How you guys doing

@cyanaquamarine

6 ай бұрын

Hanging in there..!

@aidleopard7716

6 ай бұрын

waiting for you to play ST-A3 :D :D

@TheGoldenAce603

6 ай бұрын

Great

@destroyer1destroyer

6 ай бұрын

I'm balling

@mynameindutchaintmuch5282

6 ай бұрын

In school chilling watching your videos keep up the great work

Y'know what is also balanced AND uses APHE? The AS-42/47.

@me_ya_boi

6 ай бұрын

I have been asking him to play that also😂

@comradeiosif2794

6 ай бұрын

Wait, that's the Italian low tier car right?

@IlllIlIlIIlll

6 ай бұрын

​@@comradeiosif2794yes, the one with the gun mounted on a pole

@comradeiosif2794

6 ай бұрын

@@IlllIlIlIIlll maybe it's a Mandela effect thing, but I swear he's played it already I think.

@birdbrainedboy

6 ай бұрын

another thing that’s balanced and uses APHE is the t-34 1940

Just note that the telephone pole pillar thing or whatever it is stopped my 122mm shell from hitting an enemy at point blank range, getting me killed when I should've killed the enemy. Pretty great map design there.

@Rongoel

6 ай бұрын

They are straight up cylinders made from Concrete and steel. They were invented in Germany and are called Litfaßsäule

@noahsawesomevids422

6 ай бұрын

Those concrete cylinders seem to not stop any rounds of mine .. ive shot through it 3 times

@amazingjarl7147

6 ай бұрын

because youre using APHE, once it makes its way through 19mm of whatever on average, itll detonate, destroying the shell, unless you use solid shot youre not making it through there

@murmaider2

6 ай бұрын

@@noahsawesomevids422 the base is solid poured concrete, the top is a sheet metal cylinder.

@Manfred_Messer

6 ай бұрын

It is called a Litfaß pillar

0:33 Classic Spooskton being completely unaware of the black hole about the consume the entire lobby. (It is dragging him in)

Funny enough, in actual combat maneuvers , it was found that it could keep up with most other tanks of it's time. What it lacked in top speed, it made up for in gearing, and it would normally clear courses in the same timeframe as other tanks.

@wotwott2319

6 ай бұрын

if the Matilda 2 had a better engine, it would've been unstoppable

Maybe try the American T34 Heavy? I know you've played the T29 but personally I have a better experience with the T34 due to the slightly lower BR and better penetration. Solid shot is solid shot but in my experience it does a lot of damage *most* of the time. Edit: Fixed a humorous typo Edit 2: Aw, guessed it removed the heart I got.

@notfunny3397

6 ай бұрын

U got it back I think

@ThatGuyOrby

6 ай бұрын

@@notfunny3397 Yep, seems so. Quite happy about it since the T34 is by far my most played tank at this point so it'd be neat to see it covered.

@misterputin8898

6 ай бұрын

​@@ThatGuyOrbyPlayed with the T34 yesterday. Got 10 kills, 0 deaths and spawned in the nuke B-29 but we lost due to ticket bleed and couldn't drop it :(

@signs80

6 ай бұрын

I've found that 100mm and up solid shot does pretty damn good damage. Anything within the general path through the tank will get destroyed. It's not as good as APHE but it will still one shot most things unless you hit the very edge of turrets or very low under the crew from the side

my favorite APHE fact is that the tech tree 2C has more explosive filler in its shells than the IS-2

@aiedenoldstien9751

6 ай бұрын

The 2C is honestly bullying for low tier. Your armor isn't armor, it's the amount of people you have.

@bighobo7745

6 ай бұрын

To be honest, the 122's shells don't have a large filler to begin with, especially when compared to the caliber

@aiedenoldstien9751

6 ай бұрын

@bighobo7745 It's still enough to Overpressure most tanks if it enters into it.

The very first tech tree I went down when I got this game was the British. I raged so hard at the rounds at times when solid shot wouldn't actually kill anything. Then I tried the French and realized the British weren't so bad. : ^] Great vid as always, Spookston.

@aiedenoldstien9751

6 ай бұрын

The French early tier is absolutely miserable. Then you get to 4.0 and ironically you Play American tanks for a brief moment. Then the tree goes uphill as they start using HEAT and aphe. The 2.7 2C (Not the Bis.) Is a sleeper.

@JacxHoliday

6 ай бұрын

@@aiedenoldstien9751 I played long before the 2C was added in, and it was nothing but solid shots. We ended up entertaining ourselves on the grind (because of course I forced my friends to play with me too. Suffer together, amirite?) by naming the shells “leftover baguettes”. The Bis variant was such fun to play with it came out, and I wish more of their tanks were like that and the B1 for early tiers.

