Effective Spotting & Map Positioning (The Ultimate Gameplay Guide)

This game show cases the best spotting techniques and map positioning you will ever see. Watch and learn.
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[@rosmundsen]

All of us subscribers should get together and buy Claus a comb.

[@wotaddictglobal]

And a hair-drier lmao 😂

[@crazyallaen9854]

Hey, I actually made it to a Claus Kellerman episode within 30 minutes of posting... and yet again the power outlet hair style is impeccable as always!

[@robbyrocksoo]

I love that little squeeling on the pavement noise the EBR makes during a tight turn. Even in a grass field. Lol.

[@generalpublic3744]

Very interesting information on the bushes. The problem I find on maps is getting proxy spotted by the enemy lights, because both teams lights head to the same area to spot. Good vantage points are getting more scarce because light tanks are queuing up to occupy the key spotting positions, the enemy know where lights go and so they blind shoot, you get crowded out, usually by allied TDs which makes spotting hopeless, particularly if the TD fires and is lit up! This means lights have to move away completely, or occupy a poorer position in an attempt to spot. The rewards are often sparse for light tank players and this can be due to allied tanks, particularly TD's, moving up too far and not taking in what is shown on the minimap.

[@Skerrry]

That being said, prokhorovka is still the map on which light tanks have the highest influence on the outcome of the battle and can single-handedly win the battle most of the time.

[@kalashnikov1343]

Claus, have you been poking the electrical outlets with Mr Forky again??

[@jmc7034]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@wotaddictglobal]

GAHAHAHAHA funniest comment so far~!~!~! 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@crazzykanadian2685]

I’m guess a wild night was had by all😂

[@wotaddictglobal]

@@crazzykanadian2685. Tzzzzz....zzzzzzzZZZZZ!!!! - 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@redsaaryn3832]

This comment alone deserves 1k likes at minimum

[@tweeotch]

Great video, Claus! I learned some good stuff that I didn't particularly get about the bushes until watching this. My skill level in WoT is what you would call a muppet, so every lit bit helps!

[@robertflint4115]

Two good games this morning Claus. That second game and seeing an EBR make a 90* turn while doing 80 kph and never slide or lose traction is BS. So is going in reverse that fast and maneuvering (Transmission do not work like that) and is the driver doing all that while looking in mirrors? 🤣BS. How do you zigzag on dirt, sand, mud, snow and ice doing 80 kph and NEVER lose traction? Anyhow enough of my rant, but sure I am not the only one who feels this way. Thank you Kellerman for the schooling this morning, Rock on sir 🤘😎

[@morstyrannis1951]

Not to mention the squealing tire sound effects. Tires squeal on mud and grass, right? The whole wheeled vehicle software looks and sounds like it was taken from a 1990s game console. All that’s missing are magic powerups rising up from the ground.

[@robertflint4115]

@@morstyrannis1951 exactly.....they just to unreal...no physics apply

[@wisestwan9343]

Been waiting for you to do this for ages Claus, gr8 work AND commentary as usual.

[@erictharg]

Useful subtleties that are often forgotten. Thanks Claus.

[@davidtomes2298]

I enjoyed this video earlier this morning, with my coffee as always...every fricken' day... Always a pleasure, just to simply listen to someone my age (kinda sort of close...54). Always excellent gameplay (with freaky RNG shit...Yesterday, with the arty guy auto-aiming, and hitting someone across the map, "Arty auto-snap shots are enabled"). Who the hell, can hit an EBR, at max speed...right through a Train? Nice shot!!! I may try a Light Tank line some day. A person can hide, spot, not even shoot...and still get a very high score. Great video today!!!

[@GamerAddictFrank]

You did a good job with the explanation of the bush mechanics, love these types of videos. Keep up the great work.

[@pzuliomaccavellion9711]

Love the content, and any playing tips graciously accepted! Thanks Claus

[@wotaddictglobal]

Yeah he is a great guy :)

[@jldavis44]

Another great video!! Amazingly now I am getting commercials for games rigging companies on all of your videos!!

[@leeneal1131]

Thanks Claus for sharing your knowledge and wisdom! Great day to you!

[@sabba_dabba8649]

Welcome back! Hope you're having a fantastic day!

[@MAJorgy70]

I just watched Raptor-Boost for WOT as I'm watching this video Claus. Unbelievable.

