Comments on: Merkava in World of Tanks?

By: sabbatino

sabbatino — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:28:44 +0000

“Tho after war like other countries, Poland fell under Russian occupation until 1989 and durning that time Russians tried to erase good relations and our shared history.”

Poland wasn’t occupied by Russians. Only countries which belonged to USSR were occupied by Russians. Get your facts straight next time.

By: sabbatino

sabbatino — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:24:47 +0000

*cough*Most Jewish people are communists themselves.*cough

And no. I’m not Jewish if such question arose to you,

By: 23r0_NA

23r0_NA — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 19:22:31 +0000

There’s already MBTs in WoT (they were originally called “Universal” tanks until the T-62 with a smoothbore gun showed up – examples include both Centurions, the T-54, T-62, Type 59, WZ-120 (which is the factory designation of the Type 59), and a few others)

By: 23r0_NA

23r0_NA — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:49:46 +0000

The only issue, as far as WG is concerned, is that they don’t have enough tanks to have a full medium, heavy, td and spg branch up to tier 10 (apparently that’s their reasoning for not adding so many of the proposed EU trees anyway). They’d have enough mediums, tds and maybe enough spgs, but heavies would be a problem.

By: DrThrax123

DrThrax123 — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:48:58 +0000

Palestinians would like a word with you. (And their land back.)
Don’t worry…after we get rid of the dictators Israel and Iran are next.

By: RedShocktrooper

RedShocktrooper — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:46:42 +0000

Let’s compare:

Sticking a 122mm A-19 in a Sherman? Yeah, that’s about on par with the Sherman carrying a long 105mm I would say.

But as far as locally, self-designed vehicles? What does Yugoslavia and Ex-Yugoslavia bring? A couple of downgraded Soviet export tanks? We have the Chinese for that. At least Israel actually designed its own tanks.

Unless you can pull something neat like a 60mm T-54 killing autocannon out of the nether then I would say Yugoslavia would, at best, belong to the Europe Composite tree with a few premium vehicles.

By: RedShocktrooper

RedShocktrooper — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:42:10 +0000

I don’t think a 105mm gun that’s just another version of the M68/L7 is “hits like a heavy”.

That said, we have the Leopard I and they intend to implement the AMX-30 MBT, as well as some Yugoslavian Hellcat/T-54 Hybrid (Hellcat turret and 76mm gun on T-54 turret – basically Eastern European version of the Type 64). It’s not so much an arbitrary year limit as a tech limit. One could, theoretically, also put the M1 Abrams in by way of the very early XM1 prototypes not using computers, composite armors, and the M1 didn’t use a smoothbore gun until the A1. Will the XM1 appear? Probably not, because that’s really picking the barrel for a reason to implement it.

But if the AMX-30 is coming “some time in the future”, I see no reason why the Merk Mk. I couldn’t.

By: Da_Zohan

Da_Zohan — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:39:23 +0000

It would be the only place an arab could ever whoop an Israeli tank.

Israel is the World’s #1 supplier of burnt out spare Soviet Tank parts.

By: William Griffiths

William Griffiths — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:03:53 +0000

With the way the engine and turrets mounted, It looks like the thinking was a defensive rather than offensive tank, designed to fight from hull down in prepared positions then make a fast getaway to another line of prepared positions if they were in danger of being overrun.

By: CoffeeholicCielo

CoffeeholicCielo — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:38:57 +0000

I’d have to agree with deveen23 on this one.