Almost Useful Warthunder Knowledge 6

[@ZoltanSultan]

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[@logicmaster756]

Tip number 1 feed the basement guy and u get downtiers on your 300% boosters

[@nob9000]

sad

[@logicmaster756]

If you havent somehow not ehard of raid

[@warthunderplayer86]

defo held hostage to say that 😂

[@unteroffizier2692]

the panther was never classified as a heavy tank. i was classified as a medium tank in a historical context, and they used it as such.

[@javier1zq]

The british ships don't have shorter barrels, they're the same length, the breech is further back

[@derhesligebonsaibaum]

yep, it's to reduce vibrations which could mess up accuracy

[@DCrypt1]

but less room for war fighting.

[@ottaviobasques]

@@derhesligebonsaibaum Also muzzle flash that could interfere the accuracy.

[@TheArcticFoxxo]

@@derhesligebonsaibaumnot vibrations, when firing a full salvo at once the distortion of air around shots 1 and 3 make shot 2 considerably less accurate The issue is still present on 4 barrel turrets, such as on the King George V and the brilliantly designed Dunkerque. The King George V had minimal changes between 1/4 and 2/3, though there was still a very small setback in the guns. The Dunkerque fixed the problem by spacing out the guns, effectively making 1 turret a pair of 2 guns. It was also compartmentalized to prevent any damaging blow to disable every gun and kill all working crew. There's a very large reason why 2 gun turrets were used for so long, and why the Gangut class in its entirety only fired 3 salvos... And hit 2 estimated shots of said salvos.

[@khanetia]

show me some classified documents that say so and then I'll believe you.

[@offbeatsloth9320]

Babe wake up, more almost useful war thunder knowledge

[@cwu4591]

There is no babe (you're schizophrenic)

[@halolime117]

Yes honey

[@RlyCybr]

D-daddy~

[@hep6210]

:(@@RlyCybr

[@thehamman3882]

Ur a warthunder player u dont have a “babe”

[@p_filippouz]

Fun fact: if you use the Italian language the kill message will actually be "crew is dead" (equipaggio morto) instead of "knocked out"

[@winterplayz-robloxmore8478]

R.I.P.

[@ZOMBIEo07]

You just baned war thunder in Italy 🎉

[@WarHunter57]

I'm Italian and holy shit I just realized

[@smallguy1074]

Finally realistic

[@Acertaintouhoufan]

1:58 I'm fairly certain this is because Israel starts out with no reserve tanks whatsoever, and thus you can have no crews.

[@blu5021]

Technically they have the M51, but it’s kinda ass, insane pen, but the platform is ass. Also isnt rlly a reserve

[@farhanrahmaddani3218]

nah it just on brand

[@r.ndomperson]

​@@blu5021i wouldnt classify it as reserve honestly also imo its an amazing tank, the gun just can do anything

[@lukav3509]

@@r.ndomperson if nobody sees you

[@omnipotank]

You can send all the Israeli crew on holiday because when its a Holy Day, all of them are on holiday.

[@BASTION1023]

Fun fact! The T114 even while flipped will not drown the crew as it’s completely water tight!

[@RooseveltGuilherme]

IRL or in-game?

[@BASTION1023]

@@RooseveltGuilherme both, since it was built as a tank that would be dropped into battle via air it had to be watertight

[@themaplesyrup9673]

Sad that no one told you but for the crashed cargo plane, it’s written esrg cargo which if you’re French, means escargot which means snail 🐌 nice detail for those who are French.

[@horizontal-human]

I'm french and I didn't even notice lmao nice find

[@TheJudge2017]

The barrels of those British cruisers are not shorter. The gun and breach are physical moved further back in the turret.

[@AL-commander-and-SCP-Scientist]

The barrel extends ever so slightly *the gun proceeds to double its length*

[@DrRussian]

Its a grower, not a shower.

[@fransbeckman5007]

You can actually use the 03:00 tip at some maps. You can bomb bridges in order to prevent ground targets from reaching the objective.

[@WhyEveryHandleTaken]

smart

[@williewilson2250]

That's literally an objective the game tells you lol

[@Pururut]

@@williewilson2250 on some maps yeah, others its just a thing you can do

[@fransbeckman5007]

Not on some maps. Now I admit I haven't played War Thunder in a bit, but I remember distinctly when I played some low tier last time that the ground forces targets were crossing unmarked bridges. Bombed the bridge, and the whole coloumn stopped.

