Difference between revisions of "Tanks of China"

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China's tank development consisted of three phases. Prior to 1950 China relied on foreign made tanks purchased from or supplied by France (Renault NC31), Britain (Vickers Mk.E B), the USA (M5A1 Stuart), as well as tanks seized from Japan at the end of WWII (Chi-Ha). Chinese tanks through Tier-4 represent this period. In the early 1950s China was heavily influenced by vehicles of other nations, notably the T-34 and the IS-2, which were provided to China by the Soviets together with design and fabrication assistance for local production. By the late 1950's China began developing its own tanks by making modifications and improvements on the Soviet T-54 design. The Chinese Type-59 main battle tank and Type-62 light tank were the first Chinese tanks to be mass produced. The tier 6 premium light tank Type 64 was produced by the ROC from Taiwan, which strongly resembles some USA light tanks characteristics, being somewhat agile and fast firing gun.

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Chinese tanks, for the most part, have unparalleled mobility, good camouflage values and sloped armor. This makes their tanks very flexible regardless of if they are a heavy, medium, or light. They still play as you would expect, but they can often change their combat role a bit, should it be necessary. However, they have very poor gun depression, even worse than German or Soviet tanks, and arguably the worst in the game. They also have very poor module health, and their modules are densely emplaced. This results in frequent crew loss, destroyed tracks, fuel tank fires, or even ammo rack detonation. However, while most Chinese tanks have (comparably) poor hull armor, their turret armor is unparalleled, sometimes even surpassing the hull armor values of heavy tanks.

Chinese Light Tanks are fast, agile, and have good penetration and alpha damage. They play very much like medium tanks. Their armor, Although it's sightly better than foreign counterparts (late tier tanks had almost tough protection as medium tanks) is really the only thing identifying them as light tanks. They suffers from poor gun depression and vulnerable modules.

Chinese Medium Tanks are, up to a point, very similar to the Soviet ones, combining mobility and firepower, at the expense of a low rate of fire and poor gun handling. At higher tiers they gain firepower and become more adept at brawling than their Soviet counterparts, while being less well-rounded.

Chinese Heavy Tanks are also similar to the Soviet models on which they were based. These tanks have good frontal armor and acceleration and faster rates of fire, which makes it possible to play them as "heavy" mediums. Later on they focus more on armor sloping and high maneuverability.

Chinese Tank Destroyers are mostly fictional "what-if" vehicle based on existing platforms. The line starts out with converted seized/imported tanks at Tiers 2 - 4 with decent sustained damage output and mobility, making capable supporters and ambushers, but lacking armor. At Tiers 5-7 are conversions of domestic made vehicles, which still retain the glass cannon trait. At Tiers 8 - 10, Chinese TDs drastically changed by trading off mobility for heavier armament and protection as switching to heavier base models. Top tier vehicles, the WZ111G FT and the WZ113G FT carry heavy guns comparable to Soviet ones, and very thick frontal armor with high HP pool capable of standing against punches as German Jagdpanzers could. Like most other Chinese vehicles, they are generally hampered by below average accuracy thus don't snipe so well.

Light Tanks

II

Vickers Mk. E Type B

III

Type 2597 Chi-Ha

IV

M5A1 Stuart

VI

59-16

VI

Type 64

VII

Type 62

VII

WZ-131

VIII

WZ-132

VIII

M41D

IX

WZ-132A

X

WZ-132-1

Medium Tanks

V

Type T-34

VI

Type 58

VII

T-34-1

VIII

Type 59

VIII

T-34-2

VIII

T-34-3

VIII

59-Patton

VIII

122 TM

VIII

Type 59 G

IX

WZ-120

X

121

X

121B

Heavy Tanks

VII

IS-2

VIII

WZ-111

VIII

WZ-111 Alpine Tiger

VIII

110

VIII

112

IX

WZ-111 model 1-4

IX

WZ-114

X

113

X

113 Beijing Opera

X

WZ-111 model 5A

X

WZ-111 Qilin

Tank Destroyers

II

T-26G FT

III

M3G FT

IV

SU-76G FT

V

60G FT

VI

WZ-131G FT

VII

T-34-2G FT

VIII

WZ-111-1G FT

VIII

WZ-120-1G FT

IX

WZ-111G FT

IX

WZ-120G FT

X

WZ-113G FT

X

114 SP2