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 == Choosing a nation==
-With nine nations in the game as of [[Update "Ground Breaking"|Update "Ground Breaking]], there are lots of starting points to choose from for the War Thunder tank career. These descriptions will cover the first impressions of each country and the trends in tank characteristics as a player progresses in the tech tree.
+With ten nations in the game as of [[Update "Ground Breaking"|Update "Ground Breaking]], there are lots of starting points to choose from for the War Thunder tank career. These descriptions will cover the first impressions of each country and the trends in tank characteristics as a player progresses in the tech tree.
 {{notice|Do note that these are very general descriptions of the tech tree and that individual vehicles present in each nation can have their own characteristics that may differ from the trends.}}

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 == Choosing a nation==
-With seven nations in the game as of [[Update 1.85 "Supersonic"]], there are lots of starting points to choose from for the War Thunder tank career. These descriptions will cover the first impressions of each country and the trends in tank characteristics as a player progresses in the tech tree.
+With nine nations in the game as of [[Update "Ground Breaking"|Update "Ground Breaking]], there are lots of starting points to choose from for the War Thunder tank career. These descriptions will cover the first impressions of each country and the trends in tank characteristics as a player progresses in the tech tree.
 {{notice|Do note that these are very general descriptions of the tech tree and that individual vehicles present in each nation can have their own characteristics that may differ from the trends.}}

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 ==Game modes==
-Should you wish for more excitement in your game play, there are other modes to try out with their own perks!
+Should you wish for more excitement in your gameplay, there are other modes to try out with their own perks!
 {{notice|Simulator Battles features are assumed to also match Realistic Battles unless stated otherwise.}}

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 Soviet tank destroyers are characterized early with weakly armoured, but heavily gunned platforms such as the [[ZiS-30]]. This soon peters out in Rank III to armoured casemates with either a respectable gun or a massive-calibre cannon as seen in the SU series of tank destroyers from the mellow [[SU-85]] to the pumpin' [[SU-152]]. While a few more lightly-armoured, open-topped tank destroyers exist by Rank IV, the solid armoured casemate designs remain a prominent figure in the Soviet tech tree.
-Anti-aircraft vehicles in the Soviet tree are all quite poor in their ability to protect the crew, as every anti-air vehicle up to Rank IV is built from a truck chassis; and even up to Rank V with the [[ZSU-57-2]], the crew compartment is exposed. While Rank I is quite low-powered with rather anemic machine guns and fire rate available, auto cannons become present and available by Rank II that could lay down impressive fire to destroy the aircraft, providing the aircraft does not strafe and knock out the crew in an attack run.
+Anti-aircraft vehicles in the Soviet tree are all quite poor in their ability to protect the crew, as every anti-air vehicle up to Rank IV is built from a truck chassis; and even up to Rank V with the [[ZSU-57-2]], the crew compartment is exposed. While Rank I is quite low-powered with rather anemic machine guns and fire rate available, autocannons become present and available by Rank II that could lay down impressive fire to destroy the aircraft, providing the aircraft does not strafe and knock out the crew in an attack run.
 ==== [[File:Britain flag.png|50px|link=Category:Britain ground vehicles]] Britain ====

