IMPORTANT: My main channel is now @TheRatmothy I hope everyone had a great 4th of July and didn’t blow anything you shouldn’t have up (or yourselves 😟🫵). Thank ya for watching!
Love how you went into depth of about the tank you were using, and what your plan for the game was. The attention to detail is amazing you earned a sub
Had so much fun watching that awesome round pal. 40+ minutes passed like 5 or something. Dude your good spirit is i swear to god so contagious. You and your Rat bro rocks. Firmhandhakes you both you fine gentlemen. 🎉
If you shoot ap rounds, they penetrate buildings if you don’t have an angle through a window. Thanks for the entertaining video and I hope you keep on playing squad44!
yess I had been hoping to find a WT convert trying this game as this will mirror my experience when I make the jump too - thanks for all the captions! great video
Cool vid, loved the mid match commentary. Pro tip for wider a fov as a gunner you can switch to your periscopes by scrolling mouse wheel. For Axis tanks they are usually fixed, but in allied tanks you can usually swivel them by holding ctrl and moving your mouse.
@@graustreifbrombeerkralle1078 yea i had it happen a week ago which is why i know even if chances are very low to get a direct engine hit it still isnt cool to lose your track inside a fought over objective getting out and repairing is a death sentence so you turn into a pillbox
Hold shift and scroll mouse button to increase or decrease the traversal speed of your tank turret, for more accurate shooting. Always great to see content for this game. Come check out the realism mod, it's been worked on for years and is incredible. Keep up the good work.
I've put in something like thirty hours into tanks in this game, not as much as many but more than you, and so I'd love to give you some advice. First, clock codes: look in the bottom left of your screen and you see what looks like a clock with your tank barrel as the hour mark. When someone says traverse turret to 3, for example, you would turn until the turret is 90° to the right of the front of the tank. Second, your tank doesn't actually shoot directly at the center of your crosshair, it shoots a bit to the right or left depending on your tank. I'm the panther the gun is to the right of the sight, so it shoots to the right. Third, sensitivity. When you lower your sensitivity to half or lower your turret is being moved manually. This doesn't change how it functions at all in the game, but in real life the gunner would be using a slower, more precise set of controls. Keep the gun in manual when you want to be precise. Overall fantastic first time, way better than most people.
Panthers were also known for fuel leaks in the engine, turning the engine from an internal combustion engine to an external combustion engine. Although reliability was an issue for most tanks, it was very noticeable on german ww2 tanks, ww1 tanks, and heavy tanks.
I think you can adjust your sights in the gunner view too, so if you kinda know the distance you can adjust the sight to get it on point to fire instead of guessing which is soo cool
Yeah the panther was definitely the best german tank of the war To my knowledge( correct me if i am wrong)it was not plagued with the same reliability and mobility problems as the tiger 1 and 2
I plan on eventually making a discord so people know when I'm on! Although the milsim community and those for Squad and Squad 44 are pretty tight knit it seems so ya might see me on :D
@@Cool_guy-i1u ahaha actually I’ll put that on my list of games I’ll get to make videos on. War Thunder is a mix of anguish and fun, but don’t worry I lose my mind when I play war thunder and get blown up six games in a row 😭
The Panther, while feared, kind of. Was feared mostly due to a placebo effect due to the big gun and sloped armour and the perceived threat it could pose, "had it worked". It was rarely used it had constant problems with its powerpack there weren't that many of them and the Germans never got the chance to iron out the issues. Yes the armour was good much better than the PZ IV and so was the gun. But it was incredibly unreliable. It was "feared" maybe only at first until the allies realised how unreliable and how few of them there were. The vast majority of the allies would have never seen one during the war. It's a very cool tank don't get me wrong but lets not lie to the viewers 😂
@@damongale45 it wasn’t that serious I swear 😭, tbh I didn’t even know if I should have included the first section, because from my war thunder experience I KNEW someone would disagree with me lol as when it comes to the subject of WWII tanks there seems to be really strong opinions. As for the panther being fearsome, I definitely don’t think I “lied”, whether or not the Panther in hindsight was a good tank. I sure would be terrified if I faced one in the battlefield. But anyways thanks for stopping by and watching the video ❤️
By the end of the war the main problems of the panther actually had been ironed out (besides the final drives), which is why there were many battles with panthers post-dday. The panther was very effective at taking out Sherman’s, but were easily killed from the side even by the 75mm and at angles, which is why they didn’t cause too much problems for the allies. Still a very effective vehicle (after reliability increased)
i think the main issue with games where players act as crew instead of one player controlling the tank is communication, I would suggest just saying what you want once instead of repeating it multiple times cuz it is simpler and it does not confuse ur mate, makes things more efficient, good energy and gameplay tho
True! Albeit the driver was my twin brother lol, so we get each other's communication skills (which also includes panicking). Thank you for the support and kind words!
