In enlisted, choosing a vehicle to bring to the battle has a lot of uncertainties and constraints.
- You don’t know which faction you will fight
- You don’t know the map
- You don’t know if it will be an up or down tier
- You don’t know what the enemies will bring
- You have a limited number of slots
This creates a situation where players have a very high incentive to bring the most generally usable vehicle to combat - it results in boring meta and low usage for most of the vehicles in the game. This is from player perspective boring, from dev perspective probably doesn’t encourage adding more vehicles - and from paying customer perspective doesn’t create incentives to buy more premiums.
So lets discuss some changes which should make the game more fun for all players (including f2p) and enable gaijin to sell more premium vehicle squads. Everyone wins.
So I would propose the following changes:
- Introduce vehicle subcategories for each vehicle type
- Allow all tech tree squads to bring 1 vehicle per sub type into battle
- Allow all event TT and event vehicles to be used by all TT squads
- Introduce squad folding for premium squads: where premium & event vehicle squads can be taken to combat with one squad slot similar to the TT squads.
Vehicle subcategories
This is relatively straightforward, each vehicle would be assigned to a subcategory based on its primary purpose. All proposals are just directional and for illustration, in the end the splits can also be done differently - the general idea is more important.
Tanks would be split into one of the the following:
Tanks (Tiger, KV-1, King Tiger, Sherman, Panther, etc)
Tank destroyers (Elephant, M10, M18, SU-85M, etc)
Infantry Support (KV-2, Pz3 M, M8 HMC, etc)
There’s potential to add more such as AA, Scout vehicles, etc.
Fighters would be split into:
Interceptors: Either 0 or very low bomb / rocket load for the plane BR (Yak-3, FW 190 A-4, Fw 190 A-8, Bf 109 G-14, P-38E, etc)
Fighter-bombers: Fighters with competitive bomb / rocket load for the plane BR (AP-4c, ki-84 ko, BF 109 K-4)
Attackers would be split into:
Attackers: Standard CAS (ju-87, il-2, etc)
Bombers: Ju-88, A-20-25, Boston III, etc.
This way each TT squad can bring multiple vehicles into combat, allowing players to adjust to the equipment to the type of fight they end up in. This should also mean that more, different vehicles show up - making the battles overall more dynamic and interesting.
As said - the splits above are just an example and you also shouldn’t think too short term about whether everything would be fully fair in every BR/country mix right now - as the current vehicle mix has not been released with this kind of system in mind. The idea would be to develop something which allows (and encourages) the devs to fill the gaps with more equipment over time. 
This would generally mean that all event and TT vehicles should be usable by all TT squads to allow maximum amount of different combinations. 
Squad folding for premium vehicles:
However, doing the above for TT would mean that premium vehicles become very unattractive and this would likely block any such system anyway. We therefore need a solution for this from premium vehicle perspective which is also is as low effort as possible.
Therefore I we should introduce the same system for premiums where the squads can be directly folded by sub category. Eg. you can effectively put the Premium jumbo (Tank), Firefly (Tank Destroyer), Calliope (Infantry Support) into the same folded squad.
The cooldown rules should be the same for TT and Premium squads. So if a vehicle / squad dies, then you need to wait for 2 deaths before you can use the squad again (TT) or bring another folded squad into battle (premimum). The functionality is in effect 100% the same for all practical purposes.
Premium squads should also be able to fold in event vehicle squads to make it more accessible for players and to give more utility to those. This would mean, that you could for instance bring the P-63 (fighter bomber) as the premium squad and fold in “Rouen” event Yak-3 Squad as the interceptor.
This also means that even if you have 1 premium vehicle, you can still fold in event squads and don’t need to spend massive amounts of money to get the same benefit. If you want to spend money, you can build a premium lineup and have more incentive to do so, as like in TT you can bring more squads into battle and use them more flexibly.
Overall I think this would make the game substantially more interesting in terms of vehicles seen in combat, enable better development paths for the devs in the future, give players more reason to buy premiums and allow players to have more fun with the equipment they have bought or earned in the game.
- Yes
- No