In case you missed it, .50 cal SLAP rounds were actually added to the game last update for the AH-6M's GAU-19s. For as far as I know it's the only vehicle that has them though, but just imagine every US .50 cal in game having SLAP rounds lmao
just bringing back pre-nerf black tip AP would change dynamics a lot. That thing would cut up most T1 tanks frontally at close range, if you knew where to aim.
I will NEVER forgive Gaijin for the 10th Anniversary vehicle giveaway. I got literally every single vehicle I didn't want, and none of the vehicles I wanted. Chief among them, the M8 Greyhound in the US tree. I can go play the one in China, of course, and it's still a blast. I just think it's criminal that such an iconic American vehicle is limited to a highly limited (or expensive) event premium.
It was pretty much the only vehicle I wanted to get from the anniversary, and I got it. I REFUSE to play China. I also got the XF5F and the I-29 and a couple of stupid boats I will never play because naval is garbage. it was nice that the Snail did that but I still want the Boarhound.
Most of the iconic vehicles the player base keeps calling for get made into premiums. Recently they are made into battle pass vehicles for rank 1000 with them knowing full well that anyone with a life would need to purchase the vehicle to have it.
About that T28's red guy, I think what happened is that because you kept machine-gunning him, the "kill cam" never went away, and never updated the position of that guy after he moved to replace some other crew member
@@tedparkinson2033 If it wasn't for the broken ass overpressure/hulljank from scope hits it would have been less bad. That and the fact it can't turn hard straight out of the tube making it impossible to shoot in front of you. It was called Swingfire for a reason. Worse spade has to be the doing all the Dusters before the BR drop, which they still wither to everything, but take less research and don't bankrupt you the same.
@@lector-dogmatixsicarii1537 I'd say what makes the Swingfire such a pain is the missiles aren't done right. Those Swingfire missiles were apparently able to do 90° turns almost immediately after launch. Instead they just kinda fly over whatever you aim at.
1:52 theres a glitch with the hit cam where if you continuously fire and not allow the hit cam to dissappear, the crew positions dont update. The reason why that guy ate so many rounds is because he was no longer in that position. He was probably moved to the main guns seat.
That whole tree is literally a collection of all the best US, German, and Russian vehicles at every BR to try and pander to the Chinese F2P gaming market.
@@XSpamDragonX Yup They even gave the chinese T34 85 a God damn DHSK on top It's almost the best tree Also I hate that every nation gets the same tanks and aircraft. Simulator battles are getting unplayable. Ah yes I wonder which BF109 is the enemy. Or if that bushmonster is actually our teams or an enemy. A panther? German French or soviet? A t34. Wonder if it's German soviet or Swedish
@@commisaryarreck3974 i can agree on the SimB getting redundant. Might as well go Sherman & T-34 vs Sherman & T-34 and whoever brings the T-34-100 and the Super Sherman gets banned.
I love how in WT you're biggest source of pain is: 1. Server lag/packet loss 2. Stupid hit registration/damage model 3. Dumb teammates stealing kills and not saving you when you actually need them
It's also been suggested it was a StuG, as that's what the German unit engaged in the area was equipped with. It's important to remember that "Tiger" might as well have been synonymous with "armoured fighting vehicle" to the American GI.
Hey Spook, you should play the Semovente 75/46 M43. It's a deeply overshadowed italiano tank destroyer which can deliver an heavy punch but it's deeply ignored the potential it has. (Day 33)
playing 1.3 china was so fun for me. The greyhound is still one of my favorites along with the low tier heat slingers like the chi ha and m8 scott. Just pure fun lineup. With the greyhound and scott also being my aa
@Slav King that's the thing, the French tree has no versatility at most BRs. And it's really nothing special except for the later vehicles and the auto-loaders that come with some of them. We don't even have a Bluewater Navy that isn't locked behind a pay wall. So yeah we can't have nice things without grinding through half of the tech trees.
9:04 this is why I say the Warthog's gun should be upgraded to a 37mm rotary cannon. The US actually made a 37mm rotary cannon as an AA gun after the second World War.
This video has some of the funniest editing so far, loved it. The Iraq and the "spook says the whitest stuff" jokes made me laugh out loud and that's rare
Think about it, m2a2 or T60 (yeah shvak is just a .50 equivalent and the first version of it in fact was 12.7mm) rely on a single .50 as main gun at br 1.0. So literally your M8 is two different flavor 1.0 tanks glued together.
