Mobility only gives you better chance to take better positions early against clueless players, any experienced player will check those places before even moving forward.
My best tanks are like the Chinese tanks excluding the vt4 but regardless they also have larger weak points.
Your first sentence is my point anyone can argue anything when it comes to skill so its pointless to include skill as a reason as to why something is good or bad.
Jesus lol at this point you are literally trolling. You two talking about the T-90M correct?
How do you remain hidden when there is a useless mg that is 100 foot tall? the sep v2 literally have the same problem. Wanna sneak around, try T-80bvm or Leos, not the freaking t-90m with that mg turret bro don’t even bother
In case you didn’t noticed that goes for almost every other tank as well, its not something special to Abrams nor T-90M.
Not to mention at close distance you will spot BVM or Leo2 regardless because they also have rooftop MG’s. Tactic I mentioned works on medium to long range.
The italian 2A7 is similar, even if you wanted to go passive, peeking the hill with binocular will expose your mg to the enemies. It’s impossible to sneak around with these things, feels like arcade. the leopard PSO also less concealed compare to the german 2A7. That’s why the SEP V1 and the 12.0s are just better than the V2 especially in a br where miliseconds matter.
SEP V1 also suffers from same issue if you want to keep TUSK attached and honestly Gaining extra 50 cal and plus side Era against autocannons/missile carriers are more benefitting than trying to be sneaky all the time in my book.
In the end its all about positioning and first rule of onion.
I removed all of them, extra weight but adding zero significant protections. Similar like the chicken coop from the m1128, only slow your shit down for nothing.
The extra 50cal is good since it can be used even after the commander is dead however side era (IMO) does not do much against autocannons or missile (missiles with tandem charges) at 12.7. Besides the tusk, it also add mine plate which decrease the mobility a lot
Tbh it saved me more than couple times against autocannons so I prefer to keep it, not to mention ERA itself can cause overlapping and plus extra 50 cal is bonus in my book.
In the end its all about personal preference whether you keep TUSK kit or not so I’m not oppose any idea in this case.