Polish OOB

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blazejos said:
Explanation of the of this phenomen why 7TP has too weak armour need a comprasion with another tanks from the Vickers 6-Ton (Mk.E) family like rusian T-26 and vickers tanks in another cauntrys service and as I saw wy have a mess with this.

Hallo Blazejos
So about 7TP armour.
At first the values (you can than add if this is correct)
turret front: 15mm
turret side: 15mm
turret rear: 15mm
hull front: 17mm
hull side: 17mm
hull rear: 13mm

In game we have this:
turret front: 2
turret side: 2
turret rear: 2
hull front: 2
hull side: 2
hull rear: 2

I think that this values are completely right. Why?
To set up armour values we need LOS thickness at first.
LOS for 7TP is very similar to real values except hull rear because bigger angle.

If we have LOS we can set up estimates of armour.
There are two possibilities how to do it.
The first variant:
LOS armour 5-14 mm as 1, 15-24mm as 2, 25-34 as 3, ...

The second variant:
LOS armour x-10 as 1, 11-20 as 2, 21-30 as 3, 31-40 as 4,...

I think that the first variant is better - we must take care also about how penetration of guns is created.

And example
I modified czechoslovak oob and I made there weaker armor for LT-34 and ST-39. That is because frontal armour of LT-34 is 15mm and side is 12mm so 2 for front and 1 for side.
ST-39 than has 32mm front and 20mm side so 3 and 2.
LT-35 and LT-38 has front 25mm and side 16/15mm so 3 and 2.

You must take in account that if 7TP tank will have more armour values than how to set up armour values for other tanks and how to set up penetrations of guns.

Regards
Pavel Novak