Just note that the telephone pole pillar thing or whatever it is stopped my 122mm shell from hitting an enemy at point blank range, getting me killed when I should've killed the enemy. Pretty great map design there.
because youre using APHE, once it makes its way through 19mm of whatever on average, itll detonate, destroying the shell, unless you use solid shot youre not making it through there
Hey Spookston, I just realized that me and my friend was playing together in your second to last match of the video. I'm Mikota0 and he was Twoston. When you came out of the wall and killed me saying "hola" was a legit jumpscare for me in game. It was a honor, fun match. Thanks for the fun roasts. You cooked us up real good, brother. 11:06
Funny enough, in actual combat maneuvers , it was found that it could keep up with most other tanks of it's time. What it lacked in top speed, it made up for in gearing, and it would normally clear courses in the same timeframe as other tanks.
@@wotwott2319better engine(s) and at least a 6 pounder. I saw this kitbash that someone made putting a 75mm Valentine turret on a Tilda and painting it with the Aussie camo and markings. It actually made a lot of sense.
The very first tech tree I went down when I got this game was the British. I raged so hard at the rounds at times when solid shot wouldn't actually kill anything. Then I tried the French and realized the British weren't so bad. : ^] Great vid as always, Spookston.
The French early tier is absolutely miserable. Then you get to 4.0 and ironically you Play American tanks for a brief moment. Then the tree goes uphill as they start using HEAT and aphe. The 2.7 2C (Not the Bis.) Is a sleeper.
@@aiedenoldstien9751 I played long before the 2C was added in, and it was nothing but solid shots. We ended up entertaining ourselves on the grind (because of course I forced my friends to play with me too. Suffer together, amirite?) by naming the shells “leftover baguettes”. The Bis variant was such fun to play with it came out, and I wish more of their tanks were like that and the B1 for early tiers.
@SuperJakle1337 I assume that means you played before they "Removed" the reserve vehicles. Though The B1 is also a sleeper. The German mains don't expect you to double tap them. But the stale baguettes indeed aren't the best ammo.
@@fridaycaliforniaa236 Oh absolutely! I always love the French and their vehicles, even outside this game. However, they didn't really have a presence in the early days of WW2 and it shows in the tech tree. Even the lend-lease vehicles they have (looking at you Sherman) seem to have their survivability be next to nothing. I was trying to explain to a friend the other day that the French play fast, hard, and scared until you get to the rapid-death mode of their tree. The only exception being their early 'duck' tanks. lol
Maybe try the American T34 Heavy? I know you've played the T29 but personally I have a better experience with the T34 due to the slightly lower BR and better penetration. Solid shot is solid shot but in my experience it does a lot of damage *most* of the time. Edit: Fixed a humorous typo Edit 2: Aw, guessed it removed the heart I got.
@@ThatGuyOrbyPlayed with the T34 yesterday. Got 10 kills, 0 deaths and spawned in the nuke B-29 but we lost due to ticket bleed and couldn't drop it :(
I've found that 100mm and up solid shot does pretty damn good damage. Anything within the general path through the tank will get destroyed. It's not as good as APHE but it will still one shot most things unless you hit the very edge of turrets or very low under the crew from the side
@@adamg7984the real problem is tanks are ridiculously survivable in War Thunder. 2 guys aren't going to keep fighting with the rest of the crew splattered around the tank. And you can't repair a busted engine in 30 seconds in real life. So solid shot, APDS and HEAT are much less effective because a hit that would kill a vehicle in real life is only a minor inconvenience in game.
@@AetherOnYT A nation that should ironically be far better than it is in the game. The only reason it isn't is because Gajin can't make ammunition work properly. Both APHE and the AP shells do around the same damage. Now the obvious damage difference being the filler in larger shells. The man is right though, the explosion just doesn't have any momentum when it enters a tank. It just detonates and throws shrapnel everywhere. Where most of the shrapnel would keep it's momentum.
