The Best Tanks Aren't Actually Tanks (feat.

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There are many anti-air vehicles in War Thunder that work better in the anti-tank role. The French AMX-13 DCA 40 and Swedish Lvkv 42 are great examples. They are very similar vehicles, with the DCA getting more ammo and the Lvkv getting access to APHE. I played these with Odd and we had a pretty good time, even with the Gaijin moments.
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The Best Tanks Aren't Actually Tanks (feat. @OddBawZ )

[@greenoftreeblackofblue6625]

It has Snail eyes 🐌

[@bigiron2572]

But it doesn’t move as fast as a snail so it’s not historically accurate

[@davemcravedj]

Can't unsee this now ha

[@man-from-2058]

It has the eyes of its parents

[@kuroshiba1903]

The Snail is always watching...

[@gopniksquathd9563]

All hail the snail! 🐌

[@gib6683]

You guys have the energy of a therapist and a client lol. Spooks getting exposure therapy and Odd is there just to support his homie. Love your content both of you, good day!

[@Kiba_22]

100% agree, I feel like you can hear Spookston smiling more when playing with Odd, their personalities seem to play off each other so well

[@bastik.3011]

​@@Kiba_22 Yeah the Odd is the energetic always happy one and Spook sounds always so tired

[@gib6683]

@@Kiba_22 for reaaallll

[@ALuckyCrane]

It's always a good day when Spookston plays with Oddbawz

[@OddBawZ]

[@catmus1506]

Yep. 2 Favourite War Thunder content creators together is always a good day. Odd's laugh is so infectious.

[@LuftPanzerWaffe]

I agree

[@Seldion]

Agree to disagree -.-

[@arlobones3410]

These collabs are always just amazing

[@puggle3686]

Honestly, I want to thank you for making videos. I was getting really down there when I started watching you a few months back. I played War Thunder often but it wasn't fun at all. After watching some of your low tier ground videos I began to play some of the smaller countries in like rank 1-2, and the game has seriously become so much more enjoyable for me. Instead of getting revenge killed by a level 12 Ka-50 I'm just playing the game and having funny moments. Also I love the goofy edits you have been doing, they make me laugh a lot. Don't know if you're going to read this but it doesn't really matter. I just wanted to say thanks man, and keep up the videos.

[@valorandrews190]

I really cant enjoy anything above 5.3 at this point. CAS and ATGM's are unbearably boring to die to.

[@Spookston]

Glad my videos have helped make the game a bit more enjoyable for you man

[@aidleopard7716]

yeah exactly this, high tiers just sucked the joy out of the game for me. spooks videos got me back in.

[@StupidStuart1]

Bro I've been loving that goofy french tankete at 1.0, that thing has some stealth!

[@ZombieRush22579]

Same. Gained a lot of knowledge out of these goofy videos

[@steveshumate1983]

The falcon is another “AA” that is legitimately better against tanks than almost all British tanks

[@joeymt9215]

mostly because its one of like 3 british tanks with APHE lol

[@CaptainScorchMane]

@@joeymt9215 The APHE isn't the killer. It's the APDS-T. 100mm+ of penetration is absolutely no fucking joke.

[@Squisbabvs]

Same with AMX-30 DCA since it has what i think are the same guns and ammo as the falcon. Having that much APDS is just wow.

[@haroldreijersenvanbuuren1644]

Please keep these doing these collabs, they are very fun to watch

[@TM-nk2du]

8:22 the seiemic charge sound so good

[@slavking992]

The premium amx 13 with the 4 atgm, think it sits at 6.7. You gotta play thay one some time!

[@lolzers7986]

I know you don't like playing high br vehicles (lets be honest 90% of us unfortunate enough to have gotten there don't) but it'd be nice to see a video dedicated to the otomatic

[@FatherGrigori]

An interesting challenge would be to play wt on controller, maybe in arcade as well to replicate the true casual experience

[@davemcravedj]

I play war thunder controller only. Fortunately I have an elite V2 with paddles. I use top left bumper as a "shift" key to use Alt commands. It's took a while to setup but I can use everything I need to Pity the mouselook speed is SLOWWWW and it cannot be changed the setting does nothing on console.

[@davemcravedj]

RB only.

[@joplaane4813]

Spookston and OddBawZ collabs might be the best collabs out there

[@CheezeSpartan]

I killed a gun carrier with the L-62 the other day. Low tier bofors may suck for AA but man do they slap around ground targets.