Personally i found it quite fun to play when i started to grind China. And yes, the .50 on that thing is quite the doombringer. Also, why do we have a normal m8 for China but a premium/event one for America? Gaijin really works in mysterious ways.
I love doing this but with the Daimler AC, mostly because it’s open-topped and has great gun-depression in a remarkably small turret. It’s also fast, manoeuvrable, stabilizer and has practically the same gun in the form of the 2-pdr as the American 37mm.
I've killed a KT (P) with a Locust once, back before volumetric. I'm not sure if the 37 MM can do much to a KT (H). I've tried it in test drive, but it seems the only place you can pen is in between the turret and chassis (shot trap) from the sides or back, but the turret ring takes most of the damage; it has to be very close range too.
I know you don't like to play br above 7.7 but can you do a video about the BMD-4? It's a light tank that got overshadowed by a lot of vehicles in the br but it's quick AGM reload makes it really interesting
A couple of times I've killed Tiger 2H's in the M8. You have to aim at the rear turret ring "back of the neck". The Tiger 2P does not have this weakspot
Why so many people looked oblivious when playing this game is because of the sound update it is honestly one of the worst things that has ever happened to War Thunder are used to be able to pinpoint people across the map with only my ears but since the sound update you have to physically see a Target to hear it stop me from playing for a long time because of that
I feel like the “tiger” that was killed by the greyhound was prolly just a pz4. As far as I know us forces faced little to no actual tigers but labeled a lot of tanks as tigers when they weren’t. Like pz4s (also king tigers were almost exclusively used on the eastern front)
An actual M8 greyhound went up against a Tiger or King Tiger (not well documented) and took it out by shooting it through the engine, the encounter was “Tiger vs Greyhound at St. Vith” there is an article about it on Tank Encyclopedia
i got this thing in the original event along with the i-29, and all you had to do to get the m8 was: "5 wins, 60% battle activity, rank 3+". for those who care the event was for war thunder's 5th anniversary.
clearly this is the vehicle that won the war
@Anonymous_User put apds on it an bring it to 9.0
I would've said the T34 is the Tigers worst nightmare, but this. this is truly a eldritch horror
chaffee:
*Bob Semple Tank wants to know your location*
The 37 is all you need
One of the most common armoured cars - US event vehicle
One off Panther prototype - main German tech tree
the most common float plane in the french navy, the best torpedo bomber is event
Most produced armored car in French army = event , worst and least produced variant of it = tech tree
At least you can have it as a techtree vehicle on the chinese tree
Its funny how its on the Chinese main tech tree but not the US one lolol
@@jPlanerv2 exacly! I hope the late 298 is the scout plane on board of cruisers coming next update
In case you missed it, .50 cal SLAP rounds were actually added to the game last update for the AH-6M's GAU-19s. For as far as I know it's the only vehicle that has them though, but just imagine every US .50 cal in game having SLAP rounds lmao
50 cal SLAP rounds can open through 2 inches(57mm) of titanium, there is a video about it.
Now imagine M16 with that.
Hoping they add them to abramses at least
just bringing back pre-nerf black tip AP would change dynamics a lot. That thing would cut up most T1 tanks frontally at close range, if you knew where to aim.
I would take my M13 then, it’s my fav vehicle 😅.
That's a round I haven't heard of a in while.
We used to carry SLAP-T rounds on our M1a1s in Afghanistan. Can confirm, nasty fucking round.
I will NEVER forgive Gaijin for the 10th Anniversary vehicle giveaway. I got literally every single vehicle I didn't want, and none of the vehicles I wanted. Chief among them, the M8 Greyhound in the US tree.
I can go play the one in China, of course, and it's still a blast. I just think it's criminal that such an iconic American vehicle is limited to a highly limited (or expensive) event premium.
They did the same thing with the 75mm puma.
In the china tech tree the round of th .50 does nothing
@@GeraltofRivia22 Even the Sd.Kfz.251/22, the "PaK-track," got thrown into a battle pass instead of the tech tree.
It was pretty much the only vehicle I wanted to get from the anniversary, and I got it. I REFUSE to play China. I also got the XF5F and the I-29 and a couple of stupid boats I will never play because naval is garbage. it was nice that the Snail did that but I still want the Boarhound.
Most of the iconic vehicles the player base keeps calling for get made into premiums. Recently they are made into battle pass vehicles for rank 1000 with them knowing full well that anyone with a life would need to purchase the vehicle to have it.
