Even worse, it becoming a medium is a nerf
The ammo box allows the Conway to replenish its first stage to keep the rate of fire up
Without the ammo box you end up at ~21 seconds per shot after the first stage is depleted (with an ace crew), with the ammo box you can keep the 15 second reload time up for a lot longer than just 5 shots
It’s not about how many vehicles can hypothetically fit in a maxed out, pipe dream, what-if tree. It’s about realistically how new additions are being considered and implemented while entire roles and niches within the tree have been fully occupied by sub tree content, with equivalent domestic kit being sidelined as a result.
BVVD said in the dev stream that he didn’t like the AS90 and thought it was a pointless/unnecessary addition because it doesn’t bring anything new to the tree, presumably because the role of late cold war 155mm howitzer is already filled by the G6. Smin himself also confirmed a short while ago that once a space within a tree has been filled (regardless whether with domestic or sub tree content) it then becomes a lower priority for future additions in that area of the tree.
This is what domestic British vehicles are competing with - being seen as unneeded additions by the literal game director of war thunder because the role in the tree is already filled by sub tree vehicles.
Why do you think there is no British light tank in the tech tree between 3.0 and 7.7? It’s by no measure a lack of options, its because if vehicles like the Simba 90, Scorpion 90, MCV 90, etc etc are ever looked into by the dev team, they’ll just be considered to be way way down on the priority list on account of the South African vehicles already occupying that area of the tree.
There is nothing that can be done to fix that then
If BVVD thinks that there is no need for such vehicles because subtree vehicles already fill that role, not even nation folders could fix that
I mean
He’s probably referring to how the UK tree already has three 155s already, and with this update will have 5. Only one of which is subtree bee-tee-dubs. The AS90 would be a redundant addition even without the G6, as the M109 fills the same role.
I find it weird even then, as the M109 is 6.3, well, the AS90 is 7.0, that’s a BR gap that makes the two vehicles not that similar.
redundant should be really is an nearly 1-1 vehclie exists at the same BR.
mm perhaps, remember there’s a layer of translation and there’s a chance BVVD just doesn’t like SPHs. So the AS90, which doesn’t have an explicit gimmick (e.g. the G6 is wheeled, the PLZ05 has the funny SAP, other’s have weird chassis etc) and is otherwise just a better in most respects M109, doesn’t feel that special. Epically when by all accounts British vehicles aren’t BVVD’s jam.
It does have an autoloader, something that the M44, M109 and G6 don’t have, but still, the Braveheart would have made more sense, as that also gets a LRF to further differentiate it from Britains current SPHs
This explains so much lmao