I USED A GIANT R3 T20 TO GET A NUKE - BTR-80A in War Thunder

The BTR-80A is a Light Tank in War Thunder that has the same 30mm autocannon as the BMP-2 and BMP-3. It has APDS rounds with over 80mm of penetration at 7.0!
The best way to describe this vehicle is a giant R3 T20 that isn't as good mobility wise but packs a slightly better punch than the puny little 20mm.
I had a bit of a struggle destroying enemies with the BTR-80A but it was really good at harassing the enemy teams and letting my team mates finish the enemies off. Probably great for doing assists and intelligence challenges but not too amazing at controlling games!
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[@OddBawZ]

What if they gave R3 T20 some APDS rounds and put it 7.0? 🤔

[@dedonkers]

Chair?

[@rogerbuschmann8161]

Then there would be a R3 T20 with APDS at 7.0!

[@tianhaoju4634]

@@rogerbuschmann8161 This is truely one of the predictions

[@Idiot_in_an_Abrams]

Yes pls

[@rogerbuschmann8161]

@@tianhaoju4634 😏

[@dr.raccoonphd8045]

That submarine joke in the intro will be indecipherable in a year

[@Marin3r101]

It won't really make any sense. Titan had a catastrophic failure.... BTR going backwards and sinkinh ain't really catastrophic.... I think Odd was hinting at a design failure 🤔... but the BTR thing could just be a game issue not an IRL one.

[@joshyeomans5222]

@@Marin3r101ur sense of humour is catastrophic tho

[@Fentskii]

@@Marin3r101 Bro I'm on the spectrum and even I got the joke 💀

[@newbornspirit]

@@Fentskii it's called spectrum for a reason, maybe he so far off the spectrum

[@Patrick-zr8tv]

​@@Fentskii bro this actually had me dying you're fucking hilarious.

[@rooster6461]

“Sniffing glue and sticking crayons up their nose” It all makes sense now. German mains are US marines!

[@tinaokubo4883]

German mains are somehow even dimber

[@zolarien]

I’m a US Marine and I only play US lol screw the other country’s.

[@Miles26545]

@@zolarienaverage American main (I am American, have lived in Europe and main Sweden)

[@Event_LUNAE_Horizon]

I dunno about all of you, but german mains at top tier are scary.

[@TypeZeta2]

@@Event_LUNAE_Horizonespecially the actually smart ones

[@BitchenMarsRockstar]

Day 57 of asking Bawz to play the Su-122-54 pretty pls?

[@Idiot_in_an_Abrams]

I second this

[@MetrixGoat]

no

[@EnsianceI]

It seems terrible :/ slow, no depression, no turret.

[@TheNoahConstrictor]

It’s actually quite good. It has quite good mobility cause it’s a T-54 chassis, the 122 uses the same APCBC as the IS series BR-471D which is no joke, but it also gets access to HEATFS with 400mm of pen and an APDS round which honestly doesn’t have that much utility cause if you need the extra pen you can just use the heat and if you don’t the APCBC is obviously better damage wise than APDS. The frontal armor is angled enough that you can bounce a surprising amount t of shots at distance which is where this thing shines because it has a rangefinder. And for pesky planes, open tops, and lightly armored stuff you get not 1 but 2 KPVT 14.5 millimeter HMG’s. Which I wish every Russian vehicle had but alas.

[@Sten05]

Why does everyone spam these type comments he is not phly and even seeing these day whatever comment are just annoying and spam

[@flammerubis1041]

the reason why there is a random flying smoke at 8:48 is that since the La Royale update, for some reason, smoke shell are bouncing off, even when you shoot them on the ground, so some might have shot it on a hill and it poped mid-air

[@filonin2]

Yeah, it was a great and fun surprise to shoot smoke rounds in front of me for cover only to have them bounce 300m away.

[@swissfreek]

This is a real thing that happens. Have seen it with WP rounds when they are shot at a really low elevation and hit soft ground at a shallow angle. They’ll ricochet and fly off to never-never land in a big plume of smoke and fire.

[@corsairsofnarshaddaa]

I had this happen the other day - shot a smoke round and it ricochet up at a 45 degree angle and then exploded about 200ft in the air. So. Stupid.

[@CharlieDoesntSurf]

That shit is incredibly annoying. I was wondering when they made that change. Awful.

