Personally I would put mobility over armour. Type 10s being fast makes them survivable
Are they fast though, on par with leopards isnt exactly fast
They are actually from experience probably the fastest MBT. IDK about ariete but it’s 100% faster than sth like 99A. Acceleration and also partly easier to control, the 99A is a bit wobbly.
70 km/h forwards and reverse. If gaijin would model the type 10s transmission correctly it would have even better mobility
would make more sense than having it in the US tech tree
Not really, neither make sense
i agree, but also it’d be nice to have variety. France has Leclercs and Leopards, USA has HSTVL/RDFLT + Abrams, Italy has Ariete, Centauro + Leopard, Sweden has CV90120, Strv + Leopard, etc. Pretty much half the nations in the game has either a more Armoured or Mobile MBT, or has a Light vehicle + MBT at 11.7/12.0. I think it’d be nice for all nations in the game to have a MBT and Light(-like) Vehicle at top tier.
As for nations I haven’t mentioned,
USSR can uptier 2S25M, 2S38 or BMP-2M, UK can uptier Rooikat 105 (similar to how Japan can uptier Type 16), China has VT5, Israel has Namer Trikshon. The reason I didn’t mention them is that they’re all sort of lacking in variety at 11.0+ (every vehicle but Namer and VT5 are below 11.0). I just think it’s nice and interesting for every nation to have two playstyles at 11.0+.
(FRA) Leclercs are more mobile, Leopards are more armoured, better round, more crew
(USA) HSTVL/RDFLT is more flexible, fast and has quicker reload, Abrams are more armoured, better round, more competitive
(ITA) Centauro / Ariete are more mobile, Leopard is more armoured, better round
you get my point. Japan top tier has just Type 90/10/TKX MBTs. All vehicles that prioritize mobility over armour. Uptiering the Type 16 just gives you a bit more speed. I think it’d be nice for Japan to have a vehicle that can tank a round or two and play differently than the light(er) vehicles.
T-84 would also be unique in a way, as the T-84 could only really come as an event to USSR or as a Ukrainian tree/subtree- both of which aren’t too likely honestly. I imagine other countries/regions would be prioritized as some massive militaries still aren’t represented well ingame (LATAM, Turkiye, MENA, etc.
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I don’t think this one is a good example of something that adds variety. It’s just a worse Merkava with scouting lol.
i thought so too, but felt like it had to be mentioned in some capacity
That’s actually not true. The Leclerc in game has slightly lower acceleration and equivalent or worse than the leopard 2A6, M1A2… the Leclerc gearbox is complete garbage and it’s one of the only high tier MBT to slightly underperform compared to IRL (when most other overperform from a lit time but - M1A2, Leopard - to overperforming with a wide margin - T80, Challenger).
So the Leclerc isn’t more mobile and is worse armored
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ah, i assumed the leclerc performs like its IRL counterpart, thats my bad ^^
That’s sadly the case for many tanks in the game
in-game, is there any benefits to using the Leclerc over Leopard NL?
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Idk, I don’t play the French
Freshly baked baguettes and croissants
Only the soviet tanks are properly and fully modeled in part because hardly any of them are actually classified
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Challenger is overperforming?
It’s neutral steering is more performant than the M1A2, Leo 2A7, Leclerc and T80BVM iirc, which would be surprising considering the difference in HP and HP/ton.
must feel good, many Japanese vehicles (even from WW2) are extremely hard to find,
Iirc, its actually underperforming due to the lack of regen steering. But it’s current performance is more likely because Britian made a massive stink about it last year and it was the only thing they actually fixed in the “overhaul” we got
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Don’t you guys already have MSIP F-15 with the JM