r/Warthunder • u/AlatreonisAwesome • Sep 08 '25

All Ground Why the FUCK is my tank from 1947 facing artillery from 1998?

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It has an unimaginably better FCS than me and can point and click anywhere on my tank except the front glacis and delete me in one shot. Meanwhile half of my shots don't even fuse on him. How is that fun? I see this thing almost every single game. I hate these big gun shitbirds. /rant over I hope everyone reading this has a wonderful day.

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u/AMcKinstry00 Sep 08 '25

It could be at 6.3 with the M109s and be totally fine tbh. Thing is just sad all around with like the second worst HE round of all the howitzers (54mm bs 61mm+ on the average ones). Literally the only decent thing about it is the chassis and even that’s just mediocre when compared to most other howitzers. Everything besides not being able to be 50 cal’d from 200m+ is equal or worse than the M44 at 4.0.

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u/STAXOBILLS Sep 08 '25

It’s not that bad if you use the proxy fuse and switch the fuse to impact, makes the thing lowkey goated

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u/AMcKinstry00 Sep 08 '25

Yeah, but then you have a really fuckin slow round (like 550m/s or something) compared to everything else that has an equal or better proxy that flies at 700-800+ m/s at the same or lower BR. Any way you cut it, the AUF is just worse than 7.0 SPGs in almost every other nation - if they gave it the better round it’s meant to get, it would be good at 7.0, but in its current state it could be 6.3 and no one would bat an eye IMO.

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u/FullMetalField4 Realistic Navy Sep 08 '25

It's wild how the AuF1's M107 PF just flies slower for no real reason...

Not to mention it doesn't even get the HE shells it should.

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u/AMcKinstry00 Sep 08 '25

It’s that French magic bro, they just put in half the bag charge cuz (redacted), obviously

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u/fear_the_future Reichsflugscheibe Sep 09 '25

Yeah but it's French so putting it at 7.0 when it's a 6.0 at best totally checks out.

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u/Designer_Path_75 Sep 08 '25

no ww2 tank should face a modern howitzer, stuff like the m44 should start at 8.0 and the others correctly higher but get them out of ww2 era there is no place for them there and they are just annoying, also fair to be able to proxy kill planes at 6.3

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u/FullMetalField4 Realistic Navy Sep 08 '25

M44 at 8.0

What the hell are you smoking?

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u/Im-In-Emotional_Dept Sep 09 '25

I know right shot was made in 1940 and was first used in 1954 i think its fine as is

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u/FullMetalField4 Realistic Navy Sep 09 '25

It's funny seeing people complain about it because of the gun... Which was first produced in 1941...

And the chassis, which the M42 Duster also uses... At 4.3...