Is the AE Phase I Worth It in World of Tanks?
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- čas přidán 21. 09. 2019
- Getting the AE Phase I in World of Tanks can take up to 300 hours... Is it worth it?
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Hi everyone, I want to clarify something that many people are misunderstanding. I'm not disappointed with this tank because it's balanced, but because, as I stressed in the video, it's a lazy clone of the Conqueror/M103. I believe this was a missed opportunity to reward several hundred hours of Frontline dedication with novel gameplay mechanics. Sure the extra features of the tank like the four sets of tracks and repair kit are interesting, but they don't change the way the tank plays.
Some cynical individuals are suggesting I'm not happy with this because it's not overpowered... Far from it. There are many tanks that Wargaming have introduced that are both fun while also being balanced and multiple ways Wargaming could have adjusted the statistics of the AE Phase I to make it more interesting without breaking the game.
If I had the opportunity to have this tier IX american reward heavy tank, I would love it! First, it would be my first tier IX tank in world of tanks (PC), and second I'm more of a hull-down player than a side-scrape kinda player, although having the Maus in World of tanks (Blitz), it would be a good way to practice hull down for a while and apply what I learned to other tanks, such as my WZ 111 model 1-4 in (Blitz), anyways great observation about the AE phase I and in my opinion it's an average tank, sure this tank needs a bit of a change in it's statistics to make it more comparable to other tier IX heavy tanks, but yet a good tank for those who like hull-down and shoot the enemies while they bounce and hopefully they can't hit the capoula on the AE Phase I. Thank you for reading this. :)
Ppl will hear what they wanna hear sadly. Won't matter how many times u stress that it's not because of if it's OP or not that will make it worth the grind.
The good thing about this vehicle isn't the fact that the stats are good or OP, but the fact that it's stats are completely average all-round with some excellent features like armor. This makes it have a high skillcap so good players can really make use of this thing, something the conqueror and m103 just don't quite have.
Is basically a tier 9 chieftain.
Oh, and if you're being shot in the side in a heavy tank you're doing something wrong... Or your team is ded, on a basically open map...
I get your point QB, but there are hundreds of tanks in the game. I would guess creating novel tanks is quite difficult. I think they did pretty ok with this tank, not perfect but ok.
Yeah yeah. Should have been italian autoreloading TD or Arty. Then everyones happy happy happy
Congrats to WG for releasing actually balanced tank
You recognize it's not Russian, so of course it's easy for wg to release it balanced...no heart involved there.
Sonder Ling well now that I think about it the obj 277 V 2 is balanced too so good job WG
@@sonderling2473"You recognize it's not Russian" phase 1 better tank then the obj 777 russian prize tank i dont know why you complain.......
It's coming to blitz, and I've never been more excited for a tank to come out.
This tanks special mechanic should be that it can move at half speed when tracked.
That mechanic would be straight OP.
@@endre1989 EBRs all over again
In circles
@@endre1989 what I’d you make it so it can only go in reverse
2021 and WG are having Yoh tanks haha
QuickyBaby, I think you are underestimating the economics of this tank, most f2p players can barely afford a large repair kit so we use small. Too be able to use a large repair kit for free is brilliant for me
Most F2P players aren’t even going to get this tank any time soon. That being said, WG releases literally hundreds of missions that give expensive consumables, farm those and for the most part you’ll be fine.
@@kalsyphr5039 yeah that's true
How often do you get multiple modules damaged? Rarely ,I don't see what is so brilliant.
Ale x
Hmm...How about a 50% increased rate in repairs over the large one (10=>15) and a whopping 15% overall versus the small one? If your repair kits on cool down, that’s huge.
@@bravehome4276 It's 5% increase mate , again small numbers that are barely noticeable
OP tanks: complaints
Average balanced reward tank: Not fun to play
What do you want QB?
It's not the tank that is too boring, it's the grind towards getting the tank.
