CraBeatOff

I haven't scrounged together a crew for mine yet, but I've been playing the tier 6 T78 a lot lately, and the 2801 horde really didn't last that long. Most games at that tier only have one or two VK's per side now, so it's starting to feel normal again.

I am really tempted to come back just to play around with the 2801, it looks like a lot of fun and a blast from the past for me. I'll probably give it while though, because I figure playing a 2801 vs other 2801s might not be ideal? With endwalker about to release I have a pretty good excuse not to play anyway.
 

Very nice.
Tried the stealth build on Standard B, didn't work out for me that well, felt the gun was simply too lacking.
I still have it as my secondary config, in case I get a map and team setup where I can break the game by taking on the role of light tank.
Ended up using bonused CVS, bounty optics and bounty stabs for my main, as the filthy viewrange and CVS really did add quite a bit to my spotting.

@Snoregasm2 I posted my T49 ones but maybe not the others. I generally take a mod at each level with a few exceptions. Anything that increases camo gets taken. In most cases taking 3% VR for -2kph forward speed is taken - at least for the French and Italians.
Breech tweaking vs Aiming gears is an interesting one. For the Char4 and Prog 65 and Standard B i choose the dpm increase. For the Bat25t i choose the burst improvements. 90 dpm for far better follow up shots? Takes alot of minutes to equal even 1 extra pen due to gun handling.
The 3% dispersion vs 2% acc tradeoff is another interesting one. It's NOT for turret or rotation dispersion as modeled by tanks.gg but only movement dispersion. It amounts generally to 0.01 more bloom for 0.01 more accuracy. I usually chose the latter or nothing at all. 

@Snoregasm2 I posted my T49 ones but maybe not the others. I generally take a mod at each level with a few exceptions. Anything that increases camo gets taken. In most cases taking 3% VR for -2kph forward speed is taken - at least for the French and Italians.
Breech tweaking vs Aiming gears is an interesting one. For the Char4 and Prog 65 and Standard B i choose the dpm increase. For the Bat25t i choose the burst improvements. 90 dpm for far better follow up shots? Takes alot of minutes to equal even 1 extra pen due to gun handling.
The 3% dispersion vs 2% acc tradeoff is another interesting one. It's NOT for turret or rotation dispersion as modeled by tanks.gg but only movement dispersion. It amounts generally to 0.01 more bloom for 0.01 more accuracy. I usually chose the latter or nothing at all. 

@Snoregasm2 I posted my T49 ones but maybe not the others. I generally take a mod at each level with a few exceptions. Anything that increases camo gets taken. In most cases taking 3% VR for -2kph forward speed is taken - at least for the French and Italians.
Breech tweaking vs Aiming gears is an interesting one. For the Char4 and Prog 65 and Standard B i choose the dpm increase. For the Bat25t i choose the burst improvements. 90 dpm for far better follow up shots? Takes alot of minutes to equal even 1 extra pen due to gun handling.
The 3% dispersion vs 2% acc tradeoff is another interesting one. It's NOT for turret or rotation dispersion as modeled by tanks.gg but only movement dispersion. It amounts generally to 0.01 more bloom for 0.01 more accuracy. I usually chose the latter or nothing at all. 

@graukatze Fun is a factor. But also because dual config patches the weaknesses. If you get Prok stealth up. If you get Ensk gun up and shoot butts for 700 with HEAT or burst softs for 910. The gun handling was significantly buffed in the patch that changed HE and HE shells penning tracks makes picking on softs easier. Generally they made the T49 gun very bad at splashing armor but very good at penning - through a combo of the shell mechanics changes, the handling and accuracy buff and the field mods you can deploy to further develop those characteristics. Plus the intuition changes mean you can always have the right shell to make the pen count. HEAT in 4s is enough to really pile into HT and MT and TD butts and sides.
Plus you also get 3% more camo and can trade some excess view range for other stats (speed?). In any case it's very serviceable in both the shooter and spotter roles now. On raw output of course the MTs are better. A Kunze, Char4, BatAP or Standard B easily makes 4k combined dmg and assist in this paradigm - but the T49 puts out 3200 pretty consistently - makes credits. It's gonna miss some shots and lose some games but having 200% more giggles is worth 3% wins imo.

This has been the case for about 5 years! Or whenever Gold League was euthanized.  But better late than never 😛

@CraBeatOff @sr360 Full stealth works well. Thanks for the idea. 

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Both tanks a very good, but the PTA is miles ahead of the Patton. The PTA has much better pen, alpha, and mobility, you can carry more games with it than the Patton because the gun is relevant in more situations. The Patton has much better DPM and gun handling than the PTA, so when you need to kill squishy tanks as fast as possible in a point blank shoot out, the Patton will do it better. The Patton is made much better by bond vents because it needs the accuracy so much more, but the PTA will benifit more from a bond rammer and Vstabs more because its gun handling and reload time is so much worse.

The Borat is basically a tier 9 LT. I use mine to counter the oposing LT, then to bully TDs that think they are safe.

Videos are up. Posted in Crab's Purple Poster Channel. My channel is at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTfYqzUppSVQnzVDyKxU-UQ

Colour me intrigued. I'm at a loss as to how you did it, but i'm looking forward to watching both now.

Yea but you actually shoot people. I just sit in bushes spotting unless shit hits the fan.

And my 3-mark session

I optimize for wins and fun. This makes me the top in my own ratings system. 

I optimize for wins and fun. This makes me the top in my own ratings system. 

I optimize for wins and fun. This makes me the top in my own ratings system. 

I optimize for wins and fun. This makes me the top in my own ratings system. 

I optimize for wins and fun. This makes me the top in my own ratings system. 

I optimize for wins and fun. This makes me the top in my own ratings system. 

I optimize for wins and fun. This makes me the top in my own ratings system. 

I optimize for wins and fun. This makes me the top in my own ratings system. 

It was my last 9 LT to mark. Not because it was hard to play but because it was hard to WANT to play. Also the 10 is very very bad and in a not fun way. I hold out hope for a buff - SerB knows that line needs it. 
I'll let @sr360run the experimental stuff and will consult. Not trying to play that junk!