Spookston uploads are always right in the middle of my history class and I love it. A great source of entertainment to offset something so boring. (I love war and tank history, I just don't really care for British trade routes or whatever.)
History is great. It just need a good enthusiastic teacher, it is a feast of famine subject, it can be like info dump after info dump, but if you have a good teacher that wont be the case making boring info palatable
sad that the system has failed you so horribly history is the study of what makes a person and their culture, it's incredibly meaningful and rich when taught well
The "Random Pillar" is a "Litfasssäule" (Advertising Column). Invented in the 1800s, they allowed advertisers to purchase space on the pillar for the public to read. New Advertisements were simply pasted over the old ones, making it much cheaper to apply the new one.
i love how you can see the difference of how gaijin and CAS has affected this man from watching the first ever specific tank gameplay until now War thunder done drained his braincells (too much hstvl in mind)
I have a recommendation if you haven't played it yet the turan 1 whenever ive used people seem to kill my machine gunner thinking its my driver and its really good at deflecting shots (dont know if its luck or not) and it has amazing reverse and foward speed (i think about 24kmh reverse fully uograded) and its all at 2.3 overall very fun tank to play
Once Update 2.33 'Air Superiority' goes live in a few weeks, I feel like the T-90M will be the first video covering the new vehicles that Spookston will do.
I think you would greatly enjoy the Italian Ab 43. It's def a gremlin tank and it has decent pen and APHE for its BR. Also it's got the fun Italian camo
On one hand I love aphe since it is a lot more easier to one shot people but on the hand given how french tanks and british ones do use solid shot it can work if there is backup like good armor or a fast reload.
Gajin casually modeling solid shot so it makes other nations harder to use and Russia directly better. Despite both shells irl having similar performance.
I love the fact that the matilda II is technically a proto pike-nose. below that flat strip for the driver's view port you have to aim centrally because any lower front pen to the sides is just going into a void between the outer skin and the actual hull. I think they were used for storage irl. If you take those off, the hull would resemble the front of a Matilda 1.
7:32 thats actually the easiest to pen part of the entire matilda tank, however it normally does 0 damage if hit because its extending out te main hull
If APHE was fixed to deal its historical lower damage more akin to AP, that would be the best single change in this game's last 5 years by a mile and improve the game SO MUCH.
they can’t. given how the big three nation’s are the most played/dominant nation’s, nerfing it will lose Thousend’s of player’s from playing those nation’s
APHE rant incoming... If it was historically accurate then it would have worse ballistics and penetration across the board. The shrapnel from the blast would only travel forwards because the explosive is not enough to overcome the inertia, and it would create only a small amount more spalling in a marginally wider spread. It would also have to have a pretty high chance of premature detonation when it hits a tank, this would of course ruin penetration. And It would also have to have a fair chance of not exploding when it penetrates a tank, like it goes in and hits the back wall of the tank and falls to the floor without exploding. If it penetrated a tank where the armour was too close to the max penetration maybe 75% of it's max pen, it would have deformed too much to detonate inside the tanks thus would not explode. In these instances it would be like a worse solid shot round. And Russian APHE rounds would have to have the very highest values in these failures because it was famously unreliable for the Russians. The British tested is extensively before the war with their 2 pounder gun, they were the only nation to do so which is why they never developed any APHE outside of the test rounds for the 2 pounder. They knew the trade off for slightly more spalling and spread for a round that was worse in every area was not worth it at all. After the war only the Russians kept trying (unsuccessfully) to make it work, everyone else in the world dropped it in favour of Solid shot and APDS then later APFSDS. APHE never worked as intended and it's showing in War Thunder is a complete fantasy, a total work of fiction.
@@commanderdon4300It's blatant Russian propaganda to pander to the soviet goblins that play this game. Take a look at the Russian forums and you'll realise pretty quick how much they break the laws of physics and actual historical fact to "fix" anything their Russian playerbase cries about.
