Somua Tank Gun Handling

Ok Samua has one of the longest guns in the game when it comes to tanks. Yet this tank and all its versions have insane gun handling and are able to get their guns on target faster that most tanks, way faster that IS-6 and T10a that makes no sense. Such long guns but are able to get them on target quicker, this has to be fixed, small turret huge gun yet gun handling and ability to put gun on target is better than IS tanks that I dont think is true.

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Ok thanks for the update, I am comparing its gun to lets say a vehicle that has a similar gun and turret design to a tank such as the JaPZ in German tech tree. The JaPz has much harder time in getting its gun on target and flops around more than the somua is there any reason why?

I haven’t played either of those vehicles, but in my experience the wobbling that prevents the gun from stabilising and getting on target owes more to suspension qualities than the gun itself (and lighter vehicles do tend to have a more wobbly suspension, though there’re probably counterexamples).

Not even close, better vertical drive btw

I’m not sure i understand completely what you mean here, the JaPz is faster in it’s aiming.

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I see, yes based on the stats card it is faster. Maybe playing the JaPz at 8.7 feals a bit different than the somua at 7.7. Thanks for the reply I might consider getting the somua at some point.

I have never played the object how does it compare to the Somua?

A glass cannon, the Somua is a better vehicle overal

Yes I feal like the Somua overpowers a lot of vehicles and its gun handling seems to be really good in comparison to tanks at the 7.7 br.

It kinda is specially due to the overperforming armour

Armor is very good on the Somua, except the turret but it is a small turret and at time harder to hit.

The thing is that it shouldnt the ufp was 75mm thick
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/pKM4KNvfB2bU

I see so the devs have doubled the upper frontal palte in armor value?

Yes, it would’ve 75mm/58º
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