[@hoser9463]

Claus, you made so a simple minded nerd, nearing the sunset of life, but loves to blow shtuff up, can understand. Thank you sir...

[@JSparrowist]

I didn't learn anything about spotting, but I did learn that you're still the GREATEST damned Pakled on ALL of the KZbins!

[@woodyamsterdam]

Usually I watch your channel for having a good laugh on your commentary but this time it was really a very useful video which made me understand why I always suck in light tanks.😅

[@derekl.9202]

Wife overhears "if you are within 15 meters of a bush" and snorts. I said "hey, this is a really good video", and she says "oh I bet".

[@wotaddictglobal]

Maybe she thought it was something else? - lol 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@26sd135]

Claus thanks for this video, I never knew about the bushes stacking and concealment , Now i understand how it works. Your content is awesome, Great channel 👍👍👍👍👍

[@paulfountain1364]

Truthfully. 2 good examples of why I ought to find something competitive to play.

[@jlupien502]

I loathe playing light tanks, but have had to recently for some campaign missions. This will help tremendously.

[@1JohnBeat]

Love the hair style! And thank you Claus for the tips!

[@gyrthez246]

Learning to play light tank in my ELC bis, been a hard time trying to nail some of these techniques for sure.

[@fillinfreddy]

very useful video, thanks for posting it a second time.

[@braadonja]

Learned a lot on spotting from this video. Thanks Claus!

[@siamrain]

Good morning, Claus !

[@pvtmadmike]

thanks for the info Claus. I will use it.

[@Hitomiogamiito]

Thanks Claus for the4 information!

[@LowryYT]

That was really informative, thank you

[@liquidlucidity4424]

Excellent video. Thanks.

[@Tom-pu1xh]

Very interesting, thanks Claus

[@darko6697]

Great vid I learnt some stuff too thanks claus

[@RudolfSmeets]

Much appreciated Claus!

[@Theorica]

@16:25 The Lion had to have gone down the hill and stayed on the low side of the undulation while crossing toward the ramp at the tracks by his base. When there, it used the bushes (stacking as Claus mentioned in the last battle), and then upon leaving the bushes to go up the ramp and over the tracks, was spotted by the EBR. There will also be a slight delay upon spotting as the polling might have just happened before the Lion left the bushes and by the time the server polled again, the Lion was already 15 more metres ahead or so. This delayed spotting mechanic used to be terrible a number of years ago. Especially in city maps where a tank would cross between two buildings but only appear until just about across the other side. No way to ever hit them. The game has improved that immensely, though. But, not without at least some delay, still.

[@justADeni]

one thing is, the spotting checks run every half second, which is fairly fast second thing, that Lion could've had full camo skill + low noise exhaust for all we know

[@Skerrry]

@@justADeni I think the spotting checks vary based on the distance, or at least they used to. I don't know if there is any public information about the current state of the mechanics.

[@Abusemtex]

On that map you do not go to the elevated bush right from the start because you can get outspotted by the enemy scout who stays low and get to a foward position faster. When the enemy scout is detected and killed you can go up or move foward in the outer bush line. That player was just very lucky. The enemy T100LT tried to outspot him but his team was unable to kill the Manticore.

[@horkneeoldman]

Thanks Claus! The Lion will be on sale soon.

[@neilmartin1111]

Very helpful clause ty.

[@haroldvoss5886]

Claus called me out at 8:28, and I wasn't even in this game .. Now I feel like a movie star on the red carpet !! I But even in a replay from the EU I guess I'm just as famous Coke_a_Cola rides !!!

[@tmarcus309]

Claus... Once more I watch you the guy who points out cheaters, and I get a team Raptor add. You know the guys you pay to grind tanks for you.

[@2514ben88]

thanks for the knowledge

[@majorpayne4795]

Thank you for explaining camo

[@kOOsmaty]

Im playing today only with LT. Love map rotation... after 60 game prochorovka and malinovka r maps I dodnt see... Same was yesterday. .

[@MrPedur]

When I played wot 2016, there were many maps where you could climb the mountains. Has that option been completely removed?🤔🐐

[@pascalquehen6571]

Very usefull vidéo 😀 Thanks !

[@AlastairHutchison]

Really good practical tutorial on spotting - but can I do it??

[@danam0228]

Thanks for making me cognizant 👍

[@stephengraham1153]

Clocks have sprung forward in Canada!

