BATTLESHIPS VS STURMTIGERS - WHAT DOES IT TAKE? (+Bonus Round w/ All Ground Tech) - WAR THUNDER

[@Nativeat1YT]

Whoever requested to have him show a clip of the Tanks spawning inside of each other has had there wish granted lol.

[@FishyFishaz]

We meet again.

[@Nativeat1YT]

@@FishyFishaz ahhh, the legend of Fishaz. A worthy oponet you are...

[@FishyFishaz]

@@Nativeat1YT When the hell did I become a legend or a worthy opponent. I am a shit player who posts crappy shorts on KZbin when I am bored.

[@Nativeat1YT]

@@FishyFishaz if you are still able to live after playing wt you are both of those things, or someone who has nothing better to do lol

[@jblob5764]

Lookin like sturm mitosis

[@thesaul9484]

Respect to my man, FrightRider07 for choosing to go hand-in-hand combat against battleships with a PT-76

[@stevenortiz9008]

Boat vs boat

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

Funnily, that's the best place to be, right up until the crew notices and grabs rifles and grenades.

[@deathwolf_gaming4697]

You see comrade to beat battleship you must become battleship

[@georgebutler4056]

@@deathwolf_gaming4697 b o o m b o o m s

[@Anonymous-hv9yw]

@@stillcantbesilencedevennow Well then the PT-76 crew will board the ship and literally go hand-to-hand combat

[@Yo2Distribution]

"Who knew an aircraft carrier would be so deadly against battleships" Yamamoto, I guess

[@liamc9998]

Usually aircraft carriers are far superior to battleships tactically… unless your HMS Glorious.

[@gabesisneros136]

That line from him was so dumb is this KZbinr ok? At least it sounded dumb-tzun tzu

[@Docthewrench]

@@gabesisneros136 he doesn't have a clue... The game isn't able to figure this fight out...the battleship would dominate those little tanks.

[@hashteraksgage3281]

​@@Docthewrench those little tanks are shooting the equivalent of 250kg bombs, that can for sure heavily damage a battleship and even sink it.

[@Docthewrench]

@@hashteraksgage3281 yeah but the battleships out range with all their guns. In this fight the battle ship gave up it'd range...put the range at several thousand meters . Loading a 1000lb warhead But what do I know, I am responding on youtube.

[@warm_egg_salad5953]

When the Battleships POV in the second round was shown it made it clear as to why the sturmtigers were blocking shells. He was using pure HE at the time and hitting the 180mm plate on the sturmtiger.

[@ThunderWithMuffin]

Yeah that made sense once I noticed that from that player

[@quarkedbutt3957]

Shouldn't have overpressured the crew?

[@human6631]

@@quarkedbutt3957 🤷‍♂️

[@CrazyDutchguys]

@@quarkedbutt3957 realistically, yes, but also gaijin

[@akshooter271]

@@quarkedbutt3957 well yeah, but you can't have your premium tanks getting killed via reality

[@millermason2068]

Wow. You managed to get all 4 naval players together. Hats off to you

[@laff__8821]

I wasn't invited damnit

[@legend9181]

@@laff__8821 me neither

[@cameronnekerekian1712]

loool

[@user-fe7bo5mm1o]

ngl those small boats (I forgor how it's called) are fun

[@laff__8821]

@@user-fe7bo5mm1o weakest coastal fleet enjoyer

[@alankohn6709]

I think being able to fire into spawn in the round of chaos was a little unfair but this is maximum silliness and I love it

[@BubblefishOfTrem]

At the same time, that's a very Guardsman like moment. Spawn my tanks, so your corpses can form a wall for your brothers to hide behind!

[@alankohn6709]

@@BubblefishOfTrem Take cover behind the pile of dead bards

[@deaks25]

I think this showed some of the limits of WT; even if a 12" or 14" shell doesn't penetrate, that tank is going to get launched into orbit from it. I noticed once you introduced ships with lots of AA guns, they fared much better, ie they can start to put a lot of rapid heavy fire (40mm cannon is no joke).

[@mikephantasmic]

Yep I'd expect tanks to flip over just from the kinetic impact. No penetration means much of the kinetic energy of the shell is transferred directly to the sturms. Those 14" shells weigh around 1,400 lb.