[@justarandomtechpriest1578]

​@@williewilson2250only on some maps

[@raven_1133]

7:05 This was because the British naval architects were afraid that if triples were fired right next to each other, the exhaust gas would cause the shell to tumble out of line.

[@xaviershah3159]

Gajin: He's been lying unconscious for some time now. Me: Sir HE HAS NO HEAD

[@insertnamehere1258]

Hes just taking a nap to deal with his light headache.

[@Potatoshaneko]

Fun fact about the stabliser. My old squadron commander did a big brain with the stabiliser, he thought he'd need to bind it to make it active. Unfortunately he made it the same key as his scope button, so when he scoped in his stabiliser would turn off. He played like that for quite a few years and it was only when he was streaming while playing a high tier vehicle someone noticed it. I always wondered why he said most tanks were shit, well this is why lmao.

[@Kaesewuerfel26]

2:00 you might wanna check the Halifax modular view, it has an even longer ammo belt! :D

[@MatteonixITA]

2:18 There's actually alot of wheeled vehicles that are road legal in WT (such as the Centauro and Freccia), however they would to have their guns deactivated and you would need to registrate it (also manage to get one lol)

[@madeingermany9445]

almost all german groundvehicles have numberplates. think only ww2 tanks don't have those but the wheeled vehicles have for sure

[@GenMaj_Knight]

1:07 Despite the Allies believing it to have been a new heavy tank, the Germans treated the Panther as a medium tank, so it wouldn't necessarily be "more historical."

[@IceGuadian]

the gun stabilizer button used to be important as turning it on would slow down the turret rotation speed on multiple vehilces, the worst being with the pt76 but it's been removed since

[@michaelkarnerfors9545]

07:27 Fun fact, the spur wheels only exist on Draken models with the long afterburner (EBK66). On models with the short afterburner, there is instead a little solid spur with a wear strip. In the game, the J35A has that spur clearly visible.

[@Itchybol]

16:54 bro polish voice lines say "surface to air missile" for a tank destroyer 💀

[@ivanpticar8007]

So a bit of correction (for those who care) The centrall gun for the UK light cruisers (like the town class) isn't shorter, they're recessed so that the muzzle flash and the hot gasses from the outer most guns don't interfere with the balistics of the shell fired from the centrall one

[@BE4STINESS]

About the tank crew voicelines: If you play the French vehicles, when you spot an enemy tank the crew will say the approximate range of the spotted enemy (~100m). Tried it out in rb and worked, you need to understand french numbers to get it (ex: "ennemi! cinq cents mètres!" for 500m)

[@stig2704]

It's a thing for every nation. At least I can confirm it for all nations besides China, Japan and Israel, they're the only languages I don't understand at all

[@okand1921]

It's for all nations

[@BE4STINESS]

@@okand1921 okay, I only noticed it on the french crew, nonetheless it's still a good thing to know

[@NovaAge]

1:49 My assumption is that you start the game without any Israeli vehicles, so Gaijin implemented an exception to the nation to make sure the game doesn't freak out.

[@martinmethod427]

Because them giving the Israelis the M-51 as a free Reserve with three guaranteed spawns was too fucking generous for them... God I fucking hate these Russian assholes.

[@Bigdog0242]

there a holiday in israel if im in which almost everybody has days off mabye its refrence to that cant remmeber the name of the holiday

[@ryanwilbur3554]

They added the crew surrendered mechanic back in 2015 or 2016 because there were a few players in the old simulator battles who would land low tier bombers on the enemy runway and gun down anybody who spawned

[@thyholymango1951]

1:54 its probably because israel doesn’t have any reserves unlike the other nations and when you don’t have any vehicles for israel you’ll have an empty lineup

[@fennic_2676]

1:40 it isn't a restoration nor a rebuild but they are building one from scratch.

[@femed1283]

15:48 if pretty sure that exactly how daily mission works aswell, and as a correction you need to respawn with the rank III vehicle in any point of the match to get it count, its not just leaving it in the line-up (mission like "destroy enemies using an specific type of vehicle", you need to first use the rank III vehicle and then use whatever you want to make it count)

[@e_da_g2161]

12:47 the same thing happens on the naval test map with the ship launched scout aircraft, and because they’re a bigger target, you can actually get shot down. You can also bomb and sink your own ship with the scout planes that get bombs

[@theta3404]

Centurion convoy: "This is Charlie 1-3, we're leaking oil" A-10 pilot: "Someone say oil?"

[@greatoverlordchikonmaster7226]

11:05 The game uses "knocked out" but team killing is still called team "killing"

[@Dixon_1974]

17:20 .. the Italian Harrier’s attention to detail is actually so accurate they used to Huer logo, because that harrier was incorporated BEFORE Tag bought and join Huer. Cool little detail.

