Avro Lancaster In War Thunder : A Basic Review

[@danielmartens6369]

As someone who lives in Hamilton, Ontario, where we have 1 of only 2 airworthy Lancasters in the world, this plane is near and dear to my heart. Just one flying over fills you with the wonder of what hundreds filling the sky would've been like.

[@TimsVariety]

Totally jealous that you get to see one IRL, truly a legendary plane.

[@123123boobies]

I live pretty close to Hamilton (within 2 hours) and i never knew there was one there. I may have to check that out on a weekend.

[@keuwlcat1319]

probably shit myself if i saw that in ww2

[@LovetheRAF]

I live at coningsby Uk next to RAF coningsby and we have Lancaster pa474 (leader) still flying built just after the war see her every time the hanger is open and when she fly's used for the battle of Britain memorial

[@lukemorris4065]

My grandfather passed away recently and handed down his Lancaster bomber watch. His father died in one during the war but he had always spoke so highly of the aircraft. I’ll be flying this bad boy even if it’s not “Meta” in the game

[@black_thunder2159]

0:31 respect to the F-82! escorting bombers had been one of my favorite thing to do in War Thunder, its super difficult but i learn that its best to stay more than 2km away from the bomber to give a barrier between the bombers & the attacking fighters, but honestly, if i mess up, the bomber is toasted. anyway, i love your Bomber reviews! barely anyone on the internet cover them, so this is a gem

[@forgottenketchup8211]

The “warthunder toxic chat” was do relatable lol

[@TimsVariety]

14 year olds trying to be edgy by throwing the n-word and various antisemitic slurs around.... just anther day in WT ....

[@inimitz6421]

@@TimsVariety at least some of them are getting chat bans for it… it’s kinda funny to see them complain about it afterwards

[@forgottenketchup8211]

@@TimsVariety i hate the toxic warthunder community its people like you that make the game fun

[@theelectricgamer9889]

Funnily enough I don’t really encountered this when I play

[@Vlad290999]

"The Lancaster is surprisingly tough..." *Me dying from one burst of Fw 190* "Yeah!"

[@simonlloyd100]

My father was a Lancaster pilot in WW2: he remembered it as a wonderful aircraft

[@Ashfielder]

I miss the twin 4000lb loadout. In naval that was an excellent way to dispose of two battleships in one run. Now there’s the bigger bomb but only one, and 4000lb was plenty large enough.

[@sherlocksinha2435]

Love nuking battleships with the German 1 ton bombs

[@richtaylor2129]

Love the Lancaster!! Lucky to live in the UK where we have one of 2 airworthy Lancasters & 1 taxiable which is being restored to fly. In 2014, the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum flew their Lancaster over to the UK & flew with our Lancaster for the Summer. It was amazing to see fly!!! Also they flew over ex RAF East Kirkby where the taxiable Lancaster is based. I wish i was there to see that!! 12 Merlins purring away!!!

[@aaronho1914]

God that fighter escort brought a smile to my face

[@kingcuz.]

Tip: when landing you can belly land the airfield at max speed, softly ofc - saves the dicey and timely job of landing normally.

[@lorenmax2.013]

That's what I wanted to explain to my instructor but I still got my pilot license revoked

[@DaMatchstick]

0:30, funny that F-82 actually doing what it was designed to do (iirc)

[@TimsVariety]

I was so shocked (in a good way) that I knew I had to include a clip of it in the review.

[@memonrunescape]

Saw one fly over head today while I was working in Horncastle UK for the 80th anniversary of the Dambusters raid, it was flanked by 2 spitfire aswell.

[@kringe700]

"The Lancaster is surprisingly tough." Meanwhile, my Lanc got its entire tail snapped off when any planes with 20 mm sneezed on it.

[@kineuhansen8629]

such a shame we dont haveany dams in war thunder

[@Codiac035]

Lmao I can see it now on the next devblog: Due to the unexpected tankiness of the Lancaster, it is being raised by 2 BRs. We cannot have bombers being good

[@AnchisesGamer]

Tim casually drops footage of the rarest thing in War Thunder: an effective bomber escort. Impressive

[@cat_clan_leader]

That A-1H has the time of his life with those Zunis against that train

[@kalui96]

omg that carrier kill 😨

[@TheWhoamaters]

RCAF Livery hell yeah! Great video as always

[@AdmV0rl0n]

The secret to its design was the bomb bay, but a big part of that was the placement of wing spares that 'keep' out of the bomb bays area. The plane has a terrible problem with the hatch men were meant to escape through. It cost a lot of lives. The plane was liked by its crews and it did a lot of work. In tribute to the 55k who paid the price -- kzbin.info/www/bejne/maPZcqqGrtOMpdE

[@samuelkiral]

You should make a video about the I-16 family, they are in my opinion the most fun planes in War Thunder

[@TimsVariety]

I love the I-16 so much ... it'll be featured at some point, in some way. It may end up just being a review of one of the later-model ones, I'm not really sure.

[@DieErsteKartoffel]

I’ve been playing tanks recently and while smaller bombs are pretty good I’d definitely like to try the grand slam.

[@bobthestick99]

Really crisp audio on this compared to videos from even last week or so - not that it was ever bad

[@freddiepsaila5490]

please do more ships i know they arent that popular but they have the coolest history and are my favourite

[@djgraph404]

One of the last two that is still airworthy and fly's is near me in Hamilton Ontario. It''s always flying over the city throughout the summer.

