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[Sonlirain]

Can't say anything about them but they generally seem to get good tanks. Their heavies have pretty meh side armor but most of them also get a load of frontal armor to offset that.
T32 at tier 4 has effectively 200 mm of frontal armor. While that's pretty crap by WoT standards it will likely hold up pretty well since in WT the only tanks that can reliably penetrate it at range would be The Tiger 2 and Ferdinand. Hell even tanks at tier 5 will have problems at range if they use stock ammo and that's just the stupid front of the hull.
The turret is 300 mm effective and i didn't find any ammo in the game that could pen that even from 10 meters. The tiger and ferdi gets tghe closest with 265 pen with APCR at 10 meters meaning the turret is effectively untouchable.

Of course that's just my guesswork but if what i think is true T32 will be an OP pisstake at tier 4.

[Naryar]

Yeah, 1.45 is here.

There has been fixes to FM models, a few planes as well, no BR changes for RB but Gaijin says they are working on it.

Now to see if it will indeed be brought in a mini-patch or it will be in the next big version. Or alternatively, Soon (TM)

[Jopax]

Yeah, I was mainly wondering about that. They all seem to have retarded frontal armour and great gun depression but should melt fairly easily to any flanking attempts.

Not sure about the gun on the T32 tho, should be the same as the one on the Persh and I have no idea if it gets APCR or HEAT since the Persh gun wasn't that high powered, so that could balance it fairly well I think.

But then you get to the M103 which will pretty much shit on everything else at it's tier because besides crazy good frontal armour it gets a monster of a gun to boot.

[Erils]

My only question when it comes to tanks is: "Will the survive a 500kg cylinder filled with explosives?"

[Aseaheru]

Will it survive a T-60 calling down three arty strikes on it at the same time?

[Sheb]

Also, it seems that nationalities are now mixed in RB tanks.

[TheBronzePickle]

American tanks aren't available in Sim battles yet. This is a bit infuriating.

[Chosrau]

So I and someone else derped around a bit with the new tow cables and we tested if they can be used to somehow enhance ramming.

While the cable itself can't hurt enemy tanks, they really help with impacting the target at the same time, since neither can fall to far behind. And while the WarThunder ramming system is dodgy at best when there are 2 tanks involved, with 3 tanks it gets even weirder.

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It wasn't the initial impact that killed the enemy, but the ensuing manhandling.


Next up is dragging a third person around the map, chariot style.

[Sonlirain]

And while the WarThunder ramming system is dodgy at best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyFb3pcY_0g

You are giving their physics engine way more credit than it deserves.

As for the tow cables... i think your friend died during the ramming so it was 1 for 1. TBH you'd be better off just shooting. especially since ramming in WT is pretty ineffective imo.
At least compared to WoT.

[Chosrau]

None of us took any damage that prevented us from driving on and looking for a new victim right afterwards.

And as much fun as people make of the WarThunder physics, they're still better then those of WoT. That game has so many arbitrary limits to it physics.

[Sonlirain]

Sure they limited them but at least wrecks won't dematerialize and tanks don't clip into one another or into the ground.
I died to physics related stupidity in WT so many times it's not funny.
It's one game where i'm afraid to drive a T-34 at high speeds because i might get launched into the air (or stop abruptly as if i hit a meter thick block of concrete) and break my tracks suspension and maybe transmission for good measure.

[TheBronzePickle]

I've never had that much of a problem with the WT physics. Tank on tank collisions can be wonky as fuck, but except for the spazzing out and the fact tanks can somehow flip each other, it's really not that bad at all. Occasionally you might break a track, but usually that's when you fall on something or go off a ramp. I've never had an incident where I didn't know how I fucked up.

[Naryar]

So, I've decided to fly my old Bf110 a bit. Maybe i'll unlock these 50kg bombs.

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Sure the MG FF's are shit but then again cardboard biplanes.

[Jopax]

So I got the Tiger the other day. Wasn't as amazeballs as I expected it, mostly because I suck at rangefinding that gun and because it's not as durable as I expected it to be.

First death with it was quite funny tho. Was on Polan and tried to flank around the city only to spot an SU122 (the long one) on the outskirts. I miss four shots while trying to zero on him, he bounces two and misses one. Then his third shot hits the roof of my turret, bounces into the commanders hatch, goes trough it's side, bounces off of it's inner roof and straight into the crew where it detonates killing everyone.

[Sonlirain]

I had amusing tiger kills in my KV-2 (i use  HE exclusively).
Just shoot its turret and the shrapnel coming from the explosion penetrate the top armor and hit the ammoracks. Scored at least 2 tiger kills this way yesterday.