I’ll never use the autoloader. It’s a joke. I think it’s hilarious that people say it’s OP because the autoloader when the autoloader’s not even the best option for the tank.

Tomatoes.

The M41 is not OP. It is a fantastic little (Well, it’s kinda’ big…) passive scout and fast flanker/attacker. I love it. I absolutely adore it.

The T49 is not OP. The T49 is very, very underpowered. The derp gun is useless unless you’re just wanting to be stupid. and you aren’t really playing to be effective, but instead just derping around. The semi-smoothbore is useless with it’s current ammo config. Yes, the semi-smoothbore only had 3 ammo types (HEP, HEAT, HE) but something needs to be done. Give it the 90mm M41 back or something. As it is now, it’s the new Konish. It must use gold ammo to be effective. And Wargaming’s going to bank on that.

That’s wrong.

I’m afraid Storm is VERY wrong on this. The information is absolutely crucial for many players in the Asia server region who have live with shitty Internet. Whenever the server approaches 20k cca the game becomes unplayable. Severe lag and packet loss. Tanks driving off cliffs and into the water. Shells flying miles off direction. Many players in my country (Malaysia) avoid playing between 8pm – 12mn (SG time) because this is when the problem is at it’s WORST.

Whilst local ISP’s are mostly to blame, at least showing the number of players online gives us an idea of the ideal circumstances to play. To my knowledge, Malaysian players are badly affected by this problem but I have seen complaints by players from other neighboring countries as well.

The forum discussion can be found here : http://forum.worldoftanks.asia/index.php?/topic/39927-serious-lagging-issue-in-malaysia/

The WZ’s 100 mm gun is better than the T-54′s in all ways except ROF, which is better on the T-54, but the 85 mm gun has better ROF, and DPM than the T-54. Also better accuracy and aim time than it’s own 100 mm gun.

Also, I just mentioned it above, but the WZ has a choice of two very good guns, which allows you to tailor it to what you like, in a way that others don’t. The T-54 only has a 100 mm gun, and then a slightly better version of the same thing, the T-49 is stuck with explosive shells on both of it’s guns, and the RU-251 only has the one gun.

As far as the Leo 1 goes, yes, the RU-251 is much faster than it is, but the Leo is also a medium tank, it’s not supposed to be as fast as any of the light tanks. If it was, it would entirely defeat the purpose of even having any light tanks to begin with. The Leo 1 does, however, have better armor (though not by much), considerably better firepower, more hit points, as well has having much better braking force, and hull traverse.

Currently there are things with the french heavy and medium auto-loaders that you just can’t do, because there are other tanks that prevent them from being able to do those things effectively. Currently the AMX 13-90 can get away with all of those things, even though it has an auto-loader as well, why? because until patch 9.3, there aren’t any equal tier light tanks capable of keeping it from being able to do those things.

Things that, as an auto-loader, it doesn’t really have any business doing. You will have to be a lot more careful, and you will not be able to approach a T-49 from the front without getting slaughtered. The point is that you will have to pick your moment more carefully, waiting until the T-49 fires, and then popping up and clipping him.

Basically, there is going to be a lot more interplay between all of the light tanks. Will the WZ be as useful in all of the situations that it is useful in now? No, but it will still be useful in some of them. Will any of the new tanks be useful in as many situations as the WZ is now? No, of course not, that’s why you can say that the old lights aren’t going to lose their usefulness. If the new tanks COULD do that, then yes, the old ones would be buried and totally pointless, but that didn’t happen. That is, the new tanks are outstripping the old ones in only a few specific areas, while still leaving them with a few things that they are better at than the new ones. Which is as it should be, since no tank should ever be the “end all that is all” of any given tank type.