These pieces of equipment improve your gun’s performance. Players generally refer to them as rammer, vents, and cal/cs/cali.
Gun Rammer
What does it do?
-5% to gun reload time
(Only tanks that don’t have autoloader or auto-reloader guns can use gun rammer, with exception of AT 7)
What does this mean?
You will have better DPM and the gun will reload faster.
Why is this useful?
Its useful since you can take more shots at enemies, and there are more opportunities to deal damage.
What tanks to use gun rammer on?
Every tank that can. At least at first. Once you get to know the capabilities of the tank, and you feel that the penetration it has is definitely not enough, only then do you try calibrated shells. There is no reason to put yourself at a DPM disadvantage by using calibrated shells before using gun rammer; you can always learn weakpoints and exploit armour weaknesses to counter penetration issues, but nothing you can do (skill wise) can make you reload faster.
Gun types that use gun rammer:
-Some tanks are RoF (Rate of Fire) focused, generally these should always use gun rammer, since their fast reload is one of the main traits of the tank.
-Other tanks are alpha damage focused, having big alpha but slow reloads, these tanks have much more reason to use calibrated shells, since the emphasis of these guns is on the impact of a single shot, rather than how fast it reloads.
-The tanks in between are much more of a personal preference, use the equipment that you feel is better.
Improved Ventilation
What does it do?
+8% to Crew mastery of the tank
(Only tanks that have autoloader or auto-reloader guns can use Improved Ventilation)
What does this mean?
Its basically the food provision of different nations, but made into an equipment piece.
It makes your accuracy, reload, traverse speed, and view range, accuracy, & aim time better.
What tanks to use Improved Ventilation on?
Same as the gun rammer, unless your tank suffers from very low penetration, there’s no reason to not be using vents on it. If you play the tank and really feel the tank doesn’t perform well and needs extra penetration, then try calibrated shells.
Vents improve so much on a tank that its almost a waste to not use them, if the tank is lacking accuracy, vents help with that, if the tank turns slowly, vents also help, if you want more view range, vents gives that, etc. etc.
Calibrated Shells
What does it do?
+5% Penetration to APCR shells
+8% Penetration to AP & HE shells
+10% Penetration to HEAT shells
What does this mean?
It makes all shells have higher penetration, so they can go through thicker/more angled armour.
What tanks to use calibrated shells on?
Use calibrated shells on tanks which you feel need the penetration. Try the tank out in battle using gun rammer/vents first, if you find yourself often struggling to penetrate enemies, then switch to calibrated shells and try that.
Best Equipment Choice
Which Equipment piece is the better choice?
You can only take 1 of these 2 equipment pieces on a tank.
Don’t get attached to 1 equipment type. There is no black and white correct/wrong answer to these equipment sets, calibrated shells is never going to be the best equipment piece on every tank, the same goes for vents, same goes for gun rammer. Don’t go in blindly using other peoples opinions on equipment. Try it yourself then decide.
Gun Rammer/Vents vs Calibrated Shells:
Try gun rammer/vents first. This equipment piece is trial-and-error, there’s no right or wrong choice. If you feel you don’t have enough penetration, then go back and put on calibrated shells.
There is no point to using calibrated shells if you haven’t tried the tank first and found it needs more penetration. You will just be putting yourself at a disadvantage in DPM, especially if its already average-low on that particular tank.
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