When I play I continually watch your road to unicum videos. They are a great source of game knowledge and often give me good reminders that stop me from auto piloting in games. I think it would be awesome if you started going Road to unicum map overview guides. Showing things like opening positions, fall back positions, using strat sketch. It would be great for newer players as I think the quickest way to up your game play as a lower skill player is just know where to put your tank in the first 2 minutes of the match.

Wanna hear a joke? WG claims Manticore would be OP if it had more shells.

WG: "This tank is currently getting the most damage in each game?" Me: that because only 5 people play it and they're unicums? WG: Nah, everyone's playing it! Me: ... Ok we got a problem

Call me weird, but this is my favorite tier X tank in the game. Though, I must say, my favorite tank in the entire game is the ELC EVEN 90 and I love the sneaky aspect of light tanks. In the ELC, all I have is camouflage and a dinky autoloader. In the Manticore I have the same kind of camouflage rating as the ELC but a MUCH better gun. I enjoy light tanks the most, but I understand that that’s not everyone. Awesome video and I really enjoy all of your content! You’ve made me a better player and I appreciate all you do!

Got back into the game recently and found your channel and I just realized your shooting all AP I love it

Appreciate the review. Currently unlocking the GSOR & I think I'll stop there. WAY too many negatives with the Manticore

This tank is just too gimmicky for me. The abysmal ammo loadout, the inability to carry and the massive reload means that when I see one of these in my medium I know I have nothing to fear. This vs the LT is like putting Conor McGregor and my grandma in a cage together.

It's kinda hilarious how it's 80% gun and 20% vehicle

Your review is right on. I now play console, and all the British light tanks do in the Console WoT is allow Arty to have much shorter games. On console, 80% of the players ONLY auto-aim, which means they cannot hit light tanks in motion. Also in pub matches on console, many people turn off or completely ignore the mini map, so this amounts to 2 or more light tanks that can charge the enemy arty locations and take the enemy arty out like 80% of the time within the first 60 seconds of a match. I cannot stress how much better PC players are, and how LAZY console players are, who always love to site the fact that WoT is just a game, no need to try. Many console players just want to get in match, drive around a little and shoot 1 or 2 people, similar to GTA but with tanks. This is both fun and a curse, depending who you get on your team.

They specifically advertised the UK lights as having high alpha, which to me meant it would be above average, but the Manticore is the same as 4 of the other 6 tier 10 lights(outside the derp). However, it's almost like they planned to give it unusually high alpha so balanced that with long reloads and low ammo count, then decided against giving it high alpha but never rebalanced those aspects of the tank. To make matters worse having two crew is ridiculous, it may be 'historical' but they added a third to the EVEN 90 so I don't see why they couldn't do the same to dilute skills. Although it may not matter with crew 2.0.

They could give it 490 aplha, it would be unique and acctually quite strong...

He says stuff about the elc and yet I got into a game with him on my team him playing his elc me playing my lynx and we get a city map.... Once in a life time chance went to waste but I still love him his videos r great!

The ammo capacity is so bad that i got my first fadins medal in this tank

This tank is by far the most under powered tank that I've played, but I had my best spotting game in it of 12k spotting

I have the GSOR and I kind of like it. but I dont want the Manticore thanks for making the decision easier for me, as usual Excellent video.

I feel like a big problem that people rarely mention is that for the entire Brit Light Tank line there are 3 crew members; Commander, Gunner, Driver. But when you enter the Manticore you have just a Driver and Commander and the Commander now has to be the gunner too, give it a Gunner, more alpha, and maybe that’s all you need to do? Or if not alpha definitely some ammo. Love the Videos @Taugrim thanks 😊

I have heard nothing but bad things about this tank, to include your rousing endorsement, and have no interest in working for it. However, I watched because I always learn from your videos. Thank you for posting.

Great review and gameplay. That you are able to finesse this turd of a tank speaks to your skill. Also really appreciated some of your droll humour. You should explore that side of your commentary a little more often, it's really an indicator that you are fiercely intelligent. Keep your stick on the ice!

