Shoving everything into rank 2 to force people to play higher BRs is extremely annoying, if you get a task to do scouting you’re forced to play what, 6.7? How are newer players going to participate in anything without grinding down half a tech tree?
God forbid they play a minor nation and have to get kills in a heavy tank, better pull out your wallet little Johnny or grind an entirely different tree because there are no heavy tanks.
Rather spähpanzer kurz, because then we can get the 90mm version later on. But both the lang and kurz can’t use dm63 and are limited to apcr, which would put them both much lower than the sub1-2 and amx10p
I have not seen any of these present in-game, especially the last two pictured with the MG 81Z or the 7.5 cm L/48, both of which would make an excellent rank III:
Well, if they give correct penetration to the APCR of that cannon it could do something. Apart from that, the issue of damage registration should be reviewed, because when you shoot with the Marder A1 at some unarmored tank it takes a few seconds for it to register that you are hitting it. doing damage, so the enemy notices and kills you, before the game registers that you killed the gunner.
So with US SPAA gap somewhat fixed by Skink, this now seems to be the next obvious issue to fix:)
Seems like we have good amount of options, so hopefully, we will see some coming in the near future.
That PT-76B seems like a good option, we know it would come as 5.3, which would fit well into German lineups in 3rd rank and the required work would be minimal just like in Skink case:P
Spz HS.30 Lang also seems like a likely option, since we already have Battle Pass variant with recoilless rifle. (Although spähpanzer kurz also seems very nice)
And of course some Sd.Kfz.234 variant would be very cool:)
I think the luchs is still missing the torgue converter. But I believe the best option would be to remove the thermals (downgrading it to a A1) and put it at 5.7 or maybe 5.3. Would make more sense aswell because the A2 version wasn’t approved for swimming due to the extra weight of the thermals
Best option would be to just copy the A2 remove thermals and rename it to A1 and put it at 5.3/5.7 to keep both variants but we know gaijin wont do that if it isn’t coming in a new update despite being little work