"It doesn't break down as much as it did historically" Jingles, if every tank in WoT broke down according to historical rates, this would be World of Pillboxes.
So, I looked up the replay and found an interesting statistic on the Artillery. He traveled 1.87 km during the match. Of the other 14 vehicles on the enemy team, only 4 of them traveled a greater distance than the Wespe did. From Jas's team, only himself and the Stuart traveled a greater distance. What I suspect might have happened, is that when Jas looped back around and went to sweep the field from the direction of his own base, the Artillery, noticing he hadn't tried to cap, went into the city to look for him hoping to shotgun him. They both may very well have been in a great big game of catchy catchy chasey chasey in a counter-clockwise motion around the whole map. He was trying to give Jas the fight he deserved and go for the win himself, but the decision to loop back around before clearing the field was very likely unintentionally running away from the artillery.
I think Jingles is a bit unfair to Sergio, the Wespe player. According to WOTLABS he has only played 1.5k games, so is new to the game. The fact he did the 5th highest travelling distance indicates the player was at least trying. Jas just cocked up by not capping.
@@wannabegeneral Yes. That was a critical misplay by Jas. You should NEVER try these types of plays in a slow tank like the matilda. The right play would have been to start looping back to his base while he was spotted to throw off the arty and then go for the enemy cap.
Well, sad for Jas, but he actually kinda "deserved" that draw.... When you are in such a slow tank, you don't have the luxury to loop around the map like this....
Jingles on enemies making the bad decision to not cap: They get berated for it Jingles on "our hero" making the bad decision to no cap in time: It's depressing because he deserved the win He didn't deserve the win because he didn't make the decision to just take the win when open to him. It really isn't hard to pick a route which allows you to cap in time...
"Squeeze-bore" is the the term for the 2-pdr. Littlejohn Adapter. Germany had several of these too, except they had no ammo for them since tungsten carbide was needed for machine tools and tank ammo was lower priority. The "squeeze" is as tight as APDS ammo, but does not throw off the lightweight outer shell, but crushes it into a long tail to form an arrow with a tungsten carbide tip. The velocity does not EVER decrease in the barrel, since the propellant is continually burning and expanding behind the shot and the velocity is very high due to the small size of the tungsten carbide tip and its comparative light weight with a small cross-section to give it its speed with little drag, just like APDS. If accurate, APDS is better, since it does not need to change the original gun barrel in any way to get its advantages (though barrel wear would go up).
The Gerlich principle, the only downside was getting materials that would readily taper down whilst still staying solid enough to actually penetrate target. So whilst the German's pioneered and tried several versions of this weapon style (the 2.8cm sPzB 41 most famously), by wars end they were lacking the raw materials (normally Tungsten cores with a deformable aluminium outer shell) to make the ammo for them, they also had a detrimental effect on barrel wear as you have noted too, something again that lead to the German's limiting their use later on as they were struggling to even make the guns, never mind the ammo.
@@peteturner3928 on top of what you and Nathan have said, squeeze bore guns have 2 other issues: you could not guarantee that the outer shell will deform the same way every time you fired the gun and, ignoring the materials issues, the barrel was harder to manufacture than a regular barrel.
The other squeeze bore weapon that shows up in WoT is the 7.5cm Waffe 0725 that appears on the VK 36.01 (H). Technically the same little john adapter saw service with the British Tetrarchs as well, which would make for an interesting vehicle should it ever appear under the British line.
It’s not a tapered barrel. Tapered barrels are tapered on the outside, not inside. The lil John adapter is by definition what’s called a squeeze bore choke. A choke is a device attached to the end of a barrel designed to constrict the end of the barrel. Chokes a mostly used on shotguns to narrow the spread and increase range. But they have historically been used on other things like cannons. Squeeze bore type is where it tapers the bore of the choke to do the constricting.
@@Maistro69 The Germans used the Gerlich patent system of taper bored barrels, internally tapered over the entire length ( ie the 28/20 mm pak 40/41). Squeeze bore and taper bore both used APNR/APCNR ammo, Armour Piercing Non Rigid or Armour Piercing Composite Non Rigid. The Gerlich system was used on pre-war sporting rifles but was a very expensive and time consuming process that required tungsten cored ammo to be effective.
@@Maistro69 M8 you're chatting so much shit. The term "tapered barrel" isn't exclusively used to describe an external taper, it's a generalisation that could mean either. There isn't necessarily a difference between a tapered bore and a tapered barrel but saying tapered bore removes ambiguity.
Err *actually Jingles*, the Wespe did hit at least 1 shot cause he did 101 damage Umm Jingles why are you taking off your belt? This isn't Onlyf... AHHHH!
i mean he lost the battle for himself, he had over 4 minutes left to cap or kill the arty and he took the most time consuming and risky route to victory
To be fair, he was given bad and/or out-of-date information from his team. The location of the Wespe was given to him by a teammate in chat, but he clearly wasn't there. Either the teammate in question had no clue where the Wespe was and guessed, or he did know where the Wespe was, but by then sometime then or before, had moved, trying to find Jaz's Matilda somewhere else in the map. Jaz had no reason mistrust his teammate; if anything he had more reason to trust them since he was so low on health.
Truth. The same principle applied to the British 6 pounder and the US 57m ATG (basically the same weapon I believe) as well as the German Pz Bsch. 2.8 cm I believe.
I was going to say that or early attempts at it. It's also called a tapered bore, but that usually is the entire bore of the gun tapering like more modern guns rather than just a little adapter on the end.
Agreed, go for the cap and maybe the arty gets lucky or drive around and hope that you get lucky. Idiotic, and such a shame to throw away a 10 kill match
To be fair the Wespe only has to get lucky once and it does happen. When it does happen, it could’ve been a loss anyway. Just too much time wasted looking for something that doesn’t want to be found and I keep having to type that every time in chat.
Thats realy true, if someone had played war thunder will know that the B1 in there you HAVE to use the big gun to do any damage one shooting some tanks, is the beauty of beeing able to use multiple guns in that game.
I think this was in response to everyone complaining that the M3 Lee only shot it's hull gun and not the turret gun. And apparently Wargaming will only allow 2 functional guns on a tank if it's a Russian paper tank (see IS-2-II).
That's just one more evidence how stupid are WG idiots who can't implement so simple mechanics as firing with 2 guns interchangeably. It's not that hard to define just ONE freaking button on the whole keyboard which would serve a sole purpose of shifting fire between 2 guns. And it's not that so many tanks are having 2 guns, except M3 Lee and B1 which are really not very good tanks anyway.