I leave the tank open for others usually (like in my latest video), but I remember I locked it in this game because people kept joining and leaving the squad after they couldn't be the driver or gunner
🤓 actually when you angle the tigers armour (which you should always do even in panther) it has about 140-180mm of armour from 40-60 degrees. This also makes rounds very prone to deflection
Have some mercy upon me this tank video for Squad 44 was literally the first time I played a tank in the game (I don't have the war thunder aiming system) 😖
I gotta say it. The panther was not THAT good of a tank. The final drive would catastrophically fail after 150km of wear. Traverse was bad and could not be traversed when at a 20 degree slope. and was just generally unreliable. Not to mention a gas guzzler. It's engine also had a life span of 1000km. The Germans essentially made it a "strategic tank". Using railcars for distances as little as 25km. It was thought it could neutral steer but the French found to never actually use this ability as it can immobilize the entire tank. It had a serious problem with engine fires as well. German commanders had stated the fuel lines were "porous" and would leak fumes. It was also designed air tight, which means oil and gas that leaks anywhere at all will stay in the engine bay, and you guessed it engine fires! The French also found a smoke grenade tossed onto the rear deck or vent openings would catch the engine on fire too. The panther wasn't a bad tank. It was fantastic at long range engagements (1400-2000 meters). But up-close suffered from poor maneuverability, overweight, and underpowered. It was feared on the battlefield, and often found abandoned off of it.
Also I have to note that only elite troops out of whole german army armored crews were able to adjust their tactical movement with the infantry irl and in squad 44&hell let loose. Your crews seems elite came thru 4 years of war till in arnhem 1944.
The panther was a classic German big cat. That is to say a horribly unreliable, massively over-engineered, logistically nightmarish, highly overrated piece of junk. The only thing it was good at was killing other tanks; literally every other metric relevant to a tank’s success was a profound failure. It wasn’t maneuverable to put it mildly, the parts might as well have been bespoke, the tank had, in 1945, when you needed every gun in the fight, less than 50 percent uptime. The Sherman wasn’t a better tank because they made more, it was a better tank. Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics.
You are so excitable ! Work with a German crew and they'll tell you to shut up and just follow orders. Secondly, the tank has 4 positions and you should not leave the spawn with any less than 4. With just one person driving and one on the main gun, who is spotting and marking targets? No-one. Who can get out and repair? Still, it was entertaining.
@@louisavondart9178 thanks for watching! And our tank was open for everybody in the beginning but people joined, got bored bc they wanted to be the gunner or driver, and left. Also I cannot deny the allegations that I am excitable, but at the end of the day, I’m just here to blow stuff up and have fun ya know? Thankfully, it’s a video game at the end of the day and if my panther was blown to pieces I can still walk away and get a sparkling water and chipotle burrito bowl. Also keep in mind I crewed this tank with my twin brother, we have already have a dynamic that goes back to when we were in the womb. I would be talking differently if it was a crew full of strangers.
spotter is nice to have but often not needed if you play the tiger as it should be, which is stay far far away and use its armor and big ass gun to its maximum effect nothing can hurt you really i bet my buddy and i in a tank will destroy your full one 9 out of 10 times all we do is play tanks
@ShimeiLi well it is really fun if you have a full crew where everyone understands his role the teamplay in a tank is what makes it worth while in this game
@@Ratmothy .. I hear you. I was in a group that played German tanks exclusively and we all understood our roles perfectly. As a result, we annihilated the enemy armour in practically every match. I was the driver and didn't get a kill. Ever. Well, ok, one or two when running from the spawn with my pistol. Yes, we did get bombed occasionally. People get bored too easily these days and you end up without a hull gunner when you really need one. C'est la vie.
Who’s considering the panther the best tank of the war? On paper? Because history is all about stat based top trumps and not the fact you can’t field the thing? Started to really go off self appointed American digital historians….
IMPORTANT: My main channel is now @TheRatmothy
I hope everyone had a great 4th of July and didn’t blow anything you shouldn’t have up (or yourselves 😟🫵). Thank ya for watching!
What do u mean by that 😏
my leg heheheheh
Love how you went into depth of about the tank you were using, and what your plan for the game was. The attention to detail is amazing you earned a sub
I appreciate it! Thank you for the support
Had so much fun watching that awesome round pal. 40+ minutes passed like 5 or something. Dude your good spirit is i swear to god so contagious. You and your Rat bro rocks. Firmhandhakes you both you fine gentlemen. 🎉
@@Aetlaify I appreciate it ☺️🐀🐀
Thank you for the kind words
If you shoot ap rounds, they penetrate buildings if you don’t have an angle through a window. Thanks for the entertaining video and I hope you keep on playing squad44!