0:34 I like to imagine people in the War Thunder universe hide black holes in their houses which is why you got pulled into them. The time dilation causes the lag/ping.
a fun trick with tanks that have no depression is to uninstall the suspension upgrade, and reverse to artificially give you more depression for like, half a second
Thats why i still use APHE in any rank possible because how powerful it is, and one of my matches I was playing a Churchill 1 and I had to fight 2 of those at once and somehow won.
9:00 As a German, who has learned to speak English primarily by watching TH-cam videos and speaking for many people who have learned it the same way, i can assure you that our English is one heck of a mess already. Our pronunciation is partly American, partly British and at times even Aussie. Nothing you could even make worse, don't worry.
1:25 the moment I finally realized advertising columns just dont exist outside of Europe. I guess no one walks anywhere in America so billboards are way more common. Still crazy that I never noticed that despite going between America and Europe my entire life
@spookston, the matilda including the soviet variant is 3.472 or 3.472222 times faster than walking speed, the average walking speed is 2 m/s (7.2 km/h) and the matilda goes 6.944444 m/s (25 km/h), 7.2 fits 3.472 times in 25. so the matilda doesnt go at walking pace
Spookton 8 months ago: "solid shot sucks and is unfun, and aphe is over powered" Spookton now: "aphe is balanced, and I never said solid shot sucks, I was just talking about sabot."
Spookston you should try playing the M4A3 (105) with the observation tank camo. would be funny to see how many kills you could get with a bright yellow Sherman at low tier.
Spookston! An idea for a vehicle that absolutely fits your play style? The Super Hellcat premium. It’s a M18 with a Pershing cannon at 6.3. It is an absolute flank king and a menace in a downtier. No armour? Best armour
Fun fact, a coworker of mine didn't know what the Mosin-Nagant rifle was called, only knowing that it started with "Mosi", so he pronounced it as "Mosey"
Spooks you’re hitting more views than Phly. No shade on him, just mentioning it cause you’re doing such a good job lately. Keep it up! (Also play the T-34-85 Gai for social credit.)
Video #46 you like APHE? How about 122 millimeter APHE? With nearly 300 millimeters of flat penetration and 950 meters/second velocity? Stabilized? Try the T-10M!
The thing i love about hte soviet matilda that it has the worst gun depression of all tanks in the soviet tree being minus 2 wich just shows that soviets dont know what depression is.
Also please tell me you dont use HVAP at 2.7... Even if you do wanna use the MK103s instead of the 75mm for some odd reason, the stealth belts do way more damage and dont just autobounce against literally any amount of angle. MK103s have been trash in Ground RB ever since they nerfed the penetration for no good reason and made the HVAP literally useless against anything that isn't a rectangular box tank.
@@XSpamDragonX Ayo, of course i use the Pzbrgr. (Ap-I) Belt. It has enove penetration for most (even T-34 from 400m) and really good angled penetration. No tracers to give away direction especially when shooting from further away. Also for the Mg 17. On the Mg 151/20 i use either the shitty (but somewhat universal) ground targets belt (bad penetration but help with thin targets and big targets such as Halftracks and the LVT) or also stealth. Also the B-2 is also at 2.3 cince the last Br changes.
Shame the churchils get nothing but +1 matchmaking. Every single time i bring one out its max Br. The churchill VII is the worst tank in the game because of that.
My favourite thing to do is go into a battle with the tiger h1, panther and jagdpanzer IV/70, get a downtier, get 12 kills and say "germany truly suffers.
I remember seeing this once and it was back during the 2020 lockdown and i think the guy who played it was ash and 1 shotted it with the italian stuart via turret ring, And i hope you play the AMX M4 and casually penning panthers' ufp
How you guys doing
Hanging in there..!
waiting for you to play ST-A3 :D :D
Great
I'm balling
In school chilling watching your videos keep up the great work
Y'know what is also balanced AND uses APHE? The AS-42/47.
I have been asking him to play that also😂
Wait, that's the Italian low tier car right?
