In episode 4 of the Patch 1.49 round up series we take a look at some of the details relating to Patch 1.49, such as information about the Sherman Calliope, Sea Hurricane, M2A2 and more!
Dev Blog site:
http://warthunder.com/en/devblog/
M2A2 / 4M GAZ-AAA / BF109B-1 article:
http://warthunder.com/en/devblog/current/776
РСЗО T34 Sherman Calliope article:
http://warthunder.com/en/devblog/current/775
Seafire Mk.XVII & Hawker Sea Hurricane article:
http://warthunder.com/en/devblog/current/773
Attacker FB.1 and M10 & M36 article:
http://warthunder.com/en/devblog/current/772
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Dev Blog site:
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M2A2 / 4M GAZ-AAA / BF109B-1 article:
http://warthunder.com/en/devblog/current/776
РСЗО T34 Sherman Calliope article:
http://warthunder.com/en/devblog/current/775
Seafire Mk.XVII & Hawker Sea Hurricane article:
http://warthunder.com/en/devblog/current/773
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http://warthunder.com/en/devblog/current/772
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00:00Hello everybody, Torano here, and welcome back to episode 4 of the patch 1.49 roundup series.
00:06Now in today's episode we're going to look at a few more devblog articles.
00:09First of all we'll start off with this article down here though, the Attacker FB1, M10 and M36 slugger.
00:16Now a quick disclaimer before we go on.
00:18The information I'm using in this episode comes from the devblog articles and the dev server.
00:23Now of course the dev server stats can be changed, or sometimes they're just placeholders before the patch goes live,
00:28and some of the devblog articles can be a little inaccurate or contradict other sources,
00:33so just bear that in mind before we go into the episode.
00:36First of all we're looking at the Attacker FB1.
00:39Now as you can see here it's a 5th rank aircraft, so tier 5,
00:43and it's got paired 20mm British Hispano Mk5 cannons, so two in each wing.
00:48167 shots in the inner wing and 145 in the outer wing.
00:53The two wings can take 1000lbs bombs each, or 500lbs bombs,
00:58and they have 6 hardpoints which can have 12 or 6 RP3 rockets,
01:03either 25lb ones or 60lb ones, just as there's some basic info.
01:07That's just basically all the info from the devblog article.
01:10But now we can look at some information from the dev server to get a bit more information on this aircraft.
01:15Now here is a picture of the Attacker FB1 and its stats cards.
01:18Now remember this can be a placeholder, it can change before the patch goes live,
01:23but this is the most recent information we have about the aircraft.
01:26As you can see it's going to be a battle rating of 8,
01:29and it's going to need 270,000 RP in order to unlock it.
01:33Now that battle rating on the British lineup puts it about the same as the
01:37Meteor F Mk4 G41F, which is a battle rating of 8.
01:42It also puts it around the F-86 F-25 Sabre,
01:46the F-2 Sabre's battle rating of 9,
01:49puts it about the same as the F-9F Panther,
01:52the MB-262 C2B,
01:55Russian MiGs, all that sort of aircraft.
01:58So this is a high tier aircraft, not the highest tier, but a pretty high tier.
02:03We can also see on the stat card the max speed, turn time and rate of climb.
02:07Now I don't know how accurate these are going to be,
02:09especially when these stat cards go live, they tend to be wildly inaccurate.
02:13But what we can see is that it's going to be a max speed of 573 mph at sea level,
02:18it can reach up to 12,000 metres, turn in about 25 seconds,
02:22that's probably going to be wrong,
02:24and the rate of climb is supposedly 28 metres a second,
02:27and it needs a take-off run of 950 metres.
02:30So how do those stats compare to its competitors?
02:33Not very good.
02:35The MiG-15, Russian aircraft, battle rating 8.3, does 652 mph at sea level.
02:41It can climb 42 metres a second.
02:44The American F-86F-25 Sabre, battle rating of 7.7,
02:50nearly 700 mph and has a rate of climb of 38 metres a second.
02:54Now I'm not looking at the turn time because these do tend to be really inaccurate in the stats card.
02:59The F9F Panther, battle rating of 8, 604 mph, rate of climb 30 metres a second.
03:06Even a lot of the contemporary British jets are almost just as good.
03:10The Meteor F Mark IV G41F, which is the same battle rating,
03:15does about 10 mph more speed and it has 37 metres a second climb rate,
03:20and it's got just as good armament.
