Germany's Low Tier Maus Tank

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The German Neubaufahrzeug is a low tier premium medium tank that is sort of like the Maus, but more fun. It has the same dual cannon setup but both weapons are equally useful. It has practically no armor but a decent number of crew members, so it can be a bit tanky. I'm usually not a fan of the German tech tree, but the Nbfz is a lot of fun. I think it's in a good spot where it is, so I hope Gaijin don't move it.
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Germany's Low Tier Maus Tank

[@thedivinedino]

My favourite noise issue is when you are desperately trying to figure out where the enemy tank is and I can’t hear it cause there are 5 planes directly over me and their engine noise drowns out the ground vehicle.

[@TheUltimateEel]

POV you paly vs US or Germany in mid tier

[@cybernetic_crocodile8462]

And yet after plane noises disappear, you still try to find enemy, but moment later he sneaks up to you because he doesn't make noises anyway. Of course, on death cam he suddenly makes more noise than dying lawnmower.

[@arustwat7766]

What I usually do is just move my camera a bit to the left if I think my enemy is in the right that way I can figure out which side has higher decibels

[@Alex53Ace]

​@@arustwat7766 That's what I do as well, turn the camera and when the sound goes all the way to my right/left ear that means the enemy's position is 90° of my current camera position, then I keep turning the camera to follow their movement to know what way to face my hull/turret

[@loganknezovich8394]

Dude I absolutely hate the fact that there is next to no noise produced when your camera isn't pointed in the direction of the enemy, like oh yeah a 500 HP engine would totally be next to silent if you're standing 20m away from it and you're not looking in it's direction.

[@Blozox]

I believe when you fire the guns at the same time, the 37mm shell moves fast enough to hit the fence or tree first so the 75mm does not hit it.

[@lefiscbelge5591]

Yeah they don t have the same velocity

[@lefiscbelge5591]

At least the game is realistic in that way

[@alexisleskinen9870]

Was about to comment this.

[@DumpyFrog]

Was playing my German BMP-1 and tested a fence with the grenade- it actually shot through. Guess they must have changed something, again.

[@burlygaming210]

Not even a belief. Look at the Target Cam. It shows the APHE shell not the heat. That cam shows what hits first. Also HEAT is normally pretty slow since its really just an HE shell that can control its anger.

[@lukeskylicker]

The reason you're able to shoot through those fences with HEAT is because you're firing the 37mm and 75mm at the same time. Since the APHE shell is significantly faster than the HEAT round and they're so close together, anytime you would have hit something with HEAT the APHE destroys it first.

[@thecatbims1795]

Nah recent update the changed fences you can now shoot through them no matter what

[@alexmitchell513]

You've always been able to shoot HE and HEAT thru those fences on that map. Gaijin is too lazy to fix it. Been like it for years

[@hunlepto2239]

@@alexmitchell513 Better to not fix it, fucking fences make it literally impossible to play vehicles that primarily use HE.

[@sparrow9990]

U can shoot through the metal parts but not the concrete parts

[@melmelxd5731]

10:30 because at mid and high tiers you have to be a 1 man army, destroy the entire enemy team, cap all the points twice and just complete all the objectives all by yourself only to get a chance of having enough money to repair 3 tanks

[@lukefriesenhahn8186]

That's why I either play arcade, or low tiers. It's more fun that way.

[@TheBananamonger]

​@@lukefriesenhahn8186 arcade costs more to repair and rewards less tho? Play realistic in low tiers lmao

[@bickboose9364]

@@TheBananamonger It's the *exact* opposite. Arcade costs less _(lower repair costs)_ and rewards more _(more targets to shoot / 3 guaranteed spawns)._ Realistic is better for research.

[@swissfreek]

That's part of it, but also you get enough experience to assess that a game isn't going well and it's not worth sticking around just to get immediately deleted by a spawn camper.

[@humzaakhtar9208]

Low tier (1.0-4.0) anything is acceptable, both is very fun, mid tier which is around 5-7.0, realistic has lower repair costs so that's better

[@Nightmare_52]

something ive found fun about this vehicle is if you fire both guns the smaller shell goes through all the objects in the way of the big shell to clear a path

[@adamg7984]

I'm pretty sure that's what he was doing but didn't realize it. Since he wasn't firing separately, it makes sense that all his HEAT rounds got through the objects. It's a nice perk to having a little gun or .50 cal with anything that slings HEAT. I personally would also recommend not just setting a bind to switch the guns in multi-gunned tanks but setting the left and right mouse button to fire them individually. Being in total control of both guns has more upside than switching the active weapon which can cost you on occasion, especially with something like a M6A1. I've had the 37mm save my life with a barrel shot because I bound it to the right click and didn't fire it where I was aiming the 76.2mm gun.

