The T-10M is a little mediocre though, most things it faces can pen it everywhere, and the entire hull is a weak spot and penning the turret will result in big explosion as there is ammo in the back of the turret lol. Reload time is what often got me killed. Cool looking tank with the third best APHE in the game just slightly below the IS-7s. If you inspect the armor profile properly, only .3 up there the T-55AMD/T-55AM-1 has better frontal armor than it, plus all the cool gadgets like APS and composite turret plates basically make them more superior, not to mention they can shoot every 7.5 seconds with more ammunition choices.
Speaking about the reload of the Object 140, which is only .1 seconds faster than the Object 279 which is 8.6 seconds aced.
Oh 8.7 Soviets is one of my favorite lineups for sure, but 8.3 is also nice since you can get even lower BR matches (obviously). I don’t mind the slower loading, its way slower than the 7 ish second reload of others anyways. .5 more just makes me play more careful!
I would disagree on T-10M however, I love that beast, I just play it like a slow loading medium and it works great against everything (unless it gets shot with HEAT, but its not too bad.)
I’ve seen good players have 5.0 KDR in it, I don’t know how he even managed it, it has -3 gun depression and it’s hard to find somewhere I can snipe people across the map and not get taxed with its reload speed, because if I go in point blank distance I often find enemy pushed me after I fired a shot, or I get my barrel destroyed and I don’t get the opportunity to repair it, it’s a tricky vehicle to do well for my playstyle, it also doesn’t have a range finder so I constantly being forced to do things I am uncomfortable with lol
This is true, speaking of APHE I’m so tired of people saying the object 279 is a point and click adventure and doesn’t need to aim, the more I hear them says this the more I can confirmed they don’t even play it, in that br it has one of the lowest angle pen ammunition at 120mm and after playing all the other 9.0s I can confirmed it requires the most “aiming” effort than anything else in that respective br, in that br we are going to compare it with the other 9.0s which is T-62M1 which has the 3BM28 at 220mm angle pen range, then we have the M735 that M60 uses at 215mm, and Chieftain MK10 is at 190mm and TAMs they all having a much easier time penetrating the enemies compare to the object 279, plus the velocity of apfsds and lrf they are 100% having an easier time/taking much less effort hitting any targets in most situations lol only thing the APHE has is post pen, side shots mostly guaranteed OHKO which is the only advantage it has over its counterpart, also the optical zoom is the shittiest of them all, even T-55s and T-62s can see better with their zoom level, so I don’t know where this point and click BS comes from lol
279 has the best APHE in the game and it’s still not enough to point and click stuff at around it’s BR like Chieftains, M60s, Merkavas, ZTZs, T-72s, …
Meanwhile Object 140’s APHE has worse angle performance which will only make things even worse.
Plenty of that has stemmed from malicious posters just fearmongering others into believing 279 was much more of an issue than it really is.
279 is still an absolute monster, the way APHE normalizes against slopes, and the large diameter of the shell overmatches armor quite easy. Its gun is its greatest asset and I don’t think I would trade its APHE for a dart. I can’t think of anything (except for maybe a hull-down merkava) that can’t be deleted with it. Maybe the jet-black camo just gives me bonus pen, who knows :^)
I found that its survivability actually comes from the engine power, which allows it to accelerate faster in reverse to escape trouble after firing a shot, given the same situation all my medium tanks will often buy the enemies enough time to shoot me through the front wheel.
I’ve pulled the trigger lol its a pretty good premium, if you are a fan of APHE, I’d say you should get it and you going to enjoy it bro. I think the numbers are pretty decent and I only use APHE and nothing else.
I have a pretty horrible experience with soviet apds, I’ve used the 3BM25 and it’s probably the worst APFSDS in the game and imagine an even worse version which is the apds, you pen things easier than the APHE but the post-pen damage is whack and you really have to shoot them more than once, my T-55A is under 2kdr because of it lol
Only issues is facing M60 variants like the Magachs and enemy T-series, they have enough armor to deny your APHE frontally and facing T-62 you only have the turret cheek to pen which is credit card size, I just have to avoid trading fire with M60 but I will try to shoot their capula, the M60A2 I don’t even know how to kill it frontally with APHE, the capula mostly only nuke the commander.
Chieftains are also an issue with the APHE, Amx30s can be too due to teh bounce angle, personally ive had nothing but issues with APHE for years now man.
If it works it works, but youve also a lot of time and experience in the game.
For most people id recommend APDS for an easier time, that also helps you grow into aiming for ammo, breaches, crew etc and not relying on a stupidly modelled round.
They really dropped the ball when they didnt change it.
I put a talisman on the starship, things fun as hell!
