In the diverging medium tank line, agility is traded for additional firepower and flexibility, a shining example being the Type 97 Chi-Ha, which while albeit cumbersome, possesses great firepower and accuracy for its tier, which enables it to play not only as a support medium but also a tank destroyer.

However, to balance these overall good characteristics, the three light tanks in the Japanese line lack in armor even more so than their medium counterparts, and are not exactly specialized for active scouting in general.

Japanese light tanks offer good speed and agility, culminating into the Type 5 Ke-Ho, which is small, fast, agile, and packs a surprising punch. Most Japanese medium and light tanks have decent camo values for their class.Īt tier II, the line splits between medium tanks and light tanks. Guns have generally average accuracy and handling. In the first few tiers, the Japanese tanks can seem to prove to be a real turn off. They also combine good gun depression with guns that have excellent penetration and a good balance between alpha and ROF. They all have poor armor thicknesses, however, higher tier mediums (most notably the STB-1) have sloped armor, which may result in lucky bounces. Japanese medium and light tanks have few more things in common. Althrough Japanese heavy tanks greatly differs from Japanese medium and light tanks, they all share few similarities All Japanese tanks have great gun depression, (with exception being Chi-Nu Kai and some heavy tanks that have limited depression above their miniturrets), lack of sloping on armor (except on tier 8 - 10 medium tanks), and good firepower.

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