I refuse to believe a frenchman wasn't involved in making the Archer happen, no one else could design such stellar rev.. I mean "forwards in another direction" gear. :D
Archer was invented because the 17lbr barrel stuck out too far in front when it was mounted in the Valentine's chassis. So, they turned it into a "Reverse Marder." My puzzlement is, given the time (post-DDay) and the tactics (they were on the Offensive & were already using Wolverines and Achilles), why the British settled for a purely-Defensive SP-AT?? They must have been jonesin' for as many 17lbr guns as they could get into the field.
@@dphalanx7465 perhaps there was a lack of chassis available for retrofitting into Achilles and Firefly’s at the time. If you have a ton of obsolete (in regards to firepower and armour) but otherwise sound tank chassis kicking around and a load of 17 pounder guns then why not experiment like this. I can certainly see the Archer as being useful for the static artillery role and as AT weapons when supported by infantry.
@@dphalanx7465 Besides it quickly became clear further on into operation overlord and especially by the time of the battle of the bulge that the vaunted German panzer army was already crippled. Tanks and tank destroyers were engaging far more soft targets (infantry, APCs/IFVs (like the Puma) and pillboxes/emplacements) than they were armoured tanks, and even then they began to face a lot of obsolete tanks. Mostly this was down to the fact that the majority of the truly heavy and super heavy tanks (such as the King Tiger) were busy fighting on the eastern front, as Russian tanks were far more of a threat than the British and American tanks, and the Russians had pushed far further into German territory than the British and Americans (plus the Germans feared them more). It probably showed the British high command that there was no longer a screaming need for as many 17 pounders on the field as possible as what they had (plus the new 76mm that the Americans began to upgrade to) was already sufficient. The battle of the bulge scared the hell out of the Americans and showed that the super heavy tanks were still around and were a threat, yet they and the British never truly faced the panzer army in the way the Russians did and so didn’t have the need for massive guns (such as the 85mm, the 100 mm, and then 120 mm guns) and heavy armour like the Russians did. Plus Churchill was already thinking defensively by that point against the Russians so a defensive TD made sense.
You mentioning getting disoriented with the controls since you're often reversing reminded me of a fun fact: in World of Tanks the controls for the Archer are set up as though the gun direction is forward, as is the direction it faced at spawn, but the gearbox is still modeled correctly. This leads to people constantly asking why the Archer is "faster in reverse."
The Archer is genuinely incredible - I think I have a similar-ish K/D after over 100 battles, it's just nuts at what it does. Pick a position not too far up, get set up, and just wait - that's all you have to do. Retreat if you get pushed, and pick a new spot further up if your team is winning. Full-bore 17-pounder at this level and anywhere up to 5.7 just deletes people no questions asked, and I've found the Archer itself often can take a number of hits when in position as people will shoot into the engine rather than the gun shield half the time, so it's not even as bad as it first looks. The only downside is the slow gun traverse - which, hilariously enough, is why uptiering it works better than at 2.7, because you fight tanks that are slower and won't sprint about faster than you can aim as often as lots of 1.7 - 2.0 tanks do Genuinely such a fun tank if you have a little patience when playing it, and I'm glad you can show how fantastic it is Odd!
Odd sounds like he might be Glaswegian, and that accent is a distinct dialect that is very difficult to understand without prior exposure to it. It's one of those English (or more accurately, Scots) language dialects that is heavily influenced by other older languages, and has a particularly noticeable Highland Scots twang over modern Scots. It pretty much now exists as a cultural offshoot of the more common language. Yorkshire accents are tricky, especially black country, but Glaswegian is a whole different beast.
Okay, the scene at 4:40 forward is literally a punch in the face for me; given I've never had any opponents that were that crowded together nor without any sharpshooting one-hit-kill M10's or whatever in the other team that would directly ruin such a shoot-fest, I "could" have done the same with any Panzer IV with the 75 long KwK. The problem simply is that I never get scenes like that. I have the impression Phly and you have incredible luck and knowledge when and against who you play. That's just ridiculously funny at times. Like many have already said: Odd: Shoots 5 targets like skeet shooting arranged in a row Me: Gets shot from 1500m by an M10 through a house; me possible invisible at that distance but... anyway
Apart from the whole… backwards thing, the archer is actually a really good TD at the BR. You can pen basically any tank from the front even in a full uptier. And people have no idea what to shoot (Until they mg your whole crew)
Its handy create a controls file with vehicle control keys reversed for things like the Archer and other tankish things where driving them backwards is an advantage. AB41/43s etc. With mixed presets, I have the arrow keys set up as reversed controls.
