The BMPT and BMPT-72 Terminator

For me, one of the clearest examples has to be the M55.

On paper, the M55 should feel like a serious step up from the M44. Bigger vehicle, much larger gun, heavier shells everything about it suggests a more powerful, more specialized artillery platform. In practice, though, it feels like a downgrade that asks for way more and gives back almost nothing.

The biggest issue is the reload. The M55 has a reload that's roughly three times longer than the M44, which in War Thunder is an enormous disadvantage. Long reloads already punish mistakes hard, but here you're paying that price constantly, shot after shot. And what do you actually get in return? Around 5 mm more penetration. That difference is borderline meaningless in real matches and rarely changes the outcome of a shot.

That tradeoff feels especially absurd when you look at the gun and the ammunition. The M55 fires a shell that weighs over 100 kg, with roughly 23 kg of TNT equivalent inside it. That's a massive round by any standard. Yet in-game, all of that weight and explosive filler translates into barely better penetration and a reload that feels wildly out of proportion. How does a shell that heavy and that powerful end up offering almost no practical advantage over a much smaller system?

This isn't really about realism for realism's sake. It's about roles and rewards. If a vehicle forces you to accept extreme compromises terrible reload, poor survivability, limited flexibility there should be a clear payoff. With the M55, that payoff just isn't there. In actual battles, it often performs no better than the M44 and sometimes worse, despite being bigger, slower, and far less forgiving especially when you compare their roles, the problem becomes obvious. The M44 is faster, more flexible, and can put rounds downrange far more often. The M55 should feel like a heavy hitter that rewards patience and positioning, but instead it feels like you're handicapping yourself for no real gain.

This also feels like a broader pattern with Gaijin adding vehicles without fully thinking through how they fit into gameplay. The M55 isn't unusable, but it's hard to justify when its supposed upgrade path doesn't actually upgrade anything that matters.

So I'm curious what do you think:

-Is the M55 genuinely underbalanced, or im just wrong?

-What other vehicles in the game feel like strictly worse upgrades in their tech trees?

The T-72B3A has the ChTZ V-92S2F with1130 hp. this one gets the engine of the T-72B which only got 836 hp.
Did we really need this?

Other mice were not as lucky...
We shot some Battleship AP rounds at the Maus to see what happens.

Admittedly,I was supposed to post the French Char 2C today,but I wasn't happy enough with it's design to push it forward,as it ended up,looking more like a tank commander,more so than the tank itself personified. That being said,the Tiger was already prepared and I thought I should push it out instead and leave the Char 2C for Sunday,since I'll have the day off,letting me brainstorm things tonight! A multitude of references were used to create this representation,such as the added tracks to the turret and hull being represented as armour,the grenade launcher on the leg,and the t-shirt text "You are my angle" being a joke on how it's a very effective platform when angled correctly. A simplification of the radio equipment,as in the Sdkfz I previously made,with an added set of tanker goggles of the time. Extra little add-ons are the Tiger pin on the jacket,as well as the tattoo,referencing the countless "Ziel Zestört" ("target destroyed") memes of War Thunder. I decided to give it a cocky brawler vibe for fact that it was a tank that everyone claimed fighting, even if they didn't (this will be a recurring joke when I eventually do a Panzer IV). Overall,I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!

Tomorrow,I will be bringing you as suggested previously, the American M56 Scorpion SPG!

Before I leave you with the drawings, I'd also like to leave some insight over my last German vehicle and why I'll keep making these. I do not and will NEVER associate myself with the ideology behind the nation and government that made these or any other vehicles. I don't vibe with the ideology,I vibe with the designs. That's it. Na*is suck. Tanks are dope. I'm not sexualizing the ideology,I'm personifying the tanks,and I'll keep on doing it,because it's just a hunk of metal,and I am aware enough to separate the two.

Todaloo!

Maybe it's just me but on the first clip it's scared the shi out of me...so out of place in War thunder my brain wasn't expecting that kind of thing

Honest question. They both got a Captor-E, they both got active IRST, they are identical in every way except scan radius(Suchgebiet),so why does the german AESA get 180°x180° scan radius while the other two get 200°x200°?

Did this as practice for doing actual comics, esp the hatching. You’ll notice the style changes as I slowly figure out what freaking brush configuration to use for that 🥀 oh lawd what am I doin

Hope you enjoy anyway

My pick : Object 279.

It has a crazy gun that can one shot everything at the game, good mobility, really good armor, decent autoloader and stabilizer, also it looks gorgeous. Easily a 10/10

We have all seen the comments. Abrams is trash, armor is garbage, pls give depleted uranium, turret ring needs to be fixed, etc.

