Oh i can totally see them doing that for our Eurocanards, it’s already what they have done with the Mirage 2000-5F that is more a 2000-9 than anything else (hope this keep a place for a future Mirage 2000-9 as a premium once we reach that area)
EFT Tranches and Rafales (on the 3 family) variants probably gonna be butchered a lot xD
You don’t seem to understand than even if a Leclerc variants is really close to another, it’s still another vehicle to bring in a lineup, still more choices and impact on the game.
Those would then be the only straight upgrade for France with a vehicle vaguely related to the Leclerc, massive hull armor upgrade in exchange for Leopard 2 mobility
I’m not trying to split hairs either, but they had plenty of options to give us the Su-27 with R-77’s and not add the SM (not that I’m complaining). From an aesthetic view, it would’ve been nice to get a slower progression, and then make the SM a premium/squadron. Instead it has the 2nd best Kh missiles available, and a fair amount of pylons for other items as well… all at the expense of being absolutely maxed in BR for GRB (as it should). Point is, Gaijin tends to simplify on some level instead of building things up in layers, which admittedly is a balancing act, no one wants 4 planes in one folder with fundamentally nearly the same abilities.
You only play UK though, perhaps your perspective might be skewed? UK has multiple subtrees and Gripens which they never even operated yet somehow they got there anyway. Double standard? Better Tornadoes. Better Mig 21. Better Phantoms except now when Phantoms became irrelevant. Better top tier (Gripen). Better CAS. Better bombers. I honestly don´t see your point, sorry.
Wrong comparison. Germany got the Mig-23 a year after every other Mig-23 operator and only in the form of an event vehicle. MLA came even later.
Conveniently obfuscating the fact that the German Phantom also came a year after every other nation got theirs, including UK, and also only in the form of a coupon.
Conveniently obfuscating the fact that Mig-29A came 4 months after Russia got theirs first and after all the other nations got their F-16´s.
Conveniently obfuscating the fact that all the UK Tornadoes are better than the German one.
I’m talking USSR, but I’d like to see the Su-30MKI for the UK at some point, it’s like the T-90S of aviation, very important to the development of the aircraft and success of the Sukhoi group.
Never gonna happen, even if Gaijin found the first hand source legal that say it can, something named balance gonna come, since actually Leclercs have better Winrate that a LOT of other MBT that have better armor and shell, they don’t want to buff it ^^’
I barely play the Gripen, mostly the Tornado F3 and FA2, I do fine.
I will never play the Mig-21
Torando is worse, has a weaker tpod and weaker engines (and in air has a higher BR than the WTD61 or MFG)
If I wanted to play Leopard 2A5 and Leopard 2A6, I would just, uh… play Germany, xD.
I would much rather just have the Leclercs unnerfed and fixed and wait for Leclerc XLR, Leclerc UAE, EMBT (both iterations) and Leclerc Evolution than get two tanks that have been in the German tree since 2019 and 2020 respectively.
Like… I would be happy with copy-paste Leopards if at least we were talking about 2A7s or equivalents, since those would actually step up the game; but it’s just 2A5 and 2A6 we are talking about here… which, in my opinion, wouldn’t really bring all that much at the very top BR at this point.