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 '''Tech Tree trends:'''
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-Italy follows a trend of generally below-average armored vehicles with above-average mobility at medium and high tiers while being average at tier I. The tree has 4 lines. From left to right, they are:
+Italy follows a trend of generally below-average armoured vehicles with above-average mobility at medium and high tiers while being average at tier I. The tree has 4 lines. From left to right, they are:
-# The light tank line, which consists of Armored cars and Light tanks with good mobility and decent guns, which make them able to flank.
+# The light tank line, which consists of armoured cars and light tanks with good mobility and decent guns, which make them able to flank.
 # The medium tank line, which consists of medium tanks. Jack-of-all-trades, master of none. Average at everything.
 # The Anti-Aircraft line, oriented to the destruction of aircraft, but that has some fun vehicles like the OTO R3 T20 FA-HS and the OTOMATIC at the end of the tree.
-# The SPG line, which has generally Mobile tank destroyers usually with little armor, which makes them good for taking positions and firing from afar.
+# The SPG line, which has generally mobile tank destroyers usually with little armour, which makes them good for taking positions and firing from afar.
-The Italians also do not have heavy tanks, and rarely have tanks which have more armour than deemed average by the time period. Some of these vehicles can be destroyed even by fighters. For that reason, they also possess decent Self-propelled Anti-Aircraft guns, which employ absurdly high fire rate or quadruple gun compositions. These SPAA are also usually capable of dealing with tanks of their battle rating, being the most infamous one the OTO R3 T20 FA-HS with a fast-firing 20mm cannon.
+The Italians also do not have heavy tanks, and rarely have tanks which have more armour than deemed average by the time period. Some of these vehicles can be destroyed even by fighters. For that reason, they also possess decent self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, which employ absurdly high fire rate or quadruple gun compositions. These SPAA are also usually capable of dealing with tanks of their battle rating, being the most infamous one the OTO R3 T20 FA-HS with a fast-firing 20 mm cannon.
-Their tree is complemented by american tanks for their low and medium tiers, as early as rank II and until rank V, Mostly on the Medium Tank line.
+The tree is complemented by US tanks for their low and medium tiers, as early as rank II and until rank V, Mostly on the medium Tank line.
-Since Rank III, Italians start to mostly rely on stealth and speed in any of their own designs. At the rank, Italian tree gets its iconic armoured car design in form of [[R3 T20 FA-HS]] SPAA. You will see this car design, ironically called by players "thelunchbox". It will be carrying a lot of different weapons, from quad machine guns to recoilless rifles, to actual tank turrets. It generally can be annihilated even by 7.62 mm machine guns from the rear, and by 12.7 mm machine guns from the front, but it's '''extremely''' fast on roads, '''very''' small, and usually can use hull down positions, even in arcade mode.
+The Semovente tank destroyer branch proves useful when used as ambush tank, slowly getting better armour and ammunition as tree progresses. At Rank IV. it is replaced by the American M36B1 design.
 At Rank V, battle rating 8.0, Italy finally stands back up and starts getting tanks that feel more unique, featuring the infamous wheeled tank [[Centauro]] and the medium main battle tank [[OF-40]]. They also use [[SIDAM 25]] and [[M113A1 (TOW)]] based on an American chassis, to provide support. From this point on, Italy mostly gets "more of the same, but superior gun and ammunition, if possible".
-The only exception is at Rank VI, where [[OTOMATIC]], based on OF-40 chassis, is introduced, being SPAA, which is not only capable of defeating an entire squadron of pilots on it's own, but is also capable of defeating an actual medium tank squad with APDSFS. Unfortunately it lacks missiles, its quite large and its armor is not impressive.
+The only exception is at Rank VI, where [[OTOMATIC]], based on OF-40 chassis, is introduced, being SPAA, which is not only capable of defeating an entire squadron of pilots on it's own, but is also capable of defeating an actual medium tank squad with APDSFS. Unfortunately it lacks missiles, its quite large and its armour is not impressive.
 ==== [[File:France flag.png|50px|link=Category:France ground vehicles]] France ====

