The Smallest Tank In War Thunder

[@Spookston]

Fun game; down a shot of water every time I say "Oh my god" during this video

[@corruptcape2776]

Gonna be the most hydrated man on earth.

[@dakotahondalock5621]

I am dying of over hydration

[@mylkwagon]

The lord's name may have been taken in vain but my thirst is QUENCHED

[@fingram5343]

Update : I drowned

[@Highest-Ground]

Die of water poisoning from that

[@jacob5169]

I feel like the gun is essentially politely asking the enemy to please die with every shot

[@bingchilling-vr1zj]

instead of explosive filler it has a letter which asks the crew to just abandon their tank lmfao

[@Tanks.With.Teeth.Malloy]

It's the Canadian way of asking to die.

[@klad2860]

its like poking a bear with a stick

[@sovietonion8801]

how is it not much bigger that that wagon

[@user-fe7bo5mm1o]

​@soviet_onion3657 well the tankette is only about 10 feet long and 4 feet tall

[@Bruh-d]

The funny thing about the L3 is that most doors in WT are the width of a L3, *Despite the L3 having the width to have 2 people inside it*

[@Cromwell-V]

It wouldn’t be nice having the door frame right next to your arms

[@Bruh-d]

@@Cromwell-V You can't fit two people side by side and be able to go through a residential door, a commercial door yeah.. since they use double doors.

[@MiGLifeCrisis]

depends on size​@@Bruh-d

[@homiedaclown4381]

IIRC the anti tank rifle used here has a recoil management system where the barrel retracts into the stock, similar to a Barret M82. So the barrel is actually going back into another part of the gun, not into Luigi's frontal lobe

[@neillathotep7386]

Do you mean the bolt recoils into the stock (like a M60 machine gun), or the barrel moves back together with the bolt (like a Barret M82)? I don't know what AT rifle this is, but seems unlikely that the barrel can recoil all the way into the stock...

[@homiedaclown4381]

@@neillathotep7386 I believe the barrel and bolt assembly move together, but I'm not entirely certain. Anti tank rifles aren't my area of expertise, so I could be completely wrong

[@neillathotep7386]

@@alnotz It's Solothurn S18-1000 (three zeros) btw, 100 is a different gun.

[@alnotz]

@@neillathotep7386 Not a different gun, just different chambering for a different ammo type. Otherwise you are right the italian designation Fucile Controcarri S Mod.39 refers to the 1000 variant

[@neillathotep7386]

@@alnotz My understanding is that 100 is gas-operated, there's a gas tube assembly on top of the barrel (kind of looks like a AKM gas block). The barrel does not recoil back.

[@Literally_thad]

“We gave that guy the jfk treatment” -Spookston, 2023

[@WormsMaster100]

Fellow murder drones fan

[@archive3339]

followed by a pyrocynical reference 😭

[@Ironpine27]

I believe the rifle's barrel is the only part reciprocating during firing. The same way the famous 40mm bofors' barrel recoils.

[@skriv0in0navn]

yeah, you can even find the gun being fired over on forgotten weapons under the name 'Solothurn S-18/1000' as the gun in this tank is a licenced production of it.

[@Cerebatonify]

The technical term for this is long recoil operation

[@V3RTIGO222]

Its a solothurn, you can tell cause of the brake... they have infantry sled versions which are probably better economically than wrapping a paper thin hull around it lol

[@sammason9763]

Bofors?

[@pauld6967]

​@@sammason9763 Bofors is a Swedish company that made a large number of field artillery and anti-aircraft cannons.

[@dembones9275]

when the l3/33 cc was still in the beta version of the Italian tech tree i remember it having pretty good pen even for a little while after the Italian tech tree was fully released, but i guess they nerfed it at some point.

[@Alext0250]

I remember the same , I could kill almost anything in tier 1 with well placed shots , the armor was not a problem often

[@elpollo2805]

Because it just needed a nerf

[@SquishyTanks]

"Come back, I need your insurance!" Best line Spookston's ever said.

[@戴紀煬]

Even a BT-7 looks like a heavy tank with this camera angle.

[@HumphreyHorsehead]

I remember the moment in War Thunder that got me hooked on GRB instead of GAB. I was in an L3 and successfully used a dead tank to hide from an enemy then got the kill on the flank. Fun little thing.

[@ousou78]

Not need for a whole tank. The concrete walls or trenchs use to hide the hull of a regular tank can hide the whole L3 or ASU 57

[@agentpuggles5704]

I just want to cover one in bushes and sit on a cap point with my engine off lol. Seems like great fun

[@tetraxis3011]

I struggle with RB cause I dont know how to rangefind properly. Still I do about as well as in AB. It’s Air realistic I don’t like. You get one life and you can’t use the planes you want.

