The Crusader tanks are in desperate need of an update

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The Crusader tanks and their variants (Crusader Mk. II, Crusader Mk. III, Crusader Mk. II “The Saint”, Crusader AA Mk. I and Crusader AA Mk. II, including the one in the Overlord pack) are in desperate need of an update, because their armor is incomplete, they’re missing pieces of armor everywhere and the armor is way thinner than it should in some places, this is really bad, and it has a very negative impact in the tank’s performance.

Like the Crusader Mk. II internal mantlet that is unfinished.

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The Crusader tanks are a “Heavy Cruiser” that means that they should have a decent level of protection, right now this isn’t the case, The Crusader Mk. II for example, it weights 16.3 tons, but has less armor than a stuart! The M5A1 at 15.7 tons and even less armor than the M3A3 Stuart at 14.4 tons, this means that the Crusader is extremely vulnerable to things that it shouldn’t be (Even from the front), like 20mm cannons and even 50cals.

Many Reports have been done on it, and they all have been accepted and passed to the devs for 2 years, some people even let me know that these reports date all the way back to the old forum, i understant priorities but that’s way too much time. And the tank is suffering for it, it needs to be corrected.

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The armor on these tanks is in a really poor situations, and considering that is a platform that has 2 premium tanks in it, it’s not looking great is it? i’m here to kindly ask to please fix the armor of the Crusader tanks, it has been too many years, and they are the only tanks at 2.7 with their armor in this bad situation, considering similar vehicles like the Stuarts are very well modeled.

So please Gaijin, fix the armor of the Crusader tanks.

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You better find real sources to back up your claims about armor being wrong. Just because vehicle is heavier then other doesn’t mean it has more armor. Good example is Panther and IS series having almost same weight, but IS series has lot more armor everywhere because its internal space is smaller and the tank is smaller.

Also Crusader doesn’t have welded armor like later Stuarts and internal structure for bolting adds lots of weight.

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I guess you haven’t seen the image i just explained, all the information needed to fix the Crusader tanks has already been provided by the community years ago, it has been accepted and passed to the devs, they just haven’t done anything about it.

I made a issue report on it myself too, but it was labeled “duplicate” because ot has already been reported.

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The problem is already know, i’m asking the devs to do something about it and do the necessary corrections.

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Sadly just because it is accepted doesn’t mean something is going to happen, it is just that moderator has accepted it to be sent to DEVs for further investigation.
I find it problematic that front armor bug report uses only one source for both Crusader II and III when there are quite different. I don’t know if there are better sources and does Gaijin have them.

Regarding second report, I can’t say anything because I don’t have access to sources.