So BT's getting even more Woke now. On the forums they've announced they're removing the
Rommel tank and there will never be any more, due to Rule 4 (Politics) reasons.
Now, this isn't a massive loss for the game, the
Rommel tank was identical in stats to the
Patton tank. This was an in-game joke about the Lee/Grant tanks in the US which were functionally identical as well. However, it is another sign of how the game's increasingly getting woke and infiltrated about every little thing.
It feels unlikely they'll stop with just the Rommel and aren't going to go after every other element somebody finds "Problematic" as well. I've already seen SJWs on the forums complaining about how, f'rex, the Highlanders have a DropShip named the
Bull Run and it's problematic because the Confederates won that battle. Also, the book with the
Bull Run in it was written by Blaine Pardoe, bad mean wicked anti-LBGT right-winger extraordinaire, so it needs to be excised. I've literally seen people on the BattleTech reddit seething about how the Davions came to power via "right wing terrorists/insurrectionists."
So needless to say I see this as a bad sign and I'm worried about how far it's going to spread. The problem is, BT has a ton of "problematic" stuff in it. There's no "black" great house, and the two asian ones are portrayed as more prone to doing evil than the white ones. If they make a great house black, it's going to have to always be the good guys or that will be problematic. I can see all kinds of ways the setting could be completely gutted if this trend continues.