The archer has a reason for a reverse-pointing gun, and when used properly in WT you can take advantage of this. The gun faces backwards so that you can back the TD into place, somewhere hidden and disguised, and easily snipe at enemy tanks. However, when you need to make a getaway, all you need to do is drive forward! You are using the fast forward gear to remove yourself from your position without needing to turn around.
Well you're exactly right that would be the tactics that it would be best suited for And I have to give credit to whoevers idea that was able to get a 17 pounder in a tracked chassis Problem is that's about the only way to use it what about the rest of the time ??? I would have to say it's really limited. One thing in your favor was the incredible amount of smoke generated by the 17 pounder when it fired that would give you cover and give you a chance to get away Because it also generated a huge muzzle flash which would be sure to give your position away as well. It was common in those days for armored cars to have a forward driver's position and a rear drivers position and that would give you the best of both worlds like the Swedish S-Tank
The idea is sound but I never understood why they couldn't have done that with a standard turret style of tank. I don't see how difficult it is to face the hull towards your escape route but point the turret backwards. Isn't that the point of having a 360 degree turret in the first place?
@@hardlylivin6602 I'm pretty sure they did it like this, because the Valentine chassis had issues with the 17 pounder. The Valentines had turrets at the fron of the tank and when they tried mounting the gun the correct way, it was sticking way out in the front. It was also heavy and the tank was unstable and could bury the gun into the ground while braking. It was installed backwards to keep the whole thing balanced.
One of my most fondest memories in War Thunder is bringing my Archer into a 10.0 match and 1 shotting a T-72B with an 1100m shot straight through the drivers hatch. And in the same game 1 tapping another T-72 with the 57mm armed Mosquito, also straight down through the drivers hatch. War Thunder really has that meme factor that rarely any other game has by giving you the ability to bring WW2 tanks into battle vs modern tanks and have the WW2 tanks still able to get kills
Terrorizing top/high tier in low br vehicles is generally fun, id recommend the locust or chaffee. Its quite funny getting 5 kills with solely the locust against stuff like t54s
@@awacsrazgriz967 Me and my brother call the Chaffee the destroyer of worlds. its hilarious to bring it up and most often 1-shot modern tanks if you can see the sides below their turret.
I love this thing but I can never seem to make it work. I always end up spending 5 minutes getting to a spot, getting killed, and just bringing out the Crusader
I gave the archer a try and had to defend a point by myself with it. I asked “where are my teammates?” One dude got mad at me and said to shut up. But then he saw what I was in and apologized.
Always the way. If I had the luck that streamers get the game would't be nearly so annoying. Instead the enemy team has super radar and never target my team-mates. I seem to spend all my luck shrugging off artillery.
I love the ingenuity of Archer. I imagine the design was like "how do we strap a 17 ponder to a Valentine?" "Idk, mate, just mount it on backwards" and bam! Archer
Aaaa i love this thing. Once got a triple strike on port novorobosick after 3 guys tunnelvisioned in front of my slowly reversing steel boulder of a gun. A panzer literally got close enough to throw hands and proceeded to shoot at my teammate somewhere behind me. He got 17 pounds of fresh tea in the face. I then shot 2 of his teammates on my way to the B point.
My favorite part of this video is the intro, where odd is playing UK vehicles while a American folk song plays in the background, keep it up man, I love your content lol
Hey Odd, the T-34 1942 is really fun when you don't use the APHE, the solid shot has crazy shrapnel and the smoke shell is surprisingly useful! It would be cool to see you do a challenge video trying that!
I think the main issue with it in WT is that it was made entirely for the ambush role but you have to get to said ambush position first whilst youre a sitting duck with no armour
I remember a 5.3 battle on Cargo Port sometimes in January in which a guy in an Archer brawled at the objective and totally massacred my entire team and ended up at the top of the leaderbord.
@@danghostman2814 The 17pdr is great. The post-pen damage could be better but I love it anyway. I do have a problem with the Archer though, that thing is just pure pain.
