Fat Sherman Tank Singlehandedly Wins Battles

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The American T14 heavy tank (not to be confused with the T-14 Armata) is one of the best tanks in War Thunder. In the right hands, I would consider it to be better than the Sherman Jumbo. Even after Gaijin raised it to 4.7 where it can fight Tigers and Panthers, it's one of my all-time favorite tanks.
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Fat Sherman Tank Singlehandedly Wins Battles

[@Spookston]

BTW if I sound depressed in the beginning it's because I had just finished recording the M41D vs top tier video

[@thunder9413]

Lol

[@MEERKAQ]

Put those chinnese dogs away, too many bulldog backups

[@anerd4460]

Have not watched dat

[@imugly1974]

How many backups do you have left?

[@orestisvas7277]

I was going to comment, you sure you are ok?

[@notvonbayern9202]

I swear Spookston has like a passive special ability. The more encircled he is, he gets better memes

[@Spookston]

“We're surrounded. That simplifies the problem.”

[@man7912]

"Sir, we're surrounded!" "Great! Now we can fire in all directions!"

[@eddiestray4870]

That's because when he gets surrounded "It's Spooking Time!"

[@E0S1776]

“Men, keep your eyes down range, fingers in your triggers and we all go home in one piece. AM I RIGHT MARINES?!? “

[@thelordofcringe]

Same here. I'm pretty dogshit most of the time but the minute it's me vs half the enemy team I go on an 8 kill streak

[@welfomoment5975]

WT Players when their premium tank goes from literally unstoppable to just simply overpowered: 🥺

[@kimjanek646]

True 😂😂

[@munastronaut8147]

insert russian guy saying "NYET, NYET, NTEY, NYET, NYET!"

[@KhooiMai]

@@munastronaut8147that a hitler meme, nyet mean no in german

[@munastronaut8147]

@@KhooiMai nein is no in german, nyet is no in most slavic languages

[@KhooiMai]

@@munastronaut8147 thank for the correction

[@suspiciouscheese4518]

T14 has been so hit or miss for me cause it relies entirely on people not knowing how to pen it. Sometimes I set a new personal record for points in a match, sometimes the first tank I encounter shoots me in the turret.

[@commandoepsilon4664]

In my experience both fighting it and fighting in it, it is more about how Warthunder is feeling, sometimes you shoot it flush in the side from 50m and non-pen with a 17 pounder, and sometimes a enemy Sherman scrapes the side of your turret and nukes your turret crew while also somehow getting a kill on one of the dudes in the hull.

[@yummypiee6981]

@@commandoepsilon4664 Yeah that's been the case for me. I've never really had any issues with killing the T-14 when running into them, aside from when playing 3.7 russia.

[@goncalobalanca4299]

@@yummypiee6981 Russian bias 💯💯💯

[@mohamedyassinesedki1651]

@@yummypiee6981 q

[@ckingc05]

3:28. The Su-85 has the same armor thickness as the T-34 but it’s sloped less. Back when the Whirbelwind had 64mm of pen it literally penned my frontal armor up close. The Su-85M has 75mm instead of 45mm

[@theflyingtank5555]

Nice info! One time I faced a su 75 I bounced of the drivershats and died )':

[@user-ou2si7ys2j]

@@theflyingtank5555 But the driver hatch on SU-85 is thinner than the rest of it's armor on both variants?

[@rajingcajun488]

Also capped shells will sometimes make 45 multilateral normalizations to go through plates in this game. Or they do the same to bounce off…

[@thebravegallade731]

Yeah the SU-85 can't easily be penned, it has more effective armor then a lste sherman and resists a lot of at tier rounds.

[@juracan8591]

@@user-ou2si7ys2j It's 70mm cast homogeneous on both if I remember correctly, so it's thicker on the 85 but thinner than the UFP on the 85M.

[@goofyahhduck1388]

3:55 spook :complains about his team Also spook :is killing enemies right at their spawn 😂

[@alphastronghold715]

Without a turret ring mind you.

[@SilentButDudley]

Yeah one thing people don’t get about war thunder is it heavily favors hard factors and makes historically awful vehicles incredibly good, because it doesn’t take into consideration all the minor stuff that makes tanks trash.

