I’ve noticed on the dev server the M103 frontally is significantly weaker than the one we have currently.
The beak of the M103 is way weaker now as before there was a 10in cast piece sitting right there where the plates meet. I read a few documents pertaining to the M103/T43 hull and it’s usually implied that the part where the beak meets is thicker than 5 inches but also Tank encyclopedia says there’s not documentation on how thick the actual beak is.
I just wanted to know if this is a historically accurate change where the two plates meet only offering this amount of protection.
(But then also immediately beneath the beak, it’s offering protection similar to old M103?)
To be honest, its armor has almost no gain, especially the turret armor, which is actually easier to penetrate than the current one and is basically one of the weakest 7.7 heavy tanks
You can take a look at the armor cross-section from the technical manual. The armor of the new M103 roughly corresponds to this image, although there is no certainty that the image is accurate.
Yes, uncapped AP is underperforming as Gaijin has implemented it. Gaijin is using standard slope modifiers but reduced the flat pen of capped AP, so sloped performance is also reduced. Uncapped AP tends to shatter, which is what Gaijin wants to represent but they don’t then adjust sloped performance to represent real world performance.
