To be honest E3 is kind of ridiculous now without HE to fight it...

Draschel: I will say, I do not have premium account, I do not exclusively run tier 7-8 premium tanks, yet I have no shortage of premium shells. On tech tree tanks, nevermind premiums. If you cannot manage an accountant effectively, and cannot afford things, that is on you. You do not need to put out anything. For fun, for competition =/= one another. The two are quite exclusive, polar opposites. While -YOU- may have fun doing it, the receiving end, the hit party, isn't having fun while the people having fun are skirting broken former HE mechanics. You can't look at this, from an average performing man's perspective. And no, I am not looking at it from a great players perspective either. I choose the fair, game balanced perspective.  SU100 doesn't have SU152 DPM, gun handling, HP, and its low tier. SU152 can just use the stock ML20 with HEAT too. AP even KV2R don't have the 107, its true, but with some more aiming is fine using AP. Added benefit of HE penetration through obstacles. We aren't here to compare tanks, this is better than that. We are here to analyze the tank itself and its future, gameplay alternatives. But at any rate, KV2 107 has more DPM than T150, as well as slightly better gun handling.  Only novice, casuals use stock turret on Jumbo w/ 105mm. Real people, with an edge on their shoulder, who want to compete turn it into a real med with supercharger, top turret for view range and HP, M1A1 for consistency FV4005 can actually use HE over HESH. If your enemy has 100 HP, why use HESH? HE does the same thing. If your enemies are Bourratt and HK30, don't need HESH. HE does the same. People just simply things by not having to micro their ammo, HESH does everything HE does. But HE won't do everything HESH does. Doesn't mean that HE can't be used as cost savings, and serve the same purpose  152 still works on sheridan and 49, simply because of mobility, high base pen, and HEAT. But while their stock 90 and 105 may not be that good compared to medium tank peers,  they are undoubtedly the best light tank guns amongst peers by tier. No other light tank guns come close to their mix of gun handling, DPM.  We are talking about DPM of several hundred more, substantial. without any drawbacks, other than the base platform L48  75 sucks. In tier IV, 85mm already around, T40 has M1A1 76m. Tier V its useless. IV/V gets by because the platform, pref MM, SA server farming elevate it, not because of the gun.