Challenger 1

I dare say, this page is delightfully British. Spot of tea?

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

– Margaret Thatcher

The Challenger 1 is the British third generation main battle tank that takes the concepts of the Chieftain but updates it for a network centric battlefield. Seeing action in the Gulf War under the crews of the Desert Rats, the 1983 system was a fast, hard hitting tank with an L11A5 cannon and also the first vehicle to introduce Chobham armor to the world: a composite of ceramics and steel that would be the standard for all tanks across the Western world.

Unlike the Chieftain, the Challenger designed to be a fully stabilized tank that could fire accurately on the move as shown. Equipped with the armour to serve the British preference for defensive positions and the speed and firepower to outmatch the East’s armoured forces, the concept would remain used until the modern day with successors like the Challenger 2.

In Team Yankee

The premier tank of the Brits serves as the faster, costlier cousin of the Chieftain. Trading cost efficiency for ROF 2 on the move, the Challenger is a very awkward unit for the average British player. With the sheer amount of QUALITY anti-armor you can bring to the field from Milans to Harriers, the chally has a very specific niche: offensive lists that function in the vein of a West German list, punching holes in the weak points of an opponent’s deployment and keeping defensive troops (like infantry) to the absolute minimum.