When the M18 (USA) was made the high brass and engineers classified it as a TD, Tank Destroyer, nit a light tank, in the field when infantry commanders requested light tanks they would get stuarts, or any other light tank, but when they requested a TD they would get either a M 10 or the M 18 both which are tank destroyers. Gaijin i love your game but please make things accurate, including amour modules.
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Honestly I agree. We know they can give TDs scouting because of the ASU-57 and it would then also get an ammo box. Only downside is that it might loose Artillery and would cost more SP (I don’t remember if TDs cost more or less than a light tank, sorry if I’m wrong!)
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Yea, it bugged me when i first started playing the game cause i am a history nerd, so i already knew it was wrong
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Yeah, there’s a ton of things in this game with incorrect classifications. Like the A7V and other WW1 tanks, Sd.Kfz.222, Artillery vehicles being classed as Tank destroyers, scout cars being light tanks, the TAMs being Light tanks, and many more!
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My parents bought me a book and for the love of the game i when threw it and found 26 tanks they could add instead of the copy and paste vehicles, and plenty more wrong classified vehicles
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Overall, that’s a buff.
100 SP → 90 SP
+1 Ammo Box
keeps scouting
-1 Artillery Strike
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Well i did not say that it need a ammo box, it has plenty of ammo, unlike other tank destroyers, i think that it should stay the same revolving the extra mods it has but, they should still reclass it
More than, less than the others. Though.
Most in-game classifications are not accurate to their real life counterparts. They do follow a basic logic like real life classification for the most part but not all of them. M18 GMC being a example, 2S25 being another and the FV4004 Conway being one example as well.
Honestly these guys are about the one exception I’ll defend, since artillery might just be their primary weapon in a lot of cases.
The official response (which I disagree with in part) is always that vehicle classification is a gameplay issue, not a historical issue. The M18 GMC was challenging to balance due to its speed and has some loose justification for being classed as a light tank due to occasional ad hoc use for reconnaissance.
Unfortunately for historical purists the M18 sits at the upper end of a 4.0-6.3 BR gap, and moving it to the TD line would worsen the gap and therefore harm gameplay. It could of course be reclassified without being moved.
A similar situation is the British Cruiser III & Cruiser IV, and in particular the Crusaders, which for gameplay purposes are classified as light tanks despite being most comparable to medium tanks in other armies. Also the Avenger, which is classed as a medium tank despite being a TD in real life.
There are a decent amount of US prototype light tanks that could fill that gap or replace the M18 at 6.3. Only reason this would be an issue is if Gaijin is lazy about it. Which, to be fair, is often the case.
Sure but adding new vehicles to the game takes funding, so the M18 can’t be moved unless something takes its place. It also overloads the TD line, which already has 4 vehicles in 2 folders.
I dont think that the M 18 has to be moved there are plenty of examples of TDs in the light tank tree or others, but i do agree that it is a struggle to balence but they could still do it.
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So? We get between 35-50 new vehicles per update. If Gaijin reduces the premspam there’s plenty of room for say the T37.
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Yeah it’s a high-mobility tank destroyer, I don’t see any reason for it to have the incorrect class or Scouting for that matter.
All i am asking for is it to br labed as a tank destroyer, all i ask for from the snail
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I think the US would actually suffer the least if the Hellcat was reclassified. It’s the other nations that get it that will suffer more since they don’t have as many other options.
I have a list of 27 other tank that they could add and at least half of the list is light tanks
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if it becomes a TD it automatically gets ammo box
BMPT and BMPT-72 are the only TDs in the entire game without
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