>"Classic" Tankery, played under the original pre-Contact rules,
>permits only the use of AFVs designed and built on Earth before the
>surrender of Nazi Germany to end the European phase of that planet's
>Second World War, May 8, 1945. Some extremely strict forms of
>sensha-dō take that restriction even further and require that
>teams limit themselves only to equipment that would logically have
>been operated by one combatant force in that war (e.g., all Soviet
>equipment, all German, or mixed UK and US hardware), but that rule is
>considered archaic and optional even under the modern Co-Prosperity
>Sphere Ministry for Sport regulations.

Given the combatants mentioned here -- and the cutoff date -- I take it not even the Co-Prosperity Sphere's Tankers think that their WW2-era's namesake's tanks are worth bothering with?