It makes sense for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. To be in the USSR tree right? ( I don’t even know if they all have vehicles)
Edit: I totally looked up what broke of of the ussr
Not really quite a few of these nations have closer ties and used equipment from neighbor states most of them would likely be grouped into one big TT rather than just for the USSR which has no need for a sub tree given it lacks any holes that it can’t fill itself
Especially estonia and the Nordic states lol, that’s probably the only other non Nordic state that would make sense given how close they are with us even when we joke about them lol
I’m wondering what warthunder was like if it had the combined nation research lines like they do in the mobile ground mode.
Could you imagine the Swedish, French and British all being in one tree alongside all their subs?
(Poor Japan as well, iirc they were the only nation that wasn’t paired with another)
Not necessarily among subtrees at the time, but before the French and Swedish trees the only vehicles we had from them were in the British tree.
For mobile it’s probably just a matter of saving space, which actually looks like it could be an advantage for Japan/Thailand/Indonesia/Malaysia who then have more space compared to Britain/South Africa/India/France/Belgium/Netherlands/Sweden/Finland/Norway all sharing the tree.
Yeah right, they just added all but one domestic aircraft before the subtree, which seems especially weird considering they usually plan ahead long enough to prevent this. Then the one that could’ve been in the techtree isn’t even there.
(Moved it to subtree discussion)
their treatment of Finland is very strange and seems low priority
It makes sense for the nation the tree is named after to have priority.
In this case it’s more about what vehicles are added. Finland got most of their unique aircraft as premiums while the techtrees lack unique options.
Basically instead of trying to represent Finland faithfully, they decided to go only for the easiest options to add. Even when many vehicles that have significant historical significance would be simple to copy from another tree they are missing like the StuG III.
It’s as if they don’t even research these nations at all, like how Thailand got the M163 when they never operated any (only M163A1).
It’s one thing to have more attention to Sweden, that’s just the nature of current subtrees considering Sweden is giving up space for the subtree nation, but that doesn’t mean the resources these nations do get should be wasted.
This. Sub-trees, where originally advertised as a way for nations that are heavily requested to join WT to join WT (even if it doesn’t feel like it when some of the most requested are denied a home).
When sub-trees are not properly treated as nations, and are treated leeser then everthing else, not having anything in game looks better.
It’s even worse when sub-trees could have been used to add something. France, an update or two ago, only got an Aircraft carrier, and nothing else, when nations like Russia also got 4+ vehicles in the same update, it got its new one. When it could have at least gotten a C&P or a variant of something in-game, which could have helped, the lacklustre BeNeLux ground or just fill a capability gap in the TT(looks at France and UK’s missing M24s…)