WT: British ground forces Tier II- Review and analysis 

1:48 "if you had a few coffees" I'm sorry, did you mean *tea?*

Tea-timestamps: 0:27 - Cromwell V 4:03 - Cromwell I 4:46 - Sherman II 7:07 - Matilda II 10:08 - 3 Inch Gun Carrier 12:47 - Churchill Mk.I 15:04 - Valentine Mk XI 18:08 - Valentine Mk IX 19:26 - Archer 22:16 - AC Mk II AA 24:42 - Grant I & AEC Mk.II 25:45 - Cromwell Mk.V (RP-3) 27:45 - CAS Recommendations 30:23 - Lineups

6:40 aimbot settings overlay. brilliant.

Man I can understand salt coming my way but you're literally such a nice dude, I don't know what that guy was smoking. Thanks for memeing him, that is precisely what people like him deserve

Unique, quality and honest content. I. Love. It.

10:10 I think you meant to say 3-inch game carrier.

The cromwell 1 is actually a bit faster on paper since it doesn’t have it’s speed limited like the later Cromwells

16:02 this is easily the easiest part of the video to easily listen to :)

Poor Vally XI. It's actually one of my more effective tanks at this BR. Also, when will these twats give the Cromwell its actual armour? It never had 64mm. It had 76mm. They keep it at 64, so the Wirbelwind can pen it.

And here @ 6:30 we have a most vibrant species. The Deranged Messaging Marauder in its natrual habitat. Here we see it trying to tear in to its victim but to the Marauder's misfortune his victim just shrugs it off.

I think it might be better to use the Crusader Mk.III instead of the Valentine in the 3.0 lineup.

Didn’t even mention the 20 degrees of gun depression on the Matilda... so powerful

DONT YOU SPEAK ILL OF MY POOR VALENTINE BOY

I LOVE my churchill mark 1 And about the movility ok, only 25 km/h, but you dont feel it like a problem. And is pretty agile if you know how to turn.

I always love people accusing good players of cheating. It really tells how frustrated they are.

To any who don’t know, there’s a famous Australian poem known as ‘Waltzing Matilda’. ‘Hedgehog Matilda, Hedgehog Matilda, you’ll come a-firing mortars with me, and he sent off the shots, and missed every one of them, you’ll come a-firing mortars with me’.

People are meaner to the gun carrier deserves, I promise it’s a good tank guys stop bullying my poor baby boy!

Thank you very much for making these Oxy I really love them and having started playing the brits I find these very useful :) please make some more and continue the good work

Really great wt content! Love the in depth look at everything this is exactly what I have been looking for. Working through the British tech tree now and you have been a huge help thank you!

The quality of your videos is just mind boggling, well worth the time invested. Keep up the great work and congrats on what you have created so far!

That could've been my greatest moment but alas. Nice video mate!

The Matilda is unfortunately rather over-BR'd in Arcade, since at 3.0 you regularly face the Pz IV F2 and other powerful 3.7s

You seem to be one of the only youtubers out there who actually like and reccomend the 3 inch gun carrier, which is nice to see when someone actually apprieciates that big gormless beast!

Thank you for the demonstration of your light, i love such random tidbits.

Great work buddy, I enjoyed it very much so. Cant wait for the rest of the British series as well as the other countries.

Funny enough for me, I have my highest victory rate in my Archer, at 68% it’s about 10-15% higher compared to any of my other tanks that I commonly used, and almost 30% higher than my current 4.7 lineup tanks iirc.

Love your content , your knowledge and passion of the game brings the thunder back for me 😁. Mission accomplished oxi

Great information as always oxy thank you for your hard work and sorry you have to deal with such toxic salt

As usual, another fantastic video

found this randomly, that was a great review. I started a new account recently and have been re-grinding through the tree without premium. I gotta say it's so much more enjoyable sinch ap got buffed when the french came out.

Waiting for the high tier! thank you so much for the effort. well recieved!

Great video as always! Fun fact my best tank at that rank is the archer with a k/d of just above 2.0 hahaha and both mosquito are great as CAS especially with there speed to avoid enemy fighters

Amazing guide it actually tells me what the vehicles are like. Would be nice though if you had the tech tree in the corner and the current vehicle highlighted, also putting the name of the vehicle at the top of the screen

You can always go to the fuse box and turn the lamp of that way.

Listening to this while falling asleep, your voice is great man

You honesty have the best WT videos on YT.

