Tank Armor

Description

Tank Armor is a hidden parameter of armored vehicles. Tank Armor allow the vehicle to potentially deflect certain kinds of incoming fire. Deflected shots do not cause any damage. Only certain types of shells can be deflected: all armour piercing damage sources, Anti-Tank Rifles, 30mm shells, and R.P.G. Shells. If a weapon or ammo type's description specify it can penetrate armour it means it can be deflected (ironically). All other types of weapons will always cause damage, but usually less than a penetrating armour-piercing shell.

Vehicles with higher tank armor have a higher chance to deflect incoming fire. Every deflectable shot received, whether they penetrate or not, reduces the vehicle's Tank Armor value. A decreased Tank Armor value does not modify the damage each weapon do to the vehicle. Different ammo types have different chances to penetrate Tank Armor.

Deflected shots make a "pssht" sound and produce sparks.

Armour Repair

Tank Armor can only be repaired at Garages and costs 100 Basic Materials. However vehicles specific to one faction cannot have their Tank Armor repaired in a Garage of the other faction.

Vehicle Packaging

Vehicles with Tank Armour cannot be packaged if their Tank Armor isn't fully intact, the vehicle's Tank Armor must be repaired at a Garage first. Trying to package a vehicle can be an easy way to verify its Tank Armor is intact.

Penetration Bonuses

Shells can have bonuses to penetration chance when hitting Tank Armour:

• More direct shots (orthogonal) have a higher chance to penetrate side/rear armour.
• Closer shots have a higher chance to penetrate side/rear armour.

Vehicles with Tank Armor

There are technically two armor types in the game, the only difference beside overall deflection rates is how Light Kinetic and Heavy Kinetic rounds behaves on the vehicle. For both type every Light Kinetic ammo will deal the same amount of damage, it takes as many pistol bullets as rifle bullets to destroy an armored vehicle. For the heavier armor type that behavior is extended to Heavy Kinetic rounds, i.e. it takes as many pistol rounds as 14.5mm bullets to kill a tank. The heavier armor type is owned by all tanks, the tankette, and all field guns except the field artillery.

Light Armor:

• Field Artillery
• Armored Car
• Landing APC
• Half-Track
• Gunboat

Heavy Armor:

• Light Tank
• Assault Tank
• Siege Tank
• Battle Tank
• Tankette
• Field Machine Gun
• Field Cannon
• Field Mortar
• Field AT Gun

Deflection Rates

The following table lists the percentage of deflection from tank armor on every armored vehicles and for all weapons able to penetrate armor. The values are only for frontal hits on intact armor. Due to the difficulty of acquiring data points, the values have an accuracy of +-10 percentage points.

Tanks

Name	T12 "Actaeon" Tankette	King Spire Mk. 1	Devitt-Caine MK-IV MMR	Devitt Mark III	Devitt Ironhide Mk. IV	H5 Hatchet	H-10 "Pelekys"	H-8 "Kranesca"	Silverhand - Mk. IV	85K-b "Falchion"	HC-7 "Ballista"	Flood Mk-1	Flood Juggernaut Mk. VII	Flood Ascension Mk. V	Lance-36	Lance-40 "Hallberd"
13.5mm
30mm	93%					83%				88%
40mm Round				67%	85%	80%				95%
R.P.G. Shell	81%					74%					85%
Ignifist 30	75%					75%	75%			81%	71%
A.T.R.P.G. Shell	54%					63%				76%	70%
A.T.R.P.G. Indirect Shell
68mm AT						60%				73%

Armored Vehicles

Name	O'Brien v.110	O'Brien v.121 Highlander	T3 "Xiphos"	T5 "Percutio"	O'Brien v.101 Freeman	Field Artillery	Field Machine Gun	Field Cannon	Field AT Gun	Field Mortar	Mulloy LPC	AB-8 Acheron	AB-11 "Doru"	HH-a Javelin	HH-d "Peltast"	HH-b "Hoplite"	Niska Mk. 1	Niska Mk. 2 Blinder
13.5mm		62%															81%
30mm			34%												62%	73%
40mm																51%
RPG Shell	8%		6%				12%								33%	58%
Ignifist 30	0%		0%				0%					30%		33%	41%	43%
A.T.R.P.G. Shell	0%		0%				0%							0%	0%	35%
A.T.R.P.G. Indirect Shell	0%		0%				0%							0%	0%
68mm AT	0%		0%				0%							0%	0%	20%

See Also

• Vehicle Subsystems
• Vehicle Health
• Structure Health