Well if the JPN sub-tree at Christmas is to be believed, then at least for JPN this makes sense?
Yea adds the skink to the US but not the RAM II to Britain, plus the Turkish F-4 would be funny
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Arguably no. A Thai subtree should consist of at least 8-10 planes. The leaked airframes does not help Japan much - that is CAS, from like 3.7 onwards, the alpha jet does offer some CAS capabilities, but not much else.
More in the way of replacing the R2Y2s finally and getting people to accept more non-JPN vehicles in the tree. The full air tree would be after the ground tree most likely.
Even though they may start at late WW2 or early cold war, we should expect the RTAF to introduce at least 6 to 8 airframes, at once. Griffon spitfire, Ki-84, F-84G, alpha jet, F-5E, F-16A MLU, and finally JAS39E - with additionally the RTN firefly at the bomber/attacker branch.
Isn’t Terminator a modern upgrade from 2020 with AIM-9X and stuff?
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I won’t say fake but definitely halved reared.
Skink - Confirmed,
T77 MGMC - guess work from a confirmed US SPAA,
F-5E, 9K33’s, some of Thailand, Benelux Leopards are leaks.
Spyder and the F-4S are pure guesswork.
Forgotten RAM II for Britain and stuff from the 3rd CM.
Effort = 0.5/10
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Well yeah adding vehicles from former leaks or datamines seems to be very popular with the creators of fake lists, for extra credibility of course. The list in of itself is fake, but as you said some of its contents were taken out of prior lists.
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IMO this one is very unlikely… the T77 would probably occupy a very similar BR bracket as the Skink, meaning it’s addition would be redundant and not really serving the goal of filling the SPAA gap
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Yea I think it would be the ball turreted SPAA sherman, think about it, it’s less work
This abomination?
Not sure about that. I don’t see it being a higher BR than the M42 Duster at 4.3, and the Skink will be at 5.0
Again, this is not the important gap. Something between 5.0 and 7.7 is more urgently needed
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I’ll point out that they added the Bosvark and Skink back to back(and for most of the time they have been in game they have been the same BR).
So I wouldn’t put them passed it, as the already made a redundant addition before.
Hmmm, yeah that’s true but I hope Gaijin has learned from that
It wouldn’t be a good move especially when there’s so much attention on this specific issue
Edit: I think the Skink was added for it’s “star power” factor, and not to fill any gaps. Remember, this was a highly requested vehicle to the point of being a meme. “skinkposting” was a thing
Honestly the US has so many prototypes to pull from, it still baffels me how gaijin could wait this long to adress stuff when options are available.
Sorry I can’t hear you! what!? You want another SPAA for USSR tech tree? Sure, coming right up!
Edit: On a serious note, the prototype SPAA I’d like to see the most is the T100 MGMC
Armed with 4x 0.60 cal and a tracking radar it’d be a good precursor to the M163
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I think an era split would be very useful for SPAA in this radius, the M19A1 could stay in the WW2 tree, and something like the T85E1 or that one M2 halftrack with the Elco PT boat turret could fullfill the need for rapid fire autocannons.
The M42 would stay at the same BR, but would now be in the early Cold War where it can be used primarily to prey on light vehicles rather than as an AA, which would then be fullfilled by the multitude of other available options.
This would prevent WW2 aircraft from fighting high-output radar SPAA and prevent Cold War jets from harassing WW2 SPAA.
Honestly the thing that annoys me us when gaijin adds an spaa that doesn’t work as an spaa is plays better as a TD as its either too squishy to be an spaa or just handles poorly or doesnt have enough ammo.
This is literally just CnP of the old leak list with a few new additions
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Since we’re on this topic, I mind as well mention this curiosity I found. Everyone’s favorite Maxon quadmount except with twin 0.60 cals replacing the M2HBs.
Unfortunately, as you can see it’s trailer mounted which is why I didn’t bother posting in the wishlist thread, but it’s still interesting to see another anti-air application for these rare 15.2mms.
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I mean, the Churchill Crocodile exists in-game
Gaijin could put the armament on the trailer and have it permanently attached to some truck if they wanted to
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