@@comradeiosif2794yes, the one with the gun mounted on a pole
@@IlllIlIlIIlll maybe it's a Mandela effect thing, but I swear he's played it already I think.
another thing that’s balanced and uses APHE is the t-34 1940
Just note that the telephone pole pillar thing or whatever it is stopped my 122mm shell from hitting an enemy at point blank range, getting me killed when I should've killed the enemy. Pretty great map design there.
They are straight up cylinders made from Concrete and steel. They were invented in Germany and are called Litfaßsäule
Those concrete cylinders seem to not stop any rounds of mine .. ive shot through it 3 times
because youre using APHE, once it makes its way through 19mm of whatever on average, itll detonate, destroying the shell, unless you use solid shot youre not making it through there
@@noahsawesomevids422 the base is solid poured concrete, the top is a sheet metal cylinder.
It is called a Litfaß pillar
0:33
Classic Spooskton being completely unaware of the black hole about the consume the entire lobby. (It is dragging him in)
Hey Spookston, I just realized that me and my friend was playing together in your second to last match of the video. I'm Mikota0 and he was Twoston.
When you came out of the wall and killed me saying "hola" was a legit jumpscare for me in game.
It was a honor, fun match. Thanks for the fun roasts. You cooked us up real good, brother. 11:06
Funny enough, in actual combat maneuvers , it was found that it could keep up with most other tanks of it's time. What it lacked in top speed, it made up for in gearing, and it would normally clear courses in the same timeframe as other tanks.
if the Matilda 2 had a better engine, it would've been unstoppable
@@wotwott2319better engine(s) and at least a 6 pounder. I saw this kitbash that someone made putting a 75mm Valentine turret on a Tilda and painting it with the Aussie camo and markings. It actually made a lot of sense.
The very first tech tree I went down when I got this game was the British. I raged so hard at the rounds at times when solid shot wouldn't actually kill anything. Then I tried the French and realized the British weren't so bad. : ^]
Great vid as always, Spookston.
The French early tier is absolutely miserable. Then you get to 4.0 and ironically you Play American tanks for a brief moment. Then the tree goes uphill as they start using HEAT and aphe.
The 2.7 2C (Not the Bis.) Is a sleeper.
@@aiedenoldstien9751 I played long before the 2C was added in, and it was nothing but solid shots. We ended up entertaining ourselves on the grind (because of course I forced my friends to play with me too. Suffer together, amirite?) by naming the shells “leftover baguettes”.
The Bis variant was such fun to play with it came out, and I wish more of their tanks were like that and the B1 for early tiers.
@SuperJakle1337 I assume that means you played before they "Removed" the reserve vehicles. Though The B1 is also a sleeper. The German mains don't expect you to double tap them.
But the stale baguettes indeed aren't the best ammo.
@@fridaycaliforniaa236 Oh absolutely! I always love the French and their vehicles, even outside this game. However, they didn't really have a presence in the early days of WW2 and it shows in the tech tree. Even the lend-lease vehicles they have (looking at you Sherman) seem to have their survivability be next to nothing.
I was trying to explain to a friend the other day that the French play fast, hard, and scared until you get to the rapid-death mode of their tree. The only exception being their early 'duck' tanks. lol
my favorite APHE fact is that the tech tree 2C has more explosive filler in its shells than the IS-2
The 2C is honestly bullying for low tier. Your armor isn't armor, it's the amount of people you have.
To be honest, the 122's shells don't have a large filler to begin with, especially when compared to the caliber
@bighobo7745 It's still enough to Overpressure most tanks if it enters into it.
Maybe try the American T34 Heavy? I know you've played the T29 but personally I have a better experience with the T34 due to the slightly lower BR and better penetration. Solid shot is solid shot but in my experience it does a lot of damage *most* of the time.
Edit: Fixed a humorous typo
Edit 2: Aw, guessed it removed the heart I got.
U got it back I think
@@notfunny3397 Yep, seems so. Quite happy about it since the T34 is by far my most played tank at this point so it'd be neat to see it covered.
