Only Tank I SKIPPED in World of Tanks!

[@Iwysaur]

This will always be the Saint Emil in my head

[@mikidzukela]

Bro i also called it that lol XD

[@ol_fortune9474]

Ay Saint Emil gang!

[@--_DJ_--]

Glad I am not the only one.

[@jairkarso3769]

Yes also did that

[@GideonpriyadharsanW]

Sturer not saint

[@Suiko333]

Wow, years of playing WoT, only today I find out that there are mid-high tier tanks without premium ammo! I thought every tank above tier 4 has premium ammo.

[@TCTheDS]

The O Ho also use to not have any premium round on the 105mm

[@vukorevic8478]

St Emil was actually designed around the gun. That 12.8 cm Pak was too big for existing german TDs so there is a fun fact Edit: wow almost 250 likes thats the most ive got ever on a comment

[@Damien_N]

It did help they had an old Tiger prototype hull they wanted to put to use.

[@DualityofLife]

very much true. But who wouldve thought, a gun with no armour, horrible transmission and an unreliable engine wasnt that well liked by the crews of this tank, leading to its name, Sturer (stubborn) Emil.

[@vukorevic8478]

@@DualityofLife i dont know when it was built, but late war german machinery was pretty bad. Guns were good, but engines were bad and transmission had somr issues.

[@DualityofLife]

@@vukorevic8478 yup, they were in service from 1942-43, so pretty much mid war. Generally german machinery in the war had issues apart from the guns, but the St Emil was reported to be extraordinarily bad.

[@timonsolus]

@@Damien_N: The Sturer Emils used 2 of the 4 VK 30.01(H) prototype hulls. The VK 30.01(H) was a German heavy tank prototype that predated the Tiger program, the project was started in September 1938. It was rejected because the turret could only fit the same armament as the final Panzer III, the 7,5 cm L/24 howitzer or the 5,0 cm L/60 anti tank gun.

[@xelagunnr4339]

How could you skipped this one? It's awesome! Before the HP rework I remember you could 1 shot tier V medium tanks and it was so filthy and glorious at the same time.

[@Back0]

yes but match making rarely ever gave you tier 5s. And while you can 1 shot them they can bully you as well since the only thing you have is a big gun with very few rounds

[@rkanava7245]

I totally agree, 490 damage was basically a tier 7 death star!

[@filipm9885]

Try playing it stock. Also, you don't have enough amo to blind fire + weak armour + very poor mobility + low HP

[@doomnova1946]

@@rkanava7245 My view on it as well. The thing people had was shell shock from the Nashorn which could just sit there and punch holes in everything it saw over and over again with the 88. Having to play with a modicum of caution because of shell count was something pretty odd in WoT.

[@daltonbarries3529]

I enjoyed the grind of the emil back in the day, interesting how QB never brought up how the stock gun is also viable and people use it as it carries more ammo

[@VosperCDN]

I thought I'd recalled seeing the advice to use the stock one for that reason.

[@buahcs]

Yes, the penetration on the stock gun is okay for lower tier tanks for sure and you do have premium ammo to fall back on though I cheap out and just try to hit weakspots on higher tier heavies. Key word "try"

[@GrandDungeonDad]

I love the 128 its just a low tier troll cannon.

[@peterpeterson4800]

You are better off just taking the Jagdpanther instead, since it gets more pen and dmg on basically the same gun, but it has more mobility and armor. If you play the Emil, you should take the big gun for the full Emil experience.

[@MrMRGamer1010]

@@peterpeterson4800Yah but it doesn’t lead to the same T10 which is the whole reason people are grinding the line

[@lukamiler5824]

It is basically a Ferdinand at tier 7. It has the same armor, mobility and gun in exchange for less ammo and HP.

[@slicertm668]

Fun fact: in Blitz, this tank actually has the same type of spaced armour that it has on its lower plate up on its cheeks (you can even see the mounting posts in this video), and even through there they can switch rounds immediately, this thing at least can't be penetrated with he rounds unless you get it's side

[@timeforgottenprince8271]

If the St Emil had 20-25 rounds with the 12.8, then I might consider playing it, but having so little ammunition is so annoying, which is why I almost never play my Super Hellcat.

