H311fi5h wrote:Just give HESH its own distinct mechanic, different from HE. I mean the point of HESH is not penetrating armor in the first place. Making it a penetrating shell with more damage makes no sense.
But sooner or later the FV4204 will be replaced anyway and i'm really curious what they will come up with. I'm more worried about the 215b though. It is probably my favorite Tier 10 right now, i just pray Chieftain can hold up to that.
About the HESH I must agree, but the WG were too lazy and wanted to get done with brits faster, so they went with the cheapest way possible...
Then again what sort of mechanic give to it? I have been thinking about this myself quite a bit. Basically you could give it higher critical chance, but if seriously we all know how it sucks to drive in a crippled tank. You do not wish to drive with half crippled tank because someone 400m away just spamed at you shells without aiming.
The other option would be give it extreeme damage capability, like 800 or 900 explosive dmg for 105 caliber shell, but then again it would be a pain again. Imagine again that guy sitting 400m away and spaming HESH at you dealing (800(+/-25%) /2 - armor (- distance if track splash)), lets say -250 to 350 dmg without aiming just spaming EVERY 8 seconds, ok E100 may be able to cope with that but IS4, T110e5, E50m, M103 would all be fucked if just a part of them was possible to hit, think about that 43% HE spaming monkey!
As you said penetration does not make sense for HESH (have read about HESH), but fuck it, what if we gave HESH super normalization like 20 to 40 degrees? sounds interesting. Explanation would be that it goes pancake and at too big angles the pancake is just too spread out to be effective.
Those are the ideas I can remember at the moment that I had. Any other good ideas?
And about FV4204 replacement I am seriously scared, because at the moment it looks like the biggest chance is for Vickers MBT to replace it, and from what I have looked up it sucks, in comparison even less armor (a lot less), less gun depression (-7 I think), Bigger in size (means also a lot worse cammo), and the speed increase is not even that great, plus I think there were problems with good enough engine. It looks just horrid.
There was also Action-X , Do not have much info on that.
They could just uber buff tier 9 centurion, only would need something to put in the new missing link spot.