@@ThatGuyOrbyPlayed with the T34 yesterday. Got 10 kills, 0 deaths and spawned in the nuke B-29 but we lost due to ticket bleed and couldn't drop it :(
I've found that 100mm and up solid shot does pretty damn good damage. Anything within the general path through the tank will get destroyed. It's not as good as APHE but it will still one shot most things unless you hit the very edge of turrets or very low under the crew from the side
Aphe is one of the many reasons I love the us tree, m61 and m82 is so good. You could nake a video about the amx50 that has aphe, it seems nasty
@@adamg7984are you a Great Britain player
The soviet T-34's APHE can 1shot most things, it's so satisfying I'm shocked there are no shorts with T34 gameplay below them 💀
@@adamg7984the real problem is tanks are ridiculously survivable in War Thunder. 2 guys aren't going to keep fighting with the rest of the crew splattered around the tank. And you can't repair a busted engine in 30 seconds in real life. So solid shot, APDS and HEAT are much less effective because a hit that would kill a vehicle in real life is only a minor inconvenience in game.
@@AetherOnYT A nation that should ironically be far better than it is in the game. The only reason it isn't is because Gajin can't make ammunition work properly. Both APHE and the AP shells do around the same damage. Now the obvious damage difference being the filler in larger shells.
The man is right though, the explosion just doesn't have any momentum when it enters a tank. It just detonates and throws shrapnel everywhere. Where most of the shrapnel would keep it's momentum.
@@aiedenoldstien9751 soviet aphe is worse especially in low tiers
Spookston uploads are always right in the middle of my history class and I love it. A great source of entertainment to offset something so boring.
(I love war and tank history, I just don't really care for British trade routes or whatever.)
History is great. It just need a good enthusiastic teacher, it is a feast of famine subject, it can be like info dump after info dump, but if you have a good teacher that wont be the case making boring info palatable
ye, its usually teachers and school system that makes subject boring, not subject itself being boring
sad that the system has failed you so horribly
history is the study of what makes a person and their culture, it's incredibly meaningful and rich when taught well
U find history class boring?? I’d eat that shit up if I had Social Studies again.
It's really weird finding someone on Spookston's channel of all things saying "history is boring".
The "Random Pillar" is a "Litfasssäule" (Advertising Column). Invented in the 1800s, they allowed advertisers to purchase space on the pillar for the public to read. New Advertisements were simply pasted over the old ones, making it much cheaper to apply the new one.
11:32 Yep, thats how I felt when I encountered you there. Now it makes sense why that Matilda obliterated my team, it was you XD
Love your videos BTW
Spook, you are a blessing and a curse. You keep me sane with your great vids, but I can get zero work done… keep the great content coming!
I love your content keep it up, you are the best War Thunder content creator❤️
true
i love how you can see the difference of how gaijin and CAS has affected this man from watching the first ever specific tank gameplay until now
War thunder done drained his braincells (too much hstvl in mind)
I have a recommendation if you haven't played it yet the turan 1 whenever ive used people seem to kill my machine gunner thinking its my driver and its really good at deflecting shots (dont know if its luck or not) and it has amazing reverse and foward speed (i think about 24kmh reverse fully uograded) and its all at 2.3 overall very fun tank to play
I forget the specific name, but the Turan 1 can go full speed in reverse actually, like 43km/hr.
@@sinterso2.036 oh thanks I actually never got it to go that fast before good to know
i love how spook is so chill when he dies i would be smashing my house
Maybe because he doesn't have as much penalty for losing
I suggest you play T-10M. its a fun and kinda underrated soviet heavy tank with almost 300mm of pen on aphe :)
Once Update 2.33 'Air Superiority' goes live in a few weeks, I feel like the T-90M will be the first video covering the new vehicles that Spookston will do.
F-15, JAS 39, & SU-27: "Am I a joke to you?".
@@liladoodle these are planes spookson doesnt care about planes
I think you would greatly enjoy the Italian Ab 43. It's def a gremlin tank and it has decent pen and APHE for its BR. Also it's got the fun Italian camo
10/10, would die to you again 😂
I love spookston videos, this things a menace at its br. Anyway video 32 of asking spookston to play the AML-90
"Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, you'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me" Australia's army march is based off the notes for this song.
