Since up date 3.8 or was it 3.9 when Wallet Grabbers took all the fully upgraded tanks away, the updates since have been designed solely to make loads of money for WG. NOTHING intrinsically wrong with the that - business is after all business and making loads of money from games is, well, quite a good earner.
Tthis game has now nerfed beyond it's own title, the latest, idiocy is putting in a T49, already a monstrously unfair move on all geniune players of the genre by making it a Missile firing tank put up against Second World War technology or maybe 1950s tanks and failing to upgrade those tanks so that they can at least get a shot off or two maybe, before they are toast. I know it is only here for a few days, but the numbers of noob players with bulging wallets that are now using this 'thing", gleefully, because it requires little or no skill to use, is increasing such that, I predict this manifestation of pure fantasy will re-appear in one form or another in a later update, because noob players will buy it.
Looking after your customer base is an intrinsic part of busineee success that WG appear to have lost sight of, ( and the Plot).
By all means bring in fantasy tanks to attract that type of customer but please put them where they belong in a Fantasy type of Shoot'em up Game, NOT this Game, which is about TANKS.
Sometimes, now increasingly so, I think WG are populated with Cretins, with no idea of how to keep their customers satisfied who were quite happy playing a perfectly good Game as was, using TANKS, that have some basis in the real world, even using prototypes that did not make it to the front line, is fine with me, because it is interesting and sometimes, real fun.
Introducing pure Fantasy like the Lupus, Blaze, Dracula, Helsing, others such like and now one more piece of Fantasy crap, The T49a, might be fun for those who want that, and by all means do so, but matching them against the current 'stock' of 'reality' tanks available is just creating losers, who will eventually lose interest, shut up shop and go somewhwere else to have their fun.
May I suggest WG, create a separate game for Fantasy Tank like vehicles and move them from World of Tanks, failing that, a Name change is long overdue for this Game.
Wise up WG, or you will be losers, like your main customers are currently. No one minds you making a fair bob or two, but this type of robbery, which just costs your customers shed loads of lost credits, is just plain wrong.