OMG, Abrams should be better known in France !

He was the famed leader of the 37th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored Division, which was known as the vanguard of Patton's Third Army, which swept across northern France in the aftermath of Operation Cobra, then ran to the rescue of the Allied Forces in the Battle of the Bulge, and finally made a dash through Germany to reach Czechoslovakia at the end of WW2. In '68, he succeeded to Westmoreland as commander of MACV in South Vietnam.

On-topic : Is there a tool in the game to get the accuracy values, or do we have to know that each point of accuracy adds 5% to the accuracy at maximum range ? Is there also a relationship detailing how much damage is done for AP rounds at ranges lower than the maximum one, and what's the equation for the accuracy in function of the range ?

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THANK YOU TROTSKYGRAD FOR THIS EPIC SEAL OF APPROVAL !

No tool, I use empirical tests. And I haven't tested the curve of damage connected to distance yet.

Accuracy/distance relationship is WIP right now.


NEW UPDATE : I have added a table showing how much hit are needed to kill a 10HP vehicle with different AP and armor value.
EDIT : range value has been added but not taken into account into the firepower calculation (not a proportional bonus IMO)

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Eugen's law of maximal pain in the ass : If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong on Friday evening.

You have forgotten to change the speed.
The speed is 70 km/h not 65 km/h.

Done, but that's not 5kmph that will stop them from sucking realy hard imo

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Eugen's law of maximal pain in the ass : If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong on Friday evening.

Teh awesomeness Big thx

It would be nice if you included some stats for the cannon based tank destroyers/APCs... E.g The recoiless rifles, AML 90, BMP-1s...

Some other minor errors:
1) MBT 70 is spelled as MTB 70
2) T-55AM1 and T-55AMV1 are 60 kmph

Awesome.... Thx man...

This will be corrected with the next update.

My chart only includes AP weapons because it's primary objective was to calculate the [firepower/price] ratio.
Including other types of weapons poses some problems :
- No vehicle without turret since they can't fire on the move most of the time.
- No heat weapons because damage doesn't scale with distance reduction.
- ATGM can miss if the vehicle moves or is shaken and there is a bug that allow ATGM to randomly miss vehicles they should hit. (hellfire could be the exception but only helo have it)
- BMP1 could be included but it is mainly summoned with infantry so his vet cost more if you're only interessed in the vehicle.

I'm looking into the relation between [distance/accuracy] and [distance/AP damage] at the moment and I'm planing to study the relation between damage, accuracy and caliber with Small arms, MMG and autocanon after that.

Stay tuned !

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Eugen's law of maximal pain in the ass : If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong on Friday evening.

Don't forget the Luchs A1 of Doom !

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THANK YOU TROTSKYGRAD FOR THIS EPIC SEAL OF APPROVAL !

Fanstastic work out there.

I made a change to your sheet to get the cost per armor in a tank (factoring only the frontal armor).
To do so, you got to strip the "Armor " out of the armor values and use this formula right next to the armor values:
=D11 / VALUE(LEFT(B14;SEARCH(",";B14)-1))

On the tanks with missile, the D11 part should be adjusted to get the correct cost row.

I would like to see the HP of these tanks too, is it easy to obtain it?

What do you think about doing a combat simulator? I can create one with the right data and formulas