Challenger 1 & 2 - Ready Rack Overhaul

We have come once again to another major update and once again, nothing has changed.

Both the Challenger 1 & 2 and now the FV4030/3 event vehicle are plagued with the same, long standing issue. The smallest ready rack in game. This has such a major impact on performance and balance that it is hard to justify any of these vehicles at their respective BRs. The Challenger 2s especially are widely considered to be some of the weakest tanks in game and certainly some of the most neglected.

The current ready racks for these tanks are 4 rounds. That is it. Most contempories have ready racks more like 15+ rounds.

The bug reports in for these tanks are well over a year old at this point and should have been addressed a LONG time ago.

Challenger 1 ready rack from 4 rounds to 20+ rounds

Challenger 2 ready rack from 4 rounds to 26-28 rounds (report 1 and report 2)

It is time for this to be fixed

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This and for the love of god can they reduce the RR replenishment time?

Though if they make it the proper size ready rack it might be a somewhat historical time considering it is hull stowage ammo after that

I have no idea if the RR replenishment is a set time or just full replenishment divided by number of shells and so more shells would reduce each rounds reload.

Though with the 20-28 rounds, I doubt you would rarely ever be affected by it even if it remained the same.

But yes. if the RR wont increase then the replenishment rate needs to be reduced by like 60%

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Yes please. The only MBT i put a lot of time into is the Chally DS and it is the only issue that plagues me.
It’s pure pain when your reload advantage gets taken away from you after you shoot at a tree, 2 pieces of ERA and air.

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I agree

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100% needed.

Would this also apply to the Vickers Mk. 7?

If the challenger can step up a bit, I’d be happy to play the UK TT.

Maybe this would make the Challengers slightly more… playable. (I was going to say Relevant, but even that would be a stretch).

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Yeah, its a major QoL buff, which would at least stop them from just being outright infuriating to play, but just the first step up a mountain to getting them competitive.

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