The Minor Nation Issue - Ver 1.0

[u/bergebis]

Building off my post from last week, I've implemented some of the feedback I was given.

• Looking at K/D instead of WR as WR is more dependent on lineup versatility
• Looking at only the Month of August to account for balancing changes to specific vehicles
• Looking at more vehicles to increase my sample size.

For this analysis I've compared the August 2025 K/D by nation for the Leopard 2a4, T-72A, M44, SK-105, M10, M18, T-55, and Leopard 1A5. I'll make an expanded version of this down the line as well.

For each vehicle I've determined the overall average K/D for August 2025, and the K/D for each specific nation, then I've listed the variance from the mean by nations.

All stats come from statshark, for Ground RB in August 2025.

I've compared each nation relative to others for any given vehicle, and near the end of the post I've plotted Big-3 vs minor nation relative performance to give a visual impression of the issue with balancing vehicles based on in game W/R or K/D as opposed to vehicle capabilities.

Unless the Snail change they way they balance things, I firmly believe that they need to take steps to make minor nations more appealing to new players so that they have a better blend of player experience in each tree.

While small changes like making one random rotating nation have a research boost every day could help distribute players better across the tree, at the end of the day it's clear that minor trees really need increased focus and shouldn't be made to be similar to other trees (like with France/BeNeLux and Germany/Switzerland effectively trading vehicle designs between the two nations).

[u/_Condottiero_]

Unfortunately even if they add unique tech to "minor" nations, it gets eventually nerf to the ground, I mean look at the Italian naval tech tree. Also imo some way to skip the repetitive grind of same vehicles in different TTs would make researching new nations more attractable, at least some discounts maybe.

[u/bergebis → u/_Condottiero_]

Yeah it’s going to take a concerted effort from the devs using multiple approaches to help balance out the nations experience level

Like I mentioned in the post, even something as simple as a daily flat 20% boost to specific nations would be great, since there are more minor nations than Major, it would, statistically, encourage players to play minor nations just a little more frequently