The Largest APHE Shell In War Thunder

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The American T30 heavy tank was originally designed to destroy fortifications and counter German tanks like the King Tiger. In War Thunder it's known more for being one of the few artillery in the US tech tree (before the M109 anyway). It also holds the record for the biggest APHE round in the game.
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The Largest APHE Shell In War Thunder

[@Spookston]

Happy Friday everyone

[@zac7386]

Weekend video for me ngl 🙏🙏

[@AnuTheWarThunderEnjoyer]

Assalumalaikum brother, you too Happy Friday

[@MrParcival09]

Thanks you too

[@Foltro1]

Cheers

[@darthbane5738]

You too man! :)

[@FatherGrigori]

spookston got so upset at unreliable rounds that he decided to go to the opposite end of the spectrum and delete everything

[@Spookston]

Foreshadowing

[@Lt_1914]

@@Spookston lmao

[@bubby9175]

At least he’ll finally get some inner peace.

[@IcyWingsAviation]

Fore/shadow/ing

[@FDbazooka]

88mm APHE next ?​@@Spookston

[@jackgamer6307]

"Largest APHE shell in the game" Naval: Am I a joke to you?

[@Megafragger_]

Yes it is :D

[@Spookston]

Yes

[@Lt_1914]

Play Naval Spook >: D

[@jackgamer6307]

@@Spookston Fair..

[@shukes4645]

@@SpookstonUnderstandable, i'll go have fun in HMS hood by myself then

[@ajtheflame9180]

>Spookston uses tank with worst APDS >”I absolutely despise this tank” >Does well and one shots occasionally >Uses tank with giant gun and good damage >Makes a 37mm cannon barrel light yellow

[@Insane_One]

The spookston curse

[@dowmein]

just the volumetric things

[@IvanBaturaChannel]

*20mm

[@randomstuff4997]

y'know i dont know if he has a video usin the T-60 but thats possibly the worst tank in the game...By Far. The 20mm gets gajined very often and you can unload 60 20mm rounds into a biplane and get ricochets

[@joshuamueller3206]

@@randomstuff4997 I took it to 3.7 and ate every Puma and SARC I encountered alive.

[@weiwu1442]

volumetric conveniently denying that kinetic energy exists is my favorite war thunder feature

[@Jasiuc330]

I mean, you can fire 380mm naval guns at tank and it wont pen it. While irl your tank would be turned into space program

[@zoro115-s6b]

Fun fact, against large caliber AP rounds the Tiger I's driver viewport has over a thousand milimeters of effective protection.

[@davidpereira5969]

@@Jasiuc330 its the radio you see, the shell gets destroyed by the radio

[@FlintTD]

It's not volumetric armor. Warthunder NEVER took kinetic energy into account. It's just that volumetric armor creates more visible situations in which taking kinetic energy into account would resolve strange behavior.

[@5co756]

People just expect things to happen cause they know or saw it in movies , like a guy hit with a shotgun flys 5 meters back . For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction , so if that guy flys 5 meters back , the shooter also feels that force . So if the T34's 45kg shell would rip off the turret of the tank that's hit , the T34's gun , turret ring and breech would get the same force . And this would damage the tank , you can lower that with a muzzle brake but the majority of the power will stay .

[@-MarcelDavis-]

One year and 13 days of asking for the Foch

[@butterflytr3077]

Uhmm excuse me what the actual foch?

[@ussindianapolis487]

damn

[@omnicarver]

i just started

[@zerthios]

Dear God why

[@MarcABrown-tt1fp]

Wait... Is this even verifiable?

[@Evan-hf8ho]

My buddy just started playing war thunder (god bless his soul) and I directed him to learn from your videos, I hope you're proud of me dad

[@rhystaylor851]

why did you subject another soul to WT

[@keithrogers6876]

Best advice for playing War Thunder that I have found: Play with friends and never take it seriously.

[@info0]

​@@keithrogers6876 Good one. You might not take this game seriously, but never start chatting with guys on chat. For some, it's like FIFA. Their reason d'etre. Have the OP guy said to NOT get mad when you get random stuff happen to you outside of your control? Do it. Also tell your friend to ALWAYS be prepared to get CASed out. Be wary of guys who are level 100 and go to low tier to vent their anger, doing seal clubbing (those guys usually have over 8000 battles and over 10k recorded Ground Kills). This game is one of most frustrating games, because of volumetric Hell, texture pop ins, terrible aliasing problems on some maps (on Sweden my eyes bleed).