The hull armour is pathetic for such a slow moving vehicle. Thats why it's boring to play.
thats wot community for you. they will never satisfy the idiots who are better at complaining than at playing
He’s complaining about how the tank is kinda just generic, and that the grind towards it is just sooooooo long. It is just really really similar to Tanks already in the game, in tech trees, that would be much easier to get and some are kinda just better. There’s a big difference between a tank being kinda boring and not fun to play, and an Obj. 279 e spamming gold.
@@ch1ck3nw1nx7 That's exactly my point. People just want a good tank after such a long hard and boring grind. It would be difficult then to make it not OP.
Hey it aint OP and its a cool looking tank not everyone got thier hands on so...I like it.
You spend hours upon hours grinding FL, painfully going through those long, boring matches full of premiums, only to get an M103 with a free repair kit. Yeah no thanks, prestige 10 isn’t worth it. Maybe prestige 5, but 7 or 10 isn’t worth a duplicate tank.
@@kalsyphr5039 Pshh...I havent even broke Prestige 2 :P
Lol I remember some dude in a match with an ar phase 1 called someone jelly cause they said that the tank sucks and I'm just thinking why would anyone be jealous of a subpar tank that you get for no lifing frontlines, I just feel bad for any1 that has it lol
@@recon_ron7746 I wouldn't say subpar, its honestly a good tank. It's a slightly upgraded m103 without being OP. The problem is that it's not worth its grind. Something in-between the current AE Phase 1 and the Obj 279 (e) would have been better honestly.
Make them UNQUE but not outright BETTER than tech tree competitors
To be fair, if you get AE Phase 1, you also get a free T8 premium with it.
premium EMIL was kinda worth the grind imo :)
@@plutonium87 how about the WZ 111 ?
@@GenoGENOVA 112 is better and it ain't that good.
@@GenoGENOVA wz11 is just not that good get sta 2 and convert the rest of your points to gold instead.
@@GenoGENOVA The 112 is better as mentioned, but if you won't get it from the referral program nor will you buy it then it's a great choice, I got it and don't regret it one bit, it only has 186mm of pen on the standard rounds, but I rarely found that limiting my game play, the turret though has two cupula weak spots would bounce a lot of hits, it has preferential mm so you don't see any tier 10, and it makes good credits if you can do well with it and rack up the damage. I did play the STA-2 for 10 games as I got it as a rental from last month's top of the tree and it is also good, as a f2p player you can't go wrong with either one IMHO.
Hell Yaas! Havent played the tank yet, but did "enjoy" Frontline gameplay due to being able to be superagressive because even if it does not work out you can respawn in another tank. You can also grind stock tanks without really putting your team in a huge disadvantage, and the fact that you dont need to even consider firing premium rounds to be competitive ( altough many still do ).
Even though the grind made me push my limits and get bored by the end of every week, even after getting the AE earlier this night, I am still going to play frontline next month and the month after, because it actually is a fun mode, like you said risky moves aren't the end of the world as you can still respawn, grinding stock tanks is less painful, and you don't see any pesky tier 10 tanks, it's great!
I like mine. I did 5.6k dmg in the first game
Armor seems pretty meh but its fun
So it's an M103 that noobs can't shoot at correctly yet, that's why 5,6k
@@derrickstorm6976 jelly much?
@@metal_mo lol if you had a bag of shit, and I said you have a bag of shit, would you then too say, "jelly much?"
"Do you really care if your tank looks good?"
Meanwhile im grinding my way f2p in the german tech tree just because i want the tiger 1 and 2.
And why? BECAUSE THEY LOOK FREAKING AWESOME!!
Mr J the Line really sucks until you get e75 with 128
When I look at the fun I had, the silver I got, the bonds I got, the consumables I got, the gold I got... I think it wouldn't do to say no to free tanks as well.
Blessed u, mate.. let the fun Rolls, whatever the tank is..
*WG brings in OP tanks*
Community - Reeeeeee it's op
*WG brings in balanced tanks*
Community - Reeeeee it's a normal boring tank
They are mad because the "Russian" tanks are OP, which is honestly pathetic. They are actually doing something right for the first time, but because it's not OP and it's not Russian the community is just blaming Wargaming for being bias.
