The Saddest Main Battle Tank

[@Spookston]

Thinking I should play a German vehicle next, also I have a dumb challenge video coming out soonish

[@Desertable1887]

I think it should be the RakJPz 2

[@machinegunner2352]

Please play the Gepard

[@dulguunjargal1199]

Play the Puma at 6.0 and bring HE with you to kill M18's Pretty effective for such a Vehicle

[@chiefpapos]

Panther D, being the only panther that didn't get a 6.0 uptier, I still feel like it's a bit overpowered, and I'd love to see you play it

[@neologic-gaming8141]

Spookston challenge video: Play as agressively as possible in only casemate tanks

[@henrique2456]

"no armor no survivability an okay gun and okay mobility" Eminem is afraid of this guy

[@grovehoLP]

good one.

[@rendycoya]

No,he already quit

[@vonknorring09]

What? Am confused

[@ComfortsSpecter]

I’m Shaking and Crying Crying and Shaking This Is so Fire Fr fr fr rn rn rn og og og A Vibe

[@PANZER3-j5s]

Day 1 of asking for M3 gmc

My theory is that gaijin is conducting a social experiment on italy mains

[@OnboardG1]

Vault cinquecento

[@nmspy]

@@OnboardG1 I WANT OUT :(

[@johnnycloud4093]

Whatever they are testing I don’t wanna be apart of it anymore let me out

[@cloneyboi8557]

Yes. And I want out. Please.

[@glowtail3744]

They will then test the British mains

[@darkpast2177]

Spook: this is the worst MBT Also Spook: gets a nuke with it

[@whohashamburger855]

Classic spookston

[@col.firefly]

Sometimes, it's not the quality of the tank, it's the quality of the opposition. :P

[@kiri3639]

Comes in clutch with it lol

[@leopard2a786]

I mean he has 10,000+ hours in the game. He can get a nuke with almost any vehicle in the game…

[@stugg.]

notice how he says that its the worst mbt, which means this thing can still be really good cuz he didnt say worst tank

[@imnomoremaverick]

>your country needs to have modern tanks >You design a next gen MBT that is already old in terms of design >You order 600 of those >Thankfully the USSR collapse so the order is reduced to 200 >Still, everything outside the FCS and the cannon is pretty much outdated >Upgrades are rare and not implemented fully/well >You decide to finally do a complete refit of the vehicle >The refit actually is not the best compared to how 2020 tanks outside your country are >You refuse to go further and buy some Leopards 2A8 EDIT: >You also refuse to buy Leopards 2A8 at the last moment because "duh,reasons?" >You promise to buy and build the KF51 Panther, ignoring that it is still a prototype and that the project was created mainly for who already had the Leopard 2 (and you never had any Leopard 2s in your inventory) Ladies and Gentlemen,this is my country's history with their MBT doctrine and yes, it's tragic

[@Paronak]

why we do this

[@cybernetic_crocodile8462]

But hey, at least most other of your military equipment is good.

[@Paronak]

@@cybernetic_crocodile8462 humor us

[@imnomoremaverick]

@@cybernetic_crocodile8462 the Air Force and Navy are well equipped, although some things are very behind schedule The Army is honestly in shambles,and it's funny considering it's the main force of both defence and attack in any war scenario

[@imnomoremaverick]

@@Paronak bc we love bureaucracy so much that we decide to ruin everything

[@Song26664]

Unironically, Ariete is the scariest vehicle to come up against in the BR because anyone who plays Ariete is a psycopath who played more than 1000 hrs.

[@italianduded1161]

🫡🇮🇹

[@bokoblinlogic1619]

I finished everything else in Italy, and recently unlocked the first ariete, and that thing is beautiful, 8 kills first game fully stock (heat fs) Underrated vehicle

[@TheEnricoMicheli]

0:00 literally in parliamentary hearings "this tank is a ciofeca"

[@Ascaro85]

Veramente?

