The King Of Artillery In War Thunder

[@ODST_Parker]

These videos have become one of my favorite parts of War Thunder. Makes me feel like I'm not alone in this horrifically inconsistent world of bad luck.

[@wursd_20]

This bad luck is also retarded teammates called

[@WarFoxThunder]

fr

[@iffracem]

Could have stopped after "world" I think? The bad luck bit isn't really relevant, it's inconsistent regardless of skill or luck.

[@ODST_Parker]

@@iffracem No, it's luck. I swear, I have the worst luck in this game. Things like, two seconds after I set a fire on an enemy plane, it's gone, but my fires never go out no matter what I do. I get instantly pilot-sniped with shots over a kilometer away, but I can fill a plane with a couple hundred rounds at 200 meters, and it'll be perfectly fine. It's a hard thing to describe without people just saying "skill issue" or some shit, but I swear it's not natural. Part of it is Gaijin's game being inconsistent as hell, but most is just random chance not being in my favor more often than it is.

[@samk2804]

@@ODST_Parker sounds like a skill issue to me

[@610Blackhawk]

4:34 Every time I see a scenario like that, where a tiny little light vehicle gets just obliterated by a 150+mm round, it always reminds me of the, “Boss, you killed a child!” line from MGSV.

[@kiryu-chan1590]

Great work, this why your the best boss! Edit: this doing numbers. thank you guys

[@corinthianimperialstudios704]

@@kiryu-chan1590 Oh my god we share the same fucking brain cell because I said exactly that when he did that

[@BudumoYaKot]

S rank

[@SleepyGuardian_]

i was waiting for him to edit in the meme but was ultimately disappointed

[@marlo8850]

imagine that in OddBawz voice

[@coffeebuticed]

My favorite part of the Bkan is how ridiculously survivable it is for absolutely no reason sometimes

[@faasnuhind8578]

Survives every shell launched at it, dies to a 25 kg bomb that lands 20 meters away.

[@drmaulana2600]

its just an RNG lmao, once i survived a swarm of ISs and Pershing while taking out some of them in this thing, and also a damned BT5 one shot me.

[@othnielmcfarlane3612]

swedish vehicles can be like that

[@keithsimpson2150]

It's a knowledge check. They can one shot your shell-pile or 50 cal your crew but if they are shooting darts from large cannons you can survive a lot of pincushion

[@keithsimpson2150]

​@@drmaulana2600 not random the bt5 was probably the only one using an APhe shell with the correct fuse

[@haruka0002]

More Swedish tanks please? Like ikv’s and strv’s?

[@rylan9554]

i would love to see it too

[@shadows4400]

More Sergal tanks the better!!

[@sillylittleowlguy2392]

@@shadows4400 what does that mean

[@tylerchiu7065]

@@sillylittleowlguy2392Cheese wedge

[@hory121]

Strf as well.

[@Slayer_Jesse]

I like to use the proxy as a "top attack" round at longer ranges. just aim slightly higher than normal to aim for roofs and it usually causes pretty good damage. Just remember that it has a minimum arming distance unlike the normal HE.

[@xloltimex38]

nah not that great. direct hit will do more damage. i use this vehicle on my top tier lineup for maps with chokepoints. The proxy fuze doesnt work for the mbts. the helis on the other hand...

[@faasnuhind8578]

Proxy works miracles as Anti-Air. So much explosive, pretty good fuse range, it just decimates air craft. Had alot of matches where I would just pull that out instead of my actual SPAA, to pop helicopters.

[@Rio_SenpaiYT]

I use proxy rounds only, in my type 75 SPH, it's so dirty it's satisfying. You can kill a m18 behind a building. Once i killed an spaa, a wall away, didn't know where he was, just saw his tracers. Shot my proxy, and proxy him to death.. It's so dirty it's satisfying! ..plus it is also a moral booster. You don't need to be to afraid landing your shots correct.

