Well that is factually not true. Most tanks have a manual turret rotation mechanism. At the very least the Abrams does. Crews use it to rotate the turret while the engine is off. Its a helluva workout but it can be done.
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Do you realise what hydraulics do? it’s what gives you the mechanical multiplier for manual rotation.
The rotating mechanism is not part of the basket. Later Leopards have electr. turret drives.
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do you need reminding?
Training accident in Scandinavia. You can also see it from below.
The floor of the turret basket is not just a metal sheet to walk on, but instead houses all kinds of electrics and hydraulics with means to connect them to the hull.
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Ok you do have a point about the turret floor
But for both the Abrams and the Leopard the basket is quite full with stuff
the actual turret rotation mechanism arent even that much
you can see the floor on the leopard ingame and irl the thickness irl is much less than the ingame
same with the Abrams, the only part it should be damaging at best is the floor and it shouldnt do that much since ITS ON THE FLOOR and shrapnel wouldnt even reach it because the turret basket would catch it, ingame it create MORE spall
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Cables for the aiming system etc. Like every tank has it. But why should this just modeled for Abrams’ (Abramses? Abramsi? Abrams’s? Jesus what a word…) Why isn’t it modeled for any other tank, but just these two tank lines?
Thats the critical module, the electrical turret drive and it has been already modeled like this before the update. At the turret ring, where it belongs. Making the whole, huge basked a turret drive module as its currently ingame doesn’t really cut it.
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Can’t say for sure for the Leopard
But at least for the Abram’s there are plenty of hydraulics that damaged wouldn’t provide the mechanical advantage needed for rotation.
There’s tank evolution. I doubt the latest Abramsi have hydraulical turret drives. For Leopard 2 it would be just the very early Leopard 2A4 or 3, all others have no hydraulic drives imho.
Britain mains enjoying a cup of tea, as the turret basket is one nerf they cant apply to the Challenger 2s
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VT-5 main:
The big issue too is that the player feedback was to not go through with it. And Gaijin went ahead anyways, effectively (and once again) devaluing their own feedback system. And not holding off until more tanks were modelled was a terrible decision. Full stop. Even if it meant more work in the future, it wouldn’t have seemed so unfair and unbalanced. Because now you have two families of tanks who are operating with a nerf others dont. Coupling that with the fact that, for whatever reason you want to go with, be it too many Clickbaits or whatever; the US has the lowest winrate at top-tier, how else was this suppose to be interpreted?
Because Gaijin won’t come on record and say when they expect to have the next batch of tanks ready, it comes across as a nerf and as unfair. Will they be ready by the next update? Or are we looking at the end of the year? Do they even come this year at all?
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Doesn’t the Chally 2 have the armor around the turret modeled? Correct me if I’m wrong or is it just in between the turret and the engine
It has armour modeled?
And they dont want that