Talk:M6A1

Wanted to ask, have anyone else noticed that bottom of this vehicle's hull seems to block APHE shrapnel?

It doesn't seem like protection analysis agrees with this, but it's almost impossible to damage hull of this tank in-game even on direct hit with Japanese tanks. As in, it pens, but shrapnel only goes like 30 CM and then stops. And there was no transmission or anything like that on the front, at least on damage x-ray. Had no issue with brits (pure ap) as I remember. Had to hit ammo rack directly twice with APHE of Chi-Ri II to explode 10% of it (luckily it worked). Turret doesn't seem to have magic armour properties.

Not sure if bug or feature. I mean, I could understand with those RHA skirts, but why front can absorb damage like this is a mystery for me, as unchecking "external armour" does nothing. Pure AP seems to go just fine. If it's strange to someone else too, I'd have to try and make concrete evidence and go for bug reports.