About that T28's red guy, I think what happened is that because you kept machine-gunning him, the "kill cam" never went away, and never updated the position of that guy after he moved to replace some other crew member
Sir , that was a T-35
@@konigs_ they literally look the same
@@bread5049 no
@@bread5049
From the front? *YES*
From the side? *NO*
@@gwonk8722 anyway T-28 is just budget T-35
What’s a true nightmare for every vehicle in the game is the swing fire with it for sure being sooo good…..
The hardest spading I've ever done.
@@tedparkinson2033 If it wasn't for the broken ass overpressure/hulljank from scope hits it would have been less bad. That and the fact it can't turn hard straight out of the tube making it impossible to shoot in front of you. It was called Swingfire for a reason.
Worse spade has to be the doing all the Dusters before the BR drop, which they still wither to everything, but take less research and don't bankrupt you the same.
@@lector-dogmatixsicarii1537 I'd say what makes the Swingfire such a pain is the missiles aren't done right. Those Swingfire missiles were apparently able to do 90° turns almost immediately after launch. Instead they just kinda fly over whatever you aim at.
1:52 theres a glitch with the hit cam where if you continuously fire and not allow the hit cam to dissappear, the crew positions dont update.
The reason why that guy ate so many rounds is because he was no longer in that position.
He was probably moved to the main guns seat.
or stalin himself ordered him not to die, theres that too
Thank you, spookie. I love the Greyhound so much, but unfortunately, I only got the Chinese version because Gaijin is weird
Always great when Spookston uploads and thank God it's regularly
After a 23 kill, 16 assist game in the M8, I decided to avoid it since I felt like I was kicking puppies (It works great even up to 3.7)
The thing that kills me the most is the fact that the only place to get it outside of an event is in the Chinese tech tree
That whole tree is literally a collection of all the best US, German, and Russian vehicles at every BR to try and pander to the Chinese F2P gaming market.
@@XSpamDragonX
Yup
They even gave the chinese T34 85 a God damn DHSK on top
It's almost the best tree
Also I hate that every nation gets the same tanks and aircraft. Simulator battles are getting unplayable. Ah yes I wonder which BF109 is the enemy. Or if that bushmonster is actually our teams or an enemy. A panther? German French or soviet?
A t34. Wonder if it's German soviet or Swedish
Chinachads winning again, no one can stop us, xi xinping will insure that sim is unplayable forever
@@commisaryarreck3974 i can agree on the SimB getting redundant. Might as well go Sherman & T-34 vs Sherman & T-34 and whoever brings the T-34-100 and the Super Sherman gets banned.
I honestly only play Sim to have fun in Bombers. the A-1H and A2D are insane at taking out enemy bases if the AA doesnt nuke you from 3 miles away.
Definitely one of my favorite vehicles. The .50 is a blessing
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I feel sad every time I play a tank with no roof mounted machine gun.
I just wish there was some way to Scout in tier 1 light vehicles so I could bring it up into some higher BR's.
@@whatdothlife4660 It's literally a recon vehicle and gaijin doesn't give it scouting smh.
@@blockstacker5614 I've suggested that tier 1 light vehicles have a Modification that you can apply to bump their BR up to 2.7 but give them Scouting.
The .50 is the exact reason I love the M8 Scott so much. The heat round is great too, the amount of KVs and Tigers I've trolled in it is astronomical.
He’s playing the other m8 (greyhound not Scott) but they both have .50s
Laughed so hard at the audible frustration of the 'Theres a Tiger next to you!' and cut to the next battle since you knew it went terrible
Entire sequence from 10:51 was absolutely hillarious. Definetly my favorite kind of gameplay video, keep it up
I know you’d love the Italian 90/53, such a tank destroyer meme. PLEASE, it’s my favorite tank.
I didn't know you were here long ago
The T-35 at the start is so menacing the way all its turrets swiveled to face it's attacker.
As menacing as it was, that T-35 player is the “slowest” I’ve ever seen (why can’t the ones I encounter be like that).
@@peterni2234 When I fight them usually they bullet sponge even the nastiest stuff I throw at them and proceed to pwn me with the 45mm.
I love how in WT you're biggest source of pain is:
1. Server lag/packet loss
2. Stupid hit registration/damage model
3. Dumb teammates stealing kills and not saving you when you actually need them
1:52 You shot him in the groin and he's got BALLS OF STEEL.
7:31 its also theorizes that it likely could have been a panzer 4 with extra armor as well
It's also been suggested it was a StuG, as that's what the German unit engaged in the area was equipped with.
It's important to remember that "Tiger" might as well have been synonymous with "armoured fighting vehicle" to the American GI.
