This is an idea that would be amazing, what if we gave Japan the O-I as there aren’t many big tanks for Japan but because of how it is and the size of it, it would be best as a event vehicle. Japanese maus. I’m not the only one that has posted about this someone by the name ノンケ大井 has talked about this and goes WAY more in depth. ( I would advise checking out ノンケ大井 post about it )
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The vehicle itself would be a greater addition to the Japanese tech tree. Honestly I’m very ok with paper vehicles if you have literally all the informations about it. The addition of the O-I is something the community is asking for by years, hopefully at some point Gaijin changes their mind about paper vehicles. But you don’t need to create more threads about the same subject.
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Just new to the community, didn’t know that, but thanks you for telling me.
Waiter waiter more made up Japanese vehicles please
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I don’t think it is a paper vehicle. IIRC one proto was made but ultimately scrapped after the war due to how heavy the thing was and it was stuck in a lake somewhere in japan for a while ?
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While the O-I prototype was indeed scrapped, the lake tank you are thinking of is probably the Type 4 Chi-To; two were dumped into lake Hamana, one was recovered by the U.S. and the other has faded into myth.
341 flak panzer please return
Not an event vehicle, but as tech tree. Its basically the only option japan has for a tech tree heavy tank.
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It would be extremely silly to have a non-existium tank be rampant and commonly seen
It did exist, and a prototype was constructed, just scrapped after the war.
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Nobody said it didn’t exist, my statement is that you will see hundreds in that matchmaker for the end of all time just because of the gimmicky nature of it despite it not having a presence in the real world. These types of vehicles are EXACTLY what event vehicles should be.
Given that it is the only heavy tank japan can get, so it is necessary. Say it gets spammed for like a month. So what? It gives japan a tech tree heavy, and would be fun to play.
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Don’t think you’re reading what I’m saying so I’ll take my leave.
I am…?
Technically yes, by your qualifications it should be an event vehicle. However, due to the fact that it is the only tt heavy japan can get, it should be tech tree. Fairly simple.
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If it fit in the TT then where would it be , also it doesn’t make any sense. You think a nation famously for island hopping at the start of ww2 would have a Heavy tank that didn’t even make it through proto phase to be in the middle of a bunch of med size tank. It is the only tank that doesn’t fit anywhere , too special to sit in any tech tree , even one with bunch of heavy , let alone sit with a bunch of medium
Toss it in their medium line maybe, likely foldered under something. (Chi-Ri II, maybe?) Yeah, it isnt perfect, but it is an actual heavy tank.
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“Maybe”. Let’s be honest here , the O-I definitely fit for a event vehicle. Like how Tog was for the brit , there no real option to put this thing anywhere beside an event vehicle
This has already been passed to consideration…again.
It really shouldn’t.
The Mi-To makes sense as an event vehicle.
The O-I does not. It’s just as iconic as the Ha-Go Tank.
To be put into the tech tree it also have a development line. Where would the O-I sit , the thing is massive ,it is not small , a multi turret boxy heavy in a bunch of medium ? Make no sense but whatever , if you insist , it is def not gonna be tech tree anyway