@aiedenoldstien9751

6 ай бұрын

@SuperJakle1337 I assume that means you played before they "Removed" the reserve vehicles. Though The B1 is also a sleeper. The German mains don't expect you to double tap them. But the stale baguettes indeed aren't the best ammo.

Hey Spookston, I just realized that me and my friend was playing together in your second to last match of the video. I'm Mikota0 and he was Twoston. When you came out of the wall and killed me saying "hola" was a legit jumpscare for me in game. It was a honor, fun match. Thanks for the fun roasts. You cooked us up real good, brother. 11:06

I've started to enjoy Spookston's use of "Are you bad guy and Teammate bad guy" It is quite comical

Aphe is one of the many reasons I love the us tree, m61 and m82 is so good. You could nake a video about the amx50 that has aphe, it seems nasty

@adamg7984

6 ай бұрын

It's one of the reasons I've quit the game, sadly. The way it grossly outperforms everything else in lethality makes it ridiculously advantageous and unbalanced. It's just especially dumb when there's pretty substantial evidence that APHE just doesn't act like or do what the game makes it do. It doesn't act like a hand grenade when it's bursting charge goes off and while it would and does cause some additional destruction it was often negligible in tank combat. Instead it's like a thermobaric bomb in War Thunder.

@AetherOnYT

6 ай бұрын

​@@adamg7984are you a Great Britain player

@borbduck

6 ай бұрын

The soviet T-34's APHE can 1shot most things, it's so satisfying I'm shocked there are no shorts with T34 gameplay below them 💀

@GeraltofRivia22

6 ай бұрын

​@@adamg7984the real problem is tanks are ridiculously survivable in War Thunder. 2 guys aren't going to keep fighting with the rest of the crew splattered around the tank. And you can't repair a busted engine in 30 seconds in real life. So solid shot, APDS and HEAT are much less effective because a hit that would kill a vehicle in real life is only a minor inconvenience in game.

@aiedenoldstien9751

6 ай бұрын

@@AetherOnYT A nation that should ironically be far better than it is in the game. The only reason it isn't is because Gajin can't make ammunition work properly. Both APHE and the AP shells do around the same damage. Now the obvious damage difference being the filler in larger shells. The man is right though, the explosion just doesn't have any momentum when it enters a tank. It just detonates and throws shrapnel everywhere. Where most of the shrapnel would keep it's momentum.

I have a recommendation if you haven't played it yet the turan 1 whenever ive used people seem to kill my machine gunner thinking its my driver and its really good at deflecting shots (dont know if its luck or not) and it has amazing reverse and foward speed (i think about 24kmh reverse fully uograded) and its all at 2.3 overall very fun tank to play

@sinterso2.036

6 ай бұрын

I forget the specific name, but the Turan 1 can go full speed in reverse actually, like 43km/hr.

@mynameindutchaintmuch5282

6 ай бұрын

@@sinterso2.036 oh thanks I actually never got it to go that fast before good to know

Spookston uploads are always right in the middle of my history class and I love it. A great source of entertainment to offset something so boring. (I love war and tank history, I just don't really care for British trade routes or whatever.)

@jeffreyhornblower6515

6 ай бұрын

History is great. It just need a good enthusiastic teacher, it is a feast of famine subject, it can be like info dump after info dump, but if you have a good teacher that wont be the case making boring info palatable

@countsudoku6305

6 ай бұрын

ye, its usually teachers and school system that makes subject boring, not subject itself being boring

@goddepersonno3782

6 ай бұрын

sad that the system has failed you so horribly history is the study of what makes a person and their culture, it's incredibly meaningful and rich when taught well

@wertypearl7015

6 ай бұрын

U find history class boring?? I’d eat that shit up if I had Social Studies again.

@bwcmakro

6 ай бұрын

It's really weird finding someone on Spookston's channel of all things saying "history is boring".

I love your content keep it up, you are the best War Thunder content creator❤️

@cookiewookie1446

6 ай бұрын

true

Spook, you are a blessing and a curse. You keep me sane with your great vids, but I can get zero work done… keep the great content coming!

i love how you can see the difference of how gaijin and CAS has affected this man from watching the first ever specific tank gameplay until now War thunder done drained his braincells (too much hstvl in mind)

I suggest you play T-10M. its a fun and kinda underrated soviet heavy tank with almost 300mm of pen on aphe :)

11:32 Yep, thats how I felt when I encountered you there. Now it makes sense why that Matilda obliterated my team, it was you XD Love your videos BTW

Love the videos Spookston ❤️ keep em coming!