@@damyr Remember that Halloween gamemode with the Leviathan? It was their test for two independent turrets, and they employed none of it. Nor have they picked anything up from World of Warships, where multiple turrets are de rigeur.
This is why, back when I played WoTs with any sort of consistency, whenever I was a tier 4 in a tier 4 match and there is a matilda, I focus him above all else.
I have found that if a matilda finds itself in a tier 6 battle its chamces of survival can be made better if it hides by a friendly tog. A platoon of 3 mathildas hiding by a tog makes for a very impressive firing line
She wasn't the queen of the desert for nothing. The lottlejon has special ammo but crews found out they could put normal rounds through it without problem
here is a good tip for the Matilda. Don't take camouflage as a skill. Your gun will be firing almost 100% of the time and your camo while firing is absolute dogshit. Just accept that you will be spotted and your enemies will be invisible. That isn't your role.
the little john adapter is a barrel elongation with conical diameter. it works on the squeeze bore principle, like the pzb41 2,8cm heavy anti tank rifle. this principle employs a hard penetrator (eg toungsten core) in a soft metal casing (like lead), the penetrator core has the caliber of the muzzle, the projectile casing is larger than the muzzle, but the conical barrel diameter squeezes the softer metal outside down and semi liquifies it, sealing the barrel behind the penetrator core and thus increasing muzzle velocity due to higher gas pressure. the negative is, that the barrel erosion is ludicrously high and you could only fire specialised ammunition with it.
I think more people manage to misspell it then get it right. Nationality/Native language or not doesn't even matter. If it's anything like there/their/they're, than that's a ton of native speakers that get it terribly wrong as well.
lobe, lode, loge, lone, lope, lore, lote, love... and then there's "lose" which, for some reason, is pronounced almost like "loose", a completely different word. It's actually English being stupid here
That was quite impressive. They managed to play so well and then screw the whole thing up by forgetting their tanks 1 weakness... I don't think i've ever seen someone throw a battle that hard but that passively.
As others have stated, the little John adapter was a squeeze barrel adapter, that squeezed special ammo from 40mm to 28mm as it went through the adapter. This increased the penetration ability of the ammo, by increasing its velocity at the same time as reducing it's cross section. It was removable, so that the crew could fire standard 40mm ammo if they needed too. As crews hated to remove the adapter during a battle, they ended if firing the squeeze bore ammo WITHOUT having the adapter fitted, with little loss of penetration. I love playing the Matilda, and have numerous 2000+ hp games with it. A real battler.
There was no skill involved. Just that he was in OP tank. 1) He could've seen base getting capped way ahead of time. And rushed back to defend preemptively. If two enemies capped it was defeat for sure. 2) He was very near enemy base he could've capped easily. It's very rare that spg would've got ballz to cap on open ground. Also SPGs don't move far from base.
Well he was probably afraid to be shotgunned by arty that's why he went around, but you just don't do these type of plays in a slow tank. Too time consuming and the enemy can relocate like a million times anyway. Just tricking him by starting to go back to his base and then turning around a few secs later shoud have sufficed.
You forgot the fact that there were multiple occasions where he had a oneshot tank at one side and multiple enemies at his other side and decided that the oneshot can be ignored until he finishes multiple others... Or when he used his Repkit to repair his TRACKS when no enemy was within 500m of him and they would have gotten repaired a second later. This is just another failed sealclubber that got lucky
@@eulemitbeule5426 I was going to post exactly this. I also can't find his stats, which further suggests he's nothing but a sealclubber who likes to fap over his stats because he rolls around in broken low tier tanks...
@@ainumahtar He is on the NA server... i can spare you the time looking up his stats, he has 50% winrate on his sealclubbing tanks over 1k battles per tank
the little john adaptor is called a squeeze bore, the round is narrower than 40mm but has a lead alloy flange round it, as it reaches the reduced bore the lead is squeezed out small holes in the adaptor barrel.
Driving the wrong way and looking the wrong way half the time. Just pitiful. That's why we have RNG folks. To give players like this a fighting chance against moderately good players.
actually the Matilda does have a weakspot and that is the angled plate at the back which is 20mm also you can do the german tank trick on it because its hit model covers its tracks thus you can be below him and track+ dmg it
little john adapter: a squeeze bore add on that used flanged ammo, saw an interesting cross section of one once , its like a sabot, but the sabot compresses as it passes the squeeze bore and when it "pops" out it gains 50% in speed, its like going from 2000 fps to 3000 fps in 3/4 of an inch
One thing I've never understood - in matches like this, where it's one or two tanks left on each team and < 5 minutes in the battle, a strategy you'll often see is for one side to wait until the last moment to start capping, i.e. when there's just enough match time left to finish the cap if not interrupted. Why do people do that? What is the advantage over just starting to cap as soon as you can?
The Little John adaptor is a squeeze bore attachment...... used on the tetrach airborne tank and a couple of armoured cars versions..... Germans had a similar design but was a full length barrel..... shell in breach was 28mm left the barrel at 20mm
Just imagine being a German solder in North Africa in early 1941. Seeing one or two of these cresting a dune. The Tiger isn't even a gleam in Hitlers eye. 88 anti aircraft guns are few and far between, you don't have one. The panzer 2s and 3s open up but the shells just bounce off the British armour like hailstones off a tin roof. They might only go 3mph in sand, but are totally unstoppable. The queen of the desert. In less than 10 minutes, all the panzers that stood their ground are smouldering, punctured to ruin by 2lb anti tank rounds. I love this tank.
I'm subscribing because Jingles know we drink a proper beer down here. Many non-Australians think we drink Fosters but we don't. We can't stand Fosters so we export it. Also keep up the good work on the WOT videos.
The little John adapter is what is called a squeeze bore adapter and decreases the diameter down witch increases velocity slightly. The Germans had a similar design. They took their existing 28mm cannon and added a tapered barrel that went down to 20mm
The Littlejohn adaptor was one of the only four weapon systems to ever use the Gerlich principle(the squeeze bore): the other three were a trio of German anti-tank guns, 28mm, 42mm and 75mm tapering to 20mm, 28mm and 55mm respectively. The Soviets and the US tried a couple projects of their own, but those all failed. The APCNR ammunition used in squeeze bore guns, along with the more common APCR used with regular guns, were both rendered obsolete after the war with the invention of the discarding sabot.
There is actually a weakspot on the matilda. rear of the hull theres two plates, upper and lower. The upper plate is just as thick as everything else but that lower plate where the trans is is slightly thinner. they might have buffed that though as i got this from playing WoTB about 3 years ago.