[@Adierit]

to be fair; shooting all the rounds a sturer emil can hold will get you in excess of 7000 damage in a game, so as long as you make your shots count you'd have more damage then 99.9% of average tier 7 tanks

[@GideonpriyadharsanW]

It got good accuracy if you using improved aiming with camo net and rammer

[@timeforgottenprince8271]

@@Adierit ASSUMING you hit all your shots, and we know what RNG is like

[@Adierit]

@@timeforgottenprince8271 well, think of it like this. if you manage a very easy 50% hit rate, you'd do 3500 damage every game you use up all your ammo in, which is a good game for much higher tiers let alone a tier 7.

[@apedley]

It's one of the few tanks I have a Fadin's medal in. That low ammo capacity helps a lot with that!

[@jameslandless6935]

I actually really liked this tank, amazing gun, depression and the mobility is 50/50

[@buahcs]

I am in love with the gun depression, it does things a Kranvagn would have wet dreams about. Good thing it has no armor otherwise there could be issues... The depression does allow you to pull farther back behind bushes on hills though to allow for a greater level of stealth.

[@santroxg287]

Is funny because i started and ended the S. Emil with 60% win rate meanwhile with the Borsig i started with 38% win rate and ended with 56%.

[@grenadecraig9619]

This thing was so fun! How could you skip it?! You just stay wayyy back and pummel anyone who tries to make a move. Excellent gun depression and with a whopping 128mm, One of the easiest grinds I've had.

[@dragade101]

I think I remember the stock St Emil being slightly more playable than the T28 stock. You have a greater top speed, reverse and better tank traverse in the stock Emil. Where the T28 stock feels like a TOG II. Yes you get a greater gun arc with the T28 but we are splitting hairs compared to the mobility that Tier 6 and 7 offered.

[@dragade101]

I stopped playing because the T28s were so poor to play through. Kind of glad I am not playing this game still

[@skyknight1414]

I remember grinding the St Emil. What fun that was. TBH, after awhile, I learned to love the tank, but my goal was always the Borsig so that kept me going.

[@kobraz5684]

Hey QB, not sure if youl ever see this comment, but if so. Do you truly enjoy playing world of tanks in its current state? Ive been playing since 2013 and personally i feel as though its at an all time low, bad matchmaking, and bs mechanics / bugs at times. such as getting spotted from across the map just after starting a game. Do you think they should change certain things or keep it as it currently is?

[@danielfeinour9611]

I actually love this tank! It is rather slow, but use its gun depression on a ridgeline, in a battle without arties, and you're golden. I can't tell you how many times I got into that narrow dip on the northern side of Malinovka and just completely shredded the enemy. Assault on Steppes is another good map for this. People don't give this tank the credit it deserves. Just had a battle in it the other day where I got 3k damage.

[@plektosgaming]

The issue is that the stock gun is just terrible, so they skate past the better gun, not realizing that most tanks only fire about 15 shots in a game and this is a big gun. Many times I've sat in stupid places or poked over ridges where basically they have only my gun barrel to aim at as the depression is silly. Best of all, it avoids the T10 idiocy. While I love my T8 TD, it's even slower and faces a lot of T9/T10 tanks with really no better gun.

[@BertieJasokie]

Ah.. I skipped the Saint Emil too. Blueprint and free xp straight to the Borsig.

[@pavelslama5543]

Sturer Emil should be a Prokhorovkian vehicle, since that was pretty much the only scenario for which it was historically designed.

[@RRHACKKILLER]

QB you should go try the ST Emil on Warthunder. Its an absolute monster in its element with its 128mm vs its own Tier and higher vehicles.

[@chudmaverick6256]

Just like in the film Fury.

[@strategicmind2652]

I remember skipping the VK 30.01 P, Or rather the modules since it was horrible as stock and after getting all modules it became my favourite T6 medium until WG added 10 tons reclassified it as a heavy and gave it no buffs to make it fit in as a heavy.

[@dangerousrobot9692]

The ST Emil is one of my most played tanks actually. Not because I wanted to but because I was new to the game and had no premium account, reserves, bonuses, blueprints or anything to help with the grind so I just played like 200 something games in it. I remember it being so painful and once I had the Rhm it was like night and day.

