The Tank Destroyer No One Plays
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- War Thunder is home to an incredibly wide variety of German tank destroyers like the Jagdpanther or StuG, but there's a very unique one that people rarely play. The premium Panzer IV/70 (A) looks quite strange and doesn't have the best armor, but it does have the Panther's cannon.
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The Tank Destroyer No One Plays
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Sorry for the lack of German vehicles
CT CV105hp day 33
play the CSABA aka shity fox... you can't evade your fate 4ever
German main teams are bad... no need to play them if you don't want to.
FINALLY DEUSTCHLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@On7. SO REAL!!!!!!!!!!
You don’t have the heat skirts bc you have the wide winter tracks, which for some reason certain pz4s can’t have with the skirts while others perfectly can.
Spookston being exceedingly silly as usual.
Yup, although in an equally weird fashion, they are called Ostketten on the 70 (a) and some other versions, and Winterketten on others.
The panzer IV’s can where the skirts, it’s the panzer III’s that have trouble with it
SO TRUE!!!!! Remove das winterketten!
@@fallenvoid3032 The premium commander variant Panzer IV cant have the skirts with the wide tracks.
Also known as "The Chin from Berlin" or "PanzerChadWagon".
Mogging
"The Chin from Berlin" is absolutely PEAK. It's short. It's pithy. It rhymes. That rhyme is a one-syllable word rhymed with a two-syllable word. It takes a random body part and makes it sound like it's Ivan Drago. There is no funnier name or more descriptive of this _thing_ and there never will be.
lol
Yo odd how are you
Are you sure that's not a panther g
8:37 Its absolutely hilarious that Spookston has been traumatised by CAS so much that he started guerilla warfare like jungle madman
'ohhh u can not harm me.... THAT GUY CAN THOUGH!" was too good...
The double take when he realized what it was too omg.
I found it funny that an SU-100Y was staring at him not once but twice in a single match, same spot. Probably same guy.
Famous last words at it finest 😂
@@Haaton-of-the-Basement yea, probobly
@@Darkangels934 indeed
0:25 You do not have the sideskirts because the Ostketten modification is installed. This makes the Tracks too wide for the skirts.
this video is the Hight of
"is this tank good?"
slaughters entire enemy team without remorse
"yea kinda mid"
to be fair, it was because the stars aligned for him. he found cover that he could shoot over and cover his weakspot with, enemies continued rushing down the same road he slaughtered everybody else on, there wasn't a tank like the su152 that could obliterate him frontally, and he wasn't flanked or CAS'd
otherwise the thing is fat, kind of slow and pretty easy to kill if you know where to shoot and turretless. seems 'mid' in the sense of 'average,' not bad
Also he plays this game..... ALOT.........AALLLLOOTTTT
Did I mention he plays the game ALOT?
Nah but for real though lol. I wonder if he really kills the entire enemy team without dying, or just cuts the parts where he dies and resumes the videos when he gets back to his spot (I notice a lot of "clipped/skipped" parts in his videos, so it gets me to wonder)
Its like those videos of people throwing a basket ball off a dam and making it in the first shot. (They didn't record the 90,000 times they missed to FINALLY get a shot made)
@@343guardian5Indeed.
@@343guardian5 Do you really want to sit and watch 2.5 hours of a video just to see all of how his matches went?
@@razortheonethelight7303 Only 2.5 hours. Dang it takes me that long just to reload the gun. LET ALONE drive to the battlefield.
Jk in all seriousness, no.
8:15 The fact that he actually spawned a plane with the intent of revenge bombing 😂
A true American main😂
I had no idea corpses did that when respawning, insane.
@@KH-nm9xg Me neither
@@HassanAchieved I thought i always tripping when a PzIV wreck turns into a Stuka or Fw190 for a split second.
INSANE bug
7:52
Spookston: "You can't defeat me"
ARL-44: "Oh I know, but he can"
The SU-100Y:
Bringing a destroyer gun to a tank battle
ya the Su100Y was me
You should check out the M247, I think Gaijin forgot to change the stats because it's 40mm APHE has more explosive mass than the IS-2. You overpressure light vehicles with it
Man i miss when the York got buffed with volumetrics, clapping T-72 with HE-VT at 900m goes crazy, twice too
Shhh let us have something broken please😂
@@theredrisen9520Ha Fr lol
@@AHappyCub You still can if you aim for the turret ring. Ive killed a couple t72s with it. its hit or miss tho
First of all keep your voice down
Another light tank that has a good canon and excellent mobility is the Radkampfwagen 90, day 25.
