I'm honestly impressed. I only played it for 6 months and that was off and on as it was because it was so toxic. That was just before the tanks started coming out.
So. I think the reason the British lower glacis is so weak is due to the Cold War being in effect when the Conqueror was designed....they expected a dug in, defensive line type warfare with a lot of pre dug positions to go hull down in, hence the lower priority for lower glacis armor. Could be wrong, but that's my thinking.
Also engagement distances were expected to be much further on average than in WT. If most shots are being received from 1km+ the lower glacis is effectively more angled and a smaller target. Not sure how much this factored into the design but notable imo
And hilly terrain. They were all designed with the intent of assist in fighting Russian tanks with air and infantry support in the uneven terrain of Eastern Europe where being able to hull down and HESH the shit outa T72s a few miles out, not rushing a random ass cap point in the middle of an open field.
yes pretty much, that's why tanks like the M1 Abrams, Leopard 2 also have not so great hull armor (also because statistically speaking, the turret is most hit part of the tank)
Just as a heads up to anyone who may have been wondering. The trees not falling over was a bug that was patched recently. Also the bulldog can still fire without the gunner as it has the same hunter-killer abilities as most MBTs.
They're so garbage I'm just pausing my grind on it at the moment. Half the time I just play the Eland because that 90mm HEAT does 10x more damage and never shatters.
The number of videos per day is a must have for me right now. So damn grateful for the gameplay, editing, and uploads daily!!! Love it, just no more NVG in day time battles 😂😂 my eyes hurt!
@@PhlyDailyctually phly it really didn't. 😅 but if you feel it had to be done well, we can all agree to pretend it DID HAVE TO BE DONE. ....even tho it didn't... At all.... even on a phly friday. 😬
I got the centurion mk10 and gave up. Iv grinded almost every nation to around rank 5 or 6 and i have never had a more painful experience than with the centurions. Slow. no armor. No post pen damage. Youre so slow youll almost never het in a position to actualy make the stabalizers useful. Just useless tanks. Now with the APDS nerfs i refuse to touch them.
*Begin Transmission* Day 40. Ahhhh the Conqueror. The infamous “Conq”. Never could get into the swing of service like it’s American compatriot, the M103. So many projects just couldn’t meet the standards of a vastly changing world in regards to military might. Only one is left, just like there is only one left of the T26E4 Super Pershing. Yes, contrary to popular belief, one Super Pershing still exists, at the 1st Division Museum in Indiana. But both tanks live on in War Thunder - of course, Phly has played one and not the other during the time of these transmissions. Oh well, I won’t stop trying! *End Transmission*
from what i understood from tank historian vids , the strategy was the conqueror was attached to 5 centurions. not having a stabilizer (or only worked at low speeds, cant remember) it would hang back at the rear of the formation and give fire support with its far larger 120mm gun
You are right Phly, they designed the late MBTS with hulldown fighting in mind, that's why only the turret and upper plate of the chieftain are not bad, the sides and rear of the Mk 6 are 37mm, to give you an idea Soviet WW2 anti tank rifles could pen them.
I’m loving this volume of videos coming out,I took a break from war thunder after going insane at 8.3 but seeing you have fun makes it fun,gonna suck when you take a break eventually but that’s life
Man, I still remember when this thing used to bounce off t-64 apfsds on the turret at above 600m like it was nothing. With the addon armor of course. Idk how it did that, but it did anyway
WG has done a great job showing shell hits on tanks,keep adding more and different explosions and tank damage in game please. Thanks for the Video Phily.
In my experience this thing actually handles ATGMs quite well, probably frustrating for early heli pilots having to dump from two to four missiles into this
the ME 262 at 15:50 was the king tiger you took out, classic german mains, completely unaware of their surroundings, terrible at flying cas, and always trying to revenge kill with planes
Honestly the Conq is the first british tank I 'fear' when playing against Britain. I haven't worked my Brit tree that high yet, but I really look forward to the moment I can play it. I thrive in the RB BR7-BR9 space in this game. really love it.
