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Captain
I've been trying to get info on this little thing, atm stuck on A-20, and then i have to do T-34 for the 430/t100-lt branches so got quite a lot to go before i get it.
How does it handle, how does it feel ?
I come from a background of Luchs, AMX series (ELC bis up to 13 75), and some other low tier lights.
From what i can gather, it looks like a potential hulldown monster, for stuff that gets 150 pen and below.
Lieutenant
It's far from hulldown monster, but will bounce a shot here and there. Play like a typical MT and don't get hit in the first place.
LTG is rather crappy. Gun is weak (accuracy 0.40 derp style), only 5 deg depression. DPM is average so you don't really come on top when skirmishing other LT's or MT's.
Mobility is one of the worse for T7 lights.
The only great thing is camouflage factor... but than you have 360 base view range so all the other LTs and higher tier MT's will be laughing and denying you the spotting.
The second redeeming feature is the hideous looks. Silly apperance is all that LTG is about 
Edited by IRSanchez, 12 May 2017 - 05:11 AM.
Staff Sergeant
Edited by Shuddnobetta, 15 May 2017 - 11:00 PM.
Major General
Shuddnobetta, on 15 May 2017 - 10:23 PM, said:
Impatience is the most common bad habit among LT commanders.
Slow aim, you are simply to far away from your targets.
Go closer and fight!
Fighting other LT? Only if forced to.
Ramming (26 tones) is a viable option in such situations.
Once the ramming happend the turret is your second defence line and makes a very good impression on me.
100mm turret frontal allows you to keep face hugging other LT and make them bounce.
I had 2x encounters with T71 and they did not pen my turret.
In such case keep in touch with your opponent, it will make it imposible for them to hit your front plate or top deck.
View range is as expected at the lower end of LT7.
Camo is good, but it seems less than what it says in the vehicle stats.
LTG: 41.8 (in garage)
T-100: 41.99 (comparison)
I suspect errors in values or vehicle properties.
Agility is as expected, but feels like a rubber baaaaaand when you come from a zippy MT-25.
Here the LT commander must adjust his playstyle.
Gun, oops I just noticed my first 10 matches were without using a rammer or v-stab. (the impatince statement still applies)
Hit rate: 79%
dmg: 1.2k+
assisted: 1.2k+
spotted: 4.4
I am a bit torn now.
The dmg dealer tells me go for optics, rammer, v-stab, since my crew has BIA, camo, smoth ride, snap shot, ..., food.
I will be going vents, optics, v-stab and see how that works out, since I like to have view range maxed.
Major General
The setup vents, optics, v-stab, food, BIA, works out better than expected.
HE ammo is rather on the high roll side and devistating to sides of other LT.
Getting hit from the back always kills your commander.
Getting hit from the right kills the driver.
Getting hit from the left kills the gunner.
Getting shot at from the front offers surprises of bouncing sheels quite often, but is far from reliable.
85 matches, MoE at 89%+.
Edited by azakow, 22 May 2017 - 05:56 PM.
Major General
It took me 150 matches to 3 MoE the vehicle, 1.2K dmg and about 1k assisted average.
My ammo loadout at the end was 22/8/8.
I found, that the damage output with HE shells is rather on the high roll, hence this could compensate for the missing rammer.
Fighting other LT is a challenge of it's own.
Again HE spamming knocks out lots of their modules and crew giving me the cutting egde.
I love them confident green Type64 and T71 going after me.
Due to my high turret travers I can keep my frontal turret armor to the oppenents.
I found that in close combat many opponents have difficulties to aim for my hull, hence they will shoot at the turret instead.
SPG hits damage lots of modules, cause fires, kill crew and take lots of your HP.
Since I use food, I had 2.5 crew trained in FF and 2.5 trained in repair.
In shot SPG hits consume a repair and med kid.
Edited by azakow, 22 May 2017 - 06:04 PM.
Captain
Looking at the stats of it, I think it is a nice sneak peek at TX light gameplay (funny cuz it's true):
You have to invest into view range to compete with mediums of your tier (and lower)
That further cripples your already bad damage potential.