On one hand I love aphe since it is a lot more easier to one shot people but on the hand given how french tanks and british ones do use solid shot it can work if there is backup like good armor or a fast reload.
11:56 from what I can recall your record is 22 with a t14
Gajin casually modeling solid shot so it makes other nations harder to use and Russia directly better. Despite both shells irl having similar performance.
I love the fact that the matilda II is technically a proto pike-nose. below that flat strip for the driver's view port you have to aim centrally because any lower front pen to the sides is just going into a void between the outer skin and the actual hull. I think they were used for storage irl. If you take those off, the hull would resemble the front of a Matilda 1.
Please play The M3A3 Bradley. It's missiles are a lot easier to use now, but it still suffers a bit
Well I mean it's not like it can be overpressured by getting hit in the track while the Marders and BMPs can't for some reason
7:32 thats actually the easiest to pen part of the entire matilda tank, however it normally does 0 damage if hit because its extending out te main hull
If APHE was fixed to deal its historical lower damage more akin to AP, that would be the best single change in this game's last 5 years by a mile and improve the game SO MUCH.
Either that or Buff AP to its historical damage.
they can’t. given how the big three nation’s are the most played/dominant nation’s, nerfing it will lose Thousend’s of player’s from playing those nation’s
@@PanzerHistorian Then why add the other nations to begin with? They want people to play all the nations, make all the nations viable.
APHE rant incoming...
If it was historically accurate then it would have worse ballistics and penetration across the board.
The shrapnel from the blast would only travel forwards because the explosive is not enough to overcome the inertia, and it would create only a small amount more spalling in a marginally wider spread.
It would also have to have a pretty high chance of premature detonation when it hits a tank, this would of course ruin penetration.
And It would also have to have a fair chance of not exploding when it penetrates a tank, like it goes in and hits the back wall of the tank and falls to the floor without exploding.
If it penetrated a tank where the armour was too close to the max penetration maybe 75% of it's max pen, it would have deformed too much to detonate inside the tanks thus would not explode.
In these instances it would be like a worse solid shot round.
And Russian APHE rounds would have to have the very highest values in these failures because it was famously unreliable for the Russians.
The British tested is extensively before the war with their 2 pounder gun, they were the only nation to do so which is why they never developed any APHE outside of the test rounds for the 2 pounder.
They knew the trade off for slightly more spalling and spread for a round that was worse in every area was not worth it at all.
After the war only the Russians kept trying (unsuccessfully) to make it work, everyone else in the world dropped it in favour of Solid shot and APDS then later APFSDS.
APHE never worked as intended and it's showing in War Thunder is a complete fantasy, a total work of fiction.
@@commanderdon4300It's blatant Russian propaganda to pander to the soviet goblins that play this game. Take a look at the Russian forums and you'll realise pretty quick how much they break the laws of physics and actual historical fact to "fix" anything their Russian playerbase cries about.
-2 depression? Jesus Christ... The slightest bump in the road is your mortal enemy.
Day 11 of asking for Leopard 1
0:34 I like to imagine people in the War Thunder universe hide black holes in their houses which is why you got pulled into them. The time dilation causes the lag/ping.
That frickin random pillar at 1:19 also shocked me when my 120mm AP (T34) just didnt pen right through it resulting me dying to a Tiger 2(H)
The collab we never knew we needed. No more oddballs, we need spookston and twoston
Gajin "You don't have connection so of course you want to go into the wall (ground if air rb)"
The British seem to have forgotten that a tank with a higher top speed than a walking pace can still move at a walking pace if it needs to
a fun trick with tanks that have no depression is to uninstall the suspension upgrade, and reverse to artificially give you more depression for like, half a second
Spookston: why is my fps going down to 88?😡
Me: WOW 22 fps, today is going to be a good day 😀
nuke ammo is when they have more than 190g tnt and when it explodes it overpressures
Thats why i still use APHE in any rank possible because how powerful it is, and one of my matches I was playing a Churchill 1 and I had to fight 2 of those at once and somehow won.
