warrends 108 Share Posted July 19, 2014 So I've had my Chaffee for well over two years. And I honestly suck at lights, even though I truly believe the Chaffee is one of the best lights by far, regardless of the fact that it's a tier 5 in up to tier 8 or 9 battles (down from tier 10). Only took me 336 battles to finally get my Ace Tanker medal. Partially, a true excuse, is that at least half of these battles were played before WG brought in the Mastery badges, and I do remember several specific battles which would definitely have given me that Ace had it been in-game at the time. But still no excuse for not really "getting" how to abuse the Chaffee's absolutely incredible vision and camo, as well as it's awesome gun handling and pen. 13K+ WN8 for a battle?? I'll take that any day!!! It's almost 10 times my total WN8. I think my only major mistake was dying. I thought the Lowe still had another 1-2 seconds to reload, but evidently I was wrong. Would have added an additional kill and another bunch of damage to my stats for this battle. All else I truly think I did very well. But comments and criticisms welcome. Lakeville middle road is built for the Chaffee. Luckily I don't worry about credits. While I gained 34K credits, it cost me 96K credits, mostly due to restocking 31 premium rounds at 2800 each. Link to post Share on other sites
Haswell 2,399 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Chaffee is ridiculously broken in its current form. -tier 5 light that performs on par with tier 7 lights -competitive even up in tier 8 -gets outclassed by all tier 8 lights due to poor survivability against high alpha guns -being a tier 5 dumped into BT11 matches, xp modifier overcompensates I usually load 40 APCR and 20 HE (for shooting at waffles). Link to post Share on other sites
warrends 108 Author Share Posted July 19, 2014 I thought they lowered the BTs for lights. Chaffee still gets into battles with tier 10s? I don't recall any since the new patch over tier 8, or perhaps 9. Or was it only for some lights? Link to post Share on other sites
Haswell 2,399 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Chaffee was excluded from the BT changes. The patch notes specifically skipped over tier 5 lights for this purpose, I think. For good reason too. I too want to drive my Chaffee around at BT8 all the time. Link to post Share on other sites
Epic 594 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Enjoy it while you can! RIP Chaffee 9.3 Link to post Share on other sites
jacg123 656 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Congrats on the good game! Getting High Caliber is always a pleasurable experience in the chaffee Chaffee is ridiculously broken in its current form. -tier 5 light that performs on par with tier 7 lights -competitive even up in tier 8 -gets outclassed by all tier 8 lights due to poor survivability against high alpha guns -being a tier 5 dumped into BT11 matches, xp modifier overcompensates I usually load 40 APCR and 20 HE (for shooting at waffles). I run 40ap/20apcr. I do not recommend running HE at all, since it is really easy to run out of ammo on the chaffee and you don't want to be stuck with only HE left. I'm not sure why you say the XP modifier "overcompensates." It is incredibly difficult to do damage to most tier 10's in the chaffee. Shouldn't you be rewarded proportionally? Link to post Share on other sites
Epic 594 Share Posted July 19, 2014 For T10s you might be right, but when you are in a max T7 game, base XP can go insane... Link to post Share on other sites
jacg123 656 Share Posted July 19, 2014 The highest your XP can go in a tier 7 game is nowhere near where it can go in a tier 10 game. Trust me. Link to post Share on other sites
dirtd0g 1,181 Share Posted July 19, 2014 I love my Chaffee even versus IXs and Xs. I've gotten high-caliber in it more than I think I should have, once in a Tier-IX match... It is the last of the true, old-school scouts. I will cry a little when they fuck it up. Link to post Share on other sites
jacg123 656 Share Posted July 20, 2014 Cry a little bit? Are you kidding me?! I'll bawl my eyes out. Link to post Share on other sites
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