Great take. 9-man rifleman squads with Type Heis are the new meta for Japan. Hopefully, the Yanks will get some fancy new toys in the next major update.
The Ho-Ri production, as we see it in-game, is a fictional continuation of the rejected sloped armor design which we have photos of the mockup for, namely, the uprated engine and sloped glacis plate thickness are completely fabricated, and for some reason it uses the earlier variant of the prototype 105mm gun. As for the "sunroof", that is in fact entirely accurate even in the final design that was accepted and under construction, Gaijin at least got that part right, but I really wish that we instead received the historically accepted design of the Ho-Ri, as not only is it more manageable (unsloped, 75mm flat plating), but it was slated to operate with a twin 20mm Type 98 automatic cannon installed on an elevated swivel mount on the rear.
Im a bit torn with the Ho Ri production, on one hand japan really needed a good tank to counter american tanks. However the ho ri is a tank destroyer, meaning that it has no turret, therefore leading it to be forced to be a greyzone tank because it is defenceless against infantry with its massive blindspots on the sides. At least for me players will almost always spam 2 ho ris on the top of the hills in the pacific and drain your tickets down b4 you even get a chance to get into the objective, let alone cap it. Also I see the moving roof as one of the only balancing features about this tank, if the roof was solid, Hvars and molotovs (or flamethrowers) would do much less damage to the tank and its crew. I think that the devs should have gone for the actual design that was accepted by the japanese, which had worse armour and a little worse of a gun. If they really wanted to they could just do the flat armour and keep the main gun, i think it would still be very powerful, but also more managable to deal with if they did this. also subbed
Great take. 9-man rifleman squads with Type Heis are the new meta for Japan. Hopefully, the Yanks will get some fancy new toys in the next major update.
The Ho-Ri production, as we see it in-game, is a fictional continuation of the rejected sloped armor design which we have photos of the mockup for, namely, the uprated engine and sloped glacis plate thickness are completely fabricated, and for some reason it uses the earlier variant of the prototype 105mm gun.
As for the "sunroof", that is in fact entirely accurate even in the final design that was accepted and under construction, Gaijin at least got that part right, but I really wish that we instead received the historically accepted design of the Ho-Ri, as not only is it more manageable (unsloped, 75mm flat plating), but it was slated to operate with a twin 20mm Type 98 automatic cannon installed on an elevated swivel mount on the rear.
Im a bit torn with the Ho Ri production, on one hand japan really needed a good tank to counter american tanks. However the ho ri is a tank destroyer, meaning that it has no turret, therefore leading it to be forced to be a greyzone tank because it is defenceless against infantry with its massive blindspots on the sides. At least for me players will almost always spam 2 ho ris on the top of the hills in the pacific and drain your tickets down b4 you even get a chance to get into the objective, let alone cap it. Also I see the moving roof as one of the only balancing features about this tank, if the roof was solid, Hvars and molotovs (or flamethrowers) would do much less damage to the tank and its crew. I think that the devs should have gone for the actual design that was accepted by the japanese, which had worse armour and a little worse of a gun. If they really wanted to they could just do the flat armour and keep the main gun, i think it would still be very powerful, but also more managable to deal with if they did this. also subbed
You could argue that the type 100 lmg has a fire rate of 1200
Bruh, the ho ri might not be historical, but it is nowhere near fictional, it is considered realistic as if it was build, this is how it would be.