u/BestIsMyName

This DA is ahh today

This is about the best I can do, and I can’t replicate it at the moment. I did 4 stuns in that run though the last two stuns didn’t exactly have much resources, but luckily the boss switched back to Shiyuan letting me stun him at about ~7 seconds remaining (also fuck Sobek). For the first two stuns, I did the crushing peaks chain (with taunt cancel on lion’s roar) if that changes anything

I admittedly have some skill issue in quickly killing crew and ammo especially in close quarters, sometimes the darts just fail me against light tanks, and it loses its anti-air capability, but it’s just so fun and surprisingly effective lol. You could make quick work of the sides of tanks that rush your position, especially the lighter IFVs. And since you still got APFSDS, you can quickly swap to it if you come across heavier tanks

Personally, it’s the Challenger 3 TD. Access to DM53, an actually large ready rack for a Chally (though at the cost of longer reload), and it looks really sexy due to the lack of side composite / ERA blocks, reminds me of the Centurion RAAC in WoTB. But for some reason, it doesn’t have blowout racks, and hitting the upper half of the mantlet can hit the ammunition, negating its turret armor, and top tier really loves speed, and it’s not the fastest. But damn I wanna (and do) love it even if it ain’t the most used top tier tank

On paper, the guns and ATGMs are okay, and the armor is noticeably different from its PC version, so it shouldn’t be too bad, right?

Right?

Oops, since it’s its banner time, many people have it and play it right now, noobs and veterans alike. I should emohasize veterans here, because if you swipe to the second image, tell me what people can do to you? Effectively nothing. You might have to repair your modules a ton, but they can’t kill you without a 155 mm howitzer, the Merkava HE-TF shell, and or a T58. And I should again emphasize on the ‘repair’, because you have an unmanned turret with an identical ammunition shoot design to the Marder A1- / 1A3, which can be killed by shooting that. You not only can’t kill the BMPT that way, but you don’t even lose much ammo unlike the Namer Tsrikhon or PUMA which their ammo go zero the moment you shoot their unmanned turret.

Back to its weapons. They’re not the greatest, though they’re fine. Its 30 mm APDS has to be side on MBTs to penetrate them, and even then, stuff like T-80s have just thick enough side armor, and their lower side weakspot can take a while to detonate. However, you got a ton of APDS ammo (425 + 425), more than thrice of the BMP-2s. Furthermore, you can still track, barrel, and emotionally harass MBTs, thanks to its unrealistic autocannon accuracy at its fast RPM. The 9M120-1 ATGMs are fine. Not as good as the 9M133 found on the BMP-2M, but serviceable. Only four though, but with the aforementioned armor and arcade reloading, you can get them back while off a cap.

TLDR: It’s killable, which is the bare minimum for any tank. But it’s very annoying and you can clearly see the devs’ selective realism and their general lack of consistency and principle— but that’s a detailed doomposting for another day.

I won’t deny I got lucky, and top tier still looks cancerous lol. But it’s fun when it works out