Having released Soviet, German and American tanks in War Thunder, Gaijin has now released the first news about British Ground Forces, with the announcement of the first British tanks, the Comet, Churchill and Centurion being added to the British ground forces tech tree. The British Tank Tech Tree is likely to be added in Patch 1.53, which is due to released around August/September.
British tanks have now been released as part of the Patch 1.55 Royal Armour update.
British tanks announcment Dev Blog article:
http://warthunder.com/en/devblog/current/803
Link to British premium tanks video: https://youtu.be/eHO9rJx0fms
Links to my Proposed Future British Tank Tech Tree series:
Cruiser tanks episode: https://youtu.be/VZ4zQrO5N7g
Infantry tanks episode: https://youtu.be/ySe_Nrh3HHo
Commonwealth tanks episode: https://youtu.be/eE3QaGyoPh4
Tank Destroyer/Assault guns episode: https://youtu.be/ByRC0L3MX6Y
Self propelled Anti-Aircraft vehicles episode: https://youtu.be/qA1PDO-hRSw
Premium tanks episode: https://youtu.be/oZHIIxYGRyI
Proposed Japanese Tank Tech Tree: https://youtu.be/a4La6cIj3U8
Proposed Italian Tank Tech Tree: https://youtu.be/bX9FmkabR-4
Proposed International Tank Tech Tree: https://youtu.be/Z6p0kXANlrI
Link to new British Premium Tanks: https://youtu.be/eHO9rJx0fms
Game: War Thunder.
British tanks have now been released as part of the Patch 1.55 Royal Armour update.
British tanks announcment Dev Blog article:
http://warthunder.com/en/devblog/current/803
Link to British premium tanks video: https://youtu.be/eHO9rJx0fms
Links to my Proposed Future British Tank Tech Tree series:
Cruiser tanks episode: https://youtu.be/VZ4zQrO5N7g
Infantry tanks episode: https://youtu.be/ySe_Nrh3HHo
Commonwealth tanks episode: https://youtu.be/eE3QaGyoPh4
Tank Destroyer/Assault guns episode: https://youtu.be/ByRC0L3MX6Y
Self propelled Anti-Aircraft vehicles episode: https://youtu.be/qA1PDO-hRSw
Premium tanks episode: https://youtu.be/oZHIIxYGRyI
Proposed Japanese Tank Tech Tree: https://youtu.be/a4La6cIj3U8
Proposed Italian Tank Tech Tree: https://youtu.be/bX9FmkabR-4
Proposed International Tank Tech Tree: https://youtu.be/Z6p0kXANlrI
Link to new British Premium Tanks: https://youtu.be/eHO9rJx0fms
Game: War Thunder.
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00:00Hello everybody, Toreno here, and welcome back to another episode of War Thunder, or
00:03more specifically, the dev blog article of War Thunder, announcing the introduction of
00:08British tanks to, well, ground forces.
00:12Three have been announced, the Comet, Churchill and the Centurion.
00:16Now these have been announced at a bit of a busy time for myself, so this video isn't
00:20going to be as long as I'd like it to be, you know, I'll go into as much detail as I
00:24can if I need to, I'll do a follow-up episode if I need to.
00:29But I'll try and go into as much detail in this episode as I can.
00:32Now, reading through the dev blog, we don't actually get that much information, it's just
00:36basically saying that British vehicles have been announced.
00:38The only really interesting bit is that it talks about unique vehicles of which no counterpart
00:44anywhere else in the world could match, produced by Britain.
00:47Maybe that's referring to some of the more unique vehicles such as the Tog, maybe some
00:51of the early Churchills that had howitzers in the hull.
00:55Not much out of those three paragraphs, but you know, just throwing that out there.
00:58Now the first vehicle they talk about is the medium cruiser tank A-34 Comet.
01:04Now this is interesting because it calls it a medium and a cruiser, so it seems likely
01:08they're going to sort of split the line in, well they're going to have at least two lines
01:12it seems.
01:13A medium cruiser line, so medium tanks slash cruiser tanks, and heavy infantry tanks.
01:20That's probably how they're going to do it, they're probably going to have one line for
01:22infantry tanks and one line for cruiser tanks.
01:25And then possibly more lines for tank destroyers, light tanks, self-propelled anti-aircraft,
01:30etc. etc.
01:33Now the Comet was a rather late addition to the British Army.
01:36It was introduced right at the end of World War II.
