Quote Originally Posted by whiskeybravo View Post
Like, what's the point? Is there even a single good reason?
The aim is to give the tanks some sort of identity apart from each other. One of the biggest complaints about tanks in recent years is the fact they play too identically, so, by forcing a specific playstyle, in the case of MTs countering, you can then design the rest of the kit around that. Bear in mind, we do know next to nothing about the kit of an OT.

Really, only time will tell if what they envision will work or not, but they will have hopefully learnt some lessons from past mistakes and avoid them here.