[@groucho1080p]

rosindo

[@TheEnricoMicheli]

@@Ascaro85 "vengono stanziati altri 260 miliardi per quella - prego i senatori napoletani di stare attenti perché un settentrionale che usa il termine "ciofeca" credo sia abbastanza inusuale - "ciofeca" che è il carro armato Ariete 1"" "another 260 billion are allocated for that - I beg the Neapolitan senators to be careful because a northerner who uses the term "ciofeca" I think is quite unusual - "ciofeca" which is the Ariete 1 tank."

[@imnomoremaverick]

​@@TheEnricoMicheli Ti prego chi se ne è uscito così

[@TheEnricoMicheli]

@@imnomoremaverick Claudio Regis, della Lega, il 12 ottobre 1995. Altra sua citazione, appena sotto, "Il programma Ariete - lo sappiamo tutti - è un'invenzione inesistente"

[@awfulwaffle53]

The suffering makes you stronger in the Italian tech tree

[@LettuceGayming]

If you see a non premium ariete, start running. They have endured hundreds of hours of suffering and pain

[@awfulwaffle53]

@@LettuceGayming I went to Italy almost immediately after I started the game and it was the first country I got to top tier with. No country can top the suffering, so every country is easy.

[@LettuceGayming]

@@awfulwaffle53 so true. Their low tier is incredibly fun tho, i especially love the AS 42/47 and AB 43

[@awfulwaffle53]

⁠@@LettuceGayming AB 43 might be the most fun I’ve ever had in this god forsaken game lol Edit: Almost forgot about the VBC(PT2)

[@LettuceGayming]

@@awfulwaffle53 yep, same. Only contested by the BT-42

[@Project_Warfare]

As a Italian player, it is pain, but that is why we play the Centauro. Also a song you can sing mumble to Sabaton Primo Victoria

[@HossBlacksilver]

Honestly, when he said "A Thousand Miles", my mind went to the Proclaimers song "I'm Gonna Be (a Thousand Miles)"

[@Project_Warfare]

@@HossBlacksilver That would prob be better lol

[@ThroughTheGatesOfHell]

THROUGH THE GATES OF HELL

[@Project_Warfare]

@@ThroughTheGatesOfHell As we make our way to Heaven!

[@wylandnares8642]

@@Project_Warfare THROUGH THE NAZI LINES! PRIMO VICTORIA!

[@AleLGB]

"This is the worst tank ever" *Proceeds to get a nuke and completely turn the game around*

[@NiteshadeX2]

11k hours will do that.

[@dragoneye0979]

AMV is so sad. They took the arietes which was already arguably the worst top tier mbt, gave it a new round to make it stay at top tier (despite that round being outclassed by others at the same br), gave it some more engine power, and didnt fix any of the *massive* problems the original ariete had like the complete lack of hull armor despite oto melara themselves saying it has composite in the hull. Oh and then they took away the armor kits that the other arietes get despite photos showing the amv pt 1 mounting both kits so that they could mount them on another vehicle and add it later (which they still havent added). Oh and then they nerfed the arietes.

[@whyismynametaken123]

And there's not really a lineup to use around the AMV. With that being said I really enjoyed playing the arietes, but I would stay back and snipe or play sneaky every game.

[@brainyskeletonofdoom7824]

It was basically made with the armour kits in mind... and also, the WAR kit, made to contrast kinetic rounds, has no kinetic protection value in game :v

[@Ezekiel903]

the Ariete project started in the 80s, with far less money involved as for other project, and it was build for Italian landscape! In a competition in 2004 in endet on the 4th place, behind GER LEO2/ DAN LEO2/ NED LEO2/ ITA ARIETE/ POL ABRAHAMS and no one was ever lost, in Irak, Afghanistan or all the other missions! now with the new tank KF51 Panther, 250 and 800 Lynx, made by Leonardo/Rheinmetall, joint-venture 50/50%, HQ in Rome, they have the best tank available! Some toddlers playing videogames speaking about tanks, ridiculous😂

[@squidy4082]

Biased game as usual

[@tnd1488]

Expectations post-intro: he's gonna CAS'd during the whole video. Reality: 1st death in the second half of the video.

[@cortexoftheego4568]

on high tier there are almost only premium planes I ques, maybe that is why and yes in addition through most of the time he had avereage results in it.

