Talk:WoT: Policies and conventions for tank pages
Please add the Thoughts and Suggestions panel to this. Thanks. --Trifler 01:11, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
Pros and Cons
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Combat Effectiveness
Early Research
Suggested Equipment
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"Vents," is an example, not a generic recommendation for all tanks.
Optional modules that are stock or required modules on other tanks
It's very important to list any modules that you can unlock EITHER by playing this tank or by playing another line in which they are stock or required to unlock another tank in a mandatory sequence. Playing (if the module is mandatory) or just unlocking (if the module is stock) on those other tanks first means you have the module unlocked when you play this one. Which is a major advantage you need to know before you choose the order of lines to play. For instance, the final gun on the Nashorn is the stock gun of the two tier VIII Germans TDs unlocked by the Jagdpanther. So unless you love playing the Nashorn stock you really want to play the Jagdpanther to unlock one of those tier VIIIs first. A page on the Nashorn must indicate that you can avoid a stock grind simply by playing the Jagdpanther first.
Stock modules on this tank that are required on other tanks
Similarly, a page on the Jagdpanther should indicate that it should always be played before the Nashorn, for the reason noted above: If you unlock either of the tier VIII German TDs from the Jagdpanther, you will never have to play the Nashorn without its final gun, which is the stock gun on those tier VIIIs.
It's extremely irritating, in fact utterly WRONG, that on the module "characteristics" WG does not highlight the tanks on which the module is stock, but instead the tank from which you looked up the information. That is useless for purposes of determining what order to play the tanks in to avoid stock grinds, and it really must change, or some other indicator like underlining should be used to indicate when a module is stock on a given tank. With that, you could tell at a glance for instance when looking at the Nashorn final gun that it is stock on two other tanks, either of which you can unlock first if you don't wish to play the Nashorn through its early lower tier guns.
Optional modules on this tank that are optional on other tanks that need them more
This is slightly more subjective but the M44, for instance, has a final engine that is not stock on any other tank (thus must be researched as a standalone module somewhere along the line) but is the final or an optional module on other tanks including lights like the Bulldog.
Since a weaker engine is far less of a disadvantage to arty than to a light tank, it's uncontroversial to advise playing the M44 first to unlock this final engine, so that one never plays the Bulldog or other tanks that rely on this engine for survival more than the arty will.