Littlejohn adapter was officialy classified as a squeeze bore adapter iirc, was also fitted on the 40mm armed armoured cars to give them some AT ability late war
Littlejohn is a Taper Bore adapter, which used special ammunition equipped with collapsable flanges on the projectile. this allowed the pressure to be kept higher than would otherwise be . It certainly did work, but there were some who said that the special ammunition would do the job whether the adapter was fitted or not. Muse over that as you will, it's just something I read. (Yes, Tankers can in fact read.) (in most cases) ..
Tapper bore is the phrase you were looking for. The Germans used the same idea in a 28mm gun on an AC and it worked pretty well but the battles were quickly. The allied adapter was a better way to go.
This brings back memories. My Matilda made me look like a good player. Only time I exceeded 10 kills was in my Matilda. But, yes, I lost many a battle exactly because I couldn't get back to base in time. It's a trade-off.
Unscented Napalm ah well, let me rephrase it. I heard the bell chime everyone who doesn't know better associates with London and the Big Ben Belltower at Westminster. Am I hallucinating or does anyone else hear it?
It's a standard clock chime, as found in church bell towers all over Europe powered and timed by weighted clockwork and hammers that strike the bells in sequence. They'd generally need winding once a week and the hammers can be pulled out of the way for full swing change and method ringing. They'd do the full hourly chime that you heard along with shorter sequences for 15, 30 and 45 minutes past the hour.
Oh Jingles... I missed these replays... How can you manage to find entire teams of muppets doing it all wrong, that one OP tank that even failed to do the right thing and try to cap at least...
Irony... the Littlejohn ammo is basically real-life APCR gold ammo, and the crews found it better to remove the barrel fitting so they could still fire regular ammo because the penetrator core round worked just fine without needing the hyper-speed boost from the squeeze-bore. (The squeeze-bore works by reducing the volume of the barrel at the same rate that the gasses are expanding and losing their energy, flattening the pressure curve. In a normal barrel, ⅔ of your acceleration happens in the first ⅓ of the barrel, when the gasses are at peak pressure. By reducing the bore, you can make that peak pressure last longer, and get more acceleration out of the whole barrel.)
I have Matilda flashbacks from playing WarThunder recently in my Panzer lll. Every time I come across a Matilda, it's either at range, hulldown, or angled frontally, or all 3.
I remember a game on Xbox 360 where I was a Marder 38T. There was an AMX 40 or a Matilda left on the enemy team. On ours, it was me, an M37, and a light tank. I signaled them to run to cap while I sacrificed myself for them to run. I very well knew that it was slow, and I died outside our cap. Luckily, they did cap and we won.
Nah, the 75 who was a squeeze bore was the PaK41. In woT its equivalent is the 75L58 on the VK36, the pewpewpew who was the gold player gun during beta, able to front pen an IS-7 with over 220mm of pen.
I have to say I really wasn't a fan of this replay. Beyond the obvious misplay of an extremely slow tank trying to chase down the last SPG instead of going for the cap and drawing the SPG out, I also noticed a lot of hesitation (multiple instances when they didn't commit to taking an enemy gun out of the game and seemed to get distracted by every new enemy that popped up) and lack of situational awareness (they didn't make an attempt to defend the friendly cap, and I noticed multiple times when enemy tanks on the minimap were clearly exposed behind them and they didn't react to them until the enemy started shooting). The only reason they did so well was because they were in a top tier Matilda and the enemy team didn't cap out when they had the chance. Then again it's a tier IV game so maybe I should be more lenient.
The Little John Adaptor is...wait for it...a _squeeze bore_ device to increase the velocity of a projectile. You might call it a swaging bore. Or you could call it a choke, like with a shotgun choke. It's the same principle just applied for a different application.
A Littlejohned Matilda, few things better, more fun and more trolly when it's at top tier. I call mine the Dalek: you sit in the open as enemy fire pings off your lumpy shell, rotate that gun towards each target in turn and EXTERMINATE, EXTERMINATE, EXTERMINATE. (Also, if you squint at the turret just right...) I admit mine's been gathering pixel-dust lately. I watched Quickybaby's video about sticking a turbocharger on the TOG and I did that with my Matty. Not a huge boost in speed but it's an improvement, and just about the only improvement the Matty needs. Gave it a new lease of life.
The words you're looking for, in regards to the Littlejohn adaptor are "Squeeze-bore." Come on Jingles, you should know this! It's the same function as the VK. 3601's old Konisch. RIP Gold rounds that deal more damage than the silver rounds...
The matilda IV still works despite the hp incvrease.. but the British Matilda with around 50 alpha is abolutely obsolete. The BP version just got buffed regarding alpha.
Tilly is my favourite tank. It's a love thing. I've played many, many games with Tilly and this game illustrates perfectly that she can fight like a rat in a corner when up against it. My best games have been losses! I look upon my courageous resistance with great pride! . There was a time when the Hetzer was her only real nemesis, but she can she can be bettered by several gold spammers now. Personally I prefer to use her as a sniper. Getting kills can be hard work as it is literally death by a thousand cuts. She is deadly accurate and with a good aim you will do damage. Bit of advice, learn on maps where your point of no return is. It is very frustrating not to be able to defend the cap when needed.
Unless they nerfed it between now and when I last played it all these years ago, with a gun rammer and I think vents the littlejohn reload on my Matilda was less than two seconds. I'm still upset that tier 4 tanks aren't eligible for barrel marks and other distinctions, because alongside the Hetzer they were my favorite vehicles that I did excellently in.
It's fun to play in the Matilda. Namely I love to brawl with other Matilda's because half the time they don't understand the weakpoints of the armor, very much a, "if you know it you can rule the Matilda and if you don't the Matilda rules you." thing. If you need a hint then all I'll say is look at the way the thing is shaped. That's probably too much of a hint, but it's really fun to go up to newer Matilda players and shred them apart. I'm sure they end up reporting me claiming I cheated only because I ended up utilizing the weakspots they have yet to learn about.
The 'little john adapter' is a squeeze bore barrel. Some German tanks have access to one. It's called the Konish. Or was called the Konish, it's now called the Waffe. But I think you of all people should remember the Konish.....
If these games were historically accurate tracking a tank would be a kill, the crew would bail with the first penetration, the American Shermans would rarely catch fire, the British ones would almost always catch fire, and both would face Tigers, Panthers, and King Tigers. However, some Panthers and Tigers would spawn in broken down and would be limited to one or two per every five Shermans or T-34s. Spookston does really good videos on the problems with these tanks.
this was horrible, not only was it a low tier OP tank replay it was one with a very poor player at the helm. Please Mr. Jingles, no more draws feels bad man....