[@tnd1488]

@@cortexoftheego4568 I have no idea what's going on in the top tier, I'm just a 4.7 BR gremlin

[@WhatAFilthyCas]

@@cortexoftheego4568top tier is literally nothing but Russian CAS spam and the occasional laser guided bomb. I die to planes and helix more than tanks in top tier

[@maxfloppa]

3:06 Spookston suddenly breaks character and attempts to communicate with the mothership

[@Hvvb-lf2nd]

(A second later):French spookston:

[@SPITFIYAHproductions]

OPE FUNNY BIRD THE FUNNY BIRD 🐦

[@FreddyKruger112]

12:30 as a Sweden main, I can confirm that the 122s are absolutely ridiculous. There are so many matches I have played where I take shots that the other player thought would kill me and I just swing my turret towards them and send them back to the spawn screen. The fact that all 122s get spall liners is pretty nutty as well.

[@guy-]

Sweden's top tier decimates if you play correct :) (Also nice if you have VIDAR or Bkan in lineup, genuinely have more kills in Bkan at 10.7 than Christian II lol)

[@soapybanana1]

bringing a Sherman into top tier is like training your 6 year old to fight Floyd Mayweather

[@InchonDM]

But every now and then, the 6 year old will win.

[@LawAdNauseam]

1:08 a very disappointed hitman on his first day at work

[@NaturalGarethFan]

Hearing a line from Generals’ Battlemaster tank while I’m grinding in a Type-59 for China is just beautiful

[@GamerKahn]

Overlord tank intensifies ❤❤❤

[@AlexWithington]

Nothing like a bit of battlemaster spam

[@NaturalGarethFan]

@@AlexWithington It works really well with mass Red Guard spam, truly the Cold War Era experience

[@arlobones3410]

It’s so sad the Italians basically don’t have a top top tier MBT

[@L4v3]

They should have Centauro 2 which has been in service for few years and Leopard 2A7 because it's the service tank in Hungary, but instead we get 3 Arietes which have worse armor than Leo 2A4.

[@QuestGamerable]

@@L4v3 And Ariete with war kit should at least hold a stock soviet dart in the turret cheeks

[@parapat9957]

@@QuestGamerable in game the WAr armor is modelled as a 20mm chemical armor, IRL with official sources it is a Kinetic armor that estimates at around 220mm of plates

[@Jason-jb1vs]

@@QuestGamerable it can hold 3bm22 I believe, anything greater than 3bm32 it's useless

[@ghost_toastie3969]

@@L4v3be happy we got the 2a4

[@MFGBIGGD0G]

7:30 United States command when the armored engineers suggest a new tank

[@the-racoon2223]

7:38 the sherman just like I'm just here to be here man

[@josephmurphy6127]

He really be vibing tho

[@brenobassocenci6571]

"At least he is disabled." - Spookstoon, 2024.

[@Iron_Blood_Enjoyer1933]

If there's one vehicle that if we do get Yugoslavia in the game (Either as an independent nation or as a sub-tree for the USSR), it's the SO-122. It's a Sherman hull that was given the 122mm gun from the IS-2 and upgraded with the V-2 engine from the T-34.

[@liladoodle]

Yes! Yugoslavia really does need to be in the game, but Gaijin might just have it be a sub tree for Russia.

[@borbduck]

Yugoslavia is like finland, they go insane as soon as they find an unmodified soviet tank

[@burneracc2567]

That would suck balls hard if it becomes USSR sub tree because Yugoslavia used so many wacky vehicles and USSR tree is so full that many of those vehicles wouldn't make it into the game. Yugolsavia (and member nations after it fell apart) have so many unique and strange vehicles that it would be a shame to leave it out.

[@P3S4R]

"The ariete isn't too bad" - Spookston, 2024 (Don't mind the rest of what he said :D)

[@Nick-rs5if]

ok :D

[@EdyAlbertoMSGT3]

The Ariete Is pretty good untill It has to engage the enemy.

[@sleepbeinshy5775]

I remember the good old days when the Ariete had the highest pen round in the game. "They stole it from me carmine, they took it!"

