Conqueror
Conqueror
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[Client Values; Actual values in
3,600,000  Cost |
| 1850470 HP Hit Points |
| 65.13/65.530.54/68 t Weight Limit |
- Commander
- Gunner
- Driver
- Loader (Radio Operator)
| 650950 hp Engine Power |
| 34.3/12 km/h Speed Limit |
| 2426 deg/s Traverse |
| 9.9831.11 hp/t Power/Wt Ratio |
| YesYes Pivot |
| // mm Hull Armor |
| 254/88.9/69.9254/88.9/69.9 mm Turret Armor |
AP/APCR/HE
AP/APCR/HE Shells |
660/4400/260
1060/4400/1200 Shell Cost |
| 280/280/370400/400/515 HP Damage |
| 220/252/47259/326/120 mm Penetration |
|
10.17 r/m ▲
5.31 r/m Standard Gun ▲ Rate of Fire Standard Gun |
|
2847.6 ▲
Standard Gun
▼
Standard Gun
▲
2124 Standard Gun ▲
Standard Gun
▼
Standard Gun
▲ Damage Per Minute Standard Gun |
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0.33 m ▲
0.33 m With 50% Crew: 0.409 m ▲ Accuracy With 50% Crew: 0.409 m |
| 2.1 s 1.9 s Aim time |
| 3032 deg/s Turret Traverse |
| 360° Gun Arc |
| -10°/+15°-10°/+15° Elevation Arc |
| 5035 rounds Ammo Capacity |
| 2020 % Chance of Fire |
| 400 m 400 m View Range |
| 550 m 750 m Signal Range |
Additional Statistics
(Top Configuration)
Camouflage
- Stationary: 4.9%
- When Moving: 2.6%
- When Firing: 1.1%
Terrain Resistance
- On Hard Ground: 1.06
- On Medium Ground: 1.25
- On Soft Ground: 2.21
Dispersion Change Values
- Turret Contribution
- Rotation: 0.1
- Shot Recoil: 3.84
- Suspension Contribution
- Acceleration: 0.12
- Turning: 0.12
With 100% Crew
IX
3600000
The Conqueror is a British tier 9 heavy tank.
Developed from 1949 through 1952, this tank was intended to confront new Soviet heavy tanks. A total of 185 vehicles were mass-produced from 1955 through 1959.
A potent continuation of the support tank class of heavy British tanks, the Conqueror plays like an overcharged version of the Caernarvon, featuring a significant jump in firing speed and some small improvements to general characteristics. The hull is exactly like the hull of the Caernarvon except that the upper plate was buffed from 130mm to 152.4mm, which significantly helps with surviving longer and blocking shots with the hull. But everything else is just just like the Hull of the Caernarvon, including the very weak lower plate. Like Centurions, it is also highly prone to ammo rack damage. However that would appear to simply be the price one has to pay for playing one of the best and most surely damaging support tanks in the game.
The most surprising aspect of this tank is the introduction to HESH shells on its top gun, a nasty surprise for poorly armored tanks such as Lights, a few TDs, and some Medium tanks. Note that HESH, like all HE shells, does not have any normalization, which makes it difficult to penetrate sloped surfaces. In addition, tracks and other spaced armor easily block the HESH shells.
The Conqueror leads to the Super Conqueror.
