With Greece coming to Israel, what’s even the point of the Merkava if its armour stays like this?

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with greece coming to the israeli tree, i feel like the merkava is gonna lose a lot of what makes it unique.

the whole point of the mk4 is its weird protection layout. huge modular armour around the turret, sides and roof, lots of angle, deep composite arrays, all that stuff.

but in game it doesn’t really feel like you get much back for all that weight.

it’s slower and heavier than a leopard, but the frontal turret can still feel pretty average against modern apfsds.

and that’s the part i don’t really get.

with nera/slera type armour, a long rod isn’t just going through one solid block. it can get disturbed over multiple layers, start yawing, bending, eroding and possibly breaking up as it keeps going through the array.

obviously i’m not saying one nera/slera layer is the same as kontakt-5 or relikt.

heavy era is way more violent per hit.

but the merkava has a huge angled array with multiple interactions, so it feels weird seeing russian era get really strong ke and chemical protection in game while the mk4’s giant turret array still feels kinda underwhelming.

and once the greek leopards are there, it gets even more obvious.

you’ll have a tank that is faster, more mobile, has great gun handling and solid armour.

so if the merkava is slower, heavier and still doesn’t really get rewarded with better protection, why would you pick it over the leopard?

i’m not saying the merkava should be invincible or just straight up better.

i just think it should actually benefit from the thing that makes it different.

otherwise it just becomes the cooler looking, slower option while the leopard does everything else better.

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You’ll have and like it. Instead of prioritizing the improvement of the Merkava as a whole add a copy and paste sub-tech tree instead. I’ve been sharing my discontent with the tech tree proposal, and after its reveal I am disliking even more, and that’s one side of the coin, the other is the air tech tree that will be filled with non-israeli american-made airplanes with little to no modification and some french stuff. And all things considered there are people actively supporting the addition of the hellenic sub-tech tree—which, is ok—but instead of pushing Gaijin to address the issues with the israeli ground forces workhorse—Merkava.

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yeah, that’s kind of my concern too. i don’t really have an issue with greece being added, but it feels like the timing is weird when the merkavas still have so many things that could use attention.
once the leopards are in the tree, people are naturally gonna compare them, and if the merkava still ends up being the slower, heavier option without much of an armour advantage, it just makes the problem way more obvious.

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You’re one of the very, and I mean very, few.

That was the case since the Israeli tree was first added? Lmfao no way this person is real.

No correlation. if that was the case, Greece would have been added 4 years ago.