Watching a KV have the awkward problem of failing ot penetrate an M4 Sherman with the AP ( it might only be 50mm or so on the very front, but it is heavily sloped...) would make for bad videos
@@RedShocktrooperRST aim for the view port you'll kill iy every time usually they can't pen you unless they aim for your port (also fun fact if you flank a Sherman aims right behind that little box on there side that's usually where they have some ammo)
@@lordinquisitorjohn1357 i have shot the view port of 1 sherman with a kv1 at 50meters distance and it wasnt angled but the shell didnt pen i think there is kinda bugged it is 26mm and a video of bo time gaming shows the same gun of a panzer 4 f2 hitting there and not penning
@@martimnunesmartinho6788 Hm ive never had that happen to me if you were using AP rounds it should have pend. Not sure what round you were using but AP to the view port pens me and other KVs when im playing other nation every time. Thats a bit odd.
There is no reason* You can penetrate every single enemy tank you face at that BR, while they can't do anything to you if you angle. Or if they do you still have superb survivability. Just because you have to properly aim doesn't mean it deserves a low battle rating. Another thing to mention is the insane mobility it has for a Heavy Tank.
@@matthiuskoenig3378 I don't think you understand, KV-1's can't really pen other KV-1's. Lol. Well at least before the ballistics update. th-cam.com/video/QVwqoTVsCYY/w-d-xo.html Here is a video of that from my other channel. Back then however I didn't know about the driver port weakspot, but I ended up killing him in the end.
Also seems pretty strange, so far I only managed to kill 1 KV-1 and that's because I shot at his horizontal drive/ring which is basically the only weak-spot I could find.
PsychicRearden Shoot at machine gun when directly infront of the KV-1, guarantee 1 shot with APHE if you do it right, else flank it and shoot at the front upper side slit, another 1 shot spot. KV-1s are easy to kill once you learn all of their weak spots. Many scrubs choose the KV1 because of its "heavy tank" tag and will expose either their side or dont angle themselves when fighting frontally, with exprience you will find that fighting the KV-1 is easy to deal with.
Some more weakspots: Turret cheek, guarantee gunner and loader kill with Panzer F2 or any other 75mm gun. Turret ring: guarantee 1 shot kill with 75mm cannon.
Me too. Ive had m22 pen it. The hull front. sdkfz can pen it. It is not impenetrable at its battle rating. german long 75 pens it ez. sherman as well. The PZ IV H in the video was either an idiot or his gunner died, bc he can one shot through the kv 1.
KV-1, The best early heavy tank. Not only that most tank at its br cannot penerate it, the KV-1 rounds also cannot penerate most tank at its br. Except for KV85, that thing is a nightmare for non heavy player.
Solid ap also helps you pen shermans frontally, i've played around with the solid ap and the aphe shells with my t 34s. You can also pen t 34s frontally also. The shell listing does not really apply to just kv 1 it applies to early t 34s. But before I thought the L 11 cannon was just useless bc I would bounce so many tanks. But when you read stats. You get to understand what kind of shells are good
Most of KV-1's opponents are tanks with short cannons. Especially in German tech tree. Which makes full caliber rounds that players mostly use have a really low penetration (35-65 few exceptions). While i was playing with the Pz. 4 F1 i faced this tank in battle. Shot it's rear hull and didn't penetrate. Tried rear turret, same result. I said "Screw this!" and got the hell out of there. This is what makes it op for lower BRs
Its literally braindead gameplay, I go on massacres at 3.3 with my M4A1 and every time I see a kv its always a fight to the death because you cant pen it for shit
Yea... but the only German Tank armed with the KwK 40 in this tier is practicly the Panzer IV F2, More Later there are more Tanks With the KwK 40 or Better... The only fear of the KV-1 Its Actually, The Chi-nu II, if you angle to Panzer IV F2 you gonna become Impenetrable... but with the chi-nu II, Even if you Angle, The chi-nu II Still can pen you frontal Armor...
