Well hello everybody!
What do we have here, a French sounding British tank which could be as French as champagne or as English as Johnny-boy? Charlemagne was the King of the Franks and even become Emperor of Rome back in the middle ages so a very adapt name for a powerful tank.
Let’s find out.
First of all this tank is not available to buy in the shop. Its available by completing 2 stages in Ranked battles and then buying with a whopping 15,000 bonds.
The look!!
The tank looks really nice and very much inline with the rest of the British heavies but with a little narrower turret which can never be a bad thing. It has a nice BIG gun (Bonus for me ) plus a pretty slopped upper plate.
Lets look at the stats
Starting with the gun
It’s a big 120mm that delivers an enormous 440 alpha which is scary to its own tier and especially when it meets tier 7 and 6. Standard penetration is 220mm and if you hit the 2 key it changes to 270mm which is fine.
In line with most British tanks the Charlemagne has 10 degrees gun depression making it great for ridgeline fighting as long as the turret armour holds out.
The big alpha and great gun depression comes at a price and the cost of this is the damage per minute is low, the reload time is slow at around 14 seconds and the aim time is very bad being 3.27 seconds and it doesn’t end there. The dispersion at 0.41 makes it a bad sniper and having a incredibly slow shell velocity of only 597 m/s reminds me of derp gun stats. Try hitting a moving target at distance with that. To increase your shell velocity to 924 m/s makes you press the 2 key.
The armour
The turret armour is 170/80/70 which looking at the profile should work as the turret is pointy so peeking ridge lines works until you meet the 2 key but the same applies to most tanks. Keep the turret pointing at the tank you don’t want to get penned by as turning even a little gives a weaker turret side.
The hull is 130/70/38 and you can sidescrape selected targets as long as you don’t over angle.
Working ridge lines is what this tank is about as I said earlier and that’s what you need to find.
The 1500 health pool is pretty average for its type and tier.
Mobility
Is all pretty standard for heavies having a 35km/h forward speed which is a little slow but a reasonable reverse speed of 15km/h.
The power to weight is pretty good so it does get to top speed effectively.
Turret and hull traverse could be faster in my opinion.
Other stats
Nothing really stands out, it has a good ammo capacity of 60, 15 degrees gun elevation and a big gun
To sum up
The gun alpha is really nice, smashing someone in the face with a potential high roll of 550 can really ruin an enemies day, it fights ridgelines really well, it looks cool but the gun handling kind of spoils all the good things but I really did like it and if you play it to its strengths and it fits your play style its an acceptable premium tank.
The cost of the tank is 15,000 bonds for a tier 8 heavy where as you can buy a tier 10 for the same price from the bond shop or for 20,000 you can get the tier 9 Concept 1 B etc so I think it’s a little expensive but if you have 15k bonds laying about doing nothing and you like the look of this tank then why not.
SwedishLadyC 