This thing is actually vomit worthy, I want my SL back
It doesn’t even belong any lower because it can be frontally penned by 7.62, with three lined up crew members. It is useless at literally every bracket
I’ve yet to find an application for this vehicle that doesn’t involve trolling
its not that bad, but it requieres alot of skill due to the manual guidance
in the right spot you can probably hit from relative safety from behind a mountain or a rock also im not sure but maybe it can go through countermeasure barrier that other missile struggle with
real problem is the lack of missile quantity and variants to select… but it looks cool LOL
an artificial ammo count of 12 +/- would be a step in the right direction… thing is buns
i wonder if a console controller thing would make the manual guidance better for this particular vehicle but still having only eight missile hurts and getting into a contested cap point is very risky in between artillery calls, bombardments from planes and camper tanks considering this is open top and having almost no armor
I make this thread then drop 5 kills in the zachlam lmao, but I have to say, at no point was I grateful I was playing this thing over any other vehicle
my rampage was eventually put to an end by a tiger e that soaked my ATGM with the turret ring, then killed me frontally with 7.62
would rather have been in an M-51 at every stage tbh
I actually really liked the Zachlam Tager. It’s able to go hull down so well that most players won’t even know you’re able to engage them with only the binoculars sticking up over a hill or ridge. And since the sight “depression” doesn’t actually restrict your ability to guide the missiles (one of the few advantages of the manual missiles) you can use spots that people don’t expect. Obviously as an ATGM tank destroyer you want people to be at a decent distance, so it’s not viable on city maps and the like.
The only actual problem is how easy it is for people to “shoot down” your missiles with coaxial MGs (a very very bad mechanic that handholds players who have made the mistake of entering a long range area with an ATGM vehicle watching over it, gotten immobilized and should be punished for their bad positioning).
It can, however you won’t see any vehicles with said countermeasure unless you intentionally upteir it. The lowest tiered vehicle with a soft kill APS is the BRENUS at 8.7, I believe.
For those interested, it works because it’s too basic to be jammed. Most second gen ATGMs use SALCOS guidance, where the sighting system tracks where the missile is using a small IR flare on the back of the missile. From knowing where the missile is, it can calculate how to get it to where the crosshair is pointing automatically.
Soft kill APS system like BRENUS and SHTORA use IR dazzlers, which cause the sight to lose track of where the missile is, and making guidance impossible.
However, the Zachlam (As well as Type 60 ATM and some other early missiles) are MCLOS. No guidance computer, no IR flare, just a mark 1 eyeball and a joystick. Outside of flashbanging the operator, there’s really no way to jam it.
It is, however, easily stopped by ERA, something that the BRENUS is absolutely covered in, so it’s not exactly a saving grace.
a tandem charge atgm with manual guidance would be very useful for these situations while also being able to bypass ERA, although i have seen some tanks with ERA cof t72 cof being able to consistenly deflect tandem warhead with the reactive armor and i dont understand why, seems to be a 50-50 luck kind of thing, tandem works in a strange way in war thunder tbh sometimes the plasma jet is non existant after hitting a destructible wall and it wont show even a hit if there was a tank behind
Well its an ambush vehicle.
You are not going to rush with this.