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
There is a lack of consistency here
Presuming that by “presence in the real world” you are referring to the quantity of vehicles that have been produced, I don’t think your logic really checks when you look at all the other prototypes that Japan and many other nations contain throughout their trees.
The Chi-Ha LG, for example, is another gimmicky vehicle that “exists” only as a single low quality piece of footage showing one angle of the vehicle, with literally nothing else known about its history or functionality. Or perhaps the Chi-Ri, which while having multiple photographs and documents surviving postwar, is an incomplete prototype lacking its main gun with another gimmicky feature found on very few other WW2 tanks; that being its unique autoloader.
I hardly see the issue with their playable nature if we can prove they existed, which the O-I most certainly did regardless of if the “only photo evidence is trustworthy” gang says otherwise.
Only because you take a phrase as direct literal.
But what is the purpose of the phrase “non-existium” if not to convey the idea that it didn’t exist?
To me it seems like you both:
A. See the O-I differently than similiarly mysterious prototypes that do actually have photos available, and thus don’t see it as on the same level of completion (hence why you imply by your phrase that it didn’t exist).
B. Seem to not understand that despite its unique and unorthodox design, it still remains as one of the only options for Japan to get as a rank III+ heavy tank, and as such it is completely valid that people would want it to be conventionally researchable despite its gimmickyness.
O-I compared to Ro-Go
Maus compared to O-I compared to T95
FCM 2C compared to O-I compared to Tog II
Its barely any bigger than the rest of the Land Battleships we have in game.