[@keithrogers6876]

@@info0 I only voice chat with the friends I am playing with, I have no interest in having screeching angry people in my ear lol. The high lvl at low tier stuff makes me chuckle.. The other week I went down to BR 1.3 British to play with a friend who hasn't leveled them up yet. Was having a laugh running around like a headless chook, not playing seriously at all.. Had some very angry player trying to pick a fight with me for being lvl 100 at BR 1.3, they shut up pretty fast when I got tired of it and replied "Says the level 73 playing at BR 1.3...".

[@CobraDBlade]

"Was my existing in my own spawn too much for you?" -The guy who less than one minute of video time ago was waiting for enemy's spawn protection to turn off in order to kill them

[@michaelcome9447]

Getting bombed in your spawn by a plane is a little different from pushing the enemy back into their spawn on the ground.

[@Q...........-]

@@michaelcome9447 ground retardet vs air retardet, same thing in different flavour

[@melsuppatlol4565]

​@@Q...........- akshually technically not, you can shoot at tanks while you have no way to shoot at airplanes

[@alexhuntercdc5151]

This APHE shell will make sure even the souls are deleted

[@kaster_s7191]

Except if the said soul is an IS

[@penclaw]

Or an ammorack

[@Sky_EggYT]

Remember, freedom IS mandatory

[@CallofDutyBlackOps28]

“Capitalism is non-negotiable!”

[@Epicgamercool-iz4sl]

"✻H+3+ЯД✻7luCJIo0T6..." Ahh quote.

[@glennmartin8664]

As a former M109 gun chief, it IS fun to watch that massive M107 HE round head downtown...

[@MrAcuta73]

My first rotation to NTC my TC and I managed to get the best seats in the house for the live fire. First A-10 dropped bombs and made a gun run, then the Paladins opened up with full battery fire, then a company of Abrams did a "rolling engagement". Shock and awe indeed. We were about a mile-ish away and well above the range. Couldn't have had a better view! Also got to see MLRS battery fire in Korea, but their target was somewhere out in the Yellow Sea, couldn't see impacts. Impressive all the same!

[@norliasmith]

Spookston: I imagine it's like standing next to a bell being rung. Me: Brother, your tank is the bell, you're inside, the bell.

[@Iron_Blood_Enjoyer1933]

If there was a variant of the Ferret armored car that could come to War Thunder, it would have to be the Ferret Mk. 5. It was a Ferret Mk. 3 hull armed with four Swingfire ATGMs in a flat & wide turret and with an L7 (British version of the FN MAG) as a secondary.

[@ussindianapolis487]

for a second i thought that by the L7 you mean the 105mm one haha

[@ObligedOrca9161]

the new fox uses the chassis of the Ferret. it's actually my dream to own a Ferret irl one day

[@liladoodle]

Still waiting for the Saladin.

[@ObligedOrca9161]

ooh yeah, maybe with the HESH rework they'll add it, and the Scorpion too actually, why not the whole CVR(T) family

[@depressingNicolai-sv8ky]

Spookston when the target is more than 5 meters away *presses rangefinder button*

[@tomasmatejcek2526]

nah he says ,,i think its 900''

[@depressingNicolai-sv8ky]

@@tomasmatejcek2526 well if he has an ability to think then why would he wait for the gunner to do the equation? Edit: he always gets the range right himself without the rangefinder

[@connivingkhajiit]

Because reload rate

[@ДмитрийЮрьевичПлотников]

You should play "Spookston gets a nice surgery and recovers well and quickly", I hear it's a treat.

[@ThatRandomEstonian]

"I havent played this game in a while if you couldn't tell" *proceeds to get 74 kills*

[@joshuanewman1273]

2:50 oh my god the t30 is slinging plates at tanks at supersonic speeds 😭

[@razalfraz6618]

Those are basically hundred pound rounds being flung a super sonic speeds it’s insane

[@rusellgonzalez3564]

Enemies: You can't hurt me Spoook: NUKE PIERCER!!!

[@zoro115-s6b]

Welcome to large caliber rounds Spookston. Incredibly satisfying when they work, but half the time volumetric just says no, and you're liable to die while reloading because every WWII gun above 105mm or so has a drastically inflated reload rate.

[@keenancollett6465]

Frances 90s are slow as hell too

[@zoro115-s6b]

@@keenancollett6465 France moment.

[@5co756]

@@zoro115-s6b Bro do you ever lift 45kg in a turret that moves around ? That reload rate in game is buffed anyways , wtf do you guys expect ?

