You think the t62 is bad? Try the chieftain
I’m really not agreeing.
T62 ammunition;
The only things the T62 have over the Chieftain is access to HEAT-FS, a better acceleration, and a slightly faster turret traverse. Everything else is in favour of the Chieftain.
There’s a reason why you don’t see many T62 being played, there are way better options at the BR.
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Lool 2025 an im hearing someone trying to act like t62 is worse than chieftain mk3.
Chieftain has less penetration, armor and speed. Like the only thing the chieftain does better is dsmage and hulldown. Which is situational at best
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You never played anything soviet past rank 2…
Armor at these br without composite is not relevant, everything goes through it.
Chieftain is very similar in playstyle with the T62, both are to be used in support at range, and the Chieftain has every metric to do it better than the T62.
You’re only reacting emotionally.
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They are close, one is a better sniper and one is a better brawler, which one is better depends on the map’s terrain pattern lol have you played the T-62?
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Better sniper is arguable, it has a rangefinder but the ballistics on the l15 are worse than on 3bm4 it has also worse flat and angled penetration, although l15 is more reliabled amd shatters less. 90% of war thunder maps dont accomadate a sniper playstyle, the chieftain with its poor mobility is simply qorse than t62 in most cases, i have not personally played the t62, dont really need to either.
The l15 has a better flat penetration than the 3bm4 while having the same angled penetration.
Sure, the thing is that the t62 itself doesnt have a good mobility for its br either
They are overall pretty close, one trades the better mobility, hull protection and more ammo choices for better firepower, turret protection, gun depression and commander overide.
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Comparing the T-62 and the Chieftains is something of a race to the bottom. The Chieftain has a notional edge in some areas, it’s worse in others, but in the end they both suffer at the BR bracket.
Ultimately, tanks that borderline require a defensive, hulldown playstyle that relies on armor shouldn’t be at the same BR as tanks with LRFs that outsnipe them, and rounds that trivialize even their best armor.
and as usual, everything, every god damn problems in that game comes down to the BR compression lol.
They “decompressed” 7.0 area a couple years ago by just compressing the bracket over it even more.
But I feel that it’s not ever gonna change.
those tanks are undertiered, no way t55amd1 and t69s should be at the brs theyre at, israel shot’s are fine imo
most definetly does for the level of protection it has, the chieftain does not have better firepower, it has better damage but that is about it.
Shot with ERA, DM23 and LRF definitely isn’t fine at 8.7.
It has no protection against APDS, HEAT or darts.
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the protection of the t62 doesnt help it at all at these br, the chieftain’s turret at least gives protection to apds and some apfsds, again it still have bad mobility.
it does since it reloads faster.
made of paper and slow as balls.
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It has ERA so it actually defends against HEAT.
It’s mobility isn’t really that much worse than what T-62 offers.
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They have smoke shells, it can definitely help them getting into sniper position bro
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does that compensate for the less flat pen and angled pen? doubt also no mobility on t62 isnt really bad. that aside i wholeheartedly believe that the t62 fits fairly well at 8.7 and so does the chieftain, your issue isnt with these tanks being at 8.7 it should be with the many op undertiered premiums, like the t55am which is the same br as the amd1 despite being just better. or t69IIg.
eh i never had issues with them, theyre frankly easy targets, if they get in a sniping position theyre dangerous but you can stil pen them anywhere
So youre adding up the flat pen and the angle pen of the two apfsds round? you can only fire one at the time buddy, and btw even the 3bm4 has worse angle penetration especially at range…
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i mean, they have comparable horsepower but one weighs 35 tons the other 54.