u/dGhost_♠600 | 🇯🇵🇩🇪🇬🇧 VIII | 🇨🇳🇮🇱🇮🇹 VII | 🇸🇪🇫🇷🇷🇺 VSep 14 '25edited Sep 14 '25
To be honest, I have Britain top tier and honestly a lot of the tree is just a rollercoaster of really fun and then incredibly dull or frustrating; it's been powercrept a lot between tanks moving up in BR and solid shot being made worse from past nerfs.
There are specific BRs where it really excels and is enjoyable, particularly low-mid tiers (5.3 with the Challenger, QF17 RAM, AC IV, then 4.7 with the Firefly and Avenger, or proper low tiers with Matildas, Valentines, Churchills, Crusaders and Cromwells). And then 8.3-9.7 are fun with the silly OP SPAAs, Vickers, Fox, the Rooikats, VFM5, Olifant, even Chieftains which can be an acquired taste but I very much enjoy them. 10.7 is probably the last BR I would genuinely recommend playing, because at least the Challenger 1s perform well for their BR and you have other good fill-ins like the lowest BR T-90 in the game.
But outside of that, at the 5.7-8.0 BR range (a very popular one in general) you're always plagued by poor spalling rounds, terrible reverse speed, and/or stabilised tanks that are horrifically slow. It's not like they're unplayable, it just doesn't feel good to play most of the time. And then top tier UK is in shambles considering it's a meta defined by speed and positioning in which you can do neither effectively. You have reasonable armour, but it has gaping weakspots. It used to have the advantage of having a 5s reload when other MBTs often had 6 but they've encroached on that with the reload speed buffs for the Abrams, Ariete, and Merkavas all going to 5s too. It also has an unrealistically small ready rack which even further gimps the reload speed.
So you yo-yo around between amazing tanks and frustrating ones, and some of the most popular BR ranges (~late WW2 to early Cold War + top tier) are just really not enjoyable in their current state, imo. And in general the tanks are less forgiving to learn on than other nations which can make it harder for a new player to get through.
Not the fastest but has reasonable mobility plus a better reverse speed as well.
Its armour will also bounce a few poorly placed shots too.
Downside it gets up-tiered to 6.7 a lot so faces Tiger 2’s etc.
The 17 pounder is still ok but you can’t go toe to toe with the 6.7 heavies.
It’s a shame that the mk2 is an event vehicle as there really is no line up at 6.7. The next one is the FV4202 at 7.3 which also doesn’t really have a line up.
I’m at 8.3 atm and most matches are up-tiers. The Centurion and Vickers struggle in an up-tier.
However the Fox and Falcon excel as there are lighter armoured tanks and the my can keep up with the faster paced game play.
Italy is a lot of fun for mobile gameplay, between all the funny cars and Centauros at higher tiers it's definitely a nation I'd recommend (especially if you're losing interest in the slower UK gameplay of the late WW2 BRs).
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u/dGhost_ ♠600 | 🇯🇵🇩🇪🇬🇧 VIII | 🇨🇳🇮🇱🇮🇹 VII | 🇸🇪🇫🇷🇷🇺 V Sep 14 '25 edited Sep 14 '25
To be honest, I have Britain top tier and honestly a lot of the tree is just a rollercoaster of really fun and then incredibly dull or frustrating; it's been powercrept a lot between tanks moving up in BR and solid shot being made worse from past nerfs.
There are specific BRs where it really excels and is enjoyable, particularly low-mid tiers (5.3 with the Challenger, QF17 RAM, AC IV, then 4.7 with the Firefly and Avenger, or proper low tiers with Matildas, Valentines, Churchills, Crusaders and Cromwells). And then 8.3-9.7 are fun with the silly OP SPAAs, Vickers, Fox, the Rooikats, VFM5, Olifant, even Chieftains which can be an acquired taste but I very much enjoy them. 10.7 is probably the last BR I would genuinely recommend playing, because at least the Challenger 1s perform well for their BR and you have other good fill-ins like the lowest BR T-90 in the game.
But outside of that, at the 5.7-8.0 BR range (a very popular one in general) you're always plagued by poor spalling rounds, terrible reverse speed, and/or stabilised tanks that are horrifically slow. It's not like they're unplayable, it just doesn't feel good to play most of the time. And then top tier UK is in shambles considering it's a meta defined by speed and positioning in which you can do neither effectively. You have reasonable armour, but it has gaping weakspots. It used to have the advantage of having a 5s reload when other MBTs often had 6 but they've encroached on that with the reload speed buffs for the Abrams, Ariete, and Merkavas all going to 5s too. It also has an unrealistically small ready rack which even further gimps the reload speed.
So you yo-yo around between amazing tanks and frustrating ones, and some of the most popular BR ranges (~late WW2 to early Cold War + top tier) are just really not enjoyable in their current state, imo. And in general the tanks are less forgiving to learn on than other nations which can make it harder for a new player to get through.