Well, Bonjour à tous again and what do we have here this time?
AltProto AMX 30 is the new tier 8 French medium tank available free from the marathon event ‘Legend of The Hunter’
This tank is available for free by playing all 10 stages of the new event. Each stage reduces the cost of the tank by 10% so if you complete all 10 you get it for free.
So lets get inside this Frenchie and see if he or she smells of garlic or Croissant?
The look
Without the medieval look 3D style, which is also available, the tank looks urm, like a tank with some nice sloping armour and a not overly large turret which I hope will be a little bit bouncy. With the 3D style it looks like a medieval knight with a huge crossbow on the turret. Have fun picking how you want it to look.
The stats
The Damage Per Minute is not earth shattering at 2,402 and that’s with a fully trained crew and bond equipment, with an alpha of 300, reload of 7.5 seconds and aim time of 2.17 which is slower than the Progetto or even the T-44-100. It’s classed as a ‘sniper medium tank’ but again as a pretty bad dispersion at 100m of .31 which is worse than the other two tanks just mentioned
Average penetration for AP is 232 at 1,000m/s, APCR 263 1,250m/s for 300 alpha and HE is 50 with 400 alpha and I’m pretty happy with this pen.
The 11 degrees of gun depression is really nice but I guess you pay for that the other way as the elevation is only 15.
Forward speed is 65 and a reverse is 23 km/h. I found this tank pretty agile and manoeuvrable using its speed to peek and crest ridgelines especially with the 11 degrees gun depression. Terrain resistance felt so so even though its pretty light at just 28,000
Armor, Health and others
Hull is 60/40/30 and turret is 150/40/30 so don’t expect to bounce too much when peeking but if you get the right angles you should bounce some from the big gun mantlet but higher tiers will pen you more often than not. It has a couple of weak spots with a cupola on the turret and drivers’ ports on the hull.
Engine, tracks, ammo rack and track repair time numbers are pretty good but it only has 1,250 overall health which is lower than most of its competitors.
Base view range is 380 which again is nothing to write home about.
Playing it
First battle was Westfield and it got up the heavy area ridge line pretty quick from the bottom. It was fun to peek and fight the heavies there even though you had to be really aware of what was looking at you. I bounced a couple of TD rounds and found the manoeuvrability and gun depression good for that style of fight.
The gun handling for all its uninspiring stats actually felt ok and it felt like playing something like a PTA, that’s I think how you need to play it. You can’t trade easily because of its lack of armour and low health pool so you need to play it like a glass cannon but without much of a cannon. 300 alpha for the reload didn’t feel that good and I always felt I should be reloaded before I actually was.
Conclusion
I think Wargaming have not made this tank over powered in any way and it does feel kind of balanced but the big question is ‘Is it worth the full price?’
I don’t think so but I do think if you played enough of the marathon to get a good discount and you had the money spare, why not. There are better tier 8 premiums out there but there are also much worse.
The worst part of this tank was no matter how hard I looked I could not find a bottle of prosecco in it anywhere and it calls itself a French tank!
SwedishLadyC 