PowJay's simple guide to how it is.

r00barb, on 12 June 2019 - 09:50 AM, said: ....any of the tinfoil milliners....


PowJay, on 12 June 2019 - 03:18 PM, said:   Are there OP tanks?
WHY are they OP? would be the first question. The answer would seem to be that they are powerful in one area that makes them unbalanced, or powerful in a way that means that they are at a tier that they are not suited for.   I am not prepared to offer an answer as I don't believe that many tanks are OP. Yes, some are better than others- for reasons that I don't fully understand. Whenever WG explains how they have balanced something, all I see is another tank totally borked. Many players who examine stats explain win curves and other graphic explanations, but I don't quite get it.
One thing I know is that there are tanks I can play and tanks that I cannot. The KV-1 is often cited as a noob-friendly tank. Check my stats from owning it three times and see if that is true. I am not saying that it is officially OP, but it is supposed to be a straightforward tank to play/win with. Can I play it successfully? Nope.
The other thing I know is that you can give a noob an OP tank and he will still be a noob. He will just be a noob with an OP tank.

I'd like someone else to explain these complexities as I get the principals, but not the finer details of specific vehicles. Cheers, whoever you might be to do that for me