Because that’s like the only light tank that existed at the time. France went heavy, Brits went heave, Russians put artillery on a tractor.
It kills the match. Weak armor is absolutely the best armor and that strange HE shell with that much pen kills everything with one shot, bar A7 frontally.
Vice verca I just got stuck in front of an enemy A7 tank and it took 5 point blank shots to kill my Garford. Its open top, so one HE should overpressure it, but it does usually nothing. APHE doesn’t fuse and you need to needle all crew seperately.
Its doesn’t make alot sense and its not fair.
Best part of the mode IMO. God, how I wish there would be a modern Crimson Skies.
Weird, I can normally take out a Garford with one HE round. It’s those bloody A7Vs that can survive Armageddon and won’t die.
Leave it to War Thunder players to find ways of sucking the fun out of any game mode.
Even after a tremendous amount of buff at St Chammond, Entente forces are still losing like hell, just in the same way as France in 1940.
The winning rate feels like it becomes slightly higher and higher when every day passes, but they are still losing a lot more.
Can’t wait to see A7V and captured-Gaford storm London and Geroge V sign Unconditional Surrender with Willhelm II in Gaijin’s alternative reality WW1.
Entente Mk. V’s 6pdr cannon has 16g of explosive in APHE
while German Mk. IV’s upgun maxim cannon has 120g of explosive in their APHE?
(same gun with A7V)
with slightly better pen at the ‘marginal’ level.
Of course, every British-built thing needs to be worse than a German-captured one. :|
At least, both sides have almost same gaford :/
The Best armored vehicle at western front, ‘the artilery truck from east’
feels like real charade.
Unlike both St Chammond and Mk.V does, Gaford can punch quite pack of punch against A7V when successfully flanked.
Sad point is, Germans also can utilize same truck, and Allied tank has weaker armor than germans overall.
not for me - I’m getting 50/50 on both sides
They didn’t teach me that in history class. Maybe because my country ( the Netherlands) didn’t participate?
We did have a potato shortage tho.
feels like 3/7 to me.
better than 1/9 at day 1 though
Garford isn’t British - it is a Russian armoured car built on an imported American truck.
The correct name for is should be “Garford-Putilov”
48 were built, and at least 3 captured and used by the Germans. Others were captured and used by various eastern European states too.
I meant upgunned Mk.IV and normal Mk.V one. :'|
Both feel meh in this mode, but I think the German one captured is obviously better than the UK one.
Of course, Mk. V moves faster than Mk.IV thanks to the new engine, but the gun difference feels bigger than that.
About 50 were made, far more than A7V (even fewer if you divide the male and female variants of A7V). So arguably it had more historical importance
Yeah, if we only consider historical importance but no hype and iconic at all
A7V is only built 20-ish, so as a 100% joke, it needs to be limited to spawn only once.
On the contrary - it was widely used and considered very effective - including through the German revolutions by the Freikorps, by Poland in their wars, both the Reds and Whites used it in the Russian civil war, by Latvia vs the Reds and Germans -one was still in storage to be captured by the USSR in 1940!
General ignorance in the west that it even existed doesn’t make it insignificant!
people like when their favorite vehicle is effective against everything but not when something they dont like being effective against them
biased comparisons comparing the most ideal situation of one vehicle to the least ideal situation with another vehicle to say a disparity
For example,
Every Kaiser-fan loves A7V when they just steamrolls the match
but hates Gaford when they flank the line and one-tapping A7V.
right?
A7 were also used bei Freikorps troops to supress comunist uprisings in Germany after war ended. Historically it was the fastest one with 16km/h and the armor was good as well. On some old photos there also seems to be an A7 without this exposed driver cupola???
HA.
Understood it wasn’t just the 2 countries - was keeping my keystrokes down.
But I’m still curious how others found the balance of each side - if they found the Entente to be at a disadvantage. Seemed like they go uphill a lot more to get to the Caps than the axis.
0-10 is a poor result.
It creates an imbalance in the gameplay side.
Also, Historically, A7V is built with the smallest number in all 6 tanks of this mode.
The German team can utilise 32 A7V, while they were built 20 in total irl. That is madness if you talk about historical accuracy.