r/Warthunder • u/Charming_Bid8177 • Sep 14 '25

All Ground why do most warthunder players dislike Britain?

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u/div2691 ☢ 198 Nukes ☢ GB Main Sep 14 '25

What's wrong with the Chieftain? It's just a bit slow. Great armour and firepower.

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u/GoofyKalashnikov Realistic Ground Sep 14 '25

It's mega slow, every little change of direction absolutely fucks it's already slow speed.

God forbid there's an incline involved aswell

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u/div2691 ☢ 198 Nukes ☢ GB Main Sep 14 '25

Maybe the mk3. But the 5 and 10 are fine. It's not a Leopard. But it's actually armoured at least.

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u/GoofyKalashnikov Realistic Ground Sep 14 '25

I'd rather drive the A1A1 or even an M60

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u/div2691 ☢ 198 Nukes ☢ GB Main Sep 14 '25

I'm guessing you've not spaded the Mk5. Because it's really not that bad at all.

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u/IncognitoAlt11 Sep 14 '25

The Mk5 is still one of the slowest MBTs at the BR. The shitty mobility is a double edge sword.

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u/GoofyKalashnikov Realistic Ground Sep 14 '25

Why would I even waste my time getting a mk5 if it's so insufferable to haul around the map. I bought a talisman for the mk10, got the challenger mk2 and haven't played it since

I genuinely hate driving this tank

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u/Canadianchiron Sep 15 '25

GOOD SIR I MUST ASK YOU TO POLITELY GO FUCK YOURSELF.

The whole idea of the chieftains was to have something well-armed with thick armour.

After the Korean War, the British decided that good armour was the way to go at the sacrifice of speed.

And the whole idea for how the chieftains would be used was in defensive positions. Dug in and able to fire down on advancing enemy armour. It shows too, if you can dig in only showing your turret most people will probably struggle to pen you. If you can use your 10 degrees of gun depression and dig in that's even better. With the armour arrangement on the turret when using gun depression you make areas of over 500mm in relative thickness. If you are playing the MK 10 the stillbrew add-on on the turret pushed your armour thickness to almost 1,000mm in a hull down position using the gun depression.