For those who wish to know, I’ll post this since I see some miss info and bad guesses in the comments. The lil John adapter is by definition what’s called a squeeze bore choke. A choke is a device attached to the end of a barrel and designed to constrict the end of the barrel. Chokes are mostly used on shotguns to narrow the spread and increase range. But they have historically been used on other things like cannons. Squeeze bore is where it tapers the bore of the choke to do the constricting. Squeeze bore has also been used in bores of barrels too. This is some times referred to as a tapered bore. This is different than a tapered barrel which is where they taper the profile (the outside of the barrel), which is generally done as a compromise between barrel rigidity and weight savings. With modern forging techniques, this practice as fallen in popularity do to being able to make various more advanced barrel profile designs. - USMC Vet and builds pew pews as a hobby. Edit: fixed some type-Os. On my mobile.
While I was going to say something nice about Jas, I refrained from doing so. Some of his plays (especially the decision to not cap) were very questionable, but I also noticed how his situational awareness seemed to be a bit off sometimes, leading me to believe he was a new player. However, he has 22000 games played (if the player I found on tanks gg is the correct one). I don't really like when players with that much experience in the game play these OP low tier tanks. Kinda liked the karma he got in the end. Now, I'm not trying to take anything away from this game, he did survive 5 tanks rushing him, some of them actually managed to damage him so it wasn't like he could just sit there, being all invulnerable.
Jingles: the wespe is definitely going to spot him from the bushes... WG: nonono Jingles. As long as you buy premium equipment for 2 million credits you won't be spotted until proximity spot.... That's how the game works now. Jingles: it's an arcade game indeed.....
The proper name for the Little John Adaptor is "Squeeze Bore," "Taper Bore," or "Cone Bore" adaptor. They're a massive pain in the ass to machine, and they tend to wear out pretty quickly. The Germans invented them in 1906. They used the principle on limited numbers of their 37mm and 75mm PAK guns.
I was going to start listing all the better beers in Australia, the realised I'd probably run out of room and patience before finishing :D Maybe we should send him a care package.
Squeeze bore is what you're after. Though I can't find a definitive answer as to whether or not they're much different. They both taper the end of the barrel. Cannons such as the 2-pounder w/ the Littlejohn adapter or the 7,5cm Pak 41 AT Gun are two examples that use squeeze bore tech.
Me hearing 75 mm of plating: wait... My Neptune only has about 15 mm of plating on everywhere but the citadel... They might as well have slapped on some naval guns and called it the new TIV bb in wows...
Hindsight 20/20, Matilda should’ve went straight for the cap and let the chips fall where they fell...at least then he had a decent shot at winning. Play to win vs Play to not lose mentality.
as you said yourself, if he went to the enemy cap he'd broadcast his location so he went to defend his own cap since obviously the arty would likely try and cap with how far away he was from it then he went looking for the arty comming from his own cap to possibly intercept him and then you kinda shit out of luck because the arty appears to have just vanished off the surface of the earth and you hurry to try and see if he's defending his own cap and then get very confused when he isn't there either
"It doesn't break down as much as it did historically"
Jingles, if every tank in WoT broke down according to historical rates, this would be World of Pillboxes.
Imagine being in a soviet tank and having it just randomly stop because the entire crew suffocated xD
Hooray for Shermans then.
@@duvagr007 what about t-34?
@@OriginalYonta they broke down a lot too, but in their defense they were built to
@@OriginalYonta The T-34's reliability early in the war was appalling. It got much better, yes, but its serviceability didn't improve
So, I looked up the replay and found an interesting statistic on the Artillery. He traveled 1.87 km during the match. Of the other 14 vehicles on the enemy team, only 4 of them traveled a greater distance than the Wespe did. From Jas's team, only himself and the Stuart traveled a greater distance.
What I suspect might have happened, is that when Jas looped back around and went to sweep the field from the direction of his own base, the Artillery, noticing he hadn't tried to cap, went into the city to look for him hoping to shotgun him. They both may very well have been in a great big game of catchy catchy chasey chasey in a counter-clockwise motion around the whole map.
He was trying to give Jas the fight he deserved and go for the win himself, but the decision to loop back around before clearing the field was very likely unintentionally running away from the artillery.
I think Jingles is a bit unfair to Sergio, the Wespe player. According to WOTLABS he has only played 1.5k games, so is new to the game. The fact he did the 5th highest travelling distance indicates the player was at least trying.
Jas just cocked up by not capping.
He might have also been trying to hit something, before, but had no luck with his shots.
@@wannabegeneral Yes. That was a critical misplay by Jas. You should NEVER try these types of plays in a slow tank like the matilda. The right play would have been to start looping back to his base while he was spotted to throw off the arty and then go for the enemy cap.
@@Nighthunter6666 true. This tactic might have worked out well in a Pz.1c or Luchs but not in a Matilda....
@@wannabegeneral I agree. Any experienced Matilda II player knows better than to go wandering around the map.
Well, sad for Jas, but he actually kinda "deserved" that draw.... When you are in such a slow tank, you don't have the luxury to loop around the map like this....
When the brain dead "No cap kill all" mantra actually defeats 2 teams in one battle.
I'm a bit baffled as to why he threw away an almost guaranteed cap win to instead wander the map for 5 mins.
Maybe because he's a stupid idiot who had luck to be featured in Jingles' video, because he had 10 kills in the OP tank with super lucky MM?
He wanted to do a school Emu parade! ie clean up the place!
Guys this game was broke years ago just enjoy the memes😂
Genuinely impressed a BT-SV managed to die that quick
Jingles on enemies making the bad decision to not cap: They get berated for it
Jingles on "our hero" making the bad decision to no cap in time: It's depressing because he deserved the win
He didn't deserve the win because he didn't make the decision to just take the win when open to him. It really isn't hard to pick a route which allows you to cap in time...
But Clicker Scumbag bad! He didn't even go looking for the enemy in a sensible way. Just drove around at walking speed.
@@HunterTeddy010 drove around at walking speed......so you mean the matildas top speed
@@blackroseknight923 Precisely. Thing was designed to be a turtle, not a hunter.
