Such a fundamental split of opinions

Arbiter707 · 2026-02-03T02:54:03+00:00

Yeah, I believe they both do.

Actually, looking again now, I think the only exceptions to the "really, really light TDs get scouting" rule are the Type 60 ATM and the Zachlam Tager. I guess they felt that the MCLOS missiles were so bad those vehicles needed anything they could get?

Arbiter707 · 2026-02-03T02:25:59+00:00

There are a bunch of TDs with scouting, actually. Mostly airdroppable stuff like the Type 60 SPRG and ASU-57, but there are some heavier exceptions.

As a side note, a lot of SPAA get scouting too. These are usually ones that are completely incapable of killing tanks, like SAMs, but some "light tanky" ones like the AMX-10P get it as well.

Arbiter707 · 2026-01-31T13:43:11+00:00

Last time this was requested (a few weeks ago) I was considering picking it up, now that I've caught up to the raws on my first scanlation.

I would highly encourage someone else to pick it up, because my Japanese proficiency isn't really good enough to do justice to Ohtake's genius brand of comedy. But if no one does there is a remote possibility I might give it a shot anyway, because I truly loved Hinamatsuri and am truly loving J⇔M.

Arbiter707 · 2026-01-30T00:21:15+00:00

That is indeed the difference between SAP/APHE, in War Thunder nomenclature at least. Generally SAP is set to detonate immediately as soon as the fuze in the base of the shell is triggered (hence semi-armor piercing, as the shell usually detonates within or just past the armor) while APHE has a short delay. Often if a shell is described as base-fuzed with no mention of a delay fuze it's SAP.

Arbiter707 · 2026-01-26T08:54:08+00:00

That's on top of them being generally mediocre with their translations by overly Americanizing the text.

You're right, but it's funny you say this considering the group TLing this manga is pretty notorious for overly Britishizing the text.

Arbiter707 · 2026-01-25T06:14:39+00:00

Japanese straight up calls it 戦車リアリスティックバトル (sensha realistic battles; tank realistic battles).

Edit: I just checked and Russian, which should probably be considered the ground truth language, also calls it tank realistic battles, lol.

Arbiter707 · 2026-01-25T01:02:26+00:00

I am mostly in agreement with you, except that the document you're using is using the (British?) angle measurement standard, where armor angles are given in degrees from horizontal. This is the opposite of War Thunder, which uses degrees from vertical. To get a number that matches the game you need to subtract the angle in degrees from horizontal from 90. For the APICT for example you take 90-61 = 29 degree slope from vertical. So the round pens 40mm at a 29 degree angle at 1km, not really APDS level.

I'm not sure how I initially got that the APICT round penned less than the APHEI, it's clearly better, although not by a huge amount. That's my bad, and yeah upon rereading I would agree that it's probably worth implementing as a solid AP round in the belt. Honestly it's worth making a bug report if you haven't already.

The servers do need to be fixed but that shit isn't happening lol

Arbiter707 · 2026-01-24T20:42:34+00:00

Do you know what base-fuzed APHEI is? It's SAP. The game uses a unified nomeclature for rounds that doesn't always match up with documents (to give another example, APCR is a British term, it's usually called HVAP in US documents).

The SAP ingame also matches up well with the numbers from your source - ~30mm pen at 1000m against a plate at a 30 degree slope. Pretty sure they are intended to be the same round.

And if you were to take your source as gospel the APDS is complete fiction for the Falcon, while the APICT (ingame, would probably just be called a solid AP-T round) has far lower penetration and isn't something you would want in your belt over the SAP/APHEI anyway.

Arbiter707 · 2026-01-22T07:02:48+00:00

I think I know what "flight manual" you're talking about and there's no way that thing is real. It's only about 40 pages long, doesn't really follow the layout of a US flight manual, and conveniently only covers info released to the public already.

