Since historical accuracy has been thrown out the window with burst fire federovs and the Ho-RI, why don’t we introduce cool paper design designs for events.
The Panther II isn’t particularly overpowered, and it would serve as a faster Tiger II with worse armor.
I’m pretty sure this tank never existed like I said this thing was never was even in blueprints nor drawn on paper like it never existed in world war 2 LMFAO
I mean, the Panther II was actually built, it just didn’t have the 8.8cm Schmalturm turret (which was only ever a paper concept a year or two after Panther II was shelved).
The burst fire Federov comes from the devs misunderstanding an article describing how the M1913 Federov was tested. It describes the gun being fired in bursts, but they interpreted it as having a burst-fire mechanism. Hopefully this gets amended soon.
Finally, a little-known fact is that some Ho-Ris were partially completed, just nowhere near completed prototypes. People just assume the vehicle wasn’t ever built because there aren’t any photos of functioning prototypes, when there are archival documents that provide more clarity. This Reddit post provides more information: https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/ds90x6/were_the_hori_tanks_ever_even_built/
Here’s the blueprint for the 8.8cm Schmalturm turret. Never built, but was a legitimate concept, part of a series of proposals to up-arm a bunch of German tanks in November 1944. The turret ring is slightly larger than that of Pz.IV/Panther’s, so it wouldn’t be directly interchangeable.
You sure this is cause like this looks kinda yoi know fake ish I could literally be dead wrong but you know
https://invenio.bundesarchiv.de/invenio/direktlink/f0804e45-111a-443b-99b8-f39f20f7fc51/
Website of the German Bundesarchiv. Click “Digitalisat anzeigen” within RH 8/2513K and go to Image 2.
But why? Germany has tons of real vehicles that could be added so why settle with fake one?
As for ho-ri japan literally doesnt have anything better to offer. All of their high tier tanks are fake because they didnt have good tanks irl
LESS paper, mot more. Thanks. Darn it Japan why do you have to ruin so many things?
Last I heard it was a hunk of wood
Yes, and no. Here’s some more info from an old War Thunder forum post that goes into detail.
It contains links to the Japanese archives, with various documents dicsussing the development stages of the Ho-Ri prototypes. Here’s one of the last examples from 1945: ４．八幡製鉄所の現況
Pls no. Never finished, plus Germany doesn’t really need it. German BR5 tanks are already good enough(okay, you might have an argument that the tiger II H doesn’t have APCR, but the APHE is good enough) and in enlisted, mobility matters a lot less than in WT so the panther II would just be a tiger II P with 20mm more armor.
Why should it have? It can still easily front pen any allied tank at any br. Apcr would just be a downgrade because you would lose so much post pen
You link info provided my Mai Waffentrager, who later admitted to basically imagining and speculating, allegedly forging documents.
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And as far as OPs post goes: No thanks.
Just because some origami BS was added doesn’t mean we need to decimate the whole game now.
Yea that’s why I said the APHE is more than good enough. APCR is a nice to have on every tank imo no matter how powerful the gun is when you have some wack shot you have to take.
I respectfully disagree. Apcr just takes space from other more useful ammo. For an example m4a2 76w lost lot of HE shells because they added apcr
That’s fair enough. I guess it depends on how much APCR you have and what your total ammo load is. For me, since I’m pretty aggressive with tanks 99% of the tank having 5-7 less HE isn’t really a big deal, but I can see why people would prefer having more HE and no APCR.
If they add the ability to change ammo loadouts freely like in wt everyone would win
i would say it should be percentile based instead of exact count