@@hailtouhou855 Have you ever even played WT? All the tanks armed with KwK 40 (except one) are at most 0.6 BR away from the KV-1 (L11) so it meets them in every single match it plays against Germany
"You need to learn your enemies weak spots." Proceeds to bounce a point blank shot from a Panzer IV and one shotting it back strait from the front plate in 3rd personwithout even aiming. "A REASON WHY KV-1 IS IN LOW BR" Well i'll give you one. It's a russian firm. Same reason why a PZ III with 50mm gun matches vs these KV's. A pz III A FUCKING PANZER 3. 50mm can't even penetrate front of a t-34 from 100 meters EVEN with damn apcr rounds. Let alone a kv.
well i have been in a lot of instances where i defeated kv with panzer 3. you just have to use some tactics and aim well. well i had none of those i just was lucky
Your plane before throw is > Your plane after bomb get it to the ground is >> Tragectory is ----- Bomb is * (with speed of 400) (with speed of 800) > -------------------->> > -------------------------------------------------------->> * ------ * -------------- ----- ----------------- ---- ---------- --- ------- --* -----* Bomb is a rocket, but it's speed and tragectory depends on speed and position of your plane. Fly to target on about 45 degree, place you sight a bit higher than 2 turrets of a tank and throw bombs from 300m. Bomb goes with speed and direction of plane, but only for few hungred meters (cuz it has no engine or something is goes to lost speed and change tragectory). on 45 degree dive your bomb will do this. > \ * \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | \ * > (your plane) (g r o u n d) That's it. Or you can just do suicide bombing wich succs.
Hey, can you make a video about f4u-7? It's a french corsair that can use 114 snebs rockets with 450 mm of pen, at 6.0. It's a very interesting vehicle, very deadly at any BR
I mean, I'm playing with PZ IV F2 and I don't remember that this tank was impenetrable. I've always blown up the ammunition of KV-1 or at least got all the crew members in turret.
Eh, ive ammo racked it a crusader using the mark 9 round and also shot it through the left side of the turret with a Sdfkz 23/2. Its killable and most KV players are dumb and think they are unstoppable.
When facing Americans and British in a 4.0 uptier, I usually take most APBC and some APHE, maybe shrapnel shells for British AA or Italian sauce pans. APBC will sometimes have enough pen for Shermans, but avoid shooting them at angles, or close range. Try medium range. If you try and dance with American tank platoons, you might not have much luck. With your turtle speed, flank capturing enemies and shoot em’ in the back. Now get out there and defend the motherland comrades! ZA RHODINU!!
The IS-3 and IS-4M have that one big weak spot on the front of the hull right below the turret, and on the lower left or right side, under the side skirts is like 30mm of armor if memory serves right that if you shoot the bottom back side, you'll probably hit an ammo rack and 1 shot the tank.
I like the fact that he says the gun sucks while almost one hit killing every tank he sees. (As a 3.0 Germany player this thing and the m4 annoy me a lot. Cause the only way to pen either is using apcr or spam heat using a heat slingshot)
That feel when you play tank destroyer and have to finger your way into the driver visor at point blank due to indestructible bushes all over the tank.
Panzer fours of that br have 80mm thick frontal armor plate which will usually stop the l-11 APHE, while the german gun can penetrate the turret, the l-11 gun is the main issue because it is underpowered, it was bad enough in the 1940 t-34 which is at br 3.3
Mistake, APBC is very good, and it should be used often. Good penetration, and superb angled armour penetration since it's armour piercing flat nosed shell with ballistic cap which is way superior to AP, APC or APCBC in this regard. With APBc/APHEBC you can pen T34 frontal hull with 77mm pen APHEBC ,but you can't with 100mm pen APCBC shell.
laughable that people defend its br. everything in warthunder has 0-15% derp, its just that allies have it in a negative way but russia has it in a positive way. driving russian tank- holy shit how did i bounce that/pen that. driving allied tank- holy shit why didnt my gun pen that/my armour stop that.
Me: "Yes. Finally, i have unlocked the KV-1. Now i can play as a true heavy tank and bounce shots left right and center!" *First match. 2nd minute "I will angle like that. About 35 degrees should do it. Yes i am impenetrable!" . . . CLONK *dead Heat from Slg 15cm strait through the 35° angled front plate.
If you load the solid shot AP ammo, this thing turns into an aboslute monster. It can kill almost any tank it sees from the front lol. OP as hell; I love this tank!
I don't think you said specifically what shells to use, could you do that maybe in description? Also since HE is reworked, does it make that shell any more viable?
Compared to the US tech tree this tank and the T-34 are a revelation. To actually be able to deflect shots and fight in urban environments, which I had poor luck with in M4s, makes the process of grinding silver so much easier. The first time I have ever had a 6 kill streak all killed in a single shot was in a T-34. You can't use hills, but you can work corners easily which is arguably more useful in this game.
The T-34 never deflects shots, most of the time especially in a Urban scenario. I found the best tactic is to flank with it and basically get to cover as the enemy will have little time to react unless you will fight the I don't want to move the entire match Japanese or Italians.
