The Leopard is a main battle tank designed and produced in West Germany that first entered service in Developed in an era when HEAT warheads were thought to make conventional heavy armour of limited value, the Leopard focused on firepower in the form of the German-built version of the British L7 mm gun, and improved cross-country performance that was unmatched by other designs of the era.

Development history The Leopard project started in November in order to develop a modern tank, the Standard-Panzer, to replace the Bundeswehr's American-built M47 and M48 Patton tanks, which, though just delivered to West Germany's recently reconstituted army, were rapidly growing outdated.

Leopard 1A1 After the first batch was delivered the next three batches were the Leopard 1A1 model, which included a new gun stabilization system from Cadillac-Gage, allowing the tank to fire effectively on the move.

Leopard 1A2 The first tanks of the fifth production batch was delivered as the Leopard 1A2 between and Leopard 1A3 The next vehicles in the fifth batch were fitted with a new welded turret, which was equipped with a new armour consisting of two spaced steel plates with a plastic filling between them, and a wedge-shaped gun mantlet, creating the Leopard 1A3.

Leopard 1A4 The Leopard 1A4 formed the sixth batch of vehicles, delivery starting in Leopard 1A6 A single 1A1A1 was also modified with additional armor on the turret and had the mm gun as the Leopard 1A6.

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See author's posts. The changes to STB-1 are welcome, but still begs the question: Why would one grind the entire JPN MT line to get the hydro-suspension feature at tier 10, when they could just go play the new Swedish MTs which gets the feature starting at tier 8 and has bigger guns, better armor, and last but not least, better gun depression?

But split the half 6 degrees into the hull depression is less impressive. Since at normal speed it will have only -6 gun depression.

I agree, at least 8 or 9 normal and then tilt the extra degrees. This needs to be looked over. I have the Leopard 1 and i like that its role is enhanced.

However the maps very often are made for brawlers and it will be hit or miss whether or not the changes will be meaningful.

Making a sniper tank better at shooting one the move and less durable is crazy. Buff its pen and alpha make it crazy accurate and buff its camo rating done leopard 1 better.

They had the right idea with up its alpha the less it had to expose itself to do the same damage was nice. Search Advanced Search section: This topic Forums.

Page 1 of 2 1 2 Next. Poll: Leopard 1 rebalancing - a unique sniper 63 members have cast votes You have to complete battle in order to participate this poll.

The Snap shooting sniper! Show poll. Nope, all it needs is a buff to the gun's soft stats and maybe better terrain resistances.

What's wrong with that? The rest is fine. Cobra 6. Cobra6, on 14 March - AM, said: Basically increase the gun handling so you don't need to aim for 5 minutes Agreed, gun handling and DPM increase are the only two things required.

The rest is actually fine. Plus it makes it generic and boring. DPM down from 2. Penetration from mm to mm. As for the Leo 1A1A1, I agree, and have said this eleswhere.

They could easily make leopard pta a t8 premium with alpha because the new swedish t8 gets that alpha too and the t10 gets stupid alpha wtf.

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It has about mm of frontal turret armor with great sloping. Everything else relevant to the game was identical. SpartanFire71, on 06 January - PM, said:.

I think there is a little more to the story than that though. The Leo has a very large skill gap compared to the other mediums.

I don't think the tank is inherently underpowered. I say this because it has a different style than the other mediums.

Beta, on 06 January - PM, said:. You Tube. It was the thread I started and was wondering if someone would post this.

It is a very niche tank. I do think it could use a tiny buff for dispersion on the move. Maybe make the sometime slightly longer but dispersion on the move slightly less?

First of all, we will increase its alpha damage from to , as well as armour penetration. We will also change the type of standard shells for this tank.

By default, it will fire armour-piercing shells, and their velocity will become one of the highest in the game.

The Leopard 1 will be enhanced as a sniper and will be able to hit enemies more effectively at long range, thanks to increased accuracy and decreased aiming time.

Due to such a serious improvement in its characteristics, we will have to reduce some other parameters which have less impact on its battle role.

However, after the rebalance, the Leopard 1 will still retain excellent mobility. We also want to properly reconfigure the entire branch and check the effects of our changes on the researchable vehicles.

So, the characteristics of the Pz. At the same time, the alpha damage of the AMX 30 B will remain average.

When rebalancing the characteristics of this vehicle, we constantly kept in mind that it had no distinct playing role. The AMX 30 B is a universal second line support vehicle, which can perform equally well in a variety of game situations.

However, it lacks accuracy and armor penetration when playing at long distances, so we decided to improve these characteristics.