You mean top tier/MBT players. Because I got a bunch of stuff in the last half of the year, last year.
As I got something for the US last September update that I really enjoy. (Technically last updated also counts but I find HE tanks hard to play)
T77E1? Idk
Might be F/A-18A (late production) desert storm era but pre AIM-120 AMRAAM ?
F/A-18E (early) (Block I standard) outfitted AN/APG-73 RUG II radar, and equipped JHMCS & AIM-9X (Block I) like F/A-18C/D in late 2000’s from Iraq Freedom era
F/A-18E (early) might be Block I and BR 14.0+ if with JHMCS, AIM-120C-5
Top Tier, in general.
All we’ve got in 2024 is; Leopard 2A7HU, HQ17, and Namer Tsrikhon, if you want to count it as Top Tier.
That’s 1 MBT, 1 SAM, and 1 IFV. Meanwhile, air has got like five billion Top Tier jets hahah.
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Oh, that too. (I hate it went to 4.0, made my 3.7 line-up really nice)
But I was thinking of this: T1E1 (90) | War Thunder Wiki
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That’s a pretty cool one, never a fan of the chassis though
What is the cutoff though for top tier? Rank VIII or 11.3?
We did get a bunch of 10.7-11.0 rank VII IFVs, but not sure if you count those as top tier.
Maybe more helicopters and drones for ground, since they cannot be played in pvp air modes
XQ-158 and MV-22 with AGM-176 would be amazing
And with the Harry Hopkins rumoured for this update might be the 4th update in a row I have stuff to look forward to as a WW2 ground player.
In my opinion, true Top Tier would be Rank VIII + 11.7 onwards, even 11.3 when it’s end of the line vehicles, like HQ17 and Namer Tsrikhon.
Basically, I call Top Tier to vehicles that would intentionally be put on Top BR lineups. You would intentionally put 11.7s and even 11.3s on a 12.0 lineup; but anything below that… wouldn’t count it as Top Tier, but High Tier instead.
In general, I would say, roughly:
1.0 - 4.7: low tier.
5.0 - 6.3: mid tier.
6.7 - 8.7: mid-high tier.
9.0 - 11.0: high tier.
11.3 - 12.0: top tier.
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…and that’s counting 2A5NL and 2A6NL, which honestly I wouldn’t, since they are just identical copy-pastes of vehicles we’ve had since 2019 and 2020 respectively…
They REALLY made it look like Ground Rank VIII was a huge deal back in December 2023, like it was “the beginning of the new era of Ground vehicles”… then they proceeded to add 3 actually Rank VIII-worthy vehicles, throw in half the Rank VIIs we had had ingame since 2019, and forget about it until now (so far).
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I think you should count in helicopter addition. The only pvp mode they can be used in is ground after all.
Hmmmm I couldn’t, hahah.
Ground players who play (or would like to) ground vehicles are not really affected by helicopters, the same way they aren’t by C*S additions; they are a completely separate class of vehicles on a different tech tree as well (gladfully they can be grinded with ground vehicles now, otherwise, it would be practically impossible… it’s hard enough already when each heli is 400,000 RP and there are no folders at all.)
And even in the helicopter department I think they fell behind by a margin; only a few nations have fire-and-forget capabilities while others are limited to subpar and even mediocre weapons by comparison (U.S being a prime example again lol), which leads to unbalance. FnFs may be OP, but they are even more OP because they are exclusive only to a few nations. If everyone who can have them had them, it would be more fair than only a select few being fortunate to have them.
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I could say this about SPAA and MBT. In game and irl, helicopters are tied to ground forces, you are able to research helicopters with tanks like you said, you can only PVP with helicopter in ground modes, same as ground vehicles, and irl attack helicopter are there to help friendly ground forces, and at least for US Army and USMC they are directly operated alongside armored forces (until marines retired Abrams)
They could add AH-64E and give it SPIKE NLOS, or add JAGM-MR without MMW mode to AH-1Z
Its almost as if gaijin lies
I’m curious to what Japan, China, Italy and Sweden are getting this patch.
i think that japan gonna get f-2a viper zero, china j-10c and j-11b/su-30mkk, honestly dont know about others but sweden most likely gripen-e
Technically for France the Mirage 2000N would also be considered as a strategic bomber but I’m not sure that Gaijin would count it as such.
hope that china gets it’s j-10c with aesa… more interesting missiles and flight performance