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!
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.
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.
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
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)
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
(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
What's your actual accent sound like OddBawZ? We have to know now, after a comment like that! You already sound certifiably Scottish, that "I'm not Irish" comment felt out of left field lmao
is this a real Tank? Or is this just fantasy, caught in a landside. No escape from reality. Open your eyes, look up to the skies and seee. I`m just a OddBawZ I kneed no sympathy.
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?
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.
The Achilles is much better as I just got it after getting the 3-inch gun carrier which before it you guessed it the Archer which was good but the Achilles is just better.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Mr. BawZ, very good footage, very good. Always lookout for the children.😃 Your rocket skills are enthusiastic and little Archie shouldn't play with too many big boys. Hope your little buddy is doing better now🤡
Many people say that the Archer is horrible but I love it, for me it is the 2nd best TD in the game. It is not only rare, it is also deadly. By the way, for the next challenge try L3/33 cc at 7.3 and try to kill as many enemies as possible.
I feel for ya, I have 5 little ones.. 1 dog and 4 cats so I can understand the stress... I have one cat that we are trying to keep alive for he's going through kidney failure... He act's like a child and they all are spoiled rotten...LOL... Love the pets... Eat, sleep, and keep on loving the babies...
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
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 spend 3 years in scotland so I could finally understand scottish youtubers and you are telling me you wont even use a proper accent?! So much time wasted -.-
Try typing in the all chat and say would you kill the baby tank two ones can't really do much damage so just let them shoot you all they can do is just destroy or just damage your tracks or tires like if the pens like they see anywhere near the 100s you're just going to get a enemy bullet bouncing off your armor I'll just let them be there just shoot my threads just shoot me armor just give it they're all
Makes me feel less bad about how slow my Sturer is. Then again i seem to only have good games in it. Especially on maps that let me abuse its depression lmao
NAME A BETTER TANK DESTROYER THAN ARCHIE... I'LL WAIT!
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I like the Avenger
TYPE60 ATM as usual
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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...
"I see you down there, with your fancy turrets facing the right way" made me wake up my kids from laughing lol
😂
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 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.
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
I play the Archer like a towed AT gun, ambush predator. Great results and you can outrange most everyone.
Loving these intros Odd. The "tanks as characters" vibe works.
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.
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
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)
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.
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
5:05 The whole tank was moving back with every shot, or should I say forward.
"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.
Though technically its driving forward, its nice to see a british tank with a good reverse speed 😂😂
Funny how Archers destroyed Tigers in real life but in WT you cant even get Panthers normally.
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!
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.
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.
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?
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.
"you wouldn't understand me with my real accent" now I wanna hear your real accent.
archer isnt a bad tank, i think its pretty good, just super annoying to use
-Look at you down there with your fancy turrets facing the right direction! Ahahahah OMG LMFAO🤣🤣🤣
I think in that second game you were on the receiving end of a ghost shell. Truly Gaijin smiled upon the Archer that day.
Very impressive! I found playing the Archer a miserable experience (like most British tanks). Top work!
Because going forward is faster than going in reverse
Unless you're a French tank
Hey odd I have a tooth infection so I can't laugh on this video 🥺
allow I am ze german man that you shot at ze beginning of ze round now you will go kapoot
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
Archer players literally have their heads on backwards and they still have a higher IQ than German mains💀
(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
Challege Suggestion - Panzer III N with Stock APHE at 3.0 (Day 10)
What's your actual accent sound like OddBawZ? We have to know now, after a comment like that! You already sound certifiably Scottish, that "I'm not Irish" comment felt out of left field lmao
is this a real Tank? Or is this just fantasy, caught in a landside. No escape from reality. Open your eyes, look up to the skies and seee. I`m just a OddBawZ I kneed no sympathy.
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!
OddBawZ an Archie with 2 Great Highland bagpipe Siting on the sides and playing so they will come like magents, a lot more kills :P
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?
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.
in real life, this thing was used in African countries post war and used APDS
*gaijin Archer APDS when*
The Achilles is much better as I just got it after getting the 3-inch gun carrier which before it you guessed it the Archer which was good but the Achilles is just better.
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
between the shet maps and you revenge bombers...
it's a wonder i even play this game. :P
I hope you're dog is doing better and you can recover from the stress. Stay strong.
I love this tank one of reason why I played war thunder and have around 1k kills with it
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
I loved the archer the feelin when you drift that shot just right be like…
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.
The rear guard/caboose of every British convoy.