Loved the sound effects on that third match, of just absorbing those rounds!! _Th-DUNG... DWONG.... TWONK... Ker-THUNK_ 😅❤ *Attempt 10 on Phemale Baby Name Suggestions:* - Aurora, - Bastilla, _(Jedi from KotOR, but it's cute)_ - Bella, - Aphton, - Myllah, - Li'Limæ _(like Lily May, but ' = pause),_ - Cythæria _(shush... it's a pretty name!)_ - Anastasia/Anastasiya _(ending pronounced as -asia or -ahzia)_ - Phyllis _(kidding! it's what I notice Phly gets autocorrected to 😂)_ _[trying to live vicariously through you, as I'll never have an opportunity to name my own kiddo heh]_
I main this tank, and maybe its just me, but I can't really think of a time when I got killed from my lower glacis, or if it happens frequently. Most deaths are from the turret face weakspot, top of the roof with HE, or just straight through the upper front plate.
All fun and games until people realize that the lower plate isn't even the weakest point, but instead it has 76mm of front armor between the plates since 2018.
@PhlyDaily 3:23 that right cheek doesnt detonate, it looks like HESH, but was causing detonations even with a full APDS loadout so they got rid of it entirely
the stat based balancing is true of a lot of tanks though. The least Gaijin could do is if a tanked is played by than less than x number of people do manual balancing.
Hey Phly , it's the 86 day of asking you to Phly the kfir C7. I will not lose hope or stop asking you . Make the isreali fans of you go Crazy, cause you never ever played isreal. I mean you did but not top teir . * im not from isreal * Thank you Phly. ❤❤❤
As always Phly you entertain in vehicles that really shouldn't be entertaining! 😂 A masterclass in how to use your strengths and know your weaknesses , patience and skill, knowledge of your enemy too. I don't know how you remember everything ! Lol I guess it's been drilled into your brain ! 😂 Great video. (How about a true classic for next video. Impress us with the ju88a4 ! 😂)
I love my British tanks including the Conqueror, first tree I ground out about 10 yrs ago. But with Gaijin's recent nerfing of sabot rounds playing Brits is totally frustrating and IMO pointless. The post pen damage now is abysmal, you get a good hit in and if you're lucky take out a single crew member and then they get you
Im a weirdo. The Conq is actually my favorite tank. You give great reasoning as to why it can be super dangerous in the right pos. It wasn't mentioned that it has more pen then a large majority of apfsds rounds below 9.0
The Conqueror is one of very few heavy tanks I enjoy playing. I don't normally like the playstyle and heavy tanks at 7.7 really seem to be fodder for the most part but the Conq is lit.
Maybe they took out landscaping because it was bogging down the graphics? Personally, I found removing trees and buildings that the enemy was using for cover to be both fun and helpful to teammates.
Bushes and grass are bugged somehow, they broke them so that they won't fall down and just shake when you run them over. So they "solved" it by just removing them. lol... But small trees still exhibit the same problem, but I guess they can't remove them from the maps without deleting all the trees. lol lol
@@obsidianjane4413 Hopefully they will find the problem soon and resume allowing trees to fall over when hit by shells or run down by tanks. You know, the natural order of things.
Day 6 - Hey Phly, you should play the StuG III A at 2.3 with HEAT and smoke rounds. Just pure entertainment to run around with. You can pair it with the duck for some extra phun!
I'm main British and actually playing mostly 7.7 and my friend USA main is jealous they got two planes stabilizer at 7.3 (6.7 if you got the centurion MK2) I like them more than Germany tbh.
