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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
Shoot centre mass, avoid modules and crew. On anything other then light tanks aim for a spot with space behind it most central to the crew layout. The cone can then form and will one shot tanks.
Any Cromwell hull has bad reverse so be careful in where you situate yourself because you can’t just back into cover like others.
Don’t show your side armour at all (exception churchills) , the armour is too thin and aphe or he on your tracks will kill you.
Remember you have really good pen and most tanks armour can’t stop you. You have a fast reload, flat shooting rounds and the best average gun depression so use your terrain and gun handling to your advantage where you can.
Basically after you leave 3.7, right up to the point where you get the Vickers Mk1, all british tanks are practically useless (except the Churchill NA (NA stands for “Not Awful”) 75, since it is 4.3).
Maybe a Concept 3, and very maybe the Challenger (and the FV4005, but that’s more of a troll vehicle) are usable, but the rest…
And then, with the Cent Mk10 (EDIT:) and the Vickers Mk 1 (END EDIT), you get 2 extremely good tanks, after you have lost your sanity.
