We should change slots to accomodate the various forms of vehicles we have in the game. Example being the light tanks and even the British reconaissance car are just tanks. I think it’d be cooler if they costed less tickets to spawn if they got a new classification such as ‘light tank’. Surely there is more to be done about this right? Everyone would just run the heaviest tank they can but if we gave more incentive for different types of vehicles besides Heavy tanks and APCs we might see different vehicles.
Not super content heavy or even a high priority, but I want to hear if there is potential reasons to even change the squad slots at all.
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It does sound like a cool idea but i don’t think light tanks would be viable in games where the enemy are using heavier tanks or have decent AT, even at a lower cost they are basically free kills for most people at BR 3 or higher.
Though it would help to balance vehicle combat a bit more since atm if they do have a heavier tank then you then it is pointless suicide to spawn a light tank since you would be blocking someone else from spawning a competitive tank instead for the same tickets. Since currently you can only have 2 tanks spawned in at anyone time. Maybe changing the ticket cost and increasing the availability of light tanks might help like making it so you could have 2 lights and 1 heavy or just 2 heavies.
Problem being that light tanks cannot hurt most heavier tanks at all and usually have pretty bad anti infantry capability too. So i think it would take a lot to make them viable in higher tier games.
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Well sometimes light vehicles can be useful. For example the US M13 MGMC (and all the other nation’s AA vehicles). Since it’s fairly common that novices has taken both the plane slots but struggle to do effective CAS or air combat.
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A better way is
Air defense transport vehicle
This will solve most of the problems
I pretty well agree with you though light tanks do well with infantry imo. It’d be neat surely there are changes worth making.
The only major advantage lighter tanks have over their heavier counterpart is mobility. Having a larger map would highlight this benefit as they could reach objectives faster to provide infantry support (unless all the infantry were walking for some reason)
I think light tanks should have ability to call smoke barrages or something like that.
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A lot of the tanks have radios in them already; it’s a wonder why they don’t have any radioman capabilities yet.
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I’ve wondered this as well.
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Yeah i think giving light tanks radioman abilities might go a long way to making them more viable. They could perform scouting duties then follow up with artillery making it less likely to give their position away and negating the poor HE of the smaller shells. Maybe making marked targets stay for longer if done by a light tank and or make lights tanks spotted for less time. Problem is it’s going to take a lot to make them viable above BR3 without making them too strong for below BR3.
Would just be better if they implemented better matchmaking so light tanks didn’t have to face heavy tanks. Maybe have a select few higher tier light tanks have these extra abilities. Or give them to the rider class since there is little reason to ever bring them in after the merge.
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