The issue isn't really that it's boring, more of that it's not all that unique considering how it looks and FL was an absolutely horrible grind for anyone crazy/no life enough to try it.
Just because something is not OP doesn't mean it can't have any other issues. Imagine doing a huge grind and not being told the end prize until half way through and then told that the prize is a pixel tank which is just boring. Tanks can be balanced without being boring.
moonsterino no one said it’s boring. FRONTLINE is boring... well too much frontline
I'm happy that the tank is average and not the new meta tank.
You should always welcome a balanced tank in WOT whether than OP tank, such as 432 , 430u , 268v4
Reward tanks just as if not worse than the regular ones? No, they need to be unique. If they are average or below avrage, no one will bother with them. If the are OP, wg will find ways to monetize that or the tank will be obligatory for CW (if is a tier 8 or 10). That would just arm the unicums. We dont need that. But if you make the tank unique, with special traits, ppl will want the tank for that, not for its OP stats.
Guvyyg Vuhh I think they should have tanks with machine guns. Like proper machine guns that fire like 2300 rounds a minute but have 1 damage per shot. Fun tanks like that would really improve the game a lot
@@brayden2295 or make it aids. You cant rly have above 3000 rpm in the game without totally fucking it up. Yes it would be fun, but guns like those dont rly have the pen to do anything past tier 8 maybe even 7. I would love to see a Bradley. 30mm pop pop gun :)
Frontline is fun! This tank is just a nice bonus.
Even if it was the best tank in the game, it wouldn't be worth the endlessly boring grind...
Moje slova
First time Wargaming releases a non op tank in to WoT.
QB: I don't like it.
It's not OP because it's American.....
@@Vorm17Bru untrue but ok
@@Vorm17 Chrysler K...
Did you sleep through the British light tanks or something?
It’s a reward tank that took hours and hours to grind. It shouldn’t be OP, but it should be unique. Worthy to play at least. The 279 (e) should never have existed, but at least it’s worth getting by merit of being disgustingly OP.
I absolutely love this tank, it's a hull down king consistently bouncing off rounds to the turret.
I really enjoy playing frontline. I think its a great addition to the game. Play it occasionally and hit my first prestige level yesterday, I'm not grinding as you see
I don't agree with the explanation of the turret armor, it is slightly better than the M103, the turretroof is easily penetrated if you fire Heat at it, or if you have more than 150mm gun. The turretfront is quite weak while using gundepression, you simply penetrate below the gun, and if thats not enough just penetrate the gunmantlet and the quite flat turretfront. It is definetly not worth it, grinding the Conq. is quicker and you recieve the S. Conq. after it (which is a good tank if you don't own a Chieftain).
Greetings from Germany
When it's tracked (once) it should be able to continue moving at 25% of its usual speed. That would be a nice bonus feature that you would notice and appreciate in-game, and wouldn't be OP.
finally i was waiting for your review of this tank thx QB
that laugh after saying "that tank would probably be a dissapointment" haha
QB, not all of us can farm tier X's in our tier VIIIs. Frontline is great credits and great for levelling tier VIIIs
Of course it was worth it, if you are tank collector
Is there a chance we could get some insight on the Great Race? How does it work as a mode and maybe some play tips? Is auto-aim possible? Do you shoot while racing at the track? How do you keep your tank from spinning around?
Just a thought but with the double tracks to make it something unique. How would you feel if taking out the front track only halved the speed of the tank rather than full tracking it? Kinda like with the wheeled vehicles how you have to take out multiple wheels.
8:27 somebody in chat wasn't too happy
I'm actually happy with the addition of this tank, for once a reward tank isn't OP
I’m in the process of grinding the Super Conqueror line and I currently have 12 tokens on Battle Pass. I was all set to get the AE Phase 1 until I saw this video and realized that I will be getting the Conqueror soon. I’m not really interested in the K-91-PT or the Char Futur 4 or the Object 777 Version II and I’m not sure what to think about the Kunze Panzer. I couldn’t use a crew trainer for my German mediums because after I grind the Super Conqueror line, I plan to grind the Leopard line.
Does any have any thoughts as to which Battle Pass tank I should get?
