Even tho it wasn’t that long ago since I talked about this in a Youtube-viedo, WG shocked us all with taking this one step longer.
The first Tier 9 Premium Tank!
And come on, together with SABATON!
Please don’t expect a non-biased review (Kappa) as you all know I just LOVE Sabaton so it must be amazing!
Its looks like it’s a cross between a Kranvagn and Centurion which produced a warrior war child tank wearing armour. The 3D style skin with the effects just sets it apart from everything else we have seen so far and with the smexy Sabaton crew it comes with you can’t go wrong. They come with a Band of Brothers and a fully trained skill. The skin is like medieval armour wearing a cloak with a fur collar, pinned by a sword & shield broach with an aura surrounding the tank, the same aura found in the video for Steel Commander, which Sabatons new song, and thats the collab with Sabaton and Wargaming.
So lets dive into the stats
Starting with the gun
390 Alpha with a 10 second (got mine down to 8.73 seconds )reload giving a 2,680 dpm is pretty ok but nothing special but acceptable and it has 252mm pen when using standard AP ammo and 310mm with the dreaded ‘special’ APCR ammo. What is nice is the shell velocity of both making it a good support tank and hitting at range.
The gun handling is really good and the gun often snaps and hits even on the move.
I got to say I really love this gun and with 10 degrees gun depression it’s good for ridgelines but now we start to delve into what’s not so good.
The armour
This tank really doesn’t have any and even the turret gets penned as it only has 235 on the gun mantlet so peeking ridgelines is taken at your own risk. The hull is 90mm and a pretty big target.
The 1850 health pool is pretty average for its type and tier.
Mobility
It’s not fast and it’s not slow but its ok. Its gun traverse felt good and it felt pretty mobile overall. Its states 40kmh but reality is less but being more of a support heavy I guess it doesn’t need to get anywhere fast.
It didn’t feel overly sluggish and different terrains seemed to have very little negative effect on it but it was still hard to reach its full speed.
Credit making
This is the first of Tier 9 premiums and will be used for credit grinding. With the games I had it didn’t seem to be making any more credits than I would have made in a tier 8 premium tank so it doesn’t have a higher than normal credit multiplier but I know people will buy this for frontlines and grinding.
It also can earn you a maximum of 100 bonds per week so that’s a nice feature but 100 bonds are the same for any tier 10 tank.
To sum up
I did expect to find this tank a little over powered but it is actually the opposite. Besides the good gun it’s just average and no better than most of its tech tree brothers and no new ‘super defender’ or anything. It’s a very pretty looking Sabaton inspired tank with a good gun but being the very first Tier 9 PREMIUM tank it will sell very well and also will trigger a huge debate which for now I’m staying out of other than saying I love tier 9 and would hate that tier to be negatively affected in the future.
Is it worth the euro to buy it? Well, you can grind it for free so free is always good.
SwedishLadyC 