Side armor only plays a role based on skill of the player.
Maus is on-par with T32E1, and they all can deal with 8.7s with others, which your team has as well.
Maus has two guns, more armor all around, better pen and more explosive filler with similar reload time with the t32e1. the only thing the t32e1 is better at is its mobility.
The Maus has 1 main gun and a smoke launcher.
Similar armor when angled, worse armor when not.
And worse mobility than the Maus.
Buddy it has two guns because both can fire shells that can kill
Last time I checked APCBC 312mm of pen from the 128mm and 224mm APCBC from the 90mmis NOT similar. Am I wrong?
Maus has over 200mm of amor when not angled frontally. Sure the t32e1 has more turret armor but thats it.
And yes thats what i said
Stats are the worst way to balance a vehicle. Stats can be very biased. Look at poor France and that’ll show how balancing based on stats works.
Im not gonna lie man, france aint suffering anymore.
It has certain tanks which are over brd aka the char 25T.
But most the other stuffs fine where it is.
And yes ive played france, came back to it after about 2 years to try get the leclerc again and ive had to grind out the new additions at the 9.7/10.7 area 😑.
Using the overall statistics aka its earnings to balance works to a degree, im not saying its perfect, but for tanks such as t32E1. It is fine where it sits.