Well, you’d still need to hide the drivers port, breech, and gunner / commander port somehow.
If the T-72B3 ARENA and regular T-72B3 are 11.0 and 11.3 respectively, I think the T-72B3A should be 12.0, maybe even 11.7.
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T-72B3A is basically a worse-protected T-72B3 with gimmick APS. I can’t fathom how they are an entire BR away… they are a sidegrade at best; at most, T-72B3A should be a BR step above T-72B3, AKA; 11.7, as of now.
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In what way is it worse protected?
Missing the trolly Relikt bags on top of the skirts!
The Relikt is integrated into the sides instead though?
T-72B3 has Relikt skirts + Relikt bags on top of them; T-72B3A only has the basic skirts, without the bags.
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I guess it’s the extra 20mm KE + 600mm CE.
Not a huge increase in KE protection, but I can see where it may be trolly.
To be fair, with the AGM / F&F spam that’s going on lately, it’s actually quite useful.
Great another nerf to the PUMA VJTF and other 10.7-11.0 vehicles that use the SPIKEs. Can’t even model its angle of attack and now introducing more vehicles that can counter it. Why even bother bringing out IFVs anymore when the BMPT set the new bar for IFVs. Might as well just bring a full MBT lineup.
To be honest, IFVs at top tier were never good to begin with.
The addition of hull-down invulnerable BMPT and more APS just puts the nail in the coffin.
And the Spike launcher variants are overtiered by at least 0.3 BRs.
Yeah and apparently Gaijin thinks they’re fine where they are after the recent br patch. Not gonna lie this looks like its 11.0 specifically because of the Spikes being at the same br so the APS can actually do something. Its not like APS is useful at top tier where everyone brings MBTs. We have two MBTs in Russia that has APS, one tank in British line that has APS that can stop APFSDS, and one tank in Israel with trophy APS. It doesn’t really make sense to add another tank to russia with APS undertiered again, no surprise there, when they could have added a tank to another nation with APS. Im glad its an event tank and not TT but cmon this is stupid. Its ironic how the PUMA’s br is so high that its laser APS is useless but the t72 aps gets to be useful. I wonder when other nations get to have all their prototype vehicles added, sigh.
As if it were that simple, Russian teams rely on constant rushing and heavy armor. The matches that end quickly are the ones where Russian tanks rush in with BMPTs and T-series tanks, and there’s nothing the enemy team can do. After all, hitting weak spots on a frontal approach at high speed is a completely different story than hitting stationary targets. I’ve already lost several matches watching a million Russian tanks rushing and my team being decimated just minutes after the start, what is NATO’s superiority in this sense? If the entire map is covered in a few minutes, then there aren’t even spots where NATO tanks can play their role.
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Spike is so useless that I even forget it exists on the PUMA VJTF. I only use it against helicopters, and even for that, it’s pointless—I’ve fired all my Spikes at a single heli before and didn’t get a single hit. And yet, this piece of trash is still at BR 11.0 despite having useless weapon…
Those matches that end early is when both russia and NATO rush the points and NATO tanks die early. NATO is really good on far flanks where it has better mobility and can easily kill russian MBTs from the side. Having bigger maps is a must for balancing in this game as of right now.
There are some, but some maps have bad map design so the flanks are not that good. Overall, yes russia has somewhat of an advantage but NATO is superior when played right.
I found the matches that end with NATO winning are the ones where they flank or Russian MBTs with no brain cells rush without looking.
Missing frontal armor, spikes bugged, nerfed RoF when BMPT gets the faster RoF. Its a sad world. I gave up on germany: horrible teammates and turret baskets. Japan is so much better.
That only somewhat works for the T-80Us/BVM and BMPTs (the latter only because of it’s volume of fire).
Tanks like the T-90s, T-72s and specifically the T-72B3 arena are just too slow to effectively rush and overwhelm the enemy team. NATO MBTs can get to all the dominant positions way before these tanks are even close to them and they don’t have the mobility, armor and survivability combo to take them back.
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SO BROKEN !!!
I just got the Arena >>> As I said >>> 580mm dart on 11,0 … I do not care about speed. Everything is 1-shot-kill. No matter which tank no matter what I hit !!!
There is nothing comparable on this BR. Amour and Dart are far aways from everything around here !
Ah one more !!! Active Protection System on 11,0 !“!”! So it does not have to take care about rockets
If this tank stays on 11,0 … what else can we expect from the game and future un-rational ideas about BR-settings =??=
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Wait the T-72B3A and the T-72B3 Arena only difference is that the arena is 0.5 tons lighter and has 450 less horsepower than the A and that warrants a 1.3 lower br?
You say it like 290 less horsepower (RB, 450 is AB) isn’t an ENORMOUS deal xD
If anything, T-72B3A is overtiered and shouldn’t be a full +1BR away from T-72B3.
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The arena of the T-72B3 arena is considerably worse than the arena of the T-72B3A and the former has considerably worse mobility.
However the T-72B3A is already overtiered at 12.3 and should probably be 12.0 at most.