03:22The Sea Meteor, it does 575 mph, a 37 metres rate of climb,
03:28and again, same armament.
03:30The Venom FB-4 does 640, that's a lower battle rating,
03:34rate of climb of 50 metres a second.
03:36It's not all bad though because it will be able to catch most jet bombers,
03:40which are much slower than the Attacker FB-1.
03:43So is it a bad aircraft?
03:45I'm not really sure.
03:46It's slower than most of the other aircraft.
03:48It's got a worse rate of climb.
03:50I didn't really look at turn time, but its turn time isn't that great.
03:53A lot of the aircraft are quicker at turning, according to the stat cards.
03:57I just think it looks a little over-tiered, or not over-tiered,
04:00but battle rating maybe a little too high.
04:02I think it could possibly go down to 7.7.
04:05But again, I didn't test fly it.
04:07I haven't got this unlocked.
04:09I couldn't test fly it to confirm any of these stats.
04:11So it probably will be a good jet,
04:13but I think it ought to come down a little bit in battle rating.
04:16But at the end of the day,
04:17we will have to wait for the patch to go live to confirm any of this.
04:20But that's what my feelings are based on the stats card in the dev server.
04:25But coming back to the dev blog article,
04:27we've now got the M10 Wolverine GMC.
04:29As it says here, first production tank destroyer with a rotating turret.
04:33If we come down here, it says the 76mm cannon was effective against
04:37almost all rare marked armour in the North Africa campaign,
04:40except for Tigers.
04:42It says it was effective from large distances,
04:45and it was vulnerable to enemy fire.
04:48As it says here, good mobility, hard-hitting gun,
04:50but fairly weak armour protection.
04:53Here they just talk a bit about developing how it looks and all that.
04:57But if we go back to the dev server to have a little look
05:01at how it is in the game at the moment.
05:03So here you can see the M10 Wolverine.
05:06As you can see, tier 2, battle rating 3.3,
05:09and it's going to need 14,000 RP to unlock.
05:12Now this battle rating puts it about the same as the Panzer III J,
05:16the first M4A1 Sherman tank,
05:19and the T-34 1942.
05:22It's actually lower than the Stug III F on the German tech tree.
05:27We'll talk about the armour in a minute,
05:29but first we're going to look at the ammunition fired by the gun.
05:33Now as you can see here, it can do, at 0 degrees,
05:36at 100 metres, 125mm of penetration.
05:40At 30 degrees, that goes to 97mm,
05:43and at 60 degrees, it does 40mm penetration.
05:48Now at 0 and 30 degrees,
05:50that should be sufficient to knock through most German tanks.
05:53They do tend to be quite big and bulky.
05:55Against Russian, and I suppose some American tanks,
05:59the gun's going to be less effective
06:02because they have more sloped armour.
06:04The T-34, for example, has 60 degrees of sloped armour at the front,
06:08so the M10 may struggle against that with stock ammunition.
06:12I'm trying to remember what the M4 Sherman has.
06:14That has about 55 degrees of sloped frontal armour.
06:19So against American and Russian tanks, it's going to struggle a little bit.
06:23I don't think there's any German sloped armour tanks
06:26in that tier and battle rating range.
06:29It's mainly Panzer IVs and Panzer IIIs.
06:32But we'll look at the other ammunition used by the M10 as well.
06:36Now the non-stock ammunition used by the M10
06:39is the M79 armour-piercing round.
06:42So the first round was armour-piercing ballistic capped,
06:45but the armour-piercing round at 100 metres, 0 degrees,
06:48does about 150 millimetres of penetration.
06:51At 30 degrees, 125, and at 60, 38.
06:54So it's going to be more effective against flat armour,
06:58but against sloped armour, it's going to be even less effective.
07:01Now having a quick look at the armour of the M10 Wolverine,
07:04you can see the max armour is around 57 millimetres on the turret,
07:08which I believe is around the mantlet.
07:10As you can see around the actual hull front,
07:13it's 38 millimetres, effective 58,
07:16sloped at 55 degrees, but the armour's so thin,
07:19it's probably not going to do that well.
07:21It's definitely designed to be a long-range shooting tank,
07:24you know, getting into position quite quickly,
07:26firing a few shots and getting out of there.
07:28So how do I think this will be at this battle rating?
07:31I think it will be OK.
07:33It should be able to deal with most German tanks.