Modules / Available Equipment and Consumables
Modules
Guns
| Tier | Gun | Penetration (mm) |
Damage (HP) |
Rate of fire (rounds/minute) |
Dispersion (m/100m) |
Aiming time (s) |
Weight (kg) |
Price (  )
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X | 120 mm Gun L1A1 | 259/326/120 | 400/400/515 | 5.31 | 0.33 | 1.9 | 2850 | 300000 | |
| VIII | OQF 32-pdr Gun Mk. II | 220/252/47 | 280/280/370 | 10.17 | 0.33 | 2.1 | 2972 | 125000 |
Engines
| Tier | Engine | Engine Power (hp) |
Chance of Fire on Impact (%) |
Weight (kg) |
Price ( )
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| V | Rolls-Royce Meteor Mk. IVB | 650 | 20 | 744 | 16000 | |
| IX | Rolls-Royce Meteor M120 | 810 | 20 | 744 | 92000 | |
| IX | Rolls-Royce Meteor Mk. IVC | 750 | 20 | 744 | 84000 | |
| X | Rolls-Royce Griffon | 950 | 20 | 952 | 100000 |
Suspensions
| Tier | Suspension | Load Limit (т) |
Traverse Speed (gr/sec) |
Rmin | Weight (kg) |
Price ( )
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VIII | Conqueror Mk. I | 65.5 | 24 | 0 | 12000 | 31500 | |
| IX | Conqueror Mk. II | 68 | 26 | 0 | 12000 | 62000 |
Radios
| Tier | Radio | Signal Range (m) |
Weight (kg) |
Price ( )
| |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VIII | WS No. 22 | 700 | 40 | 25000 | |
| VIII | WS No. 19 Mk. III | 550 | 40 | 22000 | |
| X | SR C42 | 750 | 40 | 54000 |
Compatible Equipment
Compatible Consumables
Player Opinion
Pros and Cons
Pros:
- Excellent gun handling, accuracy, aim time and penetration
- Good turret armor
- Great gun depression
- Good hitpoint pool
- Good viewrange
Cons:
- Fairly poor DPM
- Given the rate of fire, alpha damage per shot is low
- Large, poorly armored hull
- Poor speed and sluggish hull traverse
- Frequent ammo rack damage and driver injury from shots to the lower frontal plate
Performance
The Conqueror is a fearsome tank once fully upgraded and is a significant improvement over its predecessor. The top L1A1 gun does a respectable amount of damage and the high rate of fire means that you will often get a second shot in before your enemy has a chance to reload. Before the armor upgrade the Conqueror's L1A1 used to fire almost a full second faster than the M103's gun. Now it fires just slightly slower than the M103, but with that said it still retains the reliability and accuracy it is dreaded for. Indeed the sheer reliability of its 120mm gun makes the Conqueror one of the most dangerous Tier 9 heavy tanks in the game.
While the Conqueror may have a phenomenal gun, the hull it is mounted on is mediocre at best. Even with some angling it is unlikely to bounce many shots unless they hit the upper front plate. While not particularly fast, it is agile enough with the top engine. Use the mobility and high rate of fire to deal damage quickly and get out of harm's way. The ammo-rack and the loader are crucial to the Conqueror's survival; losing one or both eliminates this tank's dreaded DPM. At top tier it is more than capable of leading the push if it needs to, but assuming a supporting role for a more heavily armored teammate and moving with a wave will allow you to put down the high DPM whilst protecting your weak hull.
The turret armor is solid and reliable; gone are the pre-HD days when the Conqueror's turret could be just as easily be penetrated as its hull. The armor upgrade on the Conqueror includes a layer of spaced armor on the cheeks making it nigh impenetrable from the front; a far cry from previous incarnations where high-penetration guns can punch through the cheeks with little difficulty. Tanks who rely on HEAT ammunition are at a particular disadvantage when fighting a well-positioned Conqueror. As with the M103, however, the best way to utilize this asset is to expose it only when necessary. The turret roof is thinly armored and can easily be overmatched by large-caliber guns.
In sum, the Conqueror is one of the best support tanks in the game whose weaknesses are not difficult to mitigate. In the right hands the Conqueror is more than capable of turning the tide of battle or facing any of its tier 9 counterparts. The upgraded armor means it can safely lead a push instead of its traditional role of sitting back and letting other heavies lead. The L1A1 gun is its strongest asset, and will not fail to reward those drivers who can protect the tank's weaknesses.
Early Research
The early grind is not bad if you don't trade shots 1 for 1 because for the stock gun the reload can be brought to below 5 seconds, thus resulting in ridiculous DPM over 2800. The quick reload speed can also often surprise the enemy (thinking you're still reloading) who expose themselves and become easy targets. However, good aim is required due to penetration being lackluster against tier 9 & 10. If you can afford Improved hardening equipment, you can focus on first upgrading the turret and the top gun, the 120mm gun L1A1. Once you have the L1A1, the Conqueror really comes alive, and feels much more like an end tier heavy tank should. The gun is fast, accurate, and deals a respectable amount of damage for a tier 9 tank.
After getting the turret and the 120mm, o for tracks first and then the last engine. If you played through the medium line, the last engine can also be researched on Centurion7/1. It is also the only engine on tier X Super Conqueror, so if you go straight to research it and ignore the engine you can get it for free after unlocking the final tank (otherwise you need to spend 45k exp).
Suggested Equipment
Improved Hardening
Gallery
Historical Info
Development history
The chassis for the new tank was taken from the A45 Infantry Support Tank, started in 1944 shortly after that of the A41 Centurion. After the war the project was relocated to that of the "Universal Tank" design of the FV 200 series. The 200 series was to have used a common hull for all uses (self-propelled artillery, armored personnel carrier, different varieties of tank, etc.). One tank type was to be the heavy FV 201 of 55 metric tons, armed with an 83.4 mm gun also known as 20 pounder.
