History Characters / WorldOfTanksUnitedKingdom

* NoPronunciationGuide: Listening to American players trying to figure out what its name is can be hilarious.

* RareVehicles: Very rare in-game, because the Sentinel [[MasterOfNone just doesn't do one specific job that other tanks of similar tier cannot do better]].

* RareVehicles: In RealLife and in-universe. In real life, only 50 vehicles were made and they were never used in combat. In-game, it's CripplingOverspecialization on trading everything else for a good gun makes it very difficult to play, and as such it's not seen very often.

* GradualGrinder: Compared to other UK tank destroyers the Badger relies on survivability and damage per minute over immediate, catastrophic alpha damage.

* MovesetClone: Of the [[TierInducedScrappy M3 Lee]], the main difference being improved [[FanNickname tumor]]... turret armor (along with a slightly smaller turret), and the option of a 6-pounder gun.

* FanNickname: [[StarWars Death Star]], A title it shares with the Jagdpanzer [=E-100=]. One look at the gun caliber should tell you why.

* FanNickname: [[StarWars Death Star]] by the English-speaking crowd; the Russians call it "The Boomer" (''"Бабаха"'').

* MightyGlacier: Able to take a lot of beating before going down, but it's painfully slow.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Real [=FV217=] self-propelled gun project never exists outside of paper. The tank as you see in game is largely made up by Wargaming to cap off the line with fully turretless vehicle.
* AttackItsWeakpoint: The "based on the Conqueror chassis" isn't just flavor text, sadly having the same weak lower glacis marring its otherwise insane frontal armor. Thankfully it at least lacks the [[StuffBlowingUp front-mounted ammo rack]].
* {{BFG}}: While not as immediately devastating as the 183mm, its 123mm AT gun combines excellent handling, accuracy, and damage to make it absolutely monstrous from both up close and afar.
* LightningBruiser: Unlike the Tortoise, the badger has good mobility for its size and extremely tough frontal armor.

* GradualGrinder: When fighting tier 6 tankss, it becomes this. It can still penetrate, but it takes a long time to kill a tier 6 while taking 50 hp bites at a time.

* GradualGrinder: Tied for slowest tank in the game, terrible armor.. but comes with the HP pool of a tier ''eight'' tank. Good luck killing it before it kills you.

!!Centurion Mk. 7/1

[[UsefulNotes/BritsWithBattleships Armored fighting vehicles produced and fielded by Great Britain and the British Commonwealth, focused primarily on Britannic development.]] British tanks normally will be found with one or two great strengths and one or two great weaknesses at the same time. Their guns in particular sacrifice caliber (and thus alpha damage and sometimes penetration) for improved rate of fire and accuracy.

!!FV217 Badger

Tier X tank destroyer, replacing FV215b (183) in turret-less tank destroyer line from version 9.21 onward.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Real FV217 self-propelled gun project never exists outside of paper. The tank as you see in game is largely made up by Wargaming.

!!Badger

* StoneWall: The [=17-pounder is=] already past it's prime in Tier 7, and as a result the AT 15A has difficulty damaging well-armored targets. However, it's got the armor of the Tier 8 AT 15 a tier lower, and it never sees beyond Tier 8, meaning most of the guns it faces (with some exceptions, most notably well-armed tank destroyers like the Rheinmetall-Borsig Waffentrager or the ISU-152) lack the punch to pierce the armor.

In addition, high-tier British tanks get a unique [=HESH=] (High Explosive Squash Head) round as their gold round, which is basically a HE round with extra penetration. While this does mean that these tanks suffer against very tough armor that could be neutralized by a premium APCR or HEAT round, HESH can tear up thinly-armored targets that are otherwise armored enough to shrug off standard HE.

* StoneWall: Subverted. It can take APCR, AP and HEAT shells to the front all day (provided they don't aim for the cupola, but even then it's strong enough to potentially shrug off rounds that do hit it), and while the top gun has low alpha damage, you really don't want to stand in front of a gun that fires every 2 seconds, unless you like being [[DeathOfAThousandCuts punctured to death]].