[@auslander7707]

I highly recommend The M50 Ontos as a weird gremlin vehicle. It is my favorite. Love your vids :D

[@Iris_906]

He's already done that

[@Iris_906]

Wait no he hasn't I swear he did I'm having some Mandela effect shit happening to me rn

[@theblackstoneknight]

@@Iris_906 Are you having trouble indentifying every dumb US HEAT slingers around 6.7 ? Not blaming you :)

[@auslander7707]

@@Iris_906 He did the Scorpion which is directly after it so don't worry.

[@anerfilms292]

@Razrz "steve 74" lol

[@pickled_bacon]

Fun fact about the M22 Locust, you can one shot a King Tiger with it's SAPHEI (32mm pen) round, on the back turret ring you can hit the ammo and ammo rack the king tiger

[@daawesomeness1722]

It’s not that people respawn less as they learn the game, it’s that repair costs ruin the gameplay as you get higher in tiers

[@vlotex]

Spookston trying not to implement a copious amount of memes in his video challange (impossible)

[@bruhbrat9038]

If that is a big number of memes in a video for you, you must be suffering from a drought

[@mac2857]

I know I only watch for the haha funny animal memes

[@charlieyes4946]

And that’s why we love him

[@samuelkiral5867]

I love low tier heavy tanks, they are so tanky, not because of armour, but because of how much crew they have Btw I would love it if you made a video about the ST-A3. It's not the best tank, but it's fun to kill Tigers with 90mm HEAT and an autoloader

[@WarFoxThunder]

FRFR

[@cheeselemon8712]

Spookston I think you should do a gameplay video on the cm11, it’s truly a hidden Jem, it has the m1 abrams firing system, and an m48 turret mounted on a m60 body. This gives it a faster reload than the m60, it also makes up for most of the armor loss on the m48 turret by suiting it up in ERA

[@thealpaca8hay]

This is a good idea

[@Mellenius]

One tip I would recommend especially if you play a lot of tanks with multiple different caliber guns is to have the secondary weapons firing on a separate mouse button. Believe me it helps out especially when you want to just use a 35/37mm secondary cannon for a light vehicle and save the big shell for another tank near it. Also, I am still asking for a Chi-Ha Long Gun video. :P

[@britishspy4791]

Hey you had a great time with the warrior so something even better is the swing fire…..

[@120tankkiller]

you are evil ^^

[@echooo270]

3:32 I relate to that so much. I have the US xm1 and the amount of times I’ve died because I was a little too quick to push because I get bored is insane

[@spentdafella]

Wow! This thing is a lot stronger that I thought! I took notice to this tank for a little bit. But didn’t really pay much attention to it. Thanks for playing with it! I might try and use it again!

[@Likutyr]

At 2:20 your smaller gun had higher velocity, so it destroyed the fence, letting the HEAT shell pass through

[@ausardash]

Dont care

[@lukepopple]

@@ausardash no one requested your opinion sir

[@ausardash]

@@lukepopple don't care 🤩🙏

[@MrAAxxiiss]

I'm not sure if you'd want to make a video about this, but your positioning in-game is awesome and it would be great to get a rundown on what you think about when positioning, what are the factors, or if you have any map specific strategies

[@ALaughingWolf2188]

I’ve always been intrigued by this tank whenever I saw it on the premium tech tree for Germany, now I know how fun it can be to play

[@bruh_it_Bonkle]

7:01 the seismic charge sound effect definitely gets the point of overpressure across more than any other sound

[@MA_3655]

Fucking Legend

[@haxavage156]

You should play the SU-100Y as it’s a massive Russian naval cannon that obliterates anything it touches with massive SAP rounds

[@Yachizzi]

A Russian fridge as I like to call it

[@haxavage156]

@@Yachizzi that’s pretty accurate too

[@KusunokiSG47]

KV 2.0

[@unclejohnbulleit2671]

Can you imagine the fun of having some of these, the Vickers Independent, the Char 2c, and whatever other multiturreted monsters that can be scrapped together, all in a battle? Man.....

