I doubt they’d change all Thai vehicles to Thai designation just to make Chinese players happy. I also doubt that’d make those same players happy. It’s still Chinese technology surrounded by Japanese vehicles.
not all, just the Vt4
Officially, the Royal Thai Army refers to it as รถถังหลักแบบ VT4 (Rot Tang Lak Baep VT4 – “Main Battle Tank, Type VT4”)
Supposedly the VT-4’s common nickname is “ราชาปืนใหญ่” (Racha Puen Yai), which translates to “King of the Big Gun.” or “เจ้าใหญ่” (Jao Yai – “Big Boss” or “Big Guy”)
Now this is unsubstantiated stuff so dont quote me on this lol
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I love it, id love to see that in game now
Very interesting knowledge.
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Even then, I doubt they’d do it. It’ll be controversial even if called by the old name, MBT-3000. The Thai army only call it VT4, so there’s no true name to even change it to.
Shame
That means getting a
VN-1 for Thai is also unlikely then if its ever added in game
Not really. The VT-4 will still be added, and I imagine the VN-1 in the future. People will always be unhappy about something like this. I had a Turk complain that the AMBT and the AH-64A (GR) are both in the same tree. We’ll see how controversial it truly is by tomorrow, when its morning/afternoon in China.
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If the VT4 gets added name it “Jao Yai” hahaha
Maybe thats what they meant by VT4 not being added
its not VT4
its the Big boss
It’s not about the name, japan tech tree should never get VT4 or any other China’s vehicle
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Thai (doesn’t) Matter
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Somehow China got Mirage, F16 and other Taiwanese vehicles
I’m happy for Thai subtree, hopefully they also add the BTR-3 because that could play nice.
I feel like this will make Japan actually competitive at top tier
I mean, the US and China are in some Cold-War Esque standoff, but China still has F-16, M60, M48 and such in their tree through Taiwan. There’s even Japanese vehicles in the Chinese tech tree!
The same vehicles Japan used against China.
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Not actually, they had been captured and used in early stage of PLAA, that’s the reason for them to existed in Chinese tech tree.
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thats what i said too! but you know chinese playerbase cant argue without flagging comments they dont like
if a chinese exported tank into japan is such an eyesore just cos they are unfriendly, then remove japan vehs from china tree too, remove usa stuff from it too!
and the vt4 specifically is exported, their govt exported them. we all have our reasons but only the chinese playerbase’s reason is heard lol
Let’s do a what if scenario, what if Japan exported the F-2 to a let’s just say Pakistan, since that the pakistan is in the Chinese TT, it means that Pakistan in this scenario would be allowed to have the F-2 ingame.
what would the chinese players think of that happening?
would they be mad or would they be glad?
I imagine majority of the Japanese playerbase doesn’t really care, they’re just happy to be included in game same with our fellow Thai players.
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