Comments on: Ensign’s Q&A #11

By: Ensign’s Q&A #12 | For The Record

Ensign’s Q&A #12 | For The Record — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 17:01:30 +0000

[...] Welcome to the 12th edition of Ensign’s Q&A, where you ask questions, and I answer them. The previous edition can be found here. [...]

By: EnsignExpendable

EnsignExpendable — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 19:37:56 +0000

Poor speed. The SU-D15 overloaded the suspension like no tomorrow. I’d still buy it, it would be an interesting vehicle.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 10:27:19 +0000

Possibly, since it would one, have a turret, and two, have a higher rate of fire, which would make it more difficult to flank; however, the gun would obviously be less powerful and have much lower penetration, so it would be even WORSE at killing most tanks of the same tier.

That being said, a planned feature is to give it the ability to use both the hull and turret-mounted weapons (the bugs are still being worked out, with World of Warships being the testbed for this system). This would also apply to other tanks in certain ways, such as the Char B1 getting access to the hull gun (instead of it just being an easily-exploitable weakspot) and possibly the Maus getting to use its coaxial 75 mm gun (which won’t be useful against most enemies, but the higher rate of fire could make it deadly against a Batchat or Leopard 1 that tries to attack it, and make mincemeat of any spgs it runs into if it somehow manages to GET that far).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 10:23:48 +0000

A glass cannon if there ever was one.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 10:22:50 +0000

Actually he’s right, they did have autoloader designs, but they weren’t used in tanks. An autoloading 75 mm gun, the Pak 40, was used on the Hs 219 (aka the “Panzerknacker), which was a ground attack plane designed to kill tanks from the air, and a 50 mm autogun was tested on a prototype development of the Me-262 jet fighter, but again, not on a tank.

It’s also possible that the coaxial 75 mm gun mounted on the Maus would have used an autoloader had a third prototype been built, but alas that wasn’t to be.

By: Balc0ra

Balc0ra — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 07:51:59 +0000

Does the 290mm on the Churchill AVRE count? Or was that classified as an SPG/Mortar to?

By: Rognik

Rognik — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 06:18:29 +0000

Another tank with a larger gun than the KV-2 was the American Heavy Tank T30, which mounted a 155mm gun. No, it was not actually a tank destroyer; it was never described as such by its designers and Wargaming just shoved it in the TD tree because it was convenient. In fact, Hunnicutt’s book “Firepower,” which I am lucky enough to own, seems to indicate that the 155mm gun was only tested with HE shells.
Obviously, it never saw service, but the T29/T30/T34 became important test platforms for post war tank guns. Interestingly, unlike what is reflected in-game, the T34′s 120mm cannon was considered to be the better weapon, which is why the M103 and T110 tank designs that came after it carried 120mm guns.

By: EcchiRevenge

EcchiRevenge — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 05:58:52 +0000

I want SU-D15 to be a premium tier 7 Soviet MT.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 04:36:26 +0000

You are fucking shameless retard. Have at least some respect to other people who write for FTR.

By: Captian Nemo

Captian Nemo — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 04:10:31 +0000

And bad armor