Kran is a dreams come true type event, unfortunately im also a fortuneteller and predict the future such as “Why does sweden need a dreams come true event?” “Why does sweden need the kranvagn their lineups are OP at every BR. Ect ect.”
Hot take but idc about kran nearly as much as my historical finnish lineup. Finland has been the most poorly implemented and cared for subtree since it was introduced amd every update only proves how little care was put into finland.
You are entirely correct about Finland, however, the leaks showed that Russia was planned to receive a KV-1 M1942 in addition to Finland’s, making the Finnish one nothing more than another boring copy paste to me.
Obviously most people don’t doubt that Finland has many interesting vehicles absent from its line but personally I don’t really find a KV-1 to be one of them.
Regardless, I can’t lie that I too hope to play the Finnish-upgraded Stug III G, T-28, T-50, T-26, T-34-85, and Comet in the near future, at the very least the Sturmi should’ve been there on launch.
The peoblem is fi land will never have 1 solid lineup outside of 4.x the problem of which being without the KV-1B we likely wont have any other armor aside from the stug which i can feel gaijin will put at 4.7-5.0 because of the armor.
Its a good enough X$ prem or event tank just like anything on finland. Heres your shitty CV9030 which we couldn’t find a way to sell it to you without placing it at a BR that would make sense. Same thing with the KV-1A feels like they knew how trash it would be and left it to finland so people had to buy it to see how it played.
Had it been built I would’ve proposed the ISU-152 recovery variant with the Lahti L-39 20mm rifle. The playstyle and BR would be silly but I’d gladly take the challenge.
I wouldn’t really expect much armor from any of the Nordic nations though, I’d argue that a mobility focus is one of their greatest advantages.
Was the ISU-152 with the 20mm never built? I remember reading that it was given a 20mm gun for AA-defence but it was unknown if it had a gunshield or something. It’s hard to remember exactly when and what I read, but I came away thinking they mounted the 20mm gun, and also the main gun was replaced with a DT machine gun.
Well the tank was successfully converted to the recovery variant so I suppose it was somewhat built, but I recall they never mounted the 20mm nor the mount for it, only the DT and the engine mufflers.
I mean it didnt stop gaijin from adding planned things before but since its finnish it will either be a prem vehicle with the modification or never added.
So when do I start huffing copium? actually I probably should have started huffing copium the day I became a Swedish main.
Anyways yes Kranvagn and UDES XX-20 please
They gave the KV-1A a roof MG because it “could have” had one so why not throw on a 20 mm Lahti that “could have” been there at this point. But yeah, most likely not. Still want to see a Finnish ISU-152, would have been a much better premium than the KV-1A though