[@sasquatchman22]

​@@5co756 I expect millisecond reload times on a 380mm gun....

[@5co756]

@@sasquatchman22 Twin 380mm autocannons ...... 😅

[@youngchaosfernandes]

Spookston “there’s an entire tank between me and the bomb”. Gaijin “NUH UH”

[@ThatEndGuy]

12:37 "My chair is so creaky" We literally hear it Also ostwind or wirblerwind

[@trinigaming5664]

getting killed by bombs when a corpse is between you and the bomb is one thing. It is another level of pain when you die to a bomb around the corner of an ENTIRE BUILDING

[@jakobbattershell1446]

I got this in a snowman box and quickly realized the HE is more reliable than the APHE and with a 30 second reload can’t afford to not kill in one shot

[@warship122]

Love your content keep up the good work Spookston

[@BillyCrabtree-ob6py]

2:05 literally every ww2 ground vehicle ever conceived when it comes to reliability:

[@maxhager4187]

Technically the largest APHE shell in WT is the 410mm APHE on the IJN mutsu coming in soon

[@tristandaries1129]

“APDS and HE are so unreliable, APHE is so broken, it always oneshots” APHE: 3:57

[@DIEGhostfish]

I mean, he knew there was an overpen risk.

[@ыцццФццц]

It was a tiger with 200 mm front armor. No shit he didn't pen

[@DAWNTHEGARD]

Gaijin whenever there’s tons of bugs and glitches that involve rounds working properly: I Kleep Gaijin whenever a French tank is doing a little too well: *REAL SHIT*

[@oueed]

Genuinely the commander callouts are so good for quick rangefinding at lower tiers

[@aqilalex209]

Here's a little challenge I thought you could add on to one of your vids. Try playing the game while only being able to hear only one side! Reason why I thought you could try it is Warthunder is dependent on hearing for you to do well. And while I've played this for a long time, I am partially deaf as I have no functioning right ear. So many times I'd get screwed over and have to adapt as I can't hear whatever is on my right side. So I thought you could give that challenge a go to, especially in city maps with close-quarters brawls, where hearing would really help you in normal cases.

[@cheyannei5983]

I think with Equalizer APO you can pan everything left and setup 3D sound so stuff to your left sounds like it's behind, and stuff to your right sounds in front? I'm not 100% that can work without another ear for the psychoacoustics to work properly, sorry D: it might still be worth a try!

[@pennycarvalho1223]

As far as I’m aware, the commander always calls out the closest distance range when you look at a target, in spaces of 50. Which the rangefinder or I should say, tanks that don’t have an optical or a laser rangefinder will start to have “error” with the range the further the target is. I think a aced crew has like a 200m error margin between 900m and 1200m

[@PickleGobbler9000]

45+kgs???????? WHOS RELOADING THE TANK? EDDIE HALL? 💀

[@FlavorTown9088]

It has like 3 loaders in the turret lol

[@avenger0413]

It’s not that heavy in terms of just carrying, plus there’s multiple loaders

[@AshtonBrentJerez-vk7ok]

must’ve been Chuck Norris

[@Unpredictable_Fennec]

@@avenger0413 you've never lifted a 50kg bag of cement huh

[@avenger0413]

@@Unpredictable_Fennec i have, not THAT heavy

[@SayakMajumder]

Lets talk about that 155mm APFSDS. Anybody got info or name? Links? APFSDS out of a T30 heavy sounds just too fun XD He's not talking about the 155 mm T35E1 HVAP round, is he?

[@zelm376]

theres footage of them trialing it at aberdeen but thats all i know of it

[@bIackfeather]

Bro's literally launching the equivalent of literal kids at the enemy over here

[@lector-dogmatixsicarii1537]

>Average 5ft adult female

[@TeaMollie11]

spooktan ❤❤

[@stalinyourleader3846]

spokstone ❤❤

[@wasdwazd]

If Spookston ever decides to play Helldivers he's going to start having panic attacks any time someone calls in the 500kg bomb, or any Eagle strategem for that manner, probably.

[@STGMORRISON]

It transfers between games

[@benvanzon3234]

3:10 they what now

[@Nikarus2370]

NGL, a lot of tanks even if their armor is "thick enough", when slapped with this shell should have massive spalling on the inside. There's just so much energy at the impact area.

[@popinmo]

i want the apfsds round

[@cheesesniper473]

There's a movie called t34, where they have a couple scenes where the tank bounces a round and the crew just screams and hold their ears.

