Lord Have Mercy On Me (German Teams Experience)

[@esistdonnichtdom]

I feel your pain for wanting to CAS, but the true trick of German Teams past 1st tier is 1) Spawn in your favorite tonk or SPG 2)Shoot one or two tanks 3)Inevitably die because everyone is blind 4)Spawn in your favorite fighter 5)Lay waste to every allied CAS vehicle imaginable. Leave none alive. Make them regret thinking they're going to farm. 6)Lose anyway despite sending over half the team back to the main menu.

[@smigoltime]

literally this

[@moxie_ST]

​@@smigoltime Did You manage to hit 10 lose streak?

[@groucho1080p]

​@@moxie_ST for that just play italy

[@airmanfpv964]

second vehcicle you spawn should be spaa, clear the skies first

[@smigoltime]

​@@airmanfpv964Spaa doesnt help especially since literally nobody knows how to use it. Second vehicle should be a fighter with bombs, so that you can both clear enemy cas and be useful to ground

[@easy_eight2810]

Getting kills with the duck never gets old, but playing low to mid tier Germany feels like most team mates have IQ below 70

[@schaihmansur8298]

they're just mostly noobs.... the expirienced players dont play germany most of the time.

[@smigoltime]

they have 2 IQ on all BRs

[@zohaibtariq7351]

​@@smigoltimewrong I have 1

[@mayonotes9849]

Nah, they have the IQ equivalent of a Reddit moderator meetup group.

[@taupe3864]

I feel like that higher you go, lesser the germans have brain activity, they play better in mid tier than in top tier.

[@clausroquefort9545]

its is astonishing how the noobs can manage to stay away from the cap more effectively than from the enemy, all while enjoying a tall glass of mayonnaise.

[@_ezolee1965]

As someone who plays germany at this point I start to think that mission failed just means mission succesful in german

[@BKBCrAnK]

Sorry bro, but its not mission succesful in german. greating from germany lol. (not a german main anymore ^^)

[@elitely6748]

The Tiger H1 is the tank I've got the most kills with and is one of my favorite vehicles, but the teammates... Half the time the team is drunk or the other half of the time everyone is Michael Wittman incarnated

[@filipbitala2624]

Every game i play now, i see more than half of all enemy tanks as tigers, and at 4,3 its hard penning tigers

[@Usurphlhen]

As a decent german main i feel your pain

[@lurtzy_]

"decent"

[@ZigzagEnd]

​@@lurtzy_ they exist i saw that first hand multiple times

[@John.McMillan]

I am OK at the game and regularly get top 3 on German teams. That's pretty bad. But when you get a good German team. And I mean all decent players, that once in a thousand matches as Germany team. It. Feels. Amazing.

[@colonel_cookies_]

Stop lying, you've put "German main" and "decent" in the same sentence.

[@eklhaft4531]

Beware Gaijin now wants yo to get out of the mentality of being German main xD

[@Xander889]

Being a German main causes a player to go through every stage of grief during a game.

[@imainhunter]

They trade the ability to think for more complete line-ups, constant addition in each update, and undertiered tanks

[@Cell780]

Some tanks line the tiger h1 are 'balanced' in undertier since tiger h1 players are braindead

[@just_a_username8979]

I would gladly love for Germany to not get anything if it means minor nations get some cool stuff, and for Gaijin to drop the 76 jumbo to 6.0 at least (because that is BS) I miss fighting em and I just feel horrible when I'm playing the Tiger 2 and see one (I usually let them pass if they don't know I'm there)

[@99redpontoons]

Reminds me of US air teams, honestly. So many games of watching an entire team with bombs on their fighters at treetop level die within one minute as they try to turnfight zeros or head-on do335's, then being last alive with the enemy team converging on me. Kind of stuff that makes me think they need to disable ground pounding armaments on fighters in air RB until the player has landed during the match to rearm.

[@just_a_username8979]

*Me watching a Stuka Pilot slam into the ground with a bomb and NOT DROPPING THE THING ON THE ENEMIES*

[@bullymaguirehimself138]

it takes a while to learn the boom n zoom playstyle of the US air tech tree

[@tranarchist6335]

For some reason German mains always treat the game like it's team death match and completely forget that caps exist

[@kinghousebd4748]

It’s funny how after watching and learning from your videos my dogfighting skill has drastically increased

[@pavels266]

please make a short video on how you control your plane and camera. When I try to do things that you do I just crash(

[@John.McMillan]

​@@pavels266It just takes practice. Sometimes you need to free look, other times you need to use the mouse to look while controlling the plane with the keyboard. Keep an eye on your alt and you should be fine. I've been doing it for years and even I crash sometimes when in a dog fight.

