Hello gng, I need help. Should I stop grinding the british tech tree and revert back to sweden or/and ussr, or should I continue with the british grind?
I am top tier air in both ussr and sweden, and I plan on starting ground for them, or reaching top tier. I am around tier 5 in both sweden and ussr in ground. Uk however, i am rank 6 in air, and rank 3 in ground. The britsh top tier vehicle seem interesting and fun, but as we all know gaijin for some reason does not like the british tech tree. 65 ton on the challanger black night and still worse armor than the t90m which weighs 51 ton. Tea does not weigh that much cro, maybe its the armor?
as its been said, up to around 8.7/9.3 area its okay as gives a variety, but anything above that and you just dont have fun, youre in nerfed tanks and nerfed jets since Gaijin hate the uk so as soon as you hit those higher tiers it becomes way more noticable.
Britian rank 6 is aweful. The vehicles are pretty much all bad either due to poor modeling or extreme compression.
Rank 7 stuff gets a little better, but the Phantoms are massively underpowered for the BR as is the Jaguar GR1A.
Sea Harrier and Buc S2B are okay… but not amazing due to various issues,
Its not until Rank 8 that Britain becomes much better. The only aircraft that is really struggling at the moment is the Tornado Gr1 and thats only due to poor modeling and balancing decisions. Though nearly all of our rank 8 aircraft desperately need the same thing fixed. BOL.
So air. Id stick with it if you like mud movers (especially as we have many still missing) and SARH trucks, but Rank 6 and 7 might be a bit of a chore.
Ground
as for ground. Our TT ends at 10.7. There is no point playing our top tier vehicles as they are all DOA at the moment. but the 10.0-10.7 stuff is very good. Though Personally I found the 6.0-8.7 BRs an absolute chore to play and personally, rarely play below the Cheftain mk10 at 9.0
I don’t know about ground, I’m still at rank IV, but about air… Save yourself and stop the grind. At rank VII you have… Phantoms at 12.0 and most of the times you’ll end against aircrafts with superior armament. Before unlocking Sparrows first and then Skyflash you only have rear aspect IR, facing enemies with all aspect ones (and when uptiered with IRCCM too). If you survive the pain… get ready to suffer again with tornado’s (even though supertemp are pretty good Fox-1 when you’re top tier). What else? Gripen? Hornets? You can grind those ones in the swedish tree (if you’re already at a good point). Eurofighter? Germany and Italy have it too.
It is… but the compression at 9.7 is insane, especially with no CMs and even though SRAAMs are worth taking, they are still useless against anything with flares.
Until 9.0-11.0 gets decompressed, its always gunna be on the weaker side in ARB
You grind Britain for the south afreeka stuff.
Rest of the tanks are okay, just not at top tier.
Air is a little different.
From my experience they have decent top tiers, hornet, gripen and ef2k all in one tree is hilarious.
The grind for that however is a tad annoying. Everything up to and including rank 5 is insanely fun save for a few powercrept exceptions. Rank 6 you will have to kind of struggle through as there’s only a few viable jets there. For rank 7 the story kind of repeats itself but in the way that stock grinding most jets there ( which are either 12.0 or 10.7) is absolute torture.
I really enjoy Britain ground. 8.3, mainly. Sometimes 6.3. Sometimes AVRE. Sometimes Chief Mk.10, sometimes Britain 10.7 Vickers Mk.7/Chall Mk.3. Air tree is where it fell apart for me. I got to 9.3-9.7 and then lost the will to go on. Then they put my beloved Sea Vixen from 8.7 to 9.0, double blow.