Another bizarre looking British vehicle! Here are the stats (as of now) and some screenshots of the very incomplete model (once again, Ed Francis gets credit for digging this vehicle up from the National Archives):
WoT Supertest: Chimera
Is that a medium a heavy or a TD? Love the alpha on in. Please tell me it’s another guard medium or a big barrel heavy
I’d even be fine with something similiar to a conway with the 4.5inch
I would say it looks like a lower profile Centurion/Conway, kinda like a mixture of the Centurion and FV4202, and the turret seems like a preliminary design for the one installed on the Conway, in fact it seems to me like an enlarged Valentine Mk.IX turret (the one that mounted the 75mm QF gun, also the top turret in WoT), by the overall rounded shape together with the pronnounced trunnion behind the mantlet
Its not a TD. it has too many hitpoints for it to be a TD. But either way I dont like the idea of premium tanks with that high alpha damage. actually i hate the idea. and i hate the skorpion g. and i hate all the new premium tanks. remember when they called Patriot op? by nowadays standarts Patriot is average.
Remember when the Type 59 was a terror. Now people laugh at it when they see it and it is mostly just a collector tank. Power creep kills. Takes your money and leaves you poorer for it.
It’s a medium, you can see the medium symbol near the name in the stats screenshot
it should be a heavy
It’s a mediums
Lil Conway at tier 8 with fully rotatable turret ? FeelsP2WMan…. Dank tonk
not really, this is more like a skorpion G with 1 less round per minute in exchange for more armor (that still wont hold up against tier 8 pen)
Currently it looks so flat that armour are just ballast
Edd …. ward
You monster π
Too soon…
Its a T9 med! I wonder what the Tx might be π …Hope so.
490 alpha??
13.4 sec reload
Do we need more premium tanks?
A-Yes
B-Π΄Π°
C-No, but at least they are not soviet
This tank looks like a more balanced skorp G,. Why not increase pen and make it a td?
Wait, what? Massive alpha and good accuracy, fast, very good armor for tier…this is a medium tank?
Wouldn’t consider 114mm frontal good for a tier 8 it kinda follows most British only having decent turret armour
Its tier 8 premium medium, scrubs . Jove(russian cc ) did a video on this tank 3rs ago
I joked about it in the comment section of the post about the Excalibur but, this is starting to look more and more like a 3rd TD line, let’s say they add the AT-1 (turreted) at tier 5, the Tier VI is the Excalibur with either the 76mm/17pdr gun or 120mm DERP (AT-1 should also have access to some kind of derp), now they leak this tank with a 127mm (5″) cannon at Tier VIII
notice that the description mentions the IS-3, and so we can assume it was proposed in response to it, since it seems to have a similar origin like the Challenger, Chariotier, etc (upgunning tanks to deal with stronger enemy tanks), it could well be a new TD line (athough this is currently classified as a medium) with large caliber guns leading to the FV215b(183) (it’s removal never made sense)
either way the gun is way too large for a medium, even for british mediums that focus on sniping, it is clearly a gun for a gameplay that focus on big hits rather than DPM, with 490 avg dmg it becomes a good KO gun for damaged tanks
Itβs a medium, it has it in the symbol on the top left.
Β«athough this is currently classified as a mediumΒ»
fortuntely I’m not blind and mentioned exactly that, but that (like everything else) is still subject to change during supertest, I just gave my opinion on how a vehicle with a similar rate-of-fire to the T30/T34 and such massive Alpha Damage will in fact play like a TD and not like a medium tank
490 AVG DMG will be extremely usefull at KO damaged enemies while it’s 4.4 shots per minute won’t help it in the typical gameplay of a medium of getting on the flank and taking advantage of the DPM and ROF, especially since it has MT armour and cannot fight head on
on a last thought, it would not be the first time WG switches the class of a tank between supertest iterations, it also wouldn’t be the first time they change a tank classification ingame despite it’s RL classification
Some kind of Heavy Tank concept that was never built probably. 5 inch gun, so 120mm something 490 alpha. Some decent armor, decent speed and manuevering too. Interesting tank
5 inch = 127mm
furthermore the description shows the Medium Tank symbol, the problem is that it does not fit british MT gameplay where you snipe enemies with decent/good DPM, this gun is ideal to KO targets that are already damaged with it’s 490 AVG ALPHA DMG, the type of gameplay more suited for a TD
on top of that they have recently released the Cent. Mk.5/1 RAAC as a premium which would make them look bad release another right after
World of Pay 2 Win, da, da, all is good, comrade.
Its getting out of control
Wait a minute… the chassis and rear hull (engine compartment) looks a lot like the Chieftain… Coincidence?
The frontal hull is different, though… A Chieftain prototype, mayhaps?
That’s what I’m thinking. Despite it being a beefy gun, it’s got an AP/APCR/HESH ammo selection and .33 accuracy, so it’s clearly not intended to be a derp cannon. This is a nimble tank with a big, accurate gun and solid turret armor… Definitely sounds like a Chieftain to me!
Wait a minute!!! Isn’t that a Chieftain chassis? The front is a bit different, but the chassis and rear hull are quite similar… A Cieftain prototype, mayhaps?
I agree I am thinking that this will maybe hints at the next tech tree to be upgrade (basically what happened to the Russian tree recently but to the British one)
50 km/h with 18 hp/t
2.4s aim time
0.33 Accuracy
490 Dmg
Useless standard ammo, but 252 premium…
Seriously what the fuck is this besides a terrible joke? Next fuckup vehicle incoming…
Don’t count your chickens. The invisible stats is what will decide it’s fate. It’s gun handling stats and terrain resistance. If those are bad, most of this is irrelevant.
Dude, all the soft stats are here already.
We, uh, can see the ‘invisible’ stats right there on the picture with all the stats.
Hmm. Ignore me lol. My phone decided not to load the photo.
make it a HEAVY.. we already have plenty of tie r8 belrit meds… 4202, cent 5/1, chief/95
Shit this could easily go towards a new branch going to the chieftain. This to the vickers MBT to the chieftain
Russians are in frenzy: “Oh no, 490 alpha and it’s not a Commie tank? What is this sorcery?”.
Turret Traverse Limit of 10? I asusme that’s 10 degrees left, 10 right? Seems like a good way to keep this thing from being a little too crazy.
I think that’s the gun depression. Otherwise it has no gun depression…
At least one screenshot shows the turret going almost entirely to the side, so don’t think so
Tier 8 Medium tank with more alpha than any of the tier 9’s and 10’s ?
typical WG
Seems like a really good tier 9 heavy, but with better gun handling compared to the E75 gun that uses.Conqueror lvl good but conqueror is slow and it is tier 9 π
with that 202mm pen, think of it like a better super sherman with slower reload
I like me some big and boxy British tanks… but why is this a Medium?
IT looks like a British Vickers MBT, a tank that served as a prototype for the chieftain, at least to me π