[@eVill420]

that conveniently makes the Russian tanks way better than they should be, because it doesn't account random breakdowns on the road, insane fuel usage etc

[@wokedog1799]

See; all KV tanks, T-34s, basically all of the US prototype tanks, Panthers, Ferdinand, a lot of the low-mid tier tanks really

[@yaboianz]

Would be fun af to have a gamemode that's basically GRB but taking that into account. Depending on your tank, the chance to have some sort of breakdown increases or decreases, and it's completely random. Imagine how many Tiger II players would be screaming at their monitors 😭

[@KY-qx9ip]

@@eVill420 And the factory defects,un trained crews,shitty ergonomics

[@GeraltofRivia22]

​@@wokedog1799almost all WW2 tanks had reliability issues. German and Soviet tanks appear especially bad because they both didn't do proper maintenance. Germans because of logistical issues, the Soviets because it was easier just to make another tank.

[@somerandomminnesotan8042]

Peak Spookston content, as always

[@arthurdent4791]

So each video is a new peak

[@noahsawesomevids422]

T14 is underrated but fun especially when you angle properly and bounce multiple 88mm and sometimes a 128mm shell 😂😂 from my experience .. it’s pretty god damn survivable and it’s a good underrated heavy tank. i bring full ammo in my t14 lol

[@markbautista1631]

Idk what Im doing wrong but a perfect 45° angle and tigers just go through my ufp like butter, I somehow bounce alot more panthers tho

[@mote_vengador2832]

@@markbautista1631 maybe the size of the tiger shell is bigger and better in angle tanks I know it because I have kill t14 easily

[@cuhyotepowered1201]

I wish I got dumb enemies like that in my games. Most of the time enemies will go for the turret, which is only 80mm with a size able area that is completely flat. The T14 does still stomp when it’s down tiered but damn does it suffer at 5.3 when you fight panthers, tigers, Russian 85s that will lol pen you anywhere while the 75mm on the t14 will struggle. You could always do track and barrel torture but it gets very annoying pretty quickly especially when sometimes barrels refuse to bust.

[@michaelbeale559]

@@markbautista1631 Keep on the move too if you can. Makes it a lot harder to hit a good shot on the turret or the MG port. But even if you angle perfectly at close range, the 88mm can still go through the hull.

[@michaelbeale559]

@@cuhyotepowered1201 You can troll and fire smoke at people so you can get close

[@Predator20357]

Ah yes, what happens when you don’t make your Sherman work out when bulking up, instead of making the areas thicker like a Jumbo, it all just flabs down to the sides and all. Edit: the amount of CAS attacking you is bonkers! It’s like you got in a T95 Edit#2: This T14 is like the Tiger from Fury, absolutely balling on everyone

[@Techno_Idioto]

Balling, but at what cost

[@Predator20357]

@@Techno_Idioto A chewed up leg

[@Octi-ku4yf]

Fury tiger 1 shotter every sherman except it couldn't pen Brad Pitts titanium chin

[@Ampex_]

This tank is very fun to use and I enjoy using it whenever I can

[@FatherGrigori]

The shermans are some of my favorite tanks to play and the stabilizers are a pretty big reason as to why. Also I should get this thing eventually

[@eduardkalmanawardze]

I have like 360 kills on the M4A1, my main grinding vehicle (it has a talisman)

[@iholdtinytermanator5630]

The t14 just gets constant mission updates when it kills a tank it goes from “defeat the enemy” to “survive the first wave of aircraft”

[@Sp8d3s]

Im watching this at 3:39am, also any chance of you covering the French ARL 44 or any of the Churchill variants such as the crocodile or AVRE; love your videos.

[@Spookston]

Yea, I like the 75mm ARL

[@savagewolf5918]

@@Spookston 90mm arl is better can bounce more and can actually pen

[@arthurbousquet6838]

@@savagewolf5918 75 mm ARL does that, and better because the turret is not made out of butter

[@Sp8d3s]

@@Spookston not so great in up-tiers or for brawling, but yeah a good heavy especially hull down

[@Sp8d3s]

@@savagewolf5918 has that annoying weak point in the turret tho nxt to the mantle.

[@polishcow4485]

Could you maybe see how overpowered the IS6 is at 7.3? Cheers. :)

[@zachfrancisco8185]

The IS6 is 7.0

[@polishcow4485]

Silly me.

[@domcarriesabomb5824]

Polska krowa

[@legaroojack1251]

We must now bother spook until he gives us the IS6 video.

[@bonnibelio_]

@@zachfrancisco8185 I am from the future, it is now 7.7 and I can't believe they used to have it at 7.0 wtf

[@AstralStar.]