In 1949 it was decided to bring the armament up to 120 mm. As this delayed the project, in 1952 the FV 201 hull was combined with a 17 pounder-armed Centurion Mk 2 turret to give the FV 221 Caernarvon Mark I. Twenty-one were built with the Mk III 20 pounder turret as the Caernarvon Mk II. The FV 221 may originally have been intended to be the "Main Battle Tank" member of the FV 201 series, but with the success of the A41 Centurion such a vehicle was no longer required. In either event, the Caernarvon was only used for chassis development work serving in troop trials. In 1955 the first Conqueror was produced. Twenty Mark 1 and 165 Mark 2 Conquerors were built including conversions of Caernarvon Mk. IIs. Production continued until 1959. It had lost much enthusiasm once the Centurion was upgraded to an L7 105 mm gun.
The gun design was American, the same as used on the US M103 heavy tank; with separate charge and projectile, as would also be the case in the Chieftain that followed. The charge was not bagged but in a brass cartridge, which offered some safety advantages, but reduced shell capacity to 35 rounds.
The armor was very heavy for the time, especially in the front, where it was seven inches (178 mm) in the horizontal plane. Unfortunately, this, along with the weight of the huge turret required to house the large gun and the very large hull volume, made the vehicle very heavy, giving it a relatively low top speed and making it mechanically unreliable. Also, few bridges could support its weight. However, rather like the Second World War Churchill tank, the Conqueror had exceptional terrain handling characteristics and proved to be as capable cross country as the lighter (and on paper slightly faster) Centurion tank.
One feature of particular note was the rotating commander's cupola, which was at the heart of the Conqueror's fire control system, advanced for its time. The commander could align the cupola on a target independently of the turret, measure the range with a Coincidence rangefinder, and then direct the gunner on to the new lay mechanically indicated to him by the cupola. In theory, when the gunner traversed to the new lay he would find the target already under his sights, ready to be engaged. Meanwhile, the commander was free to search for the next target. (The Soviet bloc also used similar devices, such as the TPKU-2 and TKN-3, on all of their post–World War II tanks though theirs did not use a rangefinder.)
The system may have been inspired by a similar device, without range finder, installed in WII German Panzers which was apparently highly successful, but was not repeated in subsequent tanks until an updated electronic version of the same idea appeared in the American M60A2 variant of the Patton series.
Variants
FV 222 Conqueror ARV Mk II The variants of the Conqueror tank and developments directly related to its development are:
FV 214 Conqueror
- Mk I
- Mk II
- Mk II/I/H[verification needed] - rebuilt Caernarvon
- Design study of Conqueror chassis with limited traverse turret mounting 183mm gun. Wooden mockup produced.
FV 221 Caernarvon
- Mk I – prototype
- Mk II - experimental series, 21 built
FV 222 Conqueror Armoured Recovery Vehicle (ARV)
- Mk I - 8 produced
- Mk II - 20 produced. Weight: 57 tons. Winch capacity: 45 tons (direct pull).
Surviving vehicles
In the United Kingdom, Conqueror tanks are displayed at the Bovington Tank Museum, and the Land Warfare Hall of the Imperial War Museum Duxford. Other tanks are in the collections of the Musée des Blindés in France, the Royal Museum of the Army in Brussels and the Kubinka Tank Museum, Russia. One is privately owned in the United States as part of the Littlefield Collection. There are also two MkII ARVs at the Military History Museum on the Isle of Wight in an unrestored condition. A MkII ARV is held by the REME Museum of Technology, although it is not on display. There used to be a Conqueror at Base Vehicle Depot Ludgershall - a gate guardian named "William". Now believed to be at the Isle of Wight Military Museum. A Conqueror was used at the Amphibious Experimental Establishment AXE, at Instow in North Devon UK, for beach tank recovery practice.
Historical Gallery
Historical Accuracy Errata
The 32-pdr was only fitted on the Tortoise. Its configuration on the Conqueror is fake.
- The Rolls-Royce Meteor M120 was the Conqueror's only engine. The alternate engine configurations are also fake.
- The Conqueror had -7° of gun depression, not -10°
- Historical HESH round with 152 mm penetration for the L1 120 mm gun is missing.
- The armor-piercing shell of the L1 120 mm gun is considerably weaker than in reality, with only 259 mm of penetration compared to the historical 361.
