Take a UE 57, make it taller and slower, and give it bigger teeth?

Dunno if the 57mm and presumably wide gun traverse would fit in at tier 3, maybe tier 4.

So it’d be poorly armored, slightly sluggish from a standstill but decently quick, and if the current French 25mm gun is any indication, a fast-firing gun with low alpha but pretty oK penetration. Assuming WG wasn’t infected with another case of Stupiditus and armed it with one of the MGs.

Not exactly a stereotypical French low-tier tank, and definitely T18 food if care isn’t taken. Seems like it would make an alright tier 2 (with normal MM) or 3 ( very limited MM) premium or gift.

For instance, Germany doesn’t appear to have any suitable candidates for a cheap, mid-tier premium Heavy in the same vein as the Churchill III, T14 and Excelsior, largely because any tanks that might have fit that role are already in the game as regular vehicles. The most obvious candidate, in this instance, if one is willing to consider captured vehicles, would be the Panzerkampfwagen 735 (r). In a nutshell, it’s a captured KV-1, but with a few key differences, namely that instead of the 76 mm F-34 it has the 75 mm KwK 40 L/43 -a gun available on the Panzer III/IV, Panzer IV, VK 30.01H and available in more or less modified form on the Hetzer and Marder 38t – a gun that is good at its tier but not the best gun available for the regular tier 5 German tanks (unless you’re driving a Marder 38t, in which case I feel your pain), and it has a larger commander’s cupola of the type seen on the Panzer III (making an obvious weakspot that the regular KV-1 doesn’t have).

Overall it’d a balanced vehicle at tier 5 – good, but not TOO good, having a more accurate 75 mm gun than the stock 76 mm gun on the original KV-1, but in exchange for having an obvious and fairly large weakspot on top of the turret in the form of the commander’s cupola, all in all allowing it to perform like a semi-upgraded KV-1, or like a VK.3001 H that actually has decent armor but a worse gun. However, for some reason WG decided to say they would add no more captured vehicles after the French tree was added…and then it’s revealed that they intend to give a shit-ton of captured vehicles to the SOVIET tree (a captured Panzer IV, Panther, two TDs built on the Panzer III chassis to name a few)…

If it replaces the T18, then maybe at long last the weapon of choice of seal clubbers will disappear, and allow it to more or less be a regular game down low so that the noobs at least have somewhat of a fighting chance, rather than players being separated into two distinct categories: winners (read: T18 Drivers) and everybody else.

On the other hand I myself use a T18, but I don’t drive it anywhere near as often as I used to, primarily because I find it boring. That being said, replacing the T18 would defeat the purpose of me having my Cruiser III at all (the sole reason I got one was to counter T18s, which it does very well with the 2-pounder Mk.X, so long as it doesn’t get shot at)

If it’s as well armored as other French tanks of the tier, I suspect it will be very competent at not dying to T18 howitzers.

Seriously, how is the Hellcat at tier 6 having the same gun as the Jackson balanced? It makes the Jackson totally useless since the Hellcat is a 1000 times better.