[@Handle423]

I love it when you and Odd play together, you synergise so well :)

[@o.m.5269]

I love watching Spookson and Odd play together, it's just wholesomely fun to watch

[@slaaneshgod]

You two look like you have Soo much fun playing together. It looks like a blast.

[@g.williams2047]

The Swedish thing at 2.7 is amazing, and I love it.

[@ZSU-57-2]

L-62 Anti and the AA milk truck are pretty good

[@gosshawk]

i think the collabs between you and odd are some of the best war thunder videos. even the one you guys did on world of tanks was good somehow

[@juliannolastname2442]

Hey man, love your content. I’ve genuinely gotten a lot better at the game from just watching you, I’ve gone up a couple tiers in just the last couple of weeks. And it’s a lot more enjoyable than tutorial vids! :)

[@hellohelloington9442]

Honestly, I always treated and thought of the Lvkv 42 as an IFV, because that's kinda how it plays. It's a lower tier 9040B without the garbage repair costs and good teams. Also, it's really fun watching these collab videos with OddBawZ. The way you two interact is kinda funny, and you manage to fit all the memes and jokes in at the same time too. Great video as usual :)

[@TabiTheCat]

love that you included the halo 1 magnum sound effect specifically

[@kHz33]

Oddbawz is having so much fun, his laugh is contagious, love the guy, definitely play with him more!

[@a10warthog9]

The ostwind 2 is another example of this one time i was in a jumbo and one shot trapped my gun mantle and one shotted me with its APHE

[@noonespecial7434]

I love those collab videos with Oddbawz, cracks me up

[@ToastedWaffles_]

the AMX 13 with a Chaffee turret is the most cursed thing I have ever seen.

[@moose6790]

these oddbawz collabs are so good

[@omiliatriachinietylko9410]

Maybe PTZ89 next time? On 8.7 it has good APFSDS and 5s autoloader

[@FirstMetalHamster]

my favorite railgun. Even works against helis.

[@ironsam2381]

I'm loving these new videos you've been making, you're doing such an awesome job with the content lately 😊! Idk if this is the right Avenue to make this request but would you consider doing a video on the T-26E? The T-26E is a massively up armored version of the normal tech tree T-26, it has an extra 40mm or armor on top of its normal stuff! It's a USSR tank at BR 1.7 and is so much more fun than the normal T-26, especially at medium range. You are such a small target and the extra armor does a great job of protecting your crew 😊

[@zobius9191]

Thanks for all the great content Spook! :^-^

[@117legion7]

I gotta hold back so much laughter while in class lmao but thanks for always bringing so joy spooksten

[@captain_duck4863]

The perfect way to relax. A spookston video

[@TheSergeantGoose]

This is the most giddy I have ever seen OddBawZ.

[@messinberver4683]

the APHE belt on the L-62 ANTI II is so darn effective i love it

[@enchantedblade68]

hey spook, doing the thing where I suggest the Crusader III again. I love you playing with Odd! I went back and trawled through every collab you guys have made when I first found your channel, I think one of his videos with you is where I found your channel, come to think of it.

[@ScholarofProspero]

i love these collabs

[@oyaoya5661]

Love your collabs with odd hes weirldy positive all the time. I dont have a specific vehicle suggestion but how about using cas more often

[@JaydenJelly]

Speak of the devil, I got the AMX literally last night and went on a small rampage on my first game, even killing a kv1 near the end of the match (I think about 5 or 6 kills after 2 deaths in the FL10 Sherman). Thing is just absolutely insane.

[@Skip.8221]

This is like the first time i’ve ever seen you do CAS in a video

[@SGMproducitons]

Love your vids

[@optimus27000]

I always love the spookston and oddbawz collabs.

[@BasedGrandmasKitchen]

Chaotic good

[@hyperprime8989]

Hey Mate amazing video as always, i do have a tip for using the funny LvKv 42 i recommand only brinding a full load of AP-HE it is way better than the pure ap at killing anything since most tanks have a exploitable weakspot you can nuke them threw, the only usefull thing about the pure ap is the abylity to pen a kv 1 dead on which may still not work when they angle. The aphe is such a mosterous round it shuld be the only one you bring in my opinion at least.

[@jackbob983]

I love all the halo sound effects I can feel my neurons firing when I hear them.

[@cathnep9878]

Greetings Spook, I would like you to check out the French Locust (Or how I called it) Lorraine 37L. It's got 47mm gun that have 105mm of penetration with good angle performance. I used it to kill 2 7.7 tanks before, definitely a fun meme tank

[@DIVeltro]

Oh man you guys are probably just so much fun to platoon with....

