3:28. The Su-85 has the same armor thickness as the T-34 but it’s sloped less. Back when the Whirbelwind had 64mm of pen it literally penned my frontal armor up close. The Su-85M has 75mm instead of 45mm
@@Алекса́ндрФёдоровичКе́ренс-ы3н It's 70mm cast homogeneous on both if I remember correctly, so it's thicker on the 85 but thinner than the UFP on the 85M.
T14 has been so hit or miss for me cause it relies entirely on people not knowing how to pen it. Sometimes I set a new personal record for points in a match, sometimes the first tank I encounter shoots me in the turret.
In my experience both fighting it and fighting in it, it is more about how Warthunder is feeling, sometimes you shoot it flush in the side from 50m and non-pen with a 17 pounder, and sometimes a enemy Sherman scrapes the side of your turret and nukes your turret crew while also somehow getting a kill on one of the dudes in the hull.
@@commandoepsilon4664 Yeah that's been the case for me. I've never really had any issues with killing the T-14 when running into them, aside from when playing 3.7 russia.
Yeah one thing people don’t get about war thunder is it heavily favors hard factors and makes historically awful vehicles incredibly good, because it doesn’t take into consideration all the minor stuff that makes tanks trash.
that conveniently makes the Russian tanks way better than they should be, because it doesn't account random breakdowns on the road, insane fuel usage etc
Would be fun af to have a gamemode that's basically GRB but taking that into account. Depending on your tank, the chance to have some sort of breakdown increases or decreases, and it's completely random. Imagine how many Tiger II players would be screaming at their monitors 😭
@@wokedog1799almost all WW2 tanks had reliability issues. German and Soviet tanks appear especially bad because they both didn't do proper maintenance. Germans because of logistical issues, the Soviets because it was easier just to make another tank.
Ah yes, what happens when you don’t make your Sherman work out when bulking up, instead of making the areas thicker like a Jumbo, it all just flabs down to the sides and all. Edit: the amount of CAS attacking you is bonkers! It’s like you got in a T95 Edit#2: This T14 is like the Tiger from Fury, absolutely balling on everyone
T14 is underrated but fun especially when you angle properly and bounce multiple 88mm and sometimes a 128mm shell 😂😂 from my experience .. it’s pretty god damn survivable and it’s a good underrated heavy tank. i bring full ammo in my t14 lol
I wish I got dumb enemies like that in my games. Most of the time enemies will go for the turret, which is only 80mm with a size able area that is completely flat. The T14 does still stomp when it’s down tiered but damn does it suffer at 5.3 when you fight panthers, tigers, Russian 85s that will lol pen you anywhere while the 75mm on the t14 will struggle. You could always do track and barrel torture but it gets very annoying pretty quickly especially when sometimes barrels refuse to bust.
@@markbautista1631 Keep on the move too if you can. Makes it a lot harder to hit a good shot on the turret or the MG port. But even if you angle perfectly at close range, the 88mm can still go through the hull.
Im watching this at 3:39am, also any chance of you covering the French ARL 44 or any of the Churchill variants such as the crocodile or AVRE; love your videos.
T14 truly is a meme when down tiered, I've run into them a few times playing the T-34-76 and had no idea what I was looking at so I backed up and ran away from it when I couldn't penetrate it frontally. btw can you do a video on the IS-4M please?
@@entireanarchy2293 Whenever I play this thing without bushes I just get one tapped by Soviets. Either through the MG port or the tiny cheek weakspots on the turret.
You gotta revisit the LVT-40 from france. It came into the game at 2.3 and its still pretty good at 3.7 where its currently sitting. Its a better AA than any of the AA's at the br lol
He postedddd, I love your vids and I just finished watching all the vids I missed last night. I get killed by Sherman and jumbo all the time and it annoys me so bad, especially when they get that one lucky shot when I’m angeling in a tiger
@@haroldotrotter9148 yea, one of my friends who has almost 1000 hours on warthunder who has finished America tech tree and is now doing Germany taught me how to angle properly and it really does work cause nothing can pen me.