WG have always been overly concerned with people treating LTs as super stealthy snipers (ie performing more as TDs than as scouts) and have adjusted class as a whole to reflect this, primarily by providing them with weak firepower especially at range. Then they decide to introduce a LT line specifically designed to fit the biggest guns possible onto the smallest platforms possible. To square this circle of conflicting design parameters they had to make the Brit LTs as awful as possible in every other aspect. Especially the tier ten, because all tracked tier ten LTs have to suck for no good reason.

This tank while it is playable as a passive scout (yea relying on your team mates is always a good plan) however I feel it needs an ammo capacity boost, the .32 acc and the HESH shells from the other British 105 guns, I could handle the reload and others with these changes almost as a scout come td role.

Still one of my favorite tanks to play despite its shortcomings. A buff would be fantastic, as it's horrible in a brawl against any tank, but I can't stop playing this thing!

Have you made a video on the T14 heavy? I know it's only tier 5, but it has the reputation as an awful tank, but I've been playing it a lot recently as the only premium tank on my alt, and even without using gold (I never use it), I get over 1k damage and a ton of blocks almost every match. With its reputation as an awful tank, I'd love to see content creators talk about it more as a semi-hidden gem for good players (though I think newbies will really struggle with it)

Imagine an arty splash kill your two crew...

I like the video, keep up the good work Taugrim. Just one question: how big is a baseball diamond? (you do have a few non american viewers :P ).

I believe these British LTs were introduced as a "hard mode" for WoT's best players. I don't mind tanks with a long reload that have mobility and stealth on their side. I love my UDES 14 5. The ~10 sec reload leaves you time to get unlit, reposition and pop up elsewhere. The carry-capacity on the current tunnel-maps is very limited though. The downside of mobility and stealth is that they don't come with armour and high DPM that often.

Just some food for thought. I think Wargaming have shown us a potential way forward for the Manticore with the Borrasque. If they were to give it a two-shot autoloader it would at least be unique among light tanks at tier 10 with decent alpha and an autoloader. As for the 3 man tanks which don't have oscillating turrets they could give them competitive alpha with the wheelie boys and a proper hesh round. I see no reason why the two shot autoloader couldn't be put on the tier 8 as well. Be interested to hear your thoughts guys!

WG makes weird ammo amount decisions, the Chrysler K for example has so much ammo (100 shells).. almost impossible to empty in a normal match.

Not enough people play it for WG to balance it. Think about all the dev time that went into a line thats worse than the flip wagon.

I can't wait to see what you say about this one

The first thing I would do to balance them would be to give all of them HESH shells. The Setter and the Senlac already have something like HESH (Hi pen HE), so why not tier 8, 9 and 10 ?

That first map has been giving me a lot of trouble as of lately especially when I’m in my artilleries, I’ve started to do what I usually do with TDs as opposed to the normal artillery tactics. My biggest takeaway from your video is that I’ll need to be more flexible and patience especially the team, I really am starting to hate this tank it real restraints my options as to pounce on opportunities when presented with them. Low ammunition, bad mobility, poor gun arch’s, and a somewhat troublesome camouflage values yeah I’m not a very big fan, but it is British so go for par the course Lol! I’m still trying to pass 51% win rate in the this tank maybe I’ll try the tactics you showed us, however there’s not much I can do to overcome the low ammo, poor maneuverability, and extremely weak armor as for camouflage values I’ve tried camouflage-net but found that limiting and in some cases dangerous so till my British light tank crew is that full 100% percentage I’ll keep playing a mobile scouting and sniping game. Again thanks for the strategy guides you give us the players I wish you God speed comrade!

17:45 It is nice he gave you a warning lol I never heard of arty splashing “bad” scouts before

So looking forward to this review. WG please watch this. And on top of all of the (absolutely right and correct) criticisms, it has a 2 man crew... A totally overloaded commander and it is possible for your entire crew to die from h.e. and arty hits. A valid candidate for the worst tank in the game.

It would be good to hear some official answers from the devs about this, i mean the ones that really thought it was a good idea and how to play it. It looks like you would want to not take risky shots, or far away shots, you know high percentage ,and conserve most of your ammo until end game. I think it represents a challenge tank, which perhaps they wanted to milk that aspect, players loving the unloved, or just so small, the satisfaction level is higher when you can do well.

