The Leclerc is in dire need of a buff

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Why is everyone complaining about the 6 second reload? Every source I can find online says that the Leclerc autoloader fires 12 rpm. Am i missing something here?

Im not trying to defend the state of the french tech tree, but to me there seems to be far better things to focus on than the reload. Most notably being the inaccurate armor protection figures. Or at more middle BRs like solid shot and 90mm heat have absolutely abysmal damage.

That being said I dont play top tier all that much so maybe I’m just out of touch.

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Lmao read my comment again and realized im just a dumbass who is bad at math. I still mean the rest of what I said tho. How did Gaijin get something that incredibly wrong??

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3503

“Balance”

3504

Watch Gaijin mess up and add it for Germany only in the future, and the same Sk-105A2 situation unfolds again

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3505

More like a similar situation to the DF105

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3506

It might appear to be that simple but it is not.

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I’m hopeful it’s not going to be that bad.

3508

Hello, I have question about visibility
Why does the Leclerc have higher visibility than all other MBTs (except the Merkava)? The Leclerc is smaller than the Challenger, Leopard, and Abrams, but it is more visible. Why?

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3509

Because it’s French i guess.

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3510

My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined

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How do we know that the Leclercs are missing hull armor? And is it significant?

Enjoying them so far though, just 55k shy of the AZUR

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All datas from Leclercs armor used in WT comes from the data in the Swedish trial, when it was a proto Leclercs sent, it was not the first prod variant (S1), and afaik the data where classified too.

So it’s like if in WT we got Leopard 2A7 having proto 2a4 armor.

The SXXI should have internal armor reinforced with titanium bar too as upgrade against previous variants, but it just got some mm more for the gunner side ingame.

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Challenger moves so slow, your eyes cant pick it up.

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Y’know, it’s funny how @WaretaGarasu the poor bastard has to put together 25+ sources (including primary sources) to have the Leclerc’s reload buffed to its historically accurate 5 seconds, but then the devs will just arbitrarily give Swedish autoloaders a 5 second reload which is not actually possible in reality: Community Bug Reporting System.

Source from the report:

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3515

“You don’t understand, it’s different”

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3516

Yeah one of them is the devs’ bestselling premium…

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3517

but dont you remember sweden its the favorite TT of the devs

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Yikes, that sounds horrible… so if the Leclerc series were to get their proper armor values, they would arguably be one of the best tanks in the game

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3519

Reckon they’ll gimp the Rheinmetall 130mm’s 3 second reload when it eventually comes? It’s not as if autoloaders have to conform to historical accuracy anymore…

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i would understand if it was for balance, goddamn the fact that they needed 25+ sources to get to buff the leclerc reload like if the abrams didnt just had a reload buff or like if it was impossible

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