Flat maps that favour RU players, nothing else needs be said
Holds litterally no water since I’m used to playing UK other tree’s are taking time to learn to play well, and i don’t really enjoy most other tanks in game
A lot of the skills you need to do well in this game are pretty universal between trees though, but that is a whole different discussion.
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I dunno man. I was sceptical as well at first but I’m really enjoying the Ajax.
I think it’s just what Britain needed in the br bracket. It’s a very solid upgrade to the badger (but to be fair, a rotten log is an upgrade to the badger) with its decent mobility, its pretty powerful gun etc.
Won a 2 vs 1 against an Abrams and a bmpt yesterday, fix the sights, move the bmpt up and I’m super happy with it.
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Universal skills??? You mean my main tech tree been so underperforming its laughable? its only been recently that Challenger 2’s could even keep up with team mates, and pretty hard to do well when fighting RU teams 90% of the time. Low Tier is just Yaks farming you and solid shot/Sabot doing no damage even to ammo. Mid Tier’s its getting blown up by CAS, Top Tier its basically dying to shots through your mentlet or spending 75% of your game playing tank mechanic simulator. or dying to Heli’s and before that dying to KH38MT spam and the occational Hammer.
No amount of map knowlege can save you from badly implimented and broken tanks / CAS
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Im looking forward to unlocking it, about 2/3 done. But im dreading the stock grind, especially with how unbalanced the BR is at the moment. Tempted to not use it at 10.3 and instead use it at 11.7
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We definatly needed something agree’d. How ever I still think the CRV will do everything better then Ajax.
Truthfully I’ve not touched the badger and have rarely taken out any of the SA tech tree.
Stock grind isn’t so bad if you can avoid BMPT’s, You start with your best round so your first battle your at full stength as far as firepower is concerned. Just avoid BMPT’s, every other light tank is food for Ajax and some MBT’s can give you issues when they refuse to die when hitting ammo “cough” “looking at you RU tanks” “cough”
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Oh nice, so shouldnt be quite as bad as I was expecting (remembering DW stock grind, shudders)
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I could sugest you try and unlock the ammo for killing jets and heli’s as soon as you can. I don’t know how many times carrying just 40 of them has saved me and my team from first spawn rushes and late game jets.
My main way of playing the tank isn’t getting onto flanks or going solo but sticking to 1-2 MBT’s, shutting down light tanks that attack them, keeping CAS off them and also been able to watch there flank and spot for them. Most matches I get 5+ assists and some kills if they leave any for me.
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Yeah, thats one capability im rather looking forward to. Its an area we’ve been lacking at that BR, a decent multirole.
Yeah, that sounds like my usual playstyle. Support rather tahn flank.
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This is your topic, so while I’m happy to discuss I don’t want to fully derail the topic with a wall of text, so I’ll keep the replies short:
Yes, you don’t neccesarilly learn how to play a tech tree. You learn how to play the playstyles that are most common in said tech trees.
For example: Britain uses a lot of solid shot in the lower tiers, so you learn how to play with solid shot. France however also uses a lot of tanks with solid shot, do you magically unlearn everything you have learned in the British tree when you open the French tree? No.
There are plenty of other examples.
Somewhat agreed on the part about broken CAS, however Map knowledge and skill can save you from a lot of seemingly “broken” ground vehicles. Hell lack of map knowledge and skill often makes vehicles seem broken even when they aren’t.
Pefect example is Russian top tier vehicles, especially MBTs: Besides the recently added BMPT (which is undertiered), most of the Russian top tier vehicles are mid-decent at best, despite a lot of people believing they are broken.
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Then you will love its anti CAS. I’ve managed to shoot down drones from 5 miles away using the APDSFS since the other round wont properly track that far out. But for closer stuff like 3 miles out, yea you can rip them apart.
To my suprise, even RU Heli’s and the SU-25’s are no match for how quickly you can lock, aim and take them out.
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I’ve not played much french tech tree at all. The nations I have grinded all have completely different play styles. The UK doesn’t play anything like GER / USA / RU / SWE. So yea its a learning curve for me as I tend to fall back into a play style I’m use to with the brits and that doesn’t always result in alot of kills as I don’t push alot
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…in what sense?
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There is actually quite a bit of overlap between a lot of trees. It’s not a perfect 1:1 overlap at every BR, but they do share a lot of aspects.
There are numerous examples besides the straight up copy and paste vehicles, but that would be going into super off topic territory.
UK requires you to try and keep your hull hidden and hope they don’t hit your mantlet and knock your gun out, best used as a snipers.
RU requires more flat ground to be useable and city work/buit up area’s seems to work best for them
USA is a mixed bag where speed can keep you in good positions and move around well but wouldn’t really say city/buit up area’s are good for it
GER/SWE ( basically the same nation at this point ) seem to be equally good at sniper roles and pushing rolls, can get into early spots with speed and decent armour to take hits.
So as I was saying before, myself as a UK main am used to been the slow ass in the back covering my teams flanks and shutting down lights trying to make a break for the rear. This tend to leave me with very little to do, if the forward push collapses well, in a nice way your basically f**k*d and get over ran so quickly.
I tend to find myself reverting to this way of playing regardless of the nation I use ( my own issues yes ) there for you wont see me doing amazing with tanks that I should be using very differently.
Thats not unique to the UK tho. Hulldown is how you play most western MBTs bar things like Strv122/2A7V and even then its beneficial to hide their hulls if possible.
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Pulling 1 thing out of my reply isnt really helping you understand, so i will ask you to read it from start to finish. What I have written is 100% from my own prespective and why my stats will reflect such low scores for all nations
Even outside of top tier. M103 & Conqueror, M60 & Centurion Mk.10, M60A1 AOS/A3 TTS & Chieftain Mk.3/5/10 just as some examples that I came up with on the go. There are probably a lot more examples to be found when looking through the tech tree.
All of these pairs are very similar with only small differences in playstyle.
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i did so. I deliberately didnt go against how you described those nations because there is some shed of truth in them.
With how you described your playstyle, thats ultimately your thing.
I simply responded to only what I thought doesnt make sense.