[@petrkdn8224]

1:10 regarding the wrong classification, if you go into the lang files of WT, you can find references to "Ambulance" and all of them are marked "Vehicle" (for air battles).... committing war crimes in WT since 2012

[@urip_zukoharjo]

Object 248 was indeed the original IS-5, before the name was reused for the new T-10 development project

[@custid3595]

hk>Hk

[@zero-arc3810]

So, what exactly is out of place about the newspaper at 12:26?

[@ajm9289]

0:43 The original name for the Obj. 248 was IS-5, cool they actually included it.

[@The-mandalore]

I think the reason the game allows is really tech tree to be entirely empty is because the default is entirely empty because you need to reach a certain rank. I believe it’s ranked five in US British French or Israeli tech trees.

[@thatoneblueguy]

16:10 great now my planes wont fly straight :(

[@Fr1thar]

Lmao

[@sweetsourorange]

@@Fr1tharthe way he pronounces blåhaj 😭😭😭

[@literalantifaterrorist4673]

@@sweetsourorangeat least it wasn’t a hard j 😂

[@tinno1754]

14:47 the town of Bayeux was I believe the first town to get liberated in the days after D-Day. It is worth a visit, with a history going way farther back than WW2.

[@doublestar101]

Nooooo way!!! The best War Thunder related YT series is back!

[@themedic7933]

14:50 “ever so slightly” he says.

[@TylerTMG]

he thinks thats small... damn bro thats massive... he must be packin

[@limo2397]

v-1 needs to be just like the nuke but then for low tier

[@garmfield2977]

bruh imagine revenge killing a m22 with a v-1 rocket💀💀

[@r.ndomperson]

or just have a Lancaster Mk.I with the 25000lb, that would probablyy do the trick

[@o-hogameplay185]

15:52 for events, and battlepath daily tasks, you need a rank 3 as first spawn, and then you can spawn even a rank 1, and it will count. similar goes for history pages. if your first spawn counts towards the mission, then you can spawn any other tank and it will count.

[@PrintScreen.]

it doesn't need to be the first spawn, it can be any spawn

[@o-hogameplay185]

@@PrintScreen. for me it only counts after i spawn a tank that meets the requirements

[@nattybird1146]

i think it may have been either a halifax variant or a lancaster variant, but it was some sort of british bomber has a mg that goes from the tail turret gunner to the mid section of the plane

[@blessthismessss]

god, that V-1 mission with the Baron video was such an unexpected flashbang blast from the past. never knew those got removed from the game either

[@noobus571]

17:35 Thats the Safety Sherman, it gives +2 safety for your squad

[@liamoliverdarroch6482]

16:14 that's not just the swedish test flight map, that's also the enduring confrontation denmark map! Probably my favorite place to play air sim!

[@kousand9917]

15:18, you dont have to use guns, you can do a little amount of thrust and just turn, it wont launch you

[@wyvernthefox9683]

2:00 With those weird ammunition belts, the A-129CBDT (soon to be A-129D) both have these weird external boxes on the left side containing the 20mm ammunition belt.

[@conradandrew825]

4:47 another very worthy mention is the Fw 190 A-5, which I just noticed has the same amount of unlockable camouflages; 12!

[@InsufficientGravitas]

the AMX having offbrand michelin tyres is even funnier given the company its self is French.

[@Sturmgechu]

10:35 about rear turret machine guns, isn’t the t-26-4 the only tank in game with a functional mg in the facing the rear of the turret

[@sebastianmiguel9915]

Pumpkin soup recipe written on the chalkboard actually meant "Soup eating pumpkin" Gaijin must've used google translation

[@aldousfoxly]

1:15 Not sure if you've ever addressed this, but something similar is that the ADATS in Ground will be labeled as an SPAA if you're far away from it (as opposed to an SPG or missile carrier like it's classed for SP)

[@cheese_walker]

7:10 that is just the ariete's second engine .

[@radustefan8945]

another almost useful information is that you can select the turret mg on the kv122 with the weapon selector (or it works for me idk)

[@nikolaideianov5092]

Yep tested it

[@duglife2230]

Toggling the stabilizer is actually very useful (for Shermans, anyway). As some players have noted, the turret's horizontal traversal is slowed slightly with the stabilizer on, so turning it off when you need to quickly turn to face a target can sometimes make the difference between life and death.

