The Japanese tech tree suffers from two main problems: Lack of equipment and bad placement of weapons in battle ratings, so I decided to rework the Japanese tech tree by adding more content.
I’ve also moved the items to their proper sections corresponding to their BR (for example, the Chi-Nu which is BR3 researched in BR4, but now will be researched in BR3)
New items will be labeled yellow (hopefully).
BR1
Changes:
- Added a Hanyang 88 rifle, a rifle that was used by Chinese forces and the Collaborationist Chinese Army who worked with the Japanese.
- Added a Ha-Go with flamethrower, a counterpart to the M3 Stuart with flamethrower.
- Added a Te-Ke (which should be labeled yellow but isn’t) to fill up the tech tree a bit more.
- Added a Type 24 rifle premium engineer squad. The rifle is also known as the Chiang Kai-Shek rifle which was based off the Kar98k. This squad be of the Collaborationist Chinese Army and have chinese voice lines.
- Added an Arisaka Type 44 carbine premium rifleman squad, which was designed for cavalry.
BR2
Changes:
- Foldered the Type 99 rifle (late) and Type 99 rifle (early)
- Reduced the Type Otsu rifle’s BR to 2 (as a BR3 main I think Type Hei is still better)
- Swapped the location of the Type 4 rocket launcher and Type 5 rocket launcher (because Type 5 is better in every way and there is no point in using Type 4 except for the sights. This gives players a small incentive to use the Type 4.)
- Reduced B5N2’s BR to 2 (as a BR3 main I think D3A1 is better due to the B5N2’s lack of frontal machine guns.)
- Added a Ki-51 Attacker plane which has better flying characteristics and frontal machine guns compared to the B5N2, but weaker bombload
- Added an A7M2, with better flying characteristics than the A6M2, but no bombload
- Added an A6M2-N as a fighter pilot premium squad, which is basically a zero if it was a sea plane.
BR3
Changes:
- Reduced the Type 4 rifle’s BR to 3 (if you nerf the damage to the same as the SVT-38 and Gewehr-41, it should be balanced, especially due to the fact it has dual clip reloads)
- Added a Type Hei sniper rifle to BR3 with 10 rounds (people said you could mount a scope on it so I trust them). This will also unlock a sniper 3 squad.
- Increased the Type 100 SMG (late)'s BR to 4 (Japan wasn’t known for its SMGs, so I felt it was more realistic to move it up a tier. Also the SIG 1920 is still pretty good as a BR3 weapon. I also felt that Japan would be extremely powerful if these changes were implemented so some drawbacks had to be made.)
- Added a Type 98 mortar as a counterpart to the USSR’s RM-40
- Added a Type 1 Ho-Ki, as a second tech tree APC.
- Added a Type 4 90 mm rocket launcher, which is an upgrade from the BR2 rocket launchers.
- Switched the order of unlocking the tanks since there was no point in using the Na-To
- Added a B5N1 attacker plane (which should be labeled yellow but isn’t) which is the same as the B5N2, except with frontal machine guns.
- Added a A6M5 fighter plane which should be labeled yellow but isn’t) which is a slight upgrade from the A6M2 in flying characteristics.
- Added a Ki-32 attacker plane with one 1000lb bomb
- Added a Ho-Ni II premium tanker squad, as a counterpart to the Dicker Max.
BR4
Changes:
- Added a ZH-29, which were captured from Chinese forces fighting against the Japanese. The ZH-29 inspired the creation of the Otsu rifle.
- Added a Ki-43-IIb fighter plane with two 250kg bombs as a BR4 counterpart to the P-51D-5 except with better flying characteristics
- Added a Type 95 Ji-Ro premium tanker squad as a BR4 “Ho-Ri”
- Added a Type 100 SMG (late) universal paratrooper squad
- Increased the Tokyo Arsenal’s BR to 5 to give the other BR4 SMGs a chance to be used.(shouldn’t affect people too much since ~95% who play this gun play BR5 anyway and the Type 100 SMG is still very powerful)
BR5
Changes:
- Added a Type 2 SMG (1934) as an “assault rifle” (which shoots 6.5 mm rifle bullets) as a counterpart to the Fedorov Avtomat.
- Added a Type 97 mortar which was the standard issue infantry mortar for Japan. It used 81mm mortars. It is the counterpart for the BM-41 and Kz 8cm GrW 42.
- Added a Ki-100-I-Ko as a fighter plane with two 250 kg bombs
- Added an N1K1-J as a fighter plane with two 250 kg bombs
- Added a Ki-102 Otsu as an attacker plane with two 250 kg bombs
- Added an Army Type 98 MG machine gun premium squad which is based off the German MG15
- Also for some reason J2M3 which is already in-game is missing in my graphic so please note that
There were a lot of other premium squads or gold weapons I wanted to introduce but this suggestion is already long enough.
And I’ve also probably made plenty of historical inaccuracies so please correct me