5:59 "Your main goal, is to guard A, and then act like you don't know nobody NYAHahAHAHa"

[@lord_o_muppet]

Ima once again ask for a video on our beloved open top avenger spookston

[@JP12345]

He really just casually solo'ed an entire War Thunder team and got 22 kills

[@falfill2096]

You make playing this game look so easy. Also these are just some suggestions but could you make a video on either the CV90-105 or T-55AM1?

[@roadhigher]

T14 truly is a meme when down tiered, I've run into them a few times playing the T-34-76 and had no idea what I was looking at so I backed up and ran away from it when I couldn't penetrate it frontally. btw can you do a video on the IS-4M please?

[@entireanarchy2293]

Try to aim for the MG port on the Hull, as far as I know that the only place a Soviet 76 can pin it frontally.

[@XSpamDragonX]

@@entireanarchy2293 Whenever I play this thing without bushes I just get one tapped by Soviets. Either through the MG port or the tiny cheek weakspots on the turret.

[@entireanarchy2293]

@@XSpamDragonX true I usually don't go for the turret cheeks though cause I find it inconsistent

[@XSpamDragonX]

@@entireanarchy2293 Theyre consistent if your APHE has magic normalising powers.

[@entireanarchy2293]

@@XSpamDragonX mine never does so I wouldn't know.

[@thefunnyguyfromtheburgerki3334]

I have only one memory of the T14 and that was watching one parry my 152 with his barrel. There has been strife between us ever since.

[@TJRHD]

You gotta revisit the LVT-40 from france. It came into the game at 2.3 and its still pretty good at 3.7 where its currently sitting. Its a better AA than any of the AA's at the br lol

[@Galaxy-oy4nj]

Wirbelwind: Hold my beer

[@sharathguddad4544]

Spookston: Shows one photo of tank lots of holes. People with trypophobia: AHHHH!!!!

[@slaaneshgod]

This is one of my favourite premiums. Great video. Thank you!

[@kevinhatcher3765]

BRUH I burst out laughing I wasn't expecting that😂 5:45

[@sgaming3078]

I couldn't breathe

[@cptflyingfort7147]

I haven't laughed at normal gameplay footage this hard ever before. The T14 is a hilarious tank and the 75 mm M61 is an awesome round.

[@jacobeads7173]

Thanks for another great video Spookston

[@phobosatthegatesofe3m158]

Barely even saw your team on the kill feed. Cant wait for T14 to go to 6.0

[@ODST_Parker]

Genuinely one of my favorite tanks in the game (in before it gets moved to fucking 5.0), because it's one of the few heavy tanks which FEELS like a heavy tank. You can actually break through enemy lines, you can soak up fire, you can contribute to the fight even if you're significantly outgunned. It's a brick, but she's a beautiful brick.

[@The-Red-Baron]

Please keep making this hilarious edits!! I love it!! 😂 5:45

[@kopperhed4472]

This was a treat, thank you

[@HondaCivic-gf6yz]

5:43 As a CoD fan who started at World at War back in 08, this edit literally made my day. Thank you Spook, ily

[@adamg7984]

I've honestly learned, especially with APHE, just aim for the cheeks of the T14 turret and you'll often kill it or wipe the turret crew. I don't struggle against them much anymore, especially since many play too confidently. If players took time to learn the tanks they face, they would do better and tanks like the T14, T-34, M4A5, Jumbo they'd all be lower in BR. But instead people never learn weak spots, never use the tactics that Jumbos use, like barrel shots and track breaks. I see it so often, a Tiger will have a chance to barrel shoot a Jumbo, shoot it in the MG port or at least aim under the gun mantlet which is under rated as you'll go through a lot if you're within 300 meters, but they'll aim for the mantlet, the angled armor and face it like the Jumbo won't barrel break or cupola them to death. It drives me crazy because the Tiger 1H can easily out duel a Jumbo if played correctly but 99% of them just don't know what to do. Even a lot of Panthers I see bouncing off Jumbo turrets and front plates when they could aim for better spots, track or barrel break and flank or anything but stand there, let the Jumbo load APCR and kill their gunner. But no, they'll just fire at the same area repeatedly hoping this time it'll go through.

[@milkman4137]

Seeing as you had a pretty nice duel with an ARL-44 (ACL-1), you should play with that one too! It's so good, It's personally one of my favourite tanks.

[@shipmasterofsanghelios9856]

Awesome video as always. I would love to see some gameplay of the KV-2.