[@Rio_SenpaiYT]

Obviously it can be not so reliable as the normal HE. But from what i experienced. It doesn't happen often

[@user-ns4zm8qe9p]

@@Rio_SenpaiYT that strat on desert maps in my little ruskie tanks makes me pee a little to be honest

[@Retarda98pl]

5:31 if you look at the kill cam, you can see that some shrapnel from the shell traveled the length of the barrel INSIDE of it, and hit the breach. The game thought you penned since the breach is an internal component, and therefore applied overpressure

[@genericscottishchannel1603]

logimc

[@LeMeowAu]

Tbf if the breech was loaded and shrapnel hit the shell while also damaging the barrel enough it could detonate

[@seemslegit6203]

​@Le Meow shrapnel would not pierce through the front of a APHE round

[@subtlewhatssubtle]

it's so Looney Tunes, like if Bugs Bunny blew into the muzzle end of the gun and caused the breech to explode in Yosemite Sam's face.

[@cheyannei5983]

@@LeMeowAu I'd like to remind you that the whole system is, in fact, designed to detonate on demand The breech is often thicker than it needs to be as well as a counterweight and in modern vehicles, some extra protection

[@landonroberson1417]

You should play the m4a3 105, it is decently armored and can tank a lot of shots at its BR and overpressure

[@misterputin8898]

I second this, the M4A3 105 is what the Tiger wanted to be. It can tank helluva shots, has a lot of pen, can overpressure, has a .50 cal, is fucking fast, and can one shot almost everything. It's incredible for sniping at long range and with ace crew (like mine) is easy to get 4-6 kills before dying by CAS.

[@JohnSmith-mk5jt]

The M4A3 (105) is absolutely disgusting in a downtier

[@theoneandonlyartyom]

the sealclubber

[@ravenouself4181]

@@JohnSmith-mk5jt even in an uptier, it can and will bounce shots from a kv-2

[@misterputin8898]

@@JohnSmith-mk5jt Yeah, it is like beating toddlers with a bat. Having the .50 cal alone is like already having a M2A2 plus a big ass 105 mm cannon lmao

[@salomonbetancourt5240]

Day 47 : play the L3...

[@doggo3354]

He has

[@ACEWARFARE1]

stop lying you didn't comment for 47 days

[@Shirt.]

​@@ACEWARFARE1 bro is 1y late

[@ACEWARFARE1]

@@Shirt. So?

[@Shirt.]

@@ACEWARFARE1 im just saying🥲..

[@emib6599]

There are only 2 kinds of players that take a 1.0 vehicle over the 6.0 br. One time I met a 15 cm Sturmpanzer II, when I was in the tiger 2 P. The match ended with our victory and I checked, he had 5 kills and zero deaths.

[@drmaulana2600]

its not sturmpanzer, but once i fought a swedish team and somehow an Spj44 lead them with 5 kills, cople assists and 0 death. this was in 6.7 match mind you.

[@gameronplayz]

I agree, i once killed an is 6 and a su 100 p with one shot with the sturmpanzer

[@SilvaDreams]

Funny thing is the higher you go over 6.7 the easier it is because so many things are either a MBT with thin side armor or a light tank which all have paper armor.

[@ApusApus]

@@drmaulana2600 Are that the swedish blow gun with 100 pen?

[@BloopTube]

@@ApusApus Nah its the 150mm HE recoilless rifle

[@Geniusinventor]

It's my second time seeing Spookston taking decapitated turret for a tank. It's hilarious every time.

[@letsgooutwithabang3101]

Video 4 of asking spookston to play a amx 50

[@Optimusprime56241]

Based

[@DaPumaTank]

W

[@Myyka_1]

Which one? There's like a ton of them

[@rylan9554]

nah he’s gotta play the dicker max

[@euanisles9122]

@@Myyka_1 superbias only correct answer

[@_Matsimus_]

I creased up at the *"I've fallen and I cant get up!"*

[@Spaceman404.]

