ONLY THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND CAN BUY THIS TANK - AEC MkII

The AEC MkII is one of War Thunders Rarest Tanks. It was available during an event WAY before I had even started playing but now it's lost to the Gaijin Marketplace where it's up for offer for over $500!
The AEC MkII is a Premium British Light Tank on Wheels. It has good mobility and excellent firepower due to the 47mm 6 Pounder cannon. With 130mm of penetration and a gyro stabiliser this little guy is capable of dealing with pretty much anything that's thrown at it!
The only real issue with the AEC MkII is its HEAFTY price tag due to its rarity. Every now and again Coupons go up for sale for less than $500 but not very often.
A real shame because this is one vehicle that pretty much anyone could enjoy! :)
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[@OddBawZ]

WHAT'S THE MOST YOU'VE SPENT ON A SINGLE ITEM IN WAR THUNDER?!

[@mr.keavesthemajesticbrit7390]

WHY WONT YOU MAKE A VID ON THE G6 LIKE HELL MAN😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@moosoonoos7128]

I refuse to spend any money on War Thunder

[@Skip.8221]

an ungodly amount on the M8A1 🗿 Totally worth it tho

[@mr.keavesthemajesticbrit7390]

​@@moosoonoos7128 Same and its painfull

[@howitzer2839]

$1899.99 on a camo

[@ssvensic]

Solid shots are so stupid in war thunder, imagine a steel round flying inside a confined space shredding metal chunks at 800 m/s and the crew just shrugs it off

[@mareksoucek4514]

Well... If it hits thin metal, it won't make much shrapnells... And if it hits thick armor, the shell is really slowed down...

[@mareksoucek4514]

I'm not saying that it's working as it should. Just saying, that it wasn't the most effective type of shells...

[@SP-sy5nq]

Eh war thunder gets APHE wrong and significantly nerfs APCR If it were realistic everyone would use APCR and APHE would be solid shot with slightly more spall

[@localdrugseller6431]

Fragments irl would bounce around in the tank too.

[@mareksoucek4514]

@@SP-sy5nq honestly, I don't really know if APCR would be that effective... If it would be, why did so many nations used APHE? Can you please explain it to me, I'm really curious and want to know it. (no sarcasm or irony, really wanna know.)

[@spartanz05]

Guess I was one of the few people that got this tank for free. Would never have redeemed it of I knew how much this thing would sell for in the market today.

[@joshuaellis7428]

I just wish I knew how much it was worth haha

[@WozWozEre]

Do you just get Gaijin coin for it or can you withdraw real money? Haven't played WT in years.

[@Vkhani12345]

@@WozWozEre Gaijin coin, I had a T30 and F4JB and redeemed both (super regrets)

[@jan_direction8146]

Same for me. I genuinely love this thing though. Idk if you can remember, but you could get more than one coupon for this thing in the event. I sold that second coupon to but the Boarhound which was in the same event. Best decision for me in a while.

[@LTV746]

SELL IT BY pumba 234/4

[@liladoodle]

Since we have the Crusader AA Mk. I & Mk. II in the game, I had a thought. What about the Crusader AA Mk. III? We'd finally have the 20mm Polsten guns in the game at that point.

[@RandomPerson-ob1hk]

Another crusader AA? Well it is Britain

[@alphaplayzz1381]

I thought the mk3 had 3 oerlikons mounted in a vertical line and was used as a trainer? the polstens are a polish development of the oerlikon.

[@patrioticgamer5878]

Then we could get the Centurion prototype with a coax polsten

[@liladoodle]

@@alphaplayzz1381 It was either Oerlikons or the Polstens.

[@sgthop]

The Mk.III was just a Mk.II with a repositioned radio.

