You are probably thinking of the T3 Convertible Medium Tank, which was designed to run on rubber wheels while on the road. Although to call the T's a series is misleading. The T's were simply placeholder names given while the design was in Trials and if accepted would have been changed for the final Model name once production was ordered.
There weren't all that harebrained when they were worked upon. In the late twenties and early thirties tracks wore out so quickly that all kinds of methods were used to get greater mobility with less wear and tear (and lots of tanks were very light). But as track quality improved wheels could be skipped, mostly since this also allowed tanks to be heavier.
Yeah and exactly that will always give the human player an edge above the AI, latest with the second time, you run the game.I thought wargames were instituted to confirm the prejudices of real-world generals until some genius came along and blew a cold wind up their skirts.
But I've never assumed that what happened historically was the "optimal" choice. I just like to take wargames and see if I can replicate historical results. If I can, then I start trying to do better than the historical results. If not, then I become obsessed with replicating the historical results. It's a sickness, sure. But it keeps me off the streets at night.
Never ask me why! You are, however, allowed to ask me how but in this case you appear to have that locked down.
IIRC they did say in post #1 that they considered including APC in the tank builder, but dropped it later.
Given that ACPs aren't designed with the tank designer, I'm not sure that particular feature will be helpful.
Fair enough. I mostly kept up with planes when I was younger and don't have too many good hard copies versions of books or the likes for tanks that go into the mechanical side of things too deeply. Just remember reading some things that sound mechanically overcomplicated or just downright tedious to use but they probably had their reasons for their time. Except multiple turrets they are demons that belong in the deepest darkest corner of hell.
...psst, check the spoilered out part of the first post...
As has been stated (multiple times) earlier in this thread. The actual net number of techs to research has actually gone down.
They are actually taking out alot of techs with this update. Obviously the armor tree is being replaced so we dont have to worry about that and the doctrines are also being removed from the tech tree so if anything we will have less to research not more.