07:35It may struggle against the Russian and American tanks a little bit,
07:38but I think it should be, you know, a capable tank,
07:41you know, capable of dealing with most of its enemies.
07:44Now, going back to the dev blog article,
07:46we're looking at the M36 Jackson,
07:48or Slugger, as they seem to be calling it.
07:51Not really much to say.
07:53As it says here, the M36 was confidently destroying Tigers and Panthers
07:56from the front at considerable distances,
07:58so that gives a rough indication of how good it is.
08:01Oh, they do actually call it the Jackson here.
08:04Maybe it's Slugger's an alternate name that I just haven't heard,
08:07but we'll look a bit more of it in the dev server,
08:09or the information I got from the dev server.
08:12So here you can see the M36 Jackson,
08:14and, you know, it's quite a bit higher tier-wise than the M10 Wolverine.
08:19It's tier 4, and it's a battle rating of 5.7,
08:22and it needs about 89,000 RP to unlock.
08:26Now, the battle rating of 5.7 puts it in a bit of a weird place.
08:29It's about the same as the M4A3 W76, the American Sherman,
08:34same as the T-34-85, a Russian tank, tier 4 like the American Sherman,
08:40but with the Germans, the battle rating of 5.7 puts it against Tiger I's,
08:46the original Tiger I's, which doesn't make any sense to me.
08:49It seems like it's a bit overkill for dealing with those tanks.
08:54Now, before I get too much into the battle rating,
08:57we'll look at the ammunition used by the M36 Jackson.
09:00Now, stock ammunition, armour-piercing, ballistic-capped,
09:03at 100 metres, 0 degrees, 188 millimetres penetration.
09:07At 30 degrees, it'll do 146, and at 60, it'll do 60.
09:11So things are going to be tougher now because, obviously, sloped armour,
09:15but against flat targets, it should be able to do relatively well.
09:19Against sloped armour, it really depends how sloped and what sort of tank it is,
09:24how much armour it has, but it's going to struggle a bit more
09:26because, again, most armour is going to be sloped at this point.
09:30Now, the next ammunition is, again, armour-piercing, ballistic-capped,
09:33but it actually does less penetration.
09:36164 at 0 degrees at 100 metres, 128 at 30 degrees, and 52 at 60 degrees.
09:43I don't know why it does less.
09:46It's got a slightly smaller muzzle velocity.
09:49It's got fuse sensitivity, which the stock ammunition doesn't.
09:53It's the same mass.
09:56It just seems like they've added a fuse delay and all that,
10:00so I'm presuming it's going to do a bit more damage,
10:02but at the cost of a little less penetration.
10:05Now, the last ammunition loadout you can unlock for the M36 Jackson is APCR ammo.
10:11At 100 metres, 0 degrees, it can do 302 millimetres penetration,
10:1530 degrees, 235, and at 60, 67.
10:19So it should be able to deal really easily against flat targets,
10:24but sloped armour is going to struggle a little bit,
10:27especially at the higher tiers where armour tends to be quite sloped
10:31for pretty much all the tanks.
10:34But it'll probably be able to do well at closer ranges and against side armour.
10:39Ultimately, I think this is quite a good tank.
10:41The battle rating, it's not that it's a bad battle rating.
10:44It's going against the right Russian and American tanks,
10:46but I really can't fathom why it's going to be going against Tiger I's.
10:50It makes no sense.
10:52It will go against some Panthers, they're at battle rating 6,
10:56but the Tiger tanks, it's probably not going to meet that often
11:00because they're at a whole battle rating above.
11:02It just makes no sense to me at the moment.
11:05Hopefully Gaijin can change that in some way.
11:07Now, just before we move on, a quick comment about the armour.
11:10Sorry for leaving it last.
11:12It's got 76 millimetres around the turret front, probably around the mantlet,
11:16and it has 50 at the hull front.
11:19It's probably sloped about the same degree as the M10 Wolverine,
11:22so it's probably an effective thickness of about 70 millimetres.
11:26Again, it should be able to deflect some low calibre weapons from a long distance,
11:30but it's not really a fighting tank.
11:32I mean, it could do better at it, but because it's a much higher tier,
11:35the guns are much better.
11:36It's just going to be a net result of the increase in armour
11:40being matched by an increase in firepower.
11:42So it's still going to be a long-range shooting tank,
11:44like the other American tank destroyers.
11:50Now, moving on from the M36 Jackson, we've got the other dev blog articles
11:54dealing with the C-Fire Mk17 and the Hawker C Hurricanes,
11:58the Mk1B and the Mk1C.