[@popinmo]

45kg is to much damn

[@bubby9175]

You should try the 2s3m with APHE only. you get a fast tank with a good round. in my opinion better than the HE.

[@Brownie0906]

Bro that Ho ri just turned into a IED after he died 4:48

[@johnathanappleman39]

You should upload a compilation of you getting jumpscared by shots. Gets me every time

[@miki1258]

Day 5 of asking spookston to play the BTR80-A

[@thetalonking7233]

God bless Spookston and this game, I swear. Even when he's absolutely dunking on folks with a miniature nuke of a shell, he STILL gets slapped by random bombs. Never change my friend, never change.

[@popinmo]

i love fat oversized American tanks 🥰

[@Chaffee_]

you should try to flay the FIAT T106 FA. also good luck on your surgery! ❤

[@jsone42]

Loading 45kg rounds must be a hell of a workout

[@chiefpapos]

Spookston playing a tank he enjoys? Truly wonderous

[@frankbradley4487]

Day 4167 (not really) of asking you to play the American mini amphibious derp tank, the LVT(A)(4).

[@redstonneur1256_]

Talking about rounds that delete the enemy you should play the 75/34 M42, the APHE is ridiculously overpowered sometimes overpressuring without even penetrating.

[@ThatTrafficCone]

6th time challenging Spookston to bring the Char 25t into an 8.3 lineup, and then incrementally increase the BR until the tank becomes actually unplayable.

[@SoulReaper1942]

A mate of mine pointed out a brilliant solution to APHE over pen on like vehicles (M18, Puma, etc), shoot something that is always big and solid like the engine and transmission and let the absurd amount of HE filler OP the whole thing, it works great.

[@wardzyngaming8301]

Attempt 9 at getting Spookston to play the 90/53 M41M - an Italian glass cannon that penetrates anything at its BR....but it has 8 bullets. No, that was not a spelling error, I *really* mean 8.

[@ahmadjavedaj]

The Rollercoaster that is spookstons emotions through this video is the quality entertainment I come for.

[@wolvetica]

man hit the welds of the hulls and was like “huh”

[@guhmachine]

I was watching Peter Caine on goblins and guess who comes up on my feed

[@mnguy98]

12:00 reminds me of a game I had where I encountered an AUBL. Neither of us wanted to move... then I remembered I had my 50 bound for independent control, which I do not think he expected

[@arlensmith7273]

The non pens are pretty funny when compared to the T30 is world of tanks, where it has like 295mm of pen and will upper front king tigers and Is series

[@180molotov]

Speaking your commanders language is 100% a buff. They always have been far more accurate for me than the range finder

[@I-Stole-Your-Toast700]

What always kills me with the meme at hte start is just how fucking calm the music is

[@jonathansalcido5208]

The little elite scream cracked me up at 7:25

[@P0LAR07]

the T-30 E1 variant also had a mechanical assist for the loader used to ram the round

[@nathanielblomberg2943]

For reference at the muzzle this shell has the same amount of kinetic energy as a fully loaded school bus going 80 miles an hour.

[@Odins_Spear]

CAS is the snails way of balancing spook

[@fowlWarDog]

The random Halo bits always get me, I might be extraordinarily simple minded.

[@BnDSALT]

the scream you put over the M18 dying made me burst out laughing lol

[@notapier3953]

Love this thing It’s got the same he shell the m109 in game uses

[@artemisfowl7191]

2:00 a Bunch of Japanese warships have special burrowing (through water) shells. Intended to pierce through the water and torpedo defense of an enemy ship and penetrate straight into the magazines. Turns out when you open a hole from the magazine to the ocean, water gets into the magazine and if the powder or shells don't cook off immediately (they won't) the magazine floods (good)

[@Gurtanic_1912]

Trying to get Spook to the almost rarest german tank ( day3 ). You should play the VK 45.01 its a porsche-tiger Version without the Extra 100mm armor, but at 5.3.

[@Tom--pf8ub]

There is already a video on it, no?

[@Gurtanic_1912]

@@Tom--pf8ub i actually dont have any idear probably

[@Gurtanic_1912]

Oh sh## you were right

[@kirishima638]

Every time you say ‘bop’ expecting a one-shot, you are tempting fate!

[@Blader445]

“Special burrowing ammo” sounds like a crazy rts upgrade. Neat.

