- The important question:
Why haven’t the armor on the British Crusader tanks been fixed yet? The British Crusader tanks are the only vehicles from a starter pack that still haven’t been fixed, they’re also the only tanks at 2.7 that have major issues with their armor, this problem affects all the Crusader tanks, including Premium products that you would need to pay for.
- The list of vehicles affected is also really large:
- [British] Crusader Mk. II
- [French] Crusader Mk. II
- [British] Crusader Mk. II “The Saint” (Premium, Starter Pack)
- [British] Crusader Mk. III
- [British] Crusader AA Mk. I
- [British] Crusader AA Mk. II
- [British] Crusader AA Mk. II overlord (Premium, echoes of overlord pack)
- The list of issues:
So as you can see, a total of 7 vehicles affected by the issues regarding the armor of the Crusader tanks being wrong, incomplete and substantially inaccurate, all of these tanks have plates of armor way thinner than they should be and are missing plates of armor (that are visible in the model by the way), in general, the tanks just desperately need a update, and addressing these issues is something that would be extremely easy, because all Crusader tanks share the exact same hull, only the turrets are different!
The worst part about it is that most issues addressing all these problems have already been accepted for years and that’s only counting the new issue report system, because people have let me know that these issues are even older, because they have been reported in the old forum!
Crusader Variants wrong Front hull armor
Crusader Mk. II internal mantlet not completely modeled
Crusader Mk. II external mantlet wrong thickness
Crusader Mk. II external mantlet armor is poorly modeled
Crusader tanks missing internal walls
The Crusader Mk. II “The Saint” is the only tank from a starter pack that has major discrepancies going on with it’s armor, despite all the reports on it, and as i’ll show that the discrepancies are very significant, and are making the Crusader tanks very inaccurate even if compared with other 2.7 tanks. And the required corrections wouldn’t be hard to implement, since all Crusader tanks share the same hull, and only the turret correction, of the Crusaders II would require a bit of work.
- Showing some of the necessary corrections:
Here i made some highlights to help visualize some of the necessary changes, that the Crusader tanks desperately need, most of them literally just being increasing the armor thickness of some plates, the worst part is that you can see in the model of the vehicle itself that the armor should be a lot thicker than showed by the protection analysis.
- How it is in War Thunder right now:
- This is how it should be, how it needs to be:
- The internal mantlet in Crusaders Mk. II is incomplete and needs to be finished:
- In conclusion:
Like i’ve said before, the vehicle’s affected by this problem include premium vehicles! All these highlights that i’ve made are based in the already accepted issue reports, and as it’s clearly obvious, the discrepancies are substantial, and should not be ignored. I’m making this as a appeal to the devs, please fix the armor of our Crusader tanks they’re desperately needing an update.