Archer is an underrated tank. Sure it's annoying to have a backward-facing turret, sure it turns, backs, and drives slowly. But it can penetrate tanks way above its BR, let alone its own. Got 8 kills myself snipping with this french influenced surrendering-looking tank
I've always found the Archer great, it's by far my best k/d tank. Although I'm pretty sure they must've nerfed the gun accuracy when they moved it down to 2.7, I was trying to play it last week and the inaccuracy really caught me off guard. Speaking of k/d; by far my worst k/d tank (aka bus) is the Ratel 20, seems pretty good on paper but I can never make it work. Fancy suffering it for our viewing pleasure Mr Unusual Bollocks?
Archer!!! I've been asking you to play it un-ironically, as you can see. Its reload plus pen just eviscerates. Archer plus Tempest vickers P is my go to de-stress from top tier. But the question remains, how high up can the 17 pounder remain supreme?
(Yes I know I'm late shut up) I actually really like the archer, it has one of the fastest reloading 17 pounders in game and you can gtfo of a position once you get into a good spot upon discovery, but I think it does best at around 5.0 - 5.3 due to most other tanks being as sluggish as it unlike where it currently sits where it can be super easily flanked by hoards of light fast reloading tanks
Apparently the reason why the tank is backwards was because as the tank going forward just really fast the gun can pass enemy tanks and then if they pass them then they can kind of shoot them from behind
the reason the archer goes faster in reverse is cause the front is actaully the rear, the archer used the valentine chasis, the 17 pdr is mounted on the front facing the rear
The Archer is a stop gap TD based on the Valentine, they install the cannon backwards so they can relocate faster and it's small size made it ideal for ambush sonairos.
easily the most slept on tank in WT. Beyond a doubt the best gun for it's tier in the game, and has surprising survivability with the engine block absorbing shots that would kill other lightly armoured TDs.
My motto in these kinds of games is, "If it has good armament, it cannot be bad". Maybe you can find a few exceptions, but generally if you have a good gun you're all set. Meanwhile you could make a super fast, well-armored whatever and if you put a bad gun on it, it won't be good.
The barrel faces the rear. You can see little periscopes on the top behind the barrel on the top of that forward shield, like little frog eyes lol, so that would be the front of the tank.
i remember finally grinding out the archer when i was new to the game and was excited to have a tank destroyer. little did i know the horror i would reveal as i spawned into the first game...
You finally said what my boy and i have been saying…the scenareo being dont kill bawz as a land creature, he turns into the nastiest lethal weapon imaginable in his bird form, we literally say, dont kill him for your own safety…
the thing is the archer was never ment to fight things like panzer3 it was meant to be able to fight tigers. and instead of using armor to surive tiger shots they would shoot them then run away before the tiger could take aim
I don't know if the Archer deserves credit or if it was the team full of the visually and game-sense impaired that kept wandering into the graveyard you created in that first match. The bullseye in the second match was choice. Very nice.
Actually the first tank I got a free Talisman on so I used it for grinding British lower ranks. Zoom on the sight is good, gun is fantastic, and the engine a lot of time tanks the hits. One of my most played vehicles and I regularly get top of the team with it.
NAME A BETTER TANK DESTROYER THAN ARCHIE... I'LL WAIT!
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"I see you down there, with your fancy turrets facing the right way" made me wake up my kids from laughing lol
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The archer shows just how committed Britain was against a reverse gear, to the point where they made a tank destroyer backwards
I refuse to believe a frenchman wasn't involved in making the Archer happen, no one else could design such stellar rev.. I mean "forwards in another direction" gear. :D
@@arcamean785 AcTualLY....
Archer was invented because the 17lbr barrel stuck out too far in front when it was mounted in the Valentine's chassis. So, they turned it into a "Reverse Marder." My puzzlement is, given the time (post-DDay) and the tactics (they were on the Offensive & were already using Wolverines and Achilles), why the British settled for a purely-Defensive SP-AT?? They must have been jonesin' for as many 17lbr guns as they could get into the field.
@@dphalanx7465 perhaps there was a lack of chassis available for retrofitting into Achilles and Firefly’s at the time. If you have a ton of obsolete (in regards to firepower and armour) but otherwise sound tank chassis kicking around and a load of 17 pounder guns then why not experiment like this. I can certainly see the Archer as being useful for the static artillery role and as AT weapons when supported by infantry.