@@kirotheavenger60 stop repeating neo-nazi cope; after-action reports from the war disprove your myth
@@kirotheavenger60 Let's be a bit fair though, that's hardly unique to the American GI.
11:25 that jagpanther fight was straight up some Girls und panzer shit, the guy must have been screaming fighting the allmighty greyhound
Hey Spook, you should play the Semovente 75/46 M43. It's a deeply overshadowed italiano tank destroyer which can deliver an heavy punch but it's deeply ignored the potential it has.
(Day 33)
As a person who played a lot against italy i can confirm it can pack a punch
nuh uh
playing 1.3 china was so fun for me. The greyhound is still one of my favorites along with the low tier heat slingers like the chi ha and m8 scott. Just pure fun lineup. With the greyhound and scott also being my aa
Spookston: if i kill any of these, I'll be happy
Also Spookston: *kills 2 of them in 1 life*
You have bested that jagdpanther untill the Is-2 came in lol
So it was you, I saw a m8 in a IS-2 the other day and thought it was weird
As a France main not having anything nice is indeed painful. Great vid as always.
Preach:(
I don't see why you're sad about not having anything nice being painful.
Don't you want bread?
@diggy's games it's more than having something nice, france is plagued with issues our snail god doesn't want to fix
AMX is perhaps one of the best of it's kind. Char 25t is also a beast. France does have some solid vehicles, just not really good lineups around them
@Slav King that's the thing, the French tree has no versatility at most BRs. And it's really nothing special except for the later vehicles and the auto-loaders that come with some of them. We don't even have a Bluewater Navy that isn't locked behind a pay wall. So yeah we can't have nice things without grinding through half of the tech trees.
My only complaint with the M8 is the fact that it's a reconnaisance vehicle, but it doesn't have spotting on it.
-One of the most widespread vehicles of the whole war
Gaijin: "event vehicle, take it or leave it."
I mean there's a Chinese one, that's something, I guess
12:09 this is the most emotion Spookston has every put into anything he has said ever
Average Russian man shrugging off a few shells to the chest 1:55
I refuse to believe any of the other players in the Tunisia city sequence were actual people
I got this during the rare vehicles event last year. Absolute joy at low tier though I feel a bit guilty cutting through new players with it
4:46 "I would just avoid that area of the map."
Proceeds to show the whole map.
Most patriotic and cursed Armored meme truck that the us ever made
btw if you want to try and have fun in this armored car, it's available to the chinese tech tree for some reason
6:18 bro is a true American 🇺🇸
9:04 this is why I say the Warthog's gun should be upgraded to a 37mm rotary cannon. The US actually made a 37mm rotary cannon as an AA gun after the second World War.
Video 30 of asking spookston to play the 7.7 amx 50s
This video has some of the funniest editing so far, loved it. The Iraq and the "spook says the whitest stuff" jokes made me laugh out loud and that's rare
2:00 protected by stalin
Enjoyed the video, but the best thing is the C&C Generals music in the background. So many memories :)
He he he ha new Spookston video lets freaking go!
Love the Editing, the gameplay and the Commentary
Think about it, m2a2 or T60 (yeah shvak is just a .50 equivalent and the first version of it in fact was 12.7mm) rely on a single .50 as main gun at br 1.0. So literally your M8 is two different flavor 1.0 tanks glued together.
this video was epic i cant belive you did so well in the 6.3 game!
Me enjoying the video....*Also me getting depressed playing 10.0 to grind for the event*
yo just wanted to tell you that I love the new "thanks to patreon producers" outro. it's way nicer now instead of just the black and names.
2:05 he might not have been there anymore, swapped to the main gunner position.
Not only does it have a 50 cal, it's on a 360 degree mounting making this an effective SPAA at low Br as well.
As a germany main and a die hard tiger h1 fan this offends me
SLAP like the round that nearly killed Kentucky ballistics
Personally i found it quite fun to play when i started to grind China. And yes, the .50 on that thing is quite the doombringer.
Also, why do we have a normal m8 for China but a premium/event one for America? Gaijin really works in mysterious ways.
I love doing this but with the Daimler AC, mostly because it’s open-topped and has great gun-depression in a remarkably small turret.
It’s also fast, manoeuvrable, stabilizer and has practically the same gun in the form of the 2-pdr as the American 37mm.
Love the vids,
Could you play with the SPJ FM43/44
(Swedish meatball launcher)
Love your content Spookston
thanks man
I've killed a KT (P) with a Locust once, back before volumetric. I'm not sure if the 37 MM can do much to a KT (H). I've tried it in test drive, but it seems the only place you can pen is in between the turret and chassis (shot trap) from the sides or back, but the turret ring takes most of the damage; it has to be very close range too.