Welcome back Phly Back to business: My Request: Btw i saw you have the M48 Suuuuuuuuuuper but you didn't even made one vid about it so why don't you do M48 Super aka Go-Kart Patton (at least in arcade PvE🙃) And because you want to play a combination take the IL-28 out with its FAB 3000 for some multikills Day: 159 -Phly Decal right side of turret from behind -Driver Tigor
This man spent a decade playing War Thunder and didnt go insane, respect
Oh he's definitely lost his mind lol
@@dem0nchild610 same
@@dem0nchild610 Definitely
Or go racist
I'm honestly impressed. I only played it for 6 months and that was off and on as it was because it was so toxic. That was just before the tanks started coming out.
So. I think the reason the British lower glacis is so weak is due to the Cold War being in effect when the Conqueror was designed....they expected a dug in, defensive line type warfare with a lot of pre dug positions to go hull down in, hence the lower priority for lower glacis armor. Could be wrong, but that's my thinking.
Makes sense
Also engagement distances were expected to be much further on average than in WT. If most shots are being received from 1km+ the lower glacis is effectively more angled and a smaller target. Not sure how much this factored into the design but notable imo
And hilly terrain. They were all designed with the intent of assist in fighting Russian tanks with air and infantry support in the uneven terrain of Eastern Europe where being able to hull down and HESH the shit outa T72s a few miles out, not rushing a random ass cap point in the middle of an open field.
surely adding another 30mm or armor wouldn't make the tank that much heavier tho, right?
yes pretty much, that's why tanks like the M1 Abrams, Leopard 2 also have not so great hull armor (also because statistically speaking, the turret is most hit part of the tank)
The invincible trees and foliage thing has ruined a lot of good spots for me at the moment. I really hope they fix this.
Yeah shooting a 120 mm canon at a tree smaller than me and not knocking it down? Yeah no not good
@@partyparrot168 not as bad as a 60 tonne abrams going at 68km/h getting halted to a full stop by a wooden park bench
it was fixed today
they said they fixed it today, i’ve yet to try it tho
@@nugget78297 I’ve been playing for hours and it’s working for me. I have still seen some people complaining though
Just as a heads up to anyone who may have been wondering. The trees not falling over was a bug that was patched recently. Also the bulldog can still fire without the gunner as it has the same hunter-killer abilities as most MBTs.
Hunter-killer abilities? You mean commander override?
@robertharris6092 Hunter Killer is commander override
as a Britain main ive lost my sanity a long time ago now but this apds nerf has to be the most pain ive ever experienced in this game
I thought it got buffed recently?
@@whatsaht2117 then tell my shells that, had 3x 20pdr shells shatter on the flat side of a BMP 1. To the point where even he was confused
@@joshcorbett9674 must be a skill issue lol
They're so garbage I'm just pausing my grind on it at the moment. Half the time I just play the Eland because that 90mm HEAT does 10x more damage and never shatters.
@@whatsaht2117 yeah thats not how it works
The number of videos per day is a must have for me right now. So damn grateful for the gameplay, editing, and uploads daily!!! Love it, just no more NVG in day time battles 😂😂 my eyes hurt!
Hahaha it had to be done
@@PhlyDaily phly can u play the jpz
@@PhlyDailyctually phly it really didn't. 😅 but if you feel it had to be done well, we can all agree to pretend it DID HAVE TO BE DONE. ....even tho it didn't...
At all.... even on a phly friday. 😬
0:48 the main reason is 7.3 is where most British players quit lol
I got the centurion mk10 and gave up. Iv grinded almost every nation to around rank 5 or 6 and i have never had a more painful experience than with the centurions. Slow. no armor. No post pen damage. Youre so slow youll almost never het in a position to actualy make the stabalizers useful. Just useless tanks. Now with the APDS nerfs i refuse to touch them.
@@robertharris6092 yep exactly lol, so frustrating and the silver lions don’t help either 😂
That's why i stay on the fox br.
*Begin Transmission*
Day 40. Ahhhh the Conqueror. The infamous “Conq”. Never could get into the swing of service like it’s American compatriot, the M103. So many projects just couldn’t meet the standards of a vastly changing world in regards to military might. Only one is left, just like there is only one left of the T26E4 Super Pershing. Yes, contrary to popular belief, one Super Pershing still exists, at the 1st Division Museum in Indiana. But both tanks live on in War Thunder - of course, Phly has played one and not the other during the time of these transmissions. Oh well, I won’t stop trying!