[@GrimOrc]

Love watching the videos with OddBawZ! Hope to see a ratty video with the Wiesel 1A4 and keep going Spook!

[@christianweibrecht6555]

The repair cost & times for the DCA 40 are just ridiculous high

[@silverwolf5643]

I might be getting addicted to watching spookston. His smooth calm soothing voice ... i kinda fell for him with his entertaining gameplay

[@HS_Rick]

top tier colab you two

[@poachedbacon4634]

The Crusader AA Mk-1 had the 40mm Bofors canon, slightly lower firearm than the amx but it’s still great at 3.0

[@hiruko2373]

This is my 29th attempt at asking spookston to play the t32e1 great video bro you should also do more videos with odd

[@popinmo]

Devs put all the op stuff in the swedish tech tree

[@Rajendradk]

The person that killed the KV-1E was a dude named bad dragon 💀

[@chadtheafricanbullfrog]

I remember trying to spade this when I was grinding my 7.7 French lineup and the patch that buffed this thing dropped about halfway through and it was a night and day difference. We love the DCA in this household

[@AndyViant]

The DCA at its peak was by far the MOST OP vehicle that has ever existed in this game. KV1E? Calliope? Pshaw! It was like Medusa, anything that saw it died. It got nerfed until it just mehs rather than equals nuclear holocaust to anything else. Seriously at it's peak it was almost unplayable anywhere near its BR as it just annihilated everything. AMX-13 mobility, and 240 rounds per minute. The only thing that's come close was the Sd.Kfz.234/4 when it was still at ridiculously low BR.

[@therussiandoge1149]

This is exactly what I’ve been waiting for

[@nooneinparticular9837]

I think the dazzling effect of SPAA's is criminaly overlooked. Like you can't shoot back if entire screen is filled with explosions and smoke. Not to mention the deafening noise.

[@bouteilledeau1463]

5:17 The squadron of AMX-13s, spreading the baguette influence.

[@ilovehihats]

this makes me want to reinstall WT just to play the falcon, what a fun lil thing man

[@lukasvondaheim]

0:55 it actually is one sight per gunner. The left gunner controls elevation and the right one traverse. Or flipped. Fact is the Bofors 40mm uses two gunners

[@ollie___]

i’ve started playing france and i got to about 7.7 and only having 2 aa’s from 4.3 to 8.0 is crazy france is so fun and i love everything about em

[@mep867]

"Wher all my team gone" My brother in christ, you're 3 feet away from their spawn.

[@redwarrior69340]

i have just noticed that my favourite videos of you are the ones where you have FUN ! isn't that incredible ! honestly if i could give 100 bucks to make the game always fun to play for you i would in a heartbeat (if i wasn't broke)

[@matthieuzglurg6015]

for the record : the AMX 13-DCA 40 was even more a tank destroyer rather than SPAA before the buff before the maximum turret traverse rate was like 14 degrees/sec, making it a pretty lame SPAA to say the least, tracking was very sub-optimal. Vertical targeting speed was great, so it basically meant that without a lot of luck or a lot of planning, the only way to reliably get a plane with that vehicle was to get his attention, and wait that he'd dive on you and fly in a straight line trying to strafe you. Now with the 70+ degrees/second of turrent rotation speed, that thing just turned into a demon, capable of not only getting planes pretty reliably without relying on 50/50 tactics, but also can deal with way more ground ennemies than before. All of that without a BR increase. Amazing work on Gaijin's part lol

[@kimjanek646]

Yeah I legit get more ground kills with it than the 5.0-5.7 French tanks and I don’t even intent to use it against ground vehicles. But that’s just WT for you. The other day I first spawned in the 2.0 Flak Truck in a 3.3 match and ended up getting the most kills in my team. Same story. Was waiting for planes but had to engage way more ground vehicles.

[@khahinmetameta7826]

Play the crusader AA it's quite fun with 40mm

[@teaser6089]

I love these videos with Oddbawz ! Spook wil you ever maybe stream with Oddbawz? Would be amazing to witness a full 2 hours of you two streaming?

[@WenhopOfficial]

Spookie play the funny M728 CEV (Video 3 of asking). Also you and OddBawZ vibe really well together lol.

[@MikeBison_]

I don't think I'll emotionally recover from hearing Odd say "It's Joever"

[@KAKKY]

I love when you play with oddbawz

[@AndyViant]

I can't hear "Boss, you killed a child" without hearing "That right there is why you're the best boss"

[@ToshioThunder]

I'm happy to see more of the Odd/Spooky friendship :)

[@somerandom5535]

I want to hear you scream out of rage with everything you've got just once. It would definitely fit with the War Thunder experience

[@jeffmerkel3046]

Love the DUO games. Y'all gotta get Phly and Dollar to join sometime. 4 Man MAUS game or something.