@@dphalanx7465 Besides it quickly became clear further on into operation overlord and especially by the time of the battle of the bulge that the vaunted German panzer army was already crippled. Tanks and tank destroyers were engaging far more soft targets (infantry, APCs/IFVs (like the Puma) and pillboxes/emplacements) than they were armoured tanks, and even then they began to face a lot of obsolete tanks. Mostly this was down to the fact that the majority of the truly heavy and super heavy tanks (such as the King Tiger) were busy fighting on the eastern front, as Russian tanks were far more of a threat than the British and American tanks, and the Russians had pushed far further into German territory than the British and Americans (plus the Germans feared them more). It probably showed the British high command that there was no longer a screaming need for as many 17 pounders on the field as possible as what they had (plus the new 76mm that the Americans began to upgrade to) was already sufficient. The battle of the bulge scared the hell out of the Americans and showed that the super heavy tanks were still around and were a threat, yet they and the British never truly faced the panzer army in the way the Russians did and so didn’t have the need for massive guns (such as the 85mm, the 100 mm, and then 120 mm guns) and heavy armour like the Russians did.
Plus Churchill was already thinking defensively by that point against the Russians so a defensive TD made sense.
You made my day when you say, "turn around and lets go". You just had to slide that one in there huh?
Let’s go Brandon!
@@BukitMan Poor cultist...
You mentioning getting disoriented with the controls since you're often reversing reminded me of a fun fact: in World of Tanks the controls for the Archer are set up as though the gun direction is forward, as is the direction it faced at spawn, but the gearbox is still modeled correctly. This leads to people constantly asking why the Archer is "faster in reverse."
The Archer is genuinely incredible - I think I have a similar-ish K/D after over 100 battles, it's just nuts at what it does. Pick a position not too far up, get set up, and just wait - that's all you have to do. Retreat if you get pushed, and pick a new spot further up if your team is winning. Full-bore 17-pounder at this level and anywhere up to 5.7 just deletes people no questions asked, and I've found the Archer itself often can take a number of hits when in position as people will shoot into the engine rather than the gun shield half the time, so it's not even as bad as it first looks. The only downside is the slow gun traverse - which, hilariously enough, is why uptiering it works better than at 2.7, because you fight tanks that are slower and won't sprint about faster than you can aim as often as lots of 1.7 - 2.0 tanks do
Genuinely such a fun tank if you have a little patience when playing it, and I'm glad you can show how fantastic it is Odd!
Nice to see someone else enjoys the Archer as I do. Talisman and one of my most played vehicles.
I hope they add the Bishop at some point too
Yep! Archie is just a beast and I love it! Have it slotted in 3 differend sets from 3.0, then 4.7 and 5.7 💪
I don’t like the archer very much the whole gamestyle is camping which is way to boring for me.
4:57 Bawz: “You wouldn’t understand me with my real accent.”
Me, who lived near York for a few years:
Challenge Accepted.
Odd sounds like he might be Glaswegian, and that accent is a distinct dialect that is very difficult to understand without prior exposure to it. It's one of those English (or more accurately, Scots) language dialects that is heavily influenced by other older languages, and has a particularly noticeable Highland Scots twang over modern Scots. It pretty much now exists as a cultural offshoot of the more common language.
Yorkshire accents are tricky, especially black country, but Glaswegian is a whole different beast.
Okay, the scene at 4:40 forward is literally a punch in the face for me; given I've never had any opponents that were that crowded together nor without any sharpshooting one-hit-kill M10's or whatever in the other team that would directly ruin such a shoot-fest, I "could" have done the same with any Panzer IV with the 75 long KwK.
The problem simply is that I never get scenes like that.
I have the impression Phly and you have incredible luck and knowledge when and against who you play. That's just ridiculously funny at times.
Like many have already said:
Odd: Shoots 5 targets like skeet shooting arranged in a row
Me: Gets shot from 1500m by an M10 through a house; me possible invisible at that distance but... anyway
"I told you, you would regret it. You killed a little baby Archer and I spawned back in a Demon."
I love the archer! The guys at Bovington also said that IRL it was one of the most well liked tank destroyers used by the British in WW2.
I play the Archer like a towed AT gun, ambush predator. Great results and you can outrange most everyone.
Apart from the whole… backwards thing, the archer is actually a really good TD at the BR. You can pen basically any tank from the front even in a full uptier.
