I want to grind either the British or Japanese ground tech trees but I don’t know which is better? can someone help me please?
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Personally, I’d go for Britain. Japan has APHE, yes, but their tanks (except the Ho-Ri) don’t have much armour. Most British tanks do have great armour.
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ok thank you :)
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No worries!
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Britain has both the lowest and highest points you can experience in WT, its my main nation and I’ve got almost every vehicle in the ground and air trees, even a fair amount of naval now. Ill keep this short.
reserve is fun with tetrarch.
1.7-4.3 is miserable, you will be outclassed by every other tank you will see and most you wont have much chance at consistent pens.
4.7 is where things get really good, Tigers are free food for 17PDR guns
5.3 is same as 4.7 but you have APDS which now means tigers cant angle enough to stop you penetrating their hull and you can hull pen panthers, provided you don’t get a “shell shattered” or have ghost spall. Also TOG 2 is the best low tier tank in game
6.7 (if you get the centurion mk2) you just bully everyone but struggle a bit in uptiers
7.7-8.3 is Britains ground peak. Conqueror and Centurions rock and you have the fox to base rush and make people cope because they died to a mediocre scout car, again
8.7 chieftains punch really hard but are lacking the flat armour pen you enjoyed from centurion, no more shell shatters
9.0-9.3 chieftain mk10 is amazing hull down and Khalid is the same but fast as hell
10.7 is pretty strong, challengers are quite good and there’s plenty of soviet copy paste SPAA to waste crew slots on
11.7-12.0 is top tier misery but your tanks armour underperforms or just isn’t there, you’re slow and obese and die to the leo 2 and T80 spam before the KA52s dozen ATGMs smack you across the map
overall 7/10 experience.
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Good reasoning and I would agree. Though wierdly have more fun in the 1.7-4.3 bracket than I do in the 6.7 to 7.7 bracket :D
I rather enjoy playing things like Crusader and Matilda
That 6.7-7.7 bracket broke me and I hated every second of that grind, wasnt until the chieftains that I started enjoying ground again.
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I have more fun around there too because I’m only playing there to goof off and kill a new player with my AVRE petard.
6.7-8.3 is far too compressed to not burst a blood vessel playing. and I hated the chieftains for the rather poor penetration they have sometimes while having no protection from the relatively new ATGMs they get spammed by
I really appreciate the detailed explanation, thank you :)
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thank you to everyone, I am going to choose Britain
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You are all setting them up for disappointment 💀
Imo down low Brits struggle a lot but they got pretty decent when you finally get the Chieftains, good thing is their SPAAs are mostly fully enclosed which can survive plane machine guns.
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Welcome to the simultaneously best and worst tree you will play in WT
Again…just a warning…britain uses ARMOR piercing ammo (with low explosive filler) of various types on many vehicles…this means that you will usually penetrate the target BUT you won’t kill it with one shot unless you are either lucky or good (usually both).
THIS^^ is not a big issue IF you know it will happen and are expecting it. Brit tanks are usually effective…you need to hit many targets more than one…but you can usually pen everything on the map.
For more “normal” results…Germany or USA are better. Russia also works, but you will have other issue with depression angles.
As to Japan (and all “minor” nations) you will have less vehicles and more difficulty on filling the lineups…and in the case of japan, most tanks are average…i can’t recall a very good one…perhaps Na-To…and it is a Tank Destroyer.
very short huh?
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about as short as you can condense 2000+ hours into
fair
Britain is easier but Britain is harder than Germany, Russia or USA and playing the big 3 is hard enough for a novice.
harder once you get to jets but the spitfire it brain on sleep mode easy to top frag in
I don’t think he said what game or what era so I kind of assumed it was tanks from the start which is my bad really. Yeah UK planes is fine ,very fine.
I mean jet BR is where things get rough for tanks too because you start seeing T72 when you’re still in a centurion, then 2s38 when you’re in chieftains
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