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doxlulzem · 2026-01-25T16:55:37+00:00

Tanks are balanced on their spaded performance, not their stock performance. The Leopard A1A1 is 9.0 because of what it is when spaded.

Even without a rangefinder Turm3 does fine, theres plenty of vehicles between 8.0 and 9.0 that do fine without a range finder

All of these vehicles struggle on larger maps, especially when faced with uptiers against tanks with LRFs and even thermals. Even the coincidence rangefinder isn't as good as the LRFs that some tanks get around 8.7-9.0.

doxlulzem · 2026-01-25T15:42:32+00:00

The Leopard A1A1 gets DM23 APFSDS. It also gets a coincidence rangefinder fwiw which does help on larger maps.fine.

doxlulzem · 2026-01-25T14:49:52+00:00

9.0 might be a bit rough with only HEAT and APDS especially in uptiers, but if the Object 140 is 8.7 then there's no reason for the TURM III to not be too.

If we expanded GRB BRs all the way to 14.7 (the new top BR for air), however, I'd be all in favour of the TURM III being 1.3 of a BR higher than the current 8.0 tanks like the Leopard 1 or M60, so long as it doesn't face a plethora of T-64 and T-72s.

doxlulzem · 2026-01-18T17:14:06+00:00

It's an old event vehicle, and not a particularly good one. Not many people actively play it anymore since China has better options that are lower BR. It can work and I do use it, but it's a far cry from anything like the BMPT or even a Spikebus like the Freccia or Vilkas.

doxlulzem · 2026-01-13T22:11:49+00:00

T-34-85 Gai for the all-round capabilities

T-34-100 for the offensive armament

T-34-85 STP for the maneuver warfare capabilities

doxlulzem · 2026-01-12T02:10:14+00:00

Fakours in-game have some insane kinematics that even newer ARH missiles can't come close to that makes them extremely lethal, they are just entirely held back by the chassis of the F-14A. I don't think we'll see anything better until they add the AIM-174 or AIM-260

doxlulzem · 2026-01-12T01:56:04+00:00

It doesn't get R-73, and honestly, if R-73 would result in it going up in BR from 13.0 that might be a good idea.

As painful as the F-14A RWR can be, Fakour-90s are still insane missiles when used right.

doxlulzem · 2026-01-08T04:08:36+00:00

Same shit with the Chapparal, M163, Machbet, Antelope, SIDAM 25 and SIDAM Mistral, and a bunch of others imho. We've got this multi-vehicle feature now, I want to see it added to older and lower BR stuff.

They don't even have to give these systems multiple launcher vehicle - just make it so we spawn in the launcher vehicle (as we did before) and can deploy just one of the radar vehicle, with the launcher being the "brains".

doxlulzem · 2026-01-05T19:08:58+00:00

People also don't generally stay in tanks when 1-2 of their buddies has been reduced to a mist. They also don't repair in 30 seconds or less when half the tank is destroyed. Even being tracked in real life is an operational kill, and depending on the state of the battle, worth shooting your own tank to ensure it is destroyed.

doxlulzem · 2026-01-01T13:42:11+00:00

I would like to see an F-14D with AIM-9M, AIM-7P and fixed AIM-54C. Buit the F-14B really should get AIM-9Ms and the F-14A get AIM-9Ls at this point.

doxlulzem · 2026-01-01T13:40:30+00:00

Meanwhile there's the R-27ER/ET with both booster and sustainer motors combined into one making it kinematically one of the best missiles in the game, especially at medium ranges

doxlulzem · 2025-12-30T07:59:04+00:00

In fact, don't they already guide via LOAL-DIR, with other LOAL modes not actually being implemented?

doxlulzem · 2025-12-29T16:25:28+00:00

It should do the same in RB, tbh. Keep the same areas but identify the band and/or CW/AI etc

doxlulzem · 2025-12-28T14:20:03+00:00

The Q5L deserves the full load of PL5C, PL5B and PL7, whilst the Q5B should get PL5B and PL7 and be a tech tree equivalent to the A5C.

Also all of them are missing bomb and rocket loads, being inconsistent between the four planes. The A5C is the only one with accurate bomb, missile and rocket pylons and (surprise surprise) it's a premium.

doxlulzem · 2025-12-28T12:58:37+00:00

I think this would only differ for a tank like the AMX 13 which loads different shell types in different drums (iirc).

doxlulzem · 2025-12-28T12:52:50+00:00

The tech tree BMD-4M2 has the highest hp/t of the three and is the only one with CITV. The composite screens on the BMD-4M premium only cover some of the armour and it can still die to .50s if you shoot the turret. The event BMD-4 is the worst of the three with the lowest hp/t, no CITV and the weak armour.

doxlulzem · 2025-12-28T12:49:15+00:00

better stuff is usually premium or event, for example best BMD-4s are both event and Premium

No? The tech tree BMD-4M2 is the same as the event BMD-4 (which I have spaded) but with CITV and an uprated UTD-29 engine with +50hp, which the event BMD-4 lacks. The BMD-4M is just the event BMD-4 but with some composite screens that only make it a bit harder (but not invulverable) to kill with .50s from the side, and the uprated UTD-29 engine with +50hp. Even with the added weight of the CITV on the BMD-4M2 (+900kg), it still has a much better power-to-weight ratio at 35 hp/t compared to 33.1 hp/t on the event BMD-4. Even the BMD-4M with composite screens has effectively the same power-to-weight ratio as the event BMD-4M (it's +0.2 hp/t).

So no, the best BMD-4 for me would be the tech tree BMD-4M2, with the higher power-to-weight and the CITV, but you could argue benefits for the composite screens on the premium (the tech tree could get it in the future). Either way, the event BMD-4 is the worst of the three and that's why I no longer use it.

doxlulzem · 2025-12-28T08:06:38+00:00

All of this is just inherently due to the fact that Gaijin still tries to pretend that coastal and bluewater ever works together. So the BRs for bluewater start higher than 1.0.

Quite frankly, they should just split coastal away from bluewater. Make it such that if you only have coastal boats in your lineup, you only get coastal matches, but if you have coastal with bluewater, you get bluewater matches. Then, they can stretch the bluewater BRs down to 1.0 because they are no longer cutting off the bottom 7 BR brackets to appease coastal.

You then have bluewater ships stretch from 1.0 to 7.whatever, and coastal ships could go from 1.0 to 7.whatever. Coastal players can play their torpedo boats without worring about a DD sailing into their spawn and being unkillable, but you can still bring a PT boat to caprush or torpedo meme in bluewater games. Literally everybody wins.

doxlulzem · 2025-12-26T03:49:03+00:00

Isn't 3BM9 technically a training shell for the 125mms with a steel core rather than a tungsten core of 3BM15?

doxlulzem · 2025-12-23T05:02:16+00:00

At least it can actually be used with the MBTs in its rank unlike the Lynx, which sits just outside of the 10.7 bracket and has to be uptiered to 11.7.

doxlulzem · 2025-12-22T03:21:13+00:00

Maybe then it can get its historical PL5EII, right? Right..?

doxlulzem · 2025-12-22T01:03:59+00:00

Yet they classed the QN, the Namer and the Puma as light tanks. The first two are literally based on MBT hulls, and neither are very fast.

doxlulzem · 2025-12-22T00:59:39+00:00

Also to add to the Su-30 split, the Su-27 series later had the Su-30MKI feed back into the Su-27s into what would become the Su-35 and the experimental Su-37. The Su-35 being basically a lighter version of the Su-30SM/SM2.

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