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
🕶
Bit weird seeing a Scot use the word British without the word B@st@rds attached.
3:03 the 17pdr is actually used until 6.0 but we dont talk about it
Britain sacrificed all her reverse abilities to give it to this tank
I know this thing is great, but playing it is annoying.
Yeeee the cute Intros keep coming, i love it! :D
Odd can you do the heart thing🤞
I saw one of them and was completely bewildered at how it was reversing into battle and moving quickly while doing it.
Hope your little doggo is going to be alright!
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 love the archer it's fun having 2 17 pounders at such a low BR
The perfect tank to prtect the reatrting army
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.
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.
Pettiest revenge kill ever. Love it!
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.
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.
*Instant happy Walter White on my face because Odd just uploaded a video with my favorite SPG in this game*
A wee comment for the algo
HOLY CRAP. 2 CLIPS INSIDE 24 HOUR'S........
I have to play more WT...
GG GOD uhm I mean.
Oh dear God ODD.....
What was the actual reasoning behind this tank design? Anyone known
It was to set up an ambush, fire then get away quickly. Crews loved it but it wasn't very helpful offensively.
Ystervark (Afrikaans) --> IJzervarken (Dutch) --> Ironpig (English)
Literal translation of a porcupine
Funny how languages work lol
Mr. BawZ, very good footage, very good. Always lookout for the children.😃 Your rocket skills are enthusiastic and little Archie shouldn't play with too many big boys. Hope your little buddy is doing better now🤡
Archer, Achilles (65th), Typhoon, Crusader Mk.III = Constant British Grenadiers in the background.
Give us that REAL accent. When I speak Spanglish, my white friends do NOT understand anything. 😂😂
Many people say that the Archer is horrible but I love it, for me it is the 2nd best TD in the game. It is not only rare, it is also deadly.
By the way, for the next challenge try L3/33 cc at 7.3 and try to kill as many enemies as possible.
I feel for ya, I have 5 little ones.. 1 dog and 4 cats so I can understand the stress... I have one cat that we are trying to keep alive for he's going through kidney failure... He act's like a child and they all are spoiled rotten...LOL... Love the pets... Eat, sleep, and keep on loving the babies...
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
Awesome my favorite td is m56 t95 and t114 :) I play m56 and t114 very sneaky while t95 I play as an armor placement:)
*barrel bursts*
>BENNY, FLOOR IT!
*WROOOOO*
I love the Archer. I also hate the Archer...
Hands down my favourite into yet. Smacking tanks with o'l backwards boi there and then the utter revenge destruction. Beautiful.
NGL man after watching your video's for a bit I learned some really good power spots on certain maps. My skill has improved.
I used to be an APHE fanboy. Then I played the British 17 pounder AP shot. My life changed.
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.
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
He bawz, can you play the m3 gmc at around br 5.3+ it has the sherman 75 basically and it is a speedy boy I love
Day 11
I love seeing you happy again! Keep up the great vids Oddbawz, and I hope and pray for your continued good health. [edit] Your dog too!
Please excuse my ignorance but what does squidding mean?
Hahaha, Squids Ink the water to run away when they are threatened. Germany tanks do the same thing when you fire at them! LOL
@@OddBawZ hahaha. That's great.
please play the ussr 2.3 T-80 and T-28e tanks, they are great fun and you have no video on both tanks (day 17)
"Look at you with your fancy turrets, facing the right direction!" - OddBawZ, 2022
I spend 3 years in scotland so I could finally understand scottish youtubers and you are telling me you wont even use a proper accent?! So much time wasted -.-
Day 78 of writing comments for the algorithm, even tho they are to late today again :/ No.5
Anyways enjoy the video!!
Really wish you play more british tanks =)
It must have been a French design. Extremely slow facing the enemy and Super quick to run away.
Try typing in the all chat and say would you kill the baby tank two ones can't really do much damage so just let them shoot you all they can do is just destroy or just damage your tracks or tires like if the pens like they see anywhere near the 100s you're just going to get a enemy bullet bouncing off your armor I'll just let them be there just shoot my threads just shoot me armor just give it they're all
Ken whit yeh mean Odd aboot the dug thing Am the same like bearins Hope the wee fella is back 100%
TC and give him a biscuit fi me
Makes me feel less bad about how slow my Sturer is. Then again i seem to only have good games in it. Especially on maps that let me abuse its depression lmao
the emils flaw is that it's fucking giant
You definitely do not sound Irish, BawZ. Those Americans think we're all the same!