As a very regular user of the Churchill Mark I (it's effectively become my chillout, have-fun tank of choice) I absolutely agree with everything you've said on it here Oxy. The 2-pounder is definitely losing potency by BR 3.0 but can still punch holes in most things it faces with some practice, while the 3-inch hull howitzer is excellent for smoke dispension and ruining Puma driver's days by blowing their wheels off for hullbreak luls. The armour is genuinely glorious; the turret front is immensely strong - 100mm is very good for 3.0, but the internal mantlet plate can add another 50mm on top provided an incoming round doesn't strike the gunner's sight or vertical aiming slots of the 2-pounder or BESA. The hull is similarly tanky as well - the driver's vision port is some 88(ish)mm thick, but the plate surrounding the 3-inch howitzer is double thickness too - it's one of the few tanks I've used routinely capable of being driven straight at the enemy and having an actual chance of survival, it's such a great lay-back-and-enjoy tank to use. For the rest of the review though I agree on absolutely everything else - I was fortunate enough to pick up an AEC when they were just 15 Gaijin Coins, and it's a very good scout vehicle. Very punchy later-version 6-pounder, enough armour to resist automatic weapons fire (looking at you Puma), and surprisingly good offroad performance for an armoured car because of the wide tyres. All-round I really appreciate the effort and work you put into these reviews Oxy, you dive in real deep on the gameplay and go into detail on everything important about each vehicle. Great work man, I look forward to tier III!

War Thunder needs a game mode where you capture the enemies base (kinda like in WoT). This creates a frontline naturally and makes the game even more authentic. Also this game needs new game modes.

Good luck to you when you Cover the Tier 6 Chieftains always find themselfes at The 8.7 Apfsds madnes so they have no mobility no Amor and really no good scope cause gajin forgot to update it. My tip would be close quaters and City fighting cause everyone can outperform you with Apfsds at range

After getting the engine and transmission mods for the Archer you get the hang of racing and spinning it into position. It takes some practice but you can get your gun into position fairly quickly, take your shot and back off. Inverting the axis in your head takes some practice as well. But that gun is amazing.

Was just refreshing my Gmail and BOOM oxy😂😂

Great video once more. Keep up the awesome work!!

Churchill mk1 really came into it's own once I unlocked the smoke shells. get to a cap, saturate the area with smoke then hit them with your gun as they get in close and bounce shots off you as they can't see anything.

Love these videos. Can't wait for you to get to the other nations.

I use the Archer as my last-ditch effort to counter the enemy in my 4.7 preset, good gun and low spawn point cost.

6:40 Nice meme Oxy

the churchill 1 is excellent for learning how to aim for weak spots. its very well armored, decently mobile for what it is, and is really survivable when it does get penetrated. so you have a lot of time and plenty of chances with the quick reload time of the 40mm to aim for weak spots. ive pushed my whole team up to points from getting reduntantly spawn killed and sorely loosing to winning because of its armor and survivability.

Tier II is such a fun tier for the British. They get some of their best and most enjoyable tanks in the game, like the Cromwells, the Valentines, the Matilda, the first of the Churchill and even a Sherman to play around with. Plus the very first 17-pounder in the whole game, on a terrible vehicle but still it's a 17-pounder at 2.7. Nothing at the rank can reliably survive a well aimed shot with it.

I saw that little cheat menu. Very cheeky, lol.

I'm a fan of your tank reviews.

I know this video is years old at this point, but I’m going to comment anyway. The 3-inch gun carrier is my go-to at rank 2 and I think you described it perfectly

By far my fav. WarThunder content creator.

Saying the 2-pounder on the Churchill I "starts to struggle a little" is one hell of an understatement.

Wow u are 2ay under subed. You deserve 10x more subs your stuff is amazing

Can't wait for ya to get to the AVRE

Im in teir 5 almost 6 in Britain and your 1 of 6 people ive ever heard or read saying the 6in gun carrier is good i love that tank its not my favorite that goes to the fv4202 but that doesnt change that i still play the gun carrier i actually played 2 games with it today

Britain’s problem until rank 3 “The shell hasn’t done any damage” “the shell hasn’t hit”

I’m struggling with tier 4 Britain can’t wait for that video

The Texts with the Cheatbuster wannabe was too damn funny

That second AA tends to run out of ammo really easily unfortunately

At 2.7 the D.510 premium is viable as it has a 20mm Hispano cannon and does come with a Ground target belt that is easily capable of going through the roofs of any tank as well as being a pretty capable fighter although ammo is limited

11:03 THE BRICK i once rounded a corner and got on a good angle where i proceeded to take 3 rounds from about half the enemy team all of which where a panzer variant after their 3 rounds and the removal of my gun barrel and tracks most of them left for the capture point, except for one pz3 L who used basically their entire ammo pool to keep me disabled. In the end that new swedish AA got behind me and shot through the 20mm plate on the back.

