This thing is almost as worse as bmpt

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  1. Small and empty, post-pen creates non-existent spall, one dart kill one crew ✅

  2. Crewless turret, lack of modules and extremely tiny hitbox, empty turret, nothing to hit there ✅

  3. Tandem ATGMs that pens 1.2 gigameter of armor, works all the way to top tier, hull down bullies top tier mbts easily ✅

  4. Fast, can teleport from A point to B point in 0.1 sec, even superman can’t see him ✅

  5. No-armor best armor again, APHE = AP because paper don’t set off fuze ✅

  6. Rapid fire missile, can kill multiple enemies as easily as you can breath, even bypass APS if you hit the button quickly ✅

  7. Underbr’d, on top of a strong line up that already been kicking asses left and right ✅

  8. Kill you twice, go back again to get killed for the third time, makes you mad so you quit with 0-3 ✅

10/10 best atgm launcher i̶n̶ t̶h̶e̶ g̶a̶m̶e̶ in the universe, krizantema can go eat 💩

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Can use dead T series as cover and shoot over them.
That is one of best parts of that tank.
Something what another rat ( wiesel) cant do.
And also there is mephisto on 8.7 having very similiar rat style as AFT

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You’re right, it is a bad vehicle & easy to deal with.

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aft09 = best wife

wish it could shoot in the move, this would unlock its true rat potential

ps: just unlocked khrizantema and cannot make it work even with potato radar fire

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When it’s hull down it will kill you unless you load HE, you can bring the 12.7 and it will still whoop your ass like a bmpt exposed only turret and is pushing you lol you are mostly out of luck if it only expose the turret and you equip with dart, you can’t win.

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almost bmpt is crazy

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Thanks, I’ll have to try it out 😂 Still have to grind down to it though 😭

Not discounting your messages, but this is why I always carry a handful of HE/HEAT/HEAT-FS etc, exactly for these kinds of little rats lol 🐀 Even better if the rounds are low/very low velocity, can lob over hills. I especially love lobbing on SPAA’s 😈

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i know something better but i dont want gayjin to nerf it

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rakatengodpanzer?

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A vehicle cannot only show a turret while pushing you.
& if they’re only showing a turret, there is cover.
There is a reason I haven’t been shot by a turret only tank since 2025, and it was an AGS on Middle East.

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It’s not even near AFT-09 can perform, Khrizantema-S has good missiles for the platform but since the gun sights are attached to the chassis and not on the launcher you’ll have to deal with parallax and being unable to use hull-down positions 1. because of the gunner sight placement; 2. you can’t lower the radar parabola so even if you find a confortable position to use the high-placed missiles you’ll still be susceptible to overpressure even from HEAT projectiles.

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yes its such a weird vehicle i wonder what the guy who designed it was thinking, the idea of adding a radar is great but it has some major problems with alignment of the sights and position of radar, its like he or she didnt operate it or didnt bother ask a crew if there was something odd with it

maybe its not intended to be anti ground but perform as anti helicopter instead? i feel like it performs way better in that sense but its limited to contact fuze missile… if it was capable of using the proxy fuze missile from Shturm-S it would be a solid anti helicopter and probably work even better when used with radar for top attack antiground

only way to make it work would be using it as a turret in a desert buried into the ground in a flat terrain for long range ambush

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the only vehicle i can think of that can somewhat match the AFT-Cheese is the ZT3A2, which is better in some ways, worse in others

both are fun but idk if either are deserving of a nerf, too situational imo

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ooh that atgm carrier is awesome too, i really want it but im currently rank two GB so theres a long way ahead and i feel kinda lazy after farming three nations into more or less high tier, yeah i dont think nerfing them should be a thing, all of these are really weak armor-wise and can be taken out easily with 50 cal and these top mounted 20milimeter autocannon, the 30mm HE munitions should also be highly effective against it… in fact these were already nerfed cuz some time ago there was a buff in chemical protection for many tanks, the introduction of more APS tanks (the ultimate counter) and the fact tandem does not work properly as a two stage explosive

theres one thing i think would surpass all of these but its not yet in game

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this girafe is the ultimate form of a rat

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Cant wait for the Cypriot HOT-3 launcher
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so load HE

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HEAT, HESH and ATGMs also

Heat are more common

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If you load HE then you will get f’d by every thing with armor, if you run into one aft without HE then you get f’d

You can try playing 12.3/12.7 with it and camp, easily 3-4kd every matches loooool

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Its just a better Mephisto.

And I love it so much.

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so load HE when you know there’s a missile carrier nearby → also at that tier you have relatively good HEATFS, that can overpressure the AFT + still do decent damage to enemies you face (when against ERA, just barrel them)

you have MGs, shoot the missile out of the sky
you have APFSDS, you can still shoot the launcher then load HE for a follow-up shot