Course it's more powerful. Almost like APHE being the most powerful shell directly benefits Russia.
@@aiedenoldstien9751 I agree
Gaijin locking some of the coolest vehicles behind an event that ended before 90% of the playerbase started playing the game:
It's crazy watching those awards constantly rolling on the top screen
10:30 I felt at that point you had earned that bomb
Would love to see an uncommon soviet tank destroyer get showcased, like the SU-100P. Great pen for br, only thing is it is open topped (day 87)
Gotta say your uploads are the only thing I watch lately, keep up the good work
The gun mantlet on that matilda reminds me of those images of dogs that had their face stung by a bee and it's all swollen.
8:20 that .50 was anti matter appearlently, if you look at spookston's damage model the back of the tank glitches out for the rest of the match
As an Australian i appreciate the waltzing matilda joke
As an Aussie that waltzing joke made me chuckle
Spookston : run locus don't let that KV-2 disintegrate you.
Also Spookston : *Kills a locus with his mini nuke round*
"thank you for ramming me i really appreciate that" -spookston 2023.
Doesn't have to be winter to see spookston ice skating in a tank across the roads.
9:00 As a German, who has learned to speak English primarily by watching TH-cam videos and speaking for many people who have learned it the same way, i can assure you that our English is one heck of a mess already. Our pronunciation is partly American, partly British and at times even Aussie. Nothing you could even make worse, don't worry.
soviets do not like depressed guns, it makes the crew very sad because the gun sad.
Love the videos Spookston ❤️ keep em coming!
Play as 42/47 I’ve had a great time with it and it’s suprisly good for low tier Italy. It is also a gremlin.
Wanted to get this but just checked, it's 200 GJ. So, I will live vicariously through Spookston.
9:04 The Spookston dialect
Fun fact, in the game Rainbow 6: Siege there's an Australian operator named Mozzie
1:25 the moment I finally realized advertising columns just dont exist outside of Europe. I guess no one walks anywhere in America so billboards are way more common. Still crazy that I never noticed that despite going between America and Europe my entire life
@spookston, the matilda including the soviet variant is 3.472 or 3.472222 times faster than walking speed, the average walking speed is 2 m/s (7.2 km/h) and the matilda goes 6.944444 m/s (25 km/h), 7.2 fits 3.472 times in 25. so the matilda doesnt go at walking pace
That exact pole had me in shambles as it completely engulfed my IS-2 Shot, I could only watch as my tank got taken apart piece by piece
I was going to suggest this tank. Really interesting historically.
btw for thise that don't know 4:55 is referencing "waltzing matilda" which is an australian folk song
Spookton 8 months ago: "solid shot sucks and is unfun, and aphe is over powered"
Spookton now: "aphe is balanced, and I never said solid shot sucks, I was just talking about sabot."
isnt it so fun when people lie...
Spookston you should try playing the M4A3 (105) with the observation tank camo. would be funny to see how many kills you could get with a bright yellow Sherman at low tier.
spookstons ability to find something to complain about even when dumpstering on people is impressive
When I saw the -2 gun depression, I had to rewind to make sure my eyes were not joking.
Spookston! An idea for a vehicle that absolutely fits your play style? The Super Hellcat premium. It’s a M18 with a Pershing cannon at 6.3. It is an absolute flank king and a menace in a downtier. No armour? Best armour
The dead space 3 reference for aphe is the perfect example for spalling in the the shell.
Fun fact, a coworker of mine didn't know what the Mosin-Nagant rifle was called, only knowing that it started with "Mosi", so he pronounced it as "Mosey"
6:03 the guy in your squad named "einsatzgruppenSS" is just quintessential war thunder...
Spooks you’re hitting more views than Phly. No shade on him, just mentioning it cause you’re doing such a good job lately. Keep it up!
(Also play the T-34-85 Gai for social credit.)