@@nemesis7774 lol yea, I read that comic issue. It was a pretty badass moment even though it comes from Disney canon (I grew up with the legends books, comics, games, and mostly prefer that to the new canon; I even have a digital copy of a comic that is about nothing but luke's wedding to Mara Jade as well as all the rogue squadron comics; also a ton of legends novels).
@@jayburn00 I wish I could have read all the Books of the legend era. It's quite difficult to find them nowadays. But yeah, this Book and a few others are a few nice things from the Disney Era that aren't just there to patch the holes left by their movies, such as the ones created to give the context we never got for exegol..
@@nemesis7774 a lot of them are now available on audible or kindle, and if all else fails, there are torrent dls that compiled all star wars legends content.
Seeing as you had a pretty nice duel with an ARL-44 (ACL-1), you should play with that one too! It's so good, It's personally one of my favourite tanks.
I second the Chi-Ri II, the potential it has for baiting people into peeking you is just insane (if the 37mm shot doesn't convince them, the autoloaded 75mm 100% works at baiting anyone out as long as you can buy yourself 4 seconds)
3:42 cool bug i noticed in mid to high tier is that some players take advantage of the desync and "swat" your shell away mid flight simply by looking to the left or right depending on which angle your tank is shooting from. despite your client displaying the shell hitting *before* he swats it away, his client will claim "well actually, server, my client was CLEARLY aiming to the left/right so the shell HAD to hit his barrel" some matches will have these "shell swatters" take no barrel damage or not enough to warrant an unusable gun. its an extremely broken mechanic unfortunately
I know you mainly play RB, but I think it would make for an entertaining video if you tried playing Ground AB and the differences you would find with how aiming and spotting works in arcade.
Can you do the Ka-Chi because its basically the best low tier tank you could have gotten and also the best low tier reward from the operation (insert current season here) events ever
Genuinely one of my favorite tanks in the game (in before it gets moved to fucking 5.0), because it's one of the few heavy tanks which FEELS like a heavy tank. You can actually break through enemy lines, you can soak up fire, you can contribute to the fight even if you're significantly outgunned. It's a brick, but she's a beautiful brick.
TLDR Its still good but you have to take the fact that your entire turret face around mantlet is a weakspot together with hull mg - thus you have to angle both hull and turret Its increase in BR for Arcade is worse, still workable but not that fun. Feels like playing uptiered M4A2
Thanks for playing it! Now might I suggest something diabolical… M5 Stuart with SAPHE only. Or if you’re a real masochist… M6 using only the 37mm with SAPHE.
BTW if I sound depressed in the beginning it's because I had just finished recording the M41D vs top tier video
Lol
Put those chinnese dogs away, too many bulldog backups
Have not watched dat
How many backups do you have left?
I was going to comment, you sure you are ok?
I swear Spookston has like a passive special ability. The more encircled he is, he gets better memes
“We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem.”
"Sir, we're surrounded!"
"Great! Now we can fire in all directions!"
That's because when he gets surrounded "It's Spooking Time!"
“Men, keep your eyes down range, fingers in your triggers and we all go home in one piece. AM I RIGHT MARINES?!? “
Same here. I'm pretty dogshit most of the time but the minute it's me vs half the enemy team I go on an 8 kill streak
WT Players when their premium tank goes from literally unstoppable to just simply overpowered: 🥺
True 😂😂
insert russian guy saying "NYET, NYET, NTEY, NYET, NYET!"
@@munastronaut8147that a hitler meme, nyet mean no in german
@@KhooiMai nein is no in german, nyet is no in most slavic languages
@@munastronaut8147 thank for the correction
3:28. The Su-85 has the same armor thickness as the T-34 but it’s sloped less.
Back when the Whirbelwind had 64mm of pen it literally penned my frontal armor up close. The Su-85M has 75mm instead of 45mm
Nice info! One time I faced a su 75 I bounced of the drivershats and died )':
@@theflyingtank5555 But the driver hatch on SU-85 is thinner than the rest of it's armor on both variants?