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 Some of the early Italian tank destroyers rely on stealth to attack opponents instead and have nearly no armour, but are extremely small. This gives them an advantage in Realistic battle mode.
-Another important half of Italian tank tree revolves around wheeled armoured cars. While the armoured car option is extremely fast on roads compared to tanks and more viable for mobility, the expense is extremely thin armour that allow even machine gun rounds to penetrate it at the right conditions.
+Another important half of Italian tank tree revolves around wheeled armoured cars. While the armoured car option is extremely fast on roads compared to tanks and more viable for mobility, the expense is extremely thin armour that allows even rifle-caliber (7mm) machine gun rounds to penetrate it at the right conditions.
 A smart play style will be needed when starting the Italians, and players have to keep attention to which tanks are useful in which situation and in which game mode.
-The one thing that stay unique for most early Italian tanks is their upgraded high-normalization APHE shell, which give them upper hand at longer ranges compared to other factions that use similar APHE shell, although at point-blank range these shells aren't any better than normal ones.
+The one thing that stay unique for most early Italian tanks is their upgraded high-normalization APHE shell, which gives them upper hand at longer ranges compared to other factions that use similar APHE shell, although at point-blank range these shells aren't any better than normal ones.
 '''Tech Tree trends:'''
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-The main trend in the tree is that at every rank Italians mimic the most memorable and powerful tank design of the rank in one of their branches, mostly supplemented by American tanks by Rank III onward and by the Semovente casemate tank destroyer along the way, so its trends are more rank related than branch related. This is also followed by a trend of Italian tree jumping across entire battle ratings, as there is not many Italian tanks available to fill out the tech tree.
+Italy follows a trend of generally below-average armored vehicles with above-average mobility at medium and high tiersm while being average at tier I. The tree has 4 lines. From left to right, they are:
-Italians also do not have heavy tanks, and rarely bring tanks, which have more armour than deemed average at best by the time period. Some of these vehicles can be destroyed even by fighter plane. For that reason, they always bring around the self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, which employ absurdly high fire rate or quad gun composition. These SPAA are also usually capable of dealing with tanks of their battle rating.
+# The light tank line, which consists of Armored cars and Light tanks with good mobility and decent guns, which make them able to flank.
-For example, at Rank II, Italy mostly resembles Germany tech tree and gets to use [[90/53 M41M]], which mimics defensive and offensive properties of infamous [[8,8 cm Flak 37 Sfl.]], except it is present at a '''much''' lower battle rating and can reliably sneak around, on top of having an extremely powerful gun. It is assisted by [[P40]], which is a decent medium tank and by [[M42 (Italy)|quad-barreled modification of M42]]
+The Italians also do not have heavy tanks, and rarely have tanks which have more armour than deemed average by the time period. Some of these vehicles can be destroyed even by fighters. For that reason, they also possess decent Self-propelled Anti-Aircraft guns, which employ absurdly high fire rate or quadruple gun compositions. These SPAA are also usually capable of dealing with tanks of their battle rating, being the most infamous one the OTO R3 T20 FA-HS with a fast-firing 20mm cannon.
-Since Rank III, Italians start to mostly rely on stealth and speed in any of their own designs. At the rank, Italian tree gets its iconic armoured car design in form of [[R3 T20 FA-HS]] SPAA. You will see this car design, ironically called by players "lunchbox", '''a lot'''. It will be carrying a lot of different weapons, from quad machine guns to recoilless rifles, to actual tank turrets. It generally can be annihilated even by 7.62 mm machine guns from the rear, and by 12.7 mm machine guns from the front, but it's '''extremely''' fast on roads, '''very''' small, and usually can use hull down positions, even in arcade mode.
+Their tree is complemented by american tanks for their low and medium tiers, as early as rank II and until rank V, Mostly on the Medium Tank line.
-Rank III Italians begin using American medium tanks, though with a boost by enhancing the firepower with a better gun.
+Since Rank III, Italians start to mostly rely on stealth and speed in any of their own designs. At the rank, Italian tree gets its iconic armoured car design in form of [[R3 T20 FA-HS]] SPAA. You will see this car design, ironically called by players "thelunchbox". It will be carrying a lot of different weapons, from quad machine guns to recoilless rifles, to actual tank turrets. It generally can be annihilated even by 7.62 mm machine guns from the rear, and by 12.7 mm machine guns from the front, but it's '''extremely''' fast on roads, '''very''' small, and usually can use hull down positions, even in arcade mode.
-The Semovente tank destroyer branch is rather sub-par, but it proves useful when it's used as ambush tank, slowly getting better armour and ammunition as tree progresses. At Rank IV. it is replaced by the American [[M36B1]] design. Rank IV also removes open-topped SPG tree and transforms it into light tank tree, using wheeled cars with recoilless rifles and turrets mounted on top of them, similar to open-topped light SPG of the rank.
+At Rank V, battle rating 8.0, Italy finally stands back up and starts getting tanks that feel more unique, featuring the infamous wheeled tank [[Centauro]] and the medium main battle tank [[OF-40]]. They also use [[SIDAM 25]] and [[M113A1 (TOW)]] based on an American chassis, to provide support. From this point on, Italy mostly gets "more of the same, but superior gun and ammunition, if possible".
-At Rank V, battle rating 8.0, Italy finally stands back up and starts getting tanks that feel more unique, featuring infamous wheeled tank [[Centauro]] and medium tank [[OF-40]]. They also use [[SIDAM 25]] and [[M113A1 (TOW)]] based on American chassis, to provide support. From this point on, Italy mostly gets "more of the same, but superior gun and ammunition, if possible".
+The only exception is at Rank VI, where [[OTOMATIC]], based on OF-40 chassis, is introduced, being SPAA, which is not only capable of defeating an entire squadron of pilots on it's own, but is also capable of defeating an actual medium tank squad with APDSFS. Unfortunately it lacks missiles, its quite large and its armor is not impressive.
 ==== [[File:France flag.png|50px|link=Category:France ground vehicles]] France ====

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 '''Tech Tree trends:'''
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-Past Rank II, the British are burdened with only solid-shot rounds for their armaments, meaning there are no explosive fillers available to enhance post-penetration damage on enemy vehicles, requiring you to aim at the enemy critical components. Early British tanks are also burdened by a nonexistent reverse speed, especially in their [[Cromwell V|Cromwell chassis]].
+Past Rank II battle rating 3.0, the British are burdened with only solid-shot rounds for their armaments, meaning there are no explosive fillers available to enhance post-penetration damage on enemy vehicles, requiring you to aim at the enemy critical components. Early British tanks are also burdened by a nonexistent reverse speed, especially in their [[Cromwell V|Cromwell chassis]].
 British tanks up the line to Rank II and III split their tank designs to two types, the cruiser and infantry tank which are characterized in War Thunder as light/medium and heavy tanks respectively. So, fast tanks like the Cromwell are working alongside heavily armoured ones such as the [[Churchill Mk III|Churchill]] tanks. By Rank III, while infantry tank armour proves much more substantial than its peers, the cruiser tanks begin expanding their firepower with the famous [[Ordnance QF 17-pounder (76 mm)|17-pounder cannon]]. While still firing solid-shot, the cannon can penetrate most, if not all, of its peers' armour. By Rank IV, the infantry tank concept fades away as the more flexible medium tanks in the form of [[Centurion Mk 3|Centurions]] become the predominant British tank up to Rank V, with few heavy tanks like the [[Conqueror]] supporting its protection. By Rank VI, the British revolve around the [[Chieftain (Family)|Chieftain]] and [[Challenger (Disambiguation)|Challenger]] tanks for their duties, with the assisting [[Warrior]] for recon tasks.