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May 20, 2013

Reminder: Soviet tank Q&A

Some of you may have notice that there hasn't been a Q&A from me in a while. That's because the questions have dried up, and I have nothing to go on. If you have any questions on Soviet tanks, or even Lend-Lease tanks, and Soviet impressions of captured German and French tanks, send them to tankarchives@gmail.com.

We had three rounds of pretty good questions so far, I'm sure you have more!
Q&A 1
Q&A 2
Q&A 3

21 comments:

  1. Do you know what will happen to T-50-2?

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    1. IIRC the T-50-2 will get rebalanced as a tier 5 on par with the VK 16.02 and the ELC. The MT-25 will be a tier 6 after the T-50-2.

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    2. I thought they were getting rid of the T-50-2 (from the tech tree, the tank would still exist in some form)

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  2. How about a buff my IS-7 article :)

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    1. Once my post-war heavy tanks materials come in, absolutely.

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  3. Would it be worth it to give the M3 Lee a 105mm short gun. Log gun. To improve its chances of survival?

    How well was the M3 Lee received used in Russia. I have seen a lot about the M4 Sherman being used in Russia but less on the M3 Lee.

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    1. Yeah, as the person below said, it ended up with the nickname "БМ-6 — братская могила на шестерых", which very roughly translates as "collective grave for six people".

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  4. It was nicknamed "mass grave". Guess, that sums it up. :)

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    1. ↑ Was trying to answer the question on M3 above.

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  5. I would love to hear about the early prototypes of the T-34 such as the A-20 and A-32 we have ingame. Also the 3 tanks following it on the alternate tree on this tech tree.
    The A-43, A-44 and Object 416.

    http://i.imgur.com/wLK7cN3.jpg

    They look kinda interesting and if they make it into the game it may be a way for me to finally get above tier 6 on the russian mediums.

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  6. whats about the captured Panther and Pz4?
    I wont them!

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  7. Captured Sturmtiger would be nice. I do know that at least one was captured by Americans and used until the ammo ran out.

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  8. information on the planned premium russian T7 medium

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    1. The t44a(premium) potentially is going to be either too weak(with the kv 1 85mm gun ) or too powerfull with the t 43 85 mm gun . Can you shed light on what could be appropriate armament at tier 7.

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    2. Devs want each tank to use the historical modules at some point, and premium tanks only have one setup. Thus, they come with the historical configration ( the gun is the D-5T in this case, I think- or the ZiS S-53... both have 120 pene and 160 damage).

      -Platypusbill

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    3. 120 pen .. sounds painfull . Kinda why i asked .It is coupled with the stock engine . In that confing it would be the worst prem tank ever

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  9. What do the Soviet gun desginations (transliterated as) A, B, D, F, S, BL stand for?

    -Platypusbill

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    1. I would suspect, following tank designations, that they stand, in most cases, for the designers or manufactures names.

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    2. Ah yes, there's also ZiS, which I think is a manufacturer. But I am guessing the guns are mostly classified by type/purpose.

      -Platypusbill

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    3. No, each factory had it's own code, either 1 (A-, D-, S- etc) or 2 (LB-, BL-, PS- etc) or 3 letter (ZiS, ZiF etc) letter code. Nothing to do with gun design or purpose.

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  10. Do you know if there is any chance for a third Russian heavy tank line? I would love to have another huge Tier X Russian steel beast in my garage.

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