Top Tier Russia Is Extremely Balanced

The Russian tech tree has been dominating top tier War Thunder for probably more than a year now. It's honestly kind of hard to remember a time when Russia wasn't dominating in tank battles. Vehicles like the Ka-52, T-80BVM, T-72B3, and Mig-27K made fighting against Russian teams an absolute nightmare, so I thought I could demonstrate that for some of the players that haven't reached that battle rating yet. I had hoped that Gaijin would do something to bring other nations up to par, but they're adding the T-80UK in the next update, so.

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Songs used (in order from first to last):
Command and Conquer: Generals - Various USA Themes
Halo 3: ODST - Rain (Deference for Darkness)

Sound mods:
Epic Thunder (Pre-release)

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[snazzydazzy]

The way I see top tier is in three parts.

1. Everyone has fun *Rarest kind.*
2. One side has fun *Common*
3. No one has fun *Extremely common*

[Hunting_Party]

The strong part of top tier Russia is the ability of a second even third push. Allied MBTs just don’t exist anymore while Russian teams can bring out consistent firepower and armor.

[owenkegg]

"Everyone keeps dying before I can kill them" is truly a top tier Russia issue

[nicolaspeigne]

When Ka 50 gets shot down, the only thing different is the damage model is red lol

[indyjons]

When they had that Top Tier event, I held down W driving around like a mindless idiot in a T-80, scoring kills I had no right getting. I play as any other nation and get 1 tapped at spawn.

[andrasbalogh]

So you can play ground RB without playing a ground vehicle and be more effective than if you did play a ground vehicle. Cool.

[Igzilee]

It still baffles me how helis are able to be a first spawn.

[oog]

helicopters are so unpredictable and inconsistant. Sometimes they go down in 1 hmg hit, sometimes they can shrug off heat and proceed to full your tank with lead and missiles
Edit: face reveal?

[pepeman_]

Spookston:"it doesnt matter if your lineup is really broken. If your team sux then you are not having fun."

The 3 competent germany mains that play from 5.0 to 7.0: *sounds about right*

[nicholasjensen]

the most recent broken Russia experience I had was a t8bvm casually not dying from 3 maverick missiles. which I launched at the same time bc I figured the era would stop one of em but all 3 I don't even know how man. I checked in the replay and the second 2 did pen but only killed the driver bc magic spall and overpressure proof armor.

[gibmeister]

“I think I hear a hstvl hello my son” fails to pen. Time to make another historically accurate video

[kiroma]

Ah yes the ricochet that went through the HSTV-L and dealt no damage.
Somehow I think these ricochets only happen on light tanks.

[jakubw.]

i'm amazed how ka50 mounted s-8KO are like 10 times more effective than those on german mi24

[cheerslove]

There was times where i thought that every nation has strong side in top tier. CAS for US, Armour and numbers for Russia, mobility and firepower for Germany. But then i remember that Ka-50, Ka-52, MiG-27K, Su-17M4 T-80BVM exists...

[thatsnodildo]

How Russia sees it's military compared to how it actually is lmao

[astros_fan_]

I think Spook is reconsidering his opinions on whether or not Russian bias is real in War Thunder.

[vgames]

Top Tier Russia is how all nations should play/feel like.

[TacticalmailmanII]

You forgot to mention that you can have a decently strong line up with purely premium, squadron and event vehicles because they’re all in a relatively close br range

[ConnorAbrams]

The way I have always seen top tier is just copy pasted vehicles with different designations and maybe some slight internal differences. I have yet to see any upgrade packages for the Abrams line (like TUSK) in the form of modifications rather than whole new vehicles.

[lplayerjohnny]

About that HSTV-L: I once had a scenario where I had my 122 soviet gigacannon, shot a tiger1 straight in the unangled, flat mantlet, I shit you not, the bullet ricoched in a 90° angle off nothing. It just hit, then moved sideways and left. Needless to say I died instantly ofc because he bounced a shot on my front glacis, under my barrel and back through the breech directly into my turret. I shit you not the logic is dumb of this game. Oh yeah and when playing the ikv91 I had a Heat shell (aka instaexplodes on contact) Ricochet off a barrel I hit directly. This game is dumb