Another good light tank is the sk105 a2 which spookston should also definitely play
3:30 because of the Ostketten Mod
You know what also nobody plays, the cromwell
I strongly second a Cromwell video
3km/h reverse speed
@@WarPro747 dont tell him
But the chad Cromwell I not virgin Cromwell V.
Cromwell 1 low key goated
15:28 so funny that you get a without a miss award exactly as you whiff the 3rd person shot
Heat skirts are removed if you use the bigger tracks
Those where never intended for heat. They were used against the massive soviet use of anti tank rifles that could penetrate the sides of Panzer IVs.
@@vermilion7777now, what kind of anti tank round would spaced armor such as those skirts be ideal to protect against?
@@yolobathsalts The normal AP rounds of classical anti tank rifles like those of the russian PTRD. They fumble after hitting the mesh and lose their initial penetrating power. Heat ammo wasn't really a thing the soviet army widely used.
@@vermilion7777 I know but I honestly couldn't be bothered to remember how to spell what the Germans called it
@@captainzach6226 Do you mean the skirts? Generally Panzerschürzen. In the case of this mesh shields, it's Thoma Schürzen.
7:59 “You cannot harm me… THAT GUY CAN THOUGH” had me rolling lmfao
Giorno 22 of asking Spookston to play Lancia R3o (100/17), best neglected tank destroyah.
YOU WILL PLAY IT, AVANTI SAVOIA!
Avanti Savoia !
Pasta waggon fans AVANTI SAVOIA
I’m about to hit 300 days of asking I’m going insane
Spookston, you should play the A-10 and absolutely destroy everything
AVANTI SAVOIA!! WE ARE CLOSE LANCIA BROTHER
"This might be a tank I'll have to put bushes on", Brother why must you let the players not witness the GIGACHAD of a weakspot. It's like the whole thing with the jumbo lol
Yea. The weakspot that only applies to American tanks as German MGs will just eat shells for some reason.
@@aiedenoldstien9751 fr Fr they EAT those shells and they just get sent to the shadow realm
@R0N1N_04 Yea. It's a huge just inconsistency on Gajin's part.
@@aiedenoldstien9751Hey, you misunderstood how MG works in war thunder - USA MGs are for weaklings, while MG42 are for chads only (rest of the tanks are for weaklings though)
The trick is to hide the sloped part with bushes and let the flat front exposed.
Thanks for the new video spookston, im always excited when i see a video of you!!!
"The Tank Destroyer No One Plays"
Spookston you are somebody. You matter :)
You know what is also a Tank Destroyer?
The Sturmtiger, but posing as a big bush.
Already played the Sturmtiger in a collab with, cod, oddbawz, & Phlydaily, minus the bushes.
The "without a miss" medal popping as you whiff at 15:26 is too funny
The M36 calls your name, sir Spookston
Hey spook good video:) could you play the XM800T it’s 8.0 now instead of 7.7 so it is less likely to encounter tigers and panthers and now leopards and Marders
The chaffee immediately revenge bombing 💀
this guy's gotta be one of my favorite youtubers
keep up the good work shedding light on a world i'll never know for real
2:48 he probably didn't plan to have smoke pre-loaded, but its a current bug in the game that sometimes selects your second ammo type. I have had it happen multiple times to me.
Yeah, stupid bug killed me 3 times before I stopped playing for a few days
I've had it select my last used not my primary a few times
Or he knew the spawn was being watched and quickly switched smoke to be loaded on spawn or otherwise fired a round and loafed smoke.
I spawn with smoke loaded first in some tanks to cover my advance
I like how Spookston videos are either the best informed videos on tanks you will ever see, or this, where he didnt know the tracks take off the extra armor like they do in so many other tanks
12:42 Spookston, shhh, you can't say that! They'll hear you 😫
huh?
