What makes a good MBT?

[Sniper23]

Ramm said:
O.K. of all the 255,000 registered users only these few brave soles will tell us what they think a "good" MBT is?

I'll be one of those brave soles

I think a good MBT has to have great firepower,Speeds a must,small size is good,armour has to be good but cost affective,maintenance must be quick and simple,range is a must, as for weight that is the last thing on my mind[though it has to be light enough to transport by plane], and crew protection is a must have.

I think that makes a good MBT

[Wdll]

a MBT that can be transported by plane? What's the point?

[hoplitis]

Global and rapid projection of power? It's an american "thing"!

[PlasmaKrab]

Compromise between mobility and protection, firepower being an uncompromisable requisite.
That's my version for the time being, swap around the word in bold in the sentence above to your liking .

Also, no one ever thinks about this (except tankers, I guess), but reliability, maintainability, general sturdiness and affordability are musts. You don't want your mother-of-all-tanks to fall apart ten meters after rolling out of the assembly line...

[Ramm]

What kind of tank would Jesus drive?

[hoplitis]

Ramm said:
What kind of tank would Jesus drive?

I really hope you are not part of the engineering team designing the next generation MBTs!

And BTW "HE" has certainly solved the rapid deployment issue!

PlasmaKrab,
well put! [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/icon09.gif[/img]

[Warwick]

You can now add a fourth attribute IMHO, :- vision.
Having a rating of forty when your opponent has less is a pretty devastating advantage as demonstrated in the last two Gulf wars (walkovers?).

Regards, Warwick

[Urban]

Firepower
Range
Accuracy
Agility
Passive protection
Active protection
Reliability
Survivability
Vision

Note : for the vision just avoid to use IL,TL and other kind of vision device in day light condition, fog, sandstorm, dust, snow ... or you will just see a big green screen .

[pdoktar]

In WinMBT the priorities when purchasing a MBT are following IMO

1. Armour

-When advancing I use my tanks as mobile armored boxes in breakthrough points. So they have to be able to resist frontally as heavy AT weapons as possible. Who needs firepower, if you´re dead when you stick your nose first time out of the bushes. Generally I prefer high CE armor values over KE values because HEAT AT-Weapons are cheap and numerous. And ATGMs are a PAIN.

Active protection systems are cheap in game purchase points and can give you an extra life just when you was about to be lit up by that incoming TOW-2B. Don´t count on it though.

2. Vision

-Now who doesn´t understand the benefits of TI in WinMBT? Go and find out yourself.

3. Firepower

-Preferably a main gun that can fire true HE shells. Although nowadays the HEAT shell can double in HE role. Also good KE pen is somewhat important, however sometimes you still don´t need that 90 pen figure a 60 will do since it can frontally take out any but the heaviest opponents, who must be left to be dealt with specialized equipment (like a section of tank-killing specialized Leo2A6 or heavy ATGM, perhaps of the TA-kind).

4. Mobility

-It´s nice to have speed of 26 hexes per turn. But you don´t use this mobility as you use the three above in a WinMBT game. A few full dashes in a single game is in my tactics mostly utilised then slow advancing.. the main gun might be utilized for a full 50 times so you get the point. Okay you get faster to a hilltop or down from it but you still have to kill those two companies of advancing enemy infantry.

-Hey ho to the armored foe-