I made a thread about this before. I did not have experience with the tank then. But now I can confidently say that it is complete garbage at 9.0. I was already struggling at 8.7 (I heard that I didn’t experience it so idk) now at 9.0 its just useless. Dont tell me just position yourself better. Any and every tank will outperforming it in any given situation. The armor is useless since 9.0 faces darts all the time. No turret so it cant fire on the move nor peek around corners. One shot to center of mass basically kills you. The 4 second reload isn’t even special since that one Chinese td has a better shell+same reload+turret and stab.
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Now you know how others felt when that thing was getting free kills on 7.7
Enjoy
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T55m was the main perpetrator of the downtier massacre. I don’t think I ever spawned 103c as a choice.
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Its little brother 103 A is still massacring WWII/Post WWII tanks
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Yeah as a 103a abuser myself I can definetly say that its way more op than the 103c. Its still nuts. The armor made up for its shortcomings but I always thought of the 103c as a downgrade and now I think its not even worth using. I honestly bring the 8.0 ush 405 over the 103c and always do better than the 103c
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You have a better K/D in the 103C than a large majority of any other tank you have played.
Looking at Realistic battles and ALL vehicles you’ve played it’s in 9’th place, if i filter out rank 1 and 2 it’s in 5’th place for K/D (death per ground kill) for all your vehicles. (you have not played it that much admittedly so not super accurate but still)
I don’t know what you’re comparing it to but at first glance this is likely more a case of hitting the wall of progression that usually happens at rank 5-6 somewhere and you’re getting frustrated with the time it takes to progress (this is just a guess though).
You can see vehicle info and sort by custom columns here: (https://statshark.net/) just search your name, check stats and create custom sorting if you want :)
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Since you compared it to the 103A:
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I have a better kd with the 103c bc I barely play it. I got like 10 spawns with it so its not really that hard to have a good kd with it. And stats definitely don’t show how good a tank is. I don’t know if you have the 103c but its just crap due to its design. The meta is shooting on the move and this thing takes longer to aim than ww2 tanks that don’t have stabs. The main reason of making the tank was to have it armoed and have an autolaoder which the autoloader thing still more than holds up at 9.0 but the armor is literally useless since everything gets apfsds. I recommend trying both the 103c and the 103a you will certainly agree with me that the 103a is much more op and should have been the one to move up
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He said doo doo . . .
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21 respawns vs 300+ respawns ofc my kd is better with the c
Look at the image above, it’s performing almost exactly as well as the 103A for you on all categories.
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Well if i check my statshark you can clearly see that my kd is 0.5 and I am a below average player. My stats should not be taken into consideration when balancing a vehicle
Well, at 20 matches played you don’t even have it spaded yet, i don’t think you can really comment on how a vehicle performs until it’s spaded (but that’s just a personal opinion), so to even have it close to the 103A in stats in those few first stock games is better than you think.
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Not really, this month:
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yeah am not spading that. The armor doesnt get better when you spade vehicles unless you are the t64b of course :) . The 103c armor sucks for its battle rating. You might say that I shouldn’t rely on armor but its hard to not rely on the armor of a tank designed around the armor itself.
The 103 isn’t designed around its armor, it’s designed to be a mobile anti tank gun that can dig itself hull down and sit there and wait to ambush tanks. It’s a defensive tank ment to camp areas and/or snipe from hills. It’s got a really fast backwards gear so you can peek a hill, shoot and hide very effectively.
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mind if i take a little peek at ur statshark
Not at all, go ahead :)
Do mind though that i haven’t played Sweden in a long while, i’ve been grinding out USA USSR and now Britain :)
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yeah from what i see you havent played the 103c lately. Or at least its not in your latest sessions. I don’t know how good it was at 8.7 since I didn’t have it at that time but I think you should give it another go
I’ve only played it at 8.7 that is true. But at that BR:
It’s 7’th in K/D for me of all tanks rank3 and up.
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fair enough ill give it another try. I jsut don’t think it deserves 9.0 there is a true 9.0 purpose made tank destyoer and it blows the 103c out of the water. The Chinese one gets a turret+stab+same 4 sec autoloader. I do not think the 103c is the same performance as that tank.
The nature of the 103 makes it bad outside of the very specific situation where it was supposed to dominate.
WT’s match are the antithesis of that situation, also the main issue of the Strv that is mouse aiming is entirely dependant on the quality of the simulation of automotive parts. In WT it’s really bad.
Currently to be effective with the 103C, you need knowledge of every map, and of every killzone you can setup on each one, and then stick to that.
You are afforded a few extra spots from conventional tanks thanks to the design, but they’re not that significant, sticking with the old reliables is fine.
The Strv-103 is to MBT design what bullpup was to firearms, except worse.
Personally I like both anyway because cool factor will always beat hard stats.
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