How to play japan ground.

[Nooby]

Hello guys, i grind japan right now and im at br 3.3 and got the M24 with br 3.7. Can anyone give me some tipps for japan cause im struggle very bad. Dont have accurate guns or good enough pen and if i pen from the side my shell gets absorbed by the fueltanks or the ammo who only turn light yellow. I need some tipps and tipps for the Chi-To and Chi-RI when i got them.

[Mephisto]

japan ground is pain until postwar. bad armor, at best mediocre mobility and mostly underwhelming shells/guns with few exceptions. your home are the flanks, and ambushes, everything else is suicide.

[Khergit Horse Archer]

m24, chi-nu and na-to just use this loadout? you should be able to do well

[Mirage]

Japan has good tanks but bad lineups for the most part, and they're overtiered.

[Re-170]

I am spading the Japan at the moment, and I can promise you that you might stop being struggling once you hit Rank 4 (lest some of Rank 3 as well like Chi-Ri II).
Japan did really have bad start to play because Rank 1-3 is really pain

[Shyue Chou]

The M24 is the best tank of any nation at 3.7. The most well-rounded tank with a good gun, good mobility and good enough armour.

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by Shyue Chou:

The M24 is the best tank of any nation at 3.7. The most well-rounded tank with a good gun, good mobility and good enough armour. :enlightened:

Pretty much this. Learn to use that M24 and it’s really all you need. My most played lineup is just the M24, So-Ki and a slew of planes. I’ve got like 700 universal backups, so I always have a second M24 if needed.

Flank with it and remember that it has a slow speed stabilizer, so at around 24 kph and below you’ll be stabilized. Take full ammo in it with about 10 HE and 6-10 smokes. HE open tops and anything too thick to penetrate just hit it with a smoke shell and reposition.

It’s a beast of a tank once you get used to it. Can kill everything it can face and can still hold its own as high as 6.0 if you’re good.

[Miles "Tails" Prower]

The chi-to and Chi-he are both monsters at their AB BR. The Ho-ni and Ro-go are both good. The only ones that really are that bad are the few at reserve or 1.0-1.7

[Nooby]

Originally posted by Miles "Tails" Prower:

The chi-to and Chi-he are both monsters at their AB BR. The Ho-ni and Ro-go are both good. The only ones that really are that bad are the few at reserve or 1.0-1.7

The reserve tanks were litteraly the best tanks i played in the japan tree

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by Nooby:

Originally posted by Miles "Tails" Prower:

The chi-to and Chi-he are both monsters at their AB BR. The Ho-ni and Ro-go are both good. The only ones that really are that bad are the few at reserve or 1.0-1.7

The reserve tanks were litteraly the best tanks i played in the japan tree

Might be a playstyle issue then.

Still, the M24 is one of the best tanks in the game honestly. Really abuse that one.

[Miles "Tails" Prower]

Originally posted by Nooby:

Originally posted by Miles "Tails" Prower:

The chi-to and Chi-he are both monsters at their AB BR. The Ho-ni and Ro-go are both good. The only ones that really are that bad are the few at reserve or 1.0-1.7

The reserve tanks were litteraly the best tanks i played in the japan tree

They aren't bad just difficult in an uptier

[Psycho]

just dont, only russia/ussr if you dont want to suffer

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by Psycho:

just dont, only russia/ussr if you dont want to suffer

I can’t stand playing Russian tanks. Not enough gun depression. Drives me insane.

[nico2000]

Japan is good at lower and higher tiers... my default squad is M24 BR3.3, Chi Ha Long Gun BR2.7 and Chi -nu. THe Long gun seems like an odd choice but its low profile and no armor and boat canon, makes it lethal above its class...

Use the M24 to your team's advantage... if that means camping behind a rock so you can just call out positions, for a while, then so be it.

Also japanese tanks are really fast. Use this to gt to the best spots 1st.

[MrBucket]

Yeah the Chi-to and Chi-Ri ones are tough to play, they are as big as the king tigers and have basically no armor and mediocre maneuverability as well as turret traverse speed, got a pretty decent gun and ammo with not too shabby post pen dmg tho. I'd just play it like a FV 4005 with a faster firing rate.