[@juniorscomedy-1]

0:44 It says bangers and mash innit,Bias,baguette munchers,and loads more 😂

[@c144gaming]

Japan "we will win this war" sees the uss alaska with a full basketball court Japan "on second thought we would like to surrender"

[@shadowstriker2009]

the way this man portrays all australian aircraft is beautiful

[@usafflight1977]

4:51 another fun fact about the P40E-1s camos, the "112th Squadron RAF" Camo used to say GA Y on it before being changed to what it is currently

[@bradenhagen7977]

I didn't know they changed it. You could use the number decals to make it say UR G-AY. Ok maybe that's why...

[@KreigKartofel]

3:08 oh look a civilian airliner, (cmon lock it, i know you wanna lock it, you menataly stable just lock it, do it DO IT) "ROar" ah, you did it Missle Guadance System

[@e_da_g2161]

12:00 I would assume it was changed because with everything being copyrighted these days, maybe the owners or designers/architects of the building technically owned the likeliness of the building, but that’s just a wild guess on my part

[@L3GIT349]

I await Matpat's War Thunder lore theory

[@Eonymia]

I could have sworn some of those rear machine guns, like the one the KV-2 1940 were actually usable at some point.

[@ZoltanSultan]

The kv2 you can use them (I think, citation needed) just not on all tanks the rear machine gun is usable

[@Eonymia]

@@ZoltanSultan That's what I remember being the case, but I'm unable to get it to work in the test drive, so the ability may have been removed or it was on some other tank with the rear-turret mg.

[@JorgingMyShit]

SMK can

[@Mach-2-Fishbed]

@@Eonymia Can't remember the exact (minor) update, but I remember reading a changelog about how some of the rear mounted MG's were disabled. Wish I could find the exact changelog, but I remember reading it and just being confused as to why they decided to disable it (I know it wasn't useful, but it was a fun little secret).

[@alucardgd2523]

The information design on the a7k is also on the battlepass plane the david if you look on the right side in the cockpit, you can see its a p51b

[@jhorn64]

so despite the length of the ammunition tray for the MiG-19 it still somehow only holds 70 rounds of 30mm ammunition so evidently either the model is bugged or the soviets used 2 foot long links in their 30mm belts

[@franciscofedericospaciukbe9834]

11:19 "the commander was knocker out"

[@tsp5590]

I think the Israel one is because they don’t have any reserve tier tanks, so they have to let you have an empty lineup. At least until you get one of the vehicles

[@mon0522]

The stabilizer button *can* be useful; if your turret ring is damaged, turning your hull with the stabilizer active will keep the gun pointing in its original direction instead of with the hull. This means that in CQB, it is sometimes (very rarely) useful to turn off the stabilizer to aim with the hull.

[@BruhDidYouKnowThat]

0:43 i think its choosed not for a particular purpose, just at random. So the game could say "oh, you can see that tank at dark with this attachment!"

[@JonskuElf]

Well done. You have caused a spike in the sales of the Sherman bumblebee

[@rando-w5h]

12:32 wait why would a russian general from that time perdiod be any better?

[@thegamingott3236]

And why be mad at historical accuracy in a game about historical accuracy?

[@rando-w5h]

@@thegamingott3236 Wdym, also historically accurate ussr generals and their soldiers headstomped newborns Don’t tell me that’s not evil

[@SO2R]

@@rando-w5hThis is just… not true, even nazis didn’t do that

[@rando-w5h]

@@SO2R it is true, if you don’t look at ussr propaganda at the time but look at history from countries they occupied you’ll learn

[@bengilpin2183]

Random fact of the day: the airspeed indicator on the Firebrand mk.iv is outside the cockpit.

[@BlockyRaptor]

8:55 '' 50 cal ''

[@omnipotank]

You can send all the Israeli crew on holiday because when its a Holy Day, all of them are on holiday.

[@tangohotel2599]

So fun fact, with the “shorter barrels” it’s just the breach moved back, and it serves a purpose. While creating their next design, the British were concerned of the Japanese Mogami class, holding an insane 15 155mm guns, able to quickly cut through anything they had at the time. At first the idea was going the French route, use quad mount guns, but this decreased gun efficiency by a massive amount. So instead of that the British moved the breach of the middle barrel back, not only making losing more comfortable for the crew, but also giving the gun better performance, as the shockwaves of each gun firing no longer interfered with the shells of the neighboring barrels

[@l0st_ed]

3:23 Doesn't work for me. Are there any suggestions to restore this functionality? In my case, alt is bound to measure distance, but measures only in the scope/binocular.

