t32- best tier 8 tank in the game

Mrtheox, on 01 April 2011 - 01:34 AM, said: Are normalization values fixed to the shell or subject to randomization and if there is a stat sheet for normalization effects of the shells could it be published?
Saying penetration degrades linearly by 20% from 100 to 500 meters is the same as saying penetration degrades by 1% for every 20 meters beyond 100 meters. Therefore, distance changes of less than 20 meters tend to have so little effect on degrading penetration that distance changes of less than 20 meters tend to be inconsequentially in determining if a round will penetrate it's target.
IE If a 88mmL70 is shooting at a target at 400 meters, the gun will lose 15% of it's penetration or 30.45mm (the round will penetrate 172.56mm of armor before randomization). At 410 meters the 88mm L70 will lose 15.5% of it's penetration or 31.46mm of penetration (the round will penetrate 171.53 of armor before randomization). These changes do not sufficiently alter the mean of the Gaussian distribution enough to really change the probability of penetrating a target. For Example, A 88mm L70 with a mean 172mm of penetration at 400 meters, will have only 21.8412% of the possible randomization outcomes result in a round which can penetrate 184mm of armor (the frontal armor of a T32 adjusted for LOS less 8 degrees of slope; in order to compensate for normalization effects). At 410 meters the mean penetration on the 88mm L70 is 171mm, meaning that 21.6572% of the possible results of randomization will result in a round with sufficient power to penetrate the front of a T32 (184mm).
The increase in range of 10 meters does show an exponential rise in the probability of a round to not penetrate at range due to randomization, but because the difference between the increment is so negligible it offers no measurable effect. When we increase the range increment to 20 meters penetration on the 88mm L70 falls of by 16% at 420 meters resulting in a mean penetration of 170.52 meters. Meaning that 21.0089% of the results of randomization will result in a 88mm L70 AP round with sufficient penetration to perforate the glacis of T32 at 420 meters. The difference between a 10 meter increment and a 20 meter increment is near a whole percentage point in probability with the randomization effect. Therefore it is mathematically correct to say that for every increase in range of 20 meters beyond 100 meters there is an exponential increase in the probability for a tier 7 gun not to penetrate the front glacis of a T-32.