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I managed to unlock and buy the Centurion I before the 15% discount expired.

As standard it's rather meh. So far I have the middle engine, 17pdr and upgraded turret, I equipped Enhanced Coil springs as a shortcut so I could upgrade the turrent and eventually the gun without spending XP on suspension.

The low alpha damage of the 17pdr really makes you vulnerable, I stayed still a fraction too long last night trying to eek out as much damage as I could and got one shot by an American arty. You really have to be careful to stay hull down, out of arty fire and keep enemies at range in this tank.

It also seems absurd how weak the armour on this tank is considering IRL it was renowned for it's ability to weather a storm of incoming fire.
 
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I will finally get a Chaffee seeing that after re-balance in 9.3 it's only 12,480 tank XP and £405,000 snots !! . It obviously isn't going to perform like it previously did but it will benefit from better MM.

The new tank tree for the US lights look quite tempting specially with the Bulldog at tier VIII.
 
Chaffee is great. I have had my best ever game in mine with *very* nearly 3000 xp (non doubled). Love it to bits.

In a good team on an open map that react to your spots if rules. On a T10 city map or with a bad team it is hard to do well. Although I did have a nice time on Ensk when I rushed round a corner and through a group of HTs that all turned to hit me and got killed by the 4 HTs that they had been playing peek-a-boo with.

I really like the challenge of being such a low tier tank in T10 games. But the new tree looks fun. 10 shot autoloaders :-)
 
tcfreer said:
Sod the autoloaders - 152mm derp with heat on a light tank

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I have to say of the 3 new tier 8 lights, this is the one that interests me the most as well...

The T-54 Lighweight is basicly a T-44 with better camo rating (got the T-44) and the RU251 is a tier 8 leopard, already got the tier 9 and 10 ones...

Ironically the American tree is the one I'd have to work the hardest to get to. :(
 
Well I hve the free exp to jump to it ready to go - and I have a couple of crews ready in some of the free tanks they gave us - t2light / T7 CC etc.

So I may just delay my t57 heavy / e100 / wtf100 grinds to get my hands on one and see what they are all about

I also have the goodoes in the depot for it - rammer vents and then many options for the thrid slot

Thinking coated optics or a cammo net, not sure
 
Hodders said:
Chaffee is great. I have had my best ever game in mine with *very* nearly 3000 xp (non doubled). Love it to bits.

In a good team on an open map that react to your spots if rules. On a T10 city map or with a bad team it is hard to do well. Although I did have a nice time on Ensk when I rushed round a corner and through a group of HTs that all turned to hit me and got killed by the 4 HTs that they had been playing peek-a-boo with.

I really like the challenge of being such a low tier tank in T10 games. But the new tree looks fun. 10 shot autoloaders :-)
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I love scouts so easy to play and you can have more of an effect on the teams outcome than in a heavy a lot of the time.

I'm doing the amx 13 90 at the moment love the autoloader on it :D
blast out around 1000-1500 dmg in 10 seconds and reload for the next 40 :D
people don't seem to realise just how much burst damage the auto loader scouts have it seems to take them by surprise :D

sitting on 58.8% winrate after 70 odd games
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I love my 1390 - though I did grind through it in Team battles were its even more deadly thanks to that burst - even a 50-100 can be killed off easy.

Such a fun little monster.

Though Its a toss up between the 1390 / t71 and the t49(new t8 light) which one I'll love more
 
True - 150 alpha average per shot is low but then again if you scout then scavenge

its 6x 150 so its 900 damage, anything less then 700 health could be yours for the taking
 
NexusK said:
Never really got on with the t71. Was great for Scouting XP but the low damage pea shooter always annoyed me.
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yea i got a crap winrate in my compaed to the amx 13 90, I think the t71 has quite a lot higher pen around 171? but that damage is nothing in high tier games so your pretty much limited to taking potshots where in the 13 90you have the confidence you can take on a heavy with around 1k hp and probably only get hit once if at all.
wz-132 is fun as well but it's more of a sniper and has a slow reload used to be awesome before they started changing the maps and I think they nerfed it's top gun at some point?
 
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Yeah the HEAT round got a pen nerf.

I pref my t71, purely for the fact it feels quicker and more mobile then the 1390.

