@Jonas_Hrafnagil no they do things historically and have strict rules about that but I think those rules are getting nerfed now. I think they took all the O-I concepts they could find and swapped the turrets and armourment to make them fit in the game in the way they wanted. tier 5 had the OI and its designation is the OI-exp because those were prototypes and the japs wanted to build the better version seen in blueprints. the OI-exp you see on the internet wg call the O-HO. the O-ho was the other tank being built I think. in the game its tier 8 with the most powerful gun and turret of the lot, but as I said I think they swapped the moduals round a bit. the turret on one of the the drawings of the O-ho however has the O-Ni turret. the O-NI is also seen in a drawing which can be found on FTR and is in tier 7. so basicly I can see that WG have taken the hulls of these tanks in a manor that would make them able to build a tank branch and then just slapped on which ever turrets and guns seemed appropriate for the tier (level).
I still cant find anything about the type 4 and 5 versions of the O-I series at tiers 9 and 10 other than WG stuff. what i'm trying to do here is find out where exactly WG got their badass imperial heavies from.
i know games are an unreliable source of info. it has been since they included the Chinese tank line
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@Jonas_Hrafnagil no they do things historically and have strict rules about that but I think those rules are getting nerfed now. I think they took all the O-I concepts they could find and swapped the turrets and armourment to make them fit in the game in the way they wanted. tier 5 had the OI and its designation is the OI-exp because those were prototypes and the japs wanted to build the better version seen in blueprints. the OI-exp you see on the internet wg call the O-HO. the O-ho was the other tank being built I think. in the game its tier 8 with the most powerful gun and turret of the lot, but as I said I think they swapped the moduals round a bit. the turret on one of the the drawings of the O-ho however has the O-Ni turret. the O-NI is also seen in a drawing which can be found on FTR and is in tier 7. so basicly I can see that WG have taken the hulls of these tanks in a manor that would make them able to build a tank branch and then just slapped on which ever turrets and guns seemed appropriate for the tier (level).
I still cant find anything about the type 4 and 5 versions of the O-I series at tiers 9 and 10 other than WG stuff. what i'm trying to do here is find out where exactly WG got their badass imperial heavies from.
i know games are an unreliable source of info. it has been since they included the Chinese tank line
oh and yes please tell me how many jap tanks you see. these ww2 books aren't big on prototypes or blueprint designs or stuff like that. what book is it? i use this one https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=weapons+of+ww2+book&espv=2&biw=1024&bih=643&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9pqzRmM_JAhXMChoKHSq5ApUQ_AUIBigB&dpr=1#imgrc=v5MCbEIT-I0GYM%3A