"Squeeze-bore" is the the term for the 2-pdr. Littlejohn Adapter. Germany had several of these too, except they had no ammo for them since tungsten carbide was needed for machine tools and tank ammo was lower priority. The "squeeze" is as tight as APDS ammo, but does not throw off the lightweight outer shell, but crushes it into a long tail to form an arrow with a tungsten carbide tip. The velocity does not EVER decrease in the barrel, since the propellant is continually burning and expanding behind the shot and the velocity is very high due to the small size of the tungsten carbide tip and its comparative light weight with a small cross-section to give it its speed with little drag, just like APDS. If accurate, APDS is better, since it does not need to change the original gun barrel in any way to get its advantages (though barrel wear would go up).
The Gerlich principle, the only downside was getting materials that would readily taper down whilst still staying solid enough to actually penetrate target. So whilst the German's pioneered and tried several versions of this weapon style (the 2.8cm sPzB 41 most famously), by wars end they were lacking the raw materials (normally Tungsten cores with a deformable aluminium outer shell) to make the ammo for them, they also had a detrimental effect on barrel wear as you have noted too, something again that lead to the German's limiting their use later on as they were struggling to even make the guns, never mind the ammo.
@@peteturner3928 on top of what you and Nathan have said, squeeze bore guns have 2 other issues: you could not guarantee that the outer shell will deform the same way every time you fired the gun and, ignoring the materials issues, the barrel was harder to manufacture than a regular barrel.
The other squeeze bore weapon that shows up in WoT is the 7.5cm Waffe 0725 that appears on the VK 36.01 (H). Technically the same little john adapter saw service with the British Tetrarchs as well, which would make for an interesting vehicle should it ever appear under the British line.
It's an Australian. Naturally, this means that the accent comes out. The Little John would be a form of Tapered Barrel.
please tell me it looks like an uncut certain part
It’s not a tapered barrel. Tapered barrels are tapered on the outside, not inside. The lil John adapter is by definition what’s called a squeeze bore choke. A choke is a device attached to the end of a barrel designed to constrict the end of the barrel. Chokes a mostly used on shotguns to narrow the spread and increase range. But they have historically been used on other things like cannons. Squeeze bore type is where it tapers the bore of the choke to do the constricting.
@@Maistro69 The Germans used the Gerlich patent system of taper bored barrels, internally tapered over the entire length ( ie the 28/20 mm pak 40/41). Squeeze bore and taper bore both used APNR/APCNR ammo, Armour Piercing Non Rigid or Armour Piercing Composite Non Rigid. The Gerlich system was used on pre-war sporting rifles but was a very expensive and time consuming process that required tungsten cored ammo to be effective.
@@markprior7971 there is a difference between tapered bore and tapered barrel. Details matter.
@@Maistro69 M8 you're chatting so much shit. The term "tapered barrel" isn't exclusively used to describe an external taper, it's a generalisation that could mean either. There isn't necessarily a difference between a tapered bore and a tapered barrel but saying tapered bore removes ambiguity.
Err *actually Jingles*, the Wespe did hit at least 1 shot cause he did 101 damage
Umm Jingles why are you taking off your belt? This isn't Onlyf... AHHHH!
Behold, the life of German Arty. Wait for an eternity to lower your target bloom. Fire. Sigh as your shell lands nowhere near your target bloom.
Probably nothing but splashes, so techniaclly no hits.
i mean he lost the battle for himself, he had over 4 minutes left to cap or kill the arty and he took the most time consuming and risky route to victory
To be fair, he was given bad and/or out-of-date information from his team. The location of the Wespe was given to him by a teammate in chat, but he clearly wasn't there. Either the teammate in question had no clue where the Wespe was and guessed, or he did know where the Wespe was, but by then sometime then or before, had moved, trying to find Jaz's Matilda somewhere else in the map. Jaz had no reason mistrust his teammate; if anything he had more reason to trust them since he was so low on health.
"Matilda IV"
Isn't the Matilda IV the Premium version and the Tech Tree version the Matilda II?
Yes
Yes, but under lend lease to russia. Russia had changed its turret when they got it though.
off to the salt mines with you
yes, but its Jingles.
You just got a 1 way ticket to the gulag
I think the proper term for the Littlejohn Adapter (IMO): Squeeze bore
Truth. The same principle applied to the British 6 pounder and the US 57m ATG (basically the same weapon I believe) as well as the German Pz Bsch. 2.8 cm I believe.
I was going to say that or early attempts at it. It's also called a tapered bore, but that usually is the entire bore of the gun tapering like more modern guns rather than just a little adapter on the end.
It was a one man no cap kill all and that's why he didn't win.
Agreed. Incredibly idiotic decision by the Matilda to waste all that time driving around the east side. Cap you damn fool.
Agreed, go for the cap and maybe the arty gets lucky or drive around and hope that you get lucky. Idiotic, and such a shame to throw away a 10 kill match
To be fair the Wespe only has to get lucky once and it does happen. When it does happen, it could’ve been a loss anyway. Just too much time wasted looking for something that doesn’t want to be found and I keep having to type that every time in chat.
I just wasted 5 minutes of my life...
Right? A seal clubber in a seal clubbing tank tried to win harder and lost. THAT is justice.
The B1 suffers from having to use the commander gun rather than it’s primary gun which is the howitzer in the hull.
Thats realy true, if someone had played war thunder will know that the B1 in there you HAVE to use the big gun to do any damage one shooting some tanks, is the beauty of beeing able to use multiple guns in that game.
I think this was in response to everyone complaining that the M3 Lee only shot it's hull gun and not the turret gun. And apparently Wargaming will only allow 2 functional guns on a tank if it's a Russian paper tank (see IS-2-II).
Same as Churchill 1
That's just one more evidence how stupid are WG idiots who can't implement so simple mechanics as firing with 2 guns interchangeably. It's not that hard to define just ONE freaking button on the whole keyboard which would serve a sole purpose of shifting fire between 2 guns. And it's not that so many tanks are having 2 guns, except M3 Lee and B1 which are really not very good tanks anyway.
@@damyr Remember that Halloween gamemode with the Leviathan? It was their test for two independent turrets, and they employed none of it. Nor have they picked anything up from World of Warships, where multiple turrets are de rigeur.
31 health to spare... man, that really was down to the wire
This is why, back when I played WoTs with any sort of consistency, whenever I was a tier 4 in a tier 4 match and there is a matilda, I focus him above all else.
Matildas are the reason why I play the luchs whenever in low tier
@@anakinawesome2aa505 Oh! You're the guy I hate with a burning passion!!
I have found that if a matilda finds itself in a tier 6 battle its chamces of survival can be made better if it hides by a friendly tog. A platoon of 3 mathildas hiding by a tog makes for a very impressive firing line
She wasn't the queen of the desert for nothing.