And people have no idea what to shoot
(Until they mg your whole crew)
Loving these intros Odd. The "tanks as characters" vibe works.
Its handy create a controls file with vehicle control keys reversed for things like the Archer and other tankish things where driving them backwards is an advantage. AB41/43s etc. With mixed presets, I have the arrow keys set up as reversed controls.
Good heavens, thats quite the gamer move.
It’s not that confusing lol
i just have the orientation right in my head all the other tank destroyers are backwards
The archer has a reason for a reverse-pointing gun, and when used properly in WT you can take advantage of this. The gun faces backwards so that you can back the TD into place, somewhere hidden and disguised, and easily snipe at enemy tanks. However, when you need to make a getaway, all you need to do is drive forward! You are using the fast forward gear to remove yourself from your position without needing to turn around.
That sounds more like a physcology hack?
Well you're exactly right that would be the tactics that it would be best suited for And I have to give credit to whoevers idea that was able to get a 17 pounder in a tracked chassis Problem is that's about the only way to use it what about the rest of the time ??? I would have to say it's really limited. One thing in your favor was the incredible amount of smoke generated by the 17 pounder when it fired that would give you cover and give you a chance to get away Because it also generated a huge muzzle flash which would be sure to give your position away as well. It was common in those days for armored cars to have a forward driver's position and a rear drivers position and that would give you the best of both worlds like the Swedish S-Tank
The idea is sound but I never understood why they couldn't have done that with a standard turret style of tank. I don't see how difficult it is to face the hull towards your escape route but point the turret backwards. Isn't that the point of having a 360 degree turret in the first place?
@@hardlylivin6602 I'm pretty sure they did it like this, because the Valentine chassis had issues with the 17 pounder. The Valentines had turrets at the fron of the tank and when they tried mounting the gun the correct way, it was sticking way out in the front. It was also heavy and the tank was unstable and could bury the gun into the ground while braking. It was installed backwards to keep the whole thing balanced.
One of my most fondest memories in War Thunder is bringing my Archer into a 10.0 match and 1 shotting a T-72B with an 1100m shot straight through the drivers hatch. And in the same game 1 tapping another T-72 with the 57mm armed Mosquito, also straight down through the drivers hatch. War Thunder really has that meme factor that rarely any other game has by giving you the ability to bring WW2 tanks into battle vs modern tanks and have the WW2 tanks still able to get kills
Terrorizing top/high tier in low br vehicles is generally fun, id recommend the locust or chaffee.
Its quite funny getting 5 kills with solely the locust against stuff like t54s
@@awacsrazgriz967 Me and my brother call the Chaffee the destroyer of worlds. its hilarious to bring it up and most often 1-shot modern tanks if you can see the sides below their turret.
I love this thing but I can never seem to make it work. I always end up spending 5 minutes getting to a spot, getting killed, and just bringing out the Crusader
"you wouldn't understand me with my real accent" now I wanna hear your real accent.
-Look at you down there with your fancy turrets facing the right direction! Ahahahah OMG LMFAO🤣🤣🤣
I gave the archer a try and had to defend a point by myself with it. I asked “where are my teammates?” One dude got mad at me and said to shut up. But then he saw what I was in and apologized.
Odd: best TD in the game!
The game: *gets the most unatentive window licking enemies*
Always the way. If I had the luck that streamers get the game would't be nearly so annoying. Instead the enemy team has super radar and never target my team-mates. I seem to spend all my luck shrugging off artillery.
I think in that second game you were on the receiving end of a ghost shell. Truly Gaijin smiled upon the Archer that day.
Funny how Archers destroyed Tigers in real life but in WT you cant even get Panthers normally.
I love the ingenuity of Archer.
I imagine the design was like "how do we strap a 17 ponder to a Valentine?" "Idk, mate, just mount it on backwards" and bam! Archer
Aaaa i love this thing. Once got a triple strike on port novorobosick after 3 guys tunnelvisioned in front of my slowly reversing steel boulder of a gun. A panzer literally got close enough to throw hands and proceeded to shoot at my teammate somewhere behind me. He got 17 pounds of fresh tea in the face. I then shot 2 of his teammates on my way to the B point.
