EU Questions & Answers

Lord_WC, on 09 September 2011 - 01:02 PM, said: Hello Overlord,
I hope you will not disregard this question like you did with my previous ones.
It has been stated many times by WG that a premium tank should not perform as well as an elited normal one in the same tier and class.
With the recent addition of removed speed governor and oil consumable for the type 59 I'm hard pressed to find a use of the t-44.
Type 59 has much-much better armor.
Type 59 has more hp.
Type 59 has a superior gun (those guns are crappy, true, but still the DPS output of the premium tank is much higher).
And, as type 59 is a premium the economics are much better as well - more income, less costs.
So, how do you plan on balancing with t-44. Sure, it is by far the weakest t8 medium out there but still, it is a non-premium so it should be better than type 59. Or how do you see, what is the niché a t-44 fits in and in what role is it superior compared to a type 59?