I said this in another post on a similar topic:
Wow, there is so much hate - never seen so much hate towards tanks before, well not on this level at least. The hate is so palpable that almost all the well known CC's are now churning out vids telling WG to get rid of the tanks - there is even a poll where 1120 (approximately 5% of the overall player base across all servers) are saying they should be removed - a rather concerted effort to get a reversal its even got the stage whereby the latest vid I saw states that if we dont see the issue then we are effectively stupid - wow Brexit talk in Blitz- but why?
Well its not just the missiles from what I can tell - its everything about these tanks - the armour, the mobility, the pen, the dmg and yes the darn missiles. Now I have always said that the pen values are too high, but I have had time to reflect somewhat. I think the missile system, whilst difficult, is too much. Having a missile that you can throw over things is neither realistic or right - and yes I know this isnt a tank sim per se but its kind of one is it not? Even the Milan Anti-Tank Missile, which is modern(ish) cant do that because its wire guided - ah but these are not wire guided - ok fine - then its like the Hellfire which is laser guided and still requires someone to place the damn laser on the target and have a kind of line of sight. What this missile system has is something most armies would die for - a missile that is so versatile that you dont need line of sight at all and it will literally go up and over rocks! Now in real life the likes of the Milan, Javelin etc cant do such a thing - yes it can destroy the bloody rock, but not do some form of ballet dance around it.
Then we have the dmg it kicks out - lets forget the missile at the moment, but the APCR on both tanks is overcooked - 700 top end alpha on a light tank is just daft and once coupled with the high pen values it makes them rather silly indeed. What about the spaced armour I hear you ask, well spaced armour exists and I have no real issue with that - armour is armour, spaced or otherwise.
So do these tanks need to be removed? Hell no they do not, but they need to be reworked. The missile system needs to change to line of sight only or changed to rockets - either way the system should fire like a conventional round. If that were to happen then the pen values on the missile can stay, because the velocity etc of the missile does increase pen, but the values on the APCR needs to be nerfed. If the missile system is not reworked to be line of sight, then the load times need to be increased to that of the Deathstar and the pen and the dmg needs to be decreased considerably, along with the effective range. I see no reason to dump the tanks completely, just rework them with sensible nerf's