Manticore has battleship gun they said So it is good enough they said

what a guy, firing only AP in this tank. This is probably my favorite tank, though i will agree this tank needs a lot of buffs firepower wise. Unlike the shit-wagen this tank has a lot more potential.

So here goes: My name is Nota Roketscientist and I am a gold spammer. It started out simple enough when I found I could make my tank punch above its weight by spending a small amount on premium ammo. It cascaded over the months until it is all I used. Now that I have the support of this group and the example of Taugrim I have vowed to never use premium ammunition again. I know this won't be easy but I have made a good start and I have been premium free for almost three days now. I just had a match where my Indien-Pz penned a T95 at distance. I know it can be done.

Hey man.. Just to shout out that you explained well for the action you've made and it's really good for casual players like me. Thumbs up man.. EDIT: Btw, what mod you are using that display you stats and winrate in a colorful big banner on the garage?

How I would buff the Manticore: Hull traverse from 45deg/s to 48deg/s Turret traverse from 40deg/s to 42deg/s Alpha damage from 390 to 440 Shell count from 20 to 30 WG could go even farther than this, but i'm trying to be "realistic" with what they would accept or deny. 40 shells and a fire rate buff would be great, but lets be real... WG wouldn't do it.

new intro, NOICE

Give it HESH an ill be content with the ammo and will play it like a mini deathstar.but yea this tank needs attention and to say theres not enough data to being a buff is a weak ass escuse since the lack of data is evidence of how weak its entire line is

7:53 Yeah, but the AMX 13 light line has worse traverse than this line. The smaller the light tank is, the slower hull traverse it has, unless you're russian lol.

Could you come across the Chi-Ri, the tier 7 japanese MT ? I'm actually strugling at 53% wr due to is lack if silver penetration and the difficulty if managing such an autoloader... We could learn a lot about playing the underdog kind of gameplay. Nevertheless, it's always a great time seeing your vids'. Keep it up 🖖

Nxt guide can we get tvp 50/51? I want to see a otter to use auto loader bursting and seeing punishing mistakes by the enemy :)

I have the first gunmark. (Around 100 battle) I frustrated because Ebr HE , t100 :D Only 2 crew knockout. If wg add more gunhandling to this...

I really wanted to like this tank but it truly is a pain to play. I have a great crew in it but that doesn't help much. Taugrim is right, spend your time on something better. Get the AMX 13-105. It is way better.

The sad part about this is that no matter how bad this tank is, if it had more ammo, it would be better than german light tank.

Manticore.. how to have fun while being thoroughly miserable... miss miss miss miss fully aimed fully aimed fully aimed fully aimed.. out of ammo

Great video, thank you.

See so... this line of lights IS how lights should be played. That other light tanks are tiny mediums with camo is another issue. The Manticore is fine how it is. We dont need more tiny mediums with camo.

Great video, I'm not a fan of manticore but I still learned a thing or two, but why are you using a large medkit? You only have 2 crew member and if both of them are dead it's game over anyways.

In the second battle, after the Foch spotted you, you took damage to multiple modules and you used your repair kit on your engine. When the repair kit and med kit came back online, you healed the commander but didn't fix the optics which were also damaged. I've seen this in another video of yours - is there something about damaged optics that makes them tolerable from a spotting perspective?

strait away in the first replay, he could totally take manticore to the bush further in front of him with it's 50+% camo, then the main focus should be taking out the enemy LT rather than pretending to be an MT and dealing damage and risking give away his position. in matchups like this with only one LT each side, friendly LT is spotted on one side of the map than the enemy LT can push vision through the other side like a walk in the back yard.

Taugrim, can you review the Tiger 2 if you have it? Like to know how to make it work as it is now

I used blueprints to unlock the line after playing the first tank in the line.

I have a possible solution to this tank. Give it crazy high alpha. Give it the "naval cannon" they say it has. I'm talking like 500 alpha or more. And leave all other stats the same. That way its unique. I don't even think 550 would be enough to make the tank "amazing" lol

GSOR has great gun elevation

Its gun elevation is biggest gripe with it. Unicoms that like to keep their 'gun hot' will not like it

In terms of performance, this is much more the way a cramped, bouncy, unarmoured light should be. Ie. useless. Unlike all the other fantasy lights that can fire on the move, shrug off hits to their extra wheels etc.