* ATasteOfPower: Gets the Tortoise's top gun, the 120mm AT Gun [=L1A1=], as it's only armament.

* MightyGlacier: It's based on the Valentine chassis, so it has good hull armor (by SPG standards)[[note]] the superstructure on the other hand is only 30mm thick [[/note]] that can be a nasty surprise to those who fires HE shells at artillery and expected an easy kill. Unfortunately it also has the Valentine's slow speed.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: While the [=FV304=] is the more known of the two, the Bishop actually shares its top gun with the [=FV304=], and thus has the extremely short range and great gun arc.

* DifficultButAwesome: Like the Charioteer, the Challenger has plenty of problems that make it frustrating to play. However, with it's excellent mobility and fast-firing 17-pounder, in the hands of anyone who can drive it competently, it is a force to be reckoned with.

* StoneWall: The [=17-pounder is=] already past it's prime in Tier 7, and as a result the AT 15A has difficulty damaging well-armored targets. However, it's got the armor of the Tier 8 AT 15 a tier lower, and it never sees beyond Tier 8, meaning most of the guns it faces (with the exception of extremely well-armed tank destroyers like the Rheinmetall-Borsig Waffentrager or the ISU-152) lack the punch to pierce the armor.

* FragileSpeedster: Averted. It has good top speed, but its awful engine means it will never hit it. combined with its laughable armor, its one giant target.

* AntiAir: It's 40mm Bofors gun was originally an Antiarcraft gun. It was never fitted to the tank, but an AA version of the similar Crusader with that gun did exist (although it was open topped)

* Acrofatic: Quite large and boxy (and a not-inconsiderable 32 tons besides), but it does 52 kph with a power to weight ratio of over 21 horsepower per ton.

* StealthyColossus: Weighs 32 tons and is the size of a semi, yet is somehow able to behind in some surprisingly thin shrubbery.

* DoNotRunWithAGun: Averted, it's one of the lowest tier vehicles in the game capable of mounting a Vertical Stabilizer (which is ironic given that in real life, the size of the 17-pounder necessitated removing the Vertical Stabilizer from the tank). With a crew that's been trained in Snap Shot and Smooth Ride, it becomes a frighteningly accurate mobile sniper.

* DifficultButAwesome: Like the Charioteer, the Challenger has plenty of problems that make it frustrating to play. However, it can be devastating in the right hands with it's excellent mobility and fast-firing 17-pounder.
* Foil: to the AT-15A; another Tier 7 tank destroyer armed with a 17-pounder gun. Whereas the AT-15A has excellent armor but abysmal mobility and no turret, the Challenger lacks armor but gets a (slow-traversing) turret and excellent mobility.

* Foil: To the Challenger; both are British Tier 7 tank destroyers armed with weak (for tier) 17-pounder guns that has excellent accuracy, rate of fire, and aiming time. However, whereas the Challenger has a (slow) turret but no armor and excellent mobility, the AT-15A has a hull-mounted gun and abysmal mobility but has excellent armor.

* MovesetClone: It's an M10 rearmed with a 17 pounder.

* DeathOfAThousandCuts: Its 17 Pounder is pretty weak for a Tier VII Tank Destroyer, but with its fantastic speed and good accuracy and camouflage it can maneuver around scoring hit after hit at an enemy's vulnerable sides or rear until they succumb to it.

* MightyGlacier: Slow, well armored, and a blisteringly fast rate of fire. While the 17 pounder is long in the tooth at this tier, the 15A makes it work due to these factors.

* MoreDakka: It's stock 6 pounder gets a 10 shot autoloader, with a blisteringly fast 1 second interclip time. However 110 penetration is woefully inadequate at tier 7, so it's only really viable with full APCR spam. Fortunately you don't have to use this gun if you're coming from the AT 8. ''Unfortunately'', you have to if you're coming from the Gun Carrier, as none of its guns transfer over. So this makes the GC ''even worse'' than it already is.