As part of the 10 Year Anniversary festivities in WOT you can earn a free premium tank - the tier 6 British light, the A46. Let's take a quick look and answer the question: Is it good?
No.
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OK, OK, I'll dive a bit deeper.
Before I go too far with this let me clarify that I'm running my #2 UK light tank crew in it and they're not very good.
That said, this tank suffers from one big problem that makes it problematic for a LT.
Sluuuuggggish
Despite the 60km/h advertised top speed it has nearly the worst power/weight ratio at its tier and the ground resistance isn't great. As a result you'll be lucky to get anywhere near that top speed and accelerating just doesn't happen.
If you get spotted you can't accelerate to get out of trouble.
As a result you have to play it kind of carefully. You either need to passive scout (and not too far forward because if you get lit...you're dead) or if you're going to active scout you need to be ready to get into cover - especially on a hilly map where your weak engine will struggle to get you up hills with any speed.
Gun no fun
105 damage on the gun is OK for a tier 6 LT, but 105 pen isn't great, and the accuracy is complete trash. So the DPM is low but it makes up for it by missing a lot of shots.
So what's good?
Well...if you have a good crew then the camo rating is decent. But if you don't have a good crew you won't even have that.
This might be a tank that would benefit from the Turbocharger equipment, but then you're giving up an equipment slot. I suppose you could try it with Optics, Turbocharger, Vents (or Vstabs) but I'm thinking I have a lot of better tanks in my garage so I might just park this one.
Here's what Skill thought of it:
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