[@propeltheprototoaster8151]

What I found with sticky hands is 1. I was washing too much and 2. I wasn't drinking enough water

[@edim108]

"Mom can we have Challenger 2?" "We have Challenger 2 at home" Challenger 2 at home:

[@italianduded1161]

Bruh… it has nothing to do with the challenger. Leave my C1 Ariete alone

[@edim108]

@@italianduded1161 I'm sorry but it looks like an offbrand Challenger 2 😂

[@TheNoahConstrictor]

Day 9 of asking Spookston to play the T-10M

[@martinalmvide9112]

He already did it ok

[@reflectivegaming9979]

Don’t let him have fun

[@Gurtanic_1912]

You got two times in row a like of spook. He has gonna noticed it...

[@mr.cogwheel]

He did a video on it when it came out.

[@imchromeplayer3310]

​@@mr.cogwheel bro he played the t10a not the t10m

[@thatonewtaddictedguy]

Germany: gets good armored MBTs Italy: well we use pizza and cheese to cover up our ammo

[@L4v3]

Don't forget that there's 80mm of air in the turret's composite armor.

[@italianduded1161]

Why all this hate against the Ariete😢

[@Ezekiel903]

the Ariete project started in the 80s, with far less money involved as for other project, and it was build for Italian landscape! In a competition in 2004 in endet on the 4th place, behind GER LEO2/ DAN LEO2/ NED LEO2/ ITA ARIETE/ POL ABRAHAMS. No one was ever lost, in Irak, Afghanistan or all the other missions, after the upgrades it's a very capable tank,! now with the new tank KF51 Panther, 250 and 800 Lynx, made by Leonardo/Rheinmetall, joint-venture 50/50%, HQ in Rome, they have the best tank available! Some toddlers playing videogames speaking about tanks, ridiculous😂

[@polomendoza4405]

7:05 that aged well HAHHAHA

[@laineholtry9523]

Very lol

[@bosseronny2225]

I gotta say this is one of my favorite Spooks videos. The jokes in this are top tier :')

[@panther8707]

"Maybe that's the issue, maybe I'm washing my hands too much" Yes, spookston, that is the issue. Too much soap will make your hands start to become rubbed raw, and along with the soap most likely still on them when you use your mouse, you've probably either worn down or covered the mouse partially in soap. So, please, do not wash your hands like every time you walk into a room-

[@17denby]

I think he just needs to clean his mouse😂

[@Jigglypoundage]

Playing with Italy and knowing it’s so objectively terrible also has its upsides. You never feel more satisfied with getting a single kill

[@VictorKorp1999]

Best tank in the game, I shot it once with HEAT in the front of the turret expecting not to do much and I left the poor thing shivering

[@Dulingo-espanol]

It can literally get penned by a Stuart

[@notinmyairspace]

2:15 There is a thin layer of oil on your skin wich is made by your body to moisturise and protect your Skin. Soap also removes this oil layer, wich in my case cause my hands to become sticky. It is a kind of overreaction by the body to restore the oil layer as fast as possible by producing a excessive amount of oil. I got around it by using less aggressive soap, but it varies from person to person and there may be other causes.

[@dransk]

@Spookston read this if you want to live to see tomorrow

[@PopeRocket]

The Little Ceasar's Delivery guy doesn't count as "your Italian friend".

[@ThatTrafficCone]

18th time challenging Spookston to bring the Char 25t into an 8.3 lineup, and then incrementally increase the BR to find when the tank becomes unironically unplayable.

[@joshuamueller3206]

I like that part with the A-10. It actually kills something with the gun, but it is an IFV, and then is shot down by the main gun of a MBT, illustrating why you do not go low for a gun kill in modern warfare.

[@Trenaime]

But the funi bird

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

Also some arab speaking dudes with RPG`s. You DONT want to be anywhere near them in flying vehicles, even drone you can put in pocket isnt safe.

[@Pringles_Goblin]

the silliest thing about this tank is the fact it can get front penned by a 76mm sherman just casually through the front plate despite the armor being rated for lower class APFSDS and HEAT

[@gagesadventures8213]

"I know I'm not saying it right, and quite frankly, I do not care" Constantly amazing one liners XD

[@ilf5788]

I got a British army recruitment advert at the start of this video. they want you to play the 3 inch gun carrier.