*End Transmission*
The Conqueror is an absolute beast it's absolutely destroys most matches I see it levelling leopards left and right
from what i understood from tank historian vids , the strategy was the conqueror was attached to 5 centurions. not having a stabilizer (or only worked at low speeds, cant remember) it would hang back at the rear of the formation and give fire support with its far larger 120mm gun
Called the "overwatch position"
You are right Phly, they designed the late MBTS with hulldown fighting in mind, that's why only the turret and upper plate of the chieftain are not bad, the sides and rear of the Mk 6 are 37mm, to give you an idea Soviet WW2 anti tank rifles could pen them.
When people say the 120mm is only for top tier tanks
*chuckles in Sav.20.14.28*
Chi-Ha LG enters the chat
Yes we're forming an alliance
*Su-152 enters the chat*
Sturer Emil joined the chat
APDS with a 15 second reload just sounds like repeatedly punching yourself in the groin.
I’m loving this volume of videos coming out,I took a break from war thunder after going insane at 8.3 but seeing you have fun makes it fun,gonna suck when you take a break eventually but that’s life
“The rest of the games are going to be pain…” Proceeds to kill the e entire team in each game 😂
Phly pls guide me on how to play tanks, I think it would be a great series with a noob and an expert
Man, I still remember when this thing used to bounce off t-64 apfsds on the turret at above 600m like it was nothing. With the addon armor of course. Idk how it did that, but it did anyway
Conq was one of my first loves for tanks in WT in general, remember watching u play it back when maus was king and man did i want it so bad
WG has done a great job showing shell hits on tanks,keep adding more and different explosions and tank damage in game please. Thanks for the Video Phily.
I was away for over a year sound Is real good In game I'm amazed. Finally got that fixed .....
This thing sits at the same BR as the Maus lmao.
We'll never get BR decomp, right?
The Conqueror is like what a kid imagines the best tank would be like HEAVY ARMOR SNIPER TANK
The Conqueror, great gun, great armor, great commander cupola weakspot that gets everyone killed in the turret.
In my experience this thing actually handles ATGMs quite well, probably frustrating for early heli pilots having to dump from two to four missiles into this
more like hull down in berms at the fulda gap for the 15 mins they would survive for
I am loving all of the content that's coming out! I get a notification for a new phly video and it just makes my day.
My favourite tank!! Shame it’s worse now w the APDS changes, but still love Conquerer
The conqueror’s cupola is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen
the ME 262 at 15:50 was the king tiger you took out, classic german mains, completely unaware of their surroundings, terrible at flying cas, and always trying to revenge kill with planes
Yes the Conqueror. An impenetrable tank. Says everyone until I drive it and gets 1shotted everytime.
Damn the British hull down doctrine. It's such a grind, but damn do the tanks look good.
Honestly the Conq is the first british tank I 'fear' when playing against Britain. I haven't worked my Brit tree that high yet, but I really look forward to the moment I can play it. I thrive in the RB BR7-BR9 space in this game. really love it.
Loved the sound effects on that third match, of just absorbing those rounds!!
_Th-DUNG... DWONG.... TWONK... Ker-THUNK_ 😅❤
*Attempt 10 on Phemale Baby Name Suggestions:*
- Aurora,
- Bastilla, _(Jedi from KotOR, but it's cute)_
- Bella,
- Aphton,
- Myllah,
- Li'Limæ _(like Lily May, but ' = pause),_
- Cythæria _(shush... it's a pretty name!)_
- Anastasia/Anastasiya _(ending pronounced as -asia or -ahzia)_
- Phyllis _(kidding! it's what I notice Phly gets autocorrected to 😂)_
_[trying to live vicariously through you, as I'll never have an opportunity to name my own kiddo heh]_
When armor works in war thunder, it's so satisfying
7.7 with gun stable
balanced game
I main this tank, and maybe its just me, but I can't really think of a time when I got killed from my lower glacis, or if it happens frequently. Most deaths are from the turret face weakspot, top of the roof with HE, or just straight through the upper front plate.