Also capped shells will sometimes make 45 multilateral normalizations to go through plates in this game. Or they do the same to bounce off…
Yeah the SU-85 can't easily be penned, it has more effective armor then a lste sherman and resists a lot of at tier rounds.
@@Алекса́ндрФёдоровичКе́ренс-ы3н It's 70mm cast homogeneous on both if I remember correctly, so it's thicker on the 85 but thinner than the UFP on the 85M.
T14 has been so hit or miss for me cause it relies entirely on people not knowing how to pen it. Sometimes I set a new personal record for points in a match, sometimes the first tank I encounter shoots me in the turret.
In my experience both fighting it and fighting in it, it is more about how Warthunder is feeling, sometimes you shoot it flush in the side from 50m and non-pen with a 17 pounder, and sometimes a enemy Sherman scrapes the side of your turret and nukes your turret crew while also somehow getting a kill on one of the dudes in the hull.
@@commandoepsilon4664 Yeah that's been the case for me. I've never really had any issues with killing the T-14 when running into them, aside from when playing 3.7 russia.
@@yummypiee6981 Russian bias 💯💯💯
@@yummypiee6981 q
Yeah one thing people don’t get about war thunder is it heavily favors hard factors and makes historically awful vehicles incredibly good, because it doesn’t take into consideration all the minor stuff that makes tanks trash.
that conveniently makes the Russian tanks way better than they should be, because it doesn't account random breakdowns on the road, insane fuel usage etc
See; all KV tanks, T-34s, basically all of the US prototype tanks, Panthers, Ferdinand, a lot of the low-mid tier tanks really
Would be fun af to have a gamemode that's basically GRB but taking that into account. Depending on your tank, the chance to have some sort of breakdown increases or decreases, and it's completely random. Imagine how many Tiger II players would be screaming at their monitors 😭
@@eVill420 And the factory defects,un trained crews,shitty ergonomics
@@wokedog1799almost all WW2 tanks had reliability issues. German and Soviet tanks appear especially bad because they both didn't do proper maintenance. Germans because of logistical issues, the Soviets because it was easier just to make another tank.
3:55 spook :complains about his team
Also spook :is killing enemies right at their spawn 😂
Without a turret ring mind you.
Peak Spookston content, as always
So each video is a new peak
@@arthurdent4791 exactly. PEAK 🖐️😐🖐️
Ah yes, what happens when you don’t make your Sherman work out when bulking up, instead of making the areas thicker like a Jumbo, it all just flabs down to the sides and all.
Edit: the amount of CAS attacking you is bonkers! It’s like you got in a T95
Edit#2: This T14 is like the Tiger from Fury, absolutely balling on everyone
Balling, but at what cost
@@Techno_Idioto A chewed up leg
Fury tiger 1 shotter every sherman except it couldn't pen Brad Pitts titanium chin
This tank is very fun to use and I enjoy using it whenever I can
He really just casually solo'ed an entire War Thunder team and got 22 kills
The t14 just gets constant mission updates when it kills a tank it goes from “defeat the enemy” to “survive the first wave of aircraft”
T14 is underrated but fun especially when you angle properly and bounce multiple 88mm and sometimes a 128mm shell 😂😂 from my experience .. it’s pretty god damn survivable and it’s a good underrated heavy tank. i bring full ammo in my t14 lol
Idk what Im doing wrong but a perfect 45° angle and tigers just go through my ufp like butter, I somehow bounce alot more panthers tho
@@markbautista1631 maybe the size of the tiger shell is bigger and better in angle tanks I know it because I have kill t14 easily
I wish I got dumb enemies like that in my games. Most of the time enemies will go for the turret, which is only 80mm with a size able area that is completely flat.
The T14 does still stomp when it’s down tiered but damn does it suffer at 5.3 when you fight panthers, tigers, Russian 85s that will lol pen you anywhere while the 75mm on the t14 will struggle. You could always do track and barrel torture but it gets very annoying pretty quickly especially when sometimes barrels refuse to bust.