The lottlejon has special ammo but crews found out they could put normal rounds through it without problem
here is a good tip for the Matilda. Don't take camouflage as a skill. Your gun will be firing almost 100% of the time and your camo while firing is absolute dogshit. Just accept that you will be spotted and your enemies will be invisible. That isn't your role.
Fun game, take a shot every time Jingles call it a Matilda IV.
the little john adapter is a barrel elongation with conical diameter. it works on the squeeze bore principle, like the pzb41 2,8cm heavy anti tank rifle.
this principle employs a hard penetrator (eg toungsten core) in a soft metal casing (like lead), the penetrator core has the caliber of the muzzle, the projectile casing is larger than the muzzle, but the conical barrel diameter squeezes the softer metal outside down and semi liquifies it, sealing the barrel behind the penetrator core and thus increasing muzzle velocity due to higher gas pressure.
the negative is, that the barrel erosion is ludicrously high and you could only fire specialised ammunition with it.
Or, "looser" as a lot of the EU server in game chat folks tend to say.
NA as well.
I think more people manage to misspell it then get it right. Nationality/Native language or not doesn't even matter. If it's anything like there/their/they're, than that's a ton of native speakers that get it terribly wrong as well.
@@jvccr7533 well i mean
EU server is just Eastern Europeans spamming Cryllic writing into chat
Very slack comment😂
lobe, lode, loge, lone, lope, lore, lote, love... and then there's "lose" which, for some reason, is pronounced almost like "loose", a completely different word. It's actually English being stupid here
That was quite impressive. They managed to play so well and then screw the whole thing up by forgetting their tanks 1 weakness...
I don't think i've ever seen someone throw a battle that hard but that passively.
As others have stated, the little John adapter was a squeeze barrel adapter, that squeezed special ammo from 40mm to 28mm as it went through the adapter. This increased the penetration ability of the ammo, by increasing its velocity at the same time as reducing it's cross section. It was removable, so that the crew could fire standard 40mm ammo if they needed too. As crews hated to remove the adapter during a battle, they ended if firing the squeeze bore ammo WITHOUT having the adapter fitted, with little loss of penetration.
I love playing the Matilda, and have numerous 2000+ hp games with it. A real battler.
There was no skill involved. Just that he was in OP tank.
1) He could've seen base getting capped way ahead of time. And rushed back to defend preemptively. If two enemies capped it was defeat for sure.
2) He was very near enemy base he could've capped easily. It's very rare that spg would've got ballz to cap on open ground. Also SPGs don't move far from base.
Well he was probably afraid to be shotgunned by arty that's why he went around, but you just don't do these type of plays in a slow tank. Too time consuming and the enemy can relocate like a million times anyway. Just tricking him by starting to go back to his base and then turning around a few secs later shoud have sufficed.
You forgot the fact that there were multiple occasions where he had a oneshot tank at one side and multiple enemies at his other side and decided that the oneshot can be ignored until he finishes multiple others... Or when he used his Repkit to repair his TRACKS when no enemy was within 500m of him and they would have gotten repaired a second later.
This is just another failed sealclubber that got lucky
@@eulemitbeule5426 I was going to post exactly this. I also can't find his stats, which further suggests he's nothing but a sealclubber who likes to fap over his stats because he rolls around in broken low tier tanks...
@@ainumahtar He is on the NA server... i can spare you the time looking up his stats, he has 50% winrate on his sealclubbing tanks over 1k battles per tank
@@eulemitbeule5426 That's impressively sad, actually.
the little john adaptor is called a squeeze bore, the round is narrower than 40mm but has a lead alloy flange round it, as it reaches the reduced bore the lead is squeezed out small holes in the adaptor barrel.
Game of Potatoes, he deserved the draw, after each time he engaged the enemy tanks he ended up driving the wrong way.
Driving the wrong way and looking the wrong way half the time. Just pitiful. That's why we have RNG folks. To give players like this a fighting chance against moderately good players.
actually the Matilda does have a weakspot and that is the angled plate at the back which is 20mm
also you can do the german tank trick on it because its hit model covers its tracks thus you can be below him and track+ dmg it
little john adapter: a squeeze bore add on that used flanged ammo, saw an interesting cross section of one once , its like a sabot, but the sabot compresses as it passes the squeeze bore and when it "pops" out it gains 50% in speed, its like going from 2000 fps to 3000 fps in 3/4 of an inch
Your upload time matches perfectly with my wake up time lol!
One thing I've never understood - in matches like this, where it's one or two tanks left on each team and < 5 minutes in the battle, a strategy you'll often see is for one side to wait until the last moment to start capping, i.e. when there's just enough match time left to finish the cap if not interrupted. Why do people do that? What is the advantage over just starting to cap as soon as you can?
The Little John adaptor is a squeeze bore attachment...... used on the tetrach airborne tank and a couple of armoured cars versions..... Germans had a similar design but was a full length barrel..... shell in breach was 28mm left the barrel at 20mm
Just imagine being a German solder in North Africa in early 1941. Seeing one or two of these cresting a dune. The Tiger isn't even a gleam in Hitlers eye. 88 anti aircraft guns are few and far between, you don't have one. The panzer 2s and 3s open up but the shells just bounce off the British armour like hailstones off a tin roof.
They might only go 3mph in sand, but are totally unstoppable. The queen of the desert. In less than 10 minutes, all the panzers that stood their ground are smouldering, punctured to ruin by 2lb anti tank rounds. I love this tank.
I'm subscribing because Jingles know we drink a proper beer down here. Many non-Australians think we drink Fosters but we don't. We can't stand Fosters so we export it.
Also keep up the good work on the WOT videos.
I guess I need to give my Matilda another look.
Hmm, turbocharger? That spinning device?
The little John adapter is what is called a squeeze bore adapter and decreases the diameter down witch increases velocity slightly.
The Germans had a similar design. They took their existing 28mm cannon and added a tapered barrel that went down to 20mm
nice re-upload Jingles! Seen this exact video by you a few months ago
The Littlejohn adaptor was one of the only four weapon systems to ever use the Gerlich principle(the squeeze bore): the other three were a trio of German anti-tank guns, 28mm, 42mm and 75mm tapering to 20mm, 28mm and 55mm respectively.
The Soviets and the US tried a couple projects of their own, but those all failed. The APCNR ammunition used in squeeze bore guns, along with the more common APCR used with regular guns, were both rendered obsolete after the war with the invention of the discarding sabot.
Thank God for the skip-ahead function in U-tube videos. It comes in very handy watching Matildas, Maus, T-95 etc.