[@nevvyboy7053]

3:10 "too busy sniffing glue and putting crayons up their noses" i felt that 😂😂😂

[@hexwave9764]

Hey Odd, in your Leopard 2 pzbtl 123 video, you said you would play the leopard a1a1 l/44 in a video to show that it is a better purchase in comparison. Now that the summer sales are coming soon, I would love for you to make a video on the l/44 so people know which high tier german premium to buy. Cheers!

[@OddBawZ]

I will do it!

[@hexwave9764]

@@OddBawZ Thanks!

[@johnjimmy8385]

L-44 gets dominated in uptiers and by t-55amD and am1. Just buy the Leo 2a4 for the better awards

[@INSANESUICIDE]

I personally would go with the Leopard 1, lower tier, less of a clusterfuck if you get uptiered, especially caswise, and it is overall a pretty good tank, does decently in uptiers, it is a monster in downtiers and is above avg especially with the bigger gun. I havent tried the Leopard 2 prem, but I have the tech tree variant and the event one av2 or something I think, and they are fairly survivable and decent tanks, they do well hull down and are more survivable than the Leo1 if you use them right, downside is uptiers, more top tier murder machines, and cas from hell. Trust me, if you intend to grind, the Leo1 is the more enjoyable and compared to its peers the better option.

[@dr.raccoonphd8045]

@@johnjimmy8385nless you already have other vehicles to fill a 10.3 lineup which, let’s be honest, is not the case; you should probably go for the L/44. Purely based on the fact that you can be more of a help to your team by bringing the TAM 2IP or another tech tree vehicle in your lineup. No one likes a 1 death leaver, and a 2 death leaver (with a backup) is not much better. All in my opinion, feel free to disagree.

[@wetnaptkins3363]

to me the BTR feels like the M3 Bradley if it traded it’s TOWs for a 1.0 br reduction

[@Wolfspaule]

We all know the WW2 documentaries where BTR fought against Tigers^^ Just balance around actual implementation of vehicles, just one game mode.

[@reaperskid07]

I recognized this thing instantly since the TUZ-420 Tatarin in Snowrunner is just an unarmed BTR-80A lol

[@Myriip]

I recognized this thing also instantly, because i see them explode every day in videos, along with their orcish crew.

[@reaperskid07]

@@Myriip Just enjoy the video dude. Not everything is about Ukraine.

[@davidoblast8291]

@@Myriipconsoom death and violence, must dehumanize other humans🤓🤯

[@lithobreak3812]

@Myriip dehumanizing combatants is bad, regardless if they are the enemy, Ukrainian leadership is very vocal on that, to the point they retired terms that were common use since soviet times because they were dehumanizing

[@infinitetk4165]

@@Myriiplmfao cope

[@lessteel9426]

Mentions all the post war jets while using a vehicle that entered service in 1986 😂

[@gabrielcherri2839]

"it'll sink just like.. Too soon" lmao

[@Loadingagamer22]

Too soon got me dead odd 🤣🤣🤣 keep it up mate 🫡

[@jakubchmiel6211]

This unironically does does notable better at 8.3 and up, i run it as my 2nd spawn after a t55

[@Hootis]

I run it with my T-55AM-1 and it fares so much better at 8.7~9.7 especially against TAM'S, Leo's, marders and patrons.

[@dawnbreaker981]

You should play the t54(1949) it was recently downtiered to 7.3 with 100mm aphe and apds. Absolutely busted 😂

[@snickersmyknickers5120]

They what?!

[@dawnbreaker981]

@@snickersmyknickers5120 yeah my guy, its rough 😂😂

[@Flame-vo5yu]

Hasn’t it always been at 7.3? I’ve played it for a few months now

[@Valaritas]

@@Flame-vo5yuit was downtiered from 7.7 to 7.3 something like 2 years ago now

[@dawnbreaker981]

@@Valaritas damn I thought it was somewhat recently thanks for correcting me 😂😂

[@schwobit6783]

Something i just noticed in the video that if you use ammobelts like the BTR does it even displays in the Killfeed if the enemy is killed by the one HE round in the belt 7:46! Nice detail

[@isr4el187]

It actually isn't the same autocannon as the bmp2. The bmp2 uses the 2a42, which has an option to use a higher fire rate that they for some reason don't use in warthunder, whereas, the btr80A has the 2a72, which is a lighter, simplified variant with a lower number of parts, a longer barrel, and higher muzzle velocity, but also a lower rate of fire. It is long recoil-operated, not gas-operated. The bmp3 most likely opts to use it since it's more of a secondary weapon and a higher fire rate is not worth the extra weight and complexity. The new BTR-90s use the bmp2 cannon, the 2a42.

