I am posting this here, not because I’m playing this game again (War Thunder has been busy eating my soul, or at least what’s left of it), but because I literally don’t have any accounts on anything else so I have no where else to ask this. The internet was being useless, so I was getting quite frustrated.
On to the question:
It has come to my attention that vehicles such as the Mark 1 heavy of WWI and M4 medium series of WWII both have a mass of about 30 tonnes, and yet the M4 has SIGNIFICANTLY thicker armour (in fact I believe it it similar to the 100 tone flying elephant concept). Similar would be the T-54 and the Tiger 2. The tiger 2 weighs over 60 tonnes and has 80 mm on the sides, with 150 mm on the front hull, while the t-54 I believe has about 80 mm on the hull sides and 100-120 mm on the front, but with a even thicker turret. Despite this armour, the T-54 weighs something like 30-40 tonnes. Another example would be the IS series. I’m pretty sure the IS-7 packed some serious thickness yet weighed about as much as a tiger 2.
I am confused. Especially why the Maud was so heavy. Yes it was large, but there were tanks with similar armour that weighed less than half it.

Sincerely, a wannabe Graingy employee