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As for the frontal armor’s effectiveness with two spaced plates and then the normal Pershing armor? Well, it depends on how two mechanics interact- Overmatch and Spaced Armor. Both spaced plates are 38mm thick, which means they are overmatched by 76mm shells (Shells ignore armor angle unless its at a richochet angle.) and double-Overmatched by 120mm+ shells. (Shells ignore armor angle even at a richochet angle.) This means that if I fire a 120mm shell into the front of a Super Pershing, the two spaced plates may as well not exist.

The other key mechanic here is spaced armor. When a shell hits spaced armor it checks for normalization, then makes its first penetration check, (+/-25% of average penetration.) then shell then loses penetration equal to the armor defeated (In the SP’s case, 38mm for the armor and .) as well as 5% of penetration for every 100mm of distance traveled after the initial penetration.

The biggest determining factor is how these two rules interact- if a gun overmatches spaced armor, how does the spaced armor interact with the shell? Is it ignored? Does the overmatching shell use the actual thickness (38mm) or the nominal thickness (~47mm for the first plate, 48mm for the second.) to determine penetration loss? All of these interactions are going to make or break the Super Pershing’s armor effectiveness with the triple-plate set-up.

I never would have bought it for money, but I’m completly in love with it now. 59% WR at ~300 games with 10 gold shells loaded. I like underappreciated tanks that are actually exceptionally good at their job. Most whiners simply don’t know how to drive it effectivly.

I wouldn’t give a damn about comments about buffs/nerfs until its live and I can drive it myself. There’s so much crap flying arround about the SP, its not even funny anymore.

“A second boiler plate was cut in a similar fashion and set at a thirty-degree angle extending out over the first plate. Where it came in contact with the bottom plate, it left a gap of seven to eight inches. We wound up with four inches of cast armor on the original glacis plate and two inch-and-a-half pieces of boiler plate with an air gap in between. We thought that even though the boiler plate was softer, the lamination and the lowered angle of incidence would help German projectiles ricochet. The new armor added about five tons to the front of the tank. A ruler was used to measure how much this would deflect the forward torsion arm bogey wheels.”

“We then cut a section from the faceplate of a knocked-out German Panther and trimmed it to three and a half inches thick by five feet long by two feet wide. We cut a large hole in the middle to accommodate the guntube and two smaller holes on each side to accommodate the coaxial machine gun and the telescopic site. Weslipped this plate over the gun barrel, brought it down against the mantlet, and welded it firmly all the wayaround. With its center of gravity fourteen inches forward of the centerline of the trunnion, this plate, which weighed fourteen hundred pounds, made the gun barrel considerably heavier on the front end.”

exerpt from DEATH TRAPS
The Survival of an American Armored Division in WorldWar II
Belton Y. CooperForeword by Stephen E. Ambrose
Presido Press
BALLANTINE BOOKS • NEW YORK

To those who were impatient, poor, or peevish and sold it for gold… LOL! SUCKAZ! :p

Most of us knew this was coming as soon as they “nerfed” it … it was just a matter of time. Those that kept it throughout obviously knew how to play it – and now they’re being handsomely rewarded :3