The KV-1B Is A Monster

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The KV-1B is a particularly vicious tank in War Thunder. It is often played by veteran players who plaster it in bushes, and it typically faces weaker tanks than its Soviet counterpart.
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The KV-1B Is A Monster

[@Spookston]

Sorry for the artifacting in the beginning, that happens when I use NV rendering. It's faster, but sometimes creates artifacts, so I only use it when I'm low on time. Anyway hope you guys are having a good sunday :)

[@Colonel_cucumber]

Hope you get better

[@DeliveryDemon]

If you see an M4A1 named the "Major Jim" and it has a yellow star on the turret in any future matches, there's a chance it could be me.

[@nookie_knack]

Spooky toon can you play the ho ro?

[@chesseyshoe]

I hope you get better,also I agree with you 169% I hate t 34s

[@gamerboy7820]

Hope u get better also did ever play the panzer 3

[@AndyKraken]

The tank disappearing/going invisible is apparently a new feature added to the game. Instead of fixing the problem where you sometimes see outlines of tanks through smoke; now they just go invisible instead. Which is problematic when the vehicle is not fully covered, but still goes invisible. Very cool of Gaijin

[@blowbert9126]

This is a great bug, you look around the corner and there is nothing there but the moment you come around the corner the enemy vehicle just pops in and kills you

[@CobraDBlade]

Yep. Smoke now causes vehicles that are meant to be obscured to just flat out de-render. Totally not broken in any way.

[@JorgingMyShit]

why fix the game when you can create even more issues instead!

[@i_cri_evertim]

Nah, it's just a skill issue, man.

[@naamadossantossilva4736]

​@@JorgingMyShitThe reason i don't play that shitty game anymore.

[@DerAlleinTiger]

6:30 - Spookston: "I don't really know where the weak spots are [on an M4 Sherman]." Me, playing US as my first tech tree: "...you mean it isn't the entire tank?"

[@glamrockchica909]

I know right, the entirety of an M4 Sherman is a weak point

[@zaleost]

Really it depends entirely on which casing variant it is, the ones with the welded casing can be very hard to pen frontally for a lot of tanks at the 3-4 BR range. But the cast version has a lot more rounded edges where with thinner sections for shells to catch find.

[@viktoriyaserebryakov2755]

Only when you're facing Germans.

[@DerAlleinTiger]

@@zaleost Oh, I'm aware. It's just that all the tanks that struggle with the (not-Jumbo) Sherman armor are all the tanks that wind up on your team because the enemy team are all German and can lolpen you. The Sherman, on paper, is an excellent tank. Not great in any particular area, but all-around good and with a stabilizer at a relatively low tier. The problem is that German guns make it feel like it's made out of paper and most of what you fight has German guns, lol.

[@thekommunistkrusader3921]

​@@DerAlleinTigerhonestly as a German main, Americans are quite frankly my worst enemy not because of their tanks but the CAS in any P51 with bombs, P47s or P38s. But yeah... in a tiger Sherman's aren't as much a threat as I would think

[@XanderTuron]

As somebody who is currently going down the UK ground tree, I am absolutely jealous of the ability of the gun on this tank to penetrate more reliably than all of my 17pdr armed vehicles (not to mention how reliably it one shots things).

[@strategicperson95]

The glories of APHE, at least only from the big 3. Meanwhile Gaijin keeps nerfing post pen damage on solid shot to a point where even 90mm AP is going to take 3-5 rounds to kill a T-34, despite we have a real case if the Pershing 90 AP going in the front and out the back of a T-34. And I don't care it was those war models Russia wanted to get rid of.

[@julmdamaslefttoe3559]

yeah take it from a man who got 10.0 USA / Germany / USSR. I gave up grinding british at 5.0, Honestly not worth it considering they still havent fixed the Challenger 2's lower plate and breach spacing to IRL conditions, basically rendering it a 1 shot.

[@robertharris6092]

As soon as you get to the centurions britain stoos being worth using.

[@ThePolish2107]

​@@robertharris6092as a person who grinded the entire British tree, 7.7 is basically the highest you want to go, above that it's all just downhill honestly. The only exception is the Rooikats, as they're fun to play on their own, but otherwise just stick to 7.7 and below.

