Two years of trying, not on my part, I only just recently joined the fight for the challenger 2s when I got them earlier this year. But two years of bug reports, constant threads about it and even trying to get the direct attention of devs for the Challenger 2s and… nothing. Nothing has happened. Its what happens with the British tree as a whole.
For the past year that I have been playing, I remember every non premium addition Britain got, and of them only one vehicle was actually decent with the rest of them being extremely mediocre while British mains have been sending in suggestions for real tanks that Britain made, like the 40mm armed Ajax instead of the Badger (and while I am happy the Badger was added as I am South African, using that tank is being an active detriment to your team since you bring no carry potential whatsoever) or after two years the SRAAM finally gets fixed instead of putting the Hunter F.6 down in BR.
The Rapier has been in for like 6 months already and is still terrible. The supposed “fix” they added did nothing, or rather, they didn’t add it at all. Many British tanks are missing rooftop machine guns which they realistically had, that includes ALL the Centurions, the Comet, the Cromwell and a few others, there’s even pictures of Churchills with rooftop mounted MGs. Solid Shot and APDS which is something the British tree relies on is dog water in terms of post-pen damage and shatters on just about any angled surface. The Conqueror doesn’t have its historical reload time (its shell shatters like nothing else and doesn’t do any damage so I’d like to have my 12rpm RoF pls.) and has some gaps in its armour that need to be fixed.
I won’t talk about the British air tree which is mostly fine until about 9.7 where things fall apart until 12.0 with the Tornado F.3 (Tornado F.3 > Phantom FGR.2).
At this point I think British players are just jaded. Its pretty telling when the best vehicles at 10.7 for Britain are non-domestic vehicles like the T-90 Bhishma and the OSA AK/STRELA combo, the only domestic thing about the Vickers Mark 7 is the turret and gun, its performance comes from the excellent Leo 2 chassis its mounted to.
The best Chieftain in the game is the Khalid which is a Mark 9 with a Challenger 2 power pack installed and the best 9.3s in the game are South African with the Rooikat MTTD providing a fast auto-loaded solution and the Olifant Mark 2 having some of the best thermals in its BR with its standoff armour able to survive quite a lot of ATGMs thrown at it, there is the VFM 5 which is nice, its slower than the MTTD but it gets a .50 cal on the roof and is smaller and quieter. I often prefer it for city maps over the MTTD. As for 9.3 CAS options you get the Buccaneer. SPAA? Nah, you either have to uptier yourself to constant 10.7 uptiers with the Rapier at 9.7 or you have to bring the ZA-35.
So in this case I’ll have to apologise if it feels like my message has come across as giving up but with all the pain I’ve suffered playing the British tree and Gaijin doing nothing about the most glaring issues with its top tier and some of the issues in the middle tiers, I feel like all I can do at this point is just grit my teeth, upvote posts that highlight issues and hope that sometimes in the distant future Gaijin will do it. Our recent victory was dropping the Hunter F.1 to 8.7 where it belongs. I took it out for some matches after that change and it was a joy to fly.
But yeah, thats my rant as someone who has taken the British trees to top tier except naval and helicopters. Back to being on topic for the Challenger 2s.
