Any APDS can punch through the armour and transmission. this sounds like a skill issue. just aim for the crew, you’ll immobilse it then get the crew on the other side.
It does for anyone with an IQ over 90. you can see the ricochet angles on rounds, the ambrams has it’s angled 83 degrees from the vertical, the 103s have construction angles of 79 degrees on their UFP and 72 on their lower, but their lack of a turret means that it’s almost always worse. the 100% ricochet angle is 81 degrees and the 50% is 80. can you understand that?
Go and test APDS rounds, on vehicles even as low as 7.7, they reliably pen the front and pass through the transmission.
Just because the round doesn’t ricochet doesn’t change how effective armor thickness works. You don’t need an IQ of over 90 to understand this, you just need to have played the game.
Have you played with 1st gen apds before? Its angle performance is terrible, making the armor on the strv 103 even better against them. I don’t get how you are reliably penning through the entire tank, but the tank you are using is clearly not from 7.7
I don’t mean to be rude, and try not to, but In my experience I have never easily taken out a strv 103 without tracking it, or flanking it in some way or another. The whole point of having your engine and transmission in the back is so your crew survives. That is my stance on the topic. though I have yet to try this
Most apds in game cannot pen it, only the chieftain apds and the m728 can actually pen it(neither are at 7.7), and even this can bounce off as they have a 100% at 90º and a 50% at 78º, it also stops short rod apfsds like the 3bm25, the 3bm3 or the t320, some of thise like the t320 is extremely likely to ricochet as they have a 100% chance at 78º.
not gonna lie mate, what the hell are you saying. if you cannot over pressure the roof of an STRV103 with a 152 mm heat round then you really, really are suffering of skill issue.
I have spaded most ground vehicles. APDS has fine angled pen, and it still goes straight through the armour of the 103s. So, i say go and test it for yourself, and instead you don’t do that, cast doubt on the statement and then attribute false claims to me. i never said anything about “penning through the entire tank”
So you go and play pixel hunter and then try to use that as evidence? do i need to post some stupid pictures of tigers blocking shots from 12.0s?
They’ve moved up a lot of those vehicles to 8.0. All of those vehicles and even 7.7 ones will pen the LFP 100% of the time, resulting in at least the complete immobilisation of the vehicle.
You seem to be missing the entire point. ANY penetration completely immobilises this vehicle that has no turret. how are you not seeing how that alone is an enormous disadvantage? have you even used the 103? it’s really bad.