i love bringing the conq in to 10.3 matches and still getting like 3 or 4 kills with it, meanwhile still bouncing so many shots before death :)
Conqueror's crew members take a tea break before loading the next round I swear XD
proceeds to bounce like 6 shots
"THAT OTHER TEM GOT DESTROYED"
Germany suffers
can you do another germany 9.0 vid? love you ❤️
Dang, the conq is kinda out there man! Nice heavy tank gameplay
afaik cold war era british tanks were designed to hull down in a defensive position that's why they don't have lower glacis armor
All fun and games until people realize that the lower plate isn't even the weakest point, but instead it has 76mm of front armor between the plates since 2018.
Incredible fight, best ending for that fight, they gave up and called in a air strike.
1:30 Team X-ray gives two thumbs up 👍👍
"Balls in my mouth" 😂😂😂😂 jesus man lol i talk like that at work too lmao
i have this tank and its a blast to play, youll bounce so many shots and survive things that you shouldnt, its def worth checking out
Play amx 50 surbaisse with a full ammo rack but you cant fire most of the ammo in the start of the battle
Thanks for playing this tank it is one of my favourites 😂❤
Phly please at least do a single section of this tank facing things at its own BR.
It fighting king tigers never happens, a downtier is 1 in a million
conq is amonster and its armour is great. im very aggressive with it, at least as much as the reload allows it.
The doctrine was these things were sat on a ridge looking over 3000 metres, and the centurion would be doing the dirty work
Whoooo! Conquerer! One of my favs!!! I love conquerer
@PhlyDaily 3:23 that right cheek doesnt detonate, it looks like HESH, but was causing detonations even with a full APDS loadout so they got rid of it entirely
I'm British and I can confirm that's EXACTLY what our Tank Doctrine is about😂
Tank designers should really think about how well their designs would perform in a video game.
Too bad the video games dont get the stats of the vehicles correct.
You should see the lower plate on chinese MBT's, you can pen the 10.0 br tanks with 75mm shermans
m41 has commander gunner, thats why he was able to fire without a gunner. One of the earliest tanks to have it in wt
My guy, 120mm hesh is underated when you face a lot of light tanks in uptiers.
I just got this tank last night. Perfectly timed videooooo🎉😝
Love your videos Phly!
Recent APS changes have ruined the Brit tech tree.
the stat based balancing is true of a lot of tanks though. The least Gaijin could do is if a tanked is played by than less than x number of people do manual balancing.
WarThunder needs to simulate PTSD from all the hits.
I love when heavy tanks can do heavy tank stuff in this game
14 seconds! keep up the good work!
Hey Phly , it's the 86 day of asking you to Phly the kfir C7. I will not lose hope or stop asking you . Make the isreali fans of you go Crazy, cause you never ever played isreal. I mean you did but not top teir . * im not from isreal * Thank you Phly. ❤❤❤
I really enjoyed this one! That tank can really just shrug stuff off.
Gaijin out here single-handedly ending deforestation
I was playing this last night , and was going to comment to make a vid on this tank ! I absolutely love this beast !
"Good Bounce" "thats a mouse" good rhyme
As always Phly you entertain in vehicles that really shouldn't be entertaining! 😂
A masterclass in how to use your strengths and know your weaknesses , patience and skill, knowledge of your enemy too.
I don't know how you remember everything ! Lol
I guess it's been drilled into your brain ! 😂
Great video.
(How about a true classic for next video. Impress us with the ju88a4 ! 😂)
This is the coolest looking tank ever
Day 3:PHLY PLS PLAY T55A AND PUT IN INTRO SONG:MOJ JE TATA ZLOCINAC IZ RATA!!!!!LOVE UR VIDS❤❤❤
Another tank that is rarely played is the AMX-30 BRENUS....would love for you to revisit it again!