01:39Going through my book, the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Military Vehicles, it was introduced in
01:44I think 1944, late 1944, early 1945.
01:49It was used in combat in March of 1945, but by this time the war was basically over, so
01:53there wasn't much for it to do.
01:56But it was armed with a 77mm gun, which I believe was a modified 17-pounder, to fit
02:03better in the turret.
02:04The original 17-pounders were quite big weapons.
02:08Armour was relatively thin for the era, it was 14-101mm, which for a 1945 tank wasn't
02:17particularly brilliant.
02:20Speed was about 31mph, which, you know, it was a cruiser tank, that was its main role,
02:25to be fast and manoeuvrable.
02:27So it seems to have done its job quite well with regards to mobility, but speed, armour
02:35maybe not the best, but it had a pretty good gun, and at the end of the day if it needed
02:39to be fast, you know, it wasn't meant to go toe-to-toe with enemy vehicles.
02:44Now reading from the description given in the dev blog, it says it was 33 tonnes and
02:49that its firepower was greater than the firepower of any other Allied medium tank at the time.
02:54The only vehicle it was comparable to was the Sherman Firefly, which was inferior in
02:58all characteristics except the cannon's penetration.
03:01As I said, the gun on the Comet was a modified 17-pounder gun, which was a bit smaller barrel
03:07rise, I believe.
03:10The Comet was upgraded and modified to fit the 17-pounder anti-tank cannon, what else
03:15does it say?
03:16It says its vehicle turret was improved while the chassis was taken from the Cromwell tank.
03:21In-game the vehicle shows its strengths against opponents at rank 3 and 4, so it's going
03:25to be a low-tier 4, high-tier 3 tank from the sounds of it, which I would hope it'd
03:31be tier 4 since it did enter service right at the end of the war.
03:36But as it says later on in the paragraph, the tankers should not rely on armour protection
03:40as the non-sloped armour may lead to poor survivability, and at the end it says you
03:44should use mobility and cannon performance to turn it into a dangerous hunter against
03:48enemy tanks and self-propelled guns behind enemy lines.
03:51So this is a pretty good tank, I hope it would be tier 4 because lower than that seems a
03:56bit unfair, but it's very good they've added this tank in, I think it will be a pretty
04:01effective tank, you will have to take advantage of its mobility and not rely on its armour,
04:07possibly play a bit like some of the early German tanks which have extremely good guns
04:11but bad armour, and like I say, it's a very good tank to be added into the game.
04:17Now going back to the dev blog article, we've got the Heavy Infantry Tank Churchill Mk3.
04:22Now this was a later model, the earlier models had howitzers in the hull and sometimes howitzers
04:27in the turret and the tank gun in the hull, but this is sort of where they started to
04:32standardise it, got rid of the hull gun, and they added the 57mm 6-pounder.
04:38Now the Churchill tank was very heavily armoured, it had about 102mm armour maximum thickness,
04:48although I think this varied depending on various models, some of the later ones went
04:51up to 152mm, and it was pretty slow, it only did something like 16mph, this was a very
04:59slow tank, and you can sort of see it bears a slight resemblance to some of the tanks
05:04used in World War 1, big high tracks, except it's got the turret on it, while the World
05:10War 1 tanks obviously didn't.
05:13Now reading the paragraph again, it describes the Churchill as a legendary British infantry
05:18support tank, and that it was a successful design with excellent armour protection, which
05:23was further enhanced as the vehicle was modernised, as I said this was changed as newer models
05:28were introduced.
05:30Now it mentions that it even took part in the Battle of Kursk and the Korean War, so
05:36maybe hinting at certain premium vehicles or events, although I don't know how it could
05:40fit into Korea against T-34-85s, unless it's a later model.
05:46And the paragraph does confirm for us that the Mark 3 was equipped with a 6-pounder 57mm
05:51anti-tank gun.
05:52Now interestingly this gun is already in the game, it's in the premium vehicle, the SU-57,
05:59as the M1 cannon, which is basically an American built 6-pounder gun, I think the only difference
06:05was some slight production methods, it was basically the same gun.
06:09Now the in-game 57mm 6-pounder gun on the SU-57, with normal armour piercing, does at
06:160 degrees 10 metres 136mm of penetration, and at 2000 metres at 0 degrees it does 62.
06:25So it's a pretty good gun, pretty powerful gun, so it should do pretty well at certain
06:30tiers.
