Why is the M44 3.0 BR higher than the 15cm sig?

Machinery of War Discussion Ground Vehicle
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                        Sig:            M44:

Reload: 14.4s | 19.5
Explosive: 8.6 | 9.14
Armor: 20/14.5mm | 12.7mm
Crew protected: 1/4 | 2/8
Velocity: 240 | 563
BR: 1.0 | 4.0

Notes:

  • Velocity is preference, the SIG is easier to use as artillery whilst the m44 is easier for direct fire)

  • M44 gets a .50 cal

  • M44 gets neutral steering but other than that is about the same maneuverability

  • M44 has a HIGHER reload, a WORSE armor, and a 3.0 up BR
    all for a 50 cal, slightly more explosive, and crew?

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faster speed, more maneuverable (don’t even)
more TNT, better velocity (indirect fire is not a viable tactic in wt, especially not at low br LMAO)
more survivable (armor does not equal survivability), and a .50 cal
way better traverse/gun control
better sight
more ammo (sig only gets 18)

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You must be the only person playing Mixed battles who has never been killed by a SiG while fully defiladed behind a crest.

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by “fully defiladed” do you mean poking your cupola or mg out and lying to yourself for cope, or do you actually mean fully defiladed?
you don’t just get sniped by a slow, inaccurate round from long distance every game when they don’t even know where you are.
also, if they can see you with binos it’s not indirect fire or fully defiladed, + the top little bit of the ground has no hitbox, you need to watch out for that too.

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Laughs in Spj fm/43-44

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What I really meant by fully defiladed was … cough… fully defiladed

You know there’s spotting right?? Even in GRB let alone AB…

ETA - Oh and of course the ultimate example is Sturmtigers hitting people at their spawns…

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…so you play AB.
that’s the reason ur dying to arty fire.
coulda said that

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Indirect fire is possible in all modes - even Simulator - do try to use a little of the brain god gave you.

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yeah, no shit. It’s only just infinitely harder without the green arrow telling you whether or not your round will connect.

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multiple targets forced to stay stationary, densely packed while being shot at by multiple enemies that know their location and range with huge rockets rather than 155 shells = normal totaly not biased 100% average sig gameplay

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M44 has better reaction time with almost double the horizontal laying speed and over 3 times the verticle laying speed.
Verticle speed per sec: 4° vs 15°
Horizontal speed per sec: 6° vs 10°

It also has much better angles. A bit more depression and like 20 times the horizontal traverse angles.
Vertical angles: -4/40 vs -5/65
Horizontal angles: -1/6 vs -30/30

Reload is 4 seconds longer but is much easier to aim and reaches the target faster.

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I haven’t. It is an incredibly rare thing to see.

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Personally I have been using the M44 at 6.3 and having a pretty good time with it there (had a horrible time at 4.0 with it oddly enough).

Surprised people are not complaining like mad about cold war vehicles in their WW2 games. Personally i expect to see its BR going up over time once gaijin fix its model a bit (cough crew with arms hanging out the side cough).

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I feel like M44 could be 5.0+ tbh, at 4.0 that M107 is a teensy bit mad for such a mobile platform.

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If you need the arcade cross then that’s your own personal skill issue.

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Mobile platform… With next to no armor, a long reload, casemated…

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BMP 3 + scout drone = my beloved mortar

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It’s not a viable tactic but its certainly not entirely difficult to pull off. As long as your using smoke. Whichsmoke-basedd artillery is rather viable. Won a couple of matches that way.

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AVRE go “10 seconds to impact” moment. For most vehicles it isnt, for a select few on certain larger maps, it very much is a viable tactic.

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There is also that one guy that does it with a drone + BMD-4 I think?

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