[@unbekannternr.1353]

Dear Claus, i avoid soviet Lights since i staid with T-28. And i will only give any Light a go without at least 2 1/2 perk, otherwise it's teamDMG. lv ur content

[@robertmacfarlane8176]

Lovely video.

[@Bublleoseven]

D1 bush is way better for initial spot over E1 coz E1 can get counterd from pit and also ridge line on G3, and also it gets blindfored a lot.

[@62RVE]

Nice video Claus! I'm honestly the worst light tank player of all time lol... During your video literally twice the boosting comercial of team Raptor... and yesterday too! You would say that this is easy for WG to detect, I assume. Thx again 🙂

[@Matricaria]

Something I have seen people do in the lion; they put low noise exhaust on it. Assuming they had a bounty low noise exhaust, a good crew, and anti-reflective headlights, they would have 36.5% moving camo, & 43.57 stationary camo.

[@treadheadpete4770]

The hair gets better and better!

[@wotaddictglobal]

Claus, can you please feature one of my LeFH videos next time you do an arty?

[@uniquegamingduo9872]

I looked at your hairstyle first, and immediately laughed...Thanks Claus for that

[@nickpipe2]

Very informative

[@theshopdawgdesign]

great work on this video. Im your Muppet and I never thought of the bushes that way before. Thanks. Should do game mechanics more like this one.

[@hetzer7366]

Go back and look at his videos from several yrs ago. Lots of good game mechanic tips in them

[@taylormadetactics]

Played this map 3x today - sun 23 mar 2023 and in "all" 3 games got practically zero assist in 2 of them because in those games heavies were sitting railway line and under bridge A5 another heavy sitting bushes A2 and another heavy sitting A0.. game 1... 7 tanks spotted 327 assist easy win enemy team due to camping heavies. game 2... 5 tanks spotted 857 assist mostly from other LT and Med game 3... 9 tanks spotted for 3372.. due to not many heavies in MM but still camped. And lately this is not an isolated incident and happens like 70% + of the time

[@Theorica]

Something else not mentioned is that when you move (W key), you switch from stationary concealment (high camo) to concealment on the move (lower camo). If you want to move, do what the Manticore did repeatedly and hit the R key once to move forward slowly instead of using your W key. That way, you retain your stationary concealment while still moving. Also, don't fire. You lose all concealment when you do that (minus any bushes you might be using, of course).

[@peterdedes2460]

light tanks retain concealment no matter stationary or moving.

[@Theorica]

@@peterdedes2460 Ah, yes! I do it all the time in my other classes. A habit I still do in LTs. Not a bad habit to have, though.

[@zomaardan]

R??

[@jlupien502]

@@zomaardan R key is like cruise control. Hit it just one click and tank will creep forward slowly

[@zomaardan]

@@jlupien502 Thanks. Where do you use that for un general sir? Im a bad player so all i can learn is welcome. Nevwr knew the R is cruising.

[@natick4]

The one mod that would be very helpful is a distance ring around each tank - you can toggle on/off - to know your 15m range, etc.

[@wotaddictglobal]

It already exists btw 😉

[@Skerrry]

Do you mean you would like to know if enemy tanks are within 15 meters of a bush?

[@wotaddictglobal]

@@Skerrry. No! He means the mod which shows you the safe distance when you are 15 metres+ behind bushes!

[@DerekHolzapfel]

Ty, good lesson

[@jeremyryan3615]

Prok Manticore gameplay was a good example of what not to do. He got lucky

[@shawnbeal4553]

Good morning people,I enjoy and mostly play lights.

[@vincentwiddershoven2122]

This whas fuuunnnn!!! And i even learned somthing, lol.

[@mynick937]

Manticore did the right thing in the beginning. You want to get rid of the enemy light. After that I would do it differently. I would clear that flank and then you have all the tanks in the middle in crossfire. My record on this map is 11k in ELC even.

[@FutureFarmingOnBiliran]

This is the 3rd video this week that has had “Team Raptor” boosting company ads first thing. Think they are trolling Claus for exposing them.

[@curtisschwedler1763]

I really enjoy the games where I choose my favorite TD and then the LT wants to pretend to be a heavy tank and do everything but spot

[@matthewandrews9052]

New drinking game Every time Claus says bush have a sip of beer. You will be drunk in 20 min. 🤤

[@72karamba]

I spot 11k on malinovka. Active scouting and i make a lot of damage with Ru251 in tier 10 with very old PC. Greetings

[@Lupi33z]

rocking that bed hair

[@natick4]

I can’t be the only older player who just finds the wheeled vehicles disorienting to play… my poor brain can’t keep with up the speed of the vehicle!

