Hellsfog, on Dec 09 2017 - 13:19, said:
The badger seems fine to me. It's certainly not "incredibly poorly balanced". The speed, about 30 kph with food, is about right. The frontal armor and depression serve it's purpose as a brawler but are not super cong levels of good. The fact that it is a casement TD gives it a significant negative right from the start.
I mean youre wrong:
30kph is too fast for what the tank is supposed to be. Because it gets to 30kph without food. It also has a decent hull traverse, letting it respond far too quickly to targets that appear off to its side.
The armor is literally invulnerable to anything that isnt a tier 10 TD firing gold ammo, and this goes doubly so if the tank happens to be using any of its gun depression, which it has too much of, allowing it to take too many positions. And with this armor is gets too much DPM and a gun that handles too well and has a pretty wide traverse range.
It has way too many positives for not enough negatives. Just like the Super Conqueror. The lack of a turret is not enough of a negative to outweigh the fact that literally everything else about the vehicle is so good for what it is. Its incredibly poorly balanced right now (which is no surprise given recent additions to the game). 25kph with -7 gun depression would better serve overall balance, but not allowing the Badger to take as many positions where it can just face tank anything that isnt spamming premium shells at it.
On the French Heavy guns the 127mm on the tier 9 handles incredibly nicely and has decnt alpha and DPM. And the 120mm on the tier 8 is probably the best gun to use on that tank.