I will and thank you for the support and advice! Squad 44 was always one of my go-to games, I just hope more people play it.
really? thats so cool
Babe (that I deffintly have) wake up Ratmothy dropped
@@helloperson7068 don’t worry you can always be apart of the rat family (we eat cheese and stuff)
yess I had been hoping to find a WT convert trying this game as this will mirror my experience when I make the jump too - thanks for all the captions! great video
Hell yeah and thank you! I love WT but I swear that game has me in a Stockholm syndrome or something
@@Ratmothy As it does us all... I just got S44 but haven't installed yet - looking for a good tank sim and it was on sale! I like what I see so far.
Let's gooooooo, another video of the man, the rat man
@@skyfall_jack2811 always appreciate you stopping by and the support 🫡
Love the vid thanks for the history lessons as well!
@@Lajoon8908 I appreciate it and always glad to share a mini history lesson 🫡
@@Ratmothyhonestly those history breaks are cool af
na man, these videos with the initial history lesson are phenomenal. Keep it up dude!
Cool vid, loved the mid match commentary. Pro tip for wider a fov as a gunner you can switch to your periscopes by scrolling mouse wheel. For Axis tanks they are usually fixed, but in allied tanks you can usually swivel them by holding ctrl and moving your mouse.
@@yuzu-6245 noted! Thank you
14:03
That wasn't artillery, that was just mortars. They can't destroy you, only immobilise you at best.
@@graustreifbrombeerkralle1078 you right, but big boom spooked the rat tank crew
if they hit your engine it will burst into fire and quickly also light up the sorounding fuel tanks which means you will die
@@tavish4699
They can? Never saw that so far. But even if they do, only a direct hit can achieve that.
@@graustreifbrombeerkralle1078 yea i had it happen a week ago which is why i know
even if chances are very low to get a direct engine hit it still isnt cool to lose your track inside a fought over objective
getting out and repairing is a death sentence so you turn into a pillbox
Well organized video! Quality🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌
@@dmdj8588 thank ya!!
this is so cool to watch keep making more of these videos
I shall! And thank you for the support
Praise Jesus, Pookiemothy uploaded 🗣️
@@RobloxianFourth hehehe ❤️
Hold shift and scroll mouse button to increase or decrease the traversal speed of your tank turret, for more accurate shooting. Always great to see content for this game. Come check out the realism mod, it's been worked on for years and is incredible. Keep up the good work.
of course like a minute later you figure out the shift scroll thing.
Thank ya for the feedback and ooo I didn't know there was a realism mod, I'll check it out!
I've put in something like thirty hours into tanks in this game, not as much as many but more than you, and so I'd love to give you some advice. First, clock codes: look in the bottom left of your screen and you see what looks like a clock with your tank barrel as the hour mark. When someone says traverse turret to 3, for example, you would turn until the turret is 90° to the right of the front of the tank.
Second, your tank doesn't actually shoot directly at the center of your crosshair, it shoots a bit to the right or left depending on your tank. I'm the panther the gun is to the right of the sight, so it shoots to the right.
Third, sensitivity. When you lower your sensitivity to half or lower your turret is being moved manually. This doesn't change how it functions at all in the game, but in real life the gunner would be using a slower, more precise set of controls. Keep the gun in manual when you want to be precise.
Overall fantastic first time, way better than most people.
Noted and thank you!
Unstoppable panther tank !!!
Till tank did not broke itself xD
You only have 3k subs? You deserve more. Subbed, good content!
Thank you I appreciate the kind words and I really appreciate the support :)
very great made video, engaging, wanna see more like it
I appreciate it ❤
He shouted Rpg...Hahahahaha 😂😅😅😊
"Hell yeah" *explodes*
kaboomy
Panthers were also known for fuel leaks in the engine, turning the engine from an internal combustion engine to an external combustion engine. Although reliability was an issue for most tanks, it was very noticeable on german ww2 tanks, ww1 tanks, and heavy tanks.
Nice
@@pabloteixido2155 thank you :)
"hell yeah" (Fucking blows up) 16:54
tis be a cruel world
I think you can adjust your sights in the gunner view too, so if you kinda know the distance you can adjust the sight to get it on point to fire instead of guessing which is soo cool
16:49 His ammo rack needed backscratches
24:59 никогда штирлиц не был так близко к провалу
"Sides of the Tiger are relatively stronger than the Panther, so no worries abo--"
Gaijin WT: "Are you sure about that?"
