Yeah, I found that the Cent 1 is still fairly cheap to repair and still gives you a good round just not as nice of gun handling or armor. So I end up grinding like four matches in the Cent 1 for every match I play with the BR 7.0s.
@@Martel_Clips they already got their BR's raised to 7.0 because they were good at countering German vehicles, and we can't have that. Getting hit with that and a double-whammy repair cost increase is ridiculous.
Yeah I'm yet to work with a country that doesn't have a integrated way to boil water on almost all their vehicles, but the world loves the tea joke, so let them have it.
@@SAbre5311 I mean the brits were the first to identify the problem and implement the boiling vessel PRECISLY becasue of teatime. everyone else copied it later
@@niamniam_thpyr No its only until the Mk.5/4 do Chieftains get APFSDS, as far as I'm aware. The Mk.5 ingame isn't the Mk.5/4 unfortunately but just the Mk.5 with the new engine.
Mk.11, last of the true service gun tanks, added STILLBREW armour and TOGS thermal gunnery system. Still let down by the Leyland L60 in the back, but when it worked it was a very potent tank that could even today still pose a threat to just about anything on the battlefield with an even half awake crew in it. I may be biased though, I served on the old girls!!!
Before getting the chieftain, we need to spend a LOT of lion cuz of those astronomic repair cost on every british 7.0 tanks. why does it cost so much ?? Is it because it got stab at 7.0 ? Well ok but when u face 8.0 tanks with stab and heatfs shells u don't stand long, I went like bankrupt cuz of that. Can gaijin plz do something about that... 😭😭😭
@@gentlemenbaiter5288 I think to lower the repair cost is the right option especially the caernarvon 19k !! Because if they put it again at 6.7 I already hear german Tiger II (H) players crying in the skirt of Erika
@@zmyslowykalosz don't worry haha I play german as well but the repair cost of german tanks are not that high, compare the two heavy tanks caernarvon and tiger II if I remember correctly the repair cost of the tiger II is like around 8k but the british one is 19k
Lol u talking about it's a broken tank at the br it's at If are decent u van make huge amounts of SL. If u want pain try the Tiger 2h in a uptier that's a good game ww2 with high repair Vs 1970w mbts
'By the 80s the Chieftain was outdated, and left much to be desired' is that why the Soviets still deployed their most up to date tanks on whatever parts of the east / west german border where Chieftains were stationed
What Bruce forgot to mention is that there was an Anglo-Israeli collaboration on the development of the Chieftain's latter stages. Then Britain pulled out of a deal so that they wouldn't feel the wrath of the Arab nations. One of the nations that the British sold the Chieftain to was Iran, which seriously backfired for them when the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The experience from the collaboration spurred the creation of the Israeli Merkava, the development programme of which was led by General Israel Tal, who had worked closely with the British in the Anglo-Israeli Chieftain project.
my favorite chieftain is the chieftain marksman. an episode on British SPAA would be cool, especially since there's that new ADATS in the British tree now.
I remember back when I first grinded the British tree before the sabot buffs, I absolutely hated the chieftain. It was slow, and the gun was awful. But then gaijin buffed sabot shells, a couple of times I think, actually; and it was like flipping a switch. Combined with a BR reduction, the chieftain mk 3 and 5 absolutely rip. Dependable and deadly, like the best British tanks.
Okay lets get some things straight. The first Chieftains were not very mobile. They were more than 10 tons overweight and their Leland L60 multi-fuel engine was underpowered. The first Chieftains had to be winched onto tank transporters as they couldn’t get up the ramps. The L60 was also hopelessly unreliable and would plague British Chieftains throughout their service. The 700+ condor engines were only ever fitted to export models and the Chieftain 900 prototype. Mobility problems were partially fixed with an improved L60, which didn’t actually have any more horse power, and a new transmission. Despite their shortcomings Chieftains were THE most powerful tank in the world, Albee to shrug off T-55, T-62, T-64 and even early T-72 rounds. They were bumped down to the second most powerful when the Leopard 2 tank showed up. Chieftains were retired by the British in the 1990s but are still in service with Iran and I believe Jordan might also have a few still going.
i hope we get shir 1 and shir 2 MBTs(specialzed versions of chieftain and one of chalenger prototypes for iranian army) as an event tank for british techtree in the future.