The Matilda is extremely survivable, I was once surrounded by 4 panzers and I took them all out one by one
Video #46 you like APHE? How about 122 millimeter APHE? With nearly 300 millimeters of flat penetration and 950 meters/second velocity? Stabilized? Try the T-10M!
4:04 Megadeth reference
I promise I did actually laugh at the Waltzing Matilda joke. It wasn't THAT bad.
"Well on the plus side, it looks like the enemy is coming to me. Unfortunately that means my team is also losing." -Spookston, 2023
The Waltzing Matilda joke was brilliant
Imagine having APHE in every British tank, that would be unstoppable.
There was a moment when Holy HESH of Antioch was good. Then gaijoobles came up with sauce thta was only avaible in russian
The thing i love about hte soviet matilda that it has the worst gun depression of all tanks in the soviet tree being minus 2 wich just shows that soviets dont know what depression is.
In an alternate universe, British tanks all come with aphe, and are actually fun to play.
TT Matilda DOES come with APHE. If only that continued...
@afmo500 and its somehow more useless that solid shot
Epic video! Now time to ask to please play the chieftain once again (video 10?).
11:43 HE BROKE YOUR BREECH WITH MACHINE GUNS WHAT
Average British tank experience
6:45 Oh hai Spookston.
Hs 129 B-2 with Mk 103 in GRB would be nice. Its a very overlooked plane for some reason. But its if not the fav plane of mine.
Me410B with the 50mm is so much better.
Also please tell me you dont use HVAP at 2.7...
Even if you do wanna use the MK103s instead of the 75mm for some odd reason, the stealth belts do way more damage and dont just autobounce against literally any amount of angle. MK103s have been trash in Ground RB ever since they nerfed the penetration for no good reason and made the HVAP literally useless against anything that isn't a rectangular box tank.
@@XSpamDragonX Ayo, of course i use the Pzbrgr. (Ap-I) Belt. It has enove penetration for most (even T-34 from 400m) and really good angled penetration. No tracers to give away direction especially when shooting from further away. Also for the Mg 17. On the Mg 151/20 i use either the shitty (but somewhat universal) ground targets belt (bad penetration but help with thin targets and big targets such as Halftracks and the LVT) or also stealth. Also the B-2 is also at 2.3 cince the last Br changes.
The most kills spookston has had in my memory was 22 in the T14
If you like British tanks with APHE, try the Churchill Mk.IV NA75.
Shame the churchils get nothing but +1 matchmaking. Every single time i bring one out its max Br. The churchill VII is the worst tank in the game because of that.
@@blowbert9126 That's why I prefer the Churchill 1. I love the VII but the 1 just seal clubs no matter the BR.
Closest I'll get to seeing Spookstan play Britain... I'll take it! Matilda being my favourite tank makes this bearable.
My favourite thing to do is go into a battle with the tiger h1, panther and jagdpanzer IV/70, get a downtier, get 12 kills and say "germany truly suffers.
You should try IS-1. It's 5.7 now and it suffers. Or maybe IS-2(44) which is 6.7 now (mindboggling).
imo the IS-1 and IS-2 have always just been worse than the Tiger 1 and Tiger 2
The IS-2 1944 wasn't great before but now it's just awful, you get constantly bullied by king tigers and T34s, and meeting the Maus isn't uncommon.
those concrete with metal sheathing pillars are able to stop APFSDS cold. because that makes sense.
Tanks in this game love to vibrate if its sitting on top of any debris that has physics
I remember seeing this once and it was back during the 2020 lockdown and i think the guy who played it was ash and 1 shotted it with the italian stuart via turret ring,
And i hope you play the AMX M4 and casually penning panthers' ufp
1:18 That is Pulowski preservation shelter.
i never expected spook would use dead space as a meme template
Spookston trying to appease the British mains by avoiding the British tree challenge (impossible)
I'm wondering what goes with warthunder in Spooks' videos when the tank xray had itself a stroke at around 8:22
9:06: Well, I'm doing that, so, eh, thank you