Cromwell I : Replace all AP rounds with APCBC

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Hello everyone,

The Cromwell I is one of the (few) new vehicle being added to the game as part of the next major update. It is a British Medium tank with decent armor, decent gun and good mobility.

The Cromwell I uses the 57mm QF 6 pdr Mk III gun which is identical to the gun used by the Crusader at BR2 and slightly worse than the Mk V used by the Churchill at BR3. Currently in the dev server it is equipped with three different types of ammo :

  • 30 AP (Shot Mk. 5) (no HE filler)
  • 30 HE (Shell Mk. 10)
  • 15 APCBC (Shot Mk. 9) (no HE filler)

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This means the the Cromwell will have two distinct ammunition dedicated to fighting enemy tanks. Most vehicle that share this feature usually have two ammo with very different properties :

  • AP : standard shot with or without explosive filler which usually offer a good middle ground between armor penetration and damage.
  • APCR : Subcaliber round that offers greater penetration on flat armor but lower damage
  • HEAT : Usually used by guns with a lower muzzle velocity to compensate for the lower penetration of their AP rounds

However, in the case of the Cromwell, the APCBC is just a strait up upgrade over the standard AP : an APCBC is an AP shell with a Cap (C) which allow the round to be more efficient against sloped armor and a Ballistic Cap (BC) to improve the ballistic performance of the round at range.

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At BR3, the AP round would be quite mediocre, particularly taking into account the fact that it does not have any explosive filler. The Cromwell should be a clear improvement over the Crusader at BR3, and for that I think that it should exchange all of its mediocre AP for the slightly better APCBC “Shot Mk.9”.

There was already a suggestion regarding the use of the APCBC in the Cromwell (courtesy of @ GasMasters-live). This is one of the very few suggestion with a 100% approval rate but it seems that it was not carried out entirely in the current state of the game, thus I must ask the food community of the enlisted forum :

Should the AP be entirely replaced by APCBC in the Cromwell ammunition loadout ?

  • Yes
  • No
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As requested, here is my suggestion.

Best regards.

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The Cromwell 3BR will be terrible, as I said before, we should have put a 75mm gun on it a long time ago.

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I vote yes cuz obviously. But I would much rather the Cromwell get the m86 American round, which has same pen but explosive filler

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Silly that this is even nessesary in the first place…

We already had to go through this once, and apparently “pleace replace the AP with APCBC” got translated as “please replace some of the AP with APCBC”…

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Won’t surprise me if that happens again