[@Bread_45]

Agreed, and anyone inside a tank that is shoved that hard, that quickly, is gonna be mince from the sudden acceleration. It'd be like sitting in a parked car and having a supersonic wall of bricks smash in to you.

[@koflynn2159]

I mean, I'm pretty sure the Sturmtiger's gun was a naval mortar to begin with.

[@jackass6257]

Depth mine charge launcher/ dispenser. Same difference

[@The_Angry_Kat]

Isn’t it like the eq of 14 inch he?

[@thew2646]

It was around the same size as the shells of the Bismarck

[@tylersoto7465]

Its 11 inch rocket gun was strong enough to blast through 8 ft of concrete . So it has the firepower to blast through most things . The sturmtigers is basically a walking anti ship gun with a 3.5 mile shooting range

[@Steve_Farwalker]

The sheer amount of firepower from a battleship from WWII was most aptly displayed in the final round. I feel it was the most realistic.

[@ThunderWithMuffin]

Yeah I agree

[@piscessoedroen]

Yeah people only think of the main guns, but forgot about the whole AA and auxiliary arsenal + the amount of HE they can carry to demolish an entire town

[@Procrastinater]

WT's damage model cannot accurately model the destructive force of a battleship's main armament. The kinetic energy alone from one of its HE shells can destroy any tank in game, even if it impacts armor plate that should on paper resist it's explosive force, nevermind the overpressure, the sheer kinetic energy would be enough to turn it into scrap. Misses from BB guns were in reality known to throw tanks into the air, even from AP shells with small explosive filler charges.

[@piscessoedroen]

@@Procrastinater that's also a problem for derp guns and arty calls. Any HE bigger than 150mm should make any tanks fear for their life, shake them around and break shit. But we only got a hit on direct hit that isn't exactly on the thinnest part of the tank Which is why i always wanted bomb logic to be integrated for guns above certain caliber. They shake and flip tanks, destroy shit on near miss, and guarantees destruction within a radius

[@ATruckCampbell]

@@piscessoedroen I heard somewhere that there were Abrams in the Gulf war that were hit by old Soviet 152mm artillery, and they were badly damaged.

[@kevinpruis3123]

It was awesome to see the sheer volume of tracers being fired from the ships. Would be cool to see if the jagtiger could go against destroyers

[@grahamstrouse1165]

IRL? Not a chance.

[@nineonine9082]

Crazy, as a former World of Warships player learning the sheer scale difference between tanks and ships was mindblowing! though for this challenge, I'd probably use my AVRE, you can basically artillery the ships from safety, and enough protection that anything that isnt a main battery should not hurt you. Another thing I am impressed the game can handle the amount of firepower those ships put out!

[@Yayaloy9]

I mean, if you want to do it that way, make it fair and let the ship engage from their optimal range as well, which is about 10km - 20km with their bi plane as reconnaissance unit......

[@grahamstrouse1165]

@@Yayaloy9 Most spotter planes were monoplane designs, not biplanes.

[@Yayaloy9]

@@grahamstrouse1165 Eh my mistake, i meant float planes. But still my point stands.

[@cheesesniper473]

Whenever you see a battleship light up light up like a christmas tree, then a billion tracers come straight at you.

[@ShadowOfMachines]

The AA from the warships was frighteningly deadly in that last round. So many tracers.

[@frightrider07]

It was a lot of fun playing in this event, can't wait till the next one

[@XShadowzVarcolac]

16:10 is probably the best thing about ww2 battleships and cruisers, the sheer amount of lead it can throw at you when all its guns are in range.

[@nicm.z9868]

I'd shit my pants if I were in an open top.

[@jorge8596]

About 32,000kg per minute on a full broadside from an Iowa class with all guns in fact. They are basically throwing a whole car worth of metal and high explosive at you every 2 seconds, even more if you also count the batteries on the other side of the ship

[@maxmachac9756]

Fun fact: the 38cm Sturmmörser was based off of a naval launcher

[@sawyerlogon7666]

Depth charge launcher i find that funny

[@Mpkki]

16:11 this scene looks more like it's a flak fire and view is from the plane's bombview perspective

[@NotoTomatoes]

Awesome video man! For sure the most exiting and unique event so far!! 🤣

[@petervon7838]

This video is really awesome and funny to see lots of ground vehicles get turned into scrap metal. 🎆 I do hope you can make more of these amazing challenges.