[@tasgooner6265]

Love it “sniffing glue and putting crayons up their nose”. German teams can’t be that off, surely?

[@ZealothPL]

Half the video was Germans role-playing defense towers lol

[@cheeseblocksmcgee833]

😂 The smoke in the air could’ve been a smoke shell that ricocheted, sometimes the shells don’t pop when it hits the ground but pops in the air.

[@alluraambrose2978]

Insane that this thing sees WW2 stuff

[@daskollektiv4593]

not really

[@12345DJay]

OddBawz: this vehicle is terrible also OddBawz: watch me get a nuke in this thing

[@monnster07]

Odd, it's been a while since I last thanked you for the entertainment. Your content always makes me smile.

[@darkbrotherhood1401]

with the new update smoke shots can bounce to the sky 8:49

[@xstorm_8_shadowx]

I shoot 25 to 50 m out in front of me and they sometimes don’t even go off. The shells blow up but theres no smoke anywhere… like a dud

[@darkbrotherhood1401]

@@xstorm_8_shadowx yeah it's pretty annoying, i used it a lot before to get to a nice position in the start and now the smoke goes to the other side of the map

[@xstorm_8_shadowx]

@@darkbrotherhood1401 Yep same here my friend

[@JessWLStuart]

Always a good day when I hear OddBawZ say: "Let's get into battle!"

[@Hanz_Fischer]

Hello odd, I'd like to see you play with the BM-31-12 rocket truck. I just love the tiny nukes the thing has!

[@johnorkutcopero8656]

Bawz we need more full gameplay videos ,love that !!

[@GEZZA-jl8nt]

thanks mate for another great vid full of good mood and even better gameplay ta

[@David_Bernstein]

Great video, as always! This vehicle might perform better at higher BRs, where there are more light things. BTW - crew voices are giving useful information sometimes, like "Tank, 10 o'clock, 1300m" etc. Of course you have to speak the language ...

[@impbuddy3615]

Sniffing glue and putting crayons up their nose sounds like my average thursday

[@omarmahmoudfathymahmoud710]

I enjoyed this video a lot, keep up this high quality content!

[@IkeanCrusader1013]

I actually quite like it, it's a great scout and I've found that it is extremely fast as well, and drives quite smooth considering. Plus it makes a great close in SPAA, my only gripe is the reverse gear honestly

[@planimun7407]

9:12 that can happen when a smoke shell ricochets off the ground and explodes mid air, I've had it happen

[@dogesanic819]

''As long as you don't reverse in the water, in which case, you'll sink to the bottom of the sea, much like that... Too soon OddBawZ'' NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH MAN YOU CANT JUST LEAVE IT MID SENTENCE, YOU FINISH THAT SENTENCE NEXT TIME 😂 Ahh i love dark humor and i love that you made that joke.

[@ulfhedtyrsson]

"I'm folding my little thing away." -OddBawZ 2023

[@jimch.9961]

It's so sad that a 76 jumbo can verse vehicles like this one, and MBTs 80% of the time.

[@Slugbunny]

Oh baby, listen to that engine purr... like someone forgot a spanner in the crank case. 😂

[@muik6516]

Love this thing bc I see it so often when I get upturned for the millionth time in my Lepz m41

[@afireinaleo1771]

such perfect timing!

[@keithrogers6876]

I believe I saw one of these on the news this morning, parked up in the city of a certain country.. Also I'm not sure why I laughed so much, but thank you for the "bonk bonk bonk" thumbnail, it triggered some nostalgia from PUMA of past videos and made me smile & laugh.

[@covertius4287]

Russian tanks in WT: 10.0 BR Russian tanks irl: subtract 2.0 BR.

[@Steegampoota]

Geez the vitriol against German mains again - plus the shade on Italy. 🙃

[@g.williams2047]

I’ve wanted to play this thing in game since I completed MW2 about 4 months ago. Too Virginia we roll!