There is actually a weakspot on the matilda. rear of the hull theres two plates, upper and lower. The upper plate is just as thick as everything else but that lower plate where the trans is is slightly thinner. they might have buffed that though as i got this from playing WoTB about 3 years ago.
"A draw for both sides"? Oh, Jingles
Littlejohn adapter was officialy classified as a squeeze bore adapter iirc, was also fitted on the 40mm armed armoured cars to give them some AT ability late war
Littlejohn is a Taper Bore adapter, which used special ammunition equipped with collapsable flanges on the projectile. this allowed the pressure to be kept higher than would otherwise be . It certainly did work, but there were some who said that the special ammunition would do the job whether the adapter was fitted or not. Muse over that as you will, it's just something I read. (Yes, Tankers can in fact read.) (in most cases) ..
Last time I was early like this Australia was still a prison colony
...It isn't anymore?! Why was I not informed, I have Attack Kangaroos to train!
Tapper bore is the phrase you were looking for. The Germans used the same idea in a 28mm gun on an AC and it worked pretty well but the battles were quickly. The allied adapter was a better way to go.
9:00 Enemy Team: "Get behind it, hit the vulnerable spots!"
Stuart: "IT'S A MATILDA! IT DOESN'T HAVE VULNERABLE SPOTS!"
Haha, is that a Galaxy Quest reference?
This brings back memories. My Matilda made me look like a good player. Only time I exceeded 10 kills was in my Matilda. But, yes, I lost many a battle exactly because I couldn't get back to base in time. It's a trade-off.
10:22 am I hallucinating or did I hear a Big Ben clock chime in the background?
Big Ben is the bell, not the clock/clocktower.
Unscented Napalm ah well, let me rephrase it. I heard the bell chime everyone who doesn't know better associates with London and the Big Ben Belltower at Westminster. Am I hallucinating or does anyone else hear it?
i heard it sounds like a Christmas bell , three times at least
It's a standard clock chime, as found in church bell towers all over Europe powered and timed by weighted clockwork and hammers that strike the bells in sequence. They'd generally need winding once a week and the hammers can be pulled out of the way for full swing change and method ringing. They'd do the full hourly chime that you heard along with shorter sequences for 15, 30 and 45 minutes past the hour.
The little john adapter is just a form of squeeze bore modification for the 2pdr. There isn't really a more complicated term for it
Oh Jingles... I missed these replays... How can you manage to find entire teams of muppets doing it all wrong, that one OP tank that even failed to do the right thing and try to cap at least...
Irony... the Littlejohn ammo is basically real-life APCR gold ammo, and the crews found it better to remove the barrel fitting so they could still fire regular ammo because the penetrator core round worked just fine without needing the hyper-speed boost from the squeeze-bore.
(The squeeze-bore works by reducing the volume of the barrel at the same rate that the gasses are expanding and losing their energy, flattening the pressure curve. In a normal barrel, ⅔ of your acceleration happens in the first ⅓ of the barrel, when the gasses are at peak pressure. By reducing the bore, you can make that peak pressure last longer, and get more acceleration out of the whole barrel.)
I have Matilda flashbacks from playing WarThunder recently in my Panzer lll. Every time I come across a Matilda, it's either at range, hulldown, or angled frontally, or all 3.
Tui is not Australian, it's a NZ beer brewed in Mangatainoka on the North Island.
I think the littlejohn was a squeeze bore adaptor used by a number of nations during WW II
I remember a game on Xbox 360 where I was a Marder 38T. There was an AMX 40 or a Matilda left on the enemy team. On ours, it was me, an M37, and a light tank. I signaled them to run to cap while I sacrificed myself for them to run. I very well knew that it was slow, and I died outside our cap. Luckily, they did cap and we won.
Squeeze-bore tech as in the Little John? It's something used quite a bit. I think the PAK40 was also squeeze-bore.
Nah, the 75 who was a squeeze bore was the PaK41. In woT its equivalent is the 75L58 on the VK36, the pewpewpew who was the gold player gun during beta, able to front pen an IS-7 with over 220mm of pen.
Morning Jingles!
The technical term for the Little John adaptor is as you almost had it; a squeeze bore extension.
Ah, my friends & I used to love playing the Matilda. A few times, we went out in a platoon of three, and did rather well when we got top tier...
I have to say I really wasn't a fan of this replay. Beyond the obvious misplay of an extremely slow tank trying to chase down the last SPG instead of going for the cap and drawing the SPG out, I also noticed a lot of hesitation (multiple instances when they didn't commit to taking an enemy gun out of the game and seemed to get distracted by every new enemy that popped up) and lack of situational awareness (they didn't make an attempt to defend the friendly cap, and I noticed multiple times when enemy tanks on the minimap were clearly exposed behind them and they didn't react to them until the enemy started shooting). The only reason they did so well was because they were in a top tier Matilda and the enemy team didn't cap out when they had the chance. Then again it's a tier IV game so maybe I should be more lenient.
The Little John Adaptor is...wait for it...a _squeeze bore_ device to increase the velocity of a projectile. You might call it a swaging bore. Or you could call it a choke, like with a shotgun choke.
It's the same principle just applied for a different application.
A Littlejohned Matilda, few things better, more fun and more trolly when it's at top tier. I call mine the Dalek: you sit in the open as enemy fire pings off your lumpy shell, rotate that gun towards each target in turn and EXTERMINATE, EXTERMINATE, EXTERMINATE. (Also, if you squint at the turret just right...)
I admit mine's been gathering pixel-dust lately. I watched Quickybaby's video about sticking a turbocharger on the TOG and I did that with my Matty. Not a huge boost in speed but it's an improvement, and just about the only improvement the Matty needs. Gave it a new lease of life.
Jingles is reminded of Australia... *immediately thinks of beer*
At tier 4. Not alot of people have skilz. But here's a tank that you can count on to make a solid last stand. This, and the hetzer for support.
The words you're looking for, in regards to the Littlejohn adaptor are "Squeeze-bore." Come on Jingles, you should know this! It's the same function as the VK. 3601's old Konisch. RIP Gold rounds that deal more damage than the silver rounds...
The matilda IV still works despite the hp incvrease.. but the British Matilda with around 50 alpha is abolutely obsolete. The BP version just got buffed regarding alpha.
"The b1 has trouble penetrating itself, the Matilda 4 does not have that problem" lol
The highest damage I've ever seen with a matilda, what a great job.