2:22
*freedom fighter*
Corrected you there
They should add jagdpanther, devastating beast.
Yeah the panther was definitely the best german tank of the war
To my knowledge( correct me if i am wrong)it was not plagued with the same reliability and mobility problems as the tiger 1 and 2
If only this game would run better for me..
We have more optimizations coming in hot.
was that at gun on your left on the bridge a prop? or did you guys just miss it like a hundred times? 😀 very fun video to watch
I'm pretty sure it was 0.0 and thank you!
what server you play on Ratmothy?
@@RustyBear no specific server :o (I join whatever server is full or near full when I get on that also has the least amount of wait)
Noting realistic in the damagemodels.
does the gun sight not work?
@24:00 Fence eating shells, hope they fix that at some point.
Ahh my man, we need to play together!
I plan on eventually making a discord so people know when I'm on! Although the milsim community and those for Squad and Squad 44 are pretty tight knit it seems so ya might see me on :D
@@Ratmothy I’m actually playing now 😉
@@treysmith8917 Have fun man!! It be nappy sleep time for me
bigger the acronym the bigger the boom
indeed indeed
nobody has seen any controls for the german tank gunner to accurately adjust the sights(the wheel that has numbers on it).
Hi
@@Demonsquirrel hi!!
the things im scared is, warthunder player veteran try being an TANK crew in this game
If War Thunder Simulator mode was like the tank combat in Squad 44 it would be suchhhhh a good time
Can we see some WT (I purely just want to see you rage when you play)
@@Cool_guy-i1u ahaha actually I’ll put that on my list of games I’ll get to make videos on. War Thunder is a mix of anguish and fun, but don’t worry I lose my mind when I play war thunder and get blown up six games in a row 😭
@@Ratmothy I don’t die because if you say “no” they cant kill you without consent
The Panther, while feared, kind of. Was feared mostly due to a placebo effect due to the big gun and sloped armour and the perceived threat it could pose, "had it worked". It was rarely used it had constant problems with its powerpack there weren't that many of them and the Germans never got the chance to iron out the issues. Yes the armour was good much better than the PZ IV and so was the gun. But it was incredibly unreliable. It was "feared" maybe only at first until the allies realised how unreliable and how few of them there were. The vast majority of the allies would have never seen one during the war. It's a very cool tank don't get me wrong but lets not lie to the viewers 😂
i love horribly overstressed transmissions!!!
@@damongale45 it wasn’t that serious I swear 😭, tbh I didn’t even know if I should have included the first section, because from my war thunder experience I KNEW someone would disagree with me lol as when it comes to the subject of WWII tanks there seems to be really strong opinions.
As for the panther being fearsome, I definitely don’t think I “lied”, whether or not the Panther in hindsight was a good tank. I sure would be terrified if I faced one in the battlefield.
But anyways thanks for stopping by and watching the video ❤️
@@Ratmothy I still liked and watched the video in full 😄
By the end of the war the main problems of the panther actually had been ironed out (besides the final drives), which is why there were many battles with panthers post-dday. The panther was very effective at taking out Sherman’s, but were easily killed from the side even by the 75mm and at angles, which is why they didn’t cause too much problems for the allies. Still a very effective vehicle (after reliability increased)
Roughly 6000 Panthers were built between 1943 and 1945.. That is a bit more than a few.
i think the main issue with games where players act as crew instead of one player controlling the tank is communication, I would suggest just saying what you want once instead of repeating it multiple times cuz it is simpler and it does not confuse ur mate, makes things more efficient, good energy and gameplay tho
True! Albeit the driver was my twin brother lol, so we get each other's communication skills (which also includes panicking). Thank you for the support and kind words!
Hold CNTRL and scroll the mouse wheel to set sensitivity.
@@playakoz yup yup! First time ever in a tank for Squad 44 but we figured it out lol
@@Ratmothy enjoying the vids :)
@@playakoz I'm glad you do yay yay :)
Cool but you really did nerf yourself by having only 2 people in the tank. A dedicated commander really makes spoting enemies so much easier
I leave the tank open for others usually (like in my latest video), but I remember I locked it in this game because people kept joining and leaving the squad after they couldn't be the driver or gunner
🤓 actually when you angle the tigers armour (which you should always do even in panther) it has about 140-180mm of armour from 40-60 degrees. This also makes rounds very prone to deflection
Yup yup! (My War Thunder experience told me so tooo)
Can you not adjust the range on the sight? That annoys the shit out of me that you have to aim up for long range shots.
This was hectic lol
My brother and I got interesting ways of FEELING we are about to get blown up in a tank
Pc specs?