[@HumphreyHorsehead]

@@tetraxis3011 your rangefinder should be just be a keybind, press it while aiming at the target to get the range. Alternatively do what I did and install a funnel sight pack.

[@tetraxis3011]

@@HumphreyHorsehead Oh ok, thanks

[@markstanard6306]

interesting fact, the gun the L3 uses is a Solothurn S18-1000, which was an interwar shoulder fired AT gun. That's why it is mounted so close to the gunner, due to the optic being integrated into the receiver of the gun. A gun store where I live has one of these on display and yes it is absolutely massive for a shoulder fired weapon. It was broken down where the barrel meets the receiver and two people would transport the halves.

[@skriv0in0navn]

Forgotten weapons even has a vid where he shoots the gun 👍

[@RyuakiraX]

Since the S18 is capable of accepting the magazines of the Flak 30, it seems odd the ammunition specs are so terrible as they are in-game. If you compare it to the Flakpanzer for example.

[@markstanard6306]

@@RyuakiraX yeah it is a bit strange, although it could have been unable to accept certain loads due to different chamber geometry or pressure ratings than those of a mounted AA gun

[@markstanard6306]

@@skriv0in0navn believe me I am a huge forgotten weapons fan, great video

[@jellevandervelde704]

Doesn't shoulder fire usually imply that it can be shot while standing up? As far as I know you'd have to be lying prone to fire this thing.

[@georgea2734]

1:36 nah he just deep throats the gun

[@graceongpin8627]

Like how I do it to my girlfriend

[@LuisLopez-ve5jt]

OMG 😂

[@Friendly_Neighborhood_Hater]

​@graceongpin8627 Sorry, what?

[@awwgordy]

9:20 is the single funniest thing I've ever seen in a Spookston video, it perfectly encapsulates the emotions of being hit by a car while on a bike

[@YukarisGearReviews]

Having experienced exactly that I can say it's accurate

[@spooks4772]

1:28, oh no, not necessarily. You see, it's just called long recoil. What that means is that the whole gun may not necessarily be recoiling, but just the barrel is moving back, while the (if properly mounted) receiver would stay still. So think of the 40mm cannons on the m42 and m19a1, the barrels recoil back with the bolt to eventually unlocking the bolt until they both go into battery. So the receiver isn't necessarily "annihilating his skull"... that is assuming that the it mounted properly.

[@CrimsonSnowwy]

engineer: *Mounts the receiver wrong accidentally* The gunner:

[@skeletor5905]

🤓

[@KitKat290-zo6us]

@@skeletor5905you're a little 12 year old that calls people who know more than you a nerd

[@arsenalxa4421]

Somewhere there's a video of an L-3 driver who hid in a control point by taking up a parking spot. Meanwhile all the bigger tanks just keep driving around him, looking for that last enemy.

[@kolman3178]

Ive seen it. Its the funniest thing

[@ImRandomDude]

Describing sich scene without linking the video is war crime

[@kolman3178]

@@ImRandomDude i couldnt find the vid to link it.

[@LiarraSniffles_X3]

@@ImRandomDude watch?v=oweLwcmqCfw&t=307s

[@grimmech4268]

Honestly my favorite tank in the game I love just how small it is. I managed to get a 12 kill streak once in a game along with 5 assists. Never even came close to that afterwards though

[@unimportanthandler]

“Hopefully we can have some fun.” Famous last words

[@AngelosTube]

L3 is the best of fun you are smol, so you can: cap bases without anyaone able to find you escape and hide anywhere because you smol keep spotted an enemy for the platoon while unnoticed bully and distract big vehicles by actual threats because they can't depress enough to get you actually access parts of the map not intended for you to be in (there are a couple of maps where you can actually slip through the tank traps and go outside the map) litterally enter inside buildings embrace enlightment embrace smol be L3

[@kabob0077]

1:04 I wonder what people think when they see a L3/33 plinking away at them?

[@latayantheazran]

Utter confusion. First time i saw one i went to it and started driving around it to understand what it was (after shooting it of course). After the match i inmediately searched for it and went to unlock it

[@DrJorusUploads]

Nice to see you took out an Italian tank! I just wanted to remind you of my old suggestion regarding the M41M, but if you prefer the Breda 501 it is an even better choice.

