HE isn't the problem, gold is

Draschel: Take a light tank, like LTTB or Senlac. And shoot Type 5 in the front or IS7 turret, dead on in training rooms but not into tracks, gun, or gun shield. Right now, 75% of the time you are going to get 0-damage roll because of the armor thickness, and such small bore HE radius, and low base damage. But with the planned 1.13 changes, the same test will actually yield consistent very low damage rolls instead, like 20-30.  So instead of the inconsistency, unreliability, of 10  tallied  8 shots dealing  0, 1  dealing 50, and 1 dealing 100.....You get consistency. And consistency is great for utility, such as defeating a 5 HP enemy with great guarantee, cap reset, and for even light tanks with puny bore guns to do something.  And better yet, this requires aiming. Because if you hit tracks, you can deal 0. Hit the gun shield, you can deal 0. And the added benefit, aiming even opens up opportunity for new found penetrations, as higher penetrating HE shells can pass through 5mm side skirt like on Schmulturm or Skoda T50, and hit the weak 30-40mm side armor after, and still easily penetrate.  These HE changes are what the game needs. They are nice.