@ he said he hadn’t been hit by CAS yet. That’s just begging for a bomb
ur vids are the perfect comfort to eat to ngl i love seeing u upload directly as my food finishes cooking
You know what is a perfect blend of suffering and success, the churchill NA75
Day 1 of asking
I love playing this tank! I have got a 22 kill match with it one day. So glad to see others enjoying it! Love your videos Spookston!
Me shouting OstenKetten at the screen to get the skirts back
I dont think i ever said this about any tank
I audibly said "wtf is that" when i saw this things model xD
spookston: "you cannot harm me"
su-100y: *privet*
spookston: **ash baby**
0:31 when you have the track upgrade equipped, it removes the heatskirts. same happens with the Pz.III N and the Pz. IV G if i remember correctly
I'm not sure for the pz3 but the pz 4 G doesn't have side skirts, and the H can have the ostketten with the sides skirts, leaving us with the premium pz4 J ( tech tree one only has turret skirts ((finland has that one)) ) and idk about the pz3 M has it has side skirts too
@Spookston. You have no Sideskirts, because you have the wider Tracks equipped.
Equipping the "Ost-Ketten" (East-Tracks) often removes the Skirts, becaude the tracks are bigger/wider.
in my 750 hours with this game, I have quite literally never seen this vehicle in a game. I did not know it existed. my god.
1600 hours and i never seen this either.
everybody plays the version without the huge frontal weakspot instead, hence why I've also never seen it
Seen it like twice
I have it. Bought in back when ground forces was just released in 2014/15. It's extremely rare because they quickly removed it. I should play it again, havent in years, lol.
@@random_potato2549 Nah. This one is BR 4.3, the techtree version with the same long 75mm is BR 5.7!!!. It's just extremely rare and a glass cannon.
11:35 "oop another customer." (T-34 speeding to B get's annihilated, he never saw it coming.)
3:30 spookston when femboy bf raids his wardrobe
Spooks, just wanted to say I’ve never been a fan of gameplay/commentary videos. But boy do I get excited when I see a “34 seconds ago” right next to your name. Keep up the good work
Day… uhh.. 287 of asking spookston to play the m22 or L3 at top tier, and bring odd and Bo
7:52
"Oh, I know. But he can"
"P R I V I E T, C O M R A D E"
that half life sound effect of hitting with crowbar against metal was perfect at 1:42
Hey Spookston how about a "They stole it from us" Video with all the german captured tanks (T34, M4, KV1 etc...)
I think he already has
Germany and Russia can make full premiums lineups of other peoples vehicles, meanwhile USA cant get Ragtag Circus stuff as premiums.. totally fair.
I remember being so proud when I grinded this out in an event and finally got it as my first premium. While the front plate was annoying to get used to having a Panthers cannon almost a full BR below the first Panther (I had it before the VK was added) is an absolute godsend, and having it in an Uptier makes it still viable. One of my favorite tanks in my premium lineup for sure and have had several great matches with it
Hey spooks you should play the AMX-50 Surbaissé
the meme edits were peak with this one. absolute cinema
i think that dude at 2:28 was has same moment as me " i'm dumb i use smoke round with T-34-85"
glad to see spooks also did not know that the funny track upgrade removes the heat side armor
The wide tracks modification they added removes the skirts.
"His speacial brother" your very right there spookston
Uh-oh Spookston fell into the HL1 sounds vat...
2:21 damn you Spookston! I spat on my screen :D peak edit!
Day 27 of telling spookston to play the IT1. its a ATGM launcher on the t62 chassis, it has decent-ish mobility, the turret is squished. You can hide behind cover and shoot ATGM over the cover like a gremlin and you overpressure tanks (tho it can be rare, but it does happen without you realizing) and its MG is really werid. Also it has a cool reload animation.
It's cool but it's really trash, for one; you can be Hull down but the orlikans aphe will fuse on your sights which have to be expose if you want to see over cover and the only time you'll overpressure with the missile is if the target is literally made of paper
I haven't played this thing in years yet I'm pretty sure it's still my #1 most played vehicle in War Thunder. Loved using this in the OG sim battles when we had regular matchmaking.
3:10 Bomb? Is for me? 👉👈
Thanks for bringing attention to this vehicle! Now it's going to get it's BR raised into oblivion.
