Half-joke, half not joke topic. While I do know that many WW1 vehicles would struggle against even some of the lowest tier tanks in the game - especially just about any SPAA fielding something bigger than a maxim MG - I also think that they offer an excellent and fun challenge into the game, and even help to “level the playing field” when you’ve got level 100 basement dwelling gooner failures (me fr) fighting fresh, virgin new players who accidentally installed the game.
So why not throw in a few WW1 vehicles in a pack for $25, and call it a day? Would they be awful machines? Absolutely. A WW1 Albatross probably won’t like fighting Gladiators, a Gotha bomber is probably going to end up great target practice for the M16 on the ground, and a Renault FT is… also good target practice for that same M16. But it WILL be absolutely a challenge to win in them, and either way, they will either die horribly or win gloriously. And you don’t even need classified documents for them.
And just LOOK at these paint schemes. Just the Fokker they added for April Fool’s is an angel on the wing, and look at the paint on that Albatross. Or that lovely SPAD.
I like the Central Powers fighters a little more, but you get the picture.
Or the WW1 vehicles, they’re pretty neat too - and absolutely ridiculous too. Gun wagon Flakpanzer A7V? Yes, please. Mark I Gun Carrier with a 5" Gun? That looks like fun, doesn’t it? Or about this wretched abomination from the Empire of Ma- the United States of America, the Holt Gas-Electric?
Please, Gaijin. Give us more dumb WW1 vehicles, it’s a great idea, I swear.