I’d say rule out the Brits for a Spanish Harrier. AV-8B is noticeably different to the British Harrier II (GR.5/7/9) in terms of weapons and avionics iirc.
It’d make sense to go to Italy, and given the Spanish Centauro existed, it’d certainly make sense.
ehhhh… only objection i’d raise is it being forced into TT, there doesn’t seem to be much point wedging an essentially gameplay wise similar Harrier into a TT needlessly. If and when the time rolls around I can imagine it being a nice premium around 11.7
Not sure if this is the right place for this but, reading the CM post and following up on the discussions recently about more open communication, honestly I want to thank @Smin1080p@magazine2 and the rest of the CM team. These kind of posts are great!
While this may have been planned in advance, I also want to shoutout to @Tristacomand for respectfully engaging in discussion with CM’s like Smin about this matter. It’s very rare to see a grievance being aired properly and also quickly addressed with a win-win situation.
Implementing a Spanish tree would be tricky, since it would have nearly as much copy-paste as China and gaps even then.
An option would be to implement it in a similar fashion as Israel, from Rank V onwards only; that way, only heavily modified/indigenous/local modifications make it to the game, therefore keeping the tree unique enough.
And another interesting option I saw was to implement Portugal along with Spain; effectively making it an Iberian tech tree, kinda like how the Swedish tech tree is a Scandinavian one.
I’m not sure if anyone has sent this but there seems to be an interesting picture on the new status update post. Lines continuing after the F-15, F-14B and F-16C
To be honest. Few if any new TTs are gunna be free of major “C&P”. I think what new TTs are gunna bring isnt new vehicles, but instead new combination of vehicles. Spain has got an interesting mix and it would probably end up on my list to grind. Maybe even moving ahead of France currently