tanks

[McIvan]

Armour slope & thickness is definitely modelled.....as is the relative angle of the tank to the firer (ie sideways deflection) and even whether the target is pitched up or down!

In consequence, you can get, for example, an ISU122S to poke its nose up over the top of a rise and make its 90mm 30 degree armour effectively 50 or 60 degrees, to the point where its almost impenetrable. From the front anyways.

Panther upper hull front is practically impenetrable by anything at all....but the game does take into account the production flaws in the armour that affected the Panther, so you can sometimes get through.

The Germans firing faster relates to size of gun and number of men in the turret. So a German 75mm in a Panther will fire faster than a Russian 85mm in a T34/85. Early T34/76s suffer in fire rate because they have two man turrets.

It's all in there! CMBB has a better armour model than CMBO, btw, becuase in CMBO practically every penetration is a knockout. Not so in CMBB, where size of penetrating shot and size of the target itself are both taken into account, including whether the historical AP round had a HE bursting charge and what size that charge was.