Probably to fit more Indian vehicles tbh not Canadian or Australian
Honestly I take that more as Gaijin trying to counteract the space issues that subtrees in general bring. Even with just South Africa it can be really hard to add new vehicles when British vehicles can only go in four of the lines (and sorted by type), while South African vehicles go in one line only that’s quickly filled.
Before the change there was already British vehicles in the South African line and iirc the other way around too. This change was pretty much just Gaijin seeing the corner they’re backing themselves into and trying to delay the inevitable for a short while longer.
Hopefully this means they’re looking into more permanent solutions now.
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Skink being added to the US was stupid anyway. Gaijin saw all the people pointing out the massive AA gap, and then took the lazy route when the US have like two dozen domestic options.
M4A5 isn’t so bad, they could relabel it as American and say it’s the test vehicle they received.
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100% the realization of the space issue was a big part of it. And made what had started to happen official, as ZA’s line was acting as the light line (before the change, 2 UK lights were added). Well, there was the 1 older TD and the SPAA in the SPAA line (but the SPAA thing happens to all sub-trees). But making line 2 for all non-UK-operated MBTs was new.
But it also happened in the same update where the UK got 3 Hronets and the Ram I, plus operator fixes that skyrocketed the number of Canadian and Australian things in the UK. And the Aussies got even more things in the updates to come.
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It would need to be changed into a Ram I as that was the one they tested, with the only Ram II they got post-war, which was a late model, and the few things I’ve seen, one that is that is was using the proper Ram II name. (and in that case, the name is still technically wrong, as the video proof of its testing called it “Canadian M3 medium tank”, with M4A5 showing up for the first time in a few documents long after testing was done)
edit: found the video I was thinking of (I really should save this somewhere)
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Aaaand
Gaijin decided to sell Premium Skink(US) with an American-ish designation with the WW2 Premium Pack… which was quite frustrating.
Also, I saw a few of the US Mains that use Skink(US) as ‘why we should stop adding c&p vehicles’
(Because they had their domestic options, as you know… or someone thinks it is an American vehicle because its hull was Grizzly, which was a licensed version of Sherman…)
Nearly nobody, except Gaijin, was happy about the addition of Skink(US) in the US TT
because they got T77A1 in the same update. :|
Perfect way of shaming and teabagging the Skink.
as much as they shaming CAN/AUS
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