[@mirekspodmonopolowego9016]

@@ThePolish2107 chieftains are fun to play but you need to get used to their playstyle. The only chief you have to completly avoid is the mk 5 and honestly mk 10 has no right to be at 9.0 considering its ammo(l23 round is much worse than american and german 105 rounds + it shouldn't exist in the game), lack of thermals, and heavy tank level mobility. Chief mk3 is the Best one.

[@triple8486]

KV-1B has A-grade protection you could say.

[@mikebauer6917]

You know you’re in the presence of a “special” person when you encounter an early spawn camper in a KV-1B…

[@scotttill3847]

Brother, that is the #1 go-to move in the Wehraboo playbook, no matter the battle rating.

[@breakinggood9720]

what's wrong with early spawn camp if you've reached spawn by destroying the entire enemy team?

[@scotttill3847]

@@breakinggood9720 What is wrong is that you probably only have 1 capture point secured and the other team has the other two, so you are hemorrhaging spawn points in the match...but go ahead and get a bunch of kills in the loss and the nice SL gain, but it would be even nicer if you won.

[@tankteam3367]

​@@scotttill3847what if there's only 1 cap or all 3 caps are secured alr, it's not that uncommon tbh

[@scotttill3847]

@@tankteam3367 If all the capture points are secured, sure, go for it...but, the Wehraboo mains usually don't wait for that.

[@reentrysfs6317]

Day 9 of asking Spookston to play the BT-7A

[@whohashamburger855]

Is that the one with the 76mm? I love that thing

[@Highest-Ground]

​​@@whohashamburger855hat's the BT-7 (F-34) since it uses the F-34 75mm gun

[@reecemartin2794]

He has

[@reentrysfs6317]

@@reecemartin2794 link?

[@pizza_dwarf]

I am going to use your comment to spam my tank request U-sh but arcade Its 7.3, faster, It reloads ammo while not on caps + its arcade so everything Is kinda stabilized Once u feel Better obviusly :3

[@juusolatva]

it's actually a KV-1B captured by the Finns, because the Ps in the "Ps 272-1" painted on the front stands for panssarivaunu (basically a tank, although it's usually abbreviated to psv) and Finnish tanks are still numbered in the same style like a T-72 was Ps 264-202 or a Leopard 2A6 is Ps 274-276. there is at least one photo (maybe multiple, I haven't checked) of this captured KV-1B with the "Ps 272-1" in the Finnish army archives, which is the basis for the tank in the game, and I'm fairly certain that the tank in question is now at the Parola Armour Museum.

[@Jotgut]

Idea: Move it to Swedish tech tree then

[@mikkojk83]

@@Jotgut it was already suggested to Gaijin and they denied it according to Smin1080p. I'm guessing there's too many whales ready to pay 80+GJN for it in the marketplace or pay for the box keys

[@bwcmakro]

>panssarivaunu So... Panzerwagen? Close enough, German it is.

[@helohel5915]

You can see it's already listed as Finnish but kept in the German tech tree

[@ongcop_lp]

They need to add the finnish stug asap

[@LeZer0]

That Cromwell pulled out the One Ring casually Also props for playing WT on sizzurp

[@vodkanizer6866]

5:58 i also had the same issues, when a tank is in smoke it tends to just disappear and apparently its because of the anti cheat

[@chalion8399]

Wait, the anti-cheat does something in War Thunder? I'm shocked.

[@DustyVerzi]

​@@chalion8399That's easy anti cheat for you... Easy anti cheat is a pile of dog shit out to ruin games example VR chat.

[@XSpamDragonX]

​@@chalion8399Used to just make people invisible when they drove behind a fence, now it makes people invisible the second they enter a smoke cloud. Why make the smoke effects stronger and stop people from camping in smoke and firing out when you can just make them invisible?

[@vodkanizer6866]

@@XSpamDragonX exactly

[@XSpamDragonX]

@@vodkanizer6866 I'm just so tired of losing to somebody sitting in a smoke cloud. These people who pop smoke everywhere and abuse the fact that you can see out of it pisses me off so badly.