[@sawtoothchris249]

this man can nuke with anything without trying

[@andrewshepherd1537]

Wait, Gaijin realistically depicted a Russian vehicle! Never!

[@sski]

It be sweet to jack that thing up with a 2000 bhp engine, better armor, and a faster turret. An ATGM system would be pretty cool too.

[@gmt1]

It's been a while since Gaijin added a vehicle that doesn't have the community up in arms. It is certainly annoying, but not grotesquely OP like the new raketenautomat.

[@notsoseriouslen6374]

if there is one thing i can say about german mains, as was shown in ur first game, they overpush all the time just take ur caps and let them come to u or they will take the caps back behind you now you have enemies in front of you and behind you, great job, i kno it may be annoying but every match i start with a message "dont overpush" then you get someone that says "shut up" and he ends up getting killed right away and leaving after one kill....good job pal...todays raining and i have no work here comes 12 hours of WT

[@KorianHUN]

I'm surprised how fun this thing is to play.

[@pizzzza_piggy7427]

I really dislike facing this annoying speedy boi. They just shoot out your gun, shoot out your tracks, then find some random 2 pixel weakspot that insta-kills you.

[@kknnetty]

1:10 you did not just say that💀

[@davidsais6384]

"I'm fold'n my litt'l thing away" Oddbawz- June 2023

[@bone8696]

Great vid!! Will you do the video with the a1h with snake eye bombs?

[@_.J._.]

Was waiting for this one

[@_.J._.]

1:09 💀💀

[@lorka42]

suns out guns out sounds like a good time, I'd like to see it!

[@s4ss.m8]

1:10 like what Odd? Like what?.. 😂

[@deliriousgaming9432]

smoke has a chance to ricochet now, hence the aerial smoke cloud

[@martincoufalik9101]

One game i focused on your scouting....you scouted twice and it failed both times. BUT WE HAVE MOVIN TREES! YEEEY....nobody ever comply about broken scouting or 1000 other tiny problems of this esports ready gem....

[@faragobulcsu1659]

This thing is a menace if you're playing a light tank

[@ohgod...8091]

8:53 that moment happen to me to when i try to shot smoke shell on ground it suddenly fly up air.

[@tate_g]

Hot take, surely to be lost in the sauce: APCs should get an infantry payload which add to their crew count

[@russman3787]

The BTR-152 actually does have two guys in the back just chilling on the benches. AFAIK they only serve as extra crew.

[@ChristopherMahr]

That's not a bus that's a cucumber with wheels. Open top with no planes sounds awful and awesome.

[@darthbader6506]

Love the sound of the DEFYN collaboration

[@padd.240]

Too soon, that got me good hahaha😊

[@Armoredcompany]

They DESPERATLY need to do something about the audio in this game. It is probably the most scuffed aspect right now. I had a T-34-57 in a game today that sounded like he was about 50m ahead of me behind a building so I sat there staring at it...nope...10 feet behind me. The directional audio is just as bad, if not worse, than Tarkov at this point. Despite them "fixing" broken engine noise about 16 times in the last year. Whoever keepings working those bug fixes needs a come to jesus talk, all they've done is make it worse.

[@LGMalz06]

That sub joke really crushed.

[@isntrael]

I like the sound of the 626

[@canned__meat]

Mr Odd - new challenge brought on by a snail anomaly..... Shoot down an enemy aircraft using a smoke shell. 😁👍👍 It'll be epic

[@tyrbaan7295]

Only Odd can go: "This vehicle is crap. To show you how crap it is I'm going to get a nuke in it."

[@BebrossGamer]

This gun is like the puma auto cannon IT'S SO LOUD!

[@MCshadr217]

Struggle to even pen Leopards? Sir this thing decimates my M48 frontally from over 1km away. IFVs already dominate top tier, they shouldn't be dominant in mid tier either.

[@daskollektiv4593]

pretty sure this thing cant pen an m48 frontally at 100mm let only 1km and ifvs really dont dominate top tier, really the only one thats actually op is the bmp-2m

[@ultimatekctv7378]

One day Odd will show me how to be good at this game, I promise. Also I'm surprised the APDS only has 80mm at this BR, that's wild.

[@GeneraI_Motors]

It is only a 30mm cannon after all. The M3 Bradley at 8.0 gets 25mm APDS with similar levels of penetration as well.

