I agree with you on the M8 LAC… However, there are 2 choices for M8 LAC:
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Either put it at BR 1.7or 2.0.
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Or put it at BR 2.3, but add the ability to do scouting.
Either choice is fine with me.
It would need to be Rank 2 to get scouting.
And considering it’s a 1942 vehicle, it should be Rank 2, get scouting and be played like a scout car 🤔
It’s silly that the Sd. Kfz 222 in the Chinese tree is 1.0 from like 1936.
I mean they made it into an SPAA, but still. It’s a scout car just like the M8 and I think I’ve shot down more planes using the .50cal than the slow firing 20mm.
There are already vehicles at BR 2.3 but with Rank 2, so if the players want this vehicle to have the ability to do scouting that’s fine with me. If not you put it at BR 1.7 or 2.0 without the ability to do scouting, either way would solve the problem
Man, a lot of salty bois scared about the M8 getting moved where it belongs. It has crazy good armor for as thin as it’s listed, good mobility, a 50 that can shred anything at 1.0, and a decent 37mm. It really shouldn’t struggle that much at 2.3, with scouting. 2.0 is probably the minimum rank it should be at though. China isn’t a great starting nation, but I don’t think only having the T-26 would be too bad, maybe give it 3/3 spawns or something.
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Eh in my opinion it could go to 1.3 maybe 1.7 but it’s mostly fine. The Americans don’t have as strong of a lineup at 1.0 as 2.7 so I usually use it there. 2.7 is much too high for it but it can still be used (albeit with a different style). It would have been fine at 2.0 with it’s stabiliser but now it doesn’t get it 1.7 max.
In reality it never had the stabiliser they did well to take it out of the game.
This vehicle can easily go to BR 1.7 even without the stabiliser, it’s the right BR.
If they gave it the ability to do scouting it could go to BR 2.3. But as you have noticed, and as many in this forum have noticed, there are too many salty copium user children, who can’t accept that their precious OP vehicle is rightly taken to its highest BR.
My word, you people aren’t going to be happy until they release a gamemode where both teams sit in (static) bunkers and lobbing shells across the map.
The M8 is actually fairly well armored, beating out quite a few vehicles. It also has 4 crews compared to vehicles like the BTs.
You are conflating ‘well armoured’ with bad aim.
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Skill problems
And anyway, he is right, it is more armoured than many other Grade 1 vehicles that are totally out in the open
ummm you know it has like no armor right?
Umm, did you know that M8 has more armour than AS 42, right?
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And?
But have you read the whole conversation? We are considering Rank 1 vehicles… In this context, M8 is not as armourless as you claim, there are several vehicles of Rank 1 that literally have no armour and have entire crew exposed and can be killed with a 7.62mm, machine gun while if you fire this machine gun at M8 it survives.
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And the m103 can be one shot by a 37mm shot to a spot on the back of the turret, whats your point?
I think moving it up in BR and to rank 2, giving it scouting would be fair. I’ve used the American M8 a bit, and it is probably the best 1.0 tank.
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Shooting a tank in the back of the turret is no metric for any protection or surviability level.
So what is your point?
The M8 LAC has nearly the armor of Rank 1 medium tanks, while more crew and and mobility then most light tanks.
1.0 is a complete joke when it much better than a lot of 1.3-1.7 vehicles.
I mean the M2A2 is a fairly effective vehicle for 1.0 due to it’s incredible mobility, while the .50cal is more than enough to destroy many vehicles from the front or side.
Yet the the M8 LAC has a .50cal mounted above the vehicle, able to shoot at others from turret down position that can also be travesed at like 60°/s and elevate 50° to target planes.
Without the 37mm it would still be an effective 1.0 vehicle that can target both ground and air targets, yet with the 37mm it can destroy virtually every tank it can fight.
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My point is that all tanks have weak spots regardless of rank, and also, most rank 1 tanks are interwar or just prior to the operator’s involvement in WW2. Meanwhile, the m8 was built during WW2 (1943) and was subject to different standards of armor compared to older armored cars at the max, the most armor it has is 25mm (about 1 inch, and no that only covers a small portion of the car) meaning that it has about the same armor as the m2 Stuart and for reference, the M3 medium had a maximum of about 38 mm of armor and that was actually a tank built just prior to the US’s involvement in WW2 and the medium tanks that it would have faced IRL had 60-70 mm of armor and after ww2 it would face upwards of 90 and above. also it’s open top so it is weak to HE and artillery. And if you think that the m2a2 that’s armed with 2 machine guns is an adequate comparison, you are sorely mistaken, as that is one of 3 tanks in rank 1 US that’s not armed with a 37mm cannon, and the other 2 are armed with 75mm.
And btw the m103 is a heavy tank at 7.7 that has a 120mm gun
You are still not making any sense.
You can also kill a Tiger II H with a Rank 1 by shooting the turret ring from the back.
And that I can not compare vehicles because of different armaments makes no sense as well.
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and the tiger H can kill an Abrams from the front, an m24 chafee can pen a Black Night! whats YOUR point? yea, your own reasoning makes 0 sense
Now you add vehicles that are not even in Rank 1 and that have nothing to do with the discourse going on in this post.
It is obvious that you only came here because it bothers you that someone rightly admits that M8 should be at BR 1.7 or 2.0. Get over it