Updated Planned Battle Rating Changes (April 2026)

Also swedens tanks mounted smoke launchers on their ww2 era tanks after ww2

Can be included and used to decide a few brs aswell.

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It does just fine, no need to move down

J is also going up, which is weird cause even the prem version with add on armor isn’t really suited for 4.0 more like a slightly better M10 which is 3.3

Atleast remove the Hull Smoke/Frag launchers as they dont do anything lol

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most 3.3 vehicles being yeeted to 3.7 where they belong is a great thing, tho i’m against moving the panzer IIIN to 3.3, instead it should lose it’s heat and be moved down to 2.3 (also heat should be removed from all low tier br panzer IV as not only it penetrates everything, it also overpressures some medium tanks and benefits from an insane reload rate and way too good accuracy, even at longer ranges).

Reverting the changes on both the F8U and the Spitfire Mk 24 has made this a fairly unproblematic list, all things considered.

The only two issues I have with it so far are the Zeros and the tech tree Re.2005. They’re all pure dogfighters and already lag behind others at their respective BRs in terms of engine performance. Some of them actually need to go a BR step down, not up.

My suggestions:
A6M5 Ko: 5.3 → 5.0
A6M5 Otsu: 5.3 → 5.0
Re.2005 serie 0: 6.0 → 5.7

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Ah yes, only German mains can make a tank like the Tiger have such an atrocious win rate lol

Spj fm/43-44

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Ground RB: 1.7 > 2.3
Ground AB: 2.3 > 2.7

The Offensive Swedish Meatball lancher

Has Amazing armor for 1.7, making it surprisingly survivable. The 150mm recoilless gun is extremely effective and comes with a decently short reload for such a large caliber. Combined with its excellent mobility, this vehicle performs exceptionally well for its BR all the way to 3.3/3.7. Its an Amazing Bonk vehicle with great mobility and is Immune to Heavy MGs frontally. Its Comparable to the Brummbär to a degree

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It’s a tiger E with only one change over the Tiger H. A better commander hatch.

But it lacks smokes and other items. It’s gun depression is also limited severely in certain angles due to the non working hull mounted smoke launchers.

3.7 and 4.0 BR vehicles which remain at rank II are just meh. At least 4.0 should be always rank III.

The one rocket plane that is actually broken instead of bad is finally getting raised. A very welcome change

T-28
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1.7 (RB) → 2.3 (RB)
Remove Shrapnel shell

Reason:
It has a 76mm APHE with 67mm pen and 150g TNT. Enough to practically one shot and penetrate any tank it encounters, with the exception of some French and Britsh heavy tanks.
→ 24°/s traverse speed
→ 19.7hp/t
→ 6 crew

It’s waaaay to strong for 1.7. If I want to bully low level players, do I take out a Pz III? No I take out a T-28.

Penetration is as high or higher as the Soviet 45mm gun but with way more damage behind it.

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Its always the lineup, which matters. To win matches, you need speedy vehicles to early cap. Tiger E BR range won’t have that. M18 hellcats and other speedcars take the caps, then it blinks down. Every match like this.

to high how? its literally just a f16c with a better radar and mav the rest is just avg

on one hand, good for the MiG-29s for finally going down to 12.3 in sim.

on the other hand, why is the F-16AJ still 13.0???

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Mark V / BeutePanzer IV
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BR change: 1.0 → 1.0 (none)

Make the port cannon a “secondary cannon”, since the switch primary armament keybind is just used for this vehicle and it is better suited to mold the Mark family into the control schemes of tanks like the M3 lee or Ro-Go.

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T-28E
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2.3 (RB) → 2.7 (RB)
Remove Shrapnell Shell

Reason:
Just like the T-28 the gun is extremely powerful but now it has 50mm of armor increasing survivability more. Making it nearly impervious to Italian short barreled 47mm shells, while maintaining extreme good mobility and turret traverse.
The main selling point of T-28s is of course the gun but now it can’t be easily killed by .50cal and takes less damage from solid shot.

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Me: Doesn’t complain about M24s for once.
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FINALLY! They’re moving up! FINALLY!

Huge Gaijin L on air RB 13.0 compression.
Huge Gaijin W for M24s.

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more like just make APHE the default shell for the T-28s
Shrapnel is useless but its cool so its better to keep it and teach new players to choose better rounds.

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