That’s actually a good idea. I mean the O-I is two times bigger and more armoured than Chi-Ri after all, so it would make sense for it to become a tech tree tank. But since it’s “unique” Gaijin will most likely make it an Event reward… (even if it does become an event imma just feed the snail in order to get it)
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Imagine these coming in the next update… Japan, Sweden, Israeli and Italian mains finally getting what they needed for years… I would cry out of joy if that happened… :)
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Gaijin did state that they don’t have all the info abt the O-I to correctly add it to the game yet. But it would be helpful if they told us what exactly do they lack. We already did add a lot of info abt the O-I in this thread, so it shouldn’t be so impossible to get more of it.
They have been saying that since Japan was added. The problem is that they should have a sufficient amount of information that proves its existence. The problem is they just don’t wanna add it. That is pretty much why they don’t add it to the game. Many of us have mentioned the Ostwind II, but we have never seen a physical picture of it, and nothing more that we know of was a Newspaper clipping and a few mentions of the name in official documentation. Which is everything we know of its existence.
But apparently, that is sufficient enough to add the Ostwind II to the game. But the sheer amount that is legitimate proof for the O-I isn’t enough for it to even be passed. A second time it is illogical since it’s claimed you only need a primary and a secondary, but, for the O-I, you need more than what’s stated as the requirement.
Generally, my hypothesis has been a case of Gaijin not being added to the game because of they put it at lower BRs it will be dominant but they also cannot put it at higher BRs because of its speed and it’s 4 guns are not sufficient enough to be effective.
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I feel that armament is off the table when considering the BR of the O-I. Since it gets a 150mm howitzer, you can in theory kill vehicles leagues above your own rating via overpressure.
This would mean that mobility and armor are the more important considerations. I would argue that it should work fine at 5.7, perhaps even 5.3; both of which would place it right above the Chi-Ri II in the medium tank line.
Doesn’t matter if it a 150mm, it’s only got around 94mm of penetration. Its armor is around 200 mm thick. The 2 front 37mm’s are using type-1 37mm rounds. Compared to Type-94. With a possible rear turret either being a tail/machine gun, don’t recall.
This is probably why they don’t add it to the game because it would be the German Maus all over again.
94mm of penetration if you’re using armor piercing shells. I presume you could get around 50-60mm of top-down penetration equipped with HE, which would certainly stand out as quite the unique playstyle for a heavy tank.
Also, I recall the frontal secondaries being Type 1 47mms, which would offer about 77mm of pen at point blank. Regardless, the howitzer is your primary tank killer, these auxiliary cannons should be more useful in fending off light vehicles such as the ever so pesky M18.
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Who cares if its paper tank or not, japanese mains shall have fun in grb too!
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That’s for HE mate. It’s far less with APHE. Also once again, read what I wrote before responding, you’re simply telling me things I’ve read before.
It’s not a paper tank. We have proof that it indeed existed we just don’t have pictures of its existence. Whether A does exist or B doesn’t exist we will never know. Until Gaijin stands up and finally finds a proper person who can be a proper Advisor for the Japanese side of things for WT. (The last one was making Japan->Worse).
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The 155mm M107 shell used by modern SPGs in-game only has around 60mm of penetration, there is no possible way a lower calibre HE shell from the 30s would have 90+ mm.
And even 50+ mm of pen is still very good, the Tiger II for example only has about 40mm on the hull roof, so you could overpressure it very easily with the shells offered by the O-I’s cannon.
Also, you tell me that you’ve read the things I say before, yet you specify the O-I’s auxiliary turrets to contain 37mm guns, which unless you happen to have sources backing up your claims is untrue, I have always known them to be Type 1 47mms.
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You cannot be possibly trying to argue a a shell approved for usage in 1957 is comparable to a shell made in 1937. On the Type-96 150mm Howitzer. This is like trying to compare the 1963, Vietnam Era M109 to the M109A7 from 2015. That’s a 52-year age gap in both economics and technological achievements. The only thing that remains the same is the design however everything inside of it is completely different.
If you’re gonna respond please have a better counterargument cause right now bud that is a very flawed comparison.
You should be a little more consistent.
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I love how there was a lot of people that were saying “O-I has bad pen it shouldn’t get added!” and were just ignoring the existence of overpressure. I’m glad that someone finally noticed that overpressure in WT is a thing.
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Honnestly I’d rather have the O-I added than having Ho-Ri’s. At least the O-I was actually real and looks fun as heck. I may sound dumb because of that but I LOVE the O-I and you can’t stop me
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There were 5 Ho-Ris that were 50% finished at the end of the war, but they were very different to the one we got.
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Why couldn’t Gaijin just add the real design into the game then? I mean the in-game design is just way too good to be Japanese (since Japanese WW2 were just absurdly goofy) so it isn’t really surprising that design is fake. Also I don’t understand howcan Gaijin add the Ho-Ri, but refuses to add the O-I…
Beats me…
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The Casemate Ho-Ri aka Ho-Ri II never existed, its possible the unmodified Chi-Ri superstructure aka “Ho-Ri I” likely did but very doubtful.
The only one that did exist was the one seen for the Ho-Ri Prototype. As you aforementioned.
Where is this so-called claim of 5 Ho-Ri’s existing though cause I hope your claim is not WOT.
Reject Reality.
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