[@thiseagleguy]

12:47 Bro used an anti tank missle against a battleship I started laughing so hard

[@cideltacommand7169]

I mean if it penetrates and hits the ammo then it could 1 shot it

[@LavaDa1shi]

@@cideltacommand7169 I’m not a historian or a naval expert so take what I’m about to say with salt, anyway the uss Texas had a belt armour of 305mms of armour so let’s assume this atgm has 1000mms of rha penetration for simplicity now first I’m pretty sure the armour on a battleship is spaced which severely lowers the effectiveness of heat warheads plus after it goes through the belt it would have to get through a well protected barbette which is where I’m pretty sure the ammo would be stored plus there’s a lot of space whether it’s armour or air or anything in between there is a lot of space between the armour and the ammo making it very unlikely the heat would reach the magazine’s, I would like to mention that I took a lot of assumptions and simplified it a lot since there are just so many variables and as I said I am not a expert of any sort and know very little relating to history the navy or the military but from what I know it would likely never make it to any of the magazines.

[@thiseagleguy]

not sure on why I even posted this but hey here we are now.

[@nadarith1044]

@@LavaDa1shi Tl:DR size is a defence all its own

[@camoking5059]

I think it would be cool if all 3 vehicle types were in the same battle. But ships can only be a few miles away and instead of arty you just ask a ship to hit a certain part of the map instead of artillery coming from nowhere. This may be a dumb idea but I think it would be cool for a event just to see if it could work

[@joey_f4ke238]

If you have real players in the ships, they are absolutely going to ignore the arty calls and instead spread as much mayhem as they please until they run out of ammo

[@camoking5059]

Fair enough

[@Yayaloy9]

@@joey_f4ke238 I would do that mayhem seems fun

[@twrecks6279]

Just make it so the tank battles happen fairly far inland

[@huntershark88]

Seeing the ships in Thermals from the Lav-AD POV is very cool

[@goofyproductions2672]

I'm the LAV lmao

[@yx_wonwotblitz4155]

Epic my gosh the Sturmtiger is just amazing, great video

[@oztinc]

As a naval player I'm not sure if these battleships had additional limitations but I feel like a better battleship player could have survived longer and eliminated more targets. Was entertaining to watch however

[@Expiosity]

Fr

[@theempireofthepeople]

Best strategy would have been Katyusha behind a hill and moving around a lot (the more Katyushas the better) I think

[@vaccuumrolls7243]

I don’t think katyusha rockets are big enough to do significant damage to a battleship.

[@jonnyblayze5149]

@@vaccuumrolls7243 nope, to small. You are correct

[@theallmightyfish3027]

9:35 That’s seeing your death 3 seconds before it hits you 💀

[@samuel.g5928]

You weren't lying the last battle with absolute fucking Anarchy among everyone lol🤣🤣🤣

[@GWMsharpshot21]

The Arizona is is a monster of a ship and it's cool to be in game i think it a good tribute for the irl Arizona's fate

[@luiseninool7148]

This video is so awesomeeeee !!! Thank youuuu for taking the time and effort to do it

[@randallwong7196]

5:03 Vehicle on left violating the no smoking rule of the vehicle on the right.

[@Mrskydoesminecraft1]

I’m surprised I didn’t see any Object 279s in the final round, their hull and shapes would have made them a bit more difficult to knock out, especially with the rather ludicrous armor values one would have from an elevated position.

[@КанистраКеросина]

any of modern MBTs will have much better protection, due to composites etc

[@Mrskydoesminecraft1]

@@КанистраКеросина except for the fact that these shells often will cause overpressure because they’re either HE shells or armor piercing with huge amount of explosive filler, most MBTs would find themselves overwhelmed pretty fast and probably killed pretty fast thanks to overpressure hitting weak roof armor on their hulls or just side armor, I chose the 279 as something that would do well because it lacks any real weak roof armor for the hull along its frontal arc and is extremely blast resistant against explosives like bombs and High Explosive shells.