Frontline is a special. Not my piece of cake. Then you miss these special vehicules and that is a pitty. Apart from the result with this kind of tank specials are ofcourse always nice to have in the garage. Thanks QB for the evaluation
This tank reminds me of a t54e2 Shark I'm tier 9, and like the Shark, it's not always the best tank or the most fun one to play, but whenever you do have a good game in it, it has the right amount of armor, dpm, alpha, and mobility, to make that good game reallly satisfying..
What gets me about capolas is most of them do not have view points on them, but they can be spotted.
So if your capolas pokes over a ridge you get spotted but do not spot the enemy.
I thought the point of capolas IRL is to poke them over a ridge and spot without exposing the whole tank, but apparently in WOT it is opposite.
Any suggestion on which tank to pick from battle pass going on right now? From the 9 token tanks?
I know this is 3 years old. But i finally just got my ae phase 1, from doing the free battlepasses. And its my favourite tank ive played so far. Ive gone down many tech trees to tier ix, (only 2 tier X) but still the ae phase 1 just feels good to ke
quick question. so i got this thanks frontlines and the steel hunter games. SO i chose this between the char and the 777 because of the great turret and 4 tracks. but when i read the tanks description it says it could keep moving with 2 tracks broken, but i never seen it do that. does it or does it not XD
even though i know i keep getting both tracks on the same side broken. so im not sure if it was acctuallly a thing they made.
I just finished my X prestige! Quite nice that QB is rewieving this....
I was thinking on the play. Would the enjoyment and novelty be higher if the tracking of this tank required both the front and rear to track fully? Maybe restrict movement to 50% with a single track out. Would this change the fun or become overly broken OP?
Love the videos keep up the good work
Quickbaby 2019: Balanced tank is not fun for me.
also Quickbaby 2019: Playing OP tanks like Obj279e is not really fun.
Perfect example of WoT player base, full of contradiction
It would been ok if it wasn't such a long grind tho. But yeah that's wot for you.
@@ushiki2212 I'm glad it was such a long grind, I'm happy I have a tank that the rushers can't have, and I will have great satisfaction in every time I hit an EBR for half it's health with this tank.
@@probiegamer7539 Good for you mate🙂👍. But others just don't think so. But if you really like the tank then that pretty cool.
Stop being so cynical. There's plenty of ways to make a tank fun without making it OP. The AE Phase I is just a M103/Conqueror clone and it lazy development.
it feel more make sense for T110E5 turret switched with AE phase I, consider how big of a turret M103 suddenly went small on tier 10
>Tank is not OP
>It is balanced
"So I think collector tanks aren't fun to play"
I am a working man. I played FrontLine in evening time and those weekends. During the episodes, I didn't play random battles. With the help of free boosters I could catch upon the prestiges and got Emil and Phase 1. I enjoy both tank and I need an American HT crew trainer for my T57 Heavy. So worth the grind to me with the credits I earned throughout. Don't forget I got plenty credits from FL to buy German Bulldog and Foch 155 during black market sales.
They missed a great opportunity to have some unique feature that uses the 4 tracks, rather than completely disabling the tank when it's tracked it could just slow the vehicle down like happens to the wheeled shits ? But if the same track is hit twice it is locked down like usual or some thing ?
Or give it the ability to traverse on the spot very quickly ?
Or just make it a bit quicker so it can get to positions slow meds can rush to at the start?
as of 8/28/23 according to the in game stats the gun and handling have been buffed from when this video was put out. according to the in game stats the aim time is at 2.4 from 2.5 and the dispersion is now at 3.6 from 3.8
To clarify, the AE phase 1 has the exact same gun as the T110E5
I manage to angle and deflect shot's with this ,i'ts an exagerated angle but not a diamond angle like you have to do in a tiger to bounce shots there ,the gun is powerful and this thing really turns around fast beng a 1960's tank ,I feel confident that if I see a Conquerer he is the hunted and I am the hunter !
I took the STA-2, as I dont have a fun tier VIII medium tank yet (very happy with this one). Also I dont have the time to grind the frontline game mode. If I get more prestige points I just convert it to gold at the end. Emil would have been nice but too much grind for me.
