Turret baskets are here to stay, regardless of whether people like them or not. Also, they are an honestly very nice addition to the game, making stressful moments where you don’t fully disable another tank’s turret rewarding as they won’t have the ability to turn back and get you. However, the addition of turret baskets in the previous update, limited to the Abrams and Leopard series of tanks, is questionable, especially given that no further turret baskets have been added to any other tank in the most recent update. To say the least, this has painted a rather black-and-white picture in some players’ eyes and is somewhat understandable. Below is a poll regarding turret baskets going forward for other nations and the current state of the game.
Furthermore, I’ve seen a few topics suggested on T-series tanks. While they don’t quite have a turret basket in the way you’d think, the autoloader is tied to the turret, and if it breaks, then the turret should be limited in its movement? Feel free to add any information you may know about this.
- Remove turret baskets from Abrams and Leopard until they are ready for all other top-tier MBTs.
- There are bigger problems, Gaijin will get around to adding others at some point.
- T series autoloaders should affect the turret drive.
Or maybe fix them so they don’t always affect turret travers? And while at it fix the other bug reports on the Abrams too
Or on the Abrams they can actually make the turret basket do the thing it was designed to do. It was made to seat crew and has screens to protect the crew. It should be a separate component than the turret hydraulic drive. You can see the “race ring” is what the turret actually rotates on and is a separate component to the turret basket.
Here is the opposite side of the turret
For a better understanding, for example, here is a sherman race ring which connects the turret to the hull. You can see the ball bearings upon which they rotate on.
In addition, I currently have a bug report up trying to address the incorrect location of the hydraulic oil pump. It’s been beaten to death but I finally found a mil declassified document of the AGT1500.
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/pVl3yYdklDQZ
Between these two fixes, using the Abrams would be a better experience. No it doesn’t address the bigger problems it has such as the lower mantlet being improperly armored but it would help.
Futhermore if they are going to keep this implemented as is, ALL AUTOLOADERS should not be able to load ammo until it is repaired from being destroyed.
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It is a shame the current implementation. Hopefully, this info can be used to help the Abrams and even Leo, I assume it’s a little similar?
This I do not know. I’m not sure Germany has a freedom of information act which declassifies this kind of information
There’s this one, translated diagram related to the horizontal and vertical drive of the Leopard 2. You can see that on the left one (2A4 turret), the hydraulic systems seem to be modeled pretty accurately but on the right one (2A5, A6 ,A7, etc… turret), there doesn’t seem to be any connection from the power & stabilisation electronics to the turret basket itself. I don’t think shooting the base of the turret basket itself should disable the horizontal drive of these models unless there’s a source that can show the electrical connections running from the turret to the basket.
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