I think you would greatly enjoy the Italian Ab 43. It's def a gremlin tank and it has decent pen and APHE for its BR. Also it's got the fun Italian camo

i love how spook is so chill when he dies i would be smashing my house

@Mroziukz

6 ай бұрын

Maybe because he doesn't have as much penalty for losing

I love spookston videos, this things a menace at its br. Anyway video 32 of asking spookston to play the AML-90

Gotta say your uploads are the only thing I watch lately, keep up the good work

On one hand I love aphe since it is a lot more easier to one shot people but on the hand given how french tanks and british ones do use solid shot it can work if there is backup like good armor or a fast reload.

Once Update 2.33 'Air Superiority' goes live in a few weeks, I feel like the T-90M will be the first video covering the new vehicles that Spookston will do.

@liladoodle

6 ай бұрын

F-15, JAS 39, & SU-27: "Am I a joke to you?".

@jPlanerv2

6 ай бұрын

@@liladoodle these are planes spookson doesnt care about planes

Please play The M3A3 Bradley. It's missiles are a lot easier to use now, but it still suffers a bit

@aiedenoldstien9751

6 ай бұрын

Well I mean it's not like it can be overpressured by getting hit in the track while the Marders and BMPs can't for some reason

7:32 thats actually the easiest to pen part of the entire matilda tank, however it normally does 0 damage if hit because its extending out te main hull

Hey spookston thank ya for the amazing content just want to say we appreciate the effort you put into youre videos man take care and enjoy dude why dont you just play youre favorite tank next vid you deserve it

Gajin casually modeling solid shot so it makes other nations harder to use and Russia directly better. Despite both shells irl having similar performance.

If APHE was fixed to deal its historical lower damage more akin to AP, that would be the best single change in this game's last 5 years by a mile and improve the game SO MUCH.

@aiedenoldstien9751

6 ай бұрын

Either that or Buff AP to its historical damage.

@PanzerHistorian

6 ай бұрын

they can’t. given how the big three nation’s are the most played/dominant nation’s, nerfing it will lose Thousend’s of player’s from playing those nation’s

@aiedenoldstien9751

6 ай бұрын

@@PanzerHistorian Then why add the other nations to begin with? They want people to play all the nations, make all the nations viable.

@commanderdon4300

6 ай бұрын

APHE rant incoming... If it was historically accurate then it would have worse ballistics and penetration across the board. The shrapnel from the blast would only travel forwards because the explosive is not enough to overcome the inertia, and it would create only a small amount more spalling in a marginally wider spread. It would also have to have a pretty high chance of premature detonation when it hits a tank, this would of course ruin penetration. And It would also have to have a fair chance of not exploding when it penetrates a tank, like it goes in and hits the back wall of the tank and falls to the floor without exploding. If it penetrated a tank where the armour was too close to the max penetration maybe 75% of it's max pen, it would have deformed too much to detonate inside the tanks thus would not explode. In these instances it would be like a worse solid shot round. And Russian APHE rounds would have to have the very highest values in these failures because it was famously unreliable for the Russians. The British tested is extensively before the war with their 2 pounder gun, they were the only nation to do so which is why they never developed any APHE outside of the test rounds for the 2 pounder. They knew the trade off for slightly more spalling and spread for a round that was worse in every area was not worth it at all. After the war only the Russians kept trying (unsuccessfully) to make it work, everyone else in the world dropped it in favour of Solid shot and APDS then later APFSDS. APHE never worked as intended and it's showing in War Thunder is a complete fantasy, a total work of fiction.

@XSpamDragonX

6 ай бұрын

​@@commanderdon4300It's blatant Russian propaganda to pander to the soviet goblins that play this game. Take a look at the Russian forums and you'll realise pretty quick how much they break the laws of physics and actual historical fact to "fix" anything their Russian playerbase cries about.

"Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, you'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me" Australia's army march is based off the notes for this song.

Epic video! Now time to ask to please play the chieftain once again (video 10?).

Day 11 of asking for Leopard 1

That frickin random pillar at 1:19 also shocked me when my 120mm AP (T34) just didnt pen right through it resulting me dying to a Tiger 2(H)

The collab we never knew we needed. No more oddballs, we need spookston and twoston

Spookston you should try playing the M4A3 (105) with the observation tank camo. would be funny to see how many kills you could get with a bright yellow Sherman at low tier.

I’m new to your content and War thunder! How did you learn so much about tanks and ammo?

Wanted to get this but just checked, it's 200 GJ. So, I will live vicariously through Spookston.

Love ya spookston!

FINALLY THANK YOU SPOOK

As an Australian i appreciate the waltzing matilda joke

Doesn't have to be winter to see spookston ice skating in a tank across the roads.

8:20 that .50 was anti matter appearlently, if you look at spookston's damage model the back of the tank glitches out for the rest of the match

Would love to see an uncommon soviet tank destroyer get showcased, like the SU-100P. Great pen for br, only thing is it is open topped (day 87)

@spookston, the matilda including the soviet variant is 3.472 or 3.472222 times faster than walking speed, the average walking speed is 2 m/s (7.2 km/h) and the matilda goes 6.944444 m/s (25 km/h), 7.2 fits 3.472 times in 25. so the matilda doesnt go at walking pace

Me waiting for the entire day for Spookston video to get my daily dose of serotonin :D Also can you play jumbo 75mm?