@@firepower7017 It's the opposite for me. I find t-34s better in cities, and M4s in rolling hillside. The only sticking point is the reload being pokey. And in general I bounce more in a t-34 than a m4. The only exception being my turret. I haven't gone past tier 2 because it's prohibitively expensive, so I can't get to the tanks that have stronger turret armor.
@@firepower7017 Machine gun port is kind of a universal weakness in tanks. M4 and Panzer 4 both share that weak spot. And yeah desert maps are nice. I usually use a M10 in that setting though.
You didn’t say why it is undietered. You just described its overall performance, shells and penetration values which by the way can easily penetrate anything at that br and in return it gets never killed at the first shot. Let alone at high range.
Please tell me how did you configurate your warthunder?I have all graphics setting to max but it still looks like shit.Your game look so sharp and has mutch better colour.
CPU:Intel i5-8600k GPU:Nvidia GTX1080ti and else.. My Pc can run it but my game looks more like anime tanks.Yours just look mutch better i tried to change my config file and it looked better but not good as yours
i dont know, maybe you watch videos on small screen (phone) and details look sharp. While watching on pc image looks worse than ingame , because youtube downgrades quality
Once I played in a KV and just chilled by the enemy spawn on a hill where they could all see me, I got thousands of points by just soaking up shell after shell without taking damage at all
KV-1, historically , didn`t really had any worthy opponent tanks until 1942 and was mainly lost to 88 mm anti-aircraft guns, artillery, air attacks or their own crews abandoning them due to malfunctions
so on the first day of me playing jumbo i fight a kv1 and i can feel.your quote more protective less penatration the kv1 and i just keep shooting each other and bounced everything on eachother (my jumbo was fresh at the time)
some people get made, and i admit, im one of them, at R3's being so op at it's br, but they try to make wt a historically acurate game, so i guess thats why the r3 is where it is, because of when it was used and stuff, and if they increase it's br, it's not as accurate.. but still, they should increase the br a little, not like a whole 2-3 brs
I sweer this tank is so good one time I was a single tank army my team was pretty much dead and I was fasing American tanks so this how it went I began rushing to the point on the Kursk map and I was holding it alone the entire match while my team was doing God knows what because the wear pretty much dead halfway through the match so I realized what I had to do I honkerd down on the point was shooting as fast as I can but there was so many enamy tanks that I could bearly killing them and I almost bounced like a 100 shells and I got like 35 kills because my team was shit but sadly 2 tanks came behind me I kiled one but he somehow disable my track's and turret so I couldn't do anything and we lost the match just. Barely 1 more minute and I would have won and do you know what happened my teammates they were cheering me on and when I lost the turned from nice to mean like what also this was RB
@@aceapache4914 oof, this was a long time ago, by the time you replied i had quit WT, not for the difficult enemies, but more like, my potato laptop can't handle it
When you face an enemy knowing the weakspots of your KV, he will aim at them and even if he can one shot you, you will be unable to respond. Which gives him time to finish the job. All relevant tanks at a BR of around 3.7 can and will penetrate with a critical shot. The situations is in your favour as 99.999 percent of the playerbase is too lazy, dumb or whatever to learn and invest some little time in the garage to find out the weakspots. Edith: ups i forgot to mention the only sure oneshot kill, but its lots of luck to hit it ...the little thingy on top of the turret.
"Doesn't mean you can kill opponents quickly and easily"... most of video shows KV-1 one shoting lol
Watching a KV have the awkward problem of failing ot penetrate an M4 Sherman with the AP ( it might only be 50mm or so on the very front, but it is heavily sloped...) would make for bad videos
@@RedShocktrooperRST aim for the view port you'll kill iy every time usually they can't pen you unless they aim for your port (also fun fact if you flank a Sherman aims right behind that little box on there side that's usually where they have some ammo)
@@lordinquisitorjohn1357 i have shot the view port of 1 sherman with a kv1 at 50meters distance and it wasnt angled but the shell didnt pen i think there is kinda bugged it is 26mm and a video of bo time gaming shows the same gun of a panzer 4 f2 hitting there and not penning
@@martimnunesmartinho6788 Hm ive never had that happen to me if you were using AP rounds it should have pend. Not sure what round you were using but AP to the view port pens me and other KVs when im playing other nation every time. Thats a bit odd.
