Light tank role seems to be changing since they are all getting view range slashed and require some decent crew skills and equipment to max out (unless you hate yourself and going for binoculars). Then again you can argue it was never their biggest strength at T8 anyway since lot of other tanks maxed out the 445m limit.
That and not sure how much stealth counts for either nowadays with maps, so really they are just becoming very mobile light mediums that have to get close as they are all working with pretty poor accuracy.
Not sure how I'll feel about artillery yet, on one hand your chances of having a huge chunk taking out of your are reduced now, but on the other the splash radius is vastly increased so we can all definitely expect to be using more consumables in the future. Does also bring the meta back a bit more towards big heavy things again since they don't have to worry about artillery as much. We already have ridiculously buffed heavies in Maus and Type 5 and silly things like that T8 VK1000something that some same tier tanks can't pen without using gold. Won't quite bring the days of domination of before but certainly make it a better proposition to play heavier stuff again.
That and not sure how much stealth counts for either nowadays with maps, so really they are just becoming very mobile light mediums that have to get close as they are all working with pretty poor accuracy.
Not sure how I'll feel about artillery yet, on one hand your chances of having a huge chunk taking out of your are reduced now, but on the other the splash radius is vastly increased so we can all definitely expect to be using more consumables in the future. Does also bring the meta back a bit more towards big heavy things again since they don't have to worry about artillery as much. We already have ridiculously buffed heavies in Maus and Type 5 and silly things like that T8 VK1000something that some same tier tanks can't pen without using gold. Won't quite bring the days of domination of before but certainly make it a better proposition to play heavier stuff again.
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