[@QuintonMurdock]

3:53 OMFG THE HOLE

[@MaijaSvartaAnkan]

Talking about overpen and explosive filler reminds me of the time I killed a pt-76 by over penning and the round hit the wall directly next to him and the explosion over pressured

[@interpl6089]

Does Spookston have a video on the IT-1? If not, you should absolutely play it...the missiles have like a nuclear warhead inside them, so they overpressure roofs...

[@Tulersian]

Im so happy you're playing the T30 again. People give it such crap because of it's reload but it's gun can kill EVERY ground vehicle with one shot. Just might have to use the HE. Get used to the reload and it's a blast.

[@imGeistevereint]

The Jagdpanther crews were really intimated by the entire 6 T30‘s ever built.

[@sammybailey3560]

Trust me, that’s one of my favorite tanks and the US tech tree and the premium version and yet tigers are goddamn immune

[@ZigaZagu]

There needs to be something for partial pens and like... Turret jamming from heavy projectiles or something. Stunning from hits maybe? Idk

[@deeznoodlezz]

I've found that the commander's range voiceline is more accurate than the rangerfinder and you hear the range faster than it shows up on your sight (at least for low crew level)

[@coleanderson8035]

You should try the olifant mk1a the tank is rough stock but once you get a dart and a laser rangefinder at 8.3 you become a monster

[@coleanderson8035]

@@robertharris6092 the olifant and Vickers tanks are completely different. First off. The olifant is a modified centurion. The Vickers tanks are fast and have quick reloads, a very aggressive tank. The olifant is much better as a sniper. Because it gets m111 and a laser rangefinder at 8.3, but the stock grind is painful. It's all about play style.

[@coleanderson8035]

@@robertharris6092 ah, I have the Vickers mk1 so I didn't realize that the mk3 was worse. Regardless, the Vickers tanks are faster, sometimes speed is really all you need, some things like the r3 are at a high br because they're fast

[@CareerGamer2012]

The other day I hit an M109s barrel point blank with ISU-152. It did literally no damage, overmatched the corner of his turret and minorly inconvenienced one of his crewmen. He then promptly evaporated me. Such a good game lol

[@Battleship009]

Barrels are op.

[@franzoloranzo7302]

I love how he’s tired of rounds not doing any damage for no reason so he plays a tank with a giant aphe shell, and then the rounds just start non-penning randomly

[@tirushone6446]

1:19 in my experience the commander is always spot on, I think the commands callouts don't have the same random deviation added that the on screen rangefinder does

[@notapier3953]

11:49 Says the guy sleeping on the he round

[@MegaShent]

13:39 making that 10.5cm tiger II hull ring like a bell with the sheer impact force of 45kg BOOLET

[@Left4Coragem]

T30 not penning IS-1 and Tigers is like a bullet bouncing off a layer of paper.

[@DrewFFen]

Fun fact, when the snowman chest were available like three or so months ago (this was my first ever chest to be opened in the time I’ve been playing TW…like a year or so)the first snowman I opened it landed right on the T30, so that’s my fun fact

[@ArcticWipeout]

I still think the most amusing APHE gun in the game is the one on the Object 268. The thing can pen the upper plate of a tiger 2 at some angles it's actually insane.

[@revindarwish9220]

My mental health deteriorates playing this game, you being so calm amazes me

[@k0dachr0me]

as a sidenote the ad-2 is an exceptionally underrated dogfighter i used to have an insane k/d in that thing in air rb

[@MrSlientdeath]

That bmp-1 kill *chef's kiss*.

[@charles0423]

"120 kills the body but 155 kills the soul" -A very wise man

[@isnt-available]

the pure freedom emanating from this tank drowns out the music so much that it isnt even there wait i think im just deaf

[@TakenWithout]

3:58 this whole immune tiger shenanigan reminds me of my games yesterday where like half my rounds just got eaten by Russian fuel tanks and drivers hatches

[@corrodan2995]

AD-2 in that match taking down the yak 3U isnt suprising. It turns amazingly well, and the cannons rip.

[@etrenety147]

For frame of reference, the T30's APHE shell impacting a target imparts 10,100,250 N/m unto it. Assuming a weight of 3 tons and a speed of 35 mph, that's like getting hit by 27 and 1/2 pickup trucks all at once.

[@thundermite1241]

Id be funny if every time a hellcat goes zooming by you hear tyler 1 making car noises and a dodge hellcat screaming in the distence

[@ace0fdiamonds]

0:59 bro why have I never had my commander call out the range before, I was so hyped when crew voicelines came out so it would sound like GHPC but I still haven't heard it