We all know about its infamous engine that had reliability issues in the beginning. These where mostly ironed out by the Mk.5 variant that was fitted with the Leyland L60 4Mk.7A. With later Chieftains receiving the same engine and further upgrades on them.
In game the Mk10 chieftain has an unnamed engine developing 760 HP at 2550 RPM these are not the correct values for the variant of engine. It should have the L60 Mk.11a and developed 840 HP.
Mk.3 gets the Mk.6a making 650 BHP
Mk.5 gets the Mk.7a making 720 BHP
The Vickers Vijayanta should have the Mk.4B and make 540 Hp
Vickers Mk.1 should get the Mk.4a/2 and make 650 HP
Side note Gaijin really doesn’t like Britain and makes it so difficult for any changes to be made.
Link to bug report: All Chieftains have the wrong engines Mk3/5/10 // Gaijin.net // Issues
All sources are from the Leyland Society (An independent collector of the old Leyland archive.)
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Chieftain Mk.10 is missing almost 100 BPH. Gaijin hates the British reason number 1023…
and now they wont Accept the bug report as it is not a Russian vehicle lol.
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Lastly the L60 is a 2 cycle diesel engine and should sound like it is revving twice as fast as it really is. In game while driving it sounds like it has the same exhaust note as say a leo 1 and the leo 1 has a 4 cycle engine. Here’s a Chieftain under load you can here how aggressive it sounds. Reminder that’s at most 2500 RPM.
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Maybe pointing out that this would actually make the mk.3 and mk.5 less powerful.
Chieftain mk.3 (L60 mk.6a)
Current: 660 hp (12.13 hp/t)
Correct: 650 hp (11.95 hp/t)
Difference: -1.5% (nerf)
Chieftain mk.5 (L60 mk.7a)
Current: 760 hp (13.82 hp/t)
Correct: 750 hp (13.64 hp/t)
Difference: -1.3% (nerf)
Chieftain mk.10 (L60 mk.11a)
Current: 760 hp (13.29 hp/t)
Correct: 840 hp (14.68 hp/t)
Difference: +10.5% (buff)
Vickers Vijayanta (L60 mk.4b)
Current: 608 hp (15.96 hp/t)
Correct: 540 hp (14.17 hp/t)
Difference -11.2% (nerf)
Vickers mk.1 (L60 mk.4a/2)
Current: 608 hp (15.96 hp/t)
Correct: 650 hp (17.06 hp/t)
Difference: +6.9% (buff)
So if they corrected all 5 vehicles with the L60, 3 of them would get nerfed, and only 2 would actually get better. Hopefully that would persuade them to change things… Though I wouldn’t put it past them to only correct the ones that are over-performing in-game…
These are only some of the issues with the Chieftains in game. As I’ve already said on another bug report thread, the mk.5 had a laser rangefinder irl and the mk.10 had thermals. Neither of which are in-game.
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