But I couldn’t resist to register for a simple question.
Tier 6 is statpaddling as well, now?

I think there are many skilled players with long running crews in this field.
So is it that all these players fall in this unloved category?
And if we all should play T8-10 to be “fair players”?
The percentage of noob players should be not too high in T6.
Also quickly thinking through the tech trees most T6 tanks are noob friendly.
I guess a player first getting T7 or T8 has more frustration fighting players with >=4 skill crews and playing experience.
Just look how many complaining topics the forum holds about the Tiger.

I could just have fun in the game and don’t mind.
But think some people will read you blog and get a mindset it is unfair if they get killed by a cromwell with 1000 matches.
There is enough hate and whine about mm, gold and what not already in the game.

greetings

2. Biggest problem with that mode is that tanks are balanced and game is organised for mixed nation team. French tanks for example work great if they have some meatshields to hide behind them while reloading and then show up and kill.
So it’s possible that some nations will underperform or overperform in this mode, even if the tanks are balanced perfectly well for random battles.

3. You are generally right with your predictions about broken vehicles, but let’s go one step further.
If on a specific tier one nation is OP, then people will notice and will not be playing other nations areound that tier. Only thoise who are too stupid or careless to notice, will play this mode.
Which means, that underperforming nations will be underperforming even more, because they will practically always face OP nation and they will consist of mostly mediocre or worse players.

4. I wouldnt worry too much about OP vehicles unless we are talking about real monsters like KV-1S.
Let’s look at tier 6.
Russians are of course OP with their KV 1S
USA are also very good, with Hellcats, M4A3E8, where M6 are a bit lacking, but they have chaffee
Germans are ok with VK36.01H, decent mediums, JgPz IV and Nashorn and VK28.01
Brits are still pretty decent with overarmored monsters like churchill, AT-8, best arty FV304 and OP cromwells
Only Frenchies are a bit worse, with ARL44 and tier 6 TD being mediocre at best and AMX 12t being some kind of mix between scout and medium.

At tier 8
Russians with IS-3, T-44, ISU-152 and SU-14-2
Americans with T32, Pershing, T69, T28 and M40/43
Germans with KT, VK45.02A, JgPanther II, Rhm, GW Tiger and sniping meds
Brits with Caernarvon, Centurion, AT-8 and FV spomething

All those are comparable – have heavy tank with good armor, medium with decent mobility and gun with good penetration, TD with either big gun or good armor and big splash arty.
Only frenchies are different – AMX 50 100, AMX 13 90, Lorraine – it’s a recipe for disaster – or for pure ownage in case the team will play right

So what about ter 10?
WT E100 hidden behind german heavies can be brutal – but if they will be played badly, they will be next to useless. Except mediums they are least mobile, so it will be limiting factor.
Russians are easiest to play, they have 2 similar heavies, 3 the same meds, 2 sniping TD’s and one accurate and quick arty.
Americans offer the biggest variety – E3 or E4, T57 or T110E5 plus high dps medium and big splash arty
Brits have very bad medium, okeyish heavy, high alpha TD and very useful arty, brits may be problematic to play.

Aaaaand…. frenchies
Everything is quick, have burst capability and no armor. Sometimes epic win, most of the time epic fail.

I wouldnt worry about OP vehicles.
Te only thing that really makes me worried is if people will learn to adapt their behavior from random battles to nation battles.
If they do, it could work, if they dont, no one will play french tanks and… that’s all.

What I find bad is that one cannot select what type of battle you will end in. Setting these national battles as a separate mode might have been good, the fact that in 60% of battles you will end in pure random battle does not sound any good. (60% if you have all other modes disabled, which I will do in order to test this out)