[@Stephen__White]

Fun note about the British 6 pounder, it should have an APDS round that has well over 170mm of pen at 10m, 160mm at 500m and 140mm at 1000m. Now given how small AP rounds deal damage in War Thunder it wouldn't be the most effective round, but it would give the 6 pounder a way of frontally penning a Panther. I honestly don't know why Gaijin is so opposed to giving Britain their APDS round for the 6 pounder other than it would basically force them to swap the Churchill 3 and 7 around, though that would make sense, the Churchill 3 was the anti tank Churchill, and the 7 was the infantry support version. As you really can't make an effective HE shell for a 57mm gun, but you can make a very effective APDS round, and comparatively the 75mm gun on the 7 didn't have a very good AP round, but did have a decently effective HE round. It's also hard to find solid numbers, but it's safe to say if Gaijin would give the 2 Pounder it's "Littlejohn" adaptor it would have AP pen that is better than the American compatible 75mm. Basically nearly everything low tier and British should have better pen, but doesn't. It very much feels like Gaijin dislike the British, and to a similar degree the French. I mean they fucked up the ARL-44 (ACL-1) by giving it the wrong gun.(It should have the American 76mm found on the M10, not a French 75mm that was never built. Legitimately the only reference to the French ever building the 75 mm SA44 is the War Thunder wiki, because they never did. It was the intended gun for the ARL-44, but when they were prototyping it the gun wasn't ready so they used an M10 gun they had handy and that's what they used on the prototype. While not a huge performance upgrade, the 76mm gun would give it ~20mm better pen and some explosive filler. It would also make the prototype more true to life, not perfect as the prototype had a lot of wooden bits on it, but still closer to life by at least giving it a gun that actually existed. This is literally something that World of Tanks gets right that War Thunder the more "realistic" game doesn't. Random rant over, sorry while I might be Canadian my family is decently close to still being British, given even just as far back as my great grandparents we still had decently strong accents. We do have a tendency to just ramble. (I even easily fall into a very British accent if I watch to many British KZbinrs, it's actually kind of weird.)

[@voxthesergal]

I love how every tank you play brings back memories of me unlocking the tank..

[@voxthesergal]

And by that I mean I'm old. I found that I had the event KV-2 from 2015-16, where the only actual difference was a coaxial mounted pea shooter for the gunner. And let me tell you how amazing that is on its own.

[@superx7423]

The Sdkfz 251/10 from the Strategist event a couple years ago. I have it and its greatest advantage is acting like a map asset. I've had 4 players drive past me during a Eastern Europe game simply by playing dead.

[@YourBasicPatriot]

Hey quick tip. On the SU-122 it has cheeks on both sides of the gun like the T-34 and the KV-1. Its weak enough you can pin it with a M5A1. Thats how you pinned him here 7:48

[@Rio_SenpaiYT]

damn

[@swacks7960]

thanks, i have been struggling with these guys once i reached italian 3.0

[@jonathanallen3688]

@@swacks7960 quite a lot of the low pen cannons can go thru that spot. Really weird thing is a shell will pen hit the inner armor richochet but send shrapnel into the crew.

[@annadelsiena]

Hey Odd, have you checked out the Panzer IV F1 that's now downtiered to 2.0 for whatever reason? You have another 100mm HEAT slinging, 4 second reloading german tank that faces reserve tier tanks Absolutely disgusting!

[@sav6732]

The panzer IV has a 75mm, not a 100mn

[@alexvicario835]

@@sav6732 100mm pen my friend

[@valian8985]

Meanwhile B1 bis suffer...

[@hedgeearthridge6807]

Ive kinda not done very well with it. Especially because of the low velocity. Meanwhile with Swedish 37mm APDS I've probably made a few people cry the past few weeks. While kinda spawn-camping, I accidentally cannon-breached a moving T-26 from 300m away, then detonated it's ammo. Seal-clubbing of the highest order. Though later I made up for it by cannon-breaching a T-34 that was rushing our spawn, then picking apart it's crew. I've also shot SU-122s in the front, left side of the breech, killing the driver, gunner, and a loader or whatever he is, all at once. I freaking love it.

[@sovereign7499]

This thing could in all honesty most likely deal with being up-tiered like the puma could, would just have to place shots a whole lot more carefully than you would have to with the puma.

[@John.McMillan]

Pumas 50mm is essentially solid shot anymore anyway. The post pen effects rarely do much better than solid shot or APCR.