[@reebwar64]

This is the kind of tank that you ask to be added so you "stand out"

[@djraythefurry0420]

I'm glad that you're finally doing a video on micromaus Ive asked for this for a little bit lol 😂 hope you have a good day Spookston and same to anybody else reading this and may you all find peace in your domains

[@Bill_pierre]

Way underrated tank. This was my favorite tank when I first started playing warthunder. I've had a lot of high kills games like yourself, and despite its terrible armor, it can be surprisingly survivable. It's fun firing the smaller canon to get people to peek out of cover, thinking you're reloading, and then tag them with the other one lol

[@boosteduwu5221]

Would be nice to see the CV90120, its an amazing tank and has so much worth going for, especially its commander optics, yet its barely around.

[@FatherGrigori]

Your intros are always great lmao

[@paulieseixeiro8645]

the sound clip additions on this video were absolutely fantastic

[@Dinozavr210]

2:22 I think that the interesting thing that happened there is that your second gun destroyed fence on its way allowing HEAT shell to hit as well because it has higher speed

[@UnfittingCarbon]

Would love to see you play the Type 62 Light tank, Spookston. It's a decently mobile light tank, and the gun is great; 85mm APHE can be surprisingly effective at 6.7, and you have HEAT-FS to fall back on.

[@snap_oversteer7483]

Third video for asking the Type 90. It gets surprisingly high amount of downtiers maybe because of 2S38 and TURMS spam. Lets see how long itll take

[@Ghost-uo9it]

Loved the vid, and I recommend Italian milk truck with a howitzer mounted on it's back :D (also, theres something with the audio, it's like I'm listening to the video through headphones but I'm not wearing them)

[@ToreDL87]

Cool tank, and +1 for the C&C music.

[@faolan9757]

0:20 very well pronounced

[@LMGunslinger]

The respawn comment was pretty profound. I just hit 100 hours today, and today was also the first time I started to not respawn regardless of SP. If the other team is too good and there's a chance I'm just gonna get SL mined, no respawn.

[@swissfreek]

Exactly. There's been times where I came back on a game I thought was a lost cause because I was trying to hit a challenge or something, and we ended up pulling it out or at least putting up a fight, but those games where you get obliterated in the first minute, the enemy has all the caps, and your team can barely get out of spawn? Yeah, not worth it.

[@thebringerofdeath4101]

I’ve been waiting for this video for a long time

[@blumpfreyfranks8863]

For whatever reason, this thing in desert camouflage reminds me of that Indiana Jones tank.

[@thealmightytigor5308]

Hey spookston will you do the video on the CV-90 105tml? I'm seeing more people claim it's broken. If not perhaps challenge yourself by bringing the Sav2012 to 11.7 and trying to get 3 kills

[@72theboss1]

I love htese low tier heavies/mediums. A video on any of the T-28's or T-35 would be great!

[@Ghostmaxi1337]

It was actually me who did quite a lot of reports to get the Nb Fz fixed, examples are the gunner and loader were switched, the turret too slow (but as you noticed the Pz I turrets which can even freely be rotated werent made faster) the driver front plate was only 13mm thick. Engine horsepower and rpm, total speed.

[@PeterSmoosey]

I believe it was you, plus like a couple thousands of other people though 😅

[@Ghostmaxi1337]

@@PeterSmoosey you can backtrack on the Forum.

[@malekiththewitchking2799]

So you know what this and another particular vehicle have in common? They're both multi-turreted tanks. This is in fact video number 5 of me bullying Spookston into playing the SMK.

[@Ibrahimarm]

Could you play the Italian M47? Despite having a 105mm, it's the same BR as the regular ones, for some reasons.

[@PeterSmoosey]

I don't have my PC plugged in because i'm moving, but i believe it's because It has an abysmal loading speed

[@sammyrocky1865]

Sound effects were on point this video, had me laughing a lot. The death sounds and the sacrifice of the m15 were hilarious.

[@ivanpticar8007]

For reference Neubarfahrzeug I think means new engineering vehicle, love the content Spookston Keep up the good work.

[@cryptic9658]

Day 5 Suggestion: try out the leopard 1, Its in a spot at 7.3 where it does very well, and in downtiers, faces WWII tanks that don't stand much of a chance, But also works decently well in upteirs against most vehicles due to the APDS or the HEATFS round it gets (I personally prefer APDS)

[@mnguy98]

I'm not sure if you have before, but a video on the Crusader would be awesome. It's such a fun little goblin to play once you get the hang of it

[@nolanwood2143]

Hey Spookston, I've been watching your videos for a while now, and think I might have a good suggestion, the SARC MkVI 6pdr. It's just .3 BR higher than the Puma, and for that you get the 6 pounder and a .50 on the roof, at the cost of some movement speed and the risk of overpressure

[@santoast24]

The P40 is also a really funny vehicle, not for any silly gimmicks but just cus its such a good tank to trounce around in.... unless you meet any soviet tank at all, then the volumetric....