@@lordinquisitorjohn1357 i was using ap
"Your turret rotation is about 12 degrees per second, or about half as fast as other tanks"
*weeps in german*
Weeps in panther
@@diontirta3510 weeps in Achilles slowest in the hole game
Weeps in T-80 (the 2.0 one) who has 3.5 fucking degrees of rotation stock in both AB and RB
Well all low tier panzers share the same disadvantages as a kv1 but with no armor and a penning gun
Cries in m10 wolverine
Stalinium armour can be peneterate with stalinium shell
No, only hitlerium shell can pen the stalinium armour😉
@@reiormenaj5876 No,it cant
Not until it meets the british 17 pounder😏
@@reiormenaj5876 "and another 100 gunny jokes you can tell yourself"
Enough for this bullshit, Stalinium and hitlerium are all the same. * brings out breda 501 *
that moment, when the enemy can't penetrate you due to your thick armor, but you can't penetrate the enemy due to your weak gun.
Pro gamer move
Well, it's pretty noob-friendly
R1r Wiggsgrübbel like all Russian vehicles
@@Krypton2658 no...
po-2
@@Krypton2658 haha, good joke
When you start hitting Jumbo's and Tigers the Soviets teeter off before getting good again with postwar stuff.
Enemy KV-1s with this gun don’t seem to have a problem penetrating any of MY heavy tanks lmao
I remember when these could be found in 2.0 - 2.3 BR matches and where a game changer due to nothing being able to penetrate their armor
I remember in an arcade battle once, I came across another KV-1.. Not fun trying to kill a KV-1 in a KV-1 that can't pen each other lol.
@@kirklazarus1132 there is a shell for the kv-1 that can pen 100 millimeters of armor
I was there when Ground battles were a new thing, but i can't quite remember this.
Probably i just never met a good player using this.
There is no reason*
You can penetrate every single enemy tank you face at that BR, while they can't do anything to you if you angle. Or if they do you still have superb survivability. Just because you have to properly aim doesn't mean it deserves a low battle rating. Another thing to mention is the insane mobility it has for a Heavy Tank.
@@iz_blitz1344 Shermans are relatively easy to kill in the turret by aiming at that bottom right spot where the armor goes down a bit.
@@kirklazarus1132 yeah, like he said there are tanks you need to learn weak spots of
@@matthiuskoenig3378 I don't think you understand, KV-1's can't really pen other KV-1's. Lol. Well at least before the ballistics update. th-cam.com/video/QVwqoTVsCYY/w-d-xo.html Here is a video of that from my other channel. Back then however I didn't know about the driver port weakspot, but I ended up killing him in the end.
Unless they are German long bois
Is this whole community dumb as a box of rocks
These things are easy kills even in a Sherman
for me it is like that: I cant penetrate t-34 (1940), while it can one-shot me (when we are both facing ourselves with front armor)
StarzzDrak make sure you angle slightly, it helps richocet enemy shots, hope this helps!
Also seems pretty strange, so far I only managed to kill 1 KV-1 and that's because I shot at his horizontal drive/ring which is basically the only weak-spot I could find.
PsychicRearden Shoot at machine gun when directly infront of the KV-1, guarantee 1 shot with APHE if you do it right, else flank it and shoot at the front upper side slit, another 1 shot spot. KV-1s are easy to kill once you learn all of their weak spots.
Many scrubs choose the KV1 because of its "heavy tank" tag and will expose either their side or dont angle themselves when fighting frontally, with exprience you will find that fighting the KV-1 is easy to deal with.
im a T-34 users and. SO TRUE
Some more weakspots: Turret cheek, guarantee gunner and loader kill with Panzer F2 or any other 75mm gun. Turret ring: guarantee 1 shot kill with 75mm cannon.
KV-1s have ridiculous KD ratios, then Tiger faces mostly post war vehicles. BIAS!!!!
The real evidence of russian bias is in the ridiculous performance of russian guns against sloped armor.
@@matiastorres1510
Russian rounds have flat tips, which are better when dealing with sloped armor.
@@matiastorres1510 ikr sometimes it work like a HESH shell..
it did not pen, but the explosive pen the armour..
@dbenson31 Nothing else matters than BR of vehicle in this game.
T29 flashbacks
I love it when he says "Komrades" to the crew.
Cought cought kv 1b the rare one
@Donald J. Trump i got it
Yup when I'm playing now it seems like a German main battle tank :/
@@WoofyMcDoodle
Ikr, it's hard to kill even with 85 mm gun
@@The_Soviet_Cat_2233 * laughs in su152* *
nice video mate, like always. could you make a video on how to bomb in RB?
Yeah I would like to see that too
No.. please god no. I get bombed enough already
@@LothricPaladin you will learn to bomb them back
As a pe 8(or 2 i forgot) nuclear bomber. Its easy (not hitting ally is different problem)
Maybe Churchill mk 7 next?