Continuing the trend of Swedish autoloaders, Strv M/42 Delat Torn. It has a 3.5 second reload and with the APHE shell it boasts similar performance to the American 76 while also having about twice the HE filler.

[@rasmusjonsson1348]

Hello Spookston! I'm from Sweden and I have been to the military vehicle museum called Arsenalen, they have a Bandkanon there, the prototype that reloaded even faster then the production version you just played, I will recall that it can shot 14 rounds in 45 seconds. Thanks for the video, it was really fun to watch! Could you play the Tiger II (H)?

[@notvonbayern9202]

2:10 "Don't move. His vision is based on movement"

[@starguy96]

I saw him from over there and I was like “maybe he doesn’t see me” lmaoooo

[@SilvaDreams]

You'd be amazed how many times that has worked for me. I just act like a dead tank and they'll drive right past.. Sometimes the two brain cells in their head rub together and they'll MG you and you know you are fucked.

[@user-ns4zm8qe9p]

@@SilvaDreams if you bind engine activation to a easy to access button (I play on controller) then you can just become a total ghost if someone doesn’t look at you too closely

[@ashleycarr9958]

@@user-ns4zm8qe9p even better if you use american tanks with brown paint that look like theyre dead already xD

[@ch4z_bucks]

Just here to say I hope you're doing better now after your operation, I imagine based on my own experience with surgery, that the recovery process and post treatment can feel slow but you'll get through it chief, love your content.

[@hungryhedgehog4201]

There is another unique swedish vehicle with a fast autoloader, the S tank :)

[@chaoticneutralism]

the bKan is one of my favourite vehicles with its funny round, autoloader, anomalously good survivability and the fact that the ammo compartment can push bombs underground to disarm them.

[@blackberet9997]

Since the update changed some APDS penetration stats, I'd be curious to see how that effects gameplay(if it does at all anyway).

[@SAM-flitz]

They added like 100mm pen to brits apds but the damage and angle performance is absolute garbage now

[@i8yourDog]

for some reason my APDS goes straight down after penetrating. Is that normal?

[@SAM-flitz]

@@i8yourDog nah i have same problem and it's like this with lagrge caliber apds .

[@BARelement]

@@i8yourDog That happens mainly on Russian APDS when hitting a Leo A1A1/A5 it dips 90 degrees and does 0 damage haha.

[@i8yourDog]

@@BARelement lol for me it's the exact opposite. My 105 APDS on the A1A1 does that every time.

[@teaser6089]

I hope they add animations to open top vehicles of the crew reloading the cannons

[@travisthetractor7570]

I understand why they dont have it but I kinda wish the arty in wt had indirect fire capabilities like if you aim upwards itd show your impacts on the minimap or something.

[@Spookston]

Most of the artillery pieces we have in-game have minimum engagement ranges that exceed most maps

[@misterputin8898]

CAS and artillery with indirect fire mode? Sounds like a good way to end up killing ground RB mode.

[@spinosaurusiii7027]

The only things I can think of right nowin the game with a minimum indirect range that fits on maps would be the Sturmpanzer II and IV and the Sturmtiger

[@MsZsc]

just arc ur shots xd

[@Appletank8]

Just get a spotter to help you calculate your ranges 5 head.

[@hookfangtrew_yt2804]

goldilocks tastes the soup: 7:37 this one is too hot 7:40 this one is too cold 7:43 this one is just right

[@Tanks.With.Teeth.Malloy]

This is my goal for the Sweden tree currently. Love the design and sillyness lol. Again asking for the Super Pershing, I think like my 7th or 8th time asking:)

[@owentardif8660]

Ikv91 is insane especially on wide open maps, it’s a really fun vehicle overall to play

[@ravenof1985]

ikv91 is nuts once you get the laser rangefinder, the shell travel waaaay too slow to reliably hit otherwise.