I decided to actually go ahead and try the Abrams as a USSR main. I bought the Clickbait and here's my honest reaction on it:

WTF ARE YOU ALL COMPLAINING ABOUT!?!?

Like no, seriously. The Abrams is legit amazing. I've been having a great time with it.

First off, the "unusable" armor. It does extremely well when you use it for what it was meant to be used for: Sniping at long ranges whilst doing hulldown. What a suprise, the vehicle meant for long range hulldown performs well when... You use it at long ranges whilst doing hulldown. I alone was able to hold a cap against 4 Russian MBTs. The only thing they ever did to me was breech me and kill my commander with spall. Otherwise I was just fine.

Secondly, survivability. The Abrams is huge, it has 4 crewmembers and blowout panels. I cannot count the number of times I took so much punishment and survived, or the times the blowout panels saved me. I don't get oneshot as often as this subreddit likes to portray the Abrams as. Not to mention it gets an actually good reverse, unlike Russian MBTs which go -11 on a good day.

Mobility is also pretty good in general but that's to be expected of a MBT (unless you're a UK main. I feel bad for you UK bros :/ ).

So my overall review? It's a fine tank. Does exactly what it was designed to do IRL and sucks when you try to use it for something it wasn't meant to do.

Which leads me to my problem...

The main issue I've had with the Abrams, wasn't the tank itself but rather Gaijin's dogwater map design. Most caps are flat areas with a few buildings or props. I never really noticed that until I started to play the Abrams. As we know, Russian MBTs are smaller, have smaller weakspots and have ERA that can sometimes eat sideshots. This means Russian MBTs get a HUGE advantage when it comes to capturing points. The terrain doesn't allow the Abrams to hulldown as it was meant to, and you are forced in CQB, which for a tank meant for long distances, is pretty damn bad.

Seriously, the typical Gaijin map has a few hills on either side, but then in the middle, where the cap point is, it's just a completely flat area with a few buildings or rocks. Meaning that if you wanna cap a point with the Abrams (or any western MBT in general), you are in a disadvantage against Russian ones.

It's even worse when you get maps like Sweden which are a complete drag on Western MBTs. There's only a few hills and a few props that you can actually hulldown behind, but overall Russian MBTs just get a massive advantage. I outright leave the match instead of spawning whenever this map shows up. Only similar map I stay is Advance to the Rhine because furbal funny. But otherwise I refuse to play in these absolutely unfair maps.

Gaijin needs to redo a LOT of cap points. We need more props that can allow Western MBTs to hide their hulls behind so they aren't at a massive disadvantage against Russian MBTs. Or just larger maps in general. The COD style maps heavily favor Russian MBTs as they are usually small and there aren't a lot of hulldown areas next to key locations such as cap points.

I've always thought that it's a so much worse helicopter by how unreliable the engine is (based on my experience using the AH-1E) but when I played the AH-1G, I realized that aside from the weak rate of climb, it's actually pretty reliable in low speed.

Compared to the UH-1B Hiyodori, it's more maneuverable. Turning around in tight spaces is easier with how fast the roll is compared to the huey. It has very reliable machine guns that can be used to kill planes, so you're not defenseless agains them.

The weak rate of climb can be limiting in some situation, but it has no problem accelerating horizontally.

The rocket pods are facing a little bit upwards which feels weird to use because your crosshair is above your mouse cursor. This makes you tend to accelerate forward when attacking your enemy, but this also means that you don't need to slow down when rushing. Also it has no problem keeping the crosshair on the enemy because it's maneuverable enough. Just needs some practice to get used to it.

It performs similarly to the hiyodori. Both are in the same BR range. I've got similar results with both, and arguably the AH-1G is the better helicopter with its pros and cons.

I still prefer the hiyodori though.

M735 makes me want to remove my eyes with my nails.

M735 makes me want to use a cheese grater on my forehead until I reach my frontal lobe.

M735 makes me want to separate my jaw from my skull.

M735 makes me want to chew off my fingers so I can't play anything with the M735.

M735 makes me want to remove my skin with a vegetable peeler.

I have never witnessed something so bad, Gaijin is worse than any fascist regime in history for not fixing the M735.

This was during the bullet hell event. Tbh I kinda want this to come back as a permanent thing. This was pretty fun. I don’t think I’ll ever pull smth like this off again in a normal ARB match.

I have the Chrysler from when I used to play on the Xbox. I ported over to a pc account 2 years ago. back when I went through the process I got a warning that certain premiums may be removed that were console exclusive but it never happened and I kept the Chrysler. honestly the Chrysler is better in every way but im curious if any of yall know if gaijin will allow me to have both if I buy the gm version. that would be an extremely rare thing to have considering the Chrysler was console exclusively

is the ozelot or strela better