12:01But we'll start with the C-Fire Mk17 first.
12:04As it says here, a 4th rank,
12:06and it's going to be two 20mm British Hispano cannons
12:09and four 7.7mm Browning machine guns as the main armament.
12:14The cannons have 120 rounds each per barrel
12:17and 350 rounds per barrel for the machine guns.
12:20As it says here, on the fuselage pylon,
12:22you can attach a 250lb or 500lb bomb,
12:26and under each wing, one 250lb bomb.
12:29From then on, it just gives a bit of information about the aircraft,
12:32about the design, like the tail hook and safety frame
12:36to stop the tail hook or the arrested cable getting caught
12:39on the rear landing gear.
12:40I'll link you to the dev blog article so you can read it yourself,
12:43but we'll quickly look at the information from the dev server.
12:46Now, in the dev blog article, it says the C-Fire Mk17
12:50is actually almost an exact replica of the Spitfire Mk14.
12:55We don't actually have a 14 in the game.
12:58We have a Spitfire F Mk14E,
13:01but that's a battle rating of 5 and does 448mph.
13:06As you can see in the stats card, this does about 390 or so, 396.
13:12So it seems a bit weird it's got a higher battle rating
13:15despite being slower.
13:17Rate of climb for the C-Fire is 24.2.
13:20The Mk14E in-game does about 25.7,
13:25so worse rate of climb.
13:28And turn time for the C-Fire is 17 seconds.
13:31For the Mk14E in-game, it's 15.
13:34So, again, I'm a bit confused.
13:36It's slower, it turns worse, and it climbs slower.
13:40I'm not sure why this is a battle rating of 5.3.
13:44Incidentally, a battle rating of 5.3
13:46puts it about the same as the Mk18E
13:53and the Mk22 on the Spitfire line.
13:57So it seems a bit odd for it to be in that sort of place
14:01despite being inferior in most aspects.
14:04But, of course, it is possible that this is just a placeholder.
14:07But, like I said, the dev server does tend to have a lot of placeholders.
14:11So that could be the reason why it seems a bit odd battle rating-wise.
14:16Although, looking at the British tech tree,
14:18it does seem to sort of flip-flop a bit.
14:21For tier 4, the Mk16 is 428 miles an hour, 4.7.
14:27Then it goes to the Spitfire LF Mk9,
14:30which is 5.3 is much slower.
14:32And then it goes to the Griffon,
14:34which goes down in battle rating to 5.
14:36The Mk14E.
14:38And, you know, it suddenly goes to 448 miles an hour.
14:42So it does seem a bit inconsistent, the British tree in general.
14:45But hopefully this will be a good aircraft.
14:48Just to mention, it's, like I said, battle rating 5.3
14:51and you're going to need 75,000 RP to unlock it.
14:54So, you know, I think it'll be a nice aircraft.
14:57I do just sort of think the battle rating seems a bit inconsistent
15:00or a bit odd, to say the least.
15:03Moving on from the Seafire,
15:05we've got the Hawker Sea Hurricane Mk1B and Mk1C.
15:08Now, we'll look at the Mk1B first.
15:10As it says here, available at the second rank.
15:12Has no bomb or rocket load, but it has eight Browning machine guns.
15:16Guns nearest to the axis of the aircraft have 338 rounds,
15:19farthest have 324.
15:21As it says here, it was just a conversion of the land variant.
15:24So to accelerate the design, the wings were not foldable
15:27and all major units were strengthened
15:29due to increased loads during operation on ships.
15:33From the sounds of it, it's just basically a hurricane
15:36fitted with a few naval, you know, bits of equipment
15:41for operating on a ship.
15:43It's not that different from the normal Hawker Hurricane.
15:46But the Sea Hurricane Mk1C is quite a bit different
15:49to planes we've already got.
15:51For one, it has 20mm cannons, four of them.
15:54I don't think any hurricanes have 20mm cannons at the moment.
15:58As it says here, because of the weapons,
16:01there was a loss of speed.
16:03So, you know, increased weight, less speed.
16:06And then it talks about the design a little bit,
16:08like the shell injectors.
16:10But now we'll quickly move on to information from the dev server
16:13to see how they'll be in game.
16:15Now, there was a weird thing about the Sea Hurricane Mk1B and Mk1C.
16:19They both have the same stats.
