T-55AM Armor "leak"?

[Captain_Colossus]

i take it now you're going to follow me around the forum and act like a 12 year old. that's your thing, that's what you want to do.

 

reset assured i don't make up stories. i didn't always save an AAR on the chance i was thinking about grenny in order to prove to him one of my play sessions was bad luck. really think

how absurd that would be.

Edited April 10, 2019 by Captain_Colossus

[Maj.Hans]

13 hours ago, Ssnake said:

There's some really crappy ammo for the T-62 like the BM-4, and then there's pretty decent rounds for the 100mm gun like the BM-24. So, if the pairing in that scenario was somewhat uneven, that might go a long ways to explain at least some of the imbalance. And then there are, of course, streaks of bad luck. To quote the most quotable German football legend, Lothar Matthäus:

 

Wasn't the T-62 in many ways regarded as a lemon specifically because of ammo advances with the T-55 eliminating most of the T-62's reason for existing?

 

I'm not intimately familiar with Soviet/Russian designation systems and stuff, but I seem to recall that the T-55 was frequently updated in many of the same ways as the T-62 was upgraded, producing very similar lines of vehicles, except that with the T-55 being MUCH more widespread it often times got more attention.

 

Maybe it's just because I don't "get" the T-62 fire control system, if you can call it that, but the few times I have toyed with it in Steel Beasts, I felt like I could have done more damage to the enemy with a Tiger IE or a Panther...

[Captain_Colossus]

the t-62 is generally better than the t-55, the problem is notwithstanding the t-55 ammunition improvements by the time the t-62 was delivered, the differences are small for the additional cost per unit, the t-62 has a slight increase in armor protection (however you will also find that later t-62 115 ammunition is superior to early 125 mm ammunition, so a t-62 could hit harder than a t-72 depending on ammo type ). on the other hand, when i've used the sho't kal tank, i've always found the t-62 to be a tougher opponent than the t-55 by a noticeable margin.

 

the personal case in this one scenario i was talking about was a statistical freak. more often than not the t-55 tanks blow up sooner than the t-62s, this was truly one of the worst instances of bad luck i've ever had.

 

 

 

Edited April 11, 2019 by Captain_Colossus