Honestly tired of arguing with someone that will never admit he’s wrong. (Just noticed you’re an extremely horrible player averaging 0.8 K/D).
I will only address this one last thing:
I don’t think you actually understand how effective the late M60 turret is. It can block 105mm APFSDS. I don’t think you’ve ever even checked it in the protection analysis. The turret is effective even up to 9.0 against modern ammunition - AND it’s coupled with -10 degrees of gun depression (like all the other Western MBTs…)
The T-54’s turret cheeks (where they flatten out) can be penetrated by many vehicles from 6.3-7.7. At 7.7 almost everything can. At 7.3 too.
That’s it from me. It’s pointless talking to a wall.
The T-54s entire existence is based on being incredibly well armored while also having a very powerfull gun for the price of having very poor firepower stats with long reload, slow turret traverse and gun depression angles.
It becomes obsolete the moment it fights vehicles that can penetrate it’s armor, meaning every vehicle above 8.0. However even lower BR vehicles can penetrate the turret when it’s angled to the sides or just straight up from the front while having superior weapon stats.
The only time it performs well in the game is when it’s armor works and it can use the APHE to kill vehicle in one shot.
So it needs to be at a BR where it can use it’s strenght but also isn’t too effective.
Which happends automatically when the reload is nerfed to make sense for a vehicle like it.
…If you’re using your -10 deg of gun depression, and your hull is hidden - the “thickest armor” is 95% of what you see… Brainless… And the hull front is about as effective as the T-54s… The LFP is better and the UFP is equivalent…
I don’t think you understand that when your gun is depressed onto an enemy over a ridge - the roof of your turret is at an angle relative to your barrel’s depression. That is to say - the cupola is also less visible, if at all…
The T26E5 Pershing has armor thick enough to actually withstand 100mm APHE. FYI. And that’s 6.7.
Of course - clearly, by your definition, the T-54 at 7.7 would be in a battle where the only BRs would be 6.7 and the single T-54 on the enemy team.
There wouldn’t be a whole other team full of 7.7s, 7.3s and 7.0s. No, it would just be 6.7s against the one single T-54. And that poor heavy Pershing (which is the best 6.7 HT in the game) that the T-54 wouldn’t even be able to penetrate.
And, of course - even if the Pershing were to somehow flank it, there’s no way it would ever be able to penetrate its 80mm side armor…
I can see that no matter what is said, you’re never going to learn. So I’ll be blocking you now.
The M26 or M26E1 pershing do not. and thats also 6.7. The entire middle BR range is subject to terrible compression. Not to mention every American MG port is a insane weakspot. Plus, the APDS would instantly kill it. (If your suggesting to remove the APDS and move it down to 7.7 it would just be a worse 1947 version, for no reason)
I don’t remember ever saying that the matchmaker worked like this. Do you? Anywhere? No…
The existence of 7.3 tanks doesn’t make it fair for T-54s to fight 6.7 M26s. Sure, I love the T26E5, but that is a direct upgrade over the M26 and M26E1 at the same BR. It’s a good vehicle.
Why should they? It’s a medium vs. another medium that is 1.0 BR higher.
What’s the logic there?
The M26s APCR can penetrate the T-54 turret from the front and the APHE of the M26E1 can easily kill the T-54 with the side of the turret exposed or can use APCR as well.
Both are able to use terrain much better for protection and can also shoot other vehicle much faster due to better turret traverse.
Also let’s consider that the M26E1 with the 90mm T54 cannon should have near identical reload rate of the M26 with 7.5s, while the T-54 shouldn’t reload faster than 10s. The M26E1 is going to be far more effective vehicle in a lot of scenarios, unless you put them against vehicles where even the T-54 has to use APDS or HEAT-FS.
Because they can’t pen the T54 from the front without loading a shitty APCR shell, and the T-54 can easily kill them both with a standard shell from the front. you shouldn’t just be easily killed in every uptier
I’m talking about real life performance. The shells for 90mm T54 cannon are even slightly shorter than the regular 90mm ammunition. It has no business having a longer reload time, appart from the shells being somewhat heavier.
So the M26E1 shouldn’t have that long reload time.
Well, it’s not that false either. In the Korean War (1950-1953) the Americans used the M26 and M46 in combat, and the T-54 are from 1947, 1949 and 1951. So in a hypothetical case of war with the Soviet Union at that time a confrontation between those tanks would be possible.