Nevermind the Chieftain, why don't you sort out my Challenger 2F instead of making it out paper with a pea shooter you buff it to what it is operationally like in the field - actual armour with an unbroken L27A1! I feel like I'm driving around a toy tank all the time. Gaijen the king of broken vehicles.
We also learned from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard fighting Saddam's Iraqi army about the Chieftains flawed turret armour, thus the stillbrew upgrade was born.
Ah the FV4202... Great tank but unfortunately I can't play it anymore because of a ridiculous 16k SL repair cost that made me give up on the British tech tree
MEGA VIDEO !! VERY WELL COMPILATION INFO! I'm starting to warm ...A LOT! to WAR THUNDER : my military service was around SARACEN APCs initial yrs ...then much later CVRT SPARTAN CMDR CRSE ..twice. during which I learnt a lot from others who had been doing /working CVRT much longer! being in W. GERMANY 1978 -1981 then rtng in late 81 ...we were deployed on EX CRUSADER 1980 AND later EX LIONHEART "84 BOTH OF WHICH were a TANKERS zenith and highlight! I'm a wogeller at heart ...and I'm in process of putting a photo set together for a UK VETERANS MODELLING GRP. SO! dusting off those TAMIYA CHIEFTAINS ETC and many others. FAVE CHIEFTAIN MK 5 Managed to get an early mk of the 1-25 scale TAMIYA CHIEFTAIN ;NEVER had seen one other than catalogue pics!?. SHE really needs some TLC! GREAT CHNL THANKS LADS!
Merry early Christmas War Thunder team, especially the favourite voice of the videos, Bruce Grant! I doubt there will be more videos in the next 2 days so I'm wishing you a Merry Christmas now.
Gaijin please can we get the Chieftain 900 at some point down the line, it would be a nice line filler..... (and maybe the mk11 as well as a modification for the mk10 to add thermals to it)
Just finished christmas tree so there is my question to you Gaijin. Q: Would you add modern crew models for vehicles with visible crew? Such as Type 93, Duster, M163 Vulcan etc. Happy christmas may next year would be better for you and your community ASWELL.
Urdnot Wrex I love how you keep asking this question on every video. Keep it up, I too want to see modern crew models. After all why did jets get updated pilots but not tanks.
Hey Gaijin team 2 quick questions. 1. Will you add modern day jets like the f14,f15,f16,f18,f22,f35,Rafael,eurofighter,mig25,mig 31,mig 29,su30,su 27,su34,su57 etc. And if yes when? 2. Will you ever add new countries like India, South Korea,etc. And again if yes then when. GAIJIN PLS REPLY
The Centurion Action X never existed. Even the name of "Action X" was discovered in early 2000s. It was called The matletless centurion and was a prototipe turet made by UK for the stated that couldnt afford a chieftain so they could upgrade their cents. The name of Action X was writen on one of these turrents if i remeber corectly, but no official documents says anything about it. It is cool that we have it in game, only its name is wrong :)
@@wheely_boi_6846 What would ne weird about it? And wait... it is in the game, but it has the wrong name :) I dont judge Gaijin for that, Axion X sound cool asf
Shame that the cheiftain is a complete brick in war thunder and faces stuff continuously which is 30 years more modern than it and will happily sail right through the turret armour
Well the game is going to be harder than it is the game is already too hard for some ppl. But i feel like they should make it solid in specific gamemode
@@DelinaSilence oh I know them they kick Intel's ass for cheap prices but why would gaijin do that considering that Nvidia is a partner in war thunder and amd is a direct competitor to Nvidia maybe they are dumping Nvidia for AMD?