[@devingraves8044]

A few other points of useless knowledge: In many WW2 German fighters, the amo count in the cockpit is accurate. Pacific maps in air RB can’t be played in mixed battles, it needs to be US&UK vs Japan. The B-29 is a B-29A-BN variant, and the BN designates it was produced at the Boeing plant in Renton, Washington state. This factory now assembles all the 737s.

[@NareshSinghOctagon]

14:15 Do we tell him that there are manned versions of the V1?...shoulkd Gaijin be informed about the manned versions of the V1?... ...wait,wasn't there once an Ohka custome game someone made for WT?

[@BRTL8492]

17:45 extra fact:Japanese tech tree Type93 SAM using Bridgestone "MUD DUELER" offroad tire which existing irl.

[@zach0209]

The ariete air scoop closes when your throttle is at or lower than 100%, it has two engines and the 2nd one only activates when above 100% throttle. 7:13

[@Officer_duh]

Hmmm, that’s one THICCCC .50 cal round

[@2teethPogZa]

proud to know about the MiG-19 ammo belt thing... whenever you overload one of your wings and it snaps about a quarter into the wing, the gun on that wing stops working because the ammo belt also snapped XD

[@SlimyMcTee]

No, the Chi-Ri II is the target practice, those icon supposedly represents the scope/screen view of night vision/thermal camera, and the Chi-Ri II as the target that being looked at.

[@ZoltanSultan]

Oh that’s an interesting theory

[@gregc9344]

K but when's the Barely Useless Warthunder Knowledge come out?

[@engineermerasmus2810]

The Object 248 is actually the Is-5, obviously it uses and earlier numbering series, with the IS-3 being a long barreled Is-1 etc Also it should have a stabiliser and semiautomatic loading

[@oskarnilsson0712]

15:43 i noticed this one time, i flew upside down and suddenly noticed how the fuel consumed was taken from the plane and not the external fuel tank

[@pilotmanpaul]

Fun fact: Leaking Classified files of your country puts you in military jail for a few years.

[@codexnrdc]

HEY not sure if you have already done this but if you fly straight up and drop bombs they will play the impact sound when they reach 0 SPD and will then fall without any noise

[@darkdragon6837]

2:17 The premium Spanish Centauro of the Italian branch also carries license plates, which allow them to drive on Spanish roads without any legal problems.

[@mateimarian1937]

Pegi 12 my ass. If that's the case they should be sued for manipulating children into buying their pay to win bullshit.

[@sargesacker2599]

15:19 That’s because there aren’t really any catapults, gaijin just gives you a speed boost because they can’t be arsed to properly make functioning catapult.

[@Twist-The-Friendly-Hunter]

"I'm not sure if any of the tanks are road legal" What kind of MADMAN would pull over a fucking tank on the road. They are literally in a tank and the other guy isn't.

[@lokikinch]

4:50 Im proud of myself as a war thunder player for owning every single one of these unlockable skins and not paying for one of them

[@V0x_unaosvsn]

YOU DONT KNOW HOW LONG IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS DAY 🎉

[@BlueLightningHawk]

I never knew you could be captured, that's funny lol

[@faei1897]

For buildings like Jardine House (idk the spelling), the reason for changes may be due to the fact there's a kind-of copyright system that exists for buildings. Example being the Eiffel Tower at night not being technically allowed for photography. Maybe the case for the change in design was that it was protected under copyright and Gaijin found out, was contacted about it or was denied upon trying to contact the rights owners to the building's image.

[@ValentineC137]

You can freely photograph the tower due to it's age However, the nighttime lights on it were intalled more recently and are still under protection so technically a nighttime photograph where they are turned on and visible would require a license

[@faei1897]

Which is what I was referring to@@ValentineC137

[@lemieux-z8933]

0:15 I actually found this out when I first played sim a couple years ago, I didn't understand what was I supposed to do, and after a couple strifes with the little biplane I was flying, I thought i had to land on it like a point, so I did and as soon I saw the crew being captured I immediately noped out and took off back home lol

[@sauronsrighthandman301]

The blind hunt thing is legitimately useful when you're dealing with the one guy left alive whose a billion miles away and making the match take forever.

[@commandershortsight]

“Blahåj of Warthunder aviation” lol

[@samsuddin8249]

17:36 the bumblebee sherman is based on an actual tank which was made as an OBSERVATION tank for the german army after ww2 its at display in the technik museum sinshiem in germany.also the real life sherman is diffrent then this one as the real one uses an HVSS hull fitted with a firefly turret the gun was removed and replaced for a observation point.