https://warthunder.com/en/tournament/replay/412416765651949902?public_key=UOWlwLc8M1wOUKRPSEy9
Been debating for 2 days to make this post but here we are, if you start the replay and watch me (star scream duh lol) you will see at exactly minute 2, I will take a hit to the side of my t72 and my autoloader turns red, however it does not break the auto loader nor the turret, so I can freely load my gun shoot back and kill the target and move my turret while the same exact hit in a leo or abrams would had disabled the turret 100% because even a single spalling disables the turret ring let alone an actual direct hit, (yes I survived because I was lucky and have above room temp IQ and dont take 60 rounds into a battle) and this is not the first time, there has been multiple times where I took a hit that should have knocked the turret rotation out but it didnt and I was able to turn my turret and return fire, this isnt a one off situation, I have in fact had my autoloader turn black aka fully broken and my turret was still able to fully rotate, the autoloader is not a turret basket sure, however the gun wont be able to turn without the autoloader also rotating with it, so it should suffer the same fate as the leos and abrams and any shell that hits the auto loader should stop the turret from rotating till the damage is fixed.
Been discussed millions of times.
Abrams and leo have a semi-artifical weakness with the turret basket. (turret basket should catch spall on the first penetration and the actual hydraulic/electrical parts should be located at the bottom middle of the basket protruding about 6 inches upward.) (Not to mention the 3-4 fail safes an abrams has specifically for this)
T series tanks have the auto loader weakness of not being able to reload. But the auto loader isn’t directly connected to the turret ring, So it can and will always get a shot out if you don’t kill it in the first shot) This is at the cost of survivability of course, so usually a penning shot will kill a t series with good aiming
Abrams are a better tank for good players while t series are a better tank for lucky players to keep it simple.
(Though if the bloody snail ever decides to add multiple fail safes and fix alot of bugs, The abrams would probably be in the top 3 for best tanks)
If you watch the replay you will see that not only I was able to reload I was able to shoot reload and shoot again before even fixing the dmg part, both the ammo rotates inside the autoloader, and so does the actual auto loader, so a shell that goes through where the ammo is located it should at the very least knock out the auto loader
true, I agree with ya but randomness still does play into the game. Turning the autoloader red while infuriating happens to everyone in one way or another, Like volumetric absorbing 10kmm of pen or surviving a bomb that lands on top of your tank.
Its not really Eastern tanks having an advantage but the snails code being god awful spaghetti.
that is 100% true, and its just feels bad man, like that game I had 10 kills and it was not enjoyable at all, because I spent the entire game thinking that I get these kills not because of skill but because of a missing mechanic that is not implemented and it sucked