IMO the light tanks are doing fine. Unicums are using ot to boost their WN8 artificially and not enough average players have gotten into the tanks and started failing their way through them yet. I think they’re gonna be left alone. They aren’t a serious Clan Wars threat and people aren’t gonna be running teams of ten T49s in stronkholds. (as hilariously fun as that sounds), so I don’t believe the light tanks are at all imbalanced.

15k xp to get the LTTB.
Chaffee n’ friends probably will have to wait.
ELC “Pancake” AMX still sitting in my garage doing regular troll-runs.

I still miss the old T-50 though :C

replay, or it didn’t happen

Nothing more to say.

The LTTB, from my understanding, is like the old T-50-2 but at tier 7 and with a much bigger gun: a fast attack tank that can be used as a scout, but if you’re using it only as a scout then you’re limiting its potential. The only real downsides are its 3 degrees of gun depression and the fact that it’s not exactly a small target, although its excellent mobility makes up for the latter.

The T-54 Light on the other hand is very much a medium tank in all but name. Basically, take a Type 59, un-nerf its mobility, then modify the MM so that it only sees tier 9s and 10s, and that’s the T-54 Light in a nutshell. It’s not the kind of tank that you should use solely as a scout, because it really shines when used much in the same way as its heavier tier 9 counterpart should be.

This really sums up why the new lights were added in a nutshell: WG’s trying to expand the role of light tanks so that they can be more than just scouts that can only rarely carry teams, but rather to allow them to supplement medium tanks in the roles of fast flankers and support tanks that can engage in direct combat if driven well.