Lmao, that’s exactly what he is experiencing right now 😂
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Yup :D
I feel that. I know the kill shots in a 3.7 Sherman vs ram with its AP feels like it should be BRs away from each other
Sherman you pen most around BR = dead. RAM has to hit a mm spot to kill. How is this balanced?
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and we should actually have APHE on a number of tanks as well
Wont help for some, but will help for a few and yeah. They nerfed AP to make it “realistic” and then put it to a vote to nerf APHE to be realistic and the community said no. So now they should buff AP to be stronger
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Realistic, really?
The shit iv witnessed in 2 weeks they wouldn’t of made it past mk 1 version.
Or the other rounds are over performing. Complete slop balancing either way.
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So basically it was put to the vote if AP shells should to made to actually work and the vote was no. Don’t know which is worse, Gaijin having a vote for it or that people voted no to one, yes to another.
If Iv got it right its actually crazy work
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Yep, CCs basically told their viewers to vote no. It was so stupid
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Well. Things are now a lot clearer to why a game, out for over a decade is in such a bad state.
Think il go back to air. Feel like its balanced AF over this XD
and this is precisely why I rarely play ground :D and when I do I avoid APDS BRs
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Play what you enjoy friend! Let us know if you ever do want any more advice for ground battles. Happy hunting 🍻
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Ground fun BRs : germany 3.3, GB 3.0, russia 2.7, US none of note as yet
Solid shot vote= no is where Im at rn XD which equates to a broken game.
2 weeks of hit simulator has left a sour taste.
There needs to be a simple list of stuff to not use to save others the pain. Without Morvan I would of probably continued using the ram hoping it would get better (it wont)
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You are trying to frontally pen an arl44 acl1 with the british 57. That wont work too well.
The turret is 100mm and the hull is 60mm sloped. Your round isnt going to pen the front hull and will barely pen some spots on the turret front.
Its sides are very weak though so you need to get an angle where you can hit its side.
What is the problem here? Im assuming it was AP doing the AP thing of not nuking crew sometimes.
You hit mutliple layers of plates which caused a non-pen.
With time, you will learn the limits of your shells and where to hit. Premium wont prevent your issue from happening. Though it is a good investment if you get it on sale.
Just keep practicing.
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are you using shot mk9 on the Ram 2 (incorrectly called M4a5 in the US tree)?
as that shell is very good for 3.7. Or were you just facing T-34s?
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M4A5 is the USA designation for the Ram ll. It pisses me off beyond belief cuz it is literally built on M3 Grant chassis, not a Sherman Chassis. Call it the M3A1 Lee. Even that would be more accurate for gods sake. I love Shermans and I hate that that imposter gets the same designation as the Shoimons
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the only proof of this i can find anywhere on this internet is an article on tanks encyclopedia where they also claim its called a sherman 6 in some birish docs.
@StormRyder13 will probably be able to verify as he is very much a Canadian tank nut.
if this british empire tank was to get an american designation i do think M3a6 and m3a7 for the ram 1 and ram 2 would have been more appropriate.
well technically so is the sherman. but this is only the gearbox and hull floor, the rest is bespoke.
i like shermans too but find it an insult to the rams individuality to be lumped in with them.
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It’s not even that. It’s a name the seem to only exist in docs after the US stopped testing the Ram I (they call it “Canadian Medium tank” in footage found, and from what I found, the “late” Ram II got after the war was called a Ram II.)
Tho what’s really bad(after the major misinformation spread by the name) is even if it can be proven that M4A5 wasn’t ever meant to be used, the fact that it won’t be fixed under “that’s what the US would have called it” means: Host tree > Operator nation for vehicle names.
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It only took 11 years for gaijin to correct the preproduction and production tiger 2 names so we may see it get its name corrected before 2030.
hopefully wont be neccessary with a commonwealth tree removing it from the US (snorting powdered copium rn)
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It never kills the crew. It never disables the enemy tank. It never 1 pops anything, ever. Tank loses every 1 vs 1 while being penned from anywhere by 40 mm AA gun.
Takes 3, 4, 5 shots to kill. Meenwhile the Sherman at 3.7 1 pops anything it pens. How is it fair? What advantage does an AP round give in any way?
Gaijin put the vote:
Vote to make AP better - no
Vote to make APHE worse - no
The round is dud. Gaijin knows. Its easy to see why after 10 years this is what we got
The 57 is one of the better british guns for low tier. Much better than the british 75.
Of course aphe is better but you should still be able to work it well enough.