I’m not sure to why this thing got moved up to 9.0, I don’t see anyone talking about it.
Is it really that good? Is this justified?
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Not hugely justified, compared to other 9.0s it does not fit at all
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It’s not justified it was never and battle rating 9.0 to battle rating 10.0 are far better than any other former battle rating 8.7 vehicle, but reducing it to the previous battle rating should be followed by the others too for a fair treatment.
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I dont think so at all- The strv 105 should be 9.0, Strv 104, Strv 103C should all be around 8.7, not 9.0
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It’s quite BS to fight
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How so?
Goofy armor, tiny, powerful gun, LRF, and you needa kill all 3 crewmembers.
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my good sir, the Strv 103 can easily be penetrated by any HEAT (maybe not the 103C with the fence) or APFSDS round, and when it penetrates, you lose all mobility (transmission, engine, at least 1 crew member)
I mean yeah I get that it’s low profile with a LRF and Auto Loader, but let’s be real, the majority of the time those benefits are negated by the janky hull aim tweaking out.
Plus the armor is only good against Full Caliber and some APDS rounds.
Sincerely,
Someone who has played the Strv 103
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how the hell is that the same BR as chieftain mk10 lmao?
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The post is about the C variant.
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At 9.0, all that is negated by APFSDS though.
A single well placed shot will disable the tank entirely.
It’s also difficult to aim.
Yeah I s’pose so, but considering that 99.99% of tanks at 9.0 are using APFSDS anyways, or some advanced APDS, the fence doesn’t really matter or do anything.
It still faces lots of tanks without LRF or APFSDS
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Do you mind giving me some names of those tanks at 9.0? The ones that people uses, that is.
First that comes to mind are the various M60s, aswell as most IFVs and the T95E1
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M60A3 TTS has APFSDS though, that’s the most commonly used one at 9.0.
The round goes right through the Strv-103C with no issues.
I don’t see why this thing being moved up is fair at all.
Tanks without LRF:
T-10M
IS-7
AMX-30 ACRA
Object 906
Chieftain Mk3
Chieftain Mk5
Centurion Mk.10
Type 59
Leopard 1
Pretty much all ifvs and APCS that dont carry apfsds or carry low pen apfsds
All spaa
All rocket carriers without tandem
Not to mention the tanks that carry only 1 of APFSDS or LRF:
M60A1 Rise
T62
T55a
Leopard 1A1
(countless others in 8.0-9.0 bracket)
Or those that carry only shortrod APFSDS that acts more like glorified apds when meeting an angle:
All of m735 carriers
Most russian/chinese tanks
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It’s armour is worthless at 9.0 and 8.7. it’s is entirely immobilised on any frontal penetration. it can only aim where it’s driving. it’s so slow in hull aiming mode that you need to switch it off to drive, then back on to fire, and hull aiming still bugs out and goes from bad to unusable depending on the gradient of the slope you’re on. the gun is weaker than it should be, either due to gaijin’s endless retardation or their endless bias it’s rounds have the ballistics of an L/52 gun despite being L/62, over a metre longer.
If anything it probably have been moved down to 8.3. the 103A isn’t too bad at it’s BR because it’s armour sometimes does something. the 103C is really not good to play.
APDS will still easily go through it’s frontal armour.
Some of those tanks can still fight Strv-103C regardless of it moving up or not, though.
The armor on it is worthless anyways like @Hannarr said, I don’t see the point of it being moved to 9.0.