[@user-sg9ql8nk1u]

arching it over obstacle is funny tho @@ravenof1985

[@ArrivingPit]

Could you do the ikv-91? Pretty good light tank with a laser range finder at 7.3.

[@lexonfors]

I love the IKV-91!

[@Fluffy_Monarch]

Same goes for the Italian M47/90 PLEASE SPOOKSTON PLEASE GOD PLAY ITALY

[@warhawk4494]

I have actually learned alot about were to shoot tanks with HE from your channel. I appreciate it. GG

[@fallendownthestairs7687]

Hey Spook, I recently got the USSR IS-6 premium and it is exceptionally good. It has insane reverse speed and has the same 122 as the IS-2 except it has more armour and the torque on the IS-6 is amazing I reckon it'd make a good video. Only downsides are really the slow reload compared to other tanks in its br but the reload for the gun is pretty fast, and it bounces shells really well, and also the tight packing of the crew so low survivalbility, typical of Russian tanks tho. Uptiers are common but it performs relatively well if played right, would love to see it, love the content

[@Ishmaille]

Nice shooting! Gotta love vehicles that actually get proximity HE.

[@starguy96]

I was the guy at 2:18 hiding in plain sight thanks for killing me with one of my favorite tanks in the game and then memeing it lmfao I’ll have you know I was two seconds away from destroying you with my FIAT heat shell!!!111!! Love the videos bro especially seeing you play some Swedes!

[@tank5o866]

Fun fact I learned after getting the bkan…. You can over pressure mbts by hitting there 50 cals. You can knock out the crew of a super Pershing by hitting the extra armor on the turret. Also you can knock out any tank by hitting there 50 cals

[@noidea2568]

6:06 I swear this was like something straight of a cartoon. I'm just imagining some character trying to crawl out of danger, and sudenly bumping into the villan's leg.

[@f-104_Guy]

4:27 the shell: “I have to go, my city needs me”

[@hellono6501]

Spookston, is one of your favourite vehicles still the Chi-Ha Kai?

[@Spookston]

Yes

[@hellono6501]

@@Spookston The Chi-Ha Kai is an insane vehicle why not make a video on it? Or maybe you already have?

[@The_Bermuda_Nonagon]

I'll never forget the first time I drew a bead on an approaching aircraft with a V/T round and saw the satisfying pop as he went down minus a wing. :D

[@igi2539]

Best ammo is proxy only, shoot above the tank and it will explode downwards, keep in mind that proxy only works if the target is more than 250m away, if under 250m it will not detonate but just fly above them, on close range its best to shoot commanders cupola or underneath the tank if possible as its insta kill

[@RedShocktrooperRST]

Wait so that one plane kill he really did just bitchslap it with the 155?

[@igi2539]

with proxy ammo yes like an spaa, i did it couple of times as well

[@edwardking9359]

​@@robertharris6092they're talking about at 3:53 which was point blank

[@MisterMainiac]

"Where am I supposed to shoot this thing?" Gotta love answering your own question right as you finish asking it. 😁😁

[@randomshitpostchannel]

4:23 the shell went on an adventure

[@NikolaiKurtz]

Shell casing

[@lukeneale4036]

Been lurkin in the WT community to see if the game was worth the time investment. Your vids are the most entertaining and eventually got me to install! Great vids man, keep it up!

[@TheAllKnowNoble]

0:02 my guy as a Swedish user all Swedish vehicles are strange except for the Finnish export

[@bluespades1257]

I like the low velocity HE shells because over distances, they'll curve down and hopefully hit the roofs of the thing I fired upon. Whereas the high velocity ones kind of just go straight-ish and not curve down on a weak point, very inconvenient and inconsistent. But that's just me after getting used to all the low velocity stuff. I love my high caliber HE lobers. Obj. 120 HE lobbing is fun.

[@HAe76]

0:43 artelery brothers

[@theuselessteammate2097]

Love that I have to fight this thing in a m109 that has a 16 second reload time and also zero depression. Also aluminium armor.

