If you haven’t already, please read, at least, Part 0 : Introduction (link below) before reading this one. It will help you to understand the goal and logic of this serie. Thank you, and bonne lecture !

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Summary :

• Part 0 – Introduction
• Part 1 – Tiers X

This post deals with the following tanks :

•  AMX 50 120
•  Lorraine 40t
•  AMX 30 1^erprototype
•  AMX 50 Foch
•  Batignolles-Châtillon 155 mle. 55

Notes :

• giving many times the same hypertext link from one source for a tank will be avoided, even if it’s used several times. So, keep them open while reading !
• even though it got removed with the recent 9.15.1 update, the Lorraine 40t will be commented nonetheless, and not the Batignolles-Châtillon 25t AP

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AMX 50 120

1) Top speed

According to Wikipedia.en as well as tanks-encyclopedia.com, speed tests from the AMX 50 100 indicate a maximum speed of 51 km/h. The notice from 1959 from the AMX 50 TOB also indicates this value. However, the AMX50 120 is equipped with the same engines, while being heavier. So its maximum speed reaches at best 51 km/h. In addition, the AMX-50 120 is very close to the AMX 65t, which maximum speed is only 40 km/h. This second value however seems quite small, compared to the first one. So the maximum speed achieved by the AMX 50 120 is at least 40 km/h. We then have a top speed nerf, from 65 km/h to [40-51] km/h.

Note : this nerf doesn’t impact much the tank’s gameplay, because it rarely exceeds 40 km/h, and very rarely 51 km/h.

 

2) Weight

As Wikipedia.en indicates, the second prototype of the AMX 50 120 (on which the AMX 50 120 in the game is visually based) reaches a mass of 64 tonnes. This therefore results in a weight increase, from 60 tonnes to about 64 tonnes.

Note : this implies a buff of its ramming ability, but also a nerf of its acceleration (so, even if the maximum speed is 40 km/h, the tank will reach it even more rarely than now).

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