You can, I did it in battles all the time.
Just click on one of the shell types and you’ll have others listed as a choice.
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Yes, i can on comet but not on challenger. Why would that be?
Its working now, i emptied all then selected shell in modifications and then put it back to APDS
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Good.
Also, with solid shot rounds at that BR you’ll most often want to shoot to disable, not OHK, so knowing where their gunner sit should be really important.
I’ve mostly used APDS on Challenger, it performed pretty well for the most part, while I only used Mk.8 when targeting something lighter or when I knew my positioning will grant me many side shots, at which APDS really isn’t great.
Other than that, they don’t play much differently than other mediums of their BR. They’ll often be pretty fast and Challenger has pretty nice gun handling, gun depression and reload as well, so use it to your advantage.
Their armor is meh at best, so not relying on that part is the best thing you can do.
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You have already gotten though the hardest part of the mess, which was 2.7-4.3, where the ungodly bad QF 75 and 6-pounder are.
Be patient, for one. Seriously. The A30 Challenger is amazing. The Comet is a decent backup but the extra armor isn’t enough to stop anything and is just dead weight. The A30 Challenger is basically a British M18, I rate it that highly.
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There are 2 types of APDS.
Tungsten alloy - good
tungsten carbide - useless
Alloy penetrators are the ones used by the 105mm L7, and all of it’s versions (so cent Mk 10, Vickers tanks, M60s, STB-1, TYPE-79, chinese tanks with the 105mm guns, Leopard 1s, and all the 120mm guns on the Chieftains).
All the rest are just plain trash.
17pdr, 83mm, Conqueror’s 120mm, T54E1/E2, swedish low tier APDS.
On the note of the Conqueror, it can apply for the title of “worst tank in the game”, alongside with the Churchill 7.
I made an entier post explaining why is it useless:
AP for damage and APDS for harder targets or for ammo racking. The panther’s ammo rack in the front of the hull is a consistant ammo rack for me.
I am sure you are very well aware of the British’s fear of reverse gears, so dont get yourself in a situation you cant fight your way out of.
The comet’s armor is not great but the turret will eat rounds do to its multiple layers+volumetric. Try hull down for frontal engagements.
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Why wont my barrel point where i want it when i am behind a hill or object?
Pretty sure the stormer wins that category hands down
SPAA not counted
Fair enough. I definitely wouldn’t put the churchill 7 in the same category though. You can at least make that work in a downtier.
No. I struggled to get a positive K/D with it. Around 30-50% of all my kills with it were open tops killed by HE.
Who cares about K/D. It’s a heavy tank with a peashooter cannon, you aren’t really meant to be racking up kills.
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Then you are useless to the team.
It is too slow, it is a CAS magnet, it has no reliable armor, pathetic gun…
Look at this:
With the Churchill 7 i somehow managed to get a near 2 K/D.
With the NA 75, that i played at BR 4.7 too, the K/D is more than double, with even less armor, and a bit better mobility.
The more than double K/D is due to a single aspect: It has APHE.
You can help your team win in more ways than getting kills. Especially in a heavy tank like the Churchill. Just drawing enemy fire is a benefit to your softer team mates.
Yeah that is the downside, but if you’re getting bombed by CAS it doesn’t really matter what tank you are in.
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Some of you have implied that the challenger is better than the comet. I will very shortly get the Centurion and i am concidering giving it to my challenger crew, thus comet will become the back up. Then when that is spadded my comet crew will get the charioteer mk vii. Your thoughts please?
From 5.0 to 7.3 brits are one of the worst nations in the game. You have a small number of functional vehicles, but mostly you are playing underpowered tanks with no armor, solid shot, and nearly no advantage over the tanks you are fighting. To make it worse, your BR clusters have been broken up so you have to play with only 1 or 2 of your vehicles at the higher BR you are playing.
I guess britian got to strong for there own good and are over tird
Brits have never been considered a strong nation. Even back when they were the only nation with high teir stabs, they were still mediocre because of the power of ‘cheatfs’. Hesh got nerfed just before the IS6 came out and has never been functional since. The centurion mk3 went from 7.0 to now 8.0. The centurion mk1 and charioteer used to be 5.7. APDS has been nerfed numerous times and shell shatter was added and constantly messed around with until its happening constantly. At this point, its a joke.
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