[@ThatGuy-cc2sv]

@@pavels266 Ability in a fight in war thunder will almost completely come down to experience with the movement system. Don't bother with free look most of the time, just point your camera at your enemy and guide yourself with constant keyboard inputs.

[@dulguunjargal1199]

​@@ThatGuy-cc2svCant do that during a Chaotic Dogfight Using Shift or RMB which is the default track target camera is very good for this The Most important things in War Thunder are 1. Positioning 2. Awareness 3. Paying atleast 500 Dollars to Gaijin for P2W premium vehicles

[@ThatGuy-cc2sv]

@@dulguunjargal1199 You absolutely can do that in a chaotic dogfight, it's how experienced players keep situational awareness in large battles. Once you've mastered the camera control and can keep track of your target, you can start positioning your camera to give you a better idea of what's happening around your fight as well. Unless you have a massive mousepad though you might wanna increase your sensitivity lol. It's how smigol flies half the time, you can see it in all of his videos for an example.

[@haro1810]

As an avid Italy player, it’s hard to get a team with more brain power than a rotisserie chicken. It still amazes me how people go for kills and a subsequent loss rather than objectives and a win.

[@justmarc2015]

As a real Italy player, I capture tons of flags with my R3. You're a fake.

[@satagaming9144]

The best part is when half the team spawn in some sort of CAS aircraft or fighter, does fuck-all with it, and team positioning on the ground goes to shit cause there's like, 5 tanks with 3IQ combined between them.

[@robertmatzenauer1456]

@@satagaming9144 its the guys that drop 1 bomb, best case scenario they get 1 kill with it, and then they just fly around doing nothing strafing targets they cannot kill cuz their ego prevents them from bailing out when the team needs more map presence to turn the tide

[@just_a_username8979]

That's why I care little for place in the scoreboard when I play Germany anymore. I do what I feel is necessary even when it's usually something really damned stupid and relying on there NOT being an enemy tank running around that I cant hear because the sound is glitched. I'd rather go for a cap than a kill if it means I don't lose the match (though if the enemy is a tough target I'll take care of them first)

[@OddBawZ]

This hurt me on a cellular level. People always wondering why I complain all the time but it's egregious. 2 minutes in and half your team is in SPAA...

[@smigoltime]

Yep

[@egg3666]

I feel it. They rarely go for a cap, are blind and deaf, rarely angle if they can or use their tanks properly at all, and lets not forget how they always hotbox as if they are going to use more than 30 shells.

[@Hookens]

German mains at low-mid tiers = russia mains at top tier Love playing sweden 10.7 and being able to tell if I'm winning or losing before the match begins :) Those were sick duck shots though holy shit

[@swordsman1_messer]

Sweden is fun overall, it’s German and Russian drivers that make it unfun for us.

[@MUTANG_Official]

It's funny how Russian top tier has 70% win rate, yet I only have 30% with Ka50 and T80 lel

[@jonnyboi841]

I try to get deathless games with at least 4 kill in the Pz III M but after a few hour of German teams always losing I feel like throwing my controller out the window.

[@thienthutran1177]

Me playing against German teams : Defeat Also me playing with German teams : Defeat

[@just_a_username8979]

When you fight Germany you have the Elite of the Panzer divisions as your enemies, but when your teamed up with them you have a bunch of children that barely know how to drive forward.

[@Bijoux_DerWunderCatsen]

The fireball flythrough around 2:18 made me yell out and pull back on the stick, just awesome play. Wins and defeats are determined by a matchmaker RNG, don't sweat it.

[@Iugeer]

ayo? 🤨🤨

[@filipbitala2624]

Its not rng, its by performance, the better you are, the worse it gets

[@mrmcmoustache9615]

God i hate room temperature IQ teammates

[@irithylloldman6526]

These made me genuinely laugh, god bless war thunder players for being even less competent than the 15 years olds they employed in the army back then

[@pacegoca5764]

german games be like: lose 25 kills 5 captured points 9 assists, win 1 kill 4 deaths.