[@tonieistotne9471]

@@GeneraI_Motors M3 Bradley at 8.0 gets tow

[@shahramtondkarmobarakie1824]

8.0 has much more lightly armored vehicles and TOW missiles, this one faces heavily armored ones and gets no missile@@GeneraI_Motors

[@alectheshy132]

This vehicle is very well known in call of duty games, especially in MW2 and MW3

[@samuelflores6394]

💀💀💀 I got the "too soon" message 😂

[@ishitrealbad3039]

this vehicle, unironically is better at top tier than at 7.0.

[@swissfreek]

4:30 lucky you're on the Russian team or a Pe-8 would be showing up momentarily to delete them all from the map in one shot...

[@efekanuyguner6513]

There is the british 12k Pounder :)

[@swissfreek]

@@efekanuyguner6513 yeah and there’s big German and US bombs but no one is as toxic as a Russian Pe-8 player.

[@drexsol2312]

I can't wait to see him play the new Chinese light tank

[@alanwatts8239]

I don't know why but the worst vehicles are almost always my favorites, i have over 400 matches in the BTR 80 lol I don't know, even if it has almost no pen and can get beaten by pretty much anyone i still love it so much.

[@wasp66]

this gives me into the radius kolkholz flashbacks

[@SnakeBush]

Very relevant vehicle to modern warfare

[@gustavosanches3454]

Another Oddbawz video, another Jerma's rats reference

[@deoncliffvaneck3660]

Oh and love your vids

[@chris_hisss]

Cake and Icecream is on it's way!

[@ezragipp7855]

I would love it if the R3 was like this. I would definitely play it more! 😬

[@GoonyMclinux]

Right, I get killed by tier 2.3 and can't pen them, nerfed into uselessness.

[@axeavier]

the r3 has access to apds IRL but you could still ahve this type of gameplay with the RCV

[@DewpeeSnewBa11]

"Too soon OddBawz!"

[@red-n-blue9015]

oh boy, here we go

[@sharkk127]

If only I could get this thing without getting constantly bombed or hit by agms I would be so much happier

[@cantbyou3086]

It's never too soon when people do stupid things like not testing equipment properly.

[@Lucas-ix5td]

That gun looks like the Caucasus in Crossout

[@Pablo-Turbo]

the btr with the bmp2 turret with missiles at 8.3 would be cool

[@TubeMonkeyGuru]

engine sounds are just like the vehicles in spintire

[@fiontanreed4009]

Bro just droped a submarine joke at 1.00

[@beo_b3065]

Smoke in the air is a product of a glitch with smoke rounds. They will explode on impact but the smoke activates in the air. Weird glitch right now.

[@swissfreek]

And it’s definitely not a ricochet? Because that would be a feature not a bug.

[@beo_b3065]

@@swissfreek No ricochet. They’ll explode on impact with the ground/tanks and animate in the air above impact. It’s weird.

[@swissfreek]

@@beo_b3065 i believe it was fixed in the patch that came out yesterday or the day before, right? They also claim to have fixed the weird “tanks de-render in partial smoke” thing.

[@GoonyMclinux]

The R3 can't pen a roll of toilet paper.

[@nvanvianen]

Got a nuke in this thing on stalingrad, kinda like this vehicle

[@richardwales9674]

Do it. Whatever you think is a laugh, go for it.

[@g09h]

Odd you should play the Strv m/42 EH, it’s got a 75mm APHE round with more explosive mass then an IS-2 round iirc.

[@dr.raccoonphd8045]

Yep! 260g explosive filler for the Strv and 246.4g equivalent for the IS-2 👍

[@g09h]

@@dr.raccoonphd8045 thanks for confirming what I said, this is one of the reasons it’s one of my favorite vehicles in WT.

[@phantom2hell]

when the game gives me the mission to take 8 kills with anti tank...... i take out the 2 m36 with the help of one M-18.. so is playable and survivable that idea with the open tops

[@Afrasabi]

I've seen Odd mention seeing "Threat Indicators" in several videos, but I've scoured the screen and can't see what he's talking about. What am I missing?

[@thundermite1241]

Watching this makes me want th play the bradly again cause autocannon

[@Secular-Hebrew]

why does the cannon sound like someone banging on a door holy crap it startled me so bad