What I say to this review:
*Laughs in Pzkw 4 F2*
One shots from the flat frontal
yet, somehow, I get killed instantly all the time by first enemy I see in this tank
all the time
Me too. Ive had m22 pen it. The hull front. sdkfz can pen it. It is not impenetrable at its battle rating. german long 75 pens it ez. sherman as well. The PZ IV H in the video was either an idiot or his gunner died, bc he can one shot through the kv 1.
@@apocalypse5228 not if you angle, as you should always do in the KV 1, once you realize how to angle you’ll just be curbstomping panzer IV’s all day
@@jacob.a795 machine gunner port
me too... by the time you find a weakspot and are about to shoot BAM the enemy penetrates you like butter and one shots you
1:52 I burst into laughter when the second KV-1 rolled in to this already awkward engagement and bumped into the Panzer IV.
KV-1, The best early heavy tank. Not only that most tank at its br cannot penerate it, the KV-1 rounds also cannot penerate most tank at its br. Except for KV85, that thing is a nightmare for non heavy player.
Solid ap also helps you pen shermans frontally, i've played around with the solid ap and the aphe shells with my t 34s. You can also pen t 34s frontally also. The shell listing does not really apply to just kv 1 it applies to early t 34s. But before I thought the L 11 cannon was just useless bc I would bounce so many tanks. But when you read stats. You get to understand what kind of shells are good
Most of KV-1's opponents are tanks with short cannons. Especially in German tech tree. Which makes full caliber rounds that players mostly use have a really low penetration (35-65 few exceptions). While i was playing with the Pz. 4 F1 i faced this tank in battle. Shot it's rear hull and didn't penetrate. Tried rear turret, same result. I said "Screw this!" and got the hell out of there. This is what makes it op for lower BRs
I remember the first time I use it.
Literally nothing could kill me from the front except TDs
And other KVs
Pz IV f2
Finally , I never knew how to play it
I hope that's sarcastic
Its literally braindead gameplay, I go on massacres at 3.3 with my M4A1 and every time I see a kv its always a fight to the death because you cant pen it for shit
@@derpy4335 I mean, the ruskies almost never face the allies on the german side, when fighting the germans the F2's wreck it all the time.
@@derpy4335 the real braindead gameplay is when you go for 3.3 🤐
@@donnywhisnu7995 not every one understands war thunder the way you do. People like you need to back off.
Nothing will ever beat the excitment of standing in the middle of stalingrad with an angled kv1 and bouncing all the shells that come to me
Just like in the times of the great patriotic war
The Chi-Nu II and German tanks armed with the KwK40 laugh at the KV's armor
The same goes back, lol
Angling laughs back
Yea... but the only German Tank armed with the KwK 40 in this tier is practicly the Panzer IV F2, More Later there are more Tanks With the KwK 40 or Better... The only fear of the KV-1 Its Actually, The Chi-nu II, if you angle to Panzer IV F2 you gonna become Impenetrable... but with the chi-nu II, Even if you Angle, The chi-nu II Still can pen you frontal Armor...
@@hailtouhou855
Have you ever even played WT?
All the tanks armed with KwK 40 (except one) are at most 0.6 BR away from the KV-1 (L11) so it meets them in every single match it plays against Germany
5:48 KV-1 =Russian BIAS comfirmed ( look at the kill cam )
Pretty sure the shell bounced off from a track but didn't lose it's momentum and penetrating abilities and made it through. But KV is bias of course
yep
jesus
Russian bias is just one of the many excuses for your lack of skill.
Why are you all complaining about "russian bias"?The americans have the best tech tree because of american bias..historically incorrect
KV 1 is super good, I’ve never had issues with penetration, it usually takes a crap ton of shells to knock me out.
it's 5.0 jumbo of 3.7...
The Russian APHE does excel at getting through angles due to it being capped, so the pen is sometimes a bit misleading
Sidescrape on this tank, it works like magic blocking enemy shots
The name of the reason its FULL UPTIER that happens 99% of the times, at least with me.
"You need to learn your enemies weak spots."
Proceeds to bounce a point blank shot from a Panzer IV and one shotting it back strait from the front plate in 3rd personwithout even aiming.
"A REASON WHY KV-1 IS IN LOW BR"
Well i'll give you one. It's a russian firm.
Same reason why a PZ III with 50mm gun matches vs these KV's.
A pz III
A FUCKING PANZER 3.
50mm can't even penetrate front of a t-34 from 100 meters EVEN with damn apcr rounds. Let alone a kv.