[@mechwarrior7278]

Straight up, the reason German teams suffer so much is because they are the newest players to the game. When sponsorships show up on KZbin for example, they are ALWAYS for German TT starter packs….. It really is sad because they have some of the coolest tech to play

[@Debergaizen]

I've been looking for a place to comment this and I 110% agree with you. Most German aircrafts are the bomb to play with but nobody knows how not to get instantly killed so before you can even manage to reach a comfortable altitude or attacking position, you check at the scoreboard and your whole team has been wiped clean

[@randomphoenix20]

This video is why you dont base balancing on stats alone. New players play germany: germany has a bad winrate, it gets buffed, german tanks become op in the hands of a competent player. Everyone complains, but Gajing goes Nuh-huh using winrate as an accurate measure of strength.

[@dulguunjargal1199]

This happens with Russia too It doesn't happen to USA for some reason Terrible teams yet they keep uptiering their vehicles

[@randompeanuts]

The worst is when you start off strong, your team is in semi-alright positions. You get 4-5 kills and think "they've got the ground safe, I'll take to the skies and provide air superiority. You take the occasional ground pound target too, cause it's there and hey, you're helping your te-what the hell happened to the entire team why are they on all three caps simultaneously"

[@MegaJani]

Playing Germany (and every other nation with this many hours in the game) feels like I'm Otto Carius surrounded by 14 y.o. HJ conscripts.

[@MausOfTheHouse]

I haven't played ground RB in years (and WT in general for a year) but I distinctly remember having a 24% winrate ratio on the Tiger H1. I AM THE BAD TEAMMATE :D

[@aristotlespupil136]

True but also the Russian lineups at 3.3-4.3 are incredibly strong (troll armor, rounds that pen under steep angles and lots of filler)

[@imablock16]

T series tanks at that br have to get right on you to have a effective shot though so its easy to kill them if the player doesn't know what they are doing.

[@aristotlespupil136]

@@imablock16 that's true though. They can be defeated if you know your stuff, a large portion of your team however does not (newer inexperienced players often start with Germany). So the team gets rolled over despite the efforts of 2/3 decent players.

[@captainvlad]

I remember one match on paris or something where a jagtiger a king tiger and a tiger E just drove past me in my su100p, while I was firing down the road. Needless to say they all got killed and I got a pretty good score that game

[@seancushing1113]

no chance of winning when 70% of the team is wiped in the 1st minute

[@HelSeher]

That plane clip was insane. I had autoplay on and didn't see whose video this is, but the moment I saw you killing all those aircraft I knew this is asmigol clip.

[@kaisermaximal8123]

I feel this pain, but in American boats. I'll paint the ocean floor with the iron of dead ships but lose cause a sea plane capped a point on the other side of the map

[@teamfall4684]

best part of the video is the duck constant struggle to just not crash

[@bigbob3789]

the teammates are the reason im excited to finish the german tech tree grind

[@ahta5708]

4:45 Certified RealShatter™ moment

[@Maxiking-fn5lh]

What can i say. This was exactly my experience today

[@cikuI00]

I'm getting anxiety watching the duck trying not to fall XD Btw at least german mains let you gather content for this video in the shortest period of time in your KZbin career XD

[@samspeed6271]

There are two types of Germany tank main - those that are pure anti-son-of-a-bitch machines and those that are legally blind (and deaf and stupid too). That makes Germany incredibly frustrating to play because you'll lose 90% of the time, but also incredibly frustrating to fight against because sod's law states the guy you're shooting at is one of those good Germany players.

[@Boris_The_Turtle]

Most capable German team.

[@YeEpIkAiYeI]

And it gets even worse in Air RB when you have Germany as an ally in your team.

[@sgthop]

German teams are only bad until you're against them, then they're unstoppable terminators.

[@foxxojones4757]

1:38 This clip right here is why the Battle gamemode is the BANE of my existence, and it's not limited to German teams either. People will not stay on/near the point, even though this strategy is VERY good since most enemy teams will try and rush the point.

[@karamd.9101]

Kills with the duck never get old Just like dark humor jokes And children in africa (Joke)

[@98765zach]

RIP smeeg, Living the Wehrmacht/Luftwaffe reality as the one ace among an entire sea of otherwise underwhelming troops who haven’t been trained well enough and rushed to the front

[@BarrosGaming]

Being a Main-German, i feel your pain

[@GeneralMEDFLY]

Smigol, I admire your tenacity to continue playing this game, but experiencing this with every nation I gave up. You will not go to hell for anything you have ever done, as you voluntarily experience it while playing War Thunder.