[@FatMan5]

I would love to see Spookston play the Breda

[@bornonthebattlefront4883]

Would love to see either

[@jzadams5818]

@@FatMan5 I would love to see Spookston

[@damianoperin601]

same

[@wolffothewolfgod8794]

@@FatMan5 I agree, we need to see him play the Bred

[@dennislemasters4339]

italy did make a decent td with a high velocity 90mm gun and actually used it in world war 2 sadly it was produced in small numbers, the tank destroyer in question is the semovente 90/53

[@arlobones3410]

Perfect, the pinnacle of war thunder content

[@StupidDanimations]

A new sub-class of tank destroyer: the tank tickler.

[@buckshot9113]

Hey Spookston, given how much you enjoy French vehicles, you should give the AMX-50 Foch a go. Very mobile for a casemate TD, good armor, and the same 120mm as the Surbaisse/Surblinde at a lower BR

[@SomeConch357]

brother I have been trying to use that thing and only go against Germany and Russia so it's always atgm and heat rounds that pen every single time

[@mrdoggo9607]

@@SomeConch357 yep after 7.3 its constant atgm swarms, especially marders

[@taneli5026]

I love the 15mm on it

[@cat-nl4sv]

i was in a t-34-85 and i bounced like 3 french 120s and i just felt so bad for the guy.

[@thisherehandleIdospout]

​@@cat-nl4sv So based, bro feels bad when the enemy gets Gaijin'd 😄

[@matthewjones39]

He got 5 kills with an L3 and said “that’s the best I’m doing today,” while I get hyped whenever I get a single kill a week

[@TroublingStatue]

Mag dumping just to maybe kill a Stuart sure is something. Also the BT-5 swatting you away at that intersection was really funny, dude probably thought it was just another wonky physics moment.

[@Tank50us]

I practically died at that "YIPEE!" sound effect I gave up the ghost at the "COME BACK! I NEED YOUR INSURANCE!" to the BT7

[@OddBawZ]

This thing always reminds me of Roberto from Futurama with those little lights on the side.

[@Mach-2-Fishbed]

Ironic considering you essentially have to get within stabbing range to make the gun useful.

[@VNG_oof]

This feels like bringing a Zip 22 to a naval battle

[@jandapanda7390]

Honestly, im still amazed Gaijin did not add polish TKS with 20mm Cannon.

[@diobrando7120]

Having an L3 and TKS in one match would turn that shit into Ratatouille

[@glaurung_7967]

That thing was actually pretty good, it was fast and the gun was better.

[@ArmoxCrazy]

TKS with 200mm cannon for April fools

[@eternalwarfare514]

@@ArmoxCrazy Yarnhub watcher detected +_+

[@bollocks-33]

@@eternalwarfare514so?

[@ironcladstudios971]

I knew a friend who played HOI 4 that did War Thunder's Italian tree. They were the ones that got me into the tech tree to begin with, and helped me rank up all the way to 3.0. He was a native to San Marino who had great pride playing the tanks on Italy. One of the best memories I had with him was when he downed 3 - 4 tanks in a 2.0 line up at Eastern Europe. In the fire and blaze, he screamed "ITALIAN SUPERIORITY" whilst gunning down everyone going into the B point.

[@Kebab-Defender]

Your friend might be most patriotic San Marino citizen.

[@jonathanvautour7899]

I'm pretty sure this thing has functionally the same "api" ammo of the Italian 20mm, but it fires four times as slowly. It is an absolute gremlin though and I love to play it!

[@edgyecchi272]

I think the penetration is almost identical but the 20mm still seems to do more damage somehow

[@gandsproductions5105]

Would be cool if we got the autocannon version of the l3. It would actually be semi decent (especially if it got hvap).

[@mylkwagon]

Every time spookston uploads I know I am gonna enjoy ~10 minutes of my day a bit more :^)

[@corindolan1025]

One speedbump and everyone in that thing is dead

[@greateagle2076]

3:46 FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE WHO NOTICES

[@kabob0077]

Jumped to the timestamp and YUP that sounds like a CE Frag.

[@theguythatuploadstrance]

0:35 shots fired lmao

[@pihlajafox]

Mind blowing

[@Yorkington]

I love this little -Anzio- Italian tank

[@RadTheImpaler]

4:30 in the video is how half tracks are made

[@acslfamilyvaj8025]

Me: Oh Panzer of the lake what is your wisdom Panzer of the lake: ur weak

[@froggy-doggy]

My friend once took me to 5.7 with this, I got 2 kills. I was very new at the time but now those are probably my 2 best kills.

