What is stopping them from adding the Iowa would it even be that good
Britain and especially France and italy need BBs that equal that which US, Japan and germany already have. We simply dont have anything all that good at top at the moment.
Once us 3 have gotten something… better… Then they could probably start looking at even more modern BBs.
@Rileyy3437 Will know how something like Iowa would fit with options for other nations
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I think they added the j10 for it to be power crept by December update stuff
Yugoslavia would like to have a word with you.
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What do they have that isn’t a tractor with guns and.steel welded on it or a modified vehicle from someone else
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Most of it is modified and renamed stuff
That could not be further from the truth. Even if it was, though, if you consider things like the SO-122 and M-84AS as just modified vehicles and thus not worth adding, you need to move your goalposts.
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In the game’s current maps, not really lmao.
Iowa’s armor was designed to withstand fire from 18,000m onwards, and War Thunder’s current engagement ranges are all within 13,000m.
Gameplay wise, Iowa’s belt armor is actually worse than Scharnhorst’s, or even the American Dreadnoughts xD. Only advantages would be the deck and barbettes.
Remove “US” from this, you really don’t want US-like BBs lmao.
Imagine a ship that instantly dies every time it’s hit on the barbettes- that’s an U.S BB as of now because of the buggy shell rooms that Gaijin refuses to fix. Also, 40 second aced reloads xD.
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US have 5 rank VI BBs and whilst yes they are buggy, but once they are fixed, you will have 5 very very good ships. Britian has 2. 1 of which has the same survivability of the current US BBs and its not a bug. Same is true for both Italy and France
Yep, that is wierd… but it beats 30 second reloads of the Hood with a 90% chance that most of the salvo will miss due to shell dispersal. Would gladly take 40 seconds reloads to have the accuracy US ships have.
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Considering the believe “modified” stuff is not worth adding I have a feeling they’d call the Sherman Firefly C&P too.
Since Ranks I, II and III are literal and absolutely copy-paste, I think, if it were to be implemented, it should just be from Rank IV onwards, like Israel and just like China should have been too.
I’d wager most people wouldn’t be so interested in grinding for 3 Ranks worth of T-34s, Stuarts and Panzers that are already found in multiple ingame tech trees hahah.
That would be assuming they will ever be fixed.
The community has been fighting to fix the shell room fiasco since at least 2021 and Gaijin has actively refused to do anything about it…
People might be intersted in the unique combos available from such a line-up. Those existing nations couldnt run all 3 at once
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It’s not, actually. There’re multiple indigenous vehicles there, but even if there wasn’t, the air tree is almost entirely unique and modified vehicles at those tiers.
My tank fetishist ass automatically defaulted to Ground Battles and forgot about planes hahah, good point.
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It’s naval… Gaijin moves slower for those bug reports than they do for anything else. But point still stands.
US has 5x Rank VI
Japan has 6x Rank VI
Germany has 3x Rank VI
Britain, Italy and France have 2x Rank VI
(and for Britain in perticular, our last rank VI TT addition was 2 years ago. would be nice to have at least something new that wasnt a battle of Jutland era ship and come on, Its the Royal navy, we should easily have the largest TT at the moment)
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If we’re talking about interesting Yugoslav vehicles have a gander at this:
An M15/42 hull with a Pz 38(t) turret.
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The U.K situation is indecent indeed- just like Colorado, there’s no reason why U.K shouldn’t have had a WW2 Queen Elizabeth for a while now already.
And France, as well, should have got Normandie or Dunkerque a long ago too.
Regarding Italy… Gaijin is doing their best with them, but there’s just not too much to work with, hahah. It is too early for Littorio.
That being said, I don’t think it’s fair to judge trees by numbers.
Scharnhorst alone, for example, is worth more than all 5x American Rank VI ships combined.
And, in any case, there’s only 3 spawns per battle, so having 3x or 5x doesn’t make much of a difference apart from increasing the grind.
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True… But going back to the original point. Britian and France at the very least should get new top tier ships for naval before anyone else. Italy as well if an option is available. Once at least Britain and France (and if possible italy) has gotten something. Then Germany, US and Japan could resume getting new things again. Just be nice for them to prioritise. I dont really want to be fighting things like Bismark and Yamato in the Hood whilst still waiting for a Queen Elizabeth class.
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