Knowing World of Tanks players, if it was any good people would be even more annoyed. Anyway, we're all supposed to be recycling now, right?

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Reminds me of STO, where they've finally ran out of canon ships to sell some time ago and, in a desperate bid to increase sales, started churning out newly invented ships practically every other week. I'm happy with my command-class cruisers, I'm done buying new ships for quite some time, especially since I got a little sick of it and haven't even played all the new missions yet. (FFXIV may be guilty of taking my attention. Ahem.)

Point is, what do game developers do when all the contemporary tanks are already implemented? Make up some more.

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Well, true...but, how do you recycle something that never existed in the first place?

You can't even recycle the blueprints...because there weren't any!

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Couldn't say for the damage or rate...but, the thing carried the 90mm gun from the M/47 Patton, noted as 'obsolete' in the link you provided. Though, if that's the tank or the gun....and, of course, Wargaming isn't fact-based.

>Unlike many of the late-WWII and Cold War machines in World of
>Tanks, it's a real thing!

Indeed. Though, it does sort of amuse me that the 'Ancient Weapon' is a cold-war tank, meaning it's notably younger than the vast majority of the tanks in the game. I know there's supposed to be a 'story' to explain it, but still...

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Well, it was obsolete in the 1950s when the real thing was built; in the game it fits into the tier the KJgPz is placed at fairly well.

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The M47 version of the Patton isn't quite in the game (it's "stealthed" into the tech tree as the upgraded turret option for the M46), but the M46 Patton is Tier IX, and the 90mm guns it fits (there are three different ones) are all lower-tier than the tank itself - two of them are Tier VII and one is Tier VIII. (The M46's top-level, own-tier gun is a fictional 105.) The gun the real KJgPz's was based on, the 90mm Gun M36, is the M46's second-best, and the one the real M47 carried. It's Tier VIII, so, as I said, it fits fairly well as the armament for a Tier VIII TD - assuming, of course, that the in-game KJgPz actually has the M36, with the same stats it has on the Patton.

>Indeed. Though, it does sort of amuse me that the 'Ancient Weapon' is
>a cold-war tank, meaning it's notably younger than the vast majority
>of the tanks in the game. I know there's supposed to be a 'story' to
>explain it, but still...

As we have previously discussed, World of Tanks is pretty thin on plot, and it's always at least a little comical when it tries to have some. :)

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TOG!!!

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It was a design by a group of WWI tank designers, (TOG = The Old Gang). Describing it as a oversized Matilda isn't that far wrong, although it is actually a bit slower, (and the Matilda is hardly known for its speed).

What killed the design after the single prototype was built was the simple fact that it was designed to fight in conditions of trench warfare that didn't happen.

(NB: If playing WOT, don't stand and trade blows with a TOG. That's a Challenger turret complete with 17lbr.)

As an aside, if you've never seen the ITV documentary series The World at War, you really should. It was, at the time of its production, the most expensive television series ever made, costing nearly a million pounds (which I believe would be something like £14 million today). Since it's about World War II and was made in the early '70s, it involves extensive interviews with a great many survivors of the war, from all sides, and rather set the standard for sprawling war documentaries.

I bring this up not specifically because of the TOG, but because at one point early in the series, while discussing the run-up to the war, they show footage of the Wehrmacht rearming and developing its revolutionary combined-arms tactics; then they cut to the inter-war British army practicing bayonet charges or some such nonsense. While the footage runs, the narrator (none other than Sir Laurence Olivier) remarks with acid sarcasm (paraphrased from memory), "Meanwhile, in England, the British Army diligently practices for a war that ended in 1918."

That was basically the thinking behind the TOG II. It would have been the ultimate weapon in the Great War, a trench buster so powerful and sophisticated as to flatten all the barbed wire in France and leave the Boche quaking in their pointy helmets. Unfortunately, that war had been over for 20-some years by that point. :)

>(NB: If playing WOT, don't stand and trade blows with a TOG. That's
>a Challenger turret complete with 17lbr.)

Also, be advised that - although their actual armor is next to useless - they have a crapload of hit points.

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