[@TheGrace020]

Some of the best and most fun edits love the commentary :DDD keep being awesome 💪

[@badrmoroccogothacked9017]

day 12 of asking spookston to play the T-44-100

[@irwinthebluesun5324]

Another great video to watch! Could you try the Japanese autoloader 5.0 Chi-Ri II?

[@drunkfinn7220]

I second the Chi-Ri II, the potential it has for baiting people into peeking you is just insane (if the 37mm shot doesn't convince them, the autoloaded 75mm 100% works at baiting anyone out as long as you can buy yourself 4 seconds)

[@teoefthimiou7016]

Great video I sure enjoyed it. for the next video you can play a prewar tank (rank l , reserve or so) that was used in ww2 in its historically accurate timeframe eg pzr-35 (t) facing KV-I (L-11)'s rank of tanks (just an example)

[@rommelmcdonneld8787]

mate, your editing is fabulous

[@bluhorizon332]

Meanwhile every time I attempt to play the T14 I just get lolpenned by the long 75 even when angled that's an entire 1.4br lower for some reason

[@V1Bomb]

Should make a VK 45 01 video, seems like a fun tank after seeing you play the other fatter one

[@amhedgehog]

happy new year spookston!! thank you for the amazing content!!

[@OlNoName]

Dude, that last stand on A felt way more epic than it had any right to, good show

[@grimz249]

He postedddd, I love your vids and I just finished watching all the vids I missed last night. I get killed by Sherman and jumbo all the time and it annoys me so bad, especially when they get that one lucky shot when I’m angeling in a tiger

[@haroldotrotter9148]

do u know weak spots or do you know how to angle properly? once you figure that out you'll be in one of the most power tanks at 5.3-5.7

[@grimz249]

@@haroldotrotter9148 yea, one of my friends who has almost 1000 hours on warthunder who has finished America tech tree and is now doing Germany taught me how to angle properly and it really does work cause nothing can pen me.

[@DeveciBalci]

I got this tank and I thought it was bad but these videos made me play it

[@savagewolf5918]

If you thought the t14 even at 4.7 was bad, you were simply a bad player

[@derrickstorm6976]

@@savagewolf5918 an average Gaijin enjoyer*

[@DeveciBalci]

@@savagewolf5918 yea I got it when I was starting the game

[@savagewolf5918]

@@derrickstorm6976 dude the t14 can reliably bounce shells when angled even in a full uptier it's not a bad tank at all

[@KristopherSleege]

Hearing "GRENADE" instantly took me back to World at War, also got your HSTVL hoodie coming in sometime soon!

[@DexWeapons]

When you said you were surrounded on that map I could relate because I did the same thing in my pz4 h from the other side

[@roanneabe7552]

Can you do the Ka-Chi because its basically the best low tier tank you could have gotten and also the best low tier reward from the operation (insert current season here) events ever

[@arthurbousquet6838]

I find AC-1 to be pretty op, and I didn’t even play it since it got a low-speed stabiliser

[@kimjanek646]

I’m a big fan of the Ke-Ni. It’s fast and one of the smallest low tier light tanks.

[@JohnSmith-mk5jt]

@@kimjanek646 It's basically a reserve tier Locust

[@user-nt8vx1mp6r]

I know you mainly play RB, but I think it would make for an entertaining video if you tried playing Ground AB and the differences you would find with how aiming and spotting works in arcade.

[@radioactive_noodle7885]

I love watching heavies spin around each other at point blank in a turret traverse race

[@Dan_the_afol]

Anytime spookston joins a game “ I don’t think you realize I’m not stuck in here with you , your stuck in here with me “

[@darude4338]

MUNGA MUNGA MUNGA MUNGA MUNGA MUNGA!!!!!

[@IG88TheRobot]

Hey Spookston, can you make a video on the M60-2000? Do you think it would fit in Warthunder as an evolution to the M60A3 or a premium?

[@cloaker2829]

I second this

[@YoBoyNeptune]

Your sound mod is nice to listen to

[@fiftiesman1958]

This is one of the funniest War thunder videos I have seen. I was laughing constantly throughout.

[@marco8414]

3:55 "Come on man, my team" he says while he extended way past his team into the enemy spawn. Not everyone wants to just sit in the enemy spawn.

[@avamaste4378]

M-51(w) I’d love to see your opinion on it, seems like a decent tank the round however let’s it down a lot 70% of the time

[@Scarletraven87]

"I never played that part of the map before" DUDE, YOU HAD ENOUGH TIME TO DO SO, YOU RESEARCHED ALL TREES

[@Purfefun2]

Love the opening!!

