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Bat Chatillon 25t
The beauty and the beast?
The Batchat has been a famous tank in the the World of Tanks scene for a long time now, mostly from the pure fear of its devastating 105mm gun that has 5 shells in a single magazine with 390 alpha damage for each shot making its total clip potential 1950 damage!
1. Survivability
It all sounds good until you find out about its survivability, this tank as the lowest amount of hit points for a tier 10 medium tank, a low 1800 hit points little to no armor, 60/40/30hull armor and 50/30/15turret armor, thus making the Batchat as one of the least forgiving tanks on the battlefield.
2. Mobility
Obviously from this you won't be brawling in this tank, luckily this tank has the best mobility out there, it has a specific power ratio of 28.48 with a max speed of a blazing 65 km/h, with this mobility you don't want to be sitting still very long if you’re spotted.
3. Consumables
The consumables you should run is a repair kit, medic kit and a fire Extinguisher or if you got the money I would take Coffee instead of a extinguisher since the performance boost when you take coffee is massive and this tank only has 10% chance of fire on impact of the engine, the fuel tanks are on the front left of the tank so they seem like they would be destroyed as often as a 140 but they really don’t and you should not be taken many hits in this tank to begin with since it's so fragile.
4. Ammo
Moving on to the whole ammo situation you have different loadouts of ammo you should take to the battlefield with your, either full APCR which is great if you win since you mostly make money every time or consider taking one mag of HEAT for those pesky heavies, but this is a risk since the Batchat can only hold a measly 30 total rounds with its auto-loader type gun. You will find yourself running out of ammo in long drawn out games, and the problem with taking HEAT is in these games you can find yourself with say 3 APCR and 2 HEAT, now see you could have had 1 full mag of APCR if you didn't take that HEAT. Players who have played previous tanks in the series , the Lorraine 40t and the AMX 13 90 would know exactly this problem.
5. Crew & Equipment
With crew your commander should take sixth sense, situation awareness and recon this will increase your view range making you a more effective scout, your gunner should have safe stowage since this will prevent ammo racks since your ammo rack is on the back of the tank (prevents 80 sec reload) and snap shot and smooth ride on your driver since this improves your very bad gun handling and clutch braking on him/her as well since this gives a slight mobility buff and maybe a point of repair and you should also have brothers in arms since it's such a big decrease in your reload and makes your gun hit a little bit more. The Equipment you should be running on this tank is a vertical stabilizer, vents as this will also improve your gun handling and coated optics to improve your scouting ability more.
6. Play Styles
Hunter-Killer play style
When in the Bat always be on the lookout for tanks making the mistake of having no support like this obj 430 in the picture below as he has nothing he can do against you and just take one fell swoop and take them out in a matter of seconds with your amazing 105mm gun, then quickly run back to cover and plan out your next move while you wait for your not so long 36 second reload to finish.
555+ play style
Another common way to play the Bat is to snipe at a safe distance and save your little hit point pool for the end of the game when all your enemies are whittled down to half of below their total hit points and go on a mad killing spree since you can still take a few shots since you have saved your hit points, there is one problem with this play style, the Bat Chat’s gun has a very long aim time and is very inaccurate with its 0.38 dispersion at 100m, if you are lucky with your shots travel path it won't be long till they hit since like all tier 10 mediums, they carry APCR as there credit shell that has an awesome 1460m a second travel velocity.
Clan Wars play style
The BatChat is also a popular clan wars tank since it has the best camo in tier 10 and making getting the Camo skills all more important for this tank since the boost that it gives is insane, something that most players don't realise how much it really does. When in a Clan Wars situation though you will be most likely be playing as either a passive scout or doing scouting runs such as surfing the ridge lines of prokhorovka but since you still have that mobility if you do get into an exposed position.
And that is about it for a look at this iconic tank that you may love of hate but in the end, it will always be out and hunting for its next target!
Still can’t get a grasp of this tank? You can find a video tutorial
I wrote this article on a solo play style result may vary during platoon play
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Edited by madhouse10101, 21 December 2015 - 10:26 AM.
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