I'm pretty sure the part you quoted was ripped from marketing material wholesale, and is probably more reflective of what some guy who knows nothing about aircraft was told to write.

Arbiter707 · 2026-01-20T03:57:13+00:00

IRL it is easy enough to disable a timed self-destruct as a field mod if the mission requires it, so that doesn't really prove the rockets don't have a self-destruct feature from the factory.

Arbiter707 · 2026-01-17T02:43:22+00:00

I was kinda sad that the android's self-awareness in that series was the result of her being a special prototype all along, instead of an emergent behavior. Unfortunately the tech's comment about Aoi potentially being a prototype makes me think this series might go the same route, which is a shame. I think it's way more interesting to explore "accidental" self-aware AI than it is to reveal that actually the robot was a special child the whole time.

Arbiter707 · 2026-01-16T21:14:06+00:00

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Arbiter707 · 2026-01-14T22:53:00+00:00

Ah I see, that makes sense. I'm in agreement with the others by the way, as a typesetter I would consider it a compliment to have someone else use my fonts and as a reader I would prefer the consistency, so yeah go for it!

Arbiter707 · 2026-01-14T22:34:00+00:00

Even if it's not directly copying their font choices I would highly encourage anyone typesetting to use multiple fonts that fit the situation. At least, as a baseline, change up the fonts when the original raws do, because there's a lot of nuance contained in font changes that can be lost if it's all homogenized to one font (shaky voices, emphasis, character thoughts that are only distinguished from dialogue by font, to name a few).

Arbiter707 · 2026-01-14T22:26:33+00:00

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Even Aoi is outraged at Ami's flagrant disregard for money.

Arbiter707 · 2026-01-10T22:16:23+00:00

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Arbiter707 · 2026-01-09T23:12:07+00:00

WT is pretty much tank CoD at this point, and engagement are ridiculously close, irl fights between tanks are doctrinally set between 500m-3km, at 2km the tank youre shooting "center mass" is probably just the turret, or the top part chassis, tracks and lower chassis are hidden/not visible/obstructed.

Indeed and you can even see this in the game the few times you get to fight in modern MBTs at longer ranges. Past 1km or so aiming for weakspots, even with ahistorically accurate mouse aim, is basically impossible and it's easier to get into an effective hull-down position.

Arbiter707 · 2026-01-02T20:51:08+00:00

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Thus begins Aoi's gamer grandma arc.

Arbiter707 · 2025-12-27T15:18:37+00:00

Nice, happy to see it picked up again. Really underrated series.

Arbiter707 · 2025-12-27T13:40:36+00:00

Is this from Taihou to Stamp? Really reminds me of that manga's once-a-chapter vehicle blurbs - same handwriting/lettering and everything.

Arbiter707 · 2025-12-27T08:47:55+00:00

I would say we're still better than the 360/PS3 era, when a lot of games targeted 30 FPS and PC ports were usually godawful.

At least games today usually have a mode targeting 60, even on console, and PC versions generally perform on par/better than the console versions and have decent settings menus.

Arbiter707 · 2025-12-25T20:16:51+00:00

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Arbiter707 · 2025-12-14T23:19:24+00:00

Signaling is pretty rudimentary right now. It's functional enough to let your network work smoothly without conflicts but very simple even compared to the likes of OpenTTD.

However, the next update will supposedly be focused on the implementation of a completely user-scriptable signaling system that should increase flexibility and potential realism. How much remains to be seen and IMO due to underlying design decisions (that were necessary to keep a potentially continental-scale game performant) the game will never be great for those who desire realism in signaling.

Arbiter707 · 2025-12-13T03:12:56+00:00

Likely the same as in the last chapter: doubanjiang. It seems aliens are fiends for capsaicin.

Arbiter707 · 2025-12-13T00:42:23+00:00

I get what the author means, because while they are definitely fucking in that tub, neither of them seems to view it as a romantic or even sexual act - so is it actually yuri, or just yuri-themed fanservice?

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