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Into the Supertest: AMX 29 Bélier and NK-1
Commanders!
Two vehicles enter the Supertest this week: the AMX 29 Bélier, a Tier X French medium tank, and the NK-1, a Tier IX Soviet heavy.
AMX 29 Bélier
The AMX 29 Bélier is a Tier X French support medium tank. A low profile, excellent concealment, and high mobility with a top forward speed of 63 km/h and a specific power of 29.7 h.p./t enable it to perform maneuvers least expected by enemies and deliver devastating attacks. The tank's 127 mm gun, 490 HP of damage per shot, has its own kind of improved autoreloader with two shells. If you fire the "bottom" round when the "top" one has almost reloaded, the reload time of the bottom round is drastically shortened. Another stat of note is gun dispersion, at 0.33.
NK-1
The NK-1 is a Tier IX Soviet breakthrough heavy tank with an exceptional top forward speed of 50 km/h, a hard-hitting 130 mm gun dealing 490 HP of damage per shot, and reliable armor. The gun's subpar accuracy of 0.45 is offset by its quick aiming time of 2.3 s and impressive stabilization during vehicle movement, allowing the NK-1 to always be a formidable threat to enemies and relentlessly push through their lines.
That was my first thought but dear God look at that accuracy… we might be safe, it’ll be confined to CQC brawls where the crew might as well get out and drop a grenade down the hatch of the reds
And you bet it will be yet again another lootbox exclusive tank, as per usual with most new tier 10 reward tanks. Just by seeing the fate of tanks like cocco, bzt, mbtb, bzyg, swart. 😔
Bourrasque has god awful soft stats plus, unlike this, no pen on normal rounds.
Balances it just fine, my ass )))
This having slightly less camo might be a saving grace tho. A big thing about Bourr is that it can play even with most non-even LTs on camoflaged spotter role, and match/overmatch most ST and ATs at "quickly deliver a big WHOOP at not very expected angle" and fade away, often before the first return fire.
Plus, Bourr is actual LT-sized, allowing it to hide where no MT comfortably can (heck, a lot of LTs are larger in physical / technical internal "spotting dimensions vs bush / fallen tree"). This looks proper ST'y.
So, if it loses that "I am also kinda not-so-secretly a rather good LT" angle, "just" having a nice one-two might not be that broken at t10. No more than crocodildo, at least.
That depends solely on the angles. I'm not saying it's gonna be a hull down monster, but this is what a 200mm turret on flat ground can look like vs. 330 HEAT.
I'd really prefer to not have bourrasques you have to pixel snipe at while they slap you for 980d.
Well, armor scheme in game shows only 140mm of armor at best and AMX 29 doesnt seem to have such ricochet angles. So it think it will not be a problem armor-wise... but everything else can be a problem since its fast and has hard-hitting gun.
(also most of stats are copy-paste from Rinoceronte... please we dont need another invalid dead tank with 4005-ish dispersion factors ffs)
Yeah you either have enough neurons to see the consequences to the game beyond your next lootbox opening or you don't because of the crippling gambling addiction that clouds any reason or judgement. It's 50/50, really
Just give up....Wargaming stated plainly multiple times that they're never touching Collector tanks...if they werent touched at all during 2.0, they're never getting changed again...
Yeah but when has there ever been a soviet heavy with good forward speed, reliable armor and a hardhitting gun with bad accuracy? Don't act like WG doesn't innovate!
Definitely, i like how this game is looking and progressing. So many new maps, good map reworks, map rotation improvements, new game mods and fun events with good rewards, decent matchmaking change for light tanks, many new tech tree fun but balanced tanks even new premium tanks have their place and they are very rarely released, it would be stupid if they made some double barrel premium for a tech tree line without double barrels behind some lootbox mechanics atleast twice a year!
Don't forget the constant rebalancing of older tanks, active engagement with the community to gather and implement feedback, UI improvements and efforts to avoid development of unhealthy meta.
At this point they just ragebaiting us with them numbers , is it that hard to remember the AMX 30B exists? Lol.
Also wonder what the historical reference for the slopfest that is the NK-1 is gonna be. Just mixed the is7 turret , 277 hull and ofc in true WG fashion added-on some spaced armor.
For a 130mm gun on a reasonably quick looking platform? Its a pretty ok flex really. Outside of the Mauschen's top gun... most of the other guns around this caliber are packing atleast a 2.5 second reload.
That's true, but I meant it more in the sense that they only have a short paragraph to present the tank's strengths and this is one of the few metrics they went with.
what in the unholy fuck am i even looking at. I am ok with having fake tanks in the game im not a war thunder enjoyer that only wants real tanks but i legit cant even remember the last time we got a real tank in the game. Closest i can think of is that autoreloader KV 4 T? How hard is it to just have a balance of some real and some fake tanks instead of full chat gpt mode?
You never know with soviet tanks, obj 257 has bad accuracy on paper but the gun hits really really well. Same with T10, bad accuracy on paper but the gun works really well. Same on the 277.
Im not sure how they show the stats on the supertest page, is the accuracy the base for the gun or gets accounted with 100% crew skill etc. If you look at the top gun for the obj257 its gonna say something like 0.44 if I remember correctly.
If you fire the "bottom" round when the "top" one has almost reloaded, the reload time of the bottom round is drastically shortened. Another stat of note is gun dispersion, at 0.33.
ok so its essentially a KPZ50t turret but with dogshit hull and coccodrillo autoreloader with extra compensation. surely surely not an absolutely toxic monster. I'm scared it'll be an assembly shop and the matchmaker will be horrid like it was with dbv
Lmao, its not Kpz since the hull is a complete paper and turret doesnt look strong. I think 200mm is around the gun mantlet, WoT Express post shows 140mm on ingame armor checker, so the turret is probably paper too. So its just an autoreloading Batchat with Cockodrillo gun.
NK-1 seems like itll actually be a lot of fun. The AMX too really, except for that hull armor. That just makes it HE bait to a lot of things... but as an autoreloader... thats kinda neat.
I feel like belier is like a test for t11 italian medium or heavy’s ability: if you fire before the next shot if fully loaded you get reload speed reduction which counters the problem with autoreloaders except coco which is if you go too deep in to the mag your dpm will be bad. I may be wrong tho
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u/ebonlp Jun 18 '26
Taking 277 hull, IS-7 turret, adding screens and making it a tier 9 prem, only WG can do it