A Rafale with MICA IR is something you probably don’t wanna see yet
That’s something I’m never going to want to see
I’m not looking forward to any of the next gen weapons and planes
The only good thing that might come out of their addition is Gaijin being forced to go back and add older vehicles
Could have picked any one off variant if they were dead set on an F-16 event. Could have picked:
- F-16ES
- F-16/79
- F/A-16
- A-16
- YF-16
- F-16 VISTA MATV
- F-16XL
Or if they wanted something for France could have picked something like the Mirage G or Mirage III V.
Or going with the horse theme the OV-10 Bronco.
But no, I reckon 2026 isn’t the year of the horse but instead is the year of actual C&P with a WT Live skin slapped on.
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As always, I am happy that it’s not something truly unique that’s being locked behind an event
Could it have been more interesting? 100%
Would I have been happy seeing something like the Mirage G or III V locked behind an event? Hell no
Given that they already gave us rank IV in the form of 3 soviet planes, I expect rank III vehichles at the highest.
At this point, I’m 90% the event is more centered around the nations over the vehicle, tho in the case it should have been ROC F-16. Eh, I’m 90% sure it’s Dutch do to the complaints all the modern/high tier BeNeLux additions for aircraft have been Belgian.
After all, nations and line-ups can be long seen as more important to WT/Gaijin then unique. Sadly a good chunk of the player base is blind to these facts and rather tell you to be happy to not be able to use stuff that serviced together in the same line up. (They don’t realize that’s the same as hating those nations.)
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It’s a double edged sword. Events require quite a bit of time, so you would want the reward to be worth it at the end of it. However, events require too much time for some people, so their only option to acquire the vehicles is by spending money. No one wants to, or should have to, spend money to acquire something unique.
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From which mostly is premium due to the new introduction of Rank IX and people wanting to have more premium Rank VIII options to grind to Rank IX - while also introducing Rank IX premiums at the same time.
Even if events required less time, I’d still be against locking the more interesting vehicles behind them
A lot of people probably disagree with this, but event vehicles (and premiums) should be reskins, minor modifications of TT vehicles and niche vehicles
Vehicles like the Matilda Hedgehog, Churchill Crocodile, RBT-5, TO-55, He 177 A-3, MiG-21 PFM, Tornado MFG, Jaguar E or the Chinese F-100F are ideal event/premium material
Vehicles like the Boxers, the AGS/CCVL/XM8, the PaK Puma, Kfir C.10, IAR 93, Marut, F4D-1, F11F-1 and many others should not have been event vehicles
Don’t get me wrong, an F-16A in a tree that already has a F-16A is pretty much bottom tier, but I still prefer that over another entirely unique vehicle becoming (nearly) unobtainable because it was an event reward
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Or just basic Block 40. Hard 90s configuration with LANTIRN and Paveways.
I really dislike the first F-16 after a year is a sub tree crap
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so israel might get a mirage F1? lmao
Yup, the F1CG, which may end up having AIM-9Ps instead of Magics
Also with AIM-9X too.
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uh, interesting, so probably a lower BR then.
And Mirage 2000s, and a Rafale…
Definitely, but we’ll have to see what aircraft they actually end up adding for the subtree
Greece had Mirage F1CGs, Mirage 2000B/C/5s, F-4Es and KWS/ICE-like F-4s, F-102s, F-104s, F-16s, F-5s, A-7s, etc so some planes might get skipped at first lol
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I mean, at least it’s all NATO stuff
Some nations can’t even decide whether they want to buy blue or red lol
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Indonesia reading this:
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I’d expect most of the French stuff, the rest is rather optional
If I had to guess, I’d go with the F1CG, F-4PI2000 (Peace Icarus 2000, aka their KWS), F-5, F-104, A-7, one or two Mirage 2000s and a Rafale
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