I am an ancient player, and probably above average as far as the overall playerbase goes. Just throwing that out there.
Yak 9K APHE just deletes whatever it hits in GRB. The shell has zero trouble penning even tricky angles, and the post-pen damage is absolutely obscene.
It’s a 45mm APHE, yet it detonates like a massice SAPHE, every time it pens.
That’s the problem. Upping the GRB BR or making the belt cost more might obfuscate the problem, but the problem is the fact that a 45mm shell that’s already designed to penetrate armor would have precious little room left for HE filler.
Take this single pass/button-hook video with 3 kills… the placement on the Sherman (2nd kill) was okay (though a very steep angle to pen that side plate, tbh) but the other two are just slop shots and they absolutely delete the two tanks hit:
The easiest fix here is to simply remove the belt. The HVAP-T is deadly enough in GRB, the APHE is like hitting with a Maverick every round.
The top three players there spawn YaK-9Ks and absolutely deleted my team. Not even gonna try lying. (that was also my best match until the Sinai mission where I got 6 kills with the M36.)
So this is allowed and considered balanced but the Mk-101 and Mk-103 API shells get nerfed to oblivion for literally no reason. Community Bug Reporting System
Mate I am pretty sure you can take this into 9.0 and still get at least 3 kills. No tank (from my poor memory) has that good of armor (and hell naw ERA on roof) on top and I’ve seen Leos get killed by these. Early SAM can’t even dare scratch the holy red/blue paint of the Russian Bias flying tank.