APCR won’t penetrate angled targets, that is a constant
Aim at turret ring you fucking dumbass.
well i have been in a lot of instances where i defeated kv with panzer 3. you just have to use some tactics and aim well. well i had none of those i just was lucky
"i shot at the most armored part of a tank and can't properly shoot weakspots, this is obviously bias"
Are you slandering the Panzer 3? It has almost the same front armor as the KV, spaced armor and a gun that actually kills. And it’s at 3.0 lol
Make a video on how to bomb in rb. Amazing video btw
suicide bomb if you can't even do anything lol
or just train your self in test flight
Use bomb sights or do near 90 degrees dive
@@derpythespy basically another way to kamikaze for lower experienced pilots
@@danieliusb2234 well if you wanna keep diving down then sure. Be honorabru
Your plane before throw is >
Your plane after bomb get it to the ground is >>
Tragectory is -----
Bomb is *
(with speed of 400) (with speed of 800)
> -------------------->> > -------------------------------------------------------->>
* ------ * --------------
-----
-----------------
----
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---
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--* -----*
Bomb is a rocket, but it's speed and tragectory depends on speed and position of your plane.
Fly to target on about 45 degree, place you sight a bit higher than 2 turrets of a tank and throw bombs from 300m.
Bomb goes with speed and direction of plane, but only for few hungred meters (cuz it has no engine or something is goes to lost speed and change tragectory).
on 45 degree dive your bomb will do this.
> \
* \
\ \
\ \
\ \
| \
* > (your plane)
(g r o u n d)
That's it.
Or you can just do suicide bombing wich succs.
Hey, can you make a video about f4u-7? It's a french corsair that can use 114 snebs rockets with 450 mm of pen, at 6.0. It's a very interesting vehicle, very deadly at any BR
9.0
Honestly, in my experience with the tank, that “Stalinium armor” is more like paper
I mean, I'm playing with PZ IV F2 and I don't remember that this tank was impenetrable. I've always blown up the ammunition of KV-1 or at least got all the crew members in turret.
I once bounced like 20 shells from 3 enemys whilst repairing. Killed all 3 off them
Encounter with KV-1 as Panzer III, T-34 (1940) is so terrifying lol
The best part of its armoe is it Fuselage. It alwayd eat up eounds even from Panzer 4's or 88 Flak.
When the pz. IV has HEAT shells
Kv1: sees a pz.IV* oh shit...
This thing gave me nightmares when I was using Cromwell’s, Sherman’s, and early Churchill’s
Eh, ive ammo racked it a crusader using the mark 9 round and also shot it through the left side of the turret with a Sdfkz 23/2. Its killable and most KV players are dumb and think they are unstoppable.
1:57 that guy, kachna_cz
Czechs watching this probably drove insane
Who is he?
It's just the thing that he's czech.
And czechs like to spam comments when they see something czech in vid.
@@spazzkill4092 i also fight against alot of czech players lol,and ukrainians,many of them are skiled,greets from Transylvania lol
When facing Americans and British in a 4.0 uptier, I usually take most APBC and some APHE, maybe shrapnel shells for British AA or Italian sauce pans.
APBC will sometimes have enough pen for Shermans, but avoid shooting them at angles, or close range. Try medium range.
If you try and dance with American tank platoons, you might not have much luck. With your turtle speed, flank capturing enemies and shoot em’ in the back.
Now get out there and defend the motherland comrades!
ZA RHODINU!!
hey love your videos. can you do a review on the is4m and is3 on how good or shitty they are? thank youu
The IS-3 and IS-4M have that one big weak spot on the front of the hull right below the turret, and on the lower left or right side, under the side skirts is like 30mm of armor if memory serves right that if you shoot the bottom back side, you'll probably hit an ammo rack and 1 shot the tank.
KV-1: pew pew pew Churchill VII: pew pew pew Four hours later... KV-1: pew pew pew Churchill VII: pew pew pew
“ side armor is straight “ unlike me
OwO
@@Orinslayer what you have done here has made god very unhappy
@@cursedcliff7562 good.
@@Orinslayer
>Pixel tank review
>Gay furries
*Click*
*Bang*
*Thump*
One-shotting these in the breda 501 is so satisfying
I love KVs. My Chi Nu 2 eats them for lunch
Jup untill you meet me in my kv1-E
@@MiG21fanboy KV2
@@MyUnoriginalUsername hmmm, yes shove that 152mm down the germans their throath
Japanese tanks are the one thing I fear in my KV1 along with flak cannons
wargames Hey, how disrespectful to hans and fritz. Not funny.