[@HS_Rick]

The curse of the Germans...

[@awing6819]

Id like to think I'm an above average German Main, having 3500+ battles and around 3k kills in the Jagdtiger has taught me a lot. Its also taught me that 90% of the time, its gonna be the swedish or french tank that comes to my help, not the tiger h1 three feet away facing head on.

[@just_a_username8979]

I've just come to not expect any help from my German teammates, I'll help them if they're right there but I'm not going out of my way for em as it results in me dying and wondering why I even tried it. Now, I have gotten some that just had an unlucky encounter (been there) and aside from the shot they took were actually pretty good

[@Speedy-227]

The Ducks Reload on a Tank would be cool

[@joebusse8586]

Smigol in the duck is not something I knew I needed

[@plantenthusiast3052]

Meanwhile, Soviets at this br will throw everything at the other team in order to win. I've ran out of shells before they ran out of tanks.

[@khin126]

Top 1 inspirational video for main german like me

[@kitten-inside]

See, your team mates are simply offering you a challenge: Solo the entire opposing team.

[@mexuxd]

A bit late to the party but great video smigol! Would love to see a guide/tutorial type video on how to aim Duck. Great work, keep it up!

[@Cerce7]

The whole war thunder community somehow: "oh yea I know this feeling I always carry the game but my team sucks"

[@eldarguardian6485]

That is why I don't divide community by faction. Atleast 50 and probably up to 80% or players are so brain dead that they are the food of anyone who is even just above 1kd. Yeah I gotcha, they don't see themselves being the problem as they are too dumb to know their own limits but that is just humanity for You. Factions in game are just modifiers to all of that and yeah give a moron a simpler tool and he might look competent but in this case Germany is the starter nation very often due to "German tanks stronk" documentaries etc and then some t34 player of the same IQ just flattens W on his keyboard and aims at panzer anywhere and presses LMB.

[@LeadFollower551]

Putting your trust in german teams was the first mistake lol

[@haley746]

Watching ground mains struggle to take down a slow-moving duck is funny

[@firestarteronyoutube5542]

1:02 allow me to finish the sentence for him "out by teammates with the combined IQ of an amoeba"

[@imablock16]

1:07 i feel you on that one i had it happen last night xD i was like "yo yall playing or what?" to my team lol.

[@gabrielabreu5200]

I play a lot at 7.3 germany, first spawn depends on the map but most times is the RU 251, second spawn is either the ARADO C3 or the HO 229 depends if i get killed by a plane or not

[@stormw1561]

God i feel that man, even if you're a pro or sum. Its pain whenever they just dont focus on capping and always rushing like they are playing the M18 or Sd.kfz 234/4 and died just a minute later to a sniper and then leave.

[@sakukullberg2697]

3:30 OMG

[@luc030]

Welcome to the WEHRMACHT but youre not outnumbered.

[@Paulomedi]

Schmeegol actually trying to play the game. He is always remembered of the general WT player IQ. Man, the only thing to make this video more cancerous is to find an old japanese YTP called "futae no kiwami" and to use it instead of the original can-can (who knows, knows).

[@skycookie3169]

its also impressive that my squad and i get 20 - 30 kills between us each game and still lose because of german teammates

[@va_quita]

Bro plays the duck so much he could probably play with his eyes closed or something

[@ricardosenpai6121]

As a F2P Player, it's funny to see players focused on winning a battle while I'm just happy that I didn't lose SL and gain some RP for the next vehicle.

[@Nightstalker-zw2bg]

"If you ever feel handicapped, just remember the 90% of the German teams in WarThunder." (That one team chat during SRB)

[@DaedricFaZe]

Ive been playing low tier Japan and there is soviet B25 spam now, literally like 288C spam, spawn dive drop and die, and there will always be 5 players that dive for one aircraft....

[@DrHundTF2]

The reason I’m way more chill in WT than say, TF2 is because in WT, I don’t feel like my performance impacts the game, whether I’m first or last. With luck-based wins (ground strike targets getting blown up with no one around for example) and teammates being teammates, it doesn’t make me wanna win, despite winning litterally giving more rewards. Contrast that to Team Fortress 2, where EVERY little bit matters when deciding who wins, and I get quite sweaty when it comes to winning, and as a medic main, I am on the front row of seeing every little mistakes teammates make. And since everyone’s pooled up together regardless of skill… yeah, it happens often.