But the 1390 with the 90mm is a good assasian tank - as long as your selected tank has no support and your full health you can get in dump your full clip, normally kill it if its taken a few other hits and then get out to reload.

The t71, you can dodge the shots and slide about while pumping shot after shot after shot into your opposition.
 
My learnings from a week playing a tier 8 tank and finally playing with the big boys in tier 10 games from the POV of a Centurion I driver...

1) The quality of other players doesn't improve, you're just as likely to see almost all your team going one direction leaving the other team to come down the other flank.
2) You'll get accused of being a base camping bot if you notice the above happening and being in a Centurion with weak hull armour, you get hull down near your cap to lay hurt down on the enemy team to hold them off.
3) There are still tomatoes in tier 10 games (who am I to talk, I was orange until this weekend :p)
4) It's not too hard to be in the top 1/3 of the team for XP earnt in a tier 8 tank in a tier 10 game (those juicy tier 10 tanks give you lots of XP).
5) If you can't pen a tank keep it spotted and a big TD will do the job for you.
6) Given the choice most players would rather shoot the lightly armoured tier 8 than a tier 10.
7) If you have a brain fart and die without doing much, even with a premium account you can still lose credits.
8) The 20pdr is a good gun however don't expect laser guided surgical strikes, it still misses, some of my early frustration was expecting too much of it.

Overall it's not too bad though, still mostly the same as before and not as scary as I thought it would be.
 
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Have you read the dev comments on FTR?

Apparently you won't get a 4202 for free as a t8 prem when the bring the new brit t10 med in :(

have to do a' series' of missions to eb rewarded with a token for it or something daft - very annoying
 
I saw that, as someone who doesn't have the 4202 and would like a premium medium tank that isn't the Matilda BP, I'd be tempted to just buy it as long as it's available.
 
tcfreer said:
Have you read the dev comments on FTR?

Apparently you won't get a 4202 for free as a t8 prem when the bring the new brit t10 med in :(

have to do a' series' of missions to eb rewarded with a token for it or something daft - very annoying
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I took it to meaning it will just tell you that you have completed a mission and then appear in your garage anyway, hope I'm right and you're wrong...

Col M said:
1) The quality of other players doesn't improve, you're just as likely to see almost all your team going one direction leaving the other team to come down the other flank. - This is the thing that annoys me about tomatoes. If you are that bad at the game, please stop playing before you get to top tier!
2) You'll get accused of being a base camping bot if you notice the above happening and being in a Centurion with weak hull armour, you get hull down near your cap to lay hurt down on the enemy team to hold them off. - I tend to find that I hold off one side on my own for a while (if I happen to be in a well armoured heavy), only to find the other side have all gone and died, doing nothing...
3) There are still tomatoes in tier 10 games (who am I to talk, I was orange until this weekend ) - See above.
4) It's not too hard to be in the top 1/3 of the team for XP earnt in a tier 8 tank in a tier 10 game (those juicy tier 10 tanks give you lots of XP). True
5) If you can't pen a tank keep it spotted and a big TD will do the job for you. Good shout. Unfortunately a lot of players don't keep things spotted, very frustrating when playing artillery.
6) Given the choice most players would rather shoot the lightly armoured tier 8 than a tier 10. I do this as it removes the lighter armoured tank's gun from the game quicker.
7) If you have a brain fart and die without doing much, even with a premium account you can still lose credits. As long as you don't do this too often you should be fine though.
8) The 20pdr is a good gun however don't expect laser guided surgical strikes, it still misses, some of my early frustration was expecting too much of it. Happens with all guns I'm afraid, though I do find it pretty good overall.
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Agreed link - just hope its not a mad mission - just somethign daft like do 10 games in the new brit tier 10 med etc

I don't really care stats wise - i'm yellow on XVM so basically it says I'm just a joe average player.

You don't need targets to be spotted in arty though - just look for things being destroyed, add distance in front and fire.

Did that to amx 50 120 in the 53/55 - one shot kill with 0 spot. he was ****ed rofl
 
Is it me or have the last few days been seriously awful? I just can't seem to get a break. The thing is I'm actually playing better and that's what is making it all the more frustrating, the win rate for today was 42% but my WN8 was still 50 points higher than my average despite that.

I know you have bad days but the last three on the trot have been terrible :(
 
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