I mean that ship kinda sailed a long time ago with things like India going to the UK. And even with that nothing Indian has been added outside of the HF-24 which is locked behind an event wall. Everything else has either been a slightly modified British plane (Jaguar) or Russian vehicles with the only nationally unique one of those being the T-90S and thats only barely unique.
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Yeah, you know the Badger is bad when it is pointless to bring over Falcon, ZA-35, and just about every other British light vehicle.
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I mean but there is no connection with Slovenia and Russia other than both being Slavic nations. UK did actually have control over India in the past. This is just both countries being slavic and the base vehicle being a T-55 (but not really a T-55 and is closer to a Israeli modernized M60 to be honest).
Slovenia was never in history ever under control of Russia, even during times of Tsardom.
Good example ingame is Indian vehicles going to Russian tech tree because same base vehicle, wouldn’t make that much sense. (Better example would be Combat Improved Ajeya going to Russian TT, not just raw export vehicle)
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Yeah but it used to be part of Yugoslavia which is probably the angle that gaijin is going to approach.
(Yes i am aware that Yugoslavia and the USSR hated each other but I am fairly certain gaijin doesnt care and will figure out some excuse to make it make sense in their eyes)
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It makes more sense than Indian vehicles going to the British tree. India has nothing to do with GB militarily, and has had quite frosty relations with them since Indian independence.
M-55S is not a Yugoslav tank.
I could see M-84A being added from that approach, but M-55S has nothing to do with Yugoslavia.
If anything the most realistic nation to add it to would be Israel
I still think the easier solution is just to add a eastern-bloc combo nation (like sweden is Scandanavia and Britain is the commonwealth)
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Id personally in my perfect world have India be its own TT possibly with Bangladesh. My example wasnt the best one I can see that
I would be ok with this but gaijin will ultimately do what they want. I personally dont care much were a vehicle goes anymore i just want interesting vehicles to be prioritized and not T72# 2137 or leopard 2A4# 3420 but unfortunately gaijin seems to like doing just that.
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It is interesting that the Bangladesh vehicle is in the Chinese tree because the tank is of Chinese origin. Gaijin just picks and chooses which vehicles to apply its implementation logic to.
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I want this too and it pains me soooooo much that gaijin doesnt add unique Russian modifications and instead opts to ragebait people by adding the most contraversial countrys to nations
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Yeah. They’ll do whatever they want, but it would be a lot cleaner.
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Though Ukrainian Challenger 2s would perhaps finally get bug fixes if added to the soviet TT :P
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Honestly at this point M-55S is in my opinion similiar to something like that happening
Just the first tank with a welded turret out of the T90 family and also the reason why the 1000 hp engine was adopted into the family too i believe, completely barely unique though xD
Sure, its “barely unique” if you want to compare it to the Russian TT T90A, but the thing is the Indian T90 was first, by like 3-5 years or so pending how you want to claim it for adoption, by design, a decade nearly?
also, Vickers mk1/Vijayanta is also a massively indian influenced design too, just sayin’ and were effectively a completely different tank to the initial designs being developed.
I do agree but also at the same time the M-55S is more interesting to me than another T80.
On a similar note its also incredibly annoying that they are adding the BMD-4M2 which as far as i can tell is the same as the premium one but with a CITV and not any of the other BMD series, or BTRs for that matter. There is also a whole bunch of ATGM vehicles.
You jest but i can see them doing exactly that…
T-64AM, T-64BM (Soviet version), T-55M5, T-55M6, etc etc
Plus the millions of actually interesting Soviet and Russian T-72 and T-80 variants are all examples of great actual Russian vehicles gaijin could add instead of going for the most barely Russian vehicle.
Would love to see T-72B1MS added to Russian tech tree
As for M-55S there are a couple of pretty interesting vehicles that would fill the gap
(Very similiar to M-55S upgrade)
Also T-55M6 which isnt on the forums yet but will soon to come courtesy of @Savage_Virus_R6 who suggests great unique eastern vehicle variants.
Really do want to see T-64AM though, pretty big backbone of the soviet ground forces in the 80s
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I’m looking forward to the M-55S, nice filler for the 9.0 9.7 bracket, even comes with a LWR.
As long as we get fixes. Im all for it
Personally don’t really notice this? They are present don’t get me wrong, but I never really feel like I die to them alot? (For context I play a lot of the CVRT Scimitar, Striker, & Olifant Mk.1A at 8.3). Though that might be me being more of a passive player, thus see, engage, kill and/or die too, with much more reaction time.