Kept mine for a long long time but never had the time to retrain my crew (they went into the E-75). It's sad, but the E-75 is beastly in its tier and looks almost the same as the tiger 2.
The KT's the best tier 8 but it can't make any money because of how much the 105 costs. Sad when I sold it.
That's really the crux of the matter for me. I like the KT well enough, but I don't see myself having time to grind up another crew for it. And I don't quite have a garage slot to keep it in either... though that will change as soon as 7.3 comes out since I'll get 3 slots for free, lol.
I guess I'll sell it for now. I can always buy the thing back later if I find myself missing it too much.
Also I dunno about it being the best tier 8. I like my IS-3 better to be honest. The KT's lower glacis & front turret armor are too weak. And it's side armor might as well be paper. Really limits how much angling you can do & your options for getting around corners. Sure, against dummies the upper glacis is wonderful, but only morons shoot it. But I do get more sniper awards w/this tank than any other tank, by FAR lol.
Why put in french tree prior to the british, which had cromwells, churchills, fireflies and a ton of other tanks that DID see action? Don't ask me.
Auto-loaders. WG was really excited about getting this new play-style into the game. Tanks from the other countries would've essentially been more of the same (which is perfectly fine to me), but they wanted to spice it up.
Panther II is like a fresh breath of air for German mediums. It is like night and day compared to the anemic panther.
No. Kidding. Good god. The panther was ok. If you got into a good spot, you could dump out the pain w/the 75 L/100... if anyone sneezed at you, ammo rack, engine, fire, or all three! The armor was a joke; even the PzIV tears through it. It has the same shitty lower glacis/shitty side armor setup that the KT has, which really limits your options since sitting back and sniping isn't always the appropriate course of action.
But the Panther II is awesome. I think I like it better than my Pershing even. I dunno, it's hard for me to hate any tank that has the 88 L/71. Best gun ever?