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| Panzer Elite
| Hotchkiss H39 Veterancy
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| 10% reduction to received accuracy.
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| 15% increase to accuracy & 15% reduction to cooldown.
| 48
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| 20% reduction to received damage.
| 120
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| Known Unit (Custom Name)
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| Feared Unit (Custom Skin)
| 450
|  Level 5
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The Hotchkiss H39 is an improved variant of the Hotchkiss H35, a French light tank developed prior to World War Two.
History
As the French Cavalry wanted an even better top speed, it was decided to bring to fruition experiments already conducted from October 1936 to install a stronger engine. A new prototype was made in 1937, with a 120hp instead of a 78 hp engine. The hull was enlarged to accommodate it and the track and the suspension elements were improved, raising the weight to 12.1 tons. This improved type was faster, with a top speed of 36.5 km/h (22.6 mph), but also was much easier to drive. Therefore it was first presented to the Commission d'Expérimentations de l'Infanterie on 31 January 1939 to see whether the original negative decision could be changed. The commission indeed accepted the type, the Char léger modèle 1935 H modifié 39; and it was decided on 18 February to let it succeed the original version from the 401st vehicle onwards, which was just as well as both in 1937 and 1938 an order had been made of 200 vehicles and production had already started, the total orders of the improved type thereafter being expanded to 900. The factory identifier however was Char léger Hotchkiss modèle 38 série D, its predecessor having been the série B. The designation has caused much confusion; this was still officially the same tank as the "H 35", only in a later variant. However even at the time, many began to refer to it as the 38 H or the 39 H.
The new subtype differed from the original one in having a raised and more angular engine deck (in later production vehicles with crosswise instead of longitudinal ventilation slits on the right side); a range decreased to 120 km; closed idler wheels; tracks two centimeters wider at 27 cm; metal instead of rubber wheel treads; a silencer directed to the back and more and larger ventilators.
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