@@markbautista1631 Keep on the move too if you can. Makes it a lot harder to hit a good shot on the turret or the MG port. But even if you angle perfectly at close range, the 88mm can still go through the hull.
@@cuhyotepowered1201 You can troll and fire smoke at people so you can get close
The shermans are some of my favorite tanks to play and the stabilizers are a pretty big reason as to why. Also I should get this thing eventually
I have like 360 kills on the M4A1, my main grinding vehicle (it has a talisman)
Im watching this at 3:39am, also any chance of you covering the French ARL 44 or any of the Churchill variants such as the crocodile or AVRE; love your videos.
Yea, I like the 75mm ARL
@@Spookston 90mm arl is better can bounce more and can actually pen
@@savagewolf5918 75 mm ARL does that, and better because the turret is not made out of butter
@@Spookston not so great in up-tiers or for brawling, but yeah a good heavy especially hull down
@@savagewolf5918 has that annoying weak point in the turret tho nxt to the mantle.
5:43 As a CoD fan who started at World at War back in 08, this edit literally made my day.
Thank you Spook, ily
I have only one memory of the T14 and that was watching one parry my 152 with his barrel. There has been strife between us ever since.
Could you maybe see how overpowered the IS6 is at 7.3? Cheers. :)
The IS6 is 7.0
Silly me.
Polska krowa
We must now bother spook until he gives us the IS6 video.
@@zachreal-09 I am from the future, it is now 7.7 and I can't believe they used to have it at 7.0 wtf
T14 truly is a meme when down tiered, I've run into them a few times playing the T-34-76 and had no idea what I was looking at so I backed up and ran away from it when I couldn't penetrate it frontally.
btw can you do a video on the IS-4M please?
Try to aim for the MG port on the Hull, as far as I know that the only place a Soviet 76 can pin it frontally.
@@entireanarchy2293 Whenever I play this thing without bushes I just get one tapped by Soviets. Either through the MG port or the tiny cheek weakspots on the turret.
@@XSpamDragonX true I usually don't go for the turret cheeks though cause I find it inconsistent
@@entireanarchy2293 Theyre consistent if your APHE has magic normalising powers.
@@XSpamDragonX mine never does so I wouldn't know.
2:23 as someone who’s currently working on the Swedish tech tree, Pvkv IIs blow up more easily than cars in action films.
5:59 "Your main goal, is to guard A, and then act like you don't know nobody NYAHahAHAHa"
Best humor WT tuber. The zoom on that *thing* shooting it's machine gun at you, artillery barraging your tank "they're angry" Your the best dood!
Spookston: Shows one photo of tank lots of holes.
People with trypophobia:
AHHHH!!!!
Please keep making this hilarious edits!! I love it!! 😂 5:45
You gotta revisit the LVT-40 from france. It came into the game at 2.3 and its still pretty good at 3.7 where its currently sitting. Its a better AA than any of the AA's at the br lol
Wirbelwind: Hold my beer
Ima once again ask for a video on our beloved open top avenger spookston
You make playing this game look so easy. Also these are just some suggestions but could you make a video on either the CV90-105 or T-55AM1?
Why are all of spookstons enemy’s always brain dead? All of mine are sniping me from spawn.
Same
BRUH I burst out laughing I wasn't expecting that😂 5:45
I couldn't breathe
Hearing "GRENADE" instantly took me back to World at War, also got your HSTVL hoodie coming in sometime soon!
0:42 i feel embarassed to admit but till now i kept reading this as "My M41 week before it died" instead of "My M4 one week before it died" lmaooo
Fat sherman wins ww2; asked to leave limited production
I haven't laughed at normal gameplay footage this hard ever before. The T14 is a hilarious tank and the 75 mm M61 is an awesome round.
"How are we still alive?" You're in a pay to win tank my dude. That's what they do.
3:55 "Come on man, my team" he says while he extended way past his team into the enemy spawn. Not everyone wants to just sit in the enemy spawn.
