00:00Hello everybody and today on the Tusk Force dev server we're going to be taking a look at a new
00:05British tank. Well technically Canadian tank because this is the Ram 1 which is going to be
00:10coming to the British tech tree at rank 2, battle rating 3.0 between the Crusader tanks and the
00:17Cromwell tanks. Now as you can see the hull is much like the later Ram tank which is already in
00:22game but the turret is different and the main armament is different so we've now got the 40
00:27millimeter two pounder gun. Now this is a fairly quick firing gun so it's got a reload rate of 3.6
00:34seconds which can be brought down to 2.8 seconds and you do have a sort of shoulder gun stabilizer
00:40so vertical gun stabilizer and your carrier a variety of shells so you have got an APHE shell
00:46with 49 millimeters penetration at 500 meters, your top tier APC BC shell with 77 millimeters
00:52penetration at that distance or your standard AP shell with 52 millimeters and you've also got
00:57three 30 cal machine guns, you've got one in this little turret at the front here, one in a car axle
01:01position and one on the roof. So a decent amount of firepower against enemy tanks and against enemy
01:07aircraft and soft skin vehicles. Then moving on to the armor so it's 50.8 millimeters for the hull
01:13but obviously it is sloped so you can get more protection out of that. The machine gun turret might
01:19be a bit of a weak spot though he does come up to 77 millimeters in some areas so yeah we'll see how
01:25that performs in game probably much the same as the Ram 2. Then moving on to the turret you can see the
01:31mantlet around the gun is 76 millimeters while the mantlet itself is 70 millimeters or just under.
01:39I can't quite see if there's anything behind there. The actual effective thickness is generally
01:45quite good like this area is around 100 millimeters but some of it does go down to 70 millimeters so
01:52yeah that's something to keep an eye on. It might be a bit of a risk trying to target the mantlet directly
01:59and you can see the turret sides also 76 millimeters tapering down to 69 and 63 millimeters for the rear
02:06and it's 38 to 25 millimeters for the roof. Then looking inside you can see that you've got your
02:12five crews so two in the hull and then you've got your three crew in the turret and the gun has got
02:19optics with 1.9 to 3.5 times zoom and in mobility you've got a 354 horsepower engine giving us a top
02:26speed of 24.9 miles per hour forward on five gears or a reverse speed of 3.2 miles per hour on one gear
02:33which isn't the best in the world and could cause some problems when trying to escape ambushes. Now we're
02:38quickly going to take this out on the testing ground just to see how it performs there. So here is the
02:44driver's view and we're just going to target the panzer 2 over there. So we've got our AP shell and
02:50unfortunately that was non-penetration right from the start but the second one was able to quickly
02:55knock it out. Like you could see there it has got a very quick reload speed. Good amount of machine gun fire
03:01for the front here. See if we can target the panzer 2 over there. Yep did some good damage there. Now we're
03:10just going to quickly show off the mobility just restarted quickly and yeah you can see it's a little
03:17bit slow to get started and it does struggle a little bit on the mud which could be a problem
03:22but it's also not being stopped either. Now we're starting to get up to some sort of speed a little bit
03:28and not quite our top speed. So we're retaining that speed fairly well while going through the river.
03:37See if we can get to our top speed and then quickly just test out the braking and see how that performs.
03:42And here is the driver's view. Our brake. So it braked pretty quickly and as you can see the reverse
03:51speed is not very good in the slightest. And here is the turret rotation speed. Not the fastest in the
03:57world but not the slowest either. And of course you can speed up the turret rotation by rotating the tank
04:06which does help a little bit. So yeah you should be able to decently respond to flanking enemies at
04:13the very least. And as you can see the two pounder does seem to do decently well against most of the
04:19tanks on the training ground of course at least. Of course at 3.0 it is going to struggle a little bit
04:25I think. I mean this is a higher battle rating than the Matilda 2 which at least has quite a lot of
04:30armor to protect it. And the Crusader 2 is at 2.7 so it might struggle at 3.0. We have to see how it
04:37performs when it's actually released in game. I think its armor might do it well enough at least to
04:42remain at 3.0 at least for a little while. But yeah we'll just have to see how it performs once it's
04:47released on the regular server. But anyway that is the Ram 1 which is a Canadian tank which is coming in
04:54the Tusk Force update. So anyway hopefully you've enjoyed this episode, hopefully you'll join me for
04:59the next one. I've been Tereno and I'll see you next time.
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