I like the fact that he says the gun sucks while almost one hit killing every tank he sees. (As a 3.0 Germany player this thing and the m4 annoy me a lot. Cause the only way to pen either is using apcr or spam heat using a heat slingshot)
to be fair you are being up tiered, what is worse by far is M4A3 (105), its 2.7 and hard to kill even by 3.0 german tanks
3:04 “you will rarely be one shotted by your oppenent”
Panzer 4’s keep one shotting me in realistic battles unexpectedly
The low fuse distance on APHEBC shell feels very weird
(*silent jumbo laugh*)
becides that the jumbo is 5,0 with the 75 or 6,0 with the 76
3:27 "anyone who tries to penetrate you"
Great video as always ,you could try the italian LV/33 or L6/40
That Stuart's face cam at 3:37 has to be the crying Carson meme.
That feel when you play tank destroyer and have to finger your way into the driver visor at point blank due to indestructible bushes all over the tank.
The shot joke just made me subscribe xD Love the humor, it's just so unexpected with the serious tone
Panzer fours of that br have 80mm thick frontal armor plate which will usually stop the l-11 APHE, while the german gun can penetrate the turret, the l-11 gun is the main issue because it is underpowered, it was bad enough in the 1940 t-34 which is at br 3.3
Mistake, APBC is very good, and it should be used often. Good penetration, and superb angled armour penetration since it's armour piercing flat nosed shell with ballistic cap which is way superior to AP, APC or APCBC in this regard. With APBc/APHEBC you can pen T34 frontal hull with 77mm pen APHEBC ,but you can't with 100mm pen APCBC shell.
lucky guy, im always playing in higher br and they still one shot me
laughable that people defend its br. everything in warthunder has 0-15% derp, its just that allies have it in a negative way but russia has it in a positive way.
driving russian tank- holy shit how did i bounce that/pen that.
driving allied tank- holy shit why didnt my gun pen that/my armour stop that.
leeboy29680 exactly fucking this
Does nobody in this community know what the concept of aiming is
I could take this thing out easily even in a Sherman 75
Meanwhile I get penned frontally in my t34 from a 20mm
the T-35 is technically a heavy tank, but it doesn't have the armor of a heavy tank.
Me:
"Yes. Finally, i have unlocked the KV-1.
Now i can play as a true heavy tank and bounce shots left right and center!"
*First match. 2nd minute
"I will angle like that. About 35 degrees should do it. Yes i am impenetrable!"
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CLONK *dead
Heat from Slg 15cm strait through the 35° angled front plate.
you should talk about the M6 heavy tank. nice video btw
...So if you're under tiered, the stalinium will make you feel indestructible.
What do you mean by 'feel'?
3:20 He is trying not to laugh as well xDD
If you load the solid shot AP ammo, this thing turns into an aboslute monster. It can kill almost any tank it sees from the front lol. OP as hell; I love this tank!
Man i was so bad when i got to br 3.7 the enemy always pen me, but thx to you i know how to use my first 3.7 tank
I don't think you said specifically what shells to use, could you do that maybe in description? Also since HE is reworked, does it make that shell any more viable?
Have a trouble in penetrating? Think of your ammo...
I can pen older Churchill back then...
>weak gun
>penetrates Matildas and StuGs frontally
I thought I was the only one that stared at the shell the entire time until it exploded
2:20 did I just see a Sherman 76 vs kv1
Compared to the US tech tree this tank and the T-34 are a revelation. To actually be able to deflect shots and fight in urban environments, which I had poor luck with in M4s, makes the process of grinding silver so much easier. The first time I have ever had a 6 kill streak all killed in a single shot was in a T-34. You can't use hills, but you can work corners easily which is arguably more useful in this game.
The T-34 never deflects shots, most of the time especially in a Urban scenario. I found the best tactic is to flank with it and basically get to cover as the enemy will have little time to react unless you will fight the I don't want to move the entire match Japanese or Italians.
@@firepower7017 It's the opposite for me. I find t-34s better in cities, and M4s in rolling hillside. The only sticking point is the reload being pokey. And in general I bounce more in a t-34 than a m4. The only exception being my turret. I haven't gone past tier 2 because it's prohibitively expensive, so I can't get to the tanks that have stronger turret armor.
@@Lukos0036 I prefer desert areas as it's usually the best areas to flank. And also vision isn't that much of a eyesore.
@@Lukos0036 Also T-34s are generally killable from the machine gun port or the turret ring
@@firepower7017 Machine gun port is kind of a universal weakness in tanks. M4 and Panzer 4 both share that weak spot. And yeah desert maps are nice. I usually use a M10 in that setting though.
Great job dude, those tutorials helps me a lot
You didn’t say why it is undietered. You just described its overall performance, shells and penetration values which by the way can easily penetrate anything at that br and in return it gets never killed at the first shot. Let alone at high range.