[@FancyTacoCat_]

The sheer size of this artillery in real life is astounding imo

[@Giesus3]

I'd love to see you do a video on the Crusader III, it's such a fun tank to me even though it only gets solid shot because the Brits thought solid shot was just as or more effective than APHE or something.

[@olliehubert6397]

It was from what I know, apparently at least american APHE had a faulty fuse and a lot of the time didn't work, of course this isn't modeled in the game.

[@edwardking9359]

Solid shot was often more effective, and the way gaijin modeled APHE in the game isn't how it worked in realit6.

[@mankiller3040]

If ya can, do some more videos on the premiums that can kind of show how they are. I got a T-55 AM1 because I liked its looks and it seems quite fun to use

[@poachedeggos]

Day 12 of asking Spookston to play the obj 279

[@TheDgamesD]

The Bkan 1C is not classified as a open-top vehicle by the game, meaning a lot of stuff cant easily overpressure you

[@mask9306]

Yeah !!! Thanks for playing my request !

[@munchy6211]

You should play the Breda 501, seems like a vehicle you might like cosidering it's pretty speedy with a very good cannon for it's BR.

[@Shaun-gm7tk]

Tank destroyers confuse me sometimes. You can simply scratch the front armour of a tank and kill it due to explosive, or you can shoot a tank and hit some random box inside it and deal no damage because the explosive doesn't go off. It's a fun game of chance when you shoot an enemy.

[@anobody7467]

i recently have been grinding Sweden, found this thing a few weeks ago. It is now probably my favourite tank if not one of my favourites! something about hitting planes or tricking people with a 3.7 sec reload

[@christerprestberg3973]

What suprised me the most when I played it was the survivability, this thing for some reason has the ability to just refuse to die

[@bamesjond5153]

Speaking of Swedish tanks, you should try SAV 20.12.48 too

[@ThatOneBritishGamer]

I really want you to play the Black Prince. I know, british tanks. But the Black Prince, skink and wyvern is my favourite combirnation to play. At her own tier the Black Prince bounces 90% of the time with just a little angling. Normally around 20° and the APDS shell is really fun to use

[@MegaJani]

5:37 He shot you, and his breech was still open, he was reloading.

[@Spookston]

I admire your optimism in thinking Gaijin cares enough to model that

[@america_ig]

4:27 that bullet shell got places 2 be at

[@Ppax11]

That Shell at the end of the Tunisia match is going to single-handedly win the war and roll to Berlin

[@lexonfors]

On the topic of swedish things with fast autoloaders, a video on the SAV 20.12.48 would be very cool to see, it's a fast little fuck with an amazing reload for 5 shells that can actually kill tanks. I haven't seen anyone playing it in so long, and my love for it was reignited when they brought it back for Swedish Armed Forces Day.

[@Pangooooo]

This is why I love the Swedish tech tree

[@xloltimex38]

I use it in my top tier lineup. The only derp gun you can use there without beeing useless after firing. maps with chokepoints and this thing is a monster

[@Lomni]

I don't even play the game anymore and I look forward to these videos!

[@keithsimpson2150]

Read the shell info. That had to be a direct kill because proximity fuze doesn't start till 300M

[@SaltypubKeepRolling]

The c&c background music fits so well

[@ChickenMan4345]

yessir, too bad people dont play it anymore. More enjoyable than most garbage and gay video games of today

[@Dwiimor]

Bkan is one of my favourites, the survivability is surprisingly high

[@LTSarcasm]

Strange that the autoloader doesn't work when the power is out - as it's not really an autoloader. The gun is in fact a giant recoil-operated autocannon feeding from an en-bloc clip (that quite literally looks like someone took a garand clip and messed up the scale value in blender).

[@Scrogan]

God I love taking out something like this or the G6 deliberately to proxyfuse some Shturm-S who thinks he’s safe flinging rockets from behind a rock.

