Lansen C

Lansen C is a tier 8 Swedish medium tank. It has good mobility with a very accurate gun, however it has terrible DPM, penetration, and armour.

Note: Due to the similar nature of the Lansen to the M4A1 Rev and the TVP VTU, it will often be compared to those tanks.
These 3 tanks all have 105mm guns, all have decent/good mobility, and both the M4A1 Rev and Lansen have a complete lack of armour.

Armour

vs 192mm AP
Lower plate 90mm
Middle plate 210mm
Upper plate 90mm
Turret 155mm

VS all tier 7-9 tanks:
In its tier the Lansen has no armour at all. While the middle plate may bounce some tier 7 enemies, it takes up an extremely small part of the armour profile of this tank.

Nearly every shot that hits the Lansen will penetrate it, and even some HE shells can go right through the frontal armour.

Notice how even 192mm penetration (shown in images) can easily butter through the armour of this tank.
In tier 8, this level of penetration is below average. Most heavies have 215-225mm, and some mediums even have 205-225mm of penetration.

vs 192mm AP
Using -10 gun depression

Middle plate 380-400mm
Upper plate 100mm
Turret 194-200mm

When using gun depression, the Lansen may get a few bounces from low penetration tier 7 tanks, but that’s it. Don’t rely on this min battle, treat the Lansen like its armour is that of a light tank.

Tanks with any decent amount of penetration will easily go through the Lansen, even when usign full gun depression. The only cases where you might bounce are if enemies hit the tiny gun mantlet, or the small mid-plate.

Gun

Lansen C has a 105mm gun

-Alpha damage is 320 on AP, 280 on APCR, and 400 on HE
-Reload time is 9.3s, giving it 2072 DPM
-Penetration is 202mm on AP, 242mm on APCR, and 53mm on HE
-Aim time is 2.8s/3.2s
-Dispersion is 0.308/0.277
–Gun handling is 0.18/0.18/0.08, or 0.15/0.15/0.07 with Vertical Stabilizer.
-Gun depression is -10 degrees

The gun overall is a disappointment. The only good stats here are the gun depression, aim time, and dispersion; other than that the penetration is poor, gun handling is bad, DPM is horrendous, and alpha damage isn’t impressive.

-Note that this is a “low dpm medium”, with similar DPM to the Chimera, 122TM, Lorraine 40t, Defender Mk.1, or Škoda T27. However, unlike any of these tanks mentioned, Lansen has neither an autoloader, or high alpha. So this tank will be out traded by all tanks with a similar DPM to it.
It really just takes the worst of both worlds: being a single-shot tank/having lower alpha, and being a low DPM tank.

-The competing TVP VTU can use calibrated shells instead of gun rammer and have the same DPM as the Lansen. The M4A1 Rev can be fully unequipped (no gun rammer or provisions) and it would still have 120 more DPM than the Lansen, not only that, but it also has higher damage per shot.
-These 2 tanks have the most similar guns on a tier 8 medium, and it just shows how much of a DPM disadvantage the Lansen has.

Mobility

-Top speed is 55km/h forwards and 18km/h in reverse
-Acceleration is good, having 22.1hp/t on hard terrain and 20.1hp/t on medium terrain.
-Traverse speed is also not great, with 61.2deg/s on hard terrain and 55.6deg/s on medium.
-Ground resistances are a decent 1/1.1/1.9

Overall the mobility of the Lansen is quite good, with acceleration and traverse speeds similar to the Bourrasque, Škoda T 27, and Progetto 46. The issue is, this tank lacks SO MUCH in its gun and armour, that just having “good” mobility isn’t enough.

The Lansen’s mobility is decent at best, but its not impressive when you consider the other tanks with similar mobility that all have much better guns than it.

Equipment, provisions, & consumables

Lansen C has no special provisions/consumables.

Gun Rammer:
As mentioned both above and below, Lansen has atrocious DPM. It may as well be the worst in tier 8 just for the fact all the other low DPM tanks have either high alpha or an autoloader, and this has neither of those.

Do not use calibrated shells, while 202mm AP and 242mm APCR aren’t the best, both are still very usable, especially with the great accuracy of the Lansen. You cannot afford to lower your DPM even more than it already is, so use good aiming and accuracy to make up for its poor penetration.

Don’t compensate skill by increasing penetration. You need the DPM, you can aim for weakpoints.

Improved Optics:
Lansen has a very good camouflage rating, so while this tank does play the role of a support medium, its camo rating is already good enough. Instead, using improved optics will give the Lansen an amazing 302m of view range. This can allow you to easily spot enemies while you use you camo rating (and maybe a bush) to spot them from a distance. 302m is the highest view range that you can achieve on any tier 8 tank without using vents.