Day7 of giving spookston an excuse to play the p26/40. AVANTI!
Me yelling at my monitor for Spookston to take off the ostketten like some toddler watching Dora the Explorer on a Saturday morning
you had the ostketten mod installed that removes the skirts it does it with the pz IV J too
It also does it for for the last panzer 3 with the 50 mm
Spookston: *plays War Thunder*
Everyone else on the enemy team: *R E V E N G E C A S*
3:28 Because you have Östkitten equipped, the skirts need to be removed to make way for the wider tracks of the Östkitten.
Östkitten lol
Everytime spook posts something it reminds everyone he is still alive😅
Spook please play the ratel 20 🙏🙏🙏
Nah, every time I think about a tank you play it, I'm losing it, dawg.
10:03 It's a Yak-9T, it does not get the 45mm with APHE. RN, that plane is just sad.
7:53
That double take! 🤣
OH MY GOD IM THE SHERMAN A2 HE KILLED 1:16 I GOT SHOT BY ONE OF MY FAVOURITE TH-camRS
Im SO glad to see this Tank Destroyer being played.
Its my highest KD ratio in the game and it allowed me to grind German ground while also enjoying myself.
Would highly recommend anyone to pick it up when its available
Attempt 19 at getting Spookston to play the Soviet rank 2 ZSU-37 ratmobile. You actually killed one in this video.
YT broke for me and recommended 15 LINES of spookston, so i just picked one and rolled with it.
Could you play the Katusha?
Already did
@Spookston oh, then I'll make sure to watch that
@@SpookstonSPOILERS!?!
Every time is see this meme 2:53 used by Spookston , I cry of laughter 😂
fun fact: the jagdpanzer 4 has a shottrap just below the gun, so whenever you see one, aim for the gun! you either take it out or bounce down right behind the transmittion and nuke the entire crew (somehow works with 75mm AP too, one shot a jagd with an ARL 44 (ACL-1). Killed every jagd i found with that one shottrap it's crazy ).
You should try sim battles, maybe with a controller? Day 24 of asking Spookston to play with a controller
Day 1 of asking for the LVKV 9040C
2:50 this bit had no business making me laugh so hard
Man read my mind, there's not a lot of videos on this one. Kudos
Sitting still is probably the best way of staying invisible to CAS. Much like a T-Rex, their vision is based on movement.
I literally watched a video this morning about why Half Life SFX are so good and memeable and then Spookston uses them in a video
It's the wider snow tracks modification that gets rid on the skirts, it does so in all early tanks that have skirts and that modification
Yay! You took my request! I knew I was subbed for a reason!
Spookston going "the gutterrrrr" makes me think of that Tumblr meme
The forbidden Pringles Can Sound is so good
Attempt 24 at trying to get spookston to play on a Chromebook
The ostketten is what’s preventing the HEAT skirts
I do definitely like the change from the samey meme sound effects to HL1 ones. They're a lot less disruptive to hear I feel.
7:16 that 100Y got volumetric'ed big time.
"No skedaddling allowed." - Spookston 2024
Jour 100 of asking Spookston to play the Vextra-105 ! 🏆
Half life hit and kill sounds are the best kind of sounds for war thunder
"Crowbar hitting metal" sounds ensues.
Lovely TD. I loved sniping KVs at 2km with it, when maps were actually big.
I loved the regular pz4/70, the armor was quite useful, so this tank being a tier lower definitely makes it a beast
Its amazing how broken OP the normal 4/70 is and then this thing is actually pretty fair to fight against but still a threat.
This tank is the equivalent of submitting a due paper 5mins before admissions close
Spookston: why I (Jagdpz IV (A)) don't have side skirts?
meanwhile Jagdpz IV (V): me too brother
I've been waiting for this thing to come back, I want it
"Bomb is for me? 👉🥺👈" - Spookston, 2024
"Mom can we get jagdtiger?"
" No son we have jagdtiger at home"
*Jagdtiger at home*
Great video, Anthony Spookstano! Seems like you had some difficulty navigating terrain with the Panzer IV/70. You know what would have an easier time crossing terrain? The Type 87 RCV, you should totally play it!