[@arpentereves]

Had a downright horrible terrible week and day, and this video helped, thank you As for the weird fence thing, maybe the 37 has a better velocity than the 75, thus breaking the fence before it touches it?

[@anthonygrande5293]

Spookston, you can bind the secondary cannon to another button, for example a mouse button (I have mine bound to one of my thumb buttons of the mouse). If you do it this way you won’t have to switch between the sights to use the guns independently.

[@henriverherstraeten8883]

I'd love to see an asu 57 video! You mentioned it a couple of times and i'd like to see it! Thanks!

[@kleinerPanzer]

I'd like to see you try out the PTZ89, it has a really interesting playstyle due to basically being a high-tier Waffentrager

[@dreweyjukes]

Hey Spook! A tank that I’ve been enjoying lately is the Italian P40. It would be cool to see someone who is good play it!

[@Gamingforlife70]

Even though I don’t play warthunder anymore I still always come back to watch vids of it it has become a lifestyle

[@PeterSmoosey]

Why did you stop playing?

[@Gamingforlife70]

The matchmaking sometimes is super bad and I myself have resorted to play other games such as minecraft or some VR games (I’m looking to buy little nightmares) so yea I just didn’t feel the same,playing warthunder as before and therefore I stopped playing it

[@tacomas9602]

I wish the kellys heroes Sherman existed in this game. Love the videos homie

[@Jameston]

The respawn bit is very true, in higher brs if you die twice without contributing anything you might want to pull out to lessen your losses. That is how I play at least. You can read that it’s a lost cause match

[@nickm501]

1:03 was the most heroic thing I had seen all year, I salute you brave M15.

[@datankz2498]

You actually did pretty well on the pronunciation, good job! May I suggest you play the Sherman Firefly?

[@Brandon-qc3eu]

I play mainly at top tier, but I love going to low tier sometimes, it's great when people actually respawn. Games at low tier can often last the full timer and you get to use you whole lineup not just 1 or 2 things

[@ravenouself4181]

So far, I have learned that trusting the engine noises in WT is like trusting Your teammates that they will protect the flank - it gets You killed. Thus, naturally, I play without sound.

[@person0-016]

Would be interesting to see you play the LVT 4/40, it's a rather bizarre vehicle.

[@michaeldoyle841]

ayyyy, I recently just started playing this vehicle even though i've had it for a couple years. It's surprisingly really fun, I use the apcr on the 37mm since it's basically a mini apsfds at this br.

[@Nero-dz5gr]

I love the names germans came up with to bypass the treaties. Neubaufahrzeug: "Noun-ified" for "Newbuild-Vehicle" even though it was a Huge Tank Leichttraktor: "Light Tractor" but it was a Tank FP (Füllpulver): "Fillingpowder" for Bombs but it actually was an Explosive compound

[@jonahchristopher6734]

This was very entertaining to watch

[@N0jge]

The Turan would be a great tank to try, it’s stupidly fast both forward and in reverse, as well as having a decent heat round combined with a fast reload.

[@mr.machina5306]

If you could play the 75/34 M43, I think that would be pretty fun to see. Very good armor and a one shot shell if it actually pens.

[@terrorturtle17gamer92]

You should definitely try out the su-100p. It’s one of my favorite tanks in the whole game.

[@ncggaming9821]

Never seen this vehicle once, spookston uploads this vid I see 2 in 20 mins MY LORD

[@williamthenoah5277]

I always loved planes, but I suck at air rb. But today I played the spitfire mk1a and I had a really good time and did well. Maybe this is a start to something cool🧐. Keep making the good vids. 👍

[@fragmancenneti3092]

thanks for listening my recommendation spookston!! ^^

[@lonereaper4287]

one suggestion to mix up tanks could be the Alecto 1 which is a funny little 95mm wagon at 1.7. it's a ton of fun for the UK at that teir

