Only one of these items is required. Both the A-150 and Montana meet item 2.
Being laid down is one of the options to be considered a prototype, it is not mandatory.
In the case of Montana, she had her primary and secondary batteries fabricated along with purpose built internal machinery, and on the flip side, the A-150 had her gun tubes built.
Have we ever had a vehicle added to the game which only met that second item though? I struggle to think of one. I feel like the unstated rules for stuff to actually get added are a bit stricter than the stated rules to merely suggest stuff.
Why can’t Montana class battleships be added?
Just like the Soviet battleship, its plan was cancelled during construction due to certain reasons
Unless Soviet warships are also not added
Montana was never laid down.
Every vessel in War Thunder was laid down.
There are no fake Soviet vessels in War Thunder and fake vessels will never be added to the Soviet tech tree.
Are you sure?
Yes. Cause every time a laid down ship is added to your seemingly favorite tech tree, everyone complains about it being added, then someone provides photographic evidence of the vessel in drydock.
This is just a photo of the dry dock. …
Do you have any photos of sailing at sea?
In reality, I have never heard of the names of these ships
Doesn’t matter. To add a naval vessel in War Thunder all that needs to be proven is it was being manufactured.
I just hope it’s not a double standard
According to Lolman345’s post about gaijin’s stated rules, it can be added, along with the A-150.
Aye and we have evidence that the USN was actively procuring armor plates and other materials in preparation to lay the ship down. That said the 5”/54 and the diesel generators (both designed specifically for Montana) should be enough to make a suggestion at minimum like A-150 as both are ship specific parts unique to Montana.
“Compete”? If anything, Yamato is by far the weakest of the top tier ships, and the A-150 would probably be even worse, so there’s not much to go for the Japanese tech tree
thay cant add the montana because its a paper ship
We didn’t need such thing to compete with Yamato now.
Actually, I’m pretty sure even Roma and Richelieu could ‘beat’, not compete Yamato in War Thunder.
Even Vanguard. Yamato’s scheme just doesn’t fit in the maps we have at all and she’s largely being an easy XP fruit for others under current implementation. The real monster will be the Sovetsky Soyuz, whose armour scheme was tailored in every possible way to fit in this game perfectly.
It has been stated the montana cannot be added unfortunately
Her bow spaced armor is real wonder. Now I can understand why designer report ‘in some angle protection will be worse than bow-in’.
It’s funny that only ship can penetrate those fantastic bow armor is Yamato, but Yamato would die before aiming it.
No, only if the ship had been laid down they can be added to the game. By this standard G3 can be introduced as well since the armour and turret parts had been manufactured and some of them were later used on Nelsons. As far as I can tell developers have no plan to introduce ships didn’t laid down like the G3, same goes for Montana