What's unfair in battle ratings thermal imaging

Their balancing does not work the way it is end of story you know you go up against tanks that got thermal imaging and you’re in a tank that don’t have it see who’s got the upper hand on a night mission

Thermals are barely an advantage. They are at most good for spotting tanks, but even that is somewhat lackluster. Especially 1st generation thermals, which pixilates everything to the point where you can’t even make out what a tank is after a couple hundred meters. It’s even worse if there are destroyed tanks around them. With that, I’m done with this conversation. Clearly, nothing will convince you that something small shouldn’t completely define where a vehicle sits, nor that historical match making is a bad idea.

I joined the US army in 1976 at just after Vietnam when the draft was still in effect hey I was a tanker in an M60A1 tank and we did not have thermal imaging we had an spotlight and it had infrared to mounted on the main gun that let the whole hill side up to where we could see the shoot at night see the target or we would have to get on the radio and ask for a M109 to fire a Starlight round on our position but there they’re only on a couple tanks in this game and they don’t work and they should but hey it’s just like the Tanks that never went into production that are in this game and that’s fine and then on top of that they don’t have the speeds right that the tanks can go it’s like the M1A2 Abrams and the M1A1 Abrams and just M1 Abrams I had an M1 Abrams over 85 miles an hour but if you look in the book it only tells you to do 45 it’s just like nobody can get the armor report on an Abrams tank because they’re classified top secret and guarantee you one thing there isn’t no sabot around today that will not penetrate the front slope of the hall are the front slope of the turret on the Abrams tank and I served on one of them in desert storm an M1A1HA as a tank commander and my tank was hit by a sabot round from T72 Russian Tank and I handed my driver a paintbrush I said Get-R-Done.

not in vehicle without thermal

@520BadGateway here you go,when i talk about the T-72B i meant both T-72Bs since they sit at the same BR and both of them don’t have thermals

Yeah but well I can tell you this World War 2 tanks should only go up against other World War 2 tanks Korean War tanks should Only go up against Korean War tanks and so on. And when it comes to the battle ratings they should go up against the same battle rating not mixed like it is now! like 8.7 to 11.7 but not 11.0 to 12. And this is what’s messed up about this game this is what makes it unfair and War Thunder calls it realistic I don’t think so in realistic mode. You can’t take 7.0 to a 12.0 into a battle SIM mode in this game it’s all gotta be low battle ratings and why is that? When you should be able to take and play against other players in SIM with any tank that you have! 1.0 clear up to a 12.0.


entered service in 1962


entered service in the 1950s


late 70s prototype


produced early 1950s