The GALIX system has different types of grenades, including anti personnel (first ones shown):
I think the anti personnel ones are the ones that sticks out, while the smokes are flush.
You can see that they don’t stick out in these pictures and that was when the UAE deployed their tanks in Yemen, in an active conflict scenario (ignore the squares and circles):
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On this one (also in Yemen) you can clearly see two different types of grenades, the forward ones sticking out (in red) while the back ones are flush (in blue):
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And French Leclerc in Kosovo:
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And in Lebanon:
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In both instances France has deployed their Leclerc, smoke grenades would’ve been the most logical choice, especially while being part of UNIFIL.
As you can see they do stick out of the launcher. The same behaviour can be seen in game with the Vextra 105, AMX-40 or AMX-30B2 BRENUS, which is also known to be using GALIX as a system and has used GALIX-13
Currently the grenades also sticks out of the launcher slightly too much, I already reported it internally and hopefully it will be fixed before the major update drops.
In some of the pictures you attached the launchers was closed. About the others, the fact GALIX-13 has been used doesn’t mean other types of smoke-grenades that do not stick out has not been used. In game it is more appropriate to use GALIX-13.
Adding to @WaretaGarasu, in actual use, the Leclerc operationally only use smoke grenades in the front facing dispensers, while the others use anti personal equipment or infrared countermeasures, so that further proves the point that the smoke grenades are those that stick out
Considering the amount of people in here with access to a wide amount of sources regarding French tanks, I humbly request your support in gathering resources for 2 bug reports I intend to make regarding the current modeling of the AMX-40.
I plan on making 2 invidual reports.
The 1st report I hope to compile will focus on the AMX-40’s missing NERA arrays in it’s turret, which were suddenly removed with zero explanation from the developers.
The 2nd report will focus on the AMX-40’s reload speed.
The AMX-40 uses electric drum magazines just like the Merkava, yet somehow has the slowest reload of any manually loaded tank in WT with blowout protected ready-racks. The AMX-40’s ready rack should be decreased to 15 rounds (only the electric drum magazines) and the max reload speed should be reduced to 6 seconds.
If anyone has access to sources in a format that would directly assist me in this endeavor, please by all means feel free to share with me as trying to compile both of these while being an American that speaks 0 french, has incredibly poor access to sources (at least in a way that can be submitted properly in bug reports) and works 48 hours a week is pretty difficult.
Does anyone know what model the in-game AMX-40 is?
From a few sources I’m seeing it appears the in-game ready rack is incorrectly modeled (too many rounds in the turret) and that there is only 2 drum magazines, not 3 (thought what I’m seeing might be in reference to a completely different model of the AMX-40).
This would appear to correctly coincide with Rolf Hilmes’s statement on page 38 of “Kampfpanzer - Die Entwicklungen der Nachkriegszeit” that the AMX-40 only has 14 rounds in the turret bustle.
It appears the in-game model is the AMX-40 P4, the final prototype according to the dev blog of when it was introduced.
Considering the 3 electric drums of the P4 are the “ready-rack”, that would still warrant the AMX-40’s current ready rack being reduced from 19 to 15 with a (hopefully) acompanied reload buff.
Getting a bug report done about the ready-rack and a (hopeful) reload buff should be incredibly easy with minimal sourcing required considering it is already modeled in game.
Hey. I believe there’s an AMX 32/40 thread that has been created where you can share your research. As for the reload speed report, it was already done a few months ago by -correction- @LETHALWEAPONRAC1, but the devs response was that it was a balance decision. I think the main option would be to have the composite come back, plus the addition of a new shell, maybe ? So that it and both the vextra can join the 10.0-10.7 lineup coming with the leopard 2A4
