Type 62

Type 62 is a Chinese tier 7 premium light tank. It features a great gun with very high DPM, great penetration, and good accuracy, the tank also sports great mobility, but has weak armour.

1. Armour
2. Gun
3. Mobility
4. Equipment, provisions, & consumables
5. Gameplay advice
6. Overall
7. Is it worth getting?
8. Most recently sold for:
9. Camo cost:

Armour

(The Type 62 in the images is using Improved Assembly)

vs 53mm HE
When flat and facing head-on:
Upper plate 57-62mm
Lower plate 51-54mm
Turret 48-120mm

VS tier all 6-8 tanks:
The Type 62 has no armour at all against standard ammo. Its frontal armour can stand up to most HE rounds due to good angling, but its side armour is only 20mm and can be easily penetrated by any tank’s HE.

Gun

Type 62 mounts an 85mm gun

-Alpha damage is 200 on AP, 170 on HEAT, and 300 on HE
-It has a 4.8s reload, giving it 2500 DPM
-Penetration on AP is 155mm, HEAT is 250mm, and HE is 43mm.
-Aim time is 3.2/3.5s
-Dispersion is 0.326/0.293
–Gun handling is 0.11/0.11/0.05, or 0.09/0.09/0.04 with Vertical Stabilizer.
-Gun depression is -7 degrees

This is a great gun for any tier 7 tank, let alone a light tank. It has great DPM, good accuracy, and very good penetration. The alpha damage is a comfortable 200, which allows the tank to both have good DPM/reload, and have respectable damage per shot (unlike something with 160 alpha).
Other than this its gun handling is very good, aim time is decent, and a very good -7 gun depression.

Mobility

-Top speed is 60km/h forwards, and -23km/h in reverse
-Traverse speed is 78.6 deg/s on hard terrain, and 67.6 deg/s on medium terrain.
-In game acceleration rate is shown as 24.9 hp/t, it has a fairly strong 523 horsepower engine for its 21 ton weight.
-Actual acceleration rate is 41.5 hp/t on hard terrain, and 35.6 hp/t on medium terrain.
–Terrain resistances are not the best, having 0/6/0.7/0.9

The Type 62’s in-game stats don’t make it look fast, however the tank is very nimble due to its high effective acceleration and traverse speed. The top speed is decent, and the tank is able to reach and maintain that 60km very easily.

Equipment, provisions, & consumables

The Type 62 does not have any special provisions or consumables.

Gun Rammer:
Due to having extremely high base HEAT penetration of 250mm, there is no need whatsoever to use calibrated shells. You will not struggle to penetrate any enemy in the Type 62 as it has just such high premium penetration.

Use gun rammer instead, it gives the tank a 4.8s reload with 200 alpha, giving it 2500 DPM.

Improved Assembly:
As the Type 62 is a light tank, there is no armour on it worth enhancing, so use improved assembly.

Improved assembly increases the HP of this tank from 1150 up to 1219, which makes it the highest HP tier 7 light tank.

Vertical Stabilizer:
The Type 62 has good dispersion already (0.326), and its a quick and very active vehicle in battle, so it doesn’t benefit as much from refined gun.

Its better to use vertical stabilizer, which improves the accuracy of the tank while it is moving and after it has moved, its much more beneficial tot he Type 62 as its gameplay is very active and never stationary.

Gameplay advice

The Type 62 is a very active light tank. It plays just like the tier 10 WZ-132-1, but down in tier 7, and with better gun depression but worse armour.

Play it actively as a damage dealer. Though it is a light tank, it plays a lot like a support medium, as it has light armour, decent HP, good mobility, and a very good gun.
You should always be looking for opportunities to flank around enemies, support allies who are alone, or isolate enemy tanks. The Type 62 is just the perfect tank to surprise enemies from angles where they don’t expect, and the gun of the Type 62 really allows to quite confidently take on most enemies it singles out.

Of course as the armour is weak you should still try to avoid getting shot, as the more HP you save at the beginning of the battle, the higher chance you have to win it later. At the end of the battle the type 62 is one of the most powerful tanks in tier 7 as it just has the speed, gun, and camo to be able to carry out wins, given that it also has some HP left to do so.

Overall

Overall the Type 62 is an amazing tier 7 tank, and by far the best premium light tank in the tier. Though its armour is weak, its still generally well angled, which allows it to withstand most HE shells from the front. The gun is amazing in every regard, the penetration is high, alpha damage is comfortable, reload is fast, accuracy is good, and the gun depression is also very good. The mobility is very high, even though its top speed is capped at 60km/h, its high acceleration and traverse mean its able to reach and keep that speed very effectively.

Is it worth getting?

The Type 62 is definitely worth getting. Its not sold that often but its usually quite cheap when it is sold. The tank offers fun gameplay and is also statistically strong. If you really like the T-100 LT tech tree line or the WZ-132-1 tech tree line and just want a premium version of those tanks, the Type 62 is exactly that, but even stronger for its respective tier.

The Type 62 is worth 7,000 gold. Its a very good tank with very strong statistics, and its quite fun to play, Light tanks are not the most new player friendly tank class, but out of all of the tier 7 lights this is by far the most forgiving one to play thanks to its higher HP and good all-round statistics.

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