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[hjorte]

HEAT shell cost for the American T71 DA is a whopping 5.600 credits a piece. Is that because it is a High-Explosive Anti-Tank shell and does that give such an advantage over, say, the APCR shell on the French AMX 13 75 at 2.800 credits? And if so, is it a fair price compared to other tanks and their ammo?

 

HEAT, 5.600 credits

 

APCR, 2.800 credits

[24doom24]

heat is usually more expensive

[BethHarmon]

From back in the days when the M41 Bulldog was still at tier 7 with the T71, the HEAT shell on both on them has cost 5600 credits a pop if I recall correctly. It's just an arbitrary number that Wargaming sets. Treat them as if they don't and shouldn't make sense. If you want to fire them, you will have to pay the price. If you don't want to pay that price, then don't fire them. 

I still don't know why do the standard shells for the FV4202 and Centurion 5/1 cost 600 something credits, when the standard shell on the M4A1 Revalorise hits so much harder and costs less.

[Private_Miros]

Low penetration HEAT is pretty useless anyway. You only use it for the occasional superheavy with flat surfaces late game.

[Randomar]

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hjorte, on 31 October 2020 - 02:27 PM, said:

HEAT shell cost for the American T71 DA is a whopping 5.600 credits a piece. Is that because it is a High-Explosive Anti-Tank shell and does that give such an advantage over, say, the APCR shell on the French AMX 13 75 at 2.800 credits? And if so, is it a fair price compared to other tanks and their ammo?

 

HEAT, 5.600 credits

 

APCR, 2.800 credits

 

 

Back in the "Gold" - sorry - "Good old days" we had the opportunity to buy it exclusively with real money.

 

Wargaming have changed this and it became ironically "Experience ammo".

 

I believe, in all of the things that WG wanted to change in the past, was the HE ammunition on the 2nd place, next to the "preferred matchmaker" for some premium tanks.

 

Since then, WG left so many things behind, have done so much unrelated, I dare to say, have done even more worse, it is most unlikely that they will rework it. Because it is the last possible way to balance things out.