A practical merging of the Chi Ri and Chi To

With the name Chi Ri II, the patterned way of thinking would figure that this Chi Ri II would be a better tank than the Chi Ri.

Well… yes and no.

Let’s look at Germany. The Tiger 2, the Jagdtiger, the Maus…bigger is better was the trend. But bigger meaning better is highly debatable. What if Germany made more of less complicated and lighter fighting machines? Well, the E-series was apparently going to help with that… a little.

With that concept in mind, the Chi Ri II was designed to be more practical than the Chi Ri. The designers were considering the final desperate battle for the homeland of Japan. They imagined destroyed bridges and railroads, the need to transport over water with landing craft, limited resources, and so on. A simplified Chi Ri sounds like a good idea, thus a better tank…for this kind of dire situation. However the war ended before development could begin.

The other point is that the Chi Ri II took many characteristics from both the Chi Ri and the Chi To while removing some characteristics from the Chi Ri. It could be said that it is as much a Chi Ri II as it is a Chi To II.
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“We don’t nerf premium tanks” – yea, right. Superpershing recieved a visually substantial nerf in frontal hull armor. See for yourself:

“我们不砍金币车”-没错。但是超潘收到了一次可见的前装甲的NERF。自己看动图：

On the paper, the armor remains officially the same, but gamemodels3d show us that the frontal spaced armor got nerfed by cca 25mm – plus the armor angle is less steep, which means less bounces.

纸面数据上和原来没有变化，不过游戏的3D模型显示了前装甲大约被砍掉了25MM（毫米） – 而且装甲角度也变得不是那么陡了，也就意味着跳蛋少了。

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