Before the Manchurian campaign the Japanese BR1 tanks of TT were already very weak against Allied tanks (especially those from BR2 which have very good armor) and now they are facing T-70,T-50,T-28 and T-28E so the Japan BR1 needs a tank with higher penetration
The Ho-Ni I has no armor, no turret, no machine gun and is completely open. I don’t see why it wouldn’t be BR1 and now who going to use it in BR2 if we have the Ho-Ni III which has a roof at least
The only counter argument I’ve heard about moving certain tanks down to BR1 is that people are scared of HE spam. But you get uptiered quite frequently at BR1 so HE spam is nothing new, T-28s and M8 Scott’s etc.
People are so adamantly opposed to putting things that can HE spam into BR1, but BR1 is gonna face HE spam anyways so why keep a few tanks useless in BR2 when they rightfully deserve to be BR1.
Plus the best way to counteract HE spam would be the put a score requirement on spawning in vehicles.
Cause some tanks are BR1 level in quality but are still in BR2. The Ho-Ni I and the Alecto are the best examples, the Ho-Ni III is also pretty bad for BR2 as well.
I understand.
I think they should rework all of the br system for a lot of tanks.
For exemple,a sherman 105, or a kv2 (with the 152mm) can’t be compared to the dickermax or the shi ha (short gun). But they are in the same Br.
Maybe adding a new br6 + rethink some br should a solution
No tank has 75mm or bigger cannon in BR1 to prevent rampant HE.
There is one exception here, the Semovente and even that doesn’t get any HE shells.
Only way I could see HO-NI I lowered to BR1 is by taking its HE shells away, but then it would be absolutely defenless against infantry since its APHE’s explosive filler is very weak.
BR2 gets better toys than BR1 because they run the risk of getting uptiered themselves and the gap between BR2 and BR3 is far larger than the gap between BR1 and BR2.
Not even StuG III A gets a pass to be BR1 and I don’t see why Ho-Ni I should either.
Moving Ho-Ni I to BR1 would just incentivise playing BR1 with Ho-Ni and sitting in the back spamming HE.
there are tanks Japan could get like the Type 98 Chi-Ho or Type 5 Ke-Ho which would have the gun necessary to deal with T-28E and M3 Lee however these tanks are not in War Thunder.
The overall best solution would be to turn the event Chi-Ha Kai into a unique skin (like Panzer IV G “Stalingrad”) and add the normal one to the tech tree.
Yes I recognise the flaws, this SPG is indeed borderline worthless however moving it to BR1 would open Pandora’s box. You need to recognise that yourself.
