I will use a Reddit comment I made a few months back, hopefully the links all work properly.
This forum suggestion for the Ho-Ri II is very well made, and has a section where you can see the exact excerpts that mention the Ho-Ri and its prototypes that can be found in various historical documents from the JACAR archives. You can translate the suggestion author’s notes so that you can see what information the excerpts are providing.
Yep, I can’t read Japanese at all but I did read through the translated old forum suggestion, and according to these documents, 5 vehicles were in the works as prototypes from 1944-1945.
If Sinister is willing to believe the existence of the O-I prototype from various documents of the time, then surely they will find these sources to be credible as well
The O-I was intended to have two 75mm plates at the front, equivalent to 150mm of total frontal armor. But from what I recall, the extra 75mm plate was not equipped for testing, and so it only ever had 75mm mounted.
But since the turret wasn’t even mounted during testing either, we can assume that the 150mm of armor would’ve been implemented on the finalized prototype, and thus I’d still want to see it in game.
If the Tog got added with its final design to the game, so should the O-I with 150mm of frontal armor. It can be increased by angling the tank and the turret is also trolly, so you could bounce a lot of shots
Huh? Not once did I imply that you believed the O-I to be fake.
Literally all I said was that provided you believed in the existence of a functional O-I prototype via text-based sources, then the same would apply to the Ho-Ri prototypes which have similar non-photographic documentation backing them up.
We wouldn’t have photographic evidence cause they got destroyed during the Tokyo fire raids/fire bombings, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that most certainly wiped a ton, and when Japan was preparing for the possible Operation Downfall, tons got burnt. Since they were not aware that the plan had been canceled and it was more of a precaution.
I also do believe that the O-I was functional cause there were possible reports that it failed during its test and got slightly bogged down due to being too heavy. Also, the way you formatted your comments did not make it that obvious.
Even tho the real Ho-Ri, O-I, 44M, kranvagn and other tanks would perfectly fit in War Thunder, we will probably need to wait a decade(s) for them to come because war thunder’s recent updates contain 99% of MBTs and jets and only a 1% of WW2 stuff (like the KV-7 in upcoming update and KV-1 1942 in the dance of dragons). So if Gaijin keeps doing this we will probably have to forget about the cool stuff we’ve been waiting for a long time.
Yes, all I am saying is that the claims of 5 prototype Ho-Ri hulls isn’t a Wargaming lie nor one from Mai_Waffentrager, but rather a truth that various documents can justify.
I figure that if you can see from similar fragmented documentation that there was an O-I prototype that existed (which you, me, and most others in this thread clearly do), then it can’t be hard to believe that there were also 5 Ho-Ri prototypes from similar documents (that I have proven to exist).
And sorry if you find my formatting a bit confusing, I guess I just enjoy writing more formally sometimes.
Same here, I have around 2,600 hours so far and am only just about to research my first rank VI tank. I have everything up to rank IV unlocked for every nation in ground and most of rank V as well, which is where my time has been invested.
Some of my friends find my methods to be odd and unfocused, but in reality I just have no interest in anything above rank VI, doctrines begin to standardize and everything ends up with the same set of features for the most part; any missing features are immediate downgrades that struggle to be compensated by a boost in other stats.
The only reason I play top tier is because I got Leopard 2AV from a crate, but even then I still rarely play top tier. I have rank 4-5 on almost every nation and I play rank 2-5.