I remember seeing this once and it was back during the 2020 lockdown and i think the guy who played it was ash and 1 shotted it with the italian stuart via turret ring, And i hope you play the AMX M4 and casually penning panthers' ufp

Got this tank in an April SL crate which was a nice surprise

My Friday tradition. Pizza and Spookston vid

You killed me! I was the B1 at the beginning of the video hahah

Would live to see you play the 3.0 jumbo (m4a3 105), it can be op but can also suck

Spookston! An idea for a vehicle that absolutely fits your play style? The Super Hellcat premium. It’s a M18 with a Pershing cannon at 6.3. It is an absolute flank king and a menace in a downtier. No armour? Best armour

The most kills spookston has had in my memory was 22 in the T14

i never expected spook would use dead space as a meme template

Man I always watch your videos seeing you wrecking noobs then I go to play and realize I'm the noob getting rekt XD

I was going to suggest this tank. Really interesting historically.

nuke ammo is when they have more than 190g tnt and when it explodes it overpressures

2:40 the legendary oop, then an ope a bit later...

1:18 That is Pulowski preservation shelter.

I think that random pillar at the start was a newspaper holder thingy, idk tho, sweden is weird and therefore sweden

6:45 Oh hai Spookston.

Finals week, very busy, but on the bright side it finally snowed.

5:00 i get waltzing matilda theres a song about it too :D

That beginning had me rolling lolol

You should play the Swedish Pbv 501, mostly because it's going to be in my lineup in the future and I want to see it in action.

I would love to see you play the RU 251, its by far my favorite tank!

That exact pole had me in shambles as it completely engulfed my IS-2 Shot, I could only watch as my tank got taken apart piece by piece

I learned a lot of english viewing your videos, sigue asi

Not even a minute in to the video and Spookston is already suffering.

I hope you're doing well Spookston

The editor should play eurobeat when packetloss makes the tank drift

Hey m8, you always make me laugh when i watch your videos, could you play w the T54 next time?

The dead space 3 reference for aphe is the perfect example for spalling in the the shell.

I think Spookston would enjoy playing the M2A2

Play as 42/47 I’ve had a great time with it and it’s suprisly good for low tier Italy. It is also a gremlin.

I like to imagine when spookston plays sliw tanks that hes just stumbling around in a drunken stupor getting in a slapping match now and then

Would love to see a video on the M43 75/46 please bro

I have this thing in wot for a long time and it's the first tank I got a kalabanov in so I am kind of sentimental to it.

those concrete with metal sheathing pillars are able to stop APFSDS cold. because that makes sense.

6:03 the guy in your squad named "einsatzgruppenSS" is just quintessential war thunder...

-2 depression? Jesus Christ... The slightest bump in the road is your mortal enemy.

Gajin "You don't have connection so of course you want to go into the wall (ground if air rb)"

you should try the lvt 4 zis 2,, its like a better lvt at 2.3

i play warthunder a lot 6+ hour sessions when i play i never have had these connection issues....id look at ur cables in the house if its cold and its in ur addict or the connection outside it can freeze and also splitters have numbers on them and where the drops are allowed and the cable box thats hooked up to your router should always be hooked up to the number with the least amount of drop...i forgot the numbers but check those splitters and check ur rj45 connectors on ur ethernet cable

This is one of the event vehicles I do wish I do refer not getting. It looks like a lot of fun. Thank you spook, have a great day. Request- make an arcade video

Love your content

btw for thise that don't know 4:55 is referencing "waltzing matilda" which is an australian folk song

As an Aussie that waltzing joke made me chuckle

You should totally do the T 64b

i need Jagdtiger...it fits your playstyle so well

One must imagine a spookston video without at least one CAS death

@TainyaGaming

6 ай бұрын

Man is seal clubbing lowtier and complains about his only weakness

It's crazy watching those awards constantly rolling on the top screen 10:30 I felt at that point you had earned that bomb

Play the breda 501, its totally OP since the gun can now turn quite a lot

Hey Spookston! When are you gonna play the M3 GMC? It's a really cool little truck :)

Spookston you should play the isu-152 or the su-152

"thank you for ramming me i really appreciate that" -spookston 2023.

Love your videos bro to cool 😎

The gun mantlet on that matilda reminds me of those images of dogs that had their face stung by a bee and it's all swollen.

The vibration issue happens in Enlisted too, especially with anti tank guns.

i have just had a game in the sherman 105, where i got bombed three times in 10 seconds, i guess i have been infected with the spookston curse