[@brunocardoso6641]

​@@Mrskydoesminecraft1tbh someone tested the object 279 and believe or not it can survive the Lancaster biggest bomb so like it made to be he invunrable

[@alastor6114]

I would love to see helicopters versus Battleships. This video was great

[@thatfinnishguy6575]

Seeing a Baltimore lobbing 203 super heavy from a mile away is perhaps the last thing I would wish to experience...

[@Netscape-kd6mg]

damn the battleship's light arms is quite the firework show and completly obliterated the tanks.

[@dwwest8168]

Fun fact. At the Battle of Anzio in 1944, German Tigers came close to the landing beaches trying to push the Americans back into the sea. However, American destroyers were covering the landings. That day everyone found out the mighty Tiger tank couldn't stand up to an American 5in naval gun firing a 55lb shell.

[@BugMagnet]

Main battery shells nonpenning on a tank is such a great demonstration of how broken volumetric is.

[@ItsEpicXD]

In real life everyone in those tanks would have gone deaf fr

[@hamakaze1364]

That was absolute madness and I loved it, I dint play WT anymore, really should, I love naval history but life... I wonder how the invincible would of done in this scenario

[@Kenshi_2900]

Woah this video is nuts, now I wanna take it up a notch and see tanks that use naval guns ( OTOMATIC, Stürmtiger, SU-100Y) against a bunch of ships

[@skyfire2490]

I would destroy you in a second with sf40 boy

[@FetaCheese717]

This is fun. But also shows how much work naval needs in terms of damage models and how fire and flooding works

[@SSA-qb6pb]

The ship doesn't have to be stuck in the coastal waters that would be quite different

[@zahylon5993]

well, yes, IRL, battleships were feared at shore bombardment, they can safely bombard from 10km+ distance

[@Noooo23523]

@@zahylon5993 and imagine 10 canons raining on you

[@ousou78]

@@zahylon5993 Battleships would be overkill, a "small" destroyer would be enough to rain Hell on almost everything on the ground.

[@ascendantchameliasapostle2580]

@@Noooo23523 Imagine a car dealership's worth of HE shells being rained down on you over the course of 30 minutes

[@StationEMT-]

I thought of an interesting challenge: The Most Heavily Armored Ground Vehicles vs The Most Heavily Armored Bluewater & Coastal Ships

[@UnusSedLeo-w5l]

EPIC! Especially the last part was, sort of, relaxing to watch!

[@paulwollenzein-zn1lh]

Another channel had a desert map along the coast. And almost of the group were in naval support. I believe that they chose battleships. And a few were in vehicles to spot for the ships. Oh, such marvelous fun was had!

[@liamcarey4957]

sturmtigers vs battleships. holy your a genius

[@razerneil7414]

When the map called "Explore Alaska" would pop up in the custom battles tab, I would take my M4A3 (105) Sherman there and sit on the beach just to shoot at the naval ships that were camping by the back of the map and they would be so angry with me because I kept blowing their wheelhouse up with heat shells. I even exploded an ammo room once on a ship with a very lucky AP shell placement. Try 105 Sherman's next!

[@The_Cookie_Crumbles]

17:05 bro got lit like a Christmas tree

[@jeremielarin1979]

I’m surprised that I didn’t see the otomatic or the Swedish automatic artillery.

[@tmi5152]

more modern smaller ships could be used in a ground v air v naval game mode

[@yuttorres2896]

Remember because it is not a physics base game, and it is not have ultimate realism. Some shots will be deflected because of bad game mechanics and some other shots will not be deflected because of a mechanics, because if there were in real life, a battleship shooting at a bridge and shooting at the mountain even if you didn’t hit a direct hit it would send those tank to hell. It would blow it up into pieces along with severe deformation of the ground

[@Squiddicus2]

I have an idea, could be neat but mayb not. Try taking the U.S.S Alaska vs a bunch of reserve bi planes, or some lower tier aircraft. The Alaska has CRAZY amounts of AA so it might make an interesting fight

[@Tacticaviator7]

Might aswell recreate the Bismarck incident.