Yeah, Locust can take out KT (H) but only through the turret ring.
I think there's a Thundershow episode that shows a locust massacre bunch of KT
Historical accuracy, they were so good at d-day that the Germans kicked them out of the server.
I know you don't like to play br above 7.7 but can you do a video about the BMD-4? It's a light tank that got overshadowed by a lot of vehicles in the br but it's quick AGM reload makes it really interesting
spookston trying not to forget about china challenge
I would love to see you try the marder 1a3, it can be really sneaky and sometimes op with thermals at 7.7
3:11 Yes, the Tetrarch does have a stabilizer, the player was just slow.
7:54 Spookston you called?
My man straight up dueled the Jadgpanther, mano-a-mano, with a Greyhound like what. That is really cool.
You should play the XM8 American Premium tank, I feel like it would make a good video!
Isnt that also a gun 🤨
5:22
Me who remembers the Kentucky Ballistics incident where a SLAP round nearly killed him by turning his gun into a pipe bomb.
Day 25 of asking for DF105 action
in the chinses reserve greyhound, I front penned a tiger 2 somehow
A couple of times I've killed Tiger 2H's in the M8. You have to aim at the rear turret ring "back of the neck". The Tiger 2P does not have this weakspot
11:00
"time to harass this man"
-Spookston, 2023
Why so many people looked oblivious when playing this game is because of the sound update it is honestly one of the worst things that has ever happened to War Thunder are used to be able to pinpoint people across the map with only my ears but since the sound update you have to physically see a Target to hear it stop me from playing for a long time because of that
7:48 As an American main, I can confirm that tiger players are either legally blind or have aimbot and impenetrable armor
Low tier = use any vehicle with a 50 cal
I feel like the “tiger” that was killed by the greyhound was prolly just a pz4. As far as I know us forces faced little to no actual tigers but labeled a lot of tanks as tigers when they weren’t. Like pz4s (also king tigers were almost exclusively used on the eastern front)
awesome video, the american M8 is very unhinged, atleast you get good teams based on my own experience
I do think this is for sure my favourite war thunder video ever. I laughed way too much
An actual M8 greyhound went up against a Tiger or King Tiger (not well documented) and took it out by shooting it through the engine, the encounter was “Tiger vs Greyhound at St. Vith” there is an article about it on Tank Encyclopedia
I've had the same experience with the Crusader III at 5.7-6.3 WHICH IM STILL WAITING ON A VIDEO OF... :L Much love Spooky
i got this thing in the original event along with the i-29, and all you had to do to get the m8 was: "5 wins, 60% battle activity, rank 3+". for those who care the event was for war thunder's 5th anniversary.
Hi Spookston, hope your day's going well, I gotta work late but it's all cool cause your vid just dropped and now I'm gonna be watching that
please do not call kampffahrzeug "kfc" ever again
I like the new credit scene of the patrons at the end👍👍👍
not even 5 seconds in and I hear uncle joey's beautiful voice, well done
I was lucky and ended up getting the M8 during the Sturmtiger event. Great video!
"Stupid dumpster you're making me look bad" taken out of context. 12:26
"I'm not the brightest individual." Immidiate collision with a rock.
At least there is self awareness
9:22 Damn That was pretty intense
Im a transplant fron Oddbawz channel. Nice vid, I'm currently going through your backlog.
Spookston you should play the CV90105, it’s a menace to the poor souls who play 10.0
Clearly it needs to go up to 7.3
7:05 gets 6 kills and wins the match = loss
I love how if I'm in a good match and I get bad network conection and get kicked I get so mad, and he just goes "that is so unfortunate "
Aw hell naw, someone gave the M8 Greyhound the CROWS for shooting over cover
"NO IS2 THERES A TIGER RIGHT NEXT TO YOU!!"
that had so much emotion
Something you never want to hear in a match, “THERE’s A TIGER RIGHT NEXT TO YOU!”
its so creepy when you shoot any kind of tiger or a panther from the side, then they slowly turn their turrent towards you
Spookston it's the 7th week in a row you've shown Tiger Tank's worst nightmare in class
tetrarch vid when. despite having the 2 pounder and paper thin armor it is the best gremlin tank. ive gone on 9 kill streaks with it at 5.0
It's 4am and the Spookston is very tired. He is eepy. The Spookston has had a very long day of splashing bandits.
1:52
T-26 In bright white camouflage casually chilling in the background