[@josrimmenie2535]

Like ur vids on map mechanics

[@framergod69]

man this makes the ebrs look even more broken than I had thought

[@zomaardan]

Claus sir question. Do i need to watch the adds or is skipping same result for you?

[@ClausKellerman]

just skip them buddy

[@markpreen6149]

I got my highest spotting on this map and in the game using the t54 ltwt, over 10k in a tier 10 battle. meant I was able to get 1st mark on it.

[@MS-ux6fp]

Claus why do we have boosting co advertising on your channel?

[@ottrakkaselg8033]

lion was using exhaust! and yes, ebr does not have good view range. that is the reason. and on this map, lion quite often has 36% camo on the move. now calculate again!

[@veyger1970]

With all this "bush" talk, I think I'll pull out my 70s playboy magazines.

[@ghettostreamlabs5724]

If you think this game is stupid, on Console we have a TD that has 36 meters concealment on the move (Wiesel TOW). Oh, and it does 1450 dmg per shot every 19 seconds. But seriously, that Leopard shot was insane LOL

[@nelsonmelo4891]

Yeah the console version lacks everything but, I don’t want to get a PC just for gaming 😅

[@wotaddictglobal]

Do you mean WoT Blitz?

[@ghettostreamlabs5724]

@@wotaddictglobal no, console.

[@wotaddictglobal]

@@ghettostreamlabs5724. Oh okay.... thanks for the info!

[@nelsonmelo4891]

@@wotaddictglobal you know like on PlayStation or Xbox

[@mrhektor77]

U r my favorite BUSHMAN)

[@icabby3185]

i need to practice a lot more

[@darrellsymonds3299]

Nice Teaching King Muppet

[@edsonkidwell2522]

RAPTOR AD PRIOR TO YOUR SHOW AGAIN TODAY CLAUS

[@boristhebarbarian]

enemy Manticore had almost twice the XP of the next on his team. great spotting from him too.

[@jack-xf6il]

If you go up to D1/E1 at the start you will often be spotted before you get there, and can be deleted from the game. The first task is to try to eliminate the enemy LTs so that you can move more easily to any bush and can outspot all enemies.

[@tomaszgie509]

This video shows that Claus doesn't know much about spotting. Especially here 11:32 :D

[@mellowrebel4618]

MY SMV CC-56 CONCEALMENT 536 AND SPOTTING 532, VIPERA 499, AND 543. JUST ABOUT LL MY ITALIAN ABORE T6 HAS 540+ SPOTTING. T 103 632 SPOTTING.

[@coletraintechgames2932]

11:06 Muppet Question!?!? You say "Don't stop, you're still lit" How do you know that? I saw the " light bulb " go off to indicate "lit" but how do you know when it's over? How do I know I am no longer "lit"?

[@armandosignore3120]

Getting Blindshot is a common event these days!

[@JarkkoLaitinen211]

Yes

[@2tone209]

AY UP CLAUS

[@ullise2645]

i miss old claus ... the wot police officer, fighting against all game riggers!

[@manly_minutes247]

Lion probably have more like 37%stationary, and 30% on the move... Some players, like me does set up their mediums more like a light tank... It gets more powerful that way. Checked with tanksgg lion can get over 42% conceilment.

[@dennycouncil2282]

Back then, i told myself that playing with LT could be relatively easy... 9 YEARS IN A ROW and i still suck at spotting! I mean i SUCK big time! I never understood how to do that role! I've watched NUMEROUS videos and tutorials and still sucking! For me it is impossible to spot! Very very few maps are ok for LT's (maybe two maps in total) I hate this role, but still trying! More than 200- 300 assisting damage for me is something extraordinary for 20 battles a day in LT!

[@unbekannternr.1353]

since recent weather forecast EU srvs aren't showing this mentioned map, hlls clk sr

[@cyb3rgod]

These wheelies were the final nail in the coffin for me. I haven't played the game since a few weeks after these clown cars were introduced.

[@8513571bautista]

Scores I can only dream about 😂

[@jonasolsen3921]

Is it a full bush??