[@neliz2k]

"as if a hit on the rocket can cause it to explode"? yeah, that's the main weakness, you can just MG the barrel and you're done vs a sturmtiger.

[@woodrobin]

I'd imagine ground and naval aren't in the same normal game mode because blue water ships can stand off outside the range of almost any ground vehicle's ordinance and hammer them with their main guns. Also, very few ground vehicles have ordinance that can penetrate the side armor of blue water ships, so damage would have to be starting fires and possibly disabling guns via penetrating turret armor.

[@grahamstrouse1165]

No way a 3-4” gun is gonna make a dent in the turret armor of a major warship.

[@DeadAccount53885]

@@grahamstrouse1165 most modern tanks with 500-700mm of penetration be like

[@sherlocksinha2435]

​@@DeadAccount53885 probably gonna a few turret crew which can be replaced. The massive space inside of naval vessels is a problem for tank shells

[@DeadAccount53885]

@@sherlocksinha2435 Yeah you are right there. It would definitely not do much damage but it could easily penetrate.

[@sherlocksinha2435]

@@DeadAccount53885 Good luck hitting the magazine of a ship while going through its main belt, coal /diesel tanks , second belt and then a metric fuck ton of bulkheads to reach your destination

[@OldManJacan]

I’m sure it’s in the works but I’d love to see a battleship or like 2 heavy cruisers vs a swarm of old torpedo bombers like swordfish

[@macrossMX]

For the curious, 380mm is 14.9in or approximately 15in. The Sturmtigers are basically launching rocket propelled battleship-grade shells on target (albeit a smaller round than those from battleships).

[@willxy42dakin61]

Chaos took a whole new meaning that day. Good stuff right there

[@OR56]

For the memes I would have picked the LVT. But for effectiveness, the 15cm SiG mobile artillery piece.

[@donaldhysa4836]

"Who knew an aircraft carrier would be so deadly against battleships" Funny you should say that carriers were the reason battleships became obsolete in real life.

[@AstridNebula]

"Who knew an aircraft carrier would be so deadly against battleships" Wargaming

[@JohnnyAquaholic]

The whole point of battleships is to provide bombardment support or medium to long-range combat ability. Let them get further from that bridge and watch what the battleship is truly capable of.

[@zulphacharlie331]

The final round is absolutely chaos🤣 I love to watch another ground vs naval warfare🤣

[@lanetatom2701]

Ideally, the battleships would all be a dozen or more miles off shore with air or marine spotters guiding their barrages. The ground vehicles might never see what hit them.

[@Marvin-mq9rk]

you should do planes against battleships

[@RamboDrogado]

Gaijin have to make this in some 24/7 official custom servers, it's custom, no need to make sense. And somehow make everyone able to select any vehicle they have unlocked from any tech tree at the selection screen before spawning instead of the limited ammount you choose before joining.

[@MPdude237]

Chaos probably would have not ended so poorly for the Tanks if they were given time to prepare and also had multiple respawn locations.

[@ThunderWithMuffin]

The funny thing was is that there is multiple spawn locations near the same spot and I mentioned to people there was but I think some were having too much fun spawning in the same spot

[@MPdude237]

@@ThunderWithMuffin That is interesting to hear. Still, great content, I look forward to the next one.

[@merafirewing6591]

@@ThunderWithMuffin I bet it was the Katyusha truck that enjoyed being briefly an airplane.

[@sempersteel2799]

"Who knew an aircraft carrier would be so deadly against battleships?" I'd wager the IJN figured it out.

[@Rulusto]

Watching a volley of battleship main gun shells coming towards you looks utterly terrifying! I also believe that if a 15 inch AP shell hit a sturmtiger on the front it would simply go through the entire thing and just leave a mangled wreck.

[@charlespfaff6585]

M65 atomic cannon, often called Atomic Annie vs USS New Jersey (BB-62)

[@tannerpapka5602]

16:20 Very accurate representation of the hail of gunfire any attacking aircraft would see coming up on a battleship!

