There is a very long list of bugs I could list here for both the CR1 and CR2 but im not going to. Im going to focus on the single most significant nerf in place for both tanks. Ready Rack size.
On both tanks currently, they have a 4 round ready rack, this results in the CR1 and CR2 (tanks best suited for long ranged sniping and not brawling) having some of the worst sustained fire rate at top tier despite having a 5 second reload for those first 4 rounds.
Both are wrong.
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/m22cZZxaNPXJ
CR1 should have at least 20 rounds
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/ojFgCJ6Jnos4
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/nzUoCC2yxJx5
CR2 should have at least 20 rounds.
These reports are a year old now.
In the past, I assume these nerfs were inplace to balance them having the only 5 second reloads in game, but these days, with tanks like the Abrams with a 5 second reload AND 20+ round ready rack, this leaves Britain at a notably disadvantage.
At top tier, this combined with the low protection and poor mobility of the CR2 results in the CR2 being one of the worst performing tanks at top tier at the moment. Our mobility cannot be fixed, our protection they seem to be unwilling to look at the dozens of reports for. But this, fixing our reload rate would be a massive and notable buff that might help bridge the performance gap between the CR2 and everyoen else.
Do you want to see the ready rack size increased on the Challenger 1 and 2?
- Yes
- No