[@Myerknas]

I'm always impressed at the fact that you can shoot a critical part directly and barely scratch it, but also hit one part of a tank and have fragments fly all the way across the entire vehicle and detonate ammo or fuel on the other side of the hull. It makes me want to become a tank nihilist.

[@Pittoors_]

Yeah I started playing a couple of weeks ago and I still have no clue how the shrapnel works, doesnt make sense sometimes

[@j4gerb0mblitz]

Glad you didn’t die of liver failure from too much Tylenol.

[@thelastofteh8528]

Just a tip with the shermans, the Cast hulls (M4A1 mostly and one of the Isreali Shermans) can be easily penned through their fronts on either corner due to it being only around 38mm and generally impossible to angle, so shoot the closest corner facing you and you should knock out most crew and sometimes the ammo on the sides. the upper hull is also only 38mm thick at the front and a small part of it is unangled so you can shoot just under their turret rings most times and hit dead center mass.

[@Dorsidwarf]

"No matter how good your tank is if you get surrounded its game over" Ah, never been in a full downtier as the 4.7 Churchill on a city map I see

[@delsymdrinker8064]

Love your videos Spookston, was wondering if you could do a video on the Leclerc or any other French tank

[@Wshlesang651]

Like the E.B.R

[@delsymdrinker8064]

@@Wshlesang651 I think he has im not sure though

[@nofwild6325]

Ebr is the most fun scum tank

[@tyrannicswinen117]

Would be hilarious considering the KV-1B is Finnish and not German, that Gaijin moved it to the Swedish tech tree now that Finland is part of it

[@rogueleader7506]

German players would start raging about it, then it goes up in br to 5.0

[@viktoriyaserebryakov2755]

Would be nice to see some tanks have cross nation accessibility.

[@ethanedwards422]

​@@viktoriyaserebryakov2755they did it for the Israeli centurion that used to be in the UK tech tree, it's now in the Israeli tree and can only be brought from it, but also stayed in the UK tree for those that had it.

[@viktoriyaserebryakov2755]

@@ethanedwards422 Then they didn't do it. If I can't access both then they're not accessible.

[@noahblackburn460]

Always the unreliable German team mates! But when you get a friendly Ostwind! Those AA are always there to help.

[@rice6314]

I'm surprised the KV-1B isn't in the Swedish tech tree since Finland is in it and the tank is from Finland too. Would be nice to have atleast 1 HEAVY tank at all in the Swedish tree

[@edwardking9359]

It was added before even the British tanks were in the game, so definitely before Sweden was in the game.

[@emulation2369]

They should have kv 2

[@Mort221]

I'd love to see you in the T-34-100. A T-34 testbed for the 100mm that went onto the T-54. At 6.3 With access to BR412D so it will pen just about EVERYTHING it see's.

[@interpl6089]

Not Jagdtigers and Ferdinands though...i have problem with those...

[@flipallthetables793]

I find it highly hypocritical of Gaijin that the T-34-100, which was a test tank in 1945, gets BR-412D, a round that was created after the entire project had been scrapped... Yet the M4/T26 doesn't get M304 APCR, a round that existed when the project was made, on top of the M26 and Super Hellcat not getting "late M82" APCBC with 853 m/s muzzle velocity, which also existed well within the time period of these tanks... But I suppose the T-34-100 is a premium that costs 6k GE, so of course it gets special, ahistorical qualities.

[@helohel5915]

Wait that things 6.3? I've kept encountering those with my 5.3 lineup... didn't even realise the full uptier

[@russman3787]

Isn’t it a different 100mm?

[@Quicksilver-7791]

@@russman3787 no its not

[@AlreadyTakenTag]

I remember seeing this very tank at a tank museum in Finland (the Parola tank museum). Now here's the thing. Right next to it is another KV-1 at the same museum. And it's even stronger...

[@Magma_122]

1942 model of the KV1. heaviest and the most armored KV variant. Plez gaynub gib tank

[@ethanedwards422]

​@@Magma_122if we ever get the 1942 simplified turret version, it damn well better come with the roof mounted machine gun

[@ThiccYoroi]

I played the KV-1E recently, and they are both equally broken. I wonder if Gaijin said this one is also underperforming

[@viktoriyaserebryakov2755]

KV-1E better. Killing your opponent is an additional layer of defence and German tanks at 4.0 die faster than Russian tanks do. The Russian tanks have a harder time dealing with you at first but they figure out where your breach is eventually. Plus the underrated smoke round.

