Of course, the main appeal about the PT-76 is the gun options it gets, which include the following:

76 mm D-56T – A typical 76 mm rifled gun. With this equipped, the tank would play similarly to the Chaffee, with low alpha but good dpm and adequate penetration.

57 mm AZP S-60 – A 57 mm autocannon used on the PT-76E. While damage output would be mediocre, its high penetration and accuracy could be useful for harassing enemy tanks from a distance, giving it a unique playstyle compared to the WZ-132 and the AMX 13 90.

Another possible gun option is the 85 mm gun of the PT-85, a variant of the tank used by North Korea. Note that this MIGHT be a smoothbore gun, as it can launch ATGMs irl, so this may not be suitable.

Either way, the appeal to the PT-76 would be the varied playstyles you can have with it depending on the gun you choose, which gives it something for everybody.

Why you ask, well it’s simple – the more popular is a certain line, the more people play it and more people spend free exp on it. Free exp that was previously converted for gold. It’s the same with japanese and chinese trees as well.

I would bet much more players converted exp to get WT auf E100 and FV215b 183 on day 1 of their introduction than on STB-1 or 121.

On the one hand, I don’t really get all the people yelling “historical accuracy”, “made up tanks” and what not. I’d say more than half the tanks we drive already never made it past the drawing board or the prototype stage. Some are just plain fake based on some guy’s uncle’s ideas. So what? In the end, as long as they bring more variety and somehow fit into the game, I don’t think this hurt.

But on the other hand, I’d like to know why WG keeps looking for obscure protos and drawing board tanks, while there are so many real, actually produced tanks, to add to the game. There’s a french tree that could get two or three times bigger than it is now, a British tree that’s pretty much empty too, and about a hundred european tanks that could fill up a multinational tree. Work on those before digging up unknown projects.