[@Perculsus_]

day 49 of asking spookston to play the american M60A3 TTS

[@The-lay]

pov: ur in a medium tank and a artillery that shoots 155mm rounds somehow shoots 3 rounds in less than six seconds shoots you and ur teammates

[@Bruuuce0110]

Just to let you know ,your doggy memes got me suscribed

[@storrap_Lol]

1:42 it looked like the tank had so much recoil it make a big cloud of smoke and it flipped the sturmtiger

[@thespecificeasternspy7426]

OK, you know what, I'm gonna pursue it: Attempt #2 to make Spookston play the ISU-122S.

[@kabob0077]

4:30 What the shell doin'? Where the shell goin'?

[@ultimatebigbrainhelth3161]

i wanna see spooks, odd, and phly all play halo 3 together

[@andrewcaples6334]

The first time I cam across one of these I passed a round between the bottom of the barrel and the top of the hull. I was NOT happy.

[@person0-016]

The strv m/42 is pretty good that autoloader is bussin

[@Aes880]

You should check out the Su-85M, a relatively mobile chassis with 75mm off frontal arrmour angled which allow it to shrug off even the 88mm and it have a 85mm nuke APHE all at 5.0

[@myykkyli]

It is also very good at removing spawn campers

[@farmcat9873]

Its weird that this thing is actually an artillery tank but yet it doesn't get ARTILLERY like other tanks get

[@twahtskie]

Watching these videos reinforces my belief that war thunder is a skitzo sim

[@aybaer3668]

Next time you feel like being a gremlin; play the pt76-57. It’s been moved to 8.0 so it’s much more “balanced” and it requires some actual brain cells. It’s a multi kill monster if you have good positioning

[@superyerfdog]

1:34 "Please don't have fun"

[@joyboy1536]

Man War Thunder looks so dope! One day I'll buy a good enough PC to actually play this game!

[@ichfaildichweg]

I think if you can pick any tank to bring to reserve tier, that would be the most overpowered

[@RaptorBaptist]

bkan 1c is one of my favourites

[@Th2WolF]

Finally the video I have been waiting for

[@portal5886]

4:22 some say it's still rolling...😂

[@daacop]

You should try the british 7.0 G6 Artillery -- compare it to the bkan

[@Aquila.]

Now you gotta do one of the 2S3M too :D Derpy boi as well

[@kylelemire6049]

I bring that recoilless Sweden 1.7 spg that's fun you should do a video with that at 6.7 or something

[@dowmein]

You mean you couldnt tell if they specifically modeled gutters on building corners specifically to fuck you over? Because they sure did.

[@Hoonii_Surbaisse]

You should try Chinese M4A1 75 (w). Its a pretty cool tank, especially with the cast hull.

[@M-84D]

I wonder how extensive Spookston's meme folder is

[@gopniksaurolophus6354]

The American M48A1 at 7.0 could make for an interesting video.

[@_JOE-DAN]

Hey spooks. I’d love if you could take out the 5.3 jumbo (specifically the cobra king). Really struggling with the 75 in the current meta. I’m sure it’s a skill issue, but I want to see how you would play it so I can learn something lol.

[@filipkralj2618]

what a joy it is to face this thing with WW2 German Tiger II unique way of balancing for sure

[@maxymillian]

that shell is the size of that poor little m22

[@jeffmerkel3046]

Can you play the DF 105? You're a light tank enjoyer and its my favorite vehicle in the entire game. A diamond in the rough of its BR.

[@spookygaming130]

love the vids and very entertaining, have to say your voice sounds like microsoft sam xd

[@AleLGB]

For next video I have a little spicy challenge: OF-40 with HEAT-FS only - Try to oneshot as many enemies as you can without getting oneshotted. Good luck, because you will need a lot of it.

[@efethecaptain6]

Some mg don't even have hitbox in the visible part.