Rolled homogenous armor made of Stalinium is almost entirely immune to all but the strongest anti-tank weapons, while Stalinium tank shells are able to handily penetrate even the thickest of armor, but only if guided by the invisible hand of Stalin himself. This is part of the reason why Stalin earned the nickname "Man of Steel". Mining the ore is said to be incredibly labor-intensive and risky due to its high radioactivity, but thanks to Soviet efforts to industrialize the mining sector as part of Stalin's five-year plan, it eventually became easier to extract the ore in meaningful quantities. In order to come up with a reason why Russian weapons and tanks are so powerful and durable respectively, the community came up with a completely fictional metal on the periodic table: Stalinium, a transition metal supposedly found deep in the heart of the Ural Mountains. The term was first used in World of Tanks when a player started to express a seemingly unfair balancing that favour towards Russian tanks (As Wargaming is Belarusian-based), and the term grew and stuck onto Russian AFVs and soon spread to other AFV-based games. People use the term to express developer bias towards Russian tanks and somewhat disregarding the nerfing of other foreign tanks.Įxamples of this include supposedly inferior WWII russian AA guns being more effective at destroying armor than aircraft, even being able to destroy modern MBTs, otherwise obsolete tanks that block shells that were otherwise suppose to penetrate (See image on the right), and other Russian-bias shenanigans. Russian Bias is a meme that relates to unfair Russian-Favored balancing. It makes anyone calling for Russian tanks to be nerfed look like a conspiracy theorist.The developers themselves actually take this meme for granted! ![]() Screaming “Russian bias” is making the leap to the least likely conclusion and it poisons any discussion about balancing top tier. XM1 spam, L44 spam, TURMS spam, they all have the same root cause. All nations had win rates in excess of 70% during their dominance, and would you believe it, just a few BRs lower their teams would always be filled with swarms of rank 6 premiums. I shouldn’t have to elaborate on how broken Germany was, it’s recent enough that everyone should remember. The 2A5 and 2A6 had some very questionable DM modeling which made them stupidly strong, and they didn’t receive true equals until recently. Favor shifted towards Germany after that.They received the 2A5, 2A6, and F&F PARS missiles. The AH-1Z was completely uncontested when it was added two updates later. Upon its introduction, the M1 Abrams was incredibly overpowered and was modeled in such a way that it practically could not be ammo racked. Players are lured to buy premium vehicles and time by dangling this performance over their heads, saying “This nation is the best, you don’t want to be on the losing side do you?” This same scenario has been mirrored before with other nations. ![]() Top tier Russian tanks are being favored because it’s monetarily efficient to cycle through making one nation extremely powerful at top tier. The term “Russian bias” in War Thunder has always referred to *nationalistic* bias, IE Russian vehicles being buffed purely because the devs are Russian. I’m sorry if this is harsh, but I feel that saying it is Russian bias because “Bias is when something is favored unfairly, and Russian tanks are being favored unfairly” is being obtuse. I thought I made it explicitly clear that I do not think Russian tanks being buffed unrealistically is a good thing, and advocated for the changes to be reversed. ![]() ![]() There are also a surprising amount of comments which seemed to entirely miss the point of the video. While I believe they’re steel IRL, it’s possible that it’s an aramid spall liner. I currently having an inquiry with Gaijin as to why the plates don’t spall.
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