I am currently going up this line and i am not a unicum or unicorn or any other weird Word you are using for very good player. Back in the Old days we use to call them pro players, but thats another issue. I had good games with the Setter and the LHMTV as well. The thing is that is the worst brawler tier for tier. With Setter i was getting killed tier 5 as well. But if you team up with another Light or a medium thta can back u up for the terible reloading, you can perform surprisingly good. It has the Best Pen of all lights and thats very useful at the latest stage of the round, where all heavies that survived have low hp. I could even Pen a tier 8 frontally without Gold ammo. Even from long distance where others have to get very close risking getting killed if they bump into an obstacle. I have t unlock the manticore but with the LHMTV i cant say that it is the worst i had. Worst tank i ever had was T20. Ridiculous reload, mediocre Pen, glass armour and good speed. Thats it! How many times they one shot me with this thing i dont really remember. All in all i think it all comes down to what have been used to drive. I have never driven ebr and i dont give a sh.. It of driving them simply because the are OP and ruim the game, not Fun at all. If you are used to drive the clown car, of course you will think manticore is bad. But if you have played one shot-long reload Tanks before like i have, long reload isnt anymore frustrating. Simply i dont go mano a mano with other Tanks unless they are one shot. Instead i actively scout, harass their line, peak and snipe. I have benn in games that had equivelant spotting damage with ebrs

I can’t really get it when people say that this is a bad tank!!! It has the best combination of camo and view range in Wot! How often do you really carry a game? And who has said that carrying a game all about damage and pushing to frontlines Sometimes you can just carry a game as just a spotter

@Taugrim would you change equipmen?t ,because of new equipment ...witch would you change

But... but with camo net you can get 100% camo in a bush. It is one of the two tanks capable of doing this. Manticore and the Even 90. People underestimate the power of proxy spot bush camping.

While I agree with the points here, what I find annoying with this video and pretty much all other stuff people have put on KZfaq or in forums about how to use tanks, especially the British lights, it's always predicated on being able to carry. I only have like 400 games, I'm not carrying on the most OP tank. When I look up stuff about a tank I'm interested in I want to learn how to best use it to help the team. NOT whether it can/can't carry. I'm a shitter in a light tank... I don't want to carry....

Can you make a video about TVP T50/51? I got trouble when I'm in a ultra tier X battles!

Do GSOR please

The ammo load is a piss take. What possible rationale could there be. It’s not like it’s a mega dmg gun

since ive followed your advice position over dmg i have better games

They should raise the alpha on the manticore to 440/460

even if the 140 is at half health he'll just punch my face in LOL

This tank is op look how it outplays all the obj v4s. It should get 10 ammunition.

Well this video aged like milk.

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So you think this one is worst than the Flipwagon ? Cheers !

Jeez, this thing makes the elc even 90 sound great in comparison.

What makes this tank worse is it is constantly matched against EBRs

@taugrim Racial slur(s) in in-game chat. Don't know what YT's policy is about that.

Why you dont shoot golds?

MIGHTYCORE

Is the manticore any good? Lets see, go to tanks.gg, compare the manticore to the hawk 30. Discussion over. BTW Taugrim, I like the elc even for the memes, no camo net or binos on my WALL-E =) Edit: Taugrim you can ditch the large med kit on the manticore as well, you will never need it.

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Elc EVEN 90 review next?

Plz cent ax it is top of the tree

I think a ammo buff would be enough

i would love the tank, if it had more shells, it doesnt need anything els,e just some more fucking shells, why does it have so few? if they really want an only spotter tank why dont they remove the gun and turret altoghether then so you can only spott?

its a udes not an OOODES OMFG 3:19

Here is a review of Manticore from a well-known light tank specialist from Ru server who thinks it is one of the stronger LTs at tier 10 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gqmKhLecv8WaqWQ.html

I just wanted get this tank because it looks stupid. Also i play a game within the game of trying to outlive everyone one my team that's how i get good light tank matches. Paper-mache armor is world of tanks these days.

Caution and patience, or even n00bishness, doesn't equal cowardice... j/s... unsubed

Glad to see you back on this tank. Cheer up man, you are god