[@ryanperry7956]

Bro how 💀

[@froggy-doggy]

@@ryanperry7956 Think It was something Italian, couple well-placed shots to get all the crew

[@handsomerob1223]

To answer your question about the guns recoil, it is the Solothurn S 18 1000. It’s a short recoil semiautomatic “shoulder fired weapon”, so the gunner should have his shoulder right on “the breach” because only the barrel moves. Now the real gun the barrel only recoils about 2-4 inches not the nearly a foot of recoil that the firing animation would imply.

[@legoeasycompany]

I'll never get over the half life sound effects, they really add justice to the gameplay

[@epic_person57]

I forced myself to grind the winter camo for the L3 (75 points) which is 15 kills. It took me 1.5 days of grinding. Worth it.

[@theBrid-gv8je]

Now do the M11/39 which has the same pen but more HE filler, I personally love using the snow camo as it hides the fact my actual gun is in the hull pretty well and the turret doesn't have enough armor to fuze APHE shells usually so you usually get away with being hit :)

[@td23asus]

Oh god that thing was painful. As goofy as it is its just too much for me imo unkike the L3 which is speedy and silly

[@theBrid-gv8je]

@@td23asus Suffer early as to understand what it is to trully grind Italy

[@letsgobrandontrump2024]

I have Italy 98% ground out and completed and it’s not that hard or bad of a time

[@Milk_Man_]

“I feel like playing a gremlin tank today” -spook, every day

[@Strelo]

Regarding the gun recoiling into the gunner's face, I assume that it's only the barrel that's recoiling and the receiver (or whatever you call it on cannons) stays relatively still.

[@kabob0077]

3:18 This is one of those videos where your decent into Madness and the embrace of being a mad Gremlin is plain as day.

[@Taran_Bd]

If you wanna continue on Italian tanks I recommend to you the Fiat-Ansaldo P40. Its aphe maybe as a low penetration at it's rank but damn those 270g of tnt are just nuts ! You can even overpressure M4 with them, and the heat round is maybe not that great but it can do the job on some heavier targets :p

[@falschesdeutsch4349]

It’s better to play the 75/34 semovente, same gun, lower br

[@LSgaming201]

They found some of these still being used in Iraq and Syria. Imagine rolling around in this thing in the 2010's.

[@soviet_tank_lover]

I'll be honest, I think the biggest issue was using it as a sniper, you really have to get close and personal with this tank due to it's low pen. The most kills I got this with this tank was 5 and that was by constantly using corners and charging/surprising players.

[@thedogethatgames]

9:19 BT-7 jumpscare

[@Atfgameboy]

A single bump for an l3 is like an anti tank mine for an MBT

[@LordMason21]

24th time in a row requesting for you to play the sherman firefly. To put that into perspective I have asked you to play the sherman firefly so many times that youtube predicted ever word in this message between for and firefly.

[@KILLD0ZER]

5:48 Loved the "poison damage" quip

[@edgyecchi272]

I love how this video just made the amount of L3 players skyrocket. I had a match with 2 other ones today.

[@God-Him-Self]

6:13 his name is Remy the movie is ratatouille

[@kabob0077]

1:49 To quote Blood and Cred "He got himself killed by a Locust!"

[@SeanIsSuperFunny]

Top tier moment

[@gridwreckgamer6254]

PLEASE WHERE CAN I FIND THAT CAT IMAGE AT 0:14

[@Mongolia_countryball.]

I’m your first sub btw

[@EvenMoreCheese]

Reverse image search

[@GumMonster1]

They should add the flamethrower variant in game. Maybe a researchable modification that gives this thing a fuel trailer like the Churchill Crocodile and replaces the 20mm with dragons breath.

[@Der_Rotsteiner]

Its Average ok

[@RiteshKumar-ou8tz]

Yes

[@aarondutsch5583]

For some reason the smallest game in war thunder could get you a couple of kills against bigger tanks

[@Karagianis]

The should add the Polish TKS, it was somehow EVEN SMALLER, but had a version that carried a 20mm autocannon, so it might actually be able to do something!

[@liutaurasunikas3498]

Play your most hated and despised vehicle ( that you haven't played yet ). Feel like this would be entertaining.

[@LovleyLemonade]

This thing makes the M22 look like a Maus.

[@akagalaxy_4403]

They need to give the L3 a heavy tank icon so when ppl see it theyre even more confused

[@vekst]

The BT ramming you and you asking for his insurance is probably one of the hardest I've laughed at one of your videos

[@questionable69420]

I would love it more if you could actually get up a hill with the little fella

[@jogrin]

9:20 lmfao with that auto accident in the road

[@Keyboard_Thoughts]

My favourite tank in the game, with bushes it's so OP!

[@miterkat]

thank you for giving the L3/33 a try, love your content and dont stop being great!