Though technically its driving forward, its nice to see a british tank with a good reverse speed 😂😂
My favorite part of this video is the intro, where odd is playing UK vehicles while a American folk song plays in the background, keep it up man, I love your content lol
Hey Odd, the T-34 1942 is really fun when you don't use the APHE, the solid shot has crazy shrapnel and the smoke shell is surprisingly useful! It would be cool to see you do a challenge video trying that!
Saw this beauty again last week at dutch military museum closeby!
Bless the queen and Odd ♥
Wait, what museum? I'd love to go!
@@OddBawZ The Overloon War Museum, there was a special event last weekend. They even brought in a Nashorn and 2 Stugs :3
5:05 The whole tank was moving back with every shot, or should I say forward.
I saw one of them and was completely bewildered at how it was reversing into battle and moving quickly while doing it.
I think the main issue with it in WT is that it was made entirely for the ambush role but you have to get to said ambush position first whilst youre a sitting duck with no armour
And sod's law dictates in a group of three half the enemy team is aiming at you, all the time, every time.
Odd, this is total confirmation - Archie says you are the #1 tank whisperer. Killer intro and killer video. As usual.
The archer is like that weird kid who was really strange until he spun his cap around, then he became the cool kid we all know today
I remember a 5.3 battle on Cargo Port sometimes in January in which a guy in an Archer brawled at the objective and totally massacred my entire team and ended up at the top of the leaderbord.
Hey, to be fair the 17pdr is the gun the British 4.7s are just upgrading into.
Just... stuck on weirdly to make a 2.7.
@@danghostman2814 The 17pdr is great. The post-pen damage could be better but I love it anyway. I do have a problem with the Archer though, that thing is just pure pain.
Hands down my favourite into yet. Smacking tanks with o'l backwards boi there and then the utter revenge destruction. Beautiful.
Britain sacrificed all her reverse abilities to give it to this tank
Archer: Wreaking tanks while driving with a backwards gun
Archie needs some sunglasses for this flex
*and wear them at the back of the head
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Very impressive! I found playing the Archer a miserable experience (like most British tanks). Top work!
Archer is an underrated tank. Sure it's annoying to have a backward-facing turret, sure it turns, backs, and drives slowly. But it can penetrate tanks way above its BR, let alone its own. Got 8 kills myself snipping with this french influenced surrendering-looking tank
I've always found the Archer great, it's by far my best k/d tank. Although I'm pretty sure they must've nerfed the gun accuracy when they moved it down to 2.7, I was trying to play it last week and the inaccuracy really caught me off guard.
Speaking of k/d; by far my worst k/d tank (aka bus) is the Ratel 20, seems pretty good on paper but I can never make it work. Fancy suffering it for our viewing pleasure Mr Unusual Bollocks?
Because going forward is faster than going in reverse
Unless you're a French tank
I love this tank one of reason why I played war thunder and have around 1k kills with it
I have about ~300 hours in this game now and I consistently top frag in my teams. I contribute that almost entirely to watching your videos.
3:03 the 17pdr is actually used until 6.0 but we dont talk about it
I love your new into's Odd, keep them up, they're great!
NGL man after watching your video's for a bit I learned some really good power spots on certain maps. My skill has improved.
Dude I love these new intros for the past few videos. Please keep doing them!
Archer!!! I've been asking you to play it un-ironically, as you can see. Its reload plus pen just eviscerates. Archer plus Tempest vickers P is my go to de-stress from top tier. But the question remains, how high up can the 17 pounder remain supreme?
The rear guard/caboose of every British convoy.
I loved the archer the feelin when you drift that shot just right be like…
(Yes I know I'm late shut up) I actually really like the archer, it has one of the fastest reloading 17 pounders in game and you can gtfo of a position once you get into a good spot upon discovery, but I think it does best at around 5.0 - 5.3 due to most other tanks being as sluggish as it unlike where it currently sits where it can be super easily flanked by hoards of light fast reloading tanks
Archer players literally have their heads on backwards and they still have a higher IQ than German mains💀
The “hi there” *flip aspect* “hi there!” Was comedy gold
"Look at you with your fancy turrets, facing the right direction!" - OddBawZ, 2022
Apparently the reason why the tank is backwards was because as the tank going forward just really fast the gun can pass enemy tanks and then if they pass them then they can kind of shoot them from behind
I love the archer it's fun having 2 17 pounders at such a low BR
the reason the archer goes faster in reverse is cause the front is actaully the rear, the archer used the valentine chasis, the 17 pdr is mounted on the front facing the rear
So the idea of firing the rhinos turret backwards to move faster in vice city had real life inspiration.