[@thefunnyguyfromtheburgerki3334]

I, too, am allergic to stupid people

[@teoextreme]

Speaking of "that feeling when you do your best...", yesterday I was playing at 8.7 (9.0 up-tier)... and *totally accidentally* spawned in a T-34-85 I had in my lineup just for fun. And of course, we lost, and I was the top 1st player with: 4 kills, 2 assists and 3 deaths (all with 2x T-34-85's and a T-34-85(D-5T)) and I must say... IT FELT GREAT! 😂

[@rockdragon3]

>me playing CAS or CAP over the battle >enemy team gets sick of my shit and spawns 4 planes to shoot me down >fly over 3 allied SPAA that just spawned >not a single one of them shoots at the planes in the 10 second window as they fly less than 200m overhead >they all drive to the contested cap point and get shot by tanks they can't pen as they desperately bounce rounds off them

[@zomgerln]

If you take the word "German team", remove everything but the first E, add in a H and two Ls you get "hell".

[@SkillIssuedCatto_YT]

This is why I'm taking a break from pulling the team in most battles. Been suffering since 2015 and I'm still not even good at it. I feel embarrassed on some aspect. 😞😑

[@arshitektur2210]

Like my dad always says, Teammates are just enemies in blue.

[@princesspupcake1269]

That clip w/ the J22 was ungodly embarrassing...

[@ignasanchezl]

The realshatter experience, from the receiving end

[@J._.R577]

As an American and Japan low tier main (in tanks), relying off of the lack of enemy brain cells is something I do very frequently

[@casematecardinal]

This is what it feels like to play America from 8.0 up

[@col.firefly]

Mission failed, we'll get 'em next time!

[@Marcel4546b]

The Duck is the only accepteble form of CAS

[@jamestriplett5854]

just did this the other day - low tier stug, 7 or 8 kills, rest of team disappears

[@caralho5237]

imagine losing half your airforce to a wounded duck. because your pilots decided to ram it.

[@Spade444]

It really is a baffling thing. You lose by a ridiculous ticket margin, have 20 kills 3 caps etc and end up asking yourself who tf were yall dying too because clearly you werent fighting anyone or doing anything.

[@Talendale]

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is Germany.

[@Pink_Baron]

Grinided trough most of the German tree F2P, i feel the pain

[@NotGrimman]

Ive taken to playing with captured german vehicles at this point

[@ChildEater84874]

As a german main, I get an avarage of 1 kill per 3 games and always get killed when I leave my camping spot.

[@cybernetic_crocodile8462]

CAS user: Detected Opinion: Rejected Pain: Deserved

[@smigoltime]

At least I'm using a vulnerable and slow plane that gets instantly shot down instead of kamikaze bombing people in a P-47 or similar

[@ethancoy9237]

This is exactly the experience I get in warthunder in general, regardless of BR or country I play, consistently garbage teams that die within the first 5-10 mins of a battle.

[@1228carlito]

Why does it feel like Gajin is back to using bots to fill the teams again. Even having players failing up, the fact you're getting whole teams that do very little smells of bots.

[@sharkk127]

Yup, that pain is something i experience quite often, though usually around 8.0, and with every nation other than germany(somehow) and russia

[@funkkymonkey6924]

Brain Dead Weraboo Tigers and a general lack of mid-tier light vehicles make me want to scoop out my eyes.

[@_gmmaann_]

I have more duck kills than I do kills with the duck. I always get sent to oblivion by .50s

[@lerbronk]

bad teammates = more living enemy more living enemies = more kills (theoretically)

[@MrBboy95]

And that's why ladies and gentleman, Air RB is superior. If they fix real shitter mechanic there'll be no point to touch ground what so ever.

[@smigoltime]

there's a lot more to fix than just real shitter

[@n1co2017]

I genuinely believe some german mains try and role-play being WW2 French tank crews with no radio nor coordination...

[@hehehoho3770]

I main USSR, and when I play Germany I sometimes forget and expect my team to not camp at the back, then get killed because no one is anywhere near the points.

[@canerdemir6038]

my favorite part of being German main is Mission failed My place in the team:12 1 Air Targets Destroyed 1 Ground Targets Destroyed 0 assist 4 Death Score:970

[@tatjanaschreck6323]

German mains are either the most blind ppl ever or god, no inbetween