Anyone ever notice that certain tanks seem out of their timelines, like example M41 Walker Bulldog (A tank primarily used in Vietnam close to around the 1960’s) it has modernized heat rounds (I forgot the name) and obviously it should do fairly well against the tanks at it’s BR which is always WWII and some other Cold War era tanks and yet it just feels odd, especially since Gajin could readjust BRs to be more accurate to their service periods and be more fair to the player base. I don’t think it makes sense to be in a Tiger I or II and your opponent is a tank 5-10 years ahead of you because “it has weak armor or bad gun”.
Also there’s never any Planes that match their respective Tank BRs either because why do I have to wait till I’m in an M1 Abrams or a Leopard 2 to get Vietnam era F-4 Phantoms whenever my M60 down in BR 8.0 is stuck with the F9F’s or F3D-1 it wouldn’t be “op” for a Tank and Plane to have matching BRs, because you can have an entire BR of 8.0s that match the Vietnam era (just an example) M60, M551, B-57, and AH-1G Cobra but then you realize the M50 Ontos and M56 Scorpion aren’t 8.0 but yet served heavily in Nam, then the M42 Duster is down in 4.0 yet served primarily in Nam, the F-104 is 9.0, the AE-4 is 9.0 as well like an entire BR and Tier up yet they all fought together side by side.
Other tanks should be in higher BRs such as the M44, M55, PzH2000 etc etc because of how modernized they are like the PzH2000 is artillery with an Autoloader and yet it’s at Tier V fighting early and late World War/ Early Cold War vehicles and the amount of “overpressure” it does is ridiculous to only itself get hit with a 152mm HEAT round and just walts off like tis but a scratch yet 155mm HE to an Maus or T95 (Tutle) you get turned into Jell-O.
TL;DR
Gajin should attempt to move BRs around and fix vehicles to match certain time periods, think it would be interesting to see how people who were once “dominating” lower BRs with an early 2000’s tank with autoloader because bad armor, fairs in Top Tier with other 2000s Tanks, Jets and Helicopters
Time period match making was tried already and failed.
People played arcade battles to avoid it due to how unfun it was while offering no realism, as time is not a feature of realism.
Yes, i too would like eating AGM65 and guided bomb in my M42 and fight Leo 1 and M60 in my M56 and M50. Take a hike bro, everyone want historical mm like Tiger vs 75 Sherman until they are the Sherman.
Who put that line of thinking in your brain that BRs were ever based on the time period a vehicle arrived from? Has always been about capability (compression can muddy this during implementation, though)
Now, it is quite common for vehicles of a similar time period to be fairly close matches, however this does not always hold true, especially when discussing different classes of vehicles that need to be shoehorned into a role they weren’t really designed for, such as SPHs.
If we were to follow historical matchmaking, then something like the Centurion would be a higher BR than the Tiger II, but that would be stupidly unbalanced.