The Archer is a stop gap TD based on the Valentine, they install the cannon backwards so they can relocate faster and it's small size made it ideal for ambush sonairos.
Archie is a fantastic little boy, but this just reminds me how much I love the late Typhoon. Basically a British P-47, but with cannons.
Bonus feature: You drive so slowly that you look dead to aircraft.
easily the most slept on tank in WT. Beyond a doubt the best gun for it's tier in the game, and has surprising survivability with the engine block absorbing shots that would kill other lightly armoured TDs.
My motto in these kinds of games is, "If it has good armament, it cannot be bad". Maybe you can find a few exceptions, but generally if you have a good gun you're all set. Meanwhile you could make a super fast, well-armored whatever and if you put a bad gun on it, it won't be good.
Great vid! Thanks Odd, you never fail to make me laugh out loud.
I died after the you said this “for your fancy turrets facing the right way”
A lot of the British low tiers are actually really fun in higher BR's. I remember killing a Magach with an Archer and a Marder A1 with a Crusader III
The barrel faces the rear. You can see little periscopes on the top behind the barrel on the top of that forward shield, like little frog eyes lol, so that would be the front of the tank.
i remember finally grinding out the archer when i was new to the game and was excited to have a tank destroyer. little did i know the horror i would reveal as i spawned into the first game...
Hey man I joined your discord and glad it’s a great community and very helpful to newer players
You finally said what my boy and i have been saying…the scenareo being dont kill bawz as a land creature, he turns into the nastiest lethal weapon imaginable in his bird form, we literally say, dont kill him for your own safety…
archer isnt a bad tank, i think its pretty good, just super annoying to use
The false start at 2:40 is low key quality humour
the thing is the archer was never ment to fight things like panzer3 it was meant to be able to fight tigers. and instead of using armor to surive tiger shots they would shoot them then run away before the tiger could take aim
I hope you're dog is doing better and you can recover from the stress. Stay strong.
Archer, Achilles (65th), Typhoon, Crusader Mk.III = Constant British Grenadiers in the background.
Pettiest revenge kill ever. Love it!
I used to be an APHE fanboy. Then I played the British 17 pounder AP shot. My life changed.
Yeeee the cute Intros keep coming, i love it! :D
An Archer took a Tiger I out, though a building, the 17 pdr is bliss!
I don't know if the Archer deserves credit or if it was the team full of the visually and game-sense impaired that kept wandering into the graveyard you created in that first match.
The bullseye in the second match was choice. Very nice.
I definitely see the appeal of instantly being able to boogie out of dodge.
irl ww2 tanks turned their guns around to the back while driving longer distances so they would keep it clean and protect it from dust while driving
Beautiful sound from that gun .. ;) If the reverse (forward?) gear was a bit quicker it'd go a long way to make us mortals like the Archer more!
1:09 that’s what I think every time someone takes out Odd or Hunter in their ground vehicle lol
I love this TD because it keeps me awake and aware.
Actually the first tank I got a free Talisman on so I used it for grinding British lower ranks. Zoom on the sight is good, gun is fantastic, and the engine a lot of time tanks the hits. One of my most played vehicles and I regularly get top of the team with it.
I love these 'talking with the tanks' intros
I played the archer a while back and used it as my back up until... I think 7.7, but it's always fun to bring out
Hope your little doggo is going to be alright!
I used to play the archer quite a lot. just use it as if you were commanding a stationary anti tank gun and you'll be fine
I like these new intros with you talking to the tank.
It must have been a French design. Extremely slow facing the enemy and Super quick to run away.
This episode made me laugh so much. You're quality comedy gold, mate.
Archer and Achilles are my favorite TDs in game
The Archer's platform is.... OG french reserve tier grade. The gun is at home at 5.7
I think we need a video where Odd speaks with his natural accent through the whole thing.
There are 3 laughs that make me laugh every time. Out of control baby laugh, comedian Jim Bruer and Oddwawz.
Archer is awesome. It takes a bit of skill to master but then it's just the best.
You got an air kill in the Archie too?
Someone bet me $50 I couldn't shoot down a plane with it while I was streaming on Twitch. 3rd game in and I smacked a Duck at 3km LMAO! EZ 50 bucks!