The title should be relatively self-explanatory. As many others have previously said, the ground SIM lineups make very little sense quite often. Some countries suffer from this much more than others. China, for example, was missing their 8.0 Type-59 and Type-69 in the previous (at time of writing) cold war bracket. At the same time, in the very same bracket, the USSR had three 8.0 T-54s.
Although this current top tier bracket is slightly less egregious, there are still strange vehicle exclusions: Russia, Germany, and the United States all receive both their Senrai premium tanks and its non-Senrai premium equivalent, yet Britain and Japan only receive the non-Senrai tank, while China gets neither their Senrai MBT-2000, its pack equivalent in the Al-Khalid, nor the tech tree MBT-2000, all of which (at 11.7) would fit squarely within the current BR range of top tier SIM.
I would greatly appreciate anyone else’s input and suggestions to remedy this seemingly easy-to-fix oversight.
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Ground SB makes no sense across the board. Most BR ranges are missing tanks and the top BR limit is meaningless. For the 2.3-3.3 line-up for instance you have tanks with up to 3.7-4.0BR’s fighting things like Matilda’s etc which can barely penetrate them.
The Archer tank (2.7) can’t even fight in the 2.7-3.7 match where it could actually be really useful.
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Gajin does not care about ground sim, this is the harsh reality.
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The current brackets for ground sim barely make any sense. I explained in another topic before. They made sense when they were created (That’s when we got a shift in how sim battles work), but now most vehicles are in a bracket mostly because of their first battle rating.
For example USSR in the 8_2 bracket gets access to the PT-76-57. A vehicle with stablizer and range finder and APHE (basically a low BR 2S38), in a bracket where there’s no vehicle with such capability (Except for CLOVIS which has LRF but it’s still unstablized).
Then you have the 8_2_2 bracket, where a lot of stuff have LRF and stablizer, and guess what? Russia doesn’t get the PT-76-57 in this bracket where it makes sense to have it.
The brackets are old and need to be updated, and new brackets should be added in between the current brackets so that things like AMX-32 don’t go up against an Al-Khalid, and instead fight tanks of the same era or generation (Chieftain Mk 10, T-72A, KPz/MBT-70, etc). But instead, because the brackets are bloated and never updated, you have the MiG-21Bis or the MiG-23MLD going up against Rafales or Eurofighters because Gaijin can’t be bothered to move them to 10_2 bracket or introduce new brackets.
We already have 8_2 and 8_2_2, we could easily have 9_2_2, 10_2_2 and 11_2_2 for more variety and better balance.
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3.1 lineup: They removed the British premium—which wasn’t really making a difference anyway—but kept the unbalanced M18s and M64s, leaving them to face German Pz.IVs.
The person in charge of SB balance has absolutely no idea how to manage it.
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The balance manager who took the German premium KV away from the Germans at the 3.1 setup level deserves a Darwin Award.
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