The joke with the shots was amazing . Great one + 1 sub .
Actually, it's not a stereotype. It's a historical fact that every soviet soldier was issued 15 grams of vodka before every battle. For courage.
doesn't matter if the kv-1 has low penetration for in that tier there are tanks with little to no armor anyway.
Please tell me how did you configurate your warthunder?I have all graphics setting to max but it still looks like shit.Your game look so sharp and has mutch better colour.
What's your PC specs?
CPU:Intel i5-8600k
GPU:Nvidia GTX1080ti
and else..
My Pc can run it but my game looks more like anime tanks.Yours just look mutch better i tried to change my config file and it looked better but not good as yours
Dont worry I have the same shit
i dont know, maybe you watch videos on small screen (phone) and details look sharp. While watching on pc image looks worse than ingame , because youtube downgrades quality
once i got into a match where almost everyone had a close to the same loadout at me
I once use IS-1 bound 7 shot on front by keep pressing A,D,A,D,A,D so it keep left and right to bound the shell...And i able to kill 3 before i died
Once I played in a KV and just chilled by the enemy spawn on a hill where they could all see me, I got thousands of points by just soaking up shell after shell without taking damage at all
1:20 min - it is not easy, but even Matilda can kill KV-1 - aim for turret ring - big (ok small) weakness of KV-1.
The high velocity (APHV Mk.1) and APCBC (APCBC Mk.IXB) can do it
Very interesting video even after that i'm playin war thunder quite long. Im just subscribed.
KV-1, historically , didn`t really had any worthy opponent tanks until 1942 and was mainly lost to 88 mm anti-aircraft guns, artillery, air attacks or their own crews abandoning them due to malfunctions
Good video, very informative, thank you
so on the first day of me playing jumbo i fight a kv1 and i can feel.your quote more protective less penatration the kv1 and i just keep shooting each other and bounced everything on eachother (my jumbo was fresh at the time)
When will you do tank modifications part2?
Dismantling is the best tactic with this tank barrel track then you can look for a weak spot
Maus syndrome: if u look at the enemy with the turret you die
The thing is, whenever I see this thing engagemensts almost always end in me bouncing and him one shorting me
I use the solid shot when i need to gather assists (for the daily task)
some people get made, and i admit, im one of them, at R3's being so op at it's br, but they try to make wt a historically acurate game, so i guess thats why the r3 is where it is, because of when it was used and stuff, and if they increase it's br, it's not as accurate.. but still, they should increase the br a little, not like a whole 2-3 brs
Whenever i go in my panzer 4, there are always 2 k-v1s covering each others backs and I get one shotted
I sweer this tank is so good one time I was a single tank army my team was pretty much dead and I was fasing American tanks so this how it went I began rushing to the point on the Kursk map and I was holding it alone the entire match while my team was doing God knows what because the wear pretty much dead halfway through the match so I realized what I had to do I honkerd down on the point was shooting as fast as I can but there was so many enamy tanks that I could bearly killing them and I almost bounced like a 100 shells and I got like 35 kills because my team was shit but sadly 2 tanks came behind me I kiled one but he somehow disable my track's and turret so I couldn't do anything and we lost the match just. Barely 1 more minute and I would have won and do you know what happened my teammates they were cheering me on and when I lost the turned from nice to mean like what also this was RB
Actually if you have problems penetrating with L-11's APHE use AP rounds with 93mm pen, their damage is still enough to 1-2 shot enemies
KB 1E vs KB 1B is one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen
3.7 is too low - it MUST be 4.0 or higher... it´s a bad Joke from Gayjin
It will suck at any higher br
Can you do a video on a particular Sherman ?? The M4 and M4A1 ?? The 2nd rank ones, i can't seem to find the best way to use M4 and M4A1
Easy, ditch the M4A1 and use the M4 in a hull down or angle it, the rest is just aim at a weak spot
@@aceapache4914 oof, this was a long time ago, by the time you replied i had quit WT, not for the difficult enemies, but more like, my potato laptop can't handle it
When you face an enemy knowing the weakspots of your KV, he will aim at them and even if he can one shot you, you will be unable to respond. Which gives him time to finish the job. All relevant tanks at a BR of around 3.7 can and will penetrate with a critical shot. The situations is in your favour as 99.999 percent of the playerbase is too lazy, dumb or whatever to learn and invest some little time in the garage to find out the weakspots.
Edith: ups i forgot to mention the only sure oneshot kill, but its lots of luck to hit it ...the little thingy on top of the turret.