Massive Massive Penetration creep! No one is going to play tech tree anym...

Draschel:  If the tank is angling in such a way you cannot grab penetrations, chances are the tank is in too great a position to frontally assault to begin with. Especially being beneath tier. Flanking obviously is not a thing for black prince, you just need to rely on team work. Black prince is importantly not DPM tank either, its not an anything tank except an HP punching bag. Plenty of tanks like IS, AMXM4, VZ-44-1, T29 have more DPM, better features. This is more of poor scope of play, rather than blaming the tank. But pardon me of course, Black Prince and VTU deserve plenty of blame, just not for these reasons. Black Prince and VTU have a horrid list of failures and shortcomings, setbacks - and the reality is not being able to challenge Concept 1 or Skoda 56 is a real thing, for even better tanks than them. I could be in a much better platform like Panther, with more speed, camo, DPM, 244 pen  -- and I still wouldn't want to be messing with Skoda 56 or Concept 1. If you make it a point to be in a completely bad tank, and to gripe about challenging stronger higher tiers in attacks, Jesus.  Premium account, means convenience. It does not necessarily mean better. Convenience. Convenience, generally means time saved and less hassle. It is not to say a free playing player, cannot spam premium consumables and shells. They just need better account managerial skills, and more vested time. A free playing player, can play their higher tiers for a daily double, and NOT GRIND the tank straight through, but for that daily double play 3-4 tiers 4,5,6 games to equal out the money required to support the higher tier daily. Tiers 3-5 now are incredibly easy because people just sit in SA and farm bots. It all comes down to management, and convenience. Which is more important.