[@sovereign7499]

@@John.McMillan True but the puma can still Ruin an IS1/2’s day from decently far away with its APHE while 57MM guns have a decently difficult time doing the same thing, unless we wanna talk about the good 57’s like the SU57, Ram2 and Crusader have

[@dreadnought014]

I was lucky enough to get this tank a few years back during one of the events. They temporarily added some crates that had coupons for this and several of the other rare vehicles. I watched the market and sure enough someone was selling one for 40$. I’m a collector so I was super excited to get my hands on it. It gives Britain a really good low tier light tank.

[@giacomoandreani5473]

The English tech tree doesn't receive the love it deserves

[@Britisher11]

I didn't manage to get this thing for free, but I did manage to get it very shortly after the event it was released in when there were lots on the market and it only cost about 20 Gaijin coins - it's pretty mental how expensive it is now. It's definitely good fun and an effective armoured car for both scouting and fighting though; one of my favourite aspects of it though is that it seems to strangely avoid a lot of the traction issues other wheeled vehicles have, and doesn't struggle much with rough or boggy terrain.

[@ideadlift20kg83]

Your best videos are the combo videos IMO (tank and plane). Same with Phly but he has not done that much lately sadly.

[@fintzwaltstein5484]

really glad i got this vehicle and the m10 panther back in the day during those events.

[@chris_hisss]

Cheerie O! to you Bawz, thanks for the entertainment! Great video!

[@jayklink851]

CAS, and of course BawZ's shining personality, is what makes this channel so unique compared to other WT content creators. Well done old boy!

[@JessWLStuart]

Love the video, except no crazy quotable statements ;) OddBawZ, watching your videos always brightens my day! Thanks!

[@EATSxBABIES]

Keep the tea train rolling and bring out the premium cromwell twins. The chonk cromwell and kaboom cromwell. You know the two.

[@mikefoster6018]

The thing I love about Britain at around this battle rating is that fun bomber for CAS - the Wellington with the 4000lb bomb :)

[@supersimon126]

I'm glad i got this thing for free when it first came out. It's an absolute blast. You could argue that the Puma has the better gun, but this thing goes up against german tanks which means lots of straight, unangled and thin armour plates.

[@DatBoi_TheGudBIAS]

I mean, British is also 100% flat

[@supersimon126]

@@DatBoi_TheGudBIAS i could be wrong but i feel like i come up against Panzer 3s and 4s more than i do british tanks at that battlerating. I may also just be biased because i find Panzers kinda satisfying to blow up lol

[@g.williams2047]

True, but the Puma is much better higher up. The amount of god modes and skill matters I’ve gotten thanks to the explosive filler is ridiculous.

[@supersimon126]

@@g.williams2047 Oh yeah i'd bet :D The Puma is great fun i'm not gonna deny that but imo the little AEC also has its pros but admittedly its cons too

[@DatBoi_TheGudBIAS]

@@supersimon126 no I mean dat in puma u fight British, Dat are flat too

[@hrtvolleyball01]

Always been bummed I’ll never get this bad boy in my hanger. *ps always love to see more CAS ✌🏼

[@incredibilis4024]

I remember getting this tank for free back when they had that build event many years ago, it was the one to build the t-34 E, but being a proper Englishman I wanted this beauty instead, and I'm glad I did judging by its price lol

[@pioneerridgeexpress4961]

E is like 800 btw

[@HotRod1776]

Just a suggestion, since japan got another 5.7 ,the m36b2, i was wondering if you could do a video covering the japanese tiger the "heavy tank no.6" and the most recent video on it ive seen was 7 months ago, me being a console player dont have access to the gaijin market, again just a suggestion, great vid your amazing :)

[@agravemisunderstanding9668]

This reminds me of when I first unlocked the ab43 good tank good times

[@TrySomeFentanyl]

Every time I try and get better at this game, I play entire teams of odd clones.

[@PAcifisti]

It's fairly survivable because of the angles. Same as with the AA variant, many spots on the hull frontally are autobounce, or at least with a good chance of getting a ricochet instead of a pen

[@MeanGreeny]

With the buffs to wheeled mobility, this will be a beast and might be worth a revisit? Price on the market is now around the 100 mark rather than 600 when you made this.

[@MidasTwo]

Me and my best mate run the mozzy + MK2 combo, never realised how much they cost. Blimey. One of the perks of playing for nearly 10 years haha.

