I love history and I also love variety. I like seeing and using all the many different vehicles of this massive mechanized war.
The Marder III was certainly surprising additions. I want the rest of the Marder family to be added.
The Marder series was a program to convert obsolete vehicle chassis into tank destroyers as mobile anti-tank guns were desperately needed.
The Marder I was based on captured French Lorraine 37L military tractors and armed with the Pak 40
The Marder II was based on the Panzer II chassis. The first model Sd Kfz 132 was armed with captured Soviet 7.62cm guns
The second model Sd Kfz 131 was armed with the standard Pak 40
When Pak 40s could not be spared a rare variant armed with the 50mm Pak 38 was produced. This variant had a different superstructure
The Marder III was based on the Czechoslovakian Panzer 38(t) which was a very important captured vehicle in the German arsenal. The first model Sd Kfz 139 and Ausf H are in game.
The Marder III Ausf M was the last variant. It had significant improvements over the other variants with a low silhouette, sloped armor, and better crew compartment. It was the most produced variant
These vehicles can be added into the research tree, event content, and even Premium.
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well,
whether it’s true that in the past we were blessed with new vehicles that were implemented rather than imported from war thunder; ( stalingrad flame tanks, bikes, apc trucks, m3a1 & sdkfz 7 apc, and couple of others )
these unfortunately are not present within war thunder.
as it goes for the marders them selves, i think the ones we got already fills the spot.
personally,
i’d be willing to buy the Ausf M as premium due to being iconic and a fan favorite of mine among coh & men of war games.
but the others, not sure about their chances of actually being implemented ( neither the ausf M actually… ).
never say never. it’s just that i feel chances are very thin.
mostly because TDs aren’t widely used outside Mods too…
i hope to be wrong of course.
I think because this game already has a massive amount of content its simply just a matter of time. A lot of content in game was likely added just for variety (and that’s a good thing). For example, what does the Tiger H1 do differently than the other Tigers we already have. Well its the very first Tiger that entered service so its neat for history and variety
Do all of these Marders do the same exact thing, yes, but they’re still neat because this is a historical shooter.
Yes TD don’t really do anything different than every other vehicle because at the end of the day whether you’re a light tank or heavy or self propelled artillery all you can do is just shoot at infantry. But they are an iconic vehicle of WW2 so they should be in game regardless.
There are players like me who like history and variety
One day….
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