T110's Second Century of Civilised Comfort

Platypusbill, on Nov 21 2016 - 12:31, said:   They didn't state any changes to the normalisation bonus, the only announced change was to the autobounce system. Now the autobounce angle will gradually increase instead of being completely eliminated for shells that 3x overmatch and 70 degrees for everthing else.   The Strv103 UFP should be more or less impenetrable on level ground since most of it is 50mm thick and even ~150mm guns autobounce at 76 degrees (the UFP is at 79 degrees). The 40mm lower plate should be penetrable even to 100mm guns though; it's at 72 degrees, and according to the diagram WG posted a ~2.5x overmatch ratio results in autobounce at 74 degrees.   What I dislike about the system is that instead of an exponentially increasing armour coefficient, the Strv relies completely on the ricochet threshold. Even without extra normalisation the actual effective armour is still rather flimsy (e.g. 40mm @ 72 is still just ~100mm vs AP with 5 degrees of normalisation, or ~115mm vs APCR with 2 degrees of normalisation). This means that a 100mm gun might bounce 100% of the time at 74 degrees and pen 100% of the time at 73.99 degrees.