[@soup5759]

Thank you for the upload spook 😃

[@hazardous401]

He acts like he doesn’t like playing top tier, yet sounds like he is enjoying every second of it… Spook 300iq tricking us to make him play bad tanks (he loves it)

[@TheHiddenAlchemist]

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth" - Italian tank designers

[@fooltaurus5161]

To be honest, once you played the whole Italian tech tree you come out with a crucial skill : how not to get shot.

[@k-osmonaut8807]

You should play the AMX-13 with the ss.11 ATGMs, i can assure you it's peak fun comedy

[@NathanThrelfall]

Babe wake up new spookston video just dropped

[@yukko_yoshida]

7:45 the audacity for a PSO to beg an Ariete not too kill him smh

[@Keryaken133]

The Ariete in my opinion is the definition fo the word "ok"

[@Zushi_FH]

This is my new favorite video by you, very funny first half, and very satisfying second half + the nuke comeback

[@TheArklyte]

Meanwhile modern Challenger 2 upgrades which are all on separate tanks in the game which leads to them being largely detrimental.

[@baz5042]

I’m so proud of Spook, he was finally able to spawn in and actually drop the nuke and not get teamkilled!!

[@mzimmerman1988]

Barrett’s Privateers by Stan Rogers is my go-to song for adventuring/travelling .

[@anisvadjian5142]

How I wish I were in Sherbrooke now…. Honestly such a good work song!

[@xxWarthunderguyxx]

Can you play the vilkas

[@xray235]

What an excellent video, with a terrific edit, and a great story arc. Well done.

[@ryanbennett1314]

You might be draining the oil from your hands by washing too much, leading to your hands making more oil in the pores.

[@giga768]

If the armor was actually accurate it would be quite decent

[@HugeCockAndBalls]

its actually fried how every modern MBT has their armor modeled incorrectly except for russia

[@duckhouse1929]

0:50 Could you play the Chieftain Mk 3?

[@Strv103Moment]

"This is the most painful tanks you can use" proceeds to clap the enemy team twice

[@corleone560]

I wonder how many people get the c&c references in your vids but I love them

[@TornadoADV]

"Why is there a Sherman?" Are you a Communist, Spookston? That sounds like Commie talk!

[@edgamz9315]

@3:29 that's not true! A pair of A-10's killed a british tanker and wounded 5 others in a friendly fire incident in 2003. I hope this helps! :)

[@SRDPS2]

Friendly fire will not be tolerated

[@antlionworkerfan2007]

FV107 Scimitar’s are not tanks, they are lightly armored tracked reconnaissance vehicles, they are not tanks, they have significant differences in combat purpose and physical characteristics.

[@edgamz9315]

@@antlionworkerfan2007 nerd 🤓

[@antlionworkerfan2007]

@@edgamz9315So? Doesn’t change the truth, also you are on a a War Thunder video and you’re legitimately surprised I’m a nerd? 80% of the community are nerds, it’s like making fun of a young kids cloths being bought by his mom, like yeah, what did you expect, who else would buy them?

[@edgamz9315]

@@antlionworkerfan2007 dude I'm a nerd too relax

[@JohnDoe-kw9ex]

Love the unloved M47 Patton day 141!

[@_spooT]

It's basically as if the italian just took a look at the Hellcat from a museum and were like: "What if we take this, but make it modern"

[@jeremeymcdude]

The thing about Top BR is that to me it's usually a "whoever shoots first wins" type of gameplay. doesn't matter really if you have no armor or survivability if you just shoot the enemy first.

[@thatoneguy1741]

Exactly, imho top tier is entirely about positioning and situational awareness

[@jeremeymcdude]

@thatoneguy1741 Pretty much the main reason you see advanced optics and guns that can nail a target from miles out. The shells most of the time will penetrate and in real life the crew would bail instantly

[@wardzyngaming8301]

Attempt 31 at getting Spookston to play the 90/53 M41M - an Italian glass cannon that penetrates anything at its BR....but it only has 8 bullets! No, that was not a spelling error, I *really* mean 8.