[@CheezeSpartan]

Having to fight KV-1Es in this thing about as effective as a toddler’s nerf sword duel

[@IkeanCrusader1013]

The pledge allegiance bit has me dying I'm stealing that bro holy shit

[@dawsonhorn5290]

These Halo: Reach audio clips have been much appreciated. Please keep using them! Had >5k hours in the game years ago and it's an awesome throwback to hear. I would say the same about the other Halo sound-effects, but you have a pretty long history of using them already :)

[@jimeme1935]

I feel like you'd enjoy the bmp-3. It has a 100mm HE launcher with a lazer rangefinder on top of all the features of an IFV. Get well soon btw

[@GrimOrc]

Would love to see a video with the Wiesel1 A4! A couple of ratty rounds where you just mess with the enemy.

[@TheHangarHobbit]

The most hilarious thing is when German KV meets KV1E, its like the old Monty Python skits with 2 old ladies slapping each other with handbags, they just track and barrel each other over and over for no real progress.

[@Jigamanx2]

Great bud as always! Feel better spookston!

[@SemoventeDa]

Hey Spook, you should play the Semovente 75/46 M43. It's a deeply overshadowed italian tank destroyer which can deliver an heavy punch but it's deeply ignored the potential it has. (Day 53)

[@s.shadow8094]

STuG III G is better actually, less armour but better movility once with the 75 M43 i took a shot of a Tiger lol

[@faasnuhind8578]

For how good that tank is, it doesn't usually get fielded in the matches I have seen. The German faction is pretty dope, though it does have one of two affects: rushing too hard, or being so eerily conservative with each tank, they may as well be artillery

[@XSpamDragonX]

Its a somewhat rare premium, and you are far more likely to see the identical Soviet premium the KV-1E. Both vehicles are insanely overpowered, but the German one has advantage of not facing German guns, whereas the Soviet one has the advantage of not having German teammates.

[@wokedog1799]

As for being conservative, the best German vehicles at this BR range are the Panzer 4s with the long 75mm, but also absolutely garbage armor, mobility, and stability, so you pretty much have to sit in the back with them. Unless you bring the cancer wagon Puma and go fast. Then there's the buffoons who try and rush with them.

[@XSpamDragonX]

@@wokedog1799 I spawn Puma first all the way to 5.7. I rush a lot of caps, but I also usually survive for most of the match, so I'm an outlier. Pz.IVH armour is really trolly once you get the extra track armour over the turret weakspots. Pz. III and IV might not have stab but they can often get the first shot off if you practice your shot timing while rocking on the suspension. Panther is the perfect example of this, as I routinely kill people while stopping. German mediums can't just hold W and pray like USSR or sometimes USA, but they are incredibly reliable vehicles when you don't have to worry about actual reliability issues.

[@deeznoots6241]

All German tanks are burdened with Germany players

[@rasmusjonsson1348]

Thanks for the video Spookston! I hope you get well soon!

[@BalleyBall123]

“i pledge allegiance to the bag” ur so real for that

[@n4chos161]

Great video today, those things are pains to fight. Now, play the concept 3 as you've considered it before :)

[@Emn3]

Blud got ur hands on finnish artifact

[@dillond9747]

His kidneys: "That's a lot of damage!"

[@-ruttley3457]

Spookston sounds like a cross between Archer and Chris Griffin and im all for it

[@icaindianen]

Still waiting for gaijin to add this to Sweden (since its a finnish captured KV-1) to flesh out the 4.0 lineup.

