round and armor and dont get cucked by ultra massive basket but lack reverse gear and gun depression.
Personally i like T90M way more than BVM as it has actual turret protection.
crap? no
disadvantaged? yes
Playing type 10/tkx/type90/tkxp especially now with the basket is giving me ultra pain
it doesnt exactly matter if they call it light tank or tank destroyer, hell the thing isnt even categorized as that in reality so thats kinda pointless. Effectively it is an autocannon light tank on a heavy chassis without scouting but with ammo box.
And as for usability, it is infact still way more than usable at 12.7+ than what people think. After the 11.3 uptier change happened i just started to bring it to 13.0 and there have been effectively 0 issues. The fact its still at the BR its at is actually mental.
The ability to be hulldown effectively invincible and even when not hull down outside of LFP hits be a chunk of granite is just stupid.
This was for example a 13.0 match where i only brought BMPT and Mi35P while uptiered due to friend bringing Rafale and that was before SM SV was added to make russia even more protected from CAS which was one of the main things i kept dying to in BMPT
in the current top tier environment, doing CAS with NATO planes that are not Su30MKM is basically CBT adventure. Ive been playing a lot of SM SV
(as the only vehicle in the lineup) and that thing can shut down effectively everything, from my 161 deaths around 5-6 are to CAS (i am not joking*). Which is ridiculous. Unless youre on a very SPAA-hostile map like Sinai or Rhine for example, you can just shut down any and all planes and helicopters. Slow glide bombs and mavericks dont really pose a threat for the new pantsir and for typhoons with brimstones doing close range pop ups you can either kill them super fast thanks to 95Ya6M or just pop smoke.
*1 was to Mi28NM, i remember that because my missile failed to proxy on LMUR, 1 was to Z10ME where i didnt even notice the BA11s it fired after i killed it, one was to a typhoon that dropped paveway 4s on me while i was tunnel visioned on another typhoon. The other 2 or 3 i no longer remember but i kept the count.
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BMDs and ZBD russian/chinese IFVs have 2 cannons (1 main with HE and ATGM shells, 1 autocannon). As you said 2S38 and BMP2M are very strong. Russia has BMPT. They all have very high fire rate. Very high accuracy. High mobility compared to some wheeled NATO IFVs.
In comparaison, NATO has crappy bushmasters , 1 or 2 high fire rate autocannons, otherwise only Sweeden has good competitive IFVs (big deal) (they don’t even have IRST btw, so their proxy HE shells are useless).
It’s so unfair and unbalanced, I don’t even understand why people would want to play something else than Russia or China (I mean I know, if they’re in the same situation than I am, aka grinded a NATO nation for thousand of hours, all that for nothing in the end).
the best probably not
I’m just referring to what the market (player base) play and queue the most. They play and queue Russia and Germany the most, so t-series and Leos are the best out there. Abrams go right after, and then all the crappy nato MBTs as leclercs/challys/arietes/types/merkavas
But russian mbts are biased : eras/side armor/autoloaders eat darts and atgms like if they were nothing, tiny weakspots (gotta go pixel hunting), nearly equal mobility as other nato mbts, good firepower, no basket or fcs, …
Leos get cucked in comparaison
crap? no
disadvantaged? yes
It’s all about relative performance in this game. Why would you play the worse MBTs, when you can play the best, the META ?
That’s the reason why Russia wins big majority of top tier game. Yes types merkavas leclercs arietes chally abrams are not unplayable, but they’re bad compared to t-series and leos
What crazy Russia bias
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The issue is not that every Russian vehicle is individually overpowered.
The issue is that at BR >10.3 Russia combines,
1st and 2nd in combination are the most important:
- strongest SPAA coverage
- strong CAS options
- highly survivable MBTs
- competitive IFVs
- favorable stock grind progression
- highly synergistic lineups
As long as one nation can dominate every battlefield layer simultaneously (ground, air, anti-air), the perception of bias will remain.
Balancing individual vehicles is not enough — the ecosystem must be considered.
If balance is the goal, solutions could include:
- BR adjustments for Pantsir-S1 and 2S6
- equal access to modern SPAA systems for other nations
- normalization of stock grind RP requirements
- review of spall and ERA interaction mechanics
Until then, the current top tier environment will continue to favor Russia disproportionately.
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Don’t forget about all the russian shadow buffs, and nerfs on purpose in NATO side.
NATO IFVs suck (Spikes/MMPs basically useless, bushmaster autocannon useless). Russian ERAs/side armor in general/autoloaders eat DARTs like they were nothing, for some reason. NATO MBTs armors are too weak, compared to IRL. Their shells are too weak as well (they have 1990’s shells, not shells from todays). Tiger helicopters and italian AH-129D are basically at the same BR than AH-64E/Mi-28NM, but are way, way worse than them. Sweeden doesn’t even have a top tier heli. Russia has that KH-38T missile which doesn’t even exist. And so much more.
It’s all of those nerfs on purpose NATO side, and shadow buffs on purpose Russia side, that makes the difference in battles. Russia largely wins because of these
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You gotta complain to the Swedish government for that one, Sweden is already lucky that they even got the Mi-28A and AHS.
Well if you are that good of the game, well then don’t bother to argue with him
It started to feel like a job to keep denying everyone on the forum.
Technically speaking you can slap longbow radar and 114L’s to AHS and make it top tier helicopter but we both know Gaijin will refuse to do that.
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Imo the F-16AJ and KH38MT are already questionable and should be removed, so I’m also against an even more fake AHS.
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I mostly just look here in between matches, work breaks or simply when I’m bored.
Telling some of the true low skill players (not the person I quoted in the message you replied to, they are quite decent) is funny, especially when they pull all kind of mental gymnastics to deny that they are simply just mediocre at the game.
Yeah I know, was just pointing out on technicality.
Besides the point I mentioned is far more real than those vehicles/armament.
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DM53 and the US top tier shell are the 2 best rounds in the game. (I’m not counting the 292’s apfsds because it’s an event glass cannon tank)
This is because apfsds spall is calculated based on residual penetration, DM53 and M829A2 have the most penetration out of all top tier shells. This gives them more residual penetration when shooting targets, meaning more spall.
The abrams pretty much objectively has the best firepower out of all top tier MBTs due to having the 2nd best top tier round in the game, 5s reload and great gun handling.
Ok so ?
I’m saying they should have even more penetration meaning they should have their current very modern shell. I don’t care about your explainations
Not being able to shoot russian MBTs UFPs while Russia can is crazy
LFP doesn’t exist ig, as well as every other weakspot
They don’t need it though, that’s the thing.
I believe this is a case of “my steak too juicy, lobster too buttery”
So then why do they perform so badly in the hands of the median player?