16:21About 315 miles an hour, 17 seconds turn time
16:25and a rate of climb of 16.6 metres a second.
16:29Now, weirdly enough, this is also the same as the Hurricane Mk1L,
16:32which is being added in the patch 1.49 dev server.
16:36It's basically they updated the Hurricane model.
16:39So I don't know if these stat cards are just placeholders or something.
16:44Now, the Sea Hurricane's got a battle rating of about 2.0
16:48and the Mk1C has a battle rating of 3.0.
16:51Now, 2.0's the same as the Hurricane Mk1 in game,
16:54not the Hurricane Mk1L on the dev server.
16:57And the Mk1C's battle rating of 3.0 is the same as the Bofighter.
17:01There isn't a single engine fighter at 3.0.
17:04It's above the Typhoon Mk1A, which has a battle rating of 2.7.
17:09So I assume the Mk1B's going to play very similar
17:15to the Hurricane Mk1 in game at the moment
17:19or Hurricane Mk1L in the dev server.
17:25The Mk1C, I assume, is going to be the main single-engined,
17:29cannon-armed aircraft in Tier 2.
17:32Because at the moment, there's no cannon-armed aircraft in Tier 2
17:35except for the Bofighter Mk6C and the Spitfire Mk2B,
17:42and that's a battle rating of 3.7.
17:44So there's nothing between battle ratings 2 and 3.7
17:47armed with cannons except for the Bofighter.
17:51So I think the Hurricane Mk1C will fill that role.
17:54I think it will do fairly well in that role.
17:56Maneuverability might suffer a little bit,
17:58but again, quite good firepower.
18:00I think the Mk1B will also be good,
18:02but again, until the stats cards have been updated,
18:05we can't really tell.
18:06I think it will probably play very similarly to the Hurricane Mk1
18:10or Mk1L that's in the dev server.
18:16Now, going back to the dev blog articles,
18:18we've got a very odd vehicle, the PC-30 T-34 Sherman Calliope.
18:24Now, this has 60 launching tubes for 114 M8 rockets.
18:30Now, that's from my book,
18:31the World War II Directory of Weapons.
18:34If we go down here,
18:36it says basically a unique vehicle,
18:38multiple artillery rocket system.
18:40Now, it says they've been working on these types of vehicles
18:43for quite a while,
18:44so that implies there's quite a few of them being worked on,
18:48possibly at different stages of development.
18:50And it says the first one will be the Calliope Sherman, okay.
18:54A second rank of the U.S. Ground Forces tree as a premium.
18:58I don't know why this is Tier 2.
19:00This doesn't make sense.
19:01I'll come back to it in a minute,
19:03and I'll explain why.
19:05It says it required a lot of additional effort from programmers.
19:09It needed big changes in the armament code, blah, blah, blah.
19:13The vehicle has guide rails for 114 mm M8 rockets,
19:17just as we said.
19:18The rocket launcher system allowed fire
19:20not only from the defilade position,
19:23or defilade, ilade position,
19:25sorry, I can't pronounce it,
19:27but also from the point-blank range.
19:29And it can use the gun still,
19:31so it can fight as a normal tank,
19:33and it has rockets.
19:35And as it says here,
19:36it's basically a Sherman with the rocket system on top.
19:39Now, first of all, quoting from my book,
19:41World War II, The Directory of Weapons,
19:43the quote,
19:44the M8 was inherently inaccurate,
19:46and was accordingly used
19:47not for the engagement of point targets,
19:49but for the saturation of large areas with fire, unquote.
19:54So does this mean it's going to supplement artillery?
19:56It can't replace it,
19:57because it's the only vehicle,
19:58and I don't see it being that accurate,
20:02which is, you know, a good thing,
20:04because if it was too accurate,
20:05it would just own everyone,
20:07I mean, 60 rockets.
20:08Now, I don't know if it fires them one at a time,
20:10or if you, or once you hit the switch,
20:12it fires all of them.
20:14That would seem a bit of a waste
20:16if you're trying to hit one target.
20:18We don't know how much damage these will do.
20:20Now, my book says it has an explosive filler
20:24of 1.95 kilograms.
20:26The M4 Sherman in-game
20:28with the 105mm howitzer
20:30has an M1 shell,
20:31which has something like 2.18 kilograms.
20:35I might look that up online,
20:36I haven't got any books on artillery shells,
20:38unfortunately.