[@bvsveera]

I love the Lancaster. When the brackets are just right in air sim, this thing can take out almost FIVE bases!! It is an integral part of my RAF Bomber Command lineup. Fairly cheap to spawn in, and it is (to my knowledge) the most capable of all the heavy four-engine bombers in the game. Flying the B-17 feels like a chore, in comparison. My only pain points with the Lanc are that, to be relatively safe from enemy fighter interception, you have to climb to just below contrail altitude, which can take quite some time, and eats into sim's "useful actions" rewards timer. And that the defensive armament is atrocious at this BR. Both of these problems are solved with the Lincoln, which I've come to regard as an upgraded Lancaster in spirit. I feel quite proud, and lucky, to have seen two RAAF Lancasters in real life - "G for George" at the Australian War Memorial, and the cockpit of "F for Fred" at the Imperial War Museum in London.

[@PlayerAfricanChieften]

the Lancaster flight models were updated and toughened up after the introduction of the 12k

[@leilanz8325]

I've flown it on simulator battles and the Lanc can't take much damage to the wing (yellow on the model) before it becomes uncontrollable... Until you drop the blockbuster, then the plane begins flying normally. Thankfully, most of the time the sorties weren't a waste because I'm pretty handy with the turrets and downed the enemy that made the Lanc a falling bathtub full of cement

[@marcusschriever4518]

I would love a landing tutorial Your landings are pristine and I would love to know what I am doing wrong

[@TimsVariety]

Noted.

[@emmata98]

5:55 so it is more robust than B17's or the B29... Wow, Gaijin and damage models

[@bonknessmonster]

I saw one of these fly over my head by surprise while in a nature reserve, i think it's because there was two airfields nearby.

[@LOLOtheFNG]

Thanks, Tim!

[@Anti-Villain-Wolf]

Toxic chat in War Thunder? No! Never! lol

[@carrott36]

I agree!

[@j_tha_panther]

7:54 I actually say the opposite. If you tell your teammates to clear out of a specific area they’ll all try to get over there as fast as possible to put you in TK debt

[@quicksilver-vv768]

"Acceptable losses" in machine form

[@FirstDagger]

Isn't the 4062 kg TNTe of the 14 × 1000 lb MC Mk.I bomb loadout not enough for three bases? 8:48 All bombers should be landed with manual engines controls as you can increase the prop pitch and open the radiators for more drag.

[@bradenhagen7977]

I think different bombs still have multipliers (and uptiers change it) so I couldn't tell ya.

[@hmshood9212]

Maybe one day we can get the Avro Lincoln

[@miklis203]

Comment for the algorithm. Flying bombers is fun!

[@TazGaming141]

4:34 what if we play on console?

[@thedrifter9814]

will you be covering a full review on the F4S?

[@TimsVariety]

Yes

[@thedrifter9814]

@@TimsVarietyThanks love your videos btw

[@Codiac035]

Real quick: the Lancaster has a max load of 14,000lbs of bombs. The B-17 had a max of 17,600lbs (using both the bomb bay and wing hardpoints). However, no bomber was ever carrying the max load since it made the bomber fly lower and slower, making them easier targets. While the Lancaster had a larger bombload than the B-17 in a normal mission, the B-24 (as far as I can find) surpassed the Lancaster in terms of standard bombload Also, the USAF mounted 2 grand slams to a B-29 during prep for Operation Downfall. When do we get that Gaijin ))))))) Also also, how the hell did you get that close to a carrier with AI gunners lmfao. Then again I guess it's not Touhou Lite aka Naval

[@davispeterson1876]

Cloudmaker and Grand Slam when, Gaijin?!

[@blitzroyale348]

Have you upgraded your GPU tim? I ask because i dont think an rtx 3070 can get 200 franes at 4k resolution that your videos are filmed in.

[@TimsVariety]

Great question. I went over the details once or twice in like, annual FAQ vids, but generally speaking I record most of my "regular gameplay" at 1440p and let the renderer do the upscaling to 4k/60. Some segments, like the outro, are often recorded at 4k native. (Long story to explain, but I need at least one snippit of 4k footage as the first bit I insert into my video editing software because of the way I have my stuff setup).

[@blitzroyale348]

@@TimsVariety This makes sense now. Thanks for clarifying.

[@THECAKEISTALKING]

Whats the skin your using for the lancaster at the start of the video?

[@TimsVariety]

I think you mean the Royal Canadian Air Force one.

[@THECAKEISTALKING]

@@TimsVariety yeah, that one. Is it a custom one or is it in game?

[@TimsVariety]

@@THECAKEISTALKING In-Game. I only **very** rarely show any player made custom skins in my reviews.

[@ODST_Parker]

I stop playing bombers around this tier, because it takes too long to spade them and you're basically bait for fighters and interceptors. Makes me never want to play bombers at all, because I know that speed and defense is almost never adequate to be engaged and survive, let alone intact.

[@Sagaleon14]

Big boy

[@Rynnakkosampyla]

While i appreciate this thing as an engineering marvel. i absolutely hate it in war thunder. It stands as a pinnacle of fun for me but not for you game design in ground battles. With no counter play (besides spawning a plane) available. Since the bomb is killing tanks behind buildings or "cover". This plane has me seeing red like the pe-8. I do wish ground players had adjustable fuses for long range aa guns that you could actually use over the joke range finder mess we currently have.

[@charliezw3287]

Wonder how many people know what "39 cents to supersize" meand