Best Heavy tank

[Zeke Wolff]

The Centurion that you see in the game, is basically an Israelian version with the wrong gun, etc. The 6 Centurions that was rushed to Europe in May 1945 and arrived in combat units two weeks AFTER the war ended, did have a 17 pounder (that´s 76mm) main gun and a 20mm coaxial automatic cannon. The turret also looked very different from what we´ve in the game right now.

So, what you do get in the game, is a Centurion Mk. I with the correct main gun, but with everything else... plain wrong and it shouldnt even be in the game in the first place, since it was never used during WW2. A better UK tank to have added, would´ve been the Comet A34, which is was almost as good as the Panther.

~Zeke.

[KnightFandragon]

There is a mod I DL'd that had the A41 Black Prince. Looks like a Churchill Hull and Comet Turret w/ a 76mm. Weird for sure

[FM_Von_Manstein]

Originally Posted by Zeke Wolff

The Centurion that you see in the game, is basically an Israelian version with the wrong gun, etc. The 6 Centurions that was rushed to Europe in May 1945 and arrived in combat units two weeks AFTER the war ended, did have a 17 pounder (that´s 76mm) main gun and a 20mm coaxial automatic cannon. The turret also looked very different from what we´ve in the game right now.

So, what you do get in the game, is a Centurion Mk. I with the correct main gun, but with everything else... plain wrong and it shouldnt even be in the game in the first place, since it was never used during WW2. A better UK tank to have added, would´ve been the Comet A34, which is was almost as good as the Panther.

~Zeke.

Comet like never saw action either. But it doesn't matter what they add because there's nothing that the 88 can't pwn. Even if they added the T-62 (Which was from the 60s). The 88 couldn't penetrate it frontally but if it got repeated hits on the turret in the same spot it might be able to knock it out eventually. The 88 was just too good, IIRC the L7 105 did surpass it in AT capability and obviously its superior than the 88 when firing HE.

[Zeke Wolff]

The Comet A34 were introduced in February 1945 and fully issued to one UK Armored Regiment before the end of the war. It´s true that it never saw much action, but it was used in combat against German tanks, even if only rarely. Unlike the Centurion and Turtoise (the latter never even ever been accepted for service by the UK), the Comet A34 was used during WW2 and that´s the difference.

I like my WW2 games to be historical correct when dealing with vehicles and such, and I do not like to see these prototypes that never saw service (T29 for example), and/or tanks that was introduced into service after the war. I really don´t care if a tank can´t go up frontally against a German 88 or not. That´s why flanking manouvers was invented...

~Zeke.

[Korsakov829]

What about the IS-3?

[Zeke Wolff]

IS3 is a footnote... in the history of WW2. It did enter service before the end of the war against the Japanese, but there is no written proof anywhere that they ever saw action against any Japanese tanks. In Europe they were only used during the Victory Parade in Berlin.

~Zeke.

[Korsakov829]

Thanks for clearing that up for me, have been confused on it for some 5 years.

[FM_Von_Manstein]

There's no record of the IS-3 ever seeing any real action. All these experimental tanks were added for balancing. If they weren't then Germany would wtf pwn everyone.