[@curtshelp6170]

You did the T28, I'm talking about the T28 HTC. Though that may only be in that other game. Still waiting on the T95 to watch you suffer, and laugh ;D

[@AntarticTheFox]

Man, I'm glad I got this thing when it was like, 15$, ha. For what it is, it fills a much needed niche at the BR, and it's pretty decent in an uptier.

[@daniel_f4050]

It’s a real shame that the Puma is the only armored car readily available. The French armored cars are there, but their higher BR and pretty much everything else about them….meh. For some reason the Snail just doesn’t want us to have access to armored cars that can be tank-ish at the lower tiers.

[@DarknessInferno15]

One of my favorite WWII vehicles, which I'll most likely never get to own.

[@luscious5671]

I bought this thing when it was dirt cheap and i love the damn thing, Probably my favourite british light tank in the game just such an amazing vehicle

[@randompillow5146]

I know you’ve done a video on it before, but I’d like to see you play the T18E2 again.

[@b9brutality]

Saw this vehicle at Tank Fest, inside the museum!

[@grikkajunior]

Could you play the vti-2, that used to be the bane of every player for like 6 months

[@WickyTV]

I got this on the Xmas event. Although I was trying to get the M10 Ersatz Panther really haha

[@theranger7924]

Second comment to the end question, could you try the BI(?) It a Russian event jet with 35 seconds of fuel, but quite possibly the best climb rate I've ever seen

[@bushboi]

watching odd play has been more enjoyable than playing lately

[@paulmorgan6269]

Enjoyed this. Your not from Kilmarnock are you ??

[@PhoxjawVA]

I got this tank for free out of a SL crate during the 2023 Winter Extreme lol, still very fun to play a year later and its much cheaper now.

[@memesintensifies8013]

Man that is one of the vehicles i really want but I know I’ll never have it especially because I play on Xbox

[@ozfur1569]

Another amazing war thunder video by Odd

[@arnierebusquillo6371]

Ja

[@allanspraggon7207]

Only vehicle I have 1,000 matches in :D Best £10 ever (only ever used over 4.7, to 7.3 where I got my first ever IS-3 kill with this. Panther and Tiger killer, USA less easy due to the .50s) Get the Indian skin, adds to the derp. (This is my favourite vehicle in game if you haven't noticed) @OddBawz, do it justice and use it in "late WWII" BRs. This is a beast to support any line up (since these BRs give access to fun CAP).

[@Geniusinventor]

In my opinion SAR, 6 pounder is the best and most similar to this tank.

[@LTV746]

Puma gang puma gang puma gang

[@Geniusinventor]

@@LTV746 yea but killed like 3

[@G.E.E.D.E.S]

Hey odd you should play the amx 30👍

[@theranger7924]

Day 4? You should play the jumbo, after a recent patch the armor can't even stop the stock tiger 1 rounds at close range

[@smolwavingsnail9028]

these things were OP early game on COH2

[@Viking88Power]

Thank You!

[@StupidStuart1]

Could you play the Excelsior next, I wanna know how it fairs in WT.

[@grikkajunior]

It’s decent, could be better though

[@cricry]

He did

[@RGC-gn2nm]

I have one and never realized it was a rare vehicle. Being in BR 2 I cannot use it for most of the Warbonds or any Battlepasses.

[@ThaShaydeeSaint]

Glad CAS is back.

[@rerec6266]

this vehicle seems great to play out of br like 6.3 or 5.7

[@ExcavationNation]

Imma get really drunk one night and end up buying the au-1. It's going to happen 🤣

[@simplode7752]

It's just the French reserve wheel thingy if you look at it without glasses

[@tamas7586]

I would like to see the VT 1-2 that german double barell tank destroyer!

[@weepweep2225]

With the Summer sale going on Odd, would the F5c be something decent to get ahold of?

[@echesssssssss8717]

Panzer IV/70 (A) you can play , just saw it once, might be rare .

[@maciejandryszak5584]

Can you play the VT-1? It may not be unavaliable, but last time I saw that thing in battle was like 4 years ago

[@wun1gee]

What's the M8 Greyhound going for these days? I always wanted one. When it came across in the event I didn't know it'd be the only chance to get it.