Improved Assembly:
Lansen has the lowest HP of all tier 8 mediums, at 1300 base. Improved assembly is completely necessary as the Lansen has no armour at all, and taking an HE (for example from any 150mm+ gun) to the front may take you down to only 300 HP. Improved assembly gives this tank a total of 1378 HP.

This tank has no armour so enhanced armour does not benefit it, use improved assembly.

Vertical Stabilizer:
Due to the poor gun handling of the Lansen C, vertical stabilizer is completely necessary. While you may argue that this is a sniper/support medium tank, it already has amazing dispersion at 100m. It really doesn’t need improving in the accuracy department, so its better to use vertical stabiliser and improve its poor gun handling.

Gameplay advice

The Lansen is a support medium tank. Its got no armour, but it does have a very accurate and quick aiming gun for sniping, with high camo rating and view range. It is perfectly suited to shooting at enemies from a distance.

That is how you should play this tank. Never be in front of your allies, sit behind them and allow them to use their better DPM, armour, and HP; then while the enemies reload you poke forward and put in a shot.

Do not just sit in a bush at the back of the map and play like a TD.
If you wanted that gameplay then why did you buy Lansen?
It would have been better to buy a TD if you wanted that gameplay (the true best advice is to just not buy the Lansen in the first place).

Lansen still needs to play the role of a medium, flanking enemies when theres an opportunity, or coordinating a push, but it just does it in a more indirect way. It has to support allies, it can’t make pushes or rush enemies without help, as its just such a fragile tank with no way of defending itself against enemies.

You must aim your shots.
Even though the Lansen has good aim time and accuracy, it still misses many shots very easily due to its poor penetration and terrible gun handling. You must always stop to aim shots if you want them to hit. If you don’t fully aim, you’re very likely to miss.

You lack armour, you lack HP, you lack penetration, you lack high alpha, you lack good DPM. If any enemy with a decent amount of HP rushes you, you’re going to have a very hard time getting out of the fight alive, as the Lansen definitely can’t hold its own.

Overall

Overall the Lansen is not a great tank. It is just completely pointless, as it was already powercrept on the moment that it got released. Both the TVP VTU and M4A1 Rev are far better and cheaper.

Lansen’s DPM is really just too low to do anything other than support/snipe. Not only that, but it has terrible penetration, and its alpha damage is not at all impressive (compared to other tanks with similar DPM), so it can’t even snipe that well. The HP and armour are completely terrible so it gets shredded by any tank it faces, and the mobility isn’t even impressive, compared to other “mobile” tier 8 mediums, the speed and agility of the Lansen are really very mediocre and don’t stand out at all. While accuracy and aim time are good, they are mitigated by atrocious gun handling and penetration.

Nothing on this tank is good enough to even come close to outweighing the bad.

Is it worth getting?

No, not at all. Lansen C is not worth getting. Look at the prices below, its been sold for high prices and its very expensive. Even if the Lansen was sold for 4,000 gold, it would still be irrelevant.

The Lansen is not inherently terrible, but its not fun, its worse than its competitors, and if you play the tank you will find it very lacking in essentially all areas, even in accuracy (which its meant to be good at).

For these reasons the Lansen is only really worth 4,000 gold. If you pay more than this, you may as well just buy the M4A1 Revalorise, a better tank in every way (usually only costs 5,500 gold); or even the TVP VTU, a completely free tech tree tank that’s also just better than the Lansen in all aspects.

Most recently sold for:

Crates release- February 2022
12,500 gold (tank only)/15,000 gold (full bundle) – May 2022
10,000 gold (tank only)/12,500 gold (full bundle) – August 2022
8,500 gold (tank & equipment) – Black Friday November 2022
8,500 gold (tank only) – January 2023
7,500 gold (tank only) – April 2023

Camo cost:

“Moose” camo- costs 1,450 gold

Historical note:

The Lansen was a real tank, however, in game there are several inaccuracies.

The real life Lansen project was a series of light tanks with a 20 ton weight requirement.
-Stridsvagn Pilen: 17 ton tank with short 75mm gun (the gun used on Strv M/42)
-Stridsvagn Lansen 1948: 19 ton tank with either a 75mm gun or a 105mm howitzer (same gun as Stridsvagn Leo)
Both of these above tanks looked nearly identical to the Stridsvagn Leo, however they had less armour, weight, and some Differing guns proposed.
-Lansen 25t: 25 ton light tank mounting the L/50 lvkan M/42 AA gun (the same gun in the game, assuming that the name and gun were modified for AT use)

While the Lansen is visually accurate, its named incorrectly, and is also “converted” into being a medium tank. Wargaming really missed the mark as they could have made this into an extremely unique and fun tier 8 premium light tank, instead of the very boring medium tank that it is now.

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