The Chi-Se is a Tier VIII Japanese heavy tank, a natural successor to the Tier V–VII Japanese medium tanks. It excels as a jack-of-all-trades, offering good mobility for a heavy tank (38 km/h forward, 14 km/h reverse) and decent frontal armor. Its gun is highly versatile, combining good DPM and reliable penetration (220 mm with standard AP shells).
However, the key feature of this tank is its excellent gun depression and elevation angles (–13°/+20°), allowing it to dominate in a wide range of positions across any map. That’s why the Chi-Se is well-suited for medium- and long-distance combat, where its superior gun depression enables it to fire safely while keeping most of its hull concealed.
Gameplay and Tactics
Its good mobility allows for flexible repositioning, making it adaptable to various battlefield situations. You should focus on controlling terrain, using hull-down positions, and keeping the vehicle’s gun active for aggressive damage- dealing.
Why isn’t this thing in my garage yet?
300 Alpha Dmg, in 2025, KEKW, dam I Wonder why no one plays the Type 63
A Heavy with 300 Alpha? I had to smile inwardly. With the Alpha Dogs on Tier 8, you’re chasing damage again with this thing. Let him be fast, but eventually some damage monster will snipe the damage from under your nose. The alpha damage meta is so fucked up that no one is going to play those pew-pew kid guns anymore. I’m not talking about the Unikums, I’m talking about the average player. Under 360 Alpha, no tank needs to be brought out in WoT on Tier 8 anymore…
Just because you do average in OP tanks some players like a challenge to try and do well in average tanks….
I don’t know why everyone is crying about low-alpha tanks. Not just TDs and HTs, but also MTs. People who support only high alpha tanks are the real problem – WG push higher and higher alpha just because of them. I understand, they are lucrative, but are not the bread and butter of the game.
For example – T110E5 and Type 71 are very very strong now, after most hull-down beasts were nerfed. Strv 103B is ultra potent as a sniper TD. And you can say these are Xs – in tier 8 we have T32, Tiger 2, Progetto 46, Iron Arnie, ShPTK-TVP, which are all examples of very solid tanks.
About this new Chi-Se: it has very nice DPM, insane gun depression without the need of a hydropneumathic suspension, the turret will be strong when hull down and it’s nimble for a HT. So it has its selling points and will be attractive for quite some people. 300 alpha is not that much of a problem.
This T8 has 20 less alpha then the Ju-To at T7 with a similar gun, heck the Ju-To has accuracy, aimtime is the same