[@sinankahriman978]

Weirdly enough I had some great games in this tank :D

[@peterpeterson4800]

The St Emil is kinda balanced by the fact that it doesn't have premium ammo, but very high penetration on it's AP rounds. I really liked this tank, because 490 dmg is such a huge chunk of HP at tier 7, and you can even run into tier 5 tanks that you can almost kill in one shot, even with AP, and some tanks even on tier 6 you can actually kill with one shot with HE. Low tier tanks up to tier 5 I think used to have a lot less HP back in the day, too. Also, the intuition perk used to suck and nobody took it... So yeah, people still used HE against you, but not that frequently, or not on the first shot. Running out of ammo is a real risk, but there is really no equal to this tank except the SU-100Y at tier 6 with 440 dmg and 196 pen. I just noticed that the SU-100Y has a premium AP with less pen, "only" 171 (which is still pretty ok for a tier 6 TD), but with 510 dmg!!! What the hell Wargaming? Russian and premium bias much? It makes the HE on that tank totally useless, because it only has 580 dmg, barely more than the premium AP, with 65 pen. I guess you could also compare it tier for tier to the regular SU-100 which gets 390 dmg at tier 6. The SU-152 is not a good comparison, because while it has 700 dmg with AP, it has horrible penetration of only 135, so everyone shoots HE or HEAT (with 250 pen!) or uses the smaller gun for crazy DPM, but the big gun isn't a real comparison in the first place, because it is so inacurate. Fun fact: Sturer Emil basically means "stuborn donkey".

[@pxorex]

Hey, is that a mod or setting in the game that highlights in red hidden behind obstacles parts of enemy tanks? I can see only outlines which cause me to miss a lot of shots.

[@rantotthus0112]

The stock grind on this tank.........

[@Galavis.]

Not gonna lie,when I started playing I knew the Emil 1 and 2 were really good tanks but I couldn't find them. When I read St Emil I thought it was similar to those two...Boy was I wrong xD

[@LilGamingYes]

LOL

[@simhub2000]

I feel your pain. The only tank I ever skipped was the AMX 65t (really the only one, I played every line through from tier 1). I unlocked all the modules but it was still terrible so I gave up!

[@daringdarius5686]

My heart is so full after seeing the arties initiate CQC, acting as bait, decoys and fooling the T25 AT. What comraderie I never thought to have encountered in WoT! I actually find my ears being slightly moist, like cutting onions, what is this!?!

[@RudolfJelin]

I love the gun of this tank. The gun depression, the alpha, the DPM. Any game in +2MM is just so many oneshots.

[@treloaria4295]

5:03 I love how he talks about the artillery as if they are ai😂

[@robinkhn2547]

well people who play arty might as well be b0ts. Cos only stupid people who don't understand the game play this op crap.

[@Canovar]

i played Sturer Emil before the equipment 2.0 . as stock it was just a pain. absolutely no speed, no armor, no gun. after being full and figuring out how to use the gun depression it became kinda fun. my favourite map was redshire mid hill, best place to use the gun depression and alpha. i see now with the equipment 2.0, it can work. turbo is the way to go and improved aiming unit can also help a lot.

[@ProtoxxGaming]

I actually didn't mind this tank. The high alpha makes up for the rest

[@multiplicityxc1093]

But didnt u say u skipped the french artillery when u played it on ur best non-premium video?

[@beavis4play]

i enjoyed this tank so much when i was grinding this line that i've kept it in my garage for years. on console, it got a buff in the last year - it now carries 23 rounds of ammo. getting into tier 7 matches with this is a blast. while it may not be considered a traditional "derp" gun - tell that to all of the tier 5-6 tanks i've trashed with this TD! i do wish it had (at least) a 265-275 premium round - so i could have a few strong shots when getting into tier 9 matches.

[@greliusz]

I don't remember, but I played in this tank longer when I farmed to WTE100 - it had premiums for this gun. I don't know when they removed it, but the biggest plus in this tank, for example: on top, in the bush and this gun has a perfect angle down. when it detects you, you hide behind a hill.

[@cyphi474]

Its gun depression allows you to peak on unexpected places which is something you can use. Not on map like Ensk, but on bigger maps it can be strong advantage.

