Why do tanks with hand crank turrets suffer a reduction in traverse speed when the battery is dead?

well you can be injured and use a joystick no?

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Ah, I read injured as knocked out.

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Im thinking more along the lines of: it doesn’t require a crewman to be in the best of health to merely press buttons and turn a wheel.
Hence, even injured crewmen shouldn’t put a penalty on eletrically driven turrets

Yea I agree completely now that I realize the misunderstanding. My bad.

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Dw lol.
I didn’t read the other guy’s response and jumped the gun.
Mb too lol

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You know what should be needed? PZH 2000, and it needs to be sent into a higher BR.

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Send that thing to 8.3

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Seriously, ever since it was put in the game, it has ruined 6.7-7.7 for me, especially since I play the South African tree (Ratel, Eland, G6, and honourable Afrikaner: Fox).

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It ruins EVERY BR it taints

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Yeah, thermals, autoloader, and laser rangefinder that doesn’t work like every other one at 8.0

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Using the joysticks for tank gunnery takes a fair bit of focus and a very deft touch especially when making minute adjustments as one often does in war thunder.

I would imagine the injuries a gunner would sustain through the course of a war thunder match would be more than sufficient to impede their ability to lay the gun. Seeing as war thunder has no way to simulate the jerky over corrections of an injured gunner in shock, I’d happily take the speed penalty over an inconsistently jittery gunner.

That said there’s no reason why a jand crank should suffer from a dead battery.

Going forward let’s try to not go off topic. If yall have any personal arguments go to PM.

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What would be better 10° a sec or 100° degrees a sec?

Yeah, that’s definitely a gripe.
Especially since many of those turrets are slow enough as it is!

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I always assumed that, with hand cranking ingame causing the battery to drain faster, was because they aren’t hand cranking at all, but rather still using powered (when they have it) rotation with a battery thats dying faster due to not being charged by an alternator (or whatever tanks do) AND having a powered system still in use… it makes sense to me…

Anyway Scimitar is superior to Fox.

Unfortunately that explicitly not the case for some tanks. They nerfed the rotation speed of the Fox because its “hand crank only” and has no powered traverse at all. This conflicts with the notion that the battery should play any role in the speed of the turret.

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The BT-42 certainly never had a powered turret.

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