[@crez3463]

Swedish players when no handholding for 1(one) patch:

[@MrTeddy12397]

@@crez3463 sweden suffers

[@taylormarshall3202]

hello spookston could you try out the fv4202 its a pretty fun tank with a funky armour layout at 7.0 so german players arent that good and russian players are using the IS-6 and BMP so theyre are a bit absent minded at that BR. P.S i was starstruck by ur raketen video. i didnt know it was you during the match but i was the greyhound you coughing babied(i was grinding the OBJ122MT). :')

[@Endermann111]

Spookston: *Is drugged as hell* Also Spookston: *Gets like 10 kills a match*

[@thekommunistkrusader3921]

He's just larping a german tanker with their famous Panzershokolade

[@monticore1626]

2:45 uh oh careful not to end up in a chubbyemu video

[@asiangaming8409]

I honestly think the best German Heavy in WT is the Tiger 2 it has an amazing gun with a already great round, the speed isn’t bad, and the armor is really great and can bounce most shells at 6.7 except for the turret

[@jakeschwindt7616]

Casually bouncing is-6 and asu-85 apbche rounds

[@Jotgut]

90% of the matches are against heat slingers that will eat you, tho.

[@ethanedwards422]

​@@Jotgutso is everything single other heavy tank at that BR. If anything, the tiger 2 is in the best position to face then with their better mobility, rate of fire and turret rotation speed compared to other heavies at that BR

[@ryandunn4754]

I love you spookston

[@SCIFIguy64]

I always hate encountering these when I play early US. I remember once we had the entire team wiped out with about 4 of us remaining except for one KV-1B who had extra crews. I was left with just a 75mm half track, and actually wound up flanking him as he knocked out two of my teammates. Truly exhilarating, and equally frustrating.

[@ampa-3612]

I think you could have some fun with the ARL-44. Great frontal armour, great gun, kinda slow.

[@deadlyplumjellyproductions]

My favourite tank ever. Get better man, although you really should grind the Italian tech tree, it has a lot of gremlins and fast vehicles I know you’ll like. On your way there you should try the Breda 501.

[@Shizuka935]

The best thing of yout videos is to see how good you play

[@DarknessInferno15]

I remember when I first used this tank, (I took part in the console crate vehicle exploit and got all of the crate vehicles for around $15 total), some guy messaged me after the match and invited me to an exclusively KV-1B/KV-1E squadron. The purpose being to run them in groups of 4 and dominate to make the most of gold wagers. The balls on those guys. Not even trying to hide how shameless they were being.

[@moose6790]

another banger as usual, get well soon!

[@SirusFIN]

good video as usual, hope you get better soon

[@TheAlmightySPAA]

I love all the halo sound effects/references in your videos!

[@o-hogameplay185]

7:35 yes. a gasoilne tank under the crew compartment never explodes, yet a diesel tank explodes in the crew compartment 60% of the time

[@Spudster.Tarkov]

Another bangerr from spookston

[@Eonymia]

0:40, yeah, looks like it's not just me. For some reason penetrating a kv-1 like that with the russian 76 blows up the fuel tank down there sometimes. It's super funky.

[@stenanderson1695]

A pleasant way to start my free time after the nuts retail rush before the 4th I worked always enjoy a spookston vid!

[@britishfordays1823]

"what ever the rank is , even over powered , if you're surrounded by 4 tanks you're dead" B1TER casually 1vs6 in 3.0

[@Pieceoflion111]

Keep up the goodwork live your vids

[@thewalkingmeat8523]

As somone equally ill and with a constant cough, while beeing on vacation, I feel your pain spookston

[@szymonguzik6450]

Gr8 video as unusual. Hope u get well soon!

[@kylekuperman9437]

Let’s hope spookston doesn’t get the rare death message “died by Tylenol”

[@Djfriedchicken]

I actually released a guttural laugh when the crusader went graaahg and died at 8:52

[@Dragono_]

Best wishes on your health Spooky, much love

[@rodion9566]

thanks you too

[@punnkk]

spookston off the lean playing war thunder? exactly what i needed

[@Medic10Zulu]

Overdosing on tylenol can be a super brutal death and basically leads to full blown liver failure.

[@twentylush]

when spookston playing the sealclubber but hes got that tylenol aim

[@Kaebuki]

Hope you get well soon, Spookston!

[@user-po5xy7ce2f]

Have a Good recovery man

[@duncanmcgee13]

The round front corners of the M4 makes it an easy kill at any angle

[@RookVR_]

Hope you get better spookston!