[@booze5376]

Another impenetrable tank you could play at 4.7 could be the Churchill VII. It does suffer from solid shot syndrome tho

[@contemptordreadnought]

And slow

[@lauriallantorni1954]

Check out the VT 1-2 again, it is getting uptiered and is somewhat balanced now.

[@carllinden533]

Best humor WT tuber. The zoom on that *thing* shooting it's machine gun at you, artillery barraging your tank "they're angry" Your the best dood!

[@yup162]

glad to see spookston having fun in war thunder

[@senatebricks]

Why did Spookston bring HE ammo and not only APHE so he wouldn't had the ammo problem so I only bring APHE in a battle

[@jamesmuller1854]

True kinda useless to take HE with T14

[@mateuszk3812]

TLDR Its still good but you have to take the fact that your entire turret face around mantlet is a weakspot together with hull mg - thus you have to angle both hull and turret Its increase in BR for Arcade is worse, still workable but not that fun. Feels like playing uptiered M4A2

[@derrickstorm6976]

TLDR 2: Angle like Maus

[@kirishima638]

Enjoying this format. It’s like Oddbawz but more chilled.

[@landonroberson1417]

Your skill amazes me

[@bladeing1231]

Even at 4.7 it is still pritty good

[@ianschaufenbuel6982]

This is a certified spookston classic

[@danieljohnson4983]

I like how he casually got a 22 kill game and dident soud the slighest bit suprised 😂

[@ericmarsha2103]

Damn even if I was half this good with t14 I'd be happy.. great work man

[@FireNotIce]

Loved the video Should play T30 next if you have it

[@BrandonVonOtt]

This man spitting into the wind and the wind reverses. How even

[@warlover22.]

I had that same tree problem yesterday. I was like "wtf is going on"

[@xmoonstevex]

Spookston: Can this tree get off my tank? The tree: 🛸

[@theargonianmercenary184]

2:23 as someone who’s currently working on the Swedish tech tree, Pvkv IIs blow up more easily than cars in action films.

[@Legion617]

5:45 A man of culture utilizing the OST, voice lines and character from WaW. Absolutely legendary meme usage.

[@soldatsnek195]

I love ur vids so much dude

[@SgtRackhamm]

"Common man, my team..." Proceeds to continue the seal clubbing players at their spawn.

[@jamieayres2941]

i thought i recognised that background music. that takes me back a long way

[@dhellfox]

"im going to take A all by myself" starts humming the British grenadier tune used in GuP

[@liveperkins77]

Great video. Keep up the good work. Could you do the SU100Y?

[@Fyres11]

I've encountered that T14 many times in the last big event while using a T-34 STZ or 57. Best chance to pen I found was shooting the front just on the right of the gun, disabling the turret long enough to reload and shoot the side.

[@1ExplosionsHurt]

amazing vid

[@spicy6279]

nice video dude

[@SimpliFacts_tc]

tank: " i have OBS " spookston: "you mean obesity"

[@randomyt666]

"Can I send Gaijin the bill for my next optometrist appointment" really got me

[@sgteddy1212]

It's still great, wouldn't be surprised if it continued to go up in BR as the Jumbo did. I love to grind events in this, as its RANK 3 and has a very competitive line-up as the US.

[@dirtyfartbomb9908]

The T-14 is just such a fun tank to play, my squad and I go to it when we need to play something fun

[@alexclark6397]

On the basis of playing overpowered heavy tanks, a vid on the IS6 would be nice. The thing has light tank mobility and heavy tank armour.

[@razvy6949]

I'm looking forward to a Leopard 2K video Just researched it today and I have to say, it has to be used in a very specific way, it got powercreeped so bad

[@cuhyotepowered1201]

Thanks for playing it! Now might I suggest something diabolical… M5 Stuart with SAPHE only. Or if you’re a real masochist… M6 using only the 37mm with SAPHE.

[@Chris-rn9zx]

I really like this new format of longer, casual (I think it’s casual? Never played war thunder so I’m not sure…) gameplay highlights

[@monkepotato3897]

5:51 the second that explosion hit the tank i got a food delivery app

[@Nova-ro5by]

The fact it's a "T14" and there's a Terminator clip in the beginning is just perfect

[@birdbrainedboy]

I love the constant downtiers of the t14’s premium matchmaker

[@Bonzieboi]

Comrade: Grenade! Throw it back! Me: Gladly~

[@brotherdubious]

The grenade bit from WAW got me

[@cazadorcazado08]

This looks extremely fun to play