[@tanker2000]

I played the Sturer Emil on WoT Blitz and when I played it, I performed really well actually. The gun depression and strength was all I needed. I did know about the poor armor and speed, but for me, it still was very good and kept when I got the Borsig.

[@LilGamingYes]

WoT Blitz plays very differently though, plus being able to play it on PC vs mobile users is just dirty. Congrats nonetheless for performing well in it, a turret-less paper tank is always a challenge.

[@glowsinthedark235]

I skipped this too, along with the Churchill 7. That 300 alpha gun is so painful, it couldn’t hit a maus at 100m.

[@Nero1235]

So underrated TD ,with top gun this thing eats all like nothing except tier 9 😀

[@BenVoiceYes]

Down

[@TheBlobik]

I believe my initial expierience with St Emil was painful, while once I started getting to the end of it and the crew got better I think it progressed to just being a below-average tank with some potential due to alpha. It basically has to have a good driver with two skills or three to become playable. It never was amazing, but in some narrow cases (ridge + bushes) it could have worked well.

[@h3nder]

As a WT player I can't imagine skipping/not playing this vehicle because it's so fun in that game. Also it's armour is weird and trolly in WT.

[@highvalue242]

nice to see QB after while, i quitted wot years ago and haven't watched a single video about it. But QB is a Brand for himself. keep it up bud.

[@hebrewhammer4086]

Wait this tank doesn't get any gold shells? Wow I learned something new today.

[@Redpigracing]

I never made so more ammorack-blowups to IS-3 than in the Emil. So I had much fun with it. But it was so long ago, I don´t know, if the fun still exist nowadays

[@teamtrouble2003]

I struggled my way through the ST Emil. It is very difficult to win in but I still to this day play the ST Emil.

[@Fortebx497]

Love driving this beast along with its little brother the Dicker Max

[@LR13-i1h]

I only liked the St. Emil when I got the top gun, it was pretty good as long as you dont get spotted. Also only tank I ever skipped was the T28, I used blue prints to unlock it. Then free xp and more blueprints for the T95. There was absolutely no regret in my decision

[@villelepoaho4105]

When I first got this tank back when the WT auf E 100 was still in the tech tree, I was really hyped to have the Ferdinand's gun at tier 7. Well, the alpha damage anyway. That, along with the gun depression, made this tank very strong on paper. But then I saw the top speed, and that was long before turbo chargers.

[@dawsonhealy4327]

This tank has my only kolobanovs medal. It was on ruinberg, with 400 hp left against 5 tanks, all were one shots though.

[@jakabrobert96]

I actually liked the Sturer Emil, although I admit the last time I played it, low tiers have yet to get the HP buffs, so I could one-shot Tier 5 tanks save for heavies, and sometimes even Tier 6 TDs and lights. That 128 mm gun on it really packs a punch. Too bad it only gets 15 ammo.

[@Peter-dy9sp]

Good teamwork from the arties at the end of the game. Nice to see.

[@matufujiwara7493]

7:30 that's a large aimsight you have there qb

[@drxym]

I actually quite like that tank - go up a ridge line, use the gun depression, poke and fire.

[@vincentferrer3770]

I remember st.emil should be packing like 500 or 600 damage from before, that is why it only have 15 rounds. Because it obliterates T7/T6 tank match up.

[@andreasrodin2349]

The ammo capacity never really bothered me with this... because either I died quick or my team melted the enemy team before I could leave base

[@ГригорийАхромеев-я4ш]

A vehicle that retains a high degree of historical character is simply unbelievable for today's game.

[@sunsettersix6993]

I dread every battle in my St. Emil, BUT... the first battle I fought in it with the 105 mm gun, I ended up with 3k damage. I haven't replicated that, but still! I was surprised.

[@JacobK0221]

I can understand skipping a lot of the low tiers, but the Emil is fairly decent and fun to play imo opinion. Big gun, and enough pen to not NEED to spend credits for gold ammo. Don’t let qb discourage you from using it too much. Just a thought from someone who’s played for years

[@adriaanvanvuuren8581]

The Sturer Emil is practically one of my most played tanks that I currently have in the game. With a win ratio of 52%, and two marks of excellence, it is my second most played tank with almost 1000 battles on it. I truly enjoy the St. Emil. Plus the fact that it can't use premium rounds, there is no way to cheese your way through with the tanks. Even against a couple tier IXs I am able to give them a proper beating. So for me, it is a tank that I have had lots of fun battles in.

