Not a single one of those things are ingame mechanics…
I never said that matchmaking should be 100% historical.
I just think there’s a middle ground between 100% historical matchmaking and making a tank face an opponent significantly more capable decades newer and a generation more modern.
It is clear that it is worse than the other Br 7.0 tanks, for some reason the M51 was a way to update obsolete models to give them some use, but even with everything bad it is with its cannon it can still do a lot if you can reach areas of the map where you can ambush.
That is precisely an example with many nuances, since that vehicle is a prototype, and as many times, for the tests it is most likely that the first available cannon would be mounted and that it would have no use for the South African army, since when When the concept 3 was developed, they already had the eland in service with the 90mm cannon. In a way, the fault does not lie with the vehicle, it would be with the devs for adding to the game a prototype that did not pass a few tests and was armed with the first thing they found in the trash.
In this case a different thing would happen, it is true that for example the Panzer IIF is from 1941, and at that time the KV-1 and the T-34 were already there, but we must also take into account that at those dates also the majority In the Soviet Army they would be the T-26 and BT-7, so it would not be exactly necessary to have to raise the Br of the Panzer II to the Br 3.3, it can remain as it is where it is, since it mainly faces what is I face in reality.
Israel acquired 10 H-39s in 1948 and they entered service in the Arab-Israeli war of that same year, at no time did they see themselves against the T-55 or T-54, in fact they did not even see a T-34 Since in 1948 the Arab countries were armed with Western light tanks from WW2, such as the M22 Locust, the Crusaders and at most some Shermans.
This modernized Stuart was in service untul the '90s with Brazil…
So should it face Leo 2A4s if it were to be added?
Yes, and? I just applied your own logic to these, but now you just start to do this nonsense.
They remained in service until the mid '50s.
They are objectively worse than other 6.0 mediums.
It has worse (or at best same) mobility than others, bad armor, an unreliable gun at a BR where everyone uses APHE, the gun whobbles like crazy, it is just bad, or at best usable.
I have more than 50 finished games screenshots and in anyone used the 3 respawns. Im played this tank in the oppsite you never played. Sorry but the only dont macth here are you silly argument.
Remember check his stats and laugh hard.
Zero battles with M-51 but they are real expert even better than players with hunderds of battles played.
One nations mains hate german armor or people dont play heavy armor (i dont suffer this problem so you cant complain).
M-51 in 6.0 is fine but similar german tank dont…
Is a wasted of time.
Good thing that penetration doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It’s mid or terrible in every other area to afford the HEAT and its scope. Good thing nearly everything else at that BR also has conventional ammunition that doesn’t have 400 mm of pen, so the armour still works 90% of the time.