It’s kind of gratifying to see that the devs are apparently aware of the plight of light tanks.

Here’s what I’ve felt as a light tank driver…

We’ve had two major tank class nerfs since I started playing:

1. a big artillery nerf
2. a nerf to TD camouflage abilities – including map changes to marginalize effectiveness of TDs

Both of them kicked light tank drivers in the balls.

Light tanks love artillery. We love to sneak into the backfield and kick their teeth in, and we love to provide spotting for them to rain terror on the enemy. Essentially, artillery IS the main gun for a light tank. Screw the T71′s autoloader – the tank’s real gun is the artillery. So nerfing artillery automatically nerfed light tanks’ arsenal as well.

But the TD nerf was even worse for us. Not because of TD camo values, but because suddenly WG removed all the bushes that TDs might use to do their thing from.

Guess who else not only likes, but absolutely needs handy bushes to do their jobs?

Yup – light tanks.

And it didn’t stop there – entire maps were redesigned. Open models like Steppes and Malinovka were altered or trashed in favor of stupid “World of Tunnels” maps like Severogorsk (oh, how I absolutely loathe and despise Severogorsk), not to mention ruining all the fields of fire on the infamous A1 corner on El Halluf and turning it into a nice warm bunker for brawling heavies and mediums.

It literally is not possible to do consistent good work in a light tank anymore in my opinion. Lights can still score monster games in the hands of a skilled player – but the only way they accomplish this is by sneaking in opportunistic flanking shots on tanks several tiers higher – leading to big XP scores.

But that isn’t really being a contributor – that’s just taking advantage of the XP buff lights get. A medium could do the same thing and do a lot more damage to the enemy and would be more likely to survive doing it. Put optics on the medium and it’s also perfectly adequate for the team’s spotting needs in many cases.

Passive scouting is almost impossible in half the maps as currently constituted and is highly ineffective in the rest of them. Even Malinovka got kicked in the teeth. Active scouting is possible on some maps (I absolutely love Prokhorovka), but highly difficult on many, and impossible on some.

It’s just something I’ve noticed. Whenever the player base gets vocal and screams for nerfs – light tank drivers get screwed.

The only problem there is that it’s easy to spot tanks on the hill from the plaza. That entire ledge is dangerously exposed to everything if the enemy team has plaza control, not just artillery.

This doesn’t even make the slightest bit of sense.

1. My first Arty love was the SU26, yup was Op and go nerfed into Oblivion
2. next came VK3601H, yup I wasnt suddenly a good player, the tank was OP, it got Nerfed

What tanks am I doing well in at the moment…. Hmm E75 is my current favourite, nerf incoming?

JagdPanther 2… hmmm, now i have the best gun my performance has improved massively, to me that means its probably got a nerf bat incoming…

Problem is we are human we like to win and winning 49% of battles is not enough for me, if I cant have a Wr of 53% and greater i don’t want to play a game, I don’t want to play something that i play as well as everyone, I want to be a winner for a change and computer games are one of the few things I do quite well, sad isn’t it!

Tank crews have to work out ballistics too and even on move sometimes.
The have to be highly proficient moving ther tank around battlefield on their own and most importantly maintaining very high SA all time. Not even speaking about coms and coordination in combat.

I think it isn’t same playfield, not even league, it is comletly different sport.

But WG wiped out that difference between these vehicles by putting them on same playfield and made them competitive…

Seriously, what?

By numbers they mean the statistical performance of the tank ingame.

And besides “lesser demend on crew abilities and training”?! Have you ever calculated a firing solution without a computer?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owzhYNcd4OM