06:31However, reading the paragraph for the Churchill a bit more, it says that it may be lacking
06:36penetration to combat some enemy vehicles on medium to far distances, and thus the Churchill
06:42has to adapt its tactics by steadily approaching the enemy and attacking from a short distance.
06:48Whether that's hinting at it being a higher tier vehicle, because the 6-pounder was a
06:53pretty good gun, I don't know why it would struggle that much.
06:56I mean at 500 metres at 0 degrees, the T-34-85 only has something like 10mm more penetration,
07:02that's a tier 4 vehicle, so I'm hoping they're not going to put the battle rating really
07:07high.
07:08Now interestingly, at the end of the paragraph it says, at the same time the Churchill can
07:12provide cover to nearby allied vehicles using its massive hull, I'm not sure positioning
07:17yourself to take shots aimed at friendly allies is a good idea, but maybe that just
07:22gives a hint at how big this tank actually is.
07:26Now going back to the dev blog article one last time, we've got the medium tank Centurion
07:31Mark III.
07:32Now you'll notice it says medium tank, but not cruiser tank, as with the Comet tank up
07:37the top here, and the reason for this is it was basically superior to the infantry tanks
07:42and the cruiser tank, it had the manoeuvrability of a cruiser tank, but with the armament and
07:47armour of an infantry tank, I believe they called it the universal tank, and it's basically
07:53like the forerunner to the main battle tanks that we have today.
07:57Now as with the Churchill tank, there was a variety of different models, there was a
08:01model with the £17 a gun, one with the £20 a gun, the Mark III that we're getting in
08:06the game, and they introduced the, there was a variant in the future, I can't quite remember
08:10which variant, I believe it was a Mark V, I could be wrong, but it got the 105mm gun,
08:16that is actually in game on the M60 and the Leopard 1.
08:22If I remember correctly, even some of the early versions of the Abrams tank had the
08:26105mm gun, so you know, this was a pretty good gun.
08:30The armour was also pretty good, about 17-152mm of armour, and speed was about 21-22mph, so
08:38pretty quick as well, with a very good gun and with very good armour.
08:43Now reading through the paragraph in the dev blog, and it is a pretty short paragraph,
08:48it mentions that it's the third modification of the British and Syrian tank, hence the
08:52Mark III, and it's armed with the £20 a gun, which is an 83.8mm calibre weapon.
08:59Now it says it was a unique vehicle in that it was based on the 88mm KWK-43 cannon, but
09:06it then goes on to say it was the first cannon to feature sabot rounds, which I'm pretty
09:10sure is wrong, I'm pretty sure it was one of the earlier designs, the £17, or even
09:15the £6 possibly, I'm pretty sure it was the £6 that was the first to actually use
09:19sabot rounds, so maybe the bit about the 88mm cannon is wrong as well.
09:25And it goes on to say it was too late to actively participate in World War II, but proved its
09:30effectiveness in the Korean War and Vietnam, again possibly hinting at potential future
09:35events for it to be featured in.
09:38Now, very interestingly, it says this vehicle would take its rightful place at rank 4, and
09:44it would be a worthy opponent of the late modifications of the Panther and the T-44.
09:49Now this seems very, very under-tiered for me, I'm hoping the battle rating is going
09:54to be a lot higher.
09:57It seems odd that it would be using a post-war gun from 1948, according to the article based
10:03on a German WWII weapon, to fight vehicles that are from WWII.
10:09It strikes me as very, very odd, I do hope that was maybe a mistype or they're going
10:15to reconsider that, or like I said, if it has a high battle rating, because it's got
10:21ridiculously, well, pretty good armour, it's got a ridiculously good gun.
10:25Yeah, that seems very odd to me, although, then again, one of the reasons they got rid
10:30of the 20-pounder was it couldn't stand up to T-54, so maybe the gun isn't as good
10:35as I thought it would be.
10:38So we'll have to see how that turns out, it does seem very surprising to me at least.
10:43But anyway, that's it for this episode, I do apologise it's been so short and not
10:47as in-depth as my previous videos, like I said, it's come at a bit of a busy time
10:52this announcement.
10:53I do implore you to check out my proposed British Tank Tech Tree, where I go in more
10:58depth about these vehicles, talk about the history, armour, speed, you know, what other
11:04vehicles there are on the British Tank Tech Trees.
11:07But yeah, I hope you enjoyed this episode, leave a like if you did, leave feedback, I
11:12can always do with more feedback, subscribe if you like these sorts of videos, yeah, thanks
11:17for watching, I'll see you next time!