The British Scimitar vehicle is useless. Entirely 100% useless.
It cannot grind at all at 7.7, it has no penetration to deal with almost anything, it recoils too severely to aim well, and is not fast enough to operate as a light tank grinding via capping points (The fox, which is the same BR, will beat it to every cap point, as will the XM800s, often to the point that a Scimitar doesn’t even get the tablescraps).
This vehicle is so uselessly unbalanced it cannot function in the game. Even if it was 6.0 it would still fail to pen almost all its opponents.
It faces a spamload of armoured MBTs, Tiger II spam, Maus spam, heavy Soviet spam. The majority of its opponents will win as they need only fire a bad machine gun at it to win whilst its stock ammo cannot even side pen properly.
You also see a lot of BMPs, BTRs, Marders, Leopards, XM800s, Weisels, R3s, PHZ2000s and other things have forgotten.
So saying you cant penetrate “almost anything”.
Lowering the BR would not exactly help it since you would face less light tanks.
The 7.7 - 8.7 BR is where most of the light tanks you can kill are though
Simply put it, flank. The stock grinding isn’t great, but one you get the APDS it massively improves, the trick is to abuse the tiny size to take weird cover and such. With the APDS you can pen alot of things, including heavy tanks, lower front hulls normally works.
It’s definitely not the best, but it ain’t useless. Moving it down doesn’t help, as you face more heavily armored vehicles, and making the Scimitar see 5.7 would be questionable. And you can’t move it up, so yeah it’s in a rough spot.
Friendly reminder that regenerative steering, a concept that’s been in use since WW2, is still not modeled in game, resulting in both oversteer on some tanks with high horsepower, and those massive drops of speed the second you even consider turning.
It has now been 8 years since the suggestion was passed to the developers, and there’s still no word on it.
Not sure what links them then, but there are definitely quite a few vehicles that struggle from this. The Type 10s are another example that springs to mind.
It’s just a fox trading speed with some stable driving pair the two and your having a field day. Fox is rat king, scimitar is just its dimmer brother. It’s good, just the fox is better.
Not at all, Its slower than a centurion over rough ground and its steering is unrealistically sensitive, the gun is also a lot more bouncy than on fox while being worse armoured. It shouldn’t be lower unless it gets fixed