Japanese new color

Source: http://world-of-kwg.livejournal.com/261557.html

Hello everyone,

as reported earlier, the Japanese tanks in final release will not be brown, they will be green. Storm posted this with a picture of the tier 10 STB-1:

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Furthermore, Storm confirms the STB-1 will have the depression of -10 degrees:

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- according to Storm, test will also come “very soon”

76 thoughts on “Japanese new color

  1. Green looks nice, didn’t really like the rusty brown colour, gave a ‘owner doesn’t give a wink about tank’ look.
    Looks, fast. :]

  2. -10 degrees, Im sooo getting those tanks when they are out. British line is great but has some deficiencies, it seems the japaneese will get the best of it (L7 gun, good depression, decent turret) while having better top speed, smaller profile and better hull.

  3. Terrible, WG had the historically correct colour before and then they change it to this because of whining from a few Russians. Goes to show you want WG’s priorities are…

    • You sure that is the case for the change? Or is this another whine. Either way, the wording makes it sound irritatingly obnoxious.

      • Read up on the subject before you start making accusations, its all on FTR. The original artillery brown base paint was correct. The colour was changed last minute due to complaints from the Russian testing community.

        • I’m sorry, but I can’t find where it says the change was due to the Russian testing community. Mind posting the link?

    • Also like how this tank can use smoke screens,when that gets implemented it will really useful in a tight spot.

  4. With 10 degrees of gun depression this makes the FV4202 and M48 patton look like complete piles of shit…

    Its well armoured with no tumor wrakspots
    Its fast
    Very small profile
    Has outstanding gun depression
    Average view range, pen damage
    Excellent DPM and very good gun handling characteristics.

    Its basically a faster FV4202 with a turret that can actually bounce stuff. Its going to be so fucking OP.

    • the armor is only good at an specific spot,i call it the Jackson Effect,as the Jackon only has 114mm armor at the bottom(were ppl almost never shoot at)

    • I don’t think it will. The rest of the armor (aside from the mantlet) is comparable to the Leopard 1 (i.e. non-existant) and it still has a cupula/rangefinder on the top of the turret. I’ll agree that the FV and M48 are getting outclassed by newer tanks but I don’t think it will be outclassed.

    • It has lower aim time and accuracy than its peers. Wich combined with the slightly lower pen make it a lot less suitable for sniping. Also the view range is lower.

      So I think this tank would be best at flanking and using terrain to its advantage. Take its gun depression, speed, or DPM and it becomes shit.

  5. I liked the brown better. They should have at least kept the lower tiers brown since that was the color the IJA used on their tanks during the war.

      • Honestly the turret doesn’t seem roomy enough to allow for a -10 depression. But I guess its a balancing parameter.

    • It has -6 normally, with additional -6 (or was it -10) achieved trough lowering the frontal part with the hydropneumatic suspension.

      -10 normal suspension is a nice compromise.

      • -10° will make this tank really competitive in combination of the turret-shape and armor…

        i was never waiting so much for a tank like this

        i dont care about colour anyway.. i will make a historic-like skinn for me anyway (have found authentic decals yet)

    • I’ve always supported Parched Grass, but this particular shade isn’t so bad now that I see it being applied. Good enough for JGSDF vehicles.

  6. -10 degree depression? Holy *beep* . Good bye Leo1 (even though i have 4 skill crews) hello nana-yon
    i think i’ll start from begin of branch for crew training . hope they give us 100% crew :P for tier 1

  7. Why does the tank in pictures has 3 Japaneese flags on it? It comes from national Japaneese clan or it will be like that for all Japs? ;)
    And btw – look at those tracks, theyr graphical quality still looks like taken from Duke Nukem..
    Hope the HD client will change this A LOT!

    • Because there isn’t? There is no need, STB-1 is adequate for the job of showing us the new camo.

      I, myself can’t wait to play that thing.

  8. Wonder how many of the new tanks will be OP, to please the masses and intice them into grinding.

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