[@kindasimpson9704]

There's one thing can handle those battleships, A-222E mobile coastal artellery, effective range 22km, 12 rounds per minute, designed to kill ships. Just not in War Thunder though

[@karroarmado9272]

Reminds me of the Golden Gate Bridge Destruction scene from Godzilla 2014

[@Caktusdud.]

16:00 holy shit, the amount of ammo being shit from those ships. Superior ships!!!!! Also what ground vehicle would bring? Probably su 152. I haven't got very far in war thunder so it's most likely the best I've got.

[@doge_sevens]

i personally would've taken my object 279, as it has the firepower of some heavy cruisers, good reload aswell as the armor to bounce a full volley of battleship rounds

[@amaurycap8034]

Maybe he hase more the firepower of a light cruiser than heavy cruiser, and I don't think he can make bounce a full volley, maybe some shell but not all

[@doge_sevens]

@@amaurycap8034 the chances of all 9 battleship rounds hitting a target that small are basically 0

[@SupremusEternitas]

Nobody gonna tlk about HOW the tanks where spawned at 3:54 💀

[@JadenAnimationOfficial]

Yes 😂

[@Abgilosby]

Seeing some of these battleship rounds hit and fail to pen these sturmtigers made me think of something. I don't think WT is taking into account the mass of the shell hitting the sturmtigers. And the concussive wave would certainly have some effect on the crew. Just something I don't think the game is either capable or intended to account for.

[@quazarKiragon]

That ending was a massacre with all that fireworks show coming from the warships

[@AWACSHOUND]

With this content I want a CC decal from Muffin now.

[@ZombieRush22579]

What absolute chaos

[@SLASH_GORDON]

This would be a pretty cool game mode though!

[@Anttown123]

My god the last round, when they all unleashed all of the guns so epic.

[@11kwilliamsck99]

Bonus round: "it's raining tracers, hallelujah!"

[@perpetualconfusion5885]

I wanna see A-10 vs battleship. I wanna see the cannon try to rip up a deck

[@jlawsl]

What was that mountain of fire, a Baltimore? The entire side looked like it was on fire in the second half! My bad, is that a Cleveland class? I guess they finally figured out to use the secondary and AA guns as the player and the main battery as AI. Using AP, any of the rounds should be more then capable of taking out any tank in most BRs.

[@BIGmlems]

40 (or more) p.108 A vs 1-2 battleships?

[@soap.pg22]

i just want to say that these vids are always amazing

[@mehmetsahsert3284]

that is why coastal batteries are super strong. gallipoli and story of blucher pretty much sums it up

[@Froststrike]

Seeing all those Christmas lights through the gunners sight at 16:11 makes me wish battleships were still a norm in the navy. Though I wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of those Christmas lights.

[@ALousyRotary]

The sheet volume of fire at 16:00 minutes is amazing. Surprised any actually bounced thst much

[@Joseph_Ochoa.]

Ngl I was expecting a sherman calliope appearing in that chaotic last battle

[@Randomclone5464]

I seen the thumbnail and now I’m curious Edit:the chaos 🤣

[@walkerblock6059]

It would be interesting to see like 10 coastal ships that are very tiny and fast against sturmtigers

[@beverlypayton5945]

Stroomtiger like💀 Edit the strumtiger was originally gonna be a warship calliber

[@sentinelDJ707]

I would say the maus tanks vs costal ships or reserve ships would be a interesting match up.

[@berserkerpride]

I'd love to see this format done with a proper ww2 air wing vs a ww2 cruiser and destroyer fleet.

[@InfiniteSith136]

The sheer volume of fire coming from these WW1 and WW2 battleships is unnerving.

[@VKTanker]

Wow that one tank in the chaos battle really wanted to join the bluewater fleet

[@Sansarii_Minecraft]

I'd like to point out that the scharnhorst was not a battleship. It was a pocket battleship, meaning that it had slightly smaller guns and much less armor in exchange for more speed. That might have been why they died first in rounds 2/3.

[@dtbeagle]

Can't believe I didn't see an SU-100Y since its literally a naval gun in a casemate

[@hotmilk8653]

3:53 got me rolling on the floor

[@Beuwen_The_Dragon]

Even with the loss of over 100 ground vehicles, the enemy losing five capital ships would still be a victory.