I love my British tanks including the Conqueror, first tree I ground out about 10 yrs ago. But with Gaijin's recent nerfing of sabot rounds playing Brits is totally frustrating and IMO pointless. The post pen damage now is abysmal, you get a good hit in and if you're lucky take out a single crew member and then they get you
The primary reason I don't play the conq is it's repair cost coupled with cas spam.
Im a weirdo. The Conq is actually my favorite tank. You give great reasoning as to why it can be super dangerous in the right pos. It wasn't mentioned that it has more pen then a large majority of apfsds rounds below 9.0
It’s angled pen is similar to the Leo 1 dm13
the conqueror is one of my favorite tanks
This is one of my favorite tanks. its over ranked for this bias game. but i love how it feels drives and plays
The Conqueror is one of very few heavy tanks I enjoy playing. I don't normally like the playstyle and heavy tanks at 7.7 really seem to be fodder for the most part but the Conq is lit.
Probably because of the stabilizer
@@Optimusprime56241 It also doesnt get shot at as often and doesnt have pen problems that other heavy tanks tend to have, its a unique playstyle
Maybe they took out landscaping because it was bogging down the graphics?
Personally, I found removing trees and buildings that the enemy was using for cover to be both fun and helpful to teammates.
Bushes and grass are bugged somehow, they broke them so that they won't fall down and just shake when you run them over. So they "solved" it by just removing them. lol... But small trees still exhibit the same problem, but I guess they can't remove them from the maps without deleting all the trees. lol lol
@@obsidianjane4413 Hopefully they will find the problem soon and resume allowing trees to fall over when hit by shells or run down by tanks. You know, the natural order of things.
@@pauld6967 Thing is that they had it working fine before the last update, and I donno what change they made that could break that code...
They probably took out landscaping because trees weren’t falling after being shot and they’re probably fixing it or improving it
Bro ive only got like 600 hours in it and it has driven me insane, mad repect for Phlydaddy
You forgot the third reason people dont play this tank: ATGMs everyhwere at this BR :')
always take at least 1 or 2 hesh shells they are surprisingly useful and effective for no armour best armour targets.
Day 6 - Hey Phly, you should play the StuG III A at 2.3 with HEAT and smoke rounds. Just pure entertainment to run around with. You can pair it with the duck for some extra phun!
bro that centurian hit made me CRINGE 🤣
The angle on that was just...
I remember playing to get the Conquerer... Man its rough grinding it out if you have a shit crew.
re. the lower plate. We were expected to fight from prepared firing positions that would enable us to be hull down at all times.
War thunder not letting us shoot down trees is one of the worst mistakes they’ve made
The conqueror cheek ammo hasnt detonated in years
Can you do an video on the eland 90
I'm main British and actually playing mostly 7.7 and my friend USA main is jealous they got two planes stabilizer at 7.3 (6.7 if you got the centurion MK2) I like them more than Germany tbh.
Aaaahhhhh, the conquerer, when it works, it fucking works
Welcome back Phly
Back to business:
My Request:
Btw i saw you have the M48 Suuuuuuuuuuper but you didn't even made one vid about it so why don't you do
M48 Super aka Go-Kart Patton (at least in arcade PvE🙃) And because you want to play a combination take the IL-28 out with its FAB 3000 for some multikills
Day: 159
-Phly Decal right side of turret from behind
-Driver Tigor
most underrated bounce king
Attempt 48 - Please play the SAu 40 tank destroyer. It's one of the strangest looking TDs in the game and I love watching your french-tank videos!
Wow that's the fastest I've ever clicked on a video notification as soon as it popped up...
You should try the VR version of war thunder its so much fun
Hallo phloppy pls play Scorpion(m56) would be hilarious
I love this tank. Any time I get the daily task for killing with a heavy, this is my go to tank. Awful in an uptier though.