Currently, Battle Rating 5 is the one place in the game where Anti-Tank guns, while a threat to Tanks, is only a minor one. At Battle Rating 1-4, most enemy tanks can be reliably penetrated by Anti-Tank guns of comparable strength to the guns they are mounted with.
To solve this issue, and improve counters to tank spawns at top battle ratings, I propose the addition of new Anti-Tank guns at BR 5 of calibers 88-105mm, and shell penetration at minimum 220mm standard. As these weapons are meant in-game to be a specialized means of countering enemy tanks as infantry, they have a limited quantity of 5 HE shells between ammunition refills, and their relatively low reload speed makes them sub-optimal at this role regardless. If a shell contains Explosive Filler, it is abbreviated as “EF” in the listed stats.
Here are the Anti-Tank weapons I am proposing:
USSR: 100mm M1944 BS-3
Ammunition:
20 x APHEBC BR-412B (224mm Pen, 100g EF)
5 x HE OF-412 (27mm Pen, 1.5kg EF)
Elevation: -5° to +45°
Traverse: -29° to +29° (58° total)
Reload: 6s
History: The 100mm BS-3 is the anti-tank field gun variant of the 100mm D-10 tank gun, mounted on the SU-100 tank destroyer and eventually T-54 and T-55 series of postwar tanks. It saw use in the Eastern Front in 1944 and 1945.
ALLIES: 105mm T8
Ammunition:
15 x APCBC T13 (256mm Pen, 181g EF)
5 x HVAP T29E2 (292mm Pen)
5 x HE T30E1 (27mm Pen, 1.5kg EF)
Elevation: -5° to +45°
Traverse: -30° to +30° (60° total)
Reload: 10s
History: The 105mm T8 was an anti-tank field gun prototype, the largest ever built by the United States in World War II. Only two prototypes of this weapon were ever built, of which one was a part of the Zebra Program: an initiative to test experimental weaponry in the European Theatre (this included the T26E1-1 Super Pershing). This is ballistically the same weapon that would be mounted on the M6A2E1 and T29 heavy tanks.
AXIS: 8.8cm PaK 43/41
Ammunition:
15 x APCBC Pzgr.39/43 (237mm Pen, 109g EF)
5 x APCR Pzgr.40/43 (279mm Pen)
5 x HE Sprgr.43 (19mm Pen, 1kg EF)
Elevation: -8° to +40°
Traverse: -30° to +30° (60° total)
Reload: 6s
History: The 8.8cm PaK 43/41 was Germany’s most numerous heavy anti-tank gun during World War II, and was the basis for the Tiger II’s 8.8cm KwK 43 L/71 gun. It was in service from 1943 to 1945, and saw combat in the Western Front, Eastern Front, and Italy.
JAPAN: 10.5cm Experimental High Power (Type 4)
Ammunition:
20 x APHE Type 2 (228mm Pen, 200g EF)
5 x HE Experimental (30mm Pen, 2.5kg EF)
Elevation: -5° to +45°
Traverse: -30° to +30° (60° total)
Reload: 7.5s
History: This was the prototype heavy Anti-Tank gun destined for the Ho-Ri tank destroyer. After the prior version of the weapon was deemed unsuitable, the barrel was lengthened to 65 calibers and mounted on a 10cm Type 92 Field Gun Carriage for testing in 1944. This weapon was deemed suitable, but was never mounted on the Ho-Ri prototypes that reached half-completion at the end of the war.
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