[@AdamZalis]

7:12 - China will grow larger 🤣

[@Spinosaur_32]

Day 102 of requesting CV9030fin

[@hungryhedgehog4201]

Someone did a the math a while back and apparently Italy is the most played minor tech tree?

[@kabob0077]

9:38

[@bingusgamer27]

Day 8 of Asking spookie bear to marry me ❣️❣️🥰🥰

[@алексейПен-щ1е]

Save me a slice of him 🥵🥵

[@TTVGLADIO6000]

Like this coment for more zombie noises

[@Tarikchi23]

Spookston: Saddest tank Also Spookston: Proceeds to get a nuke in it

[@sya_7489]

14:03 dude that "kaboom" jumpscared me

[@spoork9443]

"The Saddest Main Battle Tank" *Completely annihilates the enemy team and gets multiple aces*

[@privite55]

2:55 love this effect they added during ammo detonations and the fart reverb get me every time cause it reminds me of the turret launches the T-series tanks do

[@incelgaming]

Playing Italy gives you an aura of prestige that allows you to do well

[@berserkskeleton762]

10:29 Apparently, smelling strawberries when there are none around could be related to phantosmia. This could also be related to nasal issues, like a sinus infection, or neurological conditions such as migraines or epilepsy and stuff like that, or post-head trauma. Obviously this could also be exposure to specific chemicals or fragrances coming from different chemicals, but I'm not really sure because I don't know about chemicals, so i couldn't really pin down a specific chemical that could make you smell a strawberry-like odor. I hope this helps, and whatever it is, I hope it isn't anything serious.

[@King7ana]

that nuke was epic, good video bro!! GG

[@Warlordrex5]

0:29 I looked away and then back again and thought Spookston had photoshopped the sad crying eyes onto the tank’s hull, nope that’s just the headlights

[@Hozak]

One of these days I'm gonna watch one of these videos about terrible vehicles and it's gonna be two guys in a bathtub.

[@evanceaicovschi7230]

Hey Spookston, I just made it to 5.3 on the American tree, and I've noticed that nearly every battle ends with two or three aircraft completely dominating the map. It makes it hard to go into rounds knowing that you're going to be defenseless to it no matter how you play.

[@Ryu-tl8vy]

3:42 A-10 getting down by the coaxial machine gun of the Leclerc S2.

[@StrawberryRaccoonNixie]

Really enjoying the videos lately, your gameplay has been exceptional!!!

[@TazziedoesWT]

Italian Air tree- Stronkest Italian ground tree- Sadder than Italians when pasta is not al dente.

[@duncik815]

Spookston: why do I smell strawberies me with strawberry jam toast in my hands: uhh

[@brianwilliams5586]

Thank you for using C&C sounds. It brings me back to my childhood

[@parklanroyal5133]

the lesson i learned from spooky today is that you are simply unstoppable

[@AlphaQStoopid]

the random sherman had me laughing

[@guyreurtt3860]

the ariete AMV is a sneaky light tank in the disguise of a modern MBT.

[@LiamW1ls0n]

Mission Impossible: Spookston trying to make a bad tank super powerful casually getting to the top of the leaderboard every match

[@MrVinicius5000]

7:06 I was not expecting a blender reference in a spoookston video.

[@silverfang1648]

2:03 - 2:07 the charging sound of the Spartan Laser? Classy

[@realbadcorps]

Spookston making "Over There" the US equivalent of "Erika" is quite entertaining.

[@Average_Yandere]

spookston: this tank is pretty bad *proceeds to destroy the enemy team in the first game*

[@MichaelDavis-mk4me]

Spookston resisting saying Mama Mia for an entire video about an Italian tank : challenge completed.

[@TormentedPenguin]

Sees a Sherman at top tier.. realizes hes in an Italian tank and that Sherman is now a legitimate threat...

[@jacobcarter4694]

Average spookston comment: “This is one of the worst tanks in the game” *Proceeds to get a nuke with it*

[@MissouriSoutheastRailfan]

Spookston could do an updated video on what nations you would think people should grind or play your favorite tank (if you have one), also enjoy your videos a lot.

[@Ayan-m6w]

Spookston: Smells strawberry (his mind) mind of Spookston: STROKE!?!?!?!?