Tilly is my favourite tank. It's a love thing. I've played many, many games with Tilly and this game illustrates perfectly that she can fight like a rat in a corner when up against it. My best games have been losses! I look upon my courageous resistance with great pride! . There was a time when the Hetzer was her only real nemesis, but she can she can be bettered by several gold spammers now. Personally I prefer to use her as a sniper. Getting kills can be hard work as it is literally death by a thousand cuts. She is deadly accurate and with a good aim you will do damage. Bit of advice, learn on maps where your point of no return is. It is very frustrating not to be able to defend the cap when needed.
Unless they nerfed it between now and when I last played it all these years ago, with a gun rammer and I think vents the littlejohn reload on my Matilda was less than two seconds. I'm still upset that tier 4 tanks aren't eligible for barrel marks and other distinctions, because alongside the Hetzer they were my favorite vehicles that I did excellently in.
It's fun to play in the Matilda. Namely I love to brawl with other Matilda's because half the time they don't understand the weakpoints of the armor, very much a, "if you know it you can rule the Matilda and if you don't the Matilda rules you." thing. If you need a hint then all I'll say is look at the way the thing is shaped. That's probably too much of a hint, but it's really fun to go up to newer Matilda players and shred them apart. I'm sure they end up reporting me claiming I cheated only because I ended up utilizing the weakspots they have yet to learn about.
Uploaded 4 minutes ago, well hello there!
General Kenobi
Ah yes, the negotiator
You are a bold one
General Kenobi
historically accurate, TOG II and Tiger (P) spend most of their time on fire
Tooheys is described as Australia's most boring beer. Although your lucky if a Beer doesn't have something about it made fun of here in Australia
The little John Adapter is a squeeze bore device
The 'little john adapter' is a squeeze bore barrel. Some German tanks have access to one. It's called the Konish. Or was called the Konish, it's now called the Waffe. But I think you of all people should remember the Konish.....
Its not a Matilda IV its a tier IV Matilda. The little john is a squeeze bore extention, the german 2cm flack cannon used them
If these games were historically accurate tracking a tank would be a kill, the crew would bail with the first penetration, the American Shermans would rarely catch fire, the British ones would almost always catch fire, and both would face Tigers, Panthers, and King Tigers. However, some Panthers and Tigers would spawn in broken down and would be limited to one or two per every five Shermans or T-34s. Spookston does really good videos on the problems with these tanks.
i love the laugh jingles HAHAHEHEHMHM lmao
this was horrible,
not only was it a low tier OP tank replay
it was one with a very poor player at the helm.
Please Mr. Jingles,
no more draws
feels bad man....
Had a game in the same tank, same map, same mm. a year back. 12 kills, kolobanovs against 9. Never worried :D
if there was anything I learned playing WOT over the years is don't have high expectations for tier 4 or below yet -_-"
The Wespe could be drunk. I'm almost always drunk when playing WOT.
Triumped by 10mins into the video; next 6 mins a trundling Matlida. Great game, now to try and play my Tilda
dont forget the tiger P. " feeling kind cute today I'll set my engine on fire"
Squeezebore adapter was the name of the device type the Little John adapter is.
Evidently, Jazz's opponent didn't want to scratch the paint on his pixel tank.
For those who wish to know, I’ll post this since I see some miss info and bad guesses in the comments. The lil John adapter is by definition what’s called a squeeze bore choke. A choke is a device attached to the end of a barrel and designed to constrict the end of the barrel. Chokes are mostly used on shotguns to narrow the spread and increase range. But they have historically been used on other things like cannons. Squeeze bore is where it tapers the bore of the choke to do the constricting. Squeeze bore has also been used in bores of barrels too. This is some times referred to as a tapered bore. This is different than a tapered barrel which is where they taper the profile (the outside of the barrel), which is generally done as a compromise between barrel rigidity and weight savings. With modern forging techniques, this practice as fallen in popularity do to being able to make various more advanced barrel profile designs. - USMC Vet and builds pew pews as a hobby.
Edit: fixed some type-Os. On my mobile.
While I was going to say something nice about Jas, I refrained from doing so. Some of his plays (especially the decision to not cap) were very questionable, but I also noticed how his situational awareness seemed to be a bit off sometimes, leading me to believe he was a new player. However, he has 22000 games played (if the player I found on tanks gg is the correct one). I don't really like when players with that much experience in the game play these OP low tier tanks. Kinda liked the karma he got in the end. Now, I'm not trying to take anything away from this game, he did survive 5 tanks rushing him, some of them actually managed to damage him so it wasn't like he could just sit there, being all invulnerable.
The guy from Wespe thought : "A Bird in the Hand is Worth Two in the Bush"...
I just love listening to your voice.
Jingles: the wespe is definitely going to spot him from the bushes... WG: nonono Jingles. As long as you buy premium equipment for 2 million credits you won't be spotted until proximity spot.... That's how the game works now.
Jingles: it's an arcade game indeed.....
On a non-encounter battle, it's 100 seconds to cap, or 1 minute 40 seconds.
The proper name for the Little John Adaptor is "Squeeze Bore," "Taper Bore," or "Cone Bore" adaptor. They're a massive pain in the ass to machine, and they tend to wear out pretty quickly. The Germans invented them in 1906. They used the principle on limited numbers of their 37mm and 75mm PAK guns.
Tooheys? And here I thought Jingles had taste. Might have to rethink the intent of checking out some of the other beers that he's recommended.
I was going to start listing all the better beers in Australia, the realised I'd probably run out of room and patience before finishing :D Maybe we should send him a care package.
Is the barrel extension called a “choke”, similar to what is used on a shotgun to improve performance and reduce shot spread?
Squeeze bore is what you're after. Though I can't find a definitive answer as to whether or not they're much different. They both taper the end of the barrel.
Cannons such as the 2-pounder w/ the Littlejohn adapter or the 7,5cm Pak 41 AT Gun are two examples that use squeeze bore tech.
Me hearing 75 mm of plating:
wait... My Neptune only has about 15 mm of plating on everywhere but the citadel...
They might as well have slapped on some naval guns and called it the new TIV bb in wows...
Hindsight 20/20, Matilda should’ve went straight for the cap and let the chips fall where they fell...at least then he had a decent shot at winning. Play to win vs Play to not lose mentality.
as you said yourself, if he went to the enemy cap he'd broadcast his location
so he went to defend his own cap since obviously the arty would likely try and cap with how far away he was from it
then he went looking for the arty comming from his own cap to possibly intercept him
and then you kinda shit out of luck because the arty appears to have just vanished off the surface of the earth and you hurry to try and see if he's defending his own cap and then get very confused when he isn't there either