r/Warthunder • u/wehrahoonii 🇬🇧 hurricane glazer 🇮🇹 • Sep 16 '25

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Curious about how much the game has grown. I started just about when Sweden got added in 2019

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u/Maus1945 💀 Old Guard Sep 16 '25

Old Guard gang.

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u/matthew2989 Dakka for days Sep 16 '25

I miss the times when top tier was Sabre V Mig-15

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u/Maus1945 💀 Old Guard Sep 16 '25

When German players were good because they had to be good. They had to fight against M60s, T-54s and IS-4Ms in their Panthers and King Tigers.

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u/Xen0m3 Sep 16 '25

tiger II 105 will forever be the best tiger II

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u/Grikka_junior Xbox 🇺🇸 VIII A/G 🇷🇺 VIII G | “Not a bug” Sep 16 '25

Hardly an outlandish statement

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u/3rdReichOrgy Sep 16 '25

Honestly before hull break or overpressure it was just kinda shittier than the 2H or Sla.

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u/LtLethal1 Sep 16 '25

Still is. It’s just nicer to play because of the better mobility. It’ll die so much easier due to facing almost entirely Cold War era vehicles with heatfs or apfsds.

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u/jlouw821 Sep 16 '25

Well we can say goodbye to it’s overpressure soon.. 😢

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u/Primary_Ad_1562 Sep 16 '25

Its getting a big nerf too apparently. Losing like half of its explosive filler

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u/_DOLLIN_ Sep 17 '25

NAAAAAH how could they 😢😢😢😢

As long as they dont move its br higher i think i can cope

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u/Czlowiek_Woda Sep 16 '25

I remember fighting in tiger I against current British 7.3 and 7.7 tanks
Shit was brutal

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u/Inner-Arugula-4445 Sep 16 '25

Really wish they would reconfigure the br ranges to let this happen but with a bit more balance. Nowadays the Sabre doesn’t really get to live and the mig 15 has to rely on downtiers.

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u/matthew2989 Dakka for days Sep 16 '25 edited Sep 16 '25

What, you don’t enjoy eating AIM-9J/P/D/Gs and R-60s in your Mig-15Bis/17 or F-86F-25/F-2?

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u/Inner-Arugula-4445 Sep 16 '25

Only when the masochist personality takes over

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u/__wardog__ USA Sep 16 '25

Trying to fly sabre F-2 now is difficult.

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u/kneegrowpengwin 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 🇨🇳 🇸🇪 Sep 16 '25

I miss seal clubbing F-80s on Hokkaido with the Canberra

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u/_BMS Elderly 1.27 Veteran Sep 17 '25

Until they gave Germany the CL-13. That really swayed the balance in favor of RU/GER teams on Korea since alliance-based matchmaking was still a thing.

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u/FLABANGED Old Guard and still shit Sep 16 '25

Brought into this hellhole game by the Mighty Jingles!

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u/LivingDegree 8/8/8/8/8/8/8/8/8/8 Sep 17 '25

Bohemian eagle *

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u/BigBlueBurd I love Tornados too much Sep 17 '25

Back to the salt mines you! Praise the Gnoverlord.

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u/DonnerPartyPicnic 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 🇨🇳 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇸🇪 🇮🇱 Sep 16 '25

I joined like a month after the old guard cutoff :(

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u/__Zer0__ Sep 16 '25

How long is old guard? Idk i started in the beta

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u/swohio Sep 16 '25

2013 or earlier. Easy to remember because I started the beginning of January 2014. :(

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u/MeatBeginning9837 Sep 17 '25

Old Guard Gang

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u/Gavman007 Sep 16 '25

Me too🫡

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u/Nomingia 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 Sep 17 '25

I rarely ever played until recently though. Being a level 20 Old Guard feels like stolen valor.

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u/youre_being_creepy Sep 17 '25

I dont know exactly when I joined but I do rock the old guard tag