Anytime spookston joins a game “ I don’t think you realize I’m not stuck in here with you , your stuck in here with me “
5:51 the second that explosion hit the tank i got a food delivery app
1:55 Finally, a worthy opponent. Our battle will be legendary.
Why did Spookston bring HE ammo and not only APHE so he wouldn't had the ammo problem so I only bring APHE in a battle
True kinda useless to take HE with T14
I love the constant downtiers of the t14’s premium matchmaker
Barely even saw your team on the kill feed.
Cant wait for T14 to go to 6.0
I had that same tree problem yesterday. I was like "wtf is going on"
0:02 this is how it feels in a Matilda in a downtier
Dude, that last stand on A felt way more epic than it had any right to, good show
Meanwhile every time I attempt to play the T14 I just get lolpenned by the long 75 even when angled that's an entire 1.4br lower for some reason
This is one of my favourite premiums. Great video. Thank you!
He postedddd, I love your vids and I just finished watching all the vids I missed last night.
I get killed by Sherman and jumbo all the time and it annoys me so bad, especially when they get that one lucky shot when I’m angeling in a tiger
do u know weak spots or do you know how to angle properly? once you figure that out you'll be in one of the most power tanks at 5.3-5.7
@@haroldotrotter9148 yea, one of my friends who has almost 1000 hours on warthunder who has finished America tech tree and is now doing Germany taught me how to angle properly and it really does work cause nothing can pen me.
Spookston in a T-14: "All I'm surrounded is by is fear.... and dead man"
Darth Vader
@@jayburn00 You're a man of culture as well..
@@nemesis7774 lol yea, I read that comic issue. It was a pretty badass moment even though it comes from Disney canon (I grew up with the legends books, comics, games, and mostly prefer that to the new canon; I even have a digital copy of a comic that is about nothing but luke's wedding to Mara Jade as well as all the rogue squadron comics; also a ton of legends novels).
@@jayburn00 I wish I could have read all the Books of the legend era. It's quite difficult to find them nowadays. But yeah, this Book and a few others are a few nice things from the Disney Era that aren't just there to patch the holes left by their movies, such as the ones created to give the context we never got for exegol..
@@nemesis7774 a lot of them are now available on audible or kindle, and if all else fails, there are torrent dls that compiled all star wars legends content.
Seeing as you had a pretty nice duel with an ARL-44 (ACL-1), you should play with that one too! It's so good, It's personally one of my favourite tanks.
5:45 A man of culture utilizing the OST, voice lines and character from WaW. Absolutely legendary meme usage.
I got this tank and I thought it was bad but these videos made me play it
If you thought the t14 even at 4.7 was bad, you were simply a bad player
@@savagewolf5918 an average Gaijin enjoyer*
@@savagewolf5918 yea I got it when I was starting the game
@@derrickstorm6976 dude the t14 can reliably bounce shells when angled even in a full uptier it's not a bad tank at all
everyone gangsta till the tree starts moon walking away
Another great video to watch!
Could you try the Japanese autoloader 5.0 Chi-Ri II?
I second the Chi-Ri II, the potential it has for baiting people into peeking you is just insane
(if the 37mm shot doesn't convince them, the autoloaded 75mm 100% works at baiting anyone out as long as you can buy yourself 4 seconds)
3:42 cool bug i noticed in mid to high tier is that some players take advantage of the desync and "swat" your shell away mid flight simply by looking to the left or right depending on which angle your tank is shooting from.
despite your client displaying the shell hitting *before* he swats it away, his client will claim "well actually, server, my client was CLEARLY aiming to the left/right so the shell HAD to hit his barrel"
some matches will have these "shell swatters" take no barrel damage or not enough to warrant an unusable gun.
its an extremely broken mechanic unfortunately
I know you mainly play RB, but I think it would make for an entertaining video if you tried playing Ground AB and the differences you would find with how aiming and spotting works in arcade.
