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Characteristics (100 percent crew):
Tier: 7 HT
Hitpoints: 1500
Engine: 800 hp
Weight: 55,883 tons
Power-to-weight: 14,32 hp/t
Maximum speed: 31/16 km/h
Hull traverse: 28 deg/s
Turret traverse: 37,5 deg/s
Terrain resistance: 1,151/1,342/2,014
Viewrange: 380
Radio range: 594,4
Hull armor: 76,2/50,8/?
Turret armor: 152,4/88,9/?
Elite gun: 17pdr
Damage: 150
Penetration: 171
ROF: 14,551
DPM: 2182,7
Reload: 4,123
Accuracy: 0,374
Aimtime: 2,21s
Depression: -8
what does the description mean?
ReplyDeletei cant read Crylic o3o
Caern BP anyone ? :v
Developed from 1944 by English Electric as a part of the new infantry support tank program to replace the A43 Black Prince. Some of its parts were unified with the Centurion. In 1946, a prototype was built. Due to the change in the tank unit development concept the tank was not accepted in service, but it served as a basis for the post-war heavy tank development.
Deleteah, so its basically a buffed BP? good thing :3
Delete(inb4 EMARGHED SS! D:<)
No. It's only BP's replacement. This tank is like Caernervon's prototype or something.
DeleteIt's actually a weaker Black Prince. Slightly more speed, worse turning, considerably worse armor (it's for all intends and purposes a Centurion in armor). This tank will live or die by it's gun performance stats and I sincerely hope, that WG aren't going to overbuff this thing to compensate for all the weaknesses, because the Black Prince doesn't need another tank encroaching in it's meager 17 Pounder performance. The Firefly is enough already.
DeleteWell, the hull armour is terrible so it's like a very very bad T-29.
ReplyDeleteOh look, another british tank using the 17 pdr. It's a good thing we have such a vast diversity in WoT.
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DeleteThe 17 Pounder is a great gun, just like the DCA45 for the french. There's good reason it was used so widely in reality and in game, though some 17-Pounder equipped vehicles need buffs, dearly.
Delete300+ tanks seems diverse enough. Bound to be some similarities. Admitted, the use of the 17pdr is one of the most obvious ones
ReplyDeleteAnd how many BRITISH tanks have the 17pdr as the top gun ?
DeleteSherman Firefly, Achilles (these two are fine), Archer, TOG II, BP, AT 8, AT 15A.
Keep tuned, more coming.
Start counting the german ones that are using the 7,5/l70.
DeleteStug III, Jagdpanzer IV, VK 3002M, VK 3002D, VK3001D, Vk 3001P, Pz IVS, Panther/M10, E25, VK3601H. Thats 10 tanks where it is the top gun - if we start counting the ones that can use it, we actually can go up to 17, if i dont miss any...
Is it me or this machine isn't that bad at all?
ReplyDeleteTier 7, meh gun, okayish hp/t, armor is meh, It's what you'd expect from a premium tank.
It is like Black Prince minus armor and plus a bit agility/speed, to be honest on paper it looks almost very bad.
DeleteIts an IS with less armour and a less scary gun.
DeleteHowever thats fair and balanced because its not Russian.
The Black Prince lives by it's combination of armor and gun performance (though it severly needs a RoF-buff), this tank however, has minimally better mobility, but looses all armor. It's worse than a BP, because a heavy with the 17 pounder on that tier and without special-MM is worthless.
DeleteWG whole approach to the Brits has been shoddy from the start, what could have been an great tech tree has been mishandled into a boring slog most can't be bothered with. The only stand out thing, the stupid 183 insta derp just isn't worth it any more.
ReplyDeleteThe british tree offers some very capable vehicles and if you fail to utilize them, it's your problem. Granted, some of them need buffs to some degree (usually RoF-buffs - Caern, Cent I, Cent 7, BP), but there are plenty of very capable vehicles in the tree.
DeleteI wouldn't say the BP needs a RoF buff, it needs plain up-gunning to something like a 32pdr.
Deleteso it's effectively a Tiger, but worse in every single way apart from hull down, worse armour (and you can even angle the Tiger, good luck angling this thing woth 50mm side armour!), worse pen, worse acc, worse DPM, worse speed! I know premium tanks aren't supposed to be as good as regular tanks but they generally are ok in at least 1 regard (T34 and Lowe have good guns, IS-6 has armour and limited MM, E25 has speed and camo, SU122-44 has insane DPM with good speed, even the AT-15A gets decent armour and limited MM) so what will this thing have as it's redeeming feature?
ReplyDeleteThe one feature that makes this tank shine is:
DeleteYour rounds will go right through it.
I can only assume that this pile of garbage is going to be one really cheap premium that fires inexpensive ammo, otherwise no amount of frosting is gonna turn that turd into a danish.
Pretty good dpm at 2176
ReplyDeletePretty useless without armor.
DeleteIs the E25 useless
Deleteis it a TD?...I got the BP and I do not see any reason to pay for a BP v 0.9...paper-dpm might be good but you can forget it in a T8/9 match...
Delete@Darkmancer:
ReplyDeleteI have to agree, do the Brit's really need another mediocre rapid(ish) fire 'heavy' without a spot of real armor?
I'm still annoyed that the Centurion plays like an IS with a bit more accuracy, at the time the Centurion was a really scary tank... Hell, start some serious trouble in South Africa right now and you will see a Modernised Centurion (Olifant iirc) and its really not a joke! However in game, its a glass cannon without serious bite.
HESH is completely modeled wrong, taking a serious benefit away (and possibly making Spall liners less popular)
The guns, a 17 pounder could defeat a tigers frontal armour at 1km+ and each gun after the 17 pounder was a serious game changer. The one on the Centurion had reported first hit kills at 5km!
"The one on the Centurion had reported first hit kills at 5km!"
DeleteDon't make shit up. The longest range tank-to-tank kill on record is from the first Gulf War when a Challenger 1 (not a Centurion!) killed an Iraqi tank at 5.1km with a depleted uranium APFSDS shot. The gun that fired that was the 120mm L11A5 and definitely NOT the 105mm L7A1 that the Centurions eventually mounted.
Is this the CenturionX ? And how about the Model swap with the Chieftain where we was promised from WG getting the Tier 8 Medium CenturionX for free ? Any news about this ?
ReplyDeleteThe Centurion Action X is the coming T10 medium. The FV4202 will be relegated to T8 premium medium duties. So far no news, although they were supposed to come out this first quarter of the year, but yeah. Dunno what and when and why...
DeleteLooks quite like a little cearnarvon
ReplyDeleteBecause it is. The A45 is the direct predecessor of the Caernarvon.
Deletei remember some calling this the "Strange-turion" and "FAIL-narvon".
ReplyDeletewhoever you are, I salute you for quipping such lulzy names.
I want this tank (- 30% gold)
ReplyDeleteI don't know. It might just be me, but I don't really see any redeeming qualities in the A45 to make it worth spending my hard earned real life money on.
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