Obviously i meant the 8,8 and 7,62 cm Flaks in game. They only have HE-TF not HE-VT.
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Wright engine has 10 inches larger diametre.
Perhaps it could fit in width, though cooling and exhaust would get difficult.
Higher engine just won’t fit. It’s already from floor to deck.
Ignore the generator part. In length they are close to the same.
snug fit
What exactly was the policy here? Is the highest horsepower value always taken without further consideration? Can we buff Chi-Ha over arcade battle engine powers? (No I’m not seriously suggesting that.)
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Gaijin doesn’t do things that make sense.
They are either dogmatic, even when values don’t make sense, or they decide to ignore correct values because it doesn’t fit them.
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Best, most realistic Gaijin change ever. Not even joking.
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Now we just need to give all 6-pounders 57mm M86 APHE (with slightly lower velocity and pen on the Mk.3 shorter-barreled gun) and give the QF 75 75mm M61 APHE. Then the British will finally be cooking.
I’d say keep it on the Sherman II, as if you take it away the thing becomes less than worthless. But give the round to every other QF 75 vehicle.
The case for the 57mm M86 comes from the fact that the US 57 is a license-built copy of the British 57. British 6-pdr APDS was used in US 57s at Bulge, implying their ammo was cross-compatible.
And lastly, Britain is the only nation without much APHE in the otherwise “golden era of WT” from 3.3-4.3, before you get a bunch of 17-pdrs that have enough postpen spall to make up for no filler.
Absolute rubbish as you are well aware, one mis-type in 1943 leads to silliness in 2025. This should have been picked up by Gaijin during their QA process.
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Gaijin also thinks the VK 3002 only weighs 35t 🤷🏻♂️
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Someone mistyped the incendiary filler for 13mm AP-I as 0,36g (less than some 7.62mm AP-I carry) and Gaijin still claims it’s the correct value despite me providing them with 3d modelled 13mm bullet with the incendiary filler area being big enough to stuff around 0,8g of incendiary (depending on the density, it could be as much as 0,9g or f.e. 0,86g, wink wink, because no way in hell someone would fail to close the “8”, or for it to get smudged up and someone else wrongly writing it down).
If there was only 0,36g of incendiary in there, the cavity qould have to be mostly filled with air.
But since “that’s what’s in a document” (even though it contains a lot of weird data and typing errors), that’s what’s modelled in game.
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Yeah, basically all they have to do is take the density of RHA, they can even assume the "highest value* out of the selected range, then model UFP sized plate of 2cm thickness and turret face plate as thick as difference between VK and Panther Ds, and just subtract the weight of these 2 from Panther D weight, if there are any other differences in thickness, repeat the process, then compare the suspension, do the same. Then subtract additional 700kg out of good will (maybe some things were maden lighter and more delicate for the early, less armored variant f.e. parts of the suspension,nor some.more sophisticates designs were used) and we’ll end up around 40-41t, and that’s me being optimistic.
I don’t know man, the document of the VK 30.02 (M), made before any prototypes were built, says 35 tons.
Clearly it’s correct. You’re just hatin’ 💅.
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Has there not been follow up bug reports to correct the issue?
Not reported by others as far as I’ve seen, and I don’t see the 3.7" in frequently enough to be reminded of it.
On one side you have a primary source with a typo. On the other side, to establish a new bug report, you’d need a different primary source without a typo. Since that likely doesn’t exist anywhere, there is no way by Gaijins rules to reverse it. Case closed, I guess.
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It’s a little more than that.
Britain received over 1.4 million rounds of M86 during WW2 as part of lend lease, and there is no need to imply any kind of cross compatibility, US documentation confirms that ammunition is fully interchangeable between the M1 and 6pdr, and even gives performance figures for M86 APHE fired out of the British 6pdr, meaning the compatibility isn’t just theoretical, it was actually used.
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Good to know - and exactly what I expected.
Hopefully giving the British M61 APHE and eventually M86 APHE doesn’t make their BRs skyrocket to ridiculous levels, because all both rounds truly accomplish is just bringing Britain up to parity with literally everybody else. Everybody has a Sherman these days and thus that round is arguably THE standard by which the 3.3-4.7 range is balanced. M86 is a less potent equivalent to the Russian ZiS-2 gun.
Just need to ask Whelmy. That’s where the source came from originally. He probably has more. Maybe even a specification page like the many others in the Canadian microfilms.
What exactly would the source say, though? It’s a Ram tank, anyone would conclude it be default had a regular Ram engine in it, not one double the size by volume. There’s no report that’s going to say, “um by the way, we did NOT actually put in a unique engine that couldn’t physically fit inside the engine compartment, something we’re telling you here in this report for no reason now at all.”