Over half-way through 2025 and BeNeLux subtree, but still no top tier light tank for France

We still don’t have a light tank with auto-cannon and ATGM for top tier. Even with the addition of a BeNeLux subtree…
But Gaijin wants to focus on added x4 copy paste leopards, x2 Lelcercs that are horribly wrong, DF-105, CLOVIS and AMD-35 PAK (only becuase Germany gets it). Copy paste BeNeLux air-tree and copy paste German and USA heliopter.
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patience, its not like france is the only nation without a top tier light tank

To be fair, benelux ground is/was rather lacluster.

No fanfare like was the case with hungary ground, no unique vehicles.

Just leopards 2. Which is kinda sad, i was hoping for leopard 1 chassis with cockerill turret.

Fun fact, france can now field same number of 2A4s in their lineup as germany!

Which is still one short of sweden, but hey.

we can be pretty sure at this point that benelux ground was an excuse to add leopards to france

maybe one day france can get the cv9035 NL MLU with the iron fist APS and spikes

None of the pictured vehicles would be better than the Vextra, and none of them are light tanks.

The Vextra is the 6th? Best light tank for a 12.0 lineup in the game.
CV90120, HSTVL, VT-5, 2S25M, Centauro, Vextra 105, TAM-2C.

It’s doing pretty well.

I figure u could’ve counted 2S38 instead of VT-5, since for 12.0 it is literally a slightly worse leclerc.

2S38 lacks penetration and speed.
TAM-2C lacks speed [marginally] but makes up for that with massive penetration and that’s in 6th.

“But autocannon.” A bounced round will bounce again, as many many 2S38s found out the hard way at 12.0 making my Abrams stock grinds extremely easy.

What’s worse is when people bring IFVs into 12.0. Like I get they’re trying to bring their CAS, but… winning is fun too.

That is not how 2S38s were made for, flanking wise it isn’t worse than any MBT, which and against HSTVL its disadvantages are smaller than most think. HEVT also has good uses.

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HSTVL accelerates in half the time of 2S38, VCC 80/60, and Begleitpanzer while firing a better round than 2 of them. The VCC is the only one firing the best round of them.

do you mean irl?

The role defined yes.
In-game classifications are simplistic for storage efficiency reasons, which is fine.