Don't play world of tanks, but I can't stop watching you. I want the old game back, but I have to stop dreaming.. Keep up the good work.
Quickbaby @ 6:42: We haven't (quite) seen a Tier IX Reward vehicle (Premium Tank) yet, at least in the game yet I say. I'm sure that one day Wargaming will probably do it.
Faster forward to August 2021...
Strv K: Hold my beer! I am the only Tier IX premium vehicle in the game (for now).
I would change the AE Phase in this way to make it different to the M103 and S.Conqueror:
1.)Increase the alpha from 440 to 490
2.)Decrease the DPM to be about 1900
I feel like you could make an interesting video talking about the balance of premium and reward vehicles. You talked a bit about it in this video and in you obj 279 video but I feel there is a bit more that can be said.
The AE Phase 1 is one of my favourite tanks
Totally agree with you QB! It is cool, it has a good turret and that's all. There are far better heavies at tier 9, the balance of this one is good but is too much average on every aspect.
should i get the emil as my second tank? If not, what other tank would be better?
Question: can the phase 1 be tracked on four spots per side? It has two first- and two last track wheels per side, so disadvantage?
Balanced = disappointing. You're part of the problem of slightly over buffed tanks then
Bro my thoughts, you are my friend a thinker.
Not at all, you can make fun tanks that are balanced. It's lazy development to create a clone or generate interest because it's too good.
@MaxMeier conq and sconq cause all 120mm tanks to seem inferior
@@QuickyBabyTV it's a completely different chassis from the m103 or conq. I guess they could have given it a 155 like the old t30 or perhaps the 440 alpha that the fv4201 has.
From what I've seen though you still play almost all the tanks the same. There's not much variety in the way you play different tanks
@@QuickyBabyTV I agree. All they had to do was to make something special about the tracks; take a little more time to develop the tank into a unique and interesting vehicle. Instead, they got everyone exited for a "top secret tier nine" that's actually a slightly worse Conqueror.
I found this tank to be decent at face hugging other vehicles. Especially tier 9 Russian heavies and I suspect it could do well face hugging many others.
Im my experience with the Conqueror, the turret may look good on paper but in reality, its pretty much the same case as the M103 but with *The Gun Mantlet* . Its absolute garbage like 60-80% of the time even when im on a very good ridge. Its flat and its only about 200mm thick so facehugging with even an average player is impossible since they will just shoot the mantlet and pen even with AP.
This weakness make the Conqueror a little bit of a glass cannon tbh. I have noticed this since the release of the S.Conqueror.
I cant exactly complain since that spaced armor will block anything, even the 420mms of heat pen lol.
when asking the "is it worth it" question, you should not only take into account the AE Phase 1. You also mentioned the credits (that enabled me to buy 3-4 further Tier X so far), but there also are the bonds and some other goodies you get along the way. Overall, Frontline _has been_ hell of a grind but now, with the 2nd map and the boosters, is only an awful grind (that makes more fun in platoon).
Now able to get it using my battle pass coins. Not impressed with Kunitz Panzer or K91. Which would you suggest? Also looking at Char.
QB: Reward tanks should not be OP and should be novel!
Also QB: This reward tank is novel and not OP, would not recommend.
I'm getting mixed signals QB.
M103 crying in the corner.
Thx for the video mate
This tank can use a buff mainly the gun accuracy as it has a sloppy floppy gun.
I've been doing pretty good in it. Don't really need it as my E5 and T57 already have great crews. Got to go hull down though.
I think that the AE phase 1 is balanced and the only reason I really play it is to train my crews for the e5 and the 57 heavy. But other than that the only thing that really lets it down is the accuracy
Wargaming: released a balanced reward tank that doesn't break the matchmaking
Quickybaby: wHeRE iS My VAriAty???!!!!!!
If ae gets the 440. It would just like a tier 9 chieftain.
