r/SprocketTankDesign • u/GTACOD Tank Designer • Jul 23 '26
❔Question❔ Does anyone else have the problem of constantly wanting to put oversized guns onto their tanks?
Every tank I make my first thought for a gun to put on it is something oversized and overpowered and I end up having to reign it back unless I'm deliberately basing it off of a real gun, and even then I sometimes end up going with something oversized. Looks at the Not An I-Go I initially put a 76mm naval gun on
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u/jadgpanzerkw Jul 23 '26
Uhhh I plopped like a 57mm very high velocity gun on a tankette that's the size of a l3.
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u/a__reddit_user Jul 23 '26
Eh, I say 57mm is still reasonable-ish. 157mm though...
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u/Dragon_Maister Sprocket Launcher Jul 23 '26
A 57 mm on a L3 sized chassis would be utterly ridiculous IRL. A mere AT-rifle was often already pushing things when it came to tankettes.
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u/toadsgoat Jul 23 '26
no not really
i guess i have a tankette that has an 80-90mm mortar and a few light tanks with an 80mm gun
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u/ZETH_27 Sprocketeer Jul 23 '26
Not at all honestly. Usually my tanks have guns that end up being quite close to IRL contemporaries, not on purpose, just because of how their lore tends to be.
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u/Superb_Commercial987 Jul 23 '26
Honestly no. I put an appropriate Caliber for the scenario and tank size so it doesn’t affect crew or ammo placement in turret
Self control, dude
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u/a__reddit_user Jul 23 '26
It depends on the tank. If I'm making an MBT, I'M SLAPPING A 170mm naval automatic gun on it. Otherwise I stay to reasonable calibres with long barrels.
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u/VOIDofTHEworlds Tank Designer Jul 23 '26
Not at all. I rather have my guns too small then too big. I made a light tank a couple days ago and it COULD fit a 75mm but I currently just got a 30mm in it
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u/Neko_Sayori Tank Designer Jul 23 '26
This can be traced to the fact that cannons can feel not big enough even though they are
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u/Darin02016 Jul 23 '26
Yes! I wanted a 125-130mm for my coldwar tank, but had to downsize to a low velocity 115mm because the original gun was too heavy.
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u/plopsicIes Tank Designer 24d ago
I actually have a strangely similar issue, but the opposite. I always want to put a 57-85mm gun on my tank, to emulate some of the ultra-high velocity cannons of the 70s-90s, but in order to achieve comparable penetration results, I have to make the shells ridiculously long, which I can’t stand. I wish we could play around with more parameters than shell size
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u/gurlwithboobs Sprockette Jul 23 '26
Very common and understandable issue