[@sindicite3566]

as far as the respawn thing goes as you go up the teirs the unlocks come at longer rates because of the RP needed so its much easier to have several tanks in a lineup at lower teirs and much harder as you go up in teirs, on top of the fact that they have event vehicles at those higher tiers so many ppl have 1 vehicle for a 9.3 lineup and are still unlocking their second 7.3 vehicle :/ gaijins own unlocking system is why the players at top tiers spawn less

[@scpfan2810]

May you do the M10 GMC next, it has a very slow turret turning speed, so I think you will have "fun" with it.... (love your vids)

[@lplayerjohnny9778]

Black Prince please? Also your pronounciation was surprisingly accurate. Well done

[@peqnut]

love your vids

[@mikovee2291]

I have my cannons set up to where i can fire them seperately while all are selected or i can select the independent weapons if i choose. The flexibility is nice if in a multi turret vehicle like the T-35 or SMK where the main turret get knocked out so i can switch to the small turret and use sniper mode without the scope freaking out. But normally outside of that, i have all active with the main gun on LMB and the second turret with MMB. I also have my machine guns bound to RMB. It feels wierd having a main weapon not on my mouse

[@Persed_off]

I recommend using the newest Swedish mbt, fast, pens good, great armor too

[@Thunderstar7]

Okay, I lost track of the days I’ve been begging, so this time I gonna try a pitch. The T-35 is really similar in playstyle to the Nbfz, but is honestly stronger bc of the 5 turrets, three separate gunners and if you map the controls right you can hold three different angles at once in urban maps. It’s also very hard to knock out since you may only lose one gunner when you get shot and have time to react with the remaining gun.

[@OperatorRet]

Hey Spookston! Love your videos. I was just wondering what soundmod you use?

[@sumtingwong8230]

as always, your pronunciation is accurate and beautiful

[@TmSh212]

"worst tank imaginable" rolls entire enemy team, asked to leave low-tier

[@kirishima638]

The big advantage of the Nbz over the other multi-turret premiums is that even with only a single gunner left, you still get use of both tank guns. The T-35 loses it's 45mms and the Ro-Go loses it's 37mm and the primary cannon on both is worse that the 75mm on this thing. So even if you're down to your last two crewman, it doesn't make much difference.

[@FrostWolfe95]

It's not precise most of the time, but I have different guns bound to different keys to fire separately rather than to hard switch to different guns. Only time I usually hard switch to different guns is on the BMP-3 or BMD-4 for the low velocity gun.

[@Wiiguy13]

Bring an l3 into mid-top Tear and try to get a kill Love the vids btw keepem comming

[@rjkyer-fear-]

Yes, finnaly been asking for like 5 videos

[@ed6091]

Hey spook, I love your videos!! Will you do one on the su 122 54 eventually?

[@LordMason21]

O great and mighty spookston I humbly request that you do a video on the sherman firefly.

[@tankerguy05]

"12 kills, that's not bad at all" my brother in christ that's more than i could dream of

[@nikoestadio9172]

didn't expect the combine death sound

[@iAmDiBBz]

1:18 wut da dog doing. man such a underrated meme sound effect. its so fucking good!

[@mrpomelo4434]

i like the "into the unknown" playing in the intro

[@nossiro90]

That pan noise shouldn't have made me laugh as much as it did

[@tunacanavar2598]

I would love to see you play the amx 10rc it’s one of my favourite light tanks

[@jayburn00]

Love how the tire was partially damaged lol.

[@ethanwilliams8427]

Here to give a suggestion of a very random tank to play, the AMX-13 DCA 40. It recently got a stupidly good buff, so it’s rotation speed is now 63 degrees a second. Ontop of that it’s got a 40 mm gun with 94 mm of pen

[@pasttenseofdraw5791]

The rbt would be fun to see you hit a shot with the goofy big rockets :)

[@dedmajor]

I only play low tier at level 100 for SL and because germany has an amazing premium 1.7 lineup with this and the sdkfz light tank with the 20mm

[@CurvinProductions]

Spookston: enemies literally drive in the way of his shots to get killed Me: merely existing makes the Snail angry enough to make any and all attempts at engaging any enemy fail miserably

[@MrTarakan]

Then youre doing something not right

[@vort8444]

2:27 i think it is due to that the 37mm(745m/s) has almost double of muzzle velocity then the 75mm(450m/s), so it breaks fence and makes space for the 75mm.

[@chanchito4401]

Love the fact he used the HL2 Combine Civil Protection death sound 2:14

[@Lewd-Tenant_Isan]

I'll never forget the one time I managed to one shot this thing using the APC round for the AC1 Sentinel