The Churchill mk1 actually has 180mm of armour on the 75mm gun plate. Meaning if you angle it properly, it is invulnerable

12:36 THEY WHAT?! I love this tank and I main it.

Well I love the Cromwell RP-3 As I masterd it whit the rockets. Going at a certain speed and breaking,you lower the tank and can shoot a tank. The tanks I've killed whit This tactic is immense. Yes you can die too fast and very easy. But you sure smile wide when killing a Maus whit a RP-3 on a Cromwell.

the A.C.I was added as an event vehicle and its amazing

Btw there is now a premium corsair sitting at 2.7 with 6x50 cals, good alternative for that martlet

@Oxy Please do a line review on the USSR tanks. Great job. Keep it up!

Fun fact: The Churchil MK.I has a double stack 89mm of frontal armor on its left side (Player perspective) so that means it has a wonderful 178mm of protection, that's more than the Churchill Mk.VII

I'm happy the Valentine XI is at 2.7 now, i see alot of dowtiers now where i have a shermans gun at 2.3

9:03 did the driver explode? Holy hell man...

Could you do a guide for American Ground Forces after you’re done with the Brits?

I think higher BR for Sherman II comes from the fact the British tree was made in the time when War Thunder still had at least some respect for the years of service and since Shermans appeared in British forces quite late in the war, hence the BR

Your vids are so useful

i love this series, Pro's "one thing" Cons "Everything" verdict? "Get it" haha still true today

Awesome vid! :)

I will always have a soft spot for the 3in gun carrier, due to the fact that I wasn't able to pen it with APDS rounds with the lago 1

I actually considered the archer quite a good tank, however if you play how it’s supposed to be played that’s what it’s gonna get good reason why it’s backwards so when you’re an enemy that you can’t penetrate them from the front and still continue dragging forward As in you run into an enemy you’re gonna still fishing behind enemy looks at you but you’re still moving and running off as the gun is still facing the enemy which gives you more time to escape and attack at the same time!

Cromwell V has top speed of only 52 kph while Cromwell 1 has top speed of 64 kph! A massive improvement

The British 20mm HEF rounds deal abysmal damage. One direct hit doesn't even kill a crew member so you can imagine how poorly they damange aircrafts. Both the SPAA and planes should mainly use AP rounds until this issue is fixed.

good review , very useful

Can’t wait for tier 3; Comet is my favourite.

i hope you go for the american tree i really had a bad time on those and still am

Honestly, i find most of the brit tanks at this teir pretty alright. Churchill is nutty good, like, drive to the enemy spawn and kill everything on the way, while the 75mm Valentine ive found plays similar to a slow sherman, and ive always found its gun more reliable than the 57mm on the tank, plus the mg is always useful. The GC is great at either long urban fighting or long distance sniping, but suffers from flanking with a poor team, and i swear its missing some side armour, if you look at it it looks like it has two plates of side, yet only has one modelled.

I play the cromwell 5 RP3 alot. I use it in 9.0 and up, for most games it's the only thing I get kills with so I have no issues with it.

How is your cap points so huge? i couldn't find anything on google about making them that big or in any of the settings, but mine are small diamonds with no smoke telling me where they are as well.

Are you doing these for all nations/tiers? They are very nice.

Wow i didn't know the matilda had those weakspots, Def gonna help me

Oxy: says that the AC mk2 has poor survivability Me: Survives shots from a pz4 (early) and a Pz3(early)

RIP Churchill I, your orignial BR will be missed.

The cheat watermark got me lmao

The top of the upper front plate on the Sherman II is thicker than on the A1, but I don't think this is enough for the 3.7 BR.

@Oxy, can you please show us your graphics settings options, and suggestions for keys set up. For a beginner it is fairly difficult to spot the enemy in time due to the bushes and such.

Man, I love the archer.

I nearly forgot that the 2 pdr got aphe shells, that way tanks such as the matilda and churchill mk 1 are not nearly as painful to use.

Dude I also play with coffee it helps me out so much

I gotta disagree with the Valentine, I find it's armour quite reliable in most situations, and I have stomped many matches in it.

14:15 How do you shoot the Second gun?

Enjoyed that thanks. You stopped making videos?

Made the archer because they wanted to make sure they could shoot while running away... XD Also... the grant is not an exact copy of the grant in the US tree because there is no grant in the US tree. There’s an M3 Lee in the US tree, which, ok I get it they basically are more or less the same.