Comments on: About the 9.5 Branch

By: bodmans

bodmans — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:38:31 +0000

Well, Considering the valentine basically is a HT designated as a LT. It’s not completely illogical

By: richmi

richmi — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 12:10:03 +0000

17 pdr. Orgies, Here we come!

By: Wolfshark

Wolfshark — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 11:28:32 +0000

Ordnance QF 20 pounder or bust

By: Theodosius

Theodosius — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:59:34 +0000

Are you guys kidding me?
http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/5374/a30series.jpg
http://alliedtanksofworldwarii.devhub.com/img/upload/hgftgthftghfthgf.jpg
http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/1951/a30avenger.jpg

Different hull superstructure, Avenger got three return rollers but Challenger didn’t.

By: Doddy

Doddy — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:39:22 +0000

Idk, the pz.sfl terrible gun mobility killed it for me, i will take a turret any time ta.

Most people use the terrible pen 90mm on the S35CA, cos you know top gun must be best gun.

By: Doddy

Doddy — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:32:25 +0000

The don’t generally make mass produced tanks that actually saw combat into premiums. They try to use prototypes and one offs that had no upgrade potential. The exception of course are the Russian LL tanks/German captured tanks, but that was just because the Brit/French lines were not in game yet.

By: Doddy

Doddy — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:24:30 +0000

Because you can’t have valentine leading to 3 different tanks, yet have those tanks themselves leading to tanks in two other lines without turning the tech tree inside out. There would be nowhere to go after achilles, since it obvioulsy doesn’t run into the heavy or artillery lines. The best use of these tanks is to bridge to the turreted tds in the same way the churchill GC does between the heavies and Assault tds.

Obviously this is all because of the 2D tech trees. That and connecting valentine to Bishop because of the shared chassis when they don’t do that for the vast majority of Arty (including all the ones after Bishop). I mean you can’t train GWPanther from Panther can you?

So one of the valentines current links has to go, doesn’t actually matter whether it is the Bishop or the Churchill.

By: Doddy

Doddy — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:03:09 +0000

It was firefly to the allies, no idea what the Germans called it. Firefly was kinda the project name for upgunning stuff to 17-pdr and the name somehow got down to the troops. It could as easily have stuck to achilles or challenger, but those had been given a proper name while the firefly was just a sherman variant, i guess the crews wanted to differentiate it. The firefly name in this context supposedly game from the 17-pdr itself, which gave off extreme flash at least in its early iterations. However there were earlier firefly projects pre-dating the 17 pdr (6 pdr on morris recon car) so that might be apocryphal.

By: Doddy

Doddy — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 22:47:50 +0000

There are many less popular branches than the AT line, and the only other turreted td line we have is ridiculously popular (5 times as many people playing it as the non turreted line of same nation), so I think you will be surprised. As for the conqueror it is seen in the same sort of numbers as all the other tier 9 heavies which aren’t the E75 or IS8, and those are popular because the tier 10s are geek famous.

By: Septfox Malkier

Septfox Malkier — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 22:42:29 +0000

Ehh. Wolverine only goes 48kph, and has a mediocre power:weight…I’d liken it more to a slightly quicker (emphasis on “slightly”), fast-firing Jackson with a worse turret.

Which is perfectly alright with me, I’m quite fond of my Jackson.