[@ThGy]

i love how you used generals music thats so nostalgic man

[@MeanBeanKerosene]

4:38 And this children is how a half track is made.

[@AlienTreeGuy]

I've actually seen this thing in real life at the Bovington tank museum. It's feels even tinier in real life than in the game! Like it goes up to your waist!

[@letsgobrandontrump2024]

The barrel moves separately from the rest of the gun I believe it’s a long recoil action like a m2 50 cal where the barrel and receiver move back together inside the gun until the pressure is low enough for safe extraction and ejection

[@ThyLord-kv5bf]

Spookston turning off engines in low BR is like lowering your voice around a deaf person

[@Thunderbolt_1000_Siren]

This thing is such an adorable little brat. Sometimes its so small some enemies would just pass right by you obliviously. What I like to do sometimes is not empty the mag but poke them every so often pissing them off. It's like the ASU-57 but nowhere near as deadly. Speaking of the ASU you should try it. I purposely bring it in top tier for the sole purpose of pissing people off and timeline wise it makes sense in top tier despite it's BR being in the WWII era. The salty tears are so delicious.

[@Gxaps]

You know it's small when a whole bunch of locusts bearing down on you look fucking HUGE

[@Velociratt]

i've gotten nine kills in one match in that thing you're just playing it wrong. this seems to be the opposite situation with every other video i watch here but this is where i claim my victory.

[@bthsr7113]

The best use I've seen for it is to go after objective locations while blending in with background cars.

[@its2three4]

"Comeback I need your insurance" had me fucking dying lmao

[@Nicmadis]

It's like watching a angry shoebox with a rifle drive around.

[@BrockvsTV]

You single handedly rehydrated my body with this video and your drinking game

[@duvagr007]

The L3 is good for 2 things: being a bush rat and swatting armored cars, and gliding seamlessly over the road gaps in user-made obstacle course races. Like when there's a bunch of slabs on their side spaced out? Yeah just straight over it because it's so light that gravity doesn't actually effect the tankette.

[@spittling]

As an italian main myself, i quite enjoy playing the L3/33 CC in a higher BR, especially 4.0 or 3.7 because every match you always get petted.

[@Bill0341xx]

Bro jokes like the insurance one is why your my favorite warthunder youtuber

[@ElijahSUUUUIIILIVAN]

the tanks spawning on top of each other gave me horrible hiccups AHHHH IM GOING CRAZY

[@omnimaplez]

the thing about the l3 is that the whole map is your armor meaning you can just drive around a rock and noone can kill you

[@adimaiuniversal4361]

the way to play the L3 ambush style you hide in bushes near Cap points or popular routes and wait till someone get close enough for your to take them out, your target priority is the gunner or the ammo. if your facing more than 1 enemy only target the last one in the convoy, and once you finish them off wait 3 seconds before changing positions try to be as far as possible from your last position -Tips from an L3 main

[@WarAuthority]

I tend to use this little guy up to just before thermals. You can steal so many caps without anyone ever knowing you exist. Or stall caps entirely for the longest time.

[@albinquid7055]

Nice video! Now you should play the french one, the AMR.35 ZT3. It's actually a pretty good little tank and I feel like nobody plays it or knows about it.

[@AnimeMusic-ny6pb]

2:38 : How it feels to play stock tanks with HEAT shells In top Tears ;..(

[@ranonsaccoman3129]

the spook's editing getting better and fun day after day 🤣🤣

[@sempersteel2799]

So about the gun recoil issue. The L3/33 has a rebranded Solothurn S-18/1000, which featured a reciprocating barrel. So likely the receiver of the gun doesn't move at all, and is straight bolted onto the turret. Since its a 20mm, it can likely withstand the recoil. All that motion we see is the barrel retracting backwards. However, its exaggerated from reality. The actually Solothurn barrel reciprocates like 3 inches or so.

[@nyxsuke]

The little thing is fun to meme in and I actually ammo-detted a Object 120 from the side with this thing when I was trying to kill either a T-55 or T-54 from a side on shot

[@kabob0077]

1:19 That Forklift looks massive compared to you...

[@porkfreegaming5278]

Spookston just contributed 90% of all kills in that L3

[@xxthotslayerxx]

Congrats on 250K! *que the pyrocynical funny*

[@kabob0077]

6:09 You've become a Rat, scurrying around the battlefield trying not to be noticed.

[@SomeOrdinaryJanitor]

"Poison damage" is a good way to describe this "tank" (it's really a Tankette with an AT Rifle on it...)

[@ethanfrenz9115]

L3 is the equivalent of going into prison and trying to fight the biggest dude by only throwing meatballs at him