There is ZERO, historical precedents for them being in the Guadalcanal Battle, and they are total over kill against the Japanese tanks, that Frankley have a hard enough time dealing with everything else the Americans have.
I can’t see how this could be rationalized by the dev’s I know there probably trying to cut coroners by not modeling the US 37 mm AT gun or the Japanese 47 mm gun, but as more players level up, this imbalance is going to be more and more acute
The devs the 6 pounder because the HE on the 37mm (and the 47) would be mostly negligible. It’s the same reason we got the Pak 38 in Moscow before Panzer III J. As for historical accuracy, remember the devs want to do all of Pacific as a whole, and while I can’t find any concrete documentation about the Marines using them, the Australians would have had them, and the Army had the option to use them later in the war. You are just going to have to overlook it for now, like the Grease Gun and the Owen as it will only likely retroactively make more sense later both for balance and for historical accuracy.
Does that mean we will have a Corsair?
There are two in the game files, go to the editor and you will see them.
Nice! I got the “Lucibel” camo from G. Boyington corsair in War Thunder
I cant buy the HE argument personally, I just they cut corners, I had three matches in a row where the s 6 pounders Killed my thin skinned Japanese tanks in one or two hits, before I could take them out because for some odd reason it takes multiple hits to kill any Gun with a tank round, there totally out of place in the Pacific, even the US kept there 37 mm AT guns in service in the pacific late war in part because they were still effective against the Japanese tanks.
Bonis Peninsula, Bougainville. June - July 1945. A two pounder anti tank gun, named ?Gilly, of the 31/51st Battalion being towed behind a jeep. The anti tank guns of this battalion found little opportunity for action as the Japanese forces did not have any tanks. Captain J. Whitelaw, 11th Battery, 4th Field Regiment, (the battery attached to 31/51st Battalion) calculated the range tables for the guns and they were used to bombard Japanese positions around Chabai and the Porton Plantation.
If you have used the 37mm HE on the Stuart without supplementing it with the MG, then you would understand why the HE thing matters. Yes the Marines didn’t use the 6 pounder, but remember this campaign is going to include things like the Philippines as well, where there were no Marines. By that time in 1944/45, the Amry had retired the 37mm for quite a while. The Philippine Military also ended up using it because it was easier for logistics. And of course, the Australians used it. So for now, you are just going to have to suspend your disbelief until we get those places, like with the Owen Gun and the Grease Gun.
The 37 mm was still in use In the Pacific late war, even in Europe it was not replaced entirely late war.
By the late spring of 1943 the AGF recognized that the 37mm gun was obsolete and would have to be replaced in the infantry divisions. The May 26, 1943 TO&E for the regimental anti-tank company substituted nine 57mm guns for the 37mm guns, and authorized the use of the new 1½-ton truck as its prime mover. In fact, it would take more than six months for this to be executed, and significant numbers of US 57mm guns did not enter combat until the spring of 1944.
Zaloga, Steven J… US Anti-tank Artillery 1941–45: No. 107 (New Vanguard) (pp. 21-22). Bloomsbury Publishing. Kindle Edition.
That says American 57mms entered service en mass in 1944, Philippines happened in late 1944/1945. Furthermore, you don’t need to convince me that the 37mm was used in the Pacific, everyone and their dog knows that. However, in the Philippines, the primary anti-tank gun used by the Army during the recapturing was the 6 pounder, so if the devs want to do all of the Pacific, you cannot say that the 6 pounder is not historically accurate, as it was definitely used within the confines of what the scope of the campaign is.
The point is, that the 6 pounder is total over kill, no mater what year were talking about in the pacific, and the reference indicates that it entered serve in 44, but hardly in mass, I have no reference that shows the 57 mm ( 6 pounder) being use in the Philippines, that doesn’t mean they were not however, I do have a lot of references showing the 37 mm still in use in 45 though in the Pacific.
There is no reasionable argument for the US having/neading the 6 pounder from a balance perespecte in the Pacifc, and clerly one one for it beign Over kill.
It is perfectly fine as is in terms of balance, Before the T-50 the Pak 38 was eating through all the Russian tanks just as easily as it was in Tunisia when it was just the A-13 and Daimler. The 6 pounder in Tunisia was doing the same before the Semovente. Give it a couple updates, and things will balance out. As for the 6 pounder in the Philippines, they were there, the Filipino forces got quite a few during the war, and proceeded to use them into the cold war.
Wait for heavy tank in both side and say another time this
Were just going to have to strongly disagree on this one I guess, I have no reference for the date of issue for the reconstituted Philipine Army getting the 57 mm AT gun’s from the US, seams a bit of stretch though that they would of gotten them in 44/45 in the pacific when the US army was still using the 37 mm AT gun in theater though.
The Philippian Army Not being rebuilt till way after the US started the campaign in the Philippians and having liberated large areas from Japanese control.
The heaviest tank I can see them adding was the Sherman, and the Japanese 47 mm could deal with that.
So there is no need for the 6 pounder
It had a high rate of fire and with AP shells was capable of perforating the front armor of the M4A6 (a slightly more heavily armored variant of the M4 medium tank[citation needed]) at 800 yards
You dont think as a darkflow employer
Thats the Nicest thing anyone’s said to me today 
I should hope not, there crazy
And that because they are crazy, @LordBeaverbroke is saying the 6 pounder is fine, if the ak47 can find hisvway in berlin along side post war german soldier i dont see wy a jumbo or the Japanese tiger cant come as well in the pacific
The game is fun, but at a certain point it is likely to be just to ridiculous
