Move Truck based transport squads to BR I

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Move Truck-Based Transport Squads to BR I

I would like to suggest moving the standard truck-based transport squads to BR I.

At the moment, these squads are not especially powerful compared to APCs. They are extremely vulnerable to:

  • small arms fire,
  • explosives,
  • aircraft strafing,
  • light machine guns,
  • heavy machine guns,
  • tanks,
  • artillery,
  • canons,
  • mortars

Most of these vehicles are also large, unarmored, and easy to spot or destroy.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kI63dCtjJTo

Current examples:

  • USSR — Motorized Infantry and Machine Gun Battalion — GAZ-AAA
    Fast and maneuverable, but completely exposed.
  • USA — 2nd Cavalry Regiment (Mechanized) — Studebaker US6
    Large vehicle, difficult to hide, very vulnerable.
  • Germany — 304th Panzergrenadier Regiment — Sd.Kfz.7
    Very slow, extremely large target, and easy to eliminate.
  • Japan — 2nd Mechanized Infantry Regiment — Type 94 Isuzu
    Mobile and useful, but still highly vulnerable to infantry fire.

Meanwhile, BR II and above already contain stronger premium/event APCs, including armored transports and even the German Sd.Kfz.251/9 at BR III.

Because of this, the basic truck transports would fit much better at BR I:

  • they are lightly protected,
  • have limited combat impact,
  • and mainly provide mobility rather than firepower.

This change would improve early-BR gameplay variety without significantly affecting balance.

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I used to be against this but we had a fair number of items with whole mechanics go down before, with new ones to replace the void. They are unarmed, and all the good armed APC options went down to BR II. It only makes sense to downtier these as well as they could never compete on a level that the armed ones can at the same BR.

Now if we got gunned ones those should be our BR II/III ones while the TT ones can occupy BR I.

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