[@GamerLee1231]

also don't having a premium ammo means no output for credits which I like being as a poor player who can't spend money on games

[@lajosrozsa6303]

I played with this td some years ago, 2015-2016 I think. I remember I absolutely loved it. This, and the Nashorn as well😁

[@scan135]

I just picked this up last night and then this drops. Awesome

[@Ronis88]

Sturer emil was awesome when it came out, hard to play but skilled player could use it`s advantages. 400m base viewrange, nobody really shot gold back then, tanks generally weren`t as fast, there wasn`t any EBR`s, maps were more open and had places where you could use your -15 degrees, where other tanks simply didn`t work, but WG nerfed viewrange when rebalanced all TDs and time did the rest now

[@michaelwilts5349]

Aside from the ammo capacity, I actually really enjoyed this TD more so than the Rhm. Borsig.

[@tones7mca]

My goodness I remember that grind. Absolutely awful tonk when I was grinding it years ago.

[@adamtennant4936]

The worst thing about it is the huge amount of XP to get the top gun. I saved free XP to skip the default gun but it was quite a chunk.

[@ΓιάννηςΚουρουμίδης]

I didn't JUST skip the T25/2. I actually bought it and then sold it on the same day. Not because it is the worst tank tier for tier in the game, but because it was basically worse than the hellcat (not tier for tier, actually worse) even though it is supposed to be an upgrade.

[@jackventuras5050]

It amazes me when community contributors play World of Tanks irrelevant of tank the enemy team is playing blindfolded with their feet tied around their neck. When I try to play this joke of a game the enemy team is always commanded by Patton and Rommel themselves and we get clobbered in just minutes.

[@RealHollarius]

The stubborn one is such a nice tank. this canon is so much fun ...

[@nobodyisbest]

Nice teamwork at the end.

[@robertflint4115]

Skipping the lower tiers and saying you will go back and play them later. How many years have you been playing this game? TicTok 🤣........Rock on Sir 🤘😎

[@cuatrokoop32v]

Mother-in-law analogy was pretty funny!!

[@apertureemployee215]

You forgot one of the worst things about this tank, the stock grind. Just about the only thing the Emil has going for it is it’s monstrous alpha damage, and the stock gun is distinctly lacking in that. And sitting around trying to make use of the decent dpm it has is just asking to get annihilated by arty, focus fire, or high caliber HE.

[@murielmecm5322]

Mobility sucks and the lack of pen on the standard rounds, as well not having gold rounds makes this thing sucks, however, when I got all the field mods, intuition and used turbo+grousers it became useful and actually fun to play, specially against T6 where there are lots of tanks with no armor.

[@gavinprime8154]

What’s the chances that I just happened to grind through this thing yesterday? 😂

[@chernobylgoo]

Recommend for doing a "Worst tanks" series to match your best tanks series! Let's see the PAIN ;)

[@Nick-hx8xy]

I actually loved the sturer emil, one of my favourite tanks. There’s just something about taking off half of a tank’s hp’s in one shot

[@sladjanteodosin4607]

I loved trolling nature of St. Emil. Enjoyed KV-2 of TDs, as I called it. But I've skipped Churchill VII and Black Prince, and that seems like the best spent blueprints ever.

[@gregoryclark8217]

The Churchill VII is pretty fun, but the BP is a real pain.

