I missed out on the Kungstiger because I took part in the 2023 boycott, and well. I would’ve loved the Kungstiger, but I’d never have chosen not to boycott back then.
Sadly, it seems that every time I bring up that Gaijin has started to revert at least some of the things we made them implement back then, the community response has been lukewarm at best, if not completely ignorant.
Yes I know, In fact I want to see more minor nation see event, the problem is that the vehicles I think off just end up as TT material instead of event material.
It’s just that this dude (scorpion) always take the first opportunity to blame basically any nation outside of USSR.
You have reliably posted the worst takes i’ve seen on all the times i’ve seen you.
Am I mad that USSR event vehicle number 4? No, they have delivered so far, stupendous even
US is close second, true, but I wouldn’t care if for example Israel made 48 event vehicles back to back, as long as those vehicle delivered I would have kept my mouth shut and cherish some wacky tractor they pulled up.
Only flaw I see from this KV-8 is the rank II status, it is a perfect BR, where it’s gimmick actually comes into play due to abundance of open tops, both in uptiers and downtiers, matchmaker also helps it, avoids most of the heavies (KVs) only problem are the german cheese blocks of 4.3
Not only is it neat, it can actually be useful, its just short of being perfect.
Why does it matter? If I am not mistaken, rank III and above requirement does not apply for event vehicles for grinding other events. And maybe even for dailies.
since the start of the regular events, germany, USA and russia have all gotten 5 each (britan has had 6, japan, italy, france, and china have all had 3, sweden has only had 1, and israel has gotten 2)
Not sure if I would have the time or desire to grind for the whole duration of the event, but the tank looks kinda fun. While gimmicky vehicles are usually useless, it’s just too hard to hate them. Hope one day we’ll have some L3 Lanciafiamme variant. I know it would be basically unplayable, but you know… funny little goblin with a flamethrower… gimme.
Just wish they’d make flamethrowers more viable. Like make them have the ability to melt rubber wheels over time. Or to set engines on fire if the air intake was hit. Also pretty sure T-34’s crew would have a pretty bad time, if the tank was hit directly by a flamethrower stream, considering how poorly they were made during the war, with bad welds, gaps everywhere, often missing sights and so on.
People have taken it into test rooms and theres pics/vids all over. It has a ~70mm APHE and a ~90mm APCR round with like, 3 second reload and the flamethrower has insane range.
IS-2 won’t save you any time, compared to tech tree vehicles. With tech tree vehicles you will research at the same speed as with that IS-2 and it doesn’t have SL multiplier either.
What about every other country that wasn’t neutral/axis ? What about a chinese nationalist one? Something from a cou try we dont have yet in the game like Yugoslavia? What about an Egyptian vehicle? Poland? Im not saying the most famous allied nations dont deserve love, but let’s remember it wasnt just USA,UK and France
So 67mm APHE pen as it says. 70mm at 0 meters prob but good luck with that.
And APCR? Practically nobody uses that.
Flamethrower ranges have been able to be tossed like 100-150 meters, the crocodile, and T0-55 can do that too.
Lastly, tbf this thing will more commonly see 4.7 thanks to all the premium spam there, so I’m not sure how invincible it will.
Especially if they model the flamethrower like the others where if it gets pierced it explodes.