Supertest: TS-54 American Heavy Double Barrel Premium
2 min readA brand new American Tier VIII heavy tank has gone to Supertest: TS-54. The new vehicle will be a Premium heavy tank and features the double-barrel mechanism. It’s unlikely for the American nation to receive a new branch of heavy tanks with this mechanism, and this will be yet another exotic Premium like the AMBT.
While the vehicle is an heavy tank, it features quite small calibre guns for a Tier VIII. The small calibre usually means better gun handling, but unfortunately this time is not the case. Both aiming time and accuracy are very bad, while the reload time for each gun is decent, players will have to wait a bit more time to fully aim their shots after the reload is complete.
Another problem is its mobility, weak engine and bad terrain statistics mean this vehicle will be slugish and most probably painful to drive in the battle field. While it features decent frontal turret armour, enabling it to play hull-down, all other armour is not that good to stand against much of its same Tier counterparts.
All characteristics are with a crew trained to 100% and subject to change before the final release.
At least the 94mm gun can overmatch 30mm armour plates, so that’s a minor advantage over 90mm guns.
The turret armour also looks scary, but for all we know it might just be a small piece of mantlet like with the Polish mediums. Can’t say anything about it for certain until we see the exact layout.
Another hull down heavy with awful gun stats and mobility, made solely for bad players who camp hills and can’t otherwise play the game
Gun is statistically the same as the OQF 32-pdr AT Gun from the AT 15 and Tortoise. Except with 20mm less standard pen, just to make you load the gold more often.