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Soviet engineers focused on large caliber guns thus their tanks have the highest damage values around. Because the smaller tanks can't compete with the counterparts' armor thickness it was compensated with acute armor slope values thus greatly increasing effective armor as well as the chance of a shell ricocheting. Very cold Russian winters forced the tank developers to use diesel engines lest their fuel freezes in the gas tank. So Soviet tank engines have a much lower chance of catching on fire compared to their gasoline-powered counterparts.

Soviet light tanks are the fastest around and like most soviet tanks have a small frontal profile and sloped armor.

Medium tanks are the fastest and most maneuverable but to make the tanks so compact engineers had to store ammo in very vulnerable places, thus increasing the chances of ammo rack detonation.

Soviet heavies have the best values for everything except accuracy and their frontal armor thickness and slope make them almost invulnerable from the front.

Soviet tank destroyers make up in brute firepower where they lack in accuracy.

Soviet artillery are renown for the amount of splash damage their shells do making them heavy but cumbersome hitters.

Soviet Release Tank Tree

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