You can use the Falcon and the Swingfire, and also maybe the Eland as a “last stand”, but certainly the best are the Vickers Mk1, the Cent Mk 10 and the Falcon.
It depends on your playstyle. The Cent is slower, with worse reload, but has some armor, that can save it sometimes in you are top tier (which is extremely rare, but still). It also has ~3 more ready rounds, and better gun depression (10 instead of 7).
On the other hand, the Vickers is faster, has a much faster reload (5s aced).
Objectively they are both the ame effectiveness, and as i said, your playstyle will determine which one will you like more.
5.3 is pretty rough at the moment unless you have premiums.
Personally I suggest going back to 4.7 and using that to grind 6.0, the Centurion Mk I is far better. You just need to save up a bunch of backups. If you can’t do that just use 4.7 to grind to 7.7.
In addition, there is another difference between tungsten alloy and tungsten carbide APDS, tungsten carbide APDS tend to break when passing a sheet of a certain thickness, which means that in spaced armor they break and do not completely pierce the armor, but when piercing a homogeneous plate that projectile fragments more than the tungsten alloy one, so it does more damage. All this in reality, the piece of shit damage model of this game I think does not differentiate in the damage of those two types of projectiles, in the same way as the 115mm 3BM3 and 3BM4, one is made of tungsten carbide and the other is made of steel.
I know, i just did not write it down there. After the APDS changes, a Conqueror could not pen any spaced armor for example.
4+4mm structural steel +15mm RHA, and it shattered.
There is. A 105mm alloy APDS does more damage than a 120mm carbide APDS.
Not really, tungsten carbide fragments more, which is why it would cause more damage, however the tungsten alloy was better for inclined armor and was not affected as much by spaced armor, which is why tungsten carbide was stopped being used.
In the case you have mentioned, what would be certain is that the Conqueror’s APDS would do more damage through spalling than the chieftain’s APDS, but the chieftain’s bullet could pierce spaced and inclined armor much more easily.
Ahh, ok, yes, that’s what hasn’t been touched, a completely fantastic and unreal damage model.
I am surprised by the people who think they are playing a simulator, when this is almost the WOT, a real shame.
Haha, yes, you can say what you want with the damage points, but at least it is not the game that decides when you kill or not, because there are times when in War Thunder it seems that there are players who you cannot kill, for For example, playing with the German M41, needing 6 or 7 shots from the HEAT-FS to kill a T29, when it should have easily been killed with one or two shots at most.
HETA is not as bad as carbide APDS or solidshot. It can mostly detonate ammo for the first hit. At least on the T29, tit should do that with the turret ready rack.
Yes, but with the T29 facing you, that HEAT-FS is not able to do deep damage, so neither the chassis nor the turret ammunition detonates.
The tungsten carbide APDS remind me a little of the APCR but without being so rubbish.
5.3 Britain is one of my go-to line-ups for seal-clubbing. With good crews, the Fireflies, Comet I, Challenger, Tog II, Concept, and Wyvern or Thunderbolt are really strong. You just have to find good defensive positions as the British tanks have really good firepower but they do not have the ability to run-and-gun like the US.
Also an honorable mention: the Lancaster B Mk III has the biggest dumb bomb in the game (bigger than the PE-8) at this tier, and it can obliterate entire teams if you drop it in the right place at the right time. It’s really fun to use.