ZXrage

Yep, I thought I'd play a few games last night before bed. First game in, M46 on Highway south spawn, go north. Within first 2 minutes of the game, smacked for 80% of my HP by arty, 3 dead crew and perma-stunned. Dead with 1 shot of damage inside 4 minutes. That's a solid 'Nope!' to playing any more!

No, it's a neat vehicle.

its not bad tbh. 350 HEAT and decent handling with 420 base VR makes for a playable tank 

jk i took it back

hehehe time to shitpost and get perma'd

Not a maths guy, but compared to AP, APCR is almost exactly 10 less than what it says and HEAT/HE is almost exactly 20 less vs your average tank (50 degrees sloped armor). That's the simplest way of looking at it.

APCR slowly becomes 20-25mm less pen than AP as you get closer to autobounce. For most tanks, about 69 degrees is when APCR is doing nothing for you. If you're at range this is a lot sooner (66-67) due to pen dropoff and less angle negation due to high velocity rounds.

It's really rare for it to be straight up worse than AP, but it's surprising just how often APCR is doing literally nothing on tanks that only gain 30 pen or so, like the AMX 50 100.

IMO Shell velocity is a bigger pro than the extra pen for APCR vs AP.