>>When it comes to cute tanks, I'm going to put in a word for the
>>Hotchkiss H35.
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>Is it wrong of me that I immediately cross-referenced with Hokago Tea
>Time's song, "My Love is a Stapler?"

Heh, as it happens, there is evidently some controversy as to whether the Hotchkiss who founded the French armaments company by that name and the Hotchkiss whose stapler is so well-known in Japan were related. They were both inventors from Connecticut, so it seems likely to me, but I'm not a genealogist by any stretch.

Also, in re tanks, the H35 is two different Tier II tanks in World of Tanks—once as itself in the French tech tree, and once in the captured German guise of the slightly improved H39 model, the Panzer 38H 735 (f). Back in the early days of the game, when there were only US, Soviet, and German tech trees, other powers' tanks were occasionally slipped into the game as either captured German vehicles (like the French H39) or Lend-Lease Soviet gear (e.g., the British Matilda Mk IV debuted in the game as a Soviet tank). The German Hotchkiss hasn't been for sale in a very long time, probably since Wargaming added an actual French tech tree, but as far as I know, players who bought it back then and are still playing can still use it.

The other tank that is often brought up as a contender for the "cutest tank in WOT" title is the US M24 Chaffee light tank (Tier V in WOT).

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