It would be nice if the AE phase 1 could move a little when one of the tracks are broken
@QuickyBaby on console we have two tier 10 premiums. The first one is the M60 and the other is the VK 72.01 (K)
What I found fun was in my first game with it, being hull down against the tier 10 T95/FV4201, was blocking 4K of damage against a Unicom. I kind a like frustrating them 😜
That Jadgtiger on the enemy team had fun
hey qb do you still show replays from random battles? got a 16k spot run with gsor on malinowka...
That Somua was so distracting I had to go back and re-listen to what you said. I was rooting for the enemy team to shoot him 😉
Now back to the tank. What it needs to be in my opinion, is exactly like a premium as in it makes you credits. I wonder if it will now with the new Tier IX prem coming out?
How they could've changed this tank to make it worth it without making it OP - if it loses only one track, it should be able to move a tiny bit. This means when peeking against enemies it could potentially roll backwards without needing to burn a repair kit, and it would be similar to the wheeled vehicles (although mobility reduction should be much more substantial than with the wheeled vehicles).
i like AE Phase 1 , because it is actually pretty good in some places. looks awesome. as i am averaging around 2.5k dmg per game.
QB, that's the nicest way I've ever heard anyone say 'this tank is a bag of crap'.
If you want an American heavy tier 9 that can go hull down that will cost you a few hundred hours...
They really need to buff the M103..
I’d like to see a permanent repair consumable added to the shop for some gold, not a special one just an exact clone of the current large repair kit that you buy once.
You can see the pain when he laughs 13:27
I’d say accuracy to 0,35 and make the the tracks so that you only get slowed like the wheeled vehicles if 1/4 set gets destroyed
God I really hope they bring back Frontline next year too. With a few more balance changes and tweaks of course.
I just picked this tank up. First battle I only did 1800 damage and 2 kills. But bounced 3500 damage. WOW not used to armor working in game.
I do feel the frontal armor is a little bit weak, even a tier 7 LT penned me without using gold rounds.
Yes it's not OP, but i'm a sucker for cool looking tanks, so i guess it's kinda worth it for me?
Was Defender or IS-3A fun tanks to play then?
This tank reminds me of the painful Churchill grind. The turret is so gosh darn long ...
Thanks for such a detailed review of this tank. I played with the tank for a few times till now. Quite fast for a heavy tank, and its easy to switch positions or get into cover quickly. But the armor is thin and the gun is not so good. Couldn't penetrate through the enemy's armor with most of my shots (playing against T9 and T10 tanks). The gun accuracy is below average to poor. I also missed many many shots. It takes a lot of time to lock in on the target as well. I would say this is a mediocre tank with nothing special about it except its speed. However, yeah, I will like to play a few more games and see how it performs.
I put the med kit on the 5 key so that you can immediately get out of stun and fix your tracks after getting hit by arty
I'm now just 1 game away from getting STA-2 reward tank in frontline. Then I 'm so done with it and not going to have more headache of grinding
The AE Phase 1 isn't the reward tank we want, it's the reward tank we deserve.
Dude, couldn't quite figure how I felt about it til I read this. That sums it up perfectly!
It’s free and you get a lot of credits, consumables, and bonds. What’s not to like? Plus the FL boosters make it easy.
Legit question im currently on Lv4,i heard prestige will get reset on new year is it true?
I honestly love this tank.
You say reward tanks should be worse than the tech tree ones. Yet you want it to be rewarding???
I really like it except the numerous bounces. It bounces to many shots even when fully aimed green circled, and the target is still. The 1951 Emil is fun for me, and I like frontline mode. It was all worth it for me. So, it was free, but would like a better penetration rate.
In the last 2 weeks I got burnout from World of Tanks going from prestige 1 to prestige 10. Now I think at night whether it was worth it, while it gathers dust in my garage.
i just got phase 1 today and its a good tank - not more and not less. just played frontline to make credits and well 20 million per week is not bad=) ( only play in the evening )
I don't play heavy tanks very often but i have been having fun in it.
Keep up the great vids
You didn't missed the broadside of the defender, you just hit the tracks.
Remembers me on one game I had in a Skorpion G, I hit the track 4 times in row, on a E25, without any damage. Sometimes RNGesus just says, NO