20:39That does about 28mm penetration,
20:42so presumably this would be similar,
20:45but then again,
20:47if you're being hit by a ton of rockets,
20:49you'd think it would do more damage than that,
20:51and, you know, the kinetic energy spalling,
20:54which I don't think is implemented in the game,
20:56would be quite bad,
20:57but like I said,
20:59at the moment, spalling isn't in the game,
21:00but once it is introduced,
21:01that could be quite lethal.
21:03I don't know why it's tier 2,
21:05because that just seems really under-tiered.
21:07The battle rating better be higher,
21:08because, I don't know,
21:10it just seems under-tiered.
21:11The Germans are going to suffer the most,
21:13because most of their tanks on the sides
21:15only have about 30mm anyway,
21:17so, you know,
21:18potentially if you hit at the right angle
21:20with enough force,
21:21you're going to be penetrating,
21:22you know, the toughest German tanks pretty easily.
21:24Now that's not to say I'm disappointed
21:26with this change,
21:27or that I disagree with it,
21:28I'm very interested in how it will go.
21:30Just, you know,
21:31I'd like to see some more answers
21:33on this vehicle.
21:34I am, like I said,
21:35curious to see how well it will do.
21:37I am looking forward to it.
21:38I just think the battle rating
21:40could do with being a bit too high,
21:42or a bit higher.
21:43But then again, like I said,
21:44I don't know how the rockets
21:45are going to perform.
21:46Perhaps this is the only place
21:47it can really fit in
21:49and still do well.
21:50So we'll have to, you know,
21:52keep an eye on this
21:53and get back with future developments on it.
21:56Now for the last article,
21:57we've got the M2A2,
21:594M GAZ AAA,
22:01and the Bf 109 B1.
22:03So, if we look at the M2A2 first,
22:05a two-turreted reserve tank.
22:07Two turrets with machine guns
22:09of different calibres.
22:10One's a .50 cal,
22:11one's a .30 cal.
22:14As it says here,
22:15the crew commander and gunner
22:16are in two separate rotating turrets
22:18with the machine guns.
22:19Now, as it says,
22:20the 12.7mm machine gun
22:22can penetrate the armour
22:23of low-level vehicles
22:24and shoot down low-flying aircraft.
22:26Well, the .30 calibre
22:28can also shoot down low-flying aircraft,
22:29but will struggle against armour.
22:31Here it just gives a bit more information
22:33about how it was nicknamed
22:34to Mae West after a movie star.
22:37The location of these turrets
22:38somewhat limited the firing arc,
22:40so the angle of traverse
22:41was limited to 270 degrees.
22:44Now, for the 4M GAZ AAA,
22:48it's the first Soviet anti-air vehicle
22:50in the line-up.
22:51At the moment,
22:52they haven't got an anti-air vehicle
22:53in Tier 1.
22:56Basically, it was a truck
22:58with four Maxim machine guns on it.
23:00As it says here,
23:01it's got a minimum battle rating
23:02of 1.0.
23:04Not effective against armoured targets,
23:06but high rate of fire density
23:08and a large ammo count.
23:09So it should be OK
23:10against the early aircraft
23:12because of high rate of fire,
23:14but it's useless against vehicles
23:16like tanks.
23:17And, you know,
23:18even against aircraft,
23:19it may suffer a bit.
23:20Now, just before we move on,
23:21we can see that in the last sentence
23:23it says they're going to introduce
23:24other anti-air vehicles
23:25based on this truck,
23:27with different types of weapons installed.
23:29So, in the future,
23:30we can expect more vehicles
23:31based on this truck.
23:33I don't know what those
23:34additional weapons would be,
23:35or other weapons.
23:37Could be heavier weapons,
23:38could be similar.
23:39But just something to look out for
23:40in future announcements.
23:43Lastly, the Bf 109 B1.
23:46Now, the dev blog article
23:47is a bit weird here
23:48because the one in-game,
23:49or in the dev server at least,
23:51is called the Bf 109 B1 Late.
23:54And there's a few more contradictions.
23:57It says here it's for the first rank.
24:00As far as I could tell in the dev server,
24:01it was tier 2,
24:02so I don't know why
24:04they've said it's tier 1.
24:05It's possible 2 are being brought out,
24:06a late version and an early version.
24:08They've just not added the early version
24:10to the dev server yet.
24:12As it says here,
24:13it was armed with two machine guns,
24:147.92mm calibre,
24:17500 rounds per barrel.