[@supersimon126]

Odd, could you take the I-301 out for cas if you have it? A LaGG-3 with a 23mm that does 46mm of pen and 2 .50s that do 31mm at 3.0 should be a real top down tank deleter

[@sinisterisrandom8537]

Although this is one of the rarest vehicles in Ground. The rarest aircraft in Air is the Ki-10 II C.

[@odd_inhd9250]

Queen can't buy this tank anymore can she?

[@log9700]

I literally just saw someone using this tank a few hours ago

[@skittle8208]

Well i guess no one can buy this tank now

[@ExcavationNation]

Hey odd❤️ Wait how much!?!

[@caxu53]

I have that little monster it is fun&easy to play

[@noobium5333]

Play the ZSD63, its reload got fixed. And by fixed I mean literally halved.

[@EnterTheFenix]

13 seconds is a looooong time for AA still

[@notsoracistraspberry4168]

@@EnterTheFenix better than near 30. Even with its long reload the thing is an incredible AA and was so easy to take planes out i love it

[@Ima184mm]

In the market, some of those kinds of vehicles have bubble on the price

[@Silex-Flint]

I've put off buying Warhammer that costs 1/3 less and at least I have something physical afterwards if I do buy it, but jeez Louise!

[@tictaculer]

when is the g6 rino vid

[@notsoracistraspberry4168]

Lorraine 155 50. I want one so bad and it is super rare!

[@zavdan7682]

I have this little thing and never knew it was that rare?

[@duke0salt717]

Can we fix solid shot instead of doing no damage if tge shot is just strong enough to penetrate, if the devs actually knew how to model solid shot it wouldn't be a problem but they don't

[@ogscarl3t375]

Oh no no no Mr. Scottish man the Mollins M 57mm cannon is nothing like the QF 6pdr the only thing they share is the caliber the ballistics are very different & both are somewhat differently built also love the video kinda sad I got no your mum jokes up your game bruv ;)

[@StealthCloudchaser]

Try out the P59A!

[@mrcllean8239]

I love taking this thing up to 7.0-9.0

[@peterdavies6660]

Love this! Please do some more British light armour!

[@Slugbunny]

Lesson of the day: any shot claps with the correct placement! 👏🏻

[@Slugbunny]

(and sufficient pen)

[@Jodah175]

me: absolutely love watching OddbawZ vids. also me: just uninstalled WT out of frustration. >_< Seriously though, such an infuriating game at times. So, time for a break.

[@admiral_alman8671]

I once got killed by one of those

[@brentonherbert7775]

So Odd... Do you also find it weird that the 6 pounder on the mosquito that when you pen it doesnt do ANYTHING like when you do with a tank?

[@stewart9540]

My wife wouldn't bother with hospital I'd be straight to the undertakers 🤣

[@lukac00ltv25]

The title aged like fine wine... 💀(Queen of England referance)

[@marshallblanton3690]

The queen of England and oddbawz of Scotland

[@harrybarber2518]

I have the AEC from its event, however I accidentally redeemed the coupon and now I cant bring myself to use it now

[@retr0bits545]

Wow, I didn’t know it was that rare, I’d never sell mine though.

[@John-is1dw]

I got one in a snowman chest

[@FondlesHandles]

can you ask gaijin to add the TOG?

[@ivantsang2156]

Is that a Cromwell turret on it ?

[@3rr0r4o40]

Spouse? what is that, like a pet? Never had one

[@atikura6260]

That sucker killed me yesterday

[@RealFrikas]

money well spent but whats the status on the arl 44 on the top 5 worst tanks video?

[@LTV746]

You leave my 2.7 Pumba out of this!

[@brandonyoung196]

Yes more cas

[@russianguy9562]

Can you play the sprut-sd ?

[@dickballington702]

$500 price tag on that but now go look at the IS-7 Its damn near $1700

[@TheCheeseGrate]

I literally went up against this rare thingy in a kv2 but I got smashed caused from me being tracked then he circled me with bad turret turning I got stuffed.

[@thisguyyyyyyy2723]

I’m deeply regretting selling this thing for only ~40 GJN a couple years ago