Split the APHE of the 37mm Panzer 3s and replace it with APCR

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The 37mm KwK 36, the primary armament of both early panzer 3s in game, really struggles with penetration against enemy armor with it’s APHE only penetrating 47 mms of armor, meaning over range even stuarts can be largely invulnerable to your fire, and more heavily armored tanks like the T70 (which is the same BR) could care less about you shooting at them with how little you do. To have these tanks be more able to destroy enemies at similar battle ratings but stay reasonable, I propose splitting the current stores of APHE in around half and using the Pz.Gr 40 APCR round for that space in the Panzer 3 B (31 APHE/ 30 APCR) and panzer 3 E (33 APHE/ 33 APCR). The Pz.Gr 40 was a tungsten-cored APCR round that is already present in War Thunder, and has a penetration value of 86 mms at 10 meters, which would be a huge help to these tanks, but due to the lack of explosive filler, would still be completely fine as they are.


Should the APHE stores of both tanks be halved and replaced with APCR?
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I mean sure but I don’t think anyone ever uses the 37mm there’s no reason to

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Well, Pz 38t could also benefit from this, its a downgrade to Panzer III J.

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And we may add the Pz.Nb.Fz to BR2. It has a coaxial 37mm KwK36 which may get APCR shells.

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did a suggestion a while back which includes these changes aswel

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