Yah think we could maybe get the A33/1 Excelsior as a Techtree version of the Excelsior?
It had slightly Different armor, better and worse in places than the Excelsior we have in game, and a VERY late mark of 57mm 6 pounder in place of the 75mm on the other prototype, WHICH was capable of firing the APDS rounds developed for the 6 pounder mid way through the war.
It was the Excelsior specifically sent over seas by the British for American testing as well. Meaning it could be in both the American, and British tree.
Id say 5.0-5.3 would be a fair BR. a Kinda speedier Jumbo, with worse armor, and possibly the first vehicle to get the 57mm APDS.
The A33/1 Also is odd because instead of the christie type suspension used on the prototype that stayed home in Britian, it was fitted with American Sherman style VSS suspension. So it has a GOOD bit of uniqueness compared to current rare event vehicle.
i feel like the Excelsior in game is under tiered, and i say that AS a British main.
The 6 pounder even without the APDS, has MORE penetration, and a faster reload than the 75mm. And if it goes to the Americans and the Brits, it can be given the American 57mm APHE. Which its self is MEAN as hell. See the chaos a Boarhound can cause.
The APDS would just be for killing harder targets, as it SHOULD be able to punch through a Panthers UFP pretty easily. i mean the most famous use of the 6 pounder APDS is it being used to frontally KO a Jagdpanther when even a 17pounder couldn’t punch a hole with its APCBC.
Designed for the canadian army, on a grizzly hull, using POLISH DESIGNED BRITISH BUILT polsten 20mm guns, the same guns that appear on many other British AA vehicles and was planned to be the machine gun on centurion.
It was used by the 21st army group which was britsh and British Canadian troops, zero relation to the US beyond the American produced parts for the skink hull, everything else was Canadian.
Canada isn’t the united states nor are they joint owned by Britain and the US so copying it over to the americans was stupid
odd looking flag there. That flag totally doesn’t mean that the people under it were British citizens or anything, or that Canada and the UK share a monarch still
by war thunders standards that makes it more unique than most addtions
yea nah im not claiming the shot gimel or soviet matilda for Britain because its mostly British built stuff (actually far more of it than there’s American parts on skink)
a licenced production vehicle to another country doesn’t mean it should just be thrown into the American tree either, Canada is British at the time and still very not a 51st state.
it was planned to have hispano 20mms but because of the need to put hispanos into fighters they went for the polsten as it was the next best available thing
i must admit if any british vehicle was to be stolen and put into the US tree it would be skink because its really really crap, the polstens magazine size and velocity just is not good enough for 5.3, if it was 4.7 it would have been ok, but British tax means it must be overtiered into irrelevancy
until 1716 yes. All members of the British Empire was considered British citizens, people in British overseas territories still are to this day.
not true
a written constitution =/= republic, just because the UK has no written constitution doesn’t mean that’s the rule to what is a kingdom.
literally the first thing after the preliminary of the constitution act is that the constitution is a declaration under the crown.
the crown is also in the same position as it is in the UK, the head of parliament.
The union flag was chosen by the natives of Hawaii to honour the British, the only time the union flag appearing doesn’t mean its a colony/dominion/dependancy
