Ok thanks… that would have saved me a lot of fights…
Anyway my line of thought was that if the prefix sub implies inferiority, then it must mean that submarine is inferior to the sea, which doesnt make sense, which i found funny.
Tho im sure that one sub that took dive to see titanic was inferior to the sea.
What does that even have to do with thai VT-4 and thailand as a subtree or interpreting subtree as inferior? You might as well put rorschach test and ask me what i see.

What’s with the cube?
I interpret it as portrayal of Star Trek Borgs to which all humanoid lifeforms are inferior. /s
it’d be hard to mistranslate something as something else if it actually convincingly looks like that something. Right now there’s a main nation and then a couple vehicles from Thailand out n about. If they simply shared Crew and Lineup but had different trees, then it’d be almost impossible to accidentally interpret it as something else. I’m not saying I interpret the current system to be “subtree = inferior”, im saying it’d fix the issue of others misinterpreting. Also it looks cooler.
tungsten cube
Now don’t crucify me here as this is a bit of the box, but I vote triangle
but thats not gaijins responsiblity that some people mistranslate and subsequently misunderstand something, even if by accident. Just like it isnt your responsiblity with me interpreting your picture of a square as the borg cube from star trek.
eeeeeehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

why triangle when dodecahedron?

you’re seeing me, Mr.Churger
2 quicker paths to end up at the same point? I dunno everyone was throwing shapes out so I wanted to join in 🤣

But everything fits in the square hole 😳
As much as id love to continue the joke, lets get back on track with the thai VT-4.
LOL, defiantly.
But it still remains that sub- means lesser than, under or subordinate to.
I think I saw you say you where Czech right? would you like being added to the USSR as a “lesser Nation”?
I already said in this thread that if china was being added as subtree to japan, I would oppose it due to historical reasons. I would also oppose addition of chinese VT-4 to japan.
Naturally, I would oppose the addition of czechoslovakia as a subtree to the soviets (and luckily for us, stona denied czechoslovakia being subtree for soviets. at least for now).
However the issue with thai VT-4s is different. It might be china manufactured VT-4, but they sold them to Thailand. They are thai owned.
And thailand was officially added as subtree to japan.
thus thai VT-4 should follow thailand.
To give different example, i strongly oppose the placement of czech ješterka (the 30mil praga) and L-39 to the soviet TT - however if they were added as soviet L-39 (since they bought and operated the plane) and, i dont know, yugo or iraqi praga, I wouldnt see it as an issue.
That’s very interesting. I completely missed it.
Maybe I should go back and look at the game’s history of subtrees again.
its used regularly, It just never occured to me to keep track of the posts for the purpose of proving that it is official jargon.