After 3 games in stock configuration, I've played it as a sneaky flanker and done quite well as such, but I've been blessed by serb by being top tier in all three games (!!!). I'd say awesome with ~2700 wn8, but then again it's only 3 games.
All in all, I hope that in a top configuration with good crew it'll be a keeper since I was sort of planning to have this as my tier7 light for tooning with my camp happy friends. But if it's not, oh well. Need to buy T71 then for which I don't yet have a crew.
Lieutenant
The tank (unsuprisingly) shines with really good crew.
It was a bit pita to 3-mark it when running with mediocre crew using BiA and camo (no recon or situationall awareness). Even with extra combat rations the view range was quite terrible (@~410m mark with optics) and spoooting damange was hard to siphon from other guys.
I ended with mediore 500 assist, which had to be maken up with pure damage. Propably should have used my full blown 54LT girl crew, but I used the opportunity to train up the second (grade) soviet LT crew for some middle tier memes.
Anyway it was fun to play the stupidly ugly underdog
Who knows, maybe they add a couple meters of VR once the full balance data is analysed.
Edited by IRSanchez, 23 May 2017 - 01:49 PM.
Major General
Lieutenant
I considered vents at first, but went with rammer+optics+vstab, as chasing view range felt out of question with the crew I had.
While it worked for me in the end (got the 3 marks and a few epic games) I see there was quite some space to improve, as you pointed out with the early spots. That's definitely something I need to work on, but the old camper habits from legacy TDs are hard to forget
Edited by IRSanchez, 23 May 2017 - 07:47 PM.
Lieutenant
Warrant Officer
Lieutenant General
Ober__, on 17 June 2017 - 03:43 PM, said:
Possible? Yes.
But I would bet my last £ that the kill shot will bounce 
LTG is just awesome tho
Major General
Erwin_Von_Braun, on 04 October 2017 - 09:07 PM, said:
Possible? Yes.
But I would bet my last £ that the kill shot will bounce
LTG is just awesome tho
Sure it bounces!
Ramming and face higging T71 is pure pleasure, because in such situation the turret bounces shells quite often, more than just once.
Lieutenant General
captainpigg, on 10 October 2017 - 02:48 PM, said:
Don't dismiss it just because it's ugly - it's a beast with a decent crew.
I have to agree tho, it kinda looks like it's had a stroke
Warrant Officer
For some reason I have a soft spot for this freaky little thing. I was really happy to three mark the Frankentank yesterday and it was really enjoyable journey.
My crew was focused on brawling as I only had BIA and the gun skills. Equipment load out was rammer, vents and optics. After 90% MoE I started using food and 50% gold.
This is weird tank as on paper it doesn't have any real strengths. However in practice it just works. It is manouverable, has punchy gun and great camo. The armor will bounce quite a few shots from enemy LTs so you can take advanced positions.
Aiming isn't that big of an issue as you are usually quite close to enemy when shooting. Otherwise you will be spotting and not shooting. It is a scout, not a sniper.
I love it and highly recommend it to LT drivers.
Edited by Snaques, 26 October 2017 - 02:24 PM.
Captain
Lieutenant
azakow, on 22 May 2017 - 05:56 PM, said:
It took me 150 matches to 3 MoE the vehicle, 1.2K dmg and about 1k assisted average.
My ammo loadout at the end was 22/8/8.
I found, that the damage output with HE shells is rather on the high roll, hence this could compensate for the missing rammer.
Fighting other LT is a challenge of it's own.
Again HE spamming knocks out lots of their modules and crew giving me the cutting egde.
I love them confident green Type64 and T71 going after me.
Due to my high turret travers I can keep my frontal turret armor to the oppenents.
I found that in close combat many opponents have difficulties to aim for my hull, hence they will shoot at the turret instead.
SPG hits damage lots of modules, cause fires, kill crew and take lots of your HP.
Since I use food, I had 2.5 crew trained in FF and 2.5 trained in repair.
In shot SPG hits consume a repair and med kid.
I expected less. I started with a near stock crew and a stock tank and I'm at 86% already with being nowhere near the end of the grind. Though 2.2k combined seems high. Are you sure it's 2.2k? 13 57 has 2.6k so I expected this closer to 2k or even less.
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