[@jakerulesgaming1124]

I love the low tier stuff. You gotta do the ZIS-30 it’s been like 60 days of me asking

[@MrAcuta73]

Good timing on this....on a lark today I opened 2 of the gambling crates because I wanted to see if I could get a cool camo, spent $5 and got the KV-1B and the Art Deco F-14 skin.

[@little202]

Take care and feel better man!

[@Fabio58195]

Hope you get better soon Spooks

[@IGotLegs]

you should try the M47 OTO, it's the Italian M47 and it's the only varient with a 105mm canon insetad of the usual 90, but it's still the same 7.3 BR as the other versions

[@colbyuetake130]

Not to mention I think it has the upgraded engine too

[@capdetigla]

A video on somethin like the mars 15 or that one austrian tank with the 105 in the french tech tree would be nice,or a video on any other french vehicles would ve great,cheers

[@DeliveryDemon]

The Bain of my tank destroyer existence. God. My only answer for this is the M10, some M62 shells, some hope, and some C-Ration coffee instant, type 2

[@sindicite3566]

during the most recent event the best br to play at was the one with the kv1b and facing it made it horrible, in the pz4 with the 75mm i couldnt pen it unless it was side on and not looking at me. even the lower plate wouldnt pen

[@pablo506]

I just faced one of these as the Soviet Union. Like 7 well-aimed t34 (1940) bullets and like 40-70 AA ZiS-12 shots all of them from a very close distance. Not a single critical-hit, got killed twice. By the very same tank. Other two teammates openly shooting it. Definitely a skill-issue

[@glamrockchica909]

I’ve encountered a KV1 B somewhere and I couldn’t even penetrate the armour, its really responsive to flanking attacks

[@lukum55]

This individual KV-1 still exists today. Finland only ever had 2 KV-1 tanks in service and both survived the war and are on display at the Finnish armoured museum.

[@Madduckk]

“I pledge allegiance to the bag” is most inspirational quote ever

[@dse9564]

I didn’t know spook was on that dirty sprite, valid

[@Zaeryth_Redtail]

A rare view of that tank being played not covered in bushes

[@Raven-vl9vy]

My boy Spookston, the weakpoint on all Shermans is the Machinegun Port. I personally love calling it the "Jumbussy" until we meet again. =)

[@griffinbell2795]

1:57 omg omg omg Spookston said a naughty word!!!!!!!

[@daroy1233]

I kind of want to see Spookston play Archer. That would be very interesting.

[@jobo12345689]

That opening was amazing 😂 "I pledge allegiance to the bag"

[@henrysimpson9094]

you know whats a really fun vehicle that definitely does consistent damage? The Conqueror

[@spinosaurusiii7027]

In regards to that first kill: KV series fuel tanks have a big tendency to just randomly explode in this game, and idk why

[@Plugneedsahug]

Spookston is the best warthunder KZbinr

[@loganwalker8537]

you should play the Japanese type 89 IFV its the japanese bradley but better with the newest update its ATGMs arent as easy to use anymore but its still a very fun tank

[@troopereli0131]

1:30 spook being spooked by a 76 sherman in a kv 1 says smth

[@eltigre0320]

"I pledge allegiance to the bag" LMAO that's a good one, I'll have to work that into my daily lexicon.

[@felbermate9625]

Same feeling about the engine sounds

[@kiksiidiriiksii7194]

0:25 turns out you weren’t the only one sick that day

[@GroovyIsGroovy]

my man geeking off that medicine cabinet pack

[@swedenspepe2207]

Clicked so fast to see a new video of my favorite wt cc 😊.

[@Simseh729]

spookston taking so much tylenol he's gunna meet the hat man

[@Andrew-qo2jg]

Fun fact. The Churchill VII has the same weakspot point as the Sherman Jumbo; the machine gun. And apparently the roof of the tank (where it slants to the front turret armor).

[@russman3787]

Forehead bonk

[@12345689069]

Spookston will wake up, cough a little, overdose Tylenol and make a double digits game Dangerous man

[@bfenix]

Hey Spookston, love the videos. Since you're a fan of the Chaffee, was wondering how you feel about the M41. Thanks!

[@razgriz4978]

"I pledge allegiance to the bag..." I finally have an excuse for when people ask me why I don't quit my job.