It doesn’t fit the WT meta. It would be a weak 1.0 vehicle and become another “time machine” facing pre WWII vehicles.
It should remain what it is in the game, an AI target.
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Who cares about meta when it’s just supposed to be something interesting to use? And nobody said that it had to be 1.0.
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Because there an’t a 0.5 BR (yet).
I’ll do you one better, a jeep with a guy sticking his hand out with a 1911!
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Merica
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Get it 7.0 with 50sp & scout. The CAS starter lol
I mean, it would make sense to give it scouting, perhaps that could be its thing, give it rapid scouting abilities or something. Would ultimately be up to the devs with stuff like that though, also it did actually originate from ww2 vehicles like the m3 half-tracks
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Yeah nothing says 1930s and early 1940s starter vehicles like an m113…
+1. It would be absolutely useless as an SPAA with the ~20° of elevation but I think it would be great.
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Gaijin has consistently stated they will not give Tier I vehicles scouting for… reasons.
There are still lots of M113 based vehicles that aren’t in the game. The Aussie FSV with the 76mm Saladin turret, various 20mm MICV derivatives, etc. There is no reason at all to shoehorn this into the game.
Actually didn’t. It has nothing at all in common with half-tracks other than mission of carting people and stuff around. There was even a full track APC in between them, the M59.
It’s an APC is it not? Also, I hope you realize the M59 is literally the M113’s dad, and to reiterate:
You’re basing your statements on whether it’s useful or not, well, duh, it’s not gonna be. It’s just meant to be something to have fun with and to get as a collectible, same as the OS2U. The whole idea of it is that it’s just something interesting to use, and it looks cool, nothing more.
You bring absurdium to the table by merely relying on this 1.0 statement you made before…
It’s not that weak, and your drive to make out that it is makes it clear you’re only being a dip about this suggestion.
It can easily be made a light tank, given scouting and be a decent addition. It doesn’t need to be rank 1, or 1.0/0.5 as you put it.
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Because it carries a 20mm cannon…
+1 for the funny box.
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Personally I disagree with the .50cal variant, However I wouldn’t mind seeing it anyways as more M113 variants would be nice considering there is a version of the M113 with the M47 Dragon that could be added.
Main issues I see are it being something like the M1A1, not the MBT but the light tank that’s at 1.0 that has similar armaments. Which means there is already something like it in the game.
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It can come when infantry is added, but right now .50 as main gun is not good and will be place at 1.0
Yeah honestly I see it more as just something to be used for the fun of it and that’s why I suggested it be added as something to unlock once you reach a certain rank (plus it can float and that’s one of the main reasons I suggested this one specifically since anything heavier wouldn’t be given its ability to float), but other than that It could very easily have its model reused to add more m113 varients to the game. But to go along with what @Make_a_wish_kid said, yeah, if infantry gets added, it would be perfect for that, since that’s its job.
that’s a fair point, but the m1a1 cant float :)
Perhaps it could even be used as a resupply vehicle so that it can resupply ammo to your teammates. Also, I think it would be more suitable at 2.0-3.0 if it gets any of those abilities, and also because it can still kill things like light tanks if it gets the drop on them. But yeah, it’s useless. I know it’s why I suggested it be added the way I did, so that it doesn’t force someone to research it to progress.
And for all we know, if it’s added, it could be given access to all its historical weaponry as modifications:
Recoilless cannons? Sure, BGM-71 Tow launcher? Duh, that was an important part of its requirements, just the .50? Sure, the options are limitless with this since it’s just the base variant.
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M113 with a .50 as a main is a no for me aswell due to the battlerating it would sit at and the general use for it.
But i would love to see a lot of other M113 variants with better weapons such as small to medium cannons or recoilles rifles tho.
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The only real way these more modern vehicles end up in the game is if Modern/Cold war vehicles were their own researchable section, separate from Interwar and WWII vehicles. Such a thing is very unlikely but it’s the only good way I could see these kinds of vehicles being implemented.
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