“I haven’t really played that side of the map” says the guy with multiple thousands of hours is in my opinion the most War Thunder thing to say
Can you do the Ka-Chi because its basically the best low tier tank you could have gotten and also the best low tier reward from the operation (insert current season here) events ever
I find AC-1 to be pretty op, and I didn’t even play it since it got a low-speed stabiliser
I’m a big fan of the Ke-Ni. It’s fast and one of the smallest low tier light tanks.
@@Kuschel_K It's basically a reserve tier Locust
Enjoying this format. It’s like Oddbawz but more chilled.
Should make a VK 45 01 video, seems like a fun tank after seeing you play the other fatter one
This is one of the funniest War thunder videos I have seen. I was laughing constantly throughout.
Another impenetrable tank you could play at 4.7 could be the Churchill VII. It does suffer from solid shot syndrome tho
And slow
Thanks for another great video Spookston
Genuinely one of my favorite tanks in the game (in before it gets moved to fucking 5.0), because it's one of the few heavy tanks which FEELS like a heavy tank. You can actually break through enemy lines, you can soak up fire, you can contribute to the fight even if you're significantly outgunned. It's a brick, but she's a beautiful brick.
This was a treat, thank you
Check out the VT 1-2 again, it is getting uptiered and is somewhat balanced now.
“I hate crocodiles so much” just wait till he hears about alligators
Hey Spookston, can you make a video on the M60-2000? Do you think it would fit in Warthunder as an evolution to the M60A3 or a premium?
I second this
"I never played that part of the map before"
DUDE, YOU HAD ENOUGH TIME TO DO SO, YOU RESEARCHED ALL TREES
TLDR
Its still good but you have to take the fact that your entire turret face around mantlet is a weakspot together with hull mg - thus you have to angle both hull and turret
Its increase in BR for Arcade is worse, still workable but not that fun. Feels like playing uptiered M4A2
TLDR 2:
Angle like Maus
glad to see spookston having fun in war thunder
M-51(w) I’d love to see your opinion on it, seems like a decent tank the round however let’s it down a lot 70% of the time
I like how he casually got a 22 kill game and dident soud the slighest bit suprised 😂
day 12 of asking spookston to play the T-44-100
This man spitting into the wind and the wind reverses. How even
7:11 22 kill is very good!
I just want to know if no teammates actually died for that whole thing and he won
The fact it's a "T14" and there's a Terminator clip in the beginning is just perfect
I always get clapped in the t14
8:21 Do keep in mind that plate on the kv85 is 45mm thick instead of the regular 75mm, making that bounce even more bullshit.
Even at 4.7 it is still pritty good
I like how Spookston blames his team whenever he gets himself into trouble.
MUNGA MUNGA MUNGA MUNGA MUNGA MUNGA!!!!!
I love watching heavies spin around each other at point blank in a turret traverse race
You killed my friend hugomez at 6:44
Who just liked my comment?
@@oskarhoffmann8312
Yourself?
@@Epicgamercool-iz4sl no lol
I’m your second like
mate, your editing is fabulous
4:55 Most normal tree in Ohio
Some of the best and most fun edits love the commentary :DDD keep being awesome 💪
4:11 is a picture
Et tu, Michael?
It wasn't your fault hank, the ambush was unpredictable, you have to let go.
Spookston’s team: not PTFO
Spookston: “fine, I shall do it myself.”
Awesome video as always. I would love to see some gameplay of the KV-2.
lol, Sherman has ated a lot of burgers and Tacos from Taco Bell
Just imagine your fighting a t14 but it's covered in bushes
Thanks for playing it! Now might I suggest something diabolical… M5 Stuart with SAPHE only. Or if you’re a real masochist… M6 using only the 37mm with SAPHE.
Spookston: Can this tree get off my tank?
The tree: 🛸
That COD WoW meme absolutely killed me, oh my gosh
I love the Cod Waw grenade meme reference
@7:00 “No one shoots you in the bottom of the hull”.
😺
Breaking news: T14 medium tank has been repositioned to be 11.7
"Can I send Gaijin the bill for my next optometrist appointment" really got me
happy new year spookston!! thank you for the amazing content!!
This is a certified spookston classic