[@delmarclapp3350]

To be honest I quite like these collabs with odd. It's great.

[@Schnatter_]

“Some anti air are better tank destroyers then actual anti air” -spookston

[@legoeasycompany]

missed the chance to say he was flying on a wing and a prayer

[@1996Horst]

"Do you still have wings" "Ehhhhh" Normal interaction

[@doge9176]

I would like to recommend something i have NEVER suggested before, the Bmp-3 i honestly like it more than most other tanks in the whole russian tree just because it has a reverse gear. The other cool things it has is a bonus

[@Robinjhoe1]

Sorry but i love it when you get jumpscared by shots like the one from the KV at 4:15. Its so funny

[@martinkirk3810]

Even strafed by a plane he doesn't look up. That's how you know he knows how to play French SPAA!

[@Hosenfuhrer]

Well now I know what to play if any battle tasks require assists. Or shooting down aircraft.

[@veber873]

I love it when my favorite tanks get featured.

[@blobfish7159]

The APHE round on the LvKv was doing more than when I have shot stuff with the Russian 122mm

[@billbillson3129]

Using AAA as tank destroyer is definitely the meta.

[@terashockzz2027]

Spookston *crits a tank* Teammate "I will be there no matter what"

[@koczownik4567]

Great videos, bro.

[@josephd.5524]

They are very good SPAA for people who are good at SPAA! Seriously, that PE-8 you watched crawling in near the end of the vid, you could have creamed him easily with that 40mm; those shells reach out a very long way.

[@soupwizard]

This is all a misunderstanding: SPAA stands for Self-Propelled Anti-Armour vehicle

[@Dadun44]

I would love to see you play the IS-3

[@OvercastCoob]

With the turret Traverse buff the AMX-13 DCA is actually usable as an anti air finally, it used to match a Jumbo's turret rotation, was beyond painful

[@Glumpuzzler]

these tanks are out and about in swathes now. thaats wild

[@Gdsryrox]

The Crusader AA with the bofors it now 3.0. most tanks at that br get a round that pens around 75mm, the bofors solid shot pens 73mm. At 3.0 British tech tree you have a crusader with a (basically) fucking machine gun as a main canon.

[@Goose_22]

YES!!! THE AMX-13-M24 FINALLY MADE IT ON A VIDEO!!!!

[@olli98wood48]

The weird dogs all over your videos make me laugh so hard

[@andrewmartin9948]

Thing is one of my favorite combo vehicles. I just wish the muzzle flash wasnt so extra. Firing in 3rd person at planes is blinding. Zooms so much you can barely lead air targets in gunner view.

[@blackbokis3064]

The AMX-13 DCA has a permanent spot in my line-up all the way up to 6.7. It performs SO WELL in the 5.0 to 5.7 range. It performs just as well as an actual SPAA and as a Tank Destroyer. The 40mm makes short work of most aircraft, once you mastered its aiming habits, and as a TD the rapid fire allows you to quickly kill lighter vehicles and, at worst, disable heavy tanks reliably. It's a must-have in anyone's France line-up!

[@snipermaninside]

Maybe you should cover on the CCKW 353 AA basically the earliest 40mm Bofors vehicle you can get at 2.0 BR great cannon but a lenghty glass Cannon with virtually no armor and with a AP shell that slighty has less penetration with 72mm at point blank range compared to the swedens with APC shell with 79mm at point blank range

[@sk8terboi877]

Now that this is out, Can we get a video of you playing the M42 Duster?

[@duriniii]

tysm for playing the swedish vehicles i asked for :D (whether or not its becasue of me lol)

[@anacleos345]

God this brings back nightmares of the ZSU-57-2

[@lukezillig6111]

Oh a great tank that nobody uses is the STRV M42 EH. It has terrible pen on the 75mm APHE but its has like 250g of explosives and nukes things. Very fun on a flank. You should try it.

[@schmit6576]

At 0:43 those most likely aren't range finders, most range finders you see (until laser) are usually long tubes. The Bofors 40mm had two gunners, one controlled elevation, the other traverse. This means that each gunner needed a sight in order to properly train the gun on target, which is what we are seeing here.

[@kimjanek646]

Interesting 🤔 That’s probably the case with a lot of AA guns. Wonder how effective that is in aiming at aircraft 🤔 Both need to do a good job to even probably aim 😵‍💫