Nytherr, on Apr 08 2012 - 06:48, said:
1,2: Prove that it only has 100 mm of maximum armor. If the armor is that weak, it wouldn't be that big as it is now.
3: For the sake of balance, they wouldn't give it that 90 mm DCA 30 with an average penetration of 135 mm. They would rather give it the 90 mm DCA 45 which has 212 mm of average penetration. By the way, it's made to attack fortifications not enemy tanks. So that really doesn't make any sense.
4: Wrong. It's secondary gun doesn't really matter when fighting its tier or higher or somewhere lower. Why would you want to use a tier 3 gun against tier 7s, 8s, 9s and 10s? Not only, but say its average. Again, it's made to attack fortifications not enemy tanks. So that really doesn't make any sense.
5: Let's say, 100 mm of maximum armor, it wouldn't reach the weight 139 metric tons. I'll say it would be below, and it will be powered by two Renault V12 KGM with a horsepower of 550 each, that would give it about 1,100 horsepower. Let's say it weighs 90 metric tons rather than 139 metric tons, due to the amount of armor, 100 mm of maximum armor you were saying. If that's the case, it would run with about 11.5 horsepower per ton, while on the other hand, the 139 ton would run about 8 horsepower per ton. That statement "slow" wouldn't be placed there if it is lightly armored for a tall, huge, super heavy tank.
*This information is no longer from memory, thus should be accurate*
1• I did some digging and it appear it is 120mm max (I am going to asume that is the mantlet. Usually when it says "X tank has 35mm of armor", that means a maximum thickness of 35mm). 120mm with such little slope would be quite weak for a tier 8. Like the Char 2C, it has a smaller amount of armor so it doesn't weigh too much and won't be super costly on resources.
3• The devs have, and always will give gold tanks their historical equipment. This means no matter how much everyone whines, bitches, begs, etc., nothing will remove the DCA 30.
4• I will agree the second gun is useless aginst higher tiers.
5• A quick search will show you it has a top speed of 24 km/h. It won't go as fast as you would think because of the old style track system and a probably crappy transmission. It won't weigh 90 tons because it's so freaking huge. The thing is the size of a house! Think Lorraine 40t, it only has a max of 45mm of armor but is about 40 tons. This is due to the huge size. Generally, size changes weight more than armor does.
You keep bringing up the fortification assualt thing. This is another reason why it would suck at tier 8.