24:20Then it just gives a bit of information.
24:21First production fighter of the Bf 109.
24:26And it opens up the Messerschmitt line
24:28in the game.
24:29And apparently has one of the...
24:30Well, it's one of the most detailed aircraft
24:32in the game.
24:33And, you know,
24:34information about the cockpit
24:35and design and all that.
24:36But let's look at all these vehicle stats
24:38in the game,
24:39or in the dev server.
24:40Now, honestly,
24:41there isn't much to say about the M2A2.
24:43It's a tier 1 battle rating 1.
24:46It's got not very good armour,
24:4815mm max at the front,
24:5012 on the side of the hull,
24:5215 on the side of the turret
24:53and the rear of the turret,
24:54and 6 at the rear of the hull.
24:56It's a bit sloped at the front,
24:57but I think that only put the maximum thickness
24:59up to something like 20 or 25mm.
25:02It's quite fast,
25:0445mph.
25:05I actually outran the...
25:06Well, I actually went faster than the M18 Hellcat
25:09when I was testing it on the dev server.
25:11Now, here you can actually see the penetration
25:13of the .50 caliber machine gun.
25:15At 100m, 27mm penetration at 0 degrees,
25:1923 at 30 degrees and 60 at 13.
25:22It should be good enough to deal with
25:24the basic reserve tier tanks.
25:26I think even the Panzer IVs are kind of
25:28vulnerable to it from the side
25:30up until like tier 2 at least.
25:32So, you know, even there you could have
25:34some really, really minor lucky success.
25:36But really this is just to get you
25:38to your first tank destroyer and then,
25:40you know, it would probably be best
25:42to ditch it at that point.
25:43But, you know, you could probably have
25:44some fun trolling people
25:45and getting some unexpected success.
25:47So, kind of looking forward to it,
25:49but I'm not expecting to do massively well in it.
25:52Now, moving on, we've got the 4M GAZ AAA.
25:55As you can see here, no armor,
25:57like 1mm armor, 1mm armor penetration
26:00from the guns at all ranges,
26:02battle rating 1, tier 1,
26:04600 shots per minute though,
26:06and 3,800 rounds of ammunition.
26:08So, at the moment, it seems like an OK
26:10starting off vehicle for the Soviet
26:12self-propelled anti-aircraft line.
26:14But, of course, it's got its disadvantages.
26:17Most other self-propelled anti-aircraft
26:19vehicles can be used in an ad hoc
26:21ground assault role, not very well,
26:23but, you know, you can destroy the odd tank.
26:25This can't.
26:26And the bullets are going to be quite weak.
26:29There's four guns shooting,
26:31but the individual bullets are still
26:32going to be quite bad.
26:34You could probably do quite well with it
26:36in the very early tiers,
26:37but once you start getting to the
26:39higher tiers or higher battle ratings
26:41and more armored planes,
26:42you're probably going to suffer a little bit
26:44and, you know, not be all that effective.
26:46Now, moving on, we've got the BF109B 1 Late.
26:49Now, like I said, in the dev blog article,
26:52it says tier 1, here it says tier 2,
26:54and battle rating 1.7,
26:56which is the same as the BF109E 1.
27:00It seems a bit odd because the E1
27:03is better in pretty much every way.
27:06The E1 has a significantly larger max speed,
27:09it's slightly better at turn time,
27:11it's better at rate of climb,
27:12and yet they're the same battle rating.
27:14And the E1 has two more machine guns,
27:16so I don't know why this is 1.7,
27:18this should be 1.3,
27:20especially since this is like the first production model,
27:23it's meant to sort of launch the Messerschmitt line,
27:25so that sort of seems a bit odd.
27:28I just hope there are two BF109Bs being released,
27:32and, you know, this is a slightly upgraded version,
27:34the other version's going to be slightly lower.
27:37I just don't know why they've put it here, though,
27:39like this tier and this battle rating,
27:41it doesn't really make that much sense to me.
27:43But hopefully it'll be a nice little aircraft,
27:45you know, a good starting point for German players,
27:48I just can't help feeling this is maybe a bit over-tiered
27:51and a little too high battle rating-wise.
27:54Nudge the battle rating down to 1.3 at the very least,
27:57and, you know, I think it'll be a very decent aircraft there.
28:00Well, anyway, that's it for today's
28:02significantly longer round-up episode.
28:05You know, I'll be doing more episodes
28:07as more dev blog articles are released.
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