[@tihach]

my first tank line was soviet heavies, i was often frustrated by the limited gun depression. this made me thing gun depression was the most important stat in the game. i looked up tanks with great gun depression and fount st emil. i was looking forward to playing it, i was excited when i unlocked it. imagine my disappointment when i found just how slow and unarmored and awkward it was. it DID have epic gun depression, which was nice if you could make it work. that gun would depress so far, you could shoot yourself in the foot if you weren't careful ;)

[@vimk_dk]

The St. Emil is very similar to the premium at tier 6 aka. the dicker max (D.max). It also have 15 degree of gun depression and has shitty armor :) Plus the d.max have 400 meter base view range :)

[@joaquindguez8729]

Nah, Dicker Max doesn't pack a punch on the gun, even with prem. The rest of their gameplay is really simmilar tho, i'll give you that

[@vimk_dk]

@@joaquindguez8729 at tier 6 the d.max in percentage it does more or less the same dmg as a st. emil against a tier 7 :) Or my calculating skill on the top of my head is wrong :P haha

[@skittlesbutwithchocolatein2274]

In War Thunder this tank plays similarly, it’s only good for defense and ammo isn’t an issue because you one shot 99% of the time

[@richarddyson4380]

Wow…. I know it’s been a number of years since I’ve played WoT, but I loved my St. Emil. I guess it’s because i platooned up with Clan mates and set up some pretty mean ambushes. But then again it was well before all of the ridiculous OP premiums were released.

[@Arashmickey]

15 rounds lol. You missed 3 shots, that's 20% of your total potential damage. Crazy!

[@williamst.germain3394]

I absolutely hated grinding through this thing. It's gun depression was the only thing I liked about it. Much prefer the Tier VIII Rhm. Even the Pz. IV and Grille 15 are lackluster to the Rhm. At least the Grille 15 has really good accuracy.

[@shadow_entity9191]

The poor hp/t ratio can be explained by the fact that the chassis is from a Tiger I prototype and because they mounted a huge heavy 128 mm gun on top of it.

[@rickd291]

Anyway to convince you to re-tackle t28 prototype?

[@Legionthecomrade]

Ammo count balancing is some of the worst in this game. Some tanks magically get 3x what they can hold and some get shafted for absolutely no reason.

[@scharlesscalvin]

this tank is the true apotheosis of skill. i'm surprised they didn't pull an m3 lee on this tank and just replace it with a gw-panther like tank with the 12.8 pak. super awesome if you can get it right, although the low shell count and horrid mobility set it back against the jagdpanther.

[@plektosgaming]

Two actually saw service, with the one that was captured showing 22 kills. The other was probably similar in damage done but was destroyed in fighting. Yes, it is basically a big artillery gun with tracks added. So I can see why it was kept. Though, I think they should have kept the Ferdinand in the tree as the Borsig was only a dream on paper, because the Ferdinand saw a lot of service (91 built). Basically Ferdinand Porsche looked at the Emil and said, I can make something better. Porsche being Porsche, after all :)

[@derschleusenwarter2148]

Did i hear QB wants you to put him as the commander of this true *beast*? Ok

[@THEFIRE360]

This tank is the sole reason I didn't get to play the wt auf e100 before it got removed. I hated it so much that I stopped playing the line

[@vattumies]

I remember struggling with this. Don't even have Borsig. 46 battles with 52% WR.

[@niwrad84]

Took me years to appreciate how emil can be good

[@johnnynielsen3006]

Hur jeda meg, som barn han var. Ej værre tænkes kan. Og Emil var det nam han bar. Ja Emil hetter han. Old Swedish folk song about the most impossible boy in Småland, Sweden. Now yell out loud. - Emil! - His father usually gets hurt by his pranks. Like a very hot plate placed on a stomach in pain. It was fun to watch.

[@amzarnacht6710]

Same vehicle I never played a single game in. Unfortunately the amount of time wasted on other vehicles didn't help. So I terminated service two years ago.

[@Trucky21]

Fabulous Grille at Tier X... yeah, I laughed!

[@Flederratte]

8:36 said it and still would have lost credits if it wasn't for the premium account...

[@coralstapilow8240]

honestly always loved this tank 231 pen, 490 alpha at tier VII? kind of a daddy tank

[@melvinlegeek]

This was actually a tank i loved when i played it. I immediatly put a turbo on it and the big gun. It is a terrible tank to attack, perhaps when it come to base defense, that thing is insane !

[@empire-classfirenationbatt2691]

It was a painful grind. Even with the top gun it's a bit less painful but still painful.

[@Minitartar]

Oh I love this tank, I had a blast playing it before the borsig

[@magnuslikestanks6044]

The stock grind is what killed this tank for me. I gave up before I even got the top gun.