(I'm using my old computer for this video)
RTX 2070 Super
AMD Ryzen 7 5800x 8-core
32 gb ram
32 inch 1440p monitor 144hz
@@Ratmothy we have everything the same except I need too update my processor it’s a ryzen 5 series
War thunder noobs LOL Love the video
Have some mercy upon me this tank video for Squad 44 was literally the first time I played a tank in the game
(I don't have the war thunder aiming system) 😖
panther misconceptions go brrrrrr.
I play War Thunder so I am actually an expert in tanks :)
hll is great but squad 44 is more realistic.
I gotta say it. The panther was not THAT good of a tank. The final drive would catastrophically fail after 150km of wear. Traverse was bad and could not be traversed when at a 20 degree slope. and was just generally unreliable. Not to mention a gas guzzler. It's engine also had a life span of 1000km. The Germans essentially made it a "strategic tank". Using railcars for distances as little as 25km. It was thought it could neutral steer but the French found to never actually use this ability as it can immobilize the entire tank. It had a serious problem with engine fires as well. German commanders had stated the fuel lines were "porous" and would leak fumes. It was also designed air tight, which means oil and gas that leaks anywhere at all will stay in the engine bay, and you guessed it engine fires! The French also found a smoke grenade tossed onto the rear deck or vent openings would catch the engine on fire too. The panther wasn't a bad tank. It was fantastic at long range engagements (1400-2000 meters). But up-close suffered from poor maneuverability, overweight, and underpowered. It was feared on the battlefield, and often found abandoned off of it.
Your not adjusting your range for the gun. That scope isn't set up to shoot like that.
Not impressed with your tanker skills.
Also I have to note that only elite troops out of whole german army armored crews were able to adjust their tactical movement with the infantry irl and in squad 44&hell let loose. Your crews seems elite came thru 4 years of war till in arnhem 1944.
The panther was a classic German big cat. That is to say a horribly unreliable, massively over-engineered, logistically nightmarish, highly overrated piece of junk. The only thing it was good at was killing other tanks; literally every other metric relevant to a tank’s success was a profound failure. It wasn’t maneuverable to put it mildly, the parts might as well have been bespoke, the tank had, in 1945, when you needed every gun in the fight, less than 50 percent uptime. The Sherman wasn’t a better tank because they made more, it was a better tank. Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics.
lol calling the panther the best tank of ww2 is pretty funny
This game would be so much better if there was fully destructible environments but the performance is already no bueno as is
Yeah I agree but my PC and the game would sadly probably turn into a satchel charge in real life
That has to be the worst tank crew ive ever heard of
Ah, but you have heard of us
Most real panthers never saw battle due to an unreliable engine and set of tracks, so no the panther was not the best tank of the war.
You are so excitable ! Work with a German crew and they'll tell you to shut up and just follow orders. Secondly, the tank has 4 positions and you should not leave the spawn with any less than 4. With just one person driving and one on the main gun, who is spotting and marking targets? No-one. Who can get out and repair? Still, it was entertaining.
@@louisavondart9178 thanks for watching! And our tank was open for everybody in the beginning but people joined, got bored bc they wanted to be the gunner or driver, and left.
Also I cannot deny the allegations that I am excitable, but at the end of the day, I’m just here to blow stuff up and have fun ya know? Thankfully, it’s a video game at the end of the day and if my panther was blown to pieces I can still walk away and get a sparkling water and chipotle burrito bowl.
Also keep in mind I crewed this tank with my twin brother, we have already have a dynamic that goes back to when we were in the womb. I would be talking differently if it was a crew full of strangers.
spotter is nice to have but often not needed
if you play the tiger as it should be, which is stay far far away and use its armor and big ass gun to its maximum effect nothing can hurt you really
i bet my buddy and i in a tank will destroy your full one 9 out of 10 times
all we do is play tanks
@ShimeiLi well it is really fun if you have a full crew where everyone understands his role
the teamplay in a tank is what makes it worth while in this game
@ShimeiLi ..it's more fun when you win. Being slightly professional helps. But yes, it is a game.
@@Ratmothy .. I hear you. I was in a group that played German tanks exclusively and we all understood our roles perfectly. As a result, we annihilated the enemy armour in practically every match. I was the driver and didn't get a kill. Ever. Well, ok, one or two when running from the spawn with my pistol. Yes, we did get bombed occasionally. People get bored too easily these days and you end up without a hull gunner when you really need one. C'est la vie.
Who’s considering the panther the best tank of the war? On paper? Because history is all about stat based top trumps and not the fact you can’t field the thing? Started to really go off self appointed American digital historians….