Still feeling really under the weather but I hope you guys are doing well

@somethingsomethingcrotasen1643

9 ай бұрын

If you need to take a brake, do it man we all support you and your health.

@gartac0110

9 ай бұрын

Hope you get better!

@FatherGrigori

9 ай бұрын

Hope you get better

@Skill_1ssue

9 ай бұрын

Get well soon?

@yuritrainspotting

9 ай бұрын

Get well soon

This thing is a hidden gem and it should stay that way

@nikoclesceri2267

9 ай бұрын

Watch it get up tiered to 4.7 because Italy can’t have anything fun

@FirstDagger

9 ай бұрын

I think you underestimate Spooks reach, this will go up now.

@mashedpotato7219

9 ай бұрын

Not for long

@ragnarokstravius2074

9 ай бұрын

​@@FirstDaggerRemember that Kinetic Missile IFV? That got nerfed the day after Spookston's video?

@ushiki2212

9 ай бұрын

sherman at 3.3 is a better tank. i dont think they will move this up anytime soon.

14:08 friendly fire will not be tolerated

@zack9697

Күн бұрын

Maaaan i wanted to bad to post that

"I'm so out of it" Proceeds to get a 14 tank killstreak. Ok Spooks, ok.

@BrennanGautreau

2 ай бұрын

Seriously. Every time Spookston starts recording: “bro I’m so out of it.”

@connivingkhajiit

6 күн бұрын

dont forget he has like 13,000 hours in the game. 13 thousand!

The team letting you down when you cap all the points and kill half of the enemy is about 95% of the War Thunder experience.

@imnomoremaverick

9 ай бұрын

Literally finished a ground arcade match in my lineup (M60A1 AOS,RISE P and T95E1) in a 9.0 match on 3-point Sinai (the one with the big desert) I captured the point in the city near my spawn and managed to kill SEVEN guys alone with my AOS,even two A1A1s. Then spawned with my RISE and killed another 4 guys,but the match was lost because even tho i mowed the enemy team and slowly crawled through their point, my team refused to advance and was slowly picked up by the campers in the open desert. What a shame

@derpfin5145

9 ай бұрын

@@imnomoremaverick I've noticed that, I go into a match and then I push towards the caps and middle of the map, engage some enemies and then look at the minimap and notice that my WHOLE team are just sitting at that line in the middle of our cap and spawn and im the only one that pushed at all and have to engage EVERY enemy by myself and die because I have no support and then we end up losing because my team are so dumb that they can't push and have to stay back and get picked off one by one

@imnomoremaverick

9 ай бұрын

@@derpfin5145 yeah that's honestly irritating,but let's look at the bright side:when you do that,you basically turn your brain off and the enemy is caught off guard and starts shooting at you. This is one thing that I love about this BR bracket: the fact that sometimes i can block many shots and fight till the last breath. Like,in another match my team had me and 3 others left and the enemy team only 2,and they were winning.I Won a 1v2 with my T95E1,secured the cap and won simply because i turned off the brain and let the muscle memory to kick in

@aiedenoldstien9751

9 ай бұрын

Sometimes it's just unfortunate luck for a lot of people. Other times it's the fact that randomly people decide to just not to play objective. Although so many times I try to play objective and hold the line, I get screwed by volumetric randomly eating a shell and have to deal with the one guy who just goes full monkey brain and just says "bad team".

@Strv103Moment

9 ай бұрын

​@@derpfin5145I end up with the camp and die teams too.Its utterly sad how you can go though half of the team and then look at the leaderboard and see just how utterly crap people are while they say "We are playing to have fun" atleast thats what I hear from germany,ussr and usa players after they run right though open area without no backup or bother

Haha, the medium tank is actually what everyone think of it, it’s actually a Heavy in the Italians’ eyes

@matthiuskoenig3378

9 ай бұрын

Yes and no, If you look at what the italian doctrine describes the roller of a Carro Pesante (heavy tank) as it would be more accurate to call it a medium support tank. The Italians did not see heavy tanks as heavy breakthrough vehicles but medium tanks with bigger guns. The requirements didd not require the tank to have more armour than a medium and required it to maintain the same road speed as a medium tank.

@matthiuskoenig3378

9 ай бұрын

Think of Italian heavy tanks as the same as the orginal role of the panzer 4.

@Scarletraven87

9 ай бұрын

@@matthiuskoenig3378 unsurprising considering that the only fortified/trench warfare we saw was on alpine ground. Can't have spearheading tanks there.

@TheEnricoMicheli

9 ай бұрын

@@matthiuskoenig3378 The main Ansaldo designer literally calls the Pz4 the "German heavy tank" when writing about heavy tanks

@panther-nk2hn

9 ай бұрын

@@TheEnricoMicheli Makes you wonder what went through his head when he saw the Tiger and the Panther

If you want to go even higher in ap explosive amount, use the 90/53

@Rubensflow

9 ай бұрын

Imagine a p40 with the 90/53

@macinatire3769

9 ай бұрын

​@@Rubensflowthat was actually something the Italians thought of with the p43

@casematecardinal

9 ай бұрын

@@macinatire3769 it had a prototype aswell if I remember correctly

@tubbista

9 ай бұрын

@@casematecardinal unfortunately not

@mahinakbari1647

9 ай бұрын

Ah, yes, Italian spicy meat balls

14:03 Spookston is becoming aware

As a fellow Italian player, it is nice to see you play the Italian tech tree and especially the great vehicles it has

@cabriskus4700

9 ай бұрын

“Great”

@Qs_Internet_Cafe

6 ай бұрын

"Great"

@alarminglyfastmovingskelet7289

3 ай бұрын

They are great you two shut up.

@Am_in_the_horto

8 күн бұрын

Well, rank 1 is shit. Rank 2 onwards is actually rlly fun and not bad at all. So, hate rank 1, but as Italy main, ik that it's tanks and planes can sometimes be goated (cough cough - Sagittario 2) Edit: Tf did I write an essay for lol

Italian and French vehicles are some of the quirkiest in the game, which makes them really fun to goof around with. The D2 especially has some really goofy side armor. Also, like the gargoyle I am, I'm gonna suggest the ARL-44 again. :)

@goose375

9 ай бұрын

ARL-44 is hilarious indeed

@conscientiam_sui7385

9 ай бұрын

​@@goose375the 90mm on the ARL and AMX M4 had a massive glow up thanks to the APBC round with over 240 mm of pen and excellent angle performance I highly recommend spookston

@kiksiidiriiksii7194

9 ай бұрын

But which one? :0

@conscientiam_sui7385

9 ай бұрын

@@kiksiidiriiksii7194 either tbh

@geeb115

9 ай бұрын

Funny, I play Italy and France almost exclusively; still, with France at 7.0 having nothing but HEAT shells, the heavy armor meta makes me want to throttle someone.

I have now been given a reason to play Italy, considering I'm stuck at 2.3-2.7. The P40 is one of those tanks that you think is made of paper, but it isn't.

@FifingFossil

9 ай бұрын

P40 and samoventes are soo fun to play. I love killing t-34 hitting cheeks when they can't pen P40. TD's are like "tap to explode enemy tank" XD

@AimlessSavant

9 ай бұрын

​@@FifingFossilah yes. The Suavamente c:

@crazyadam9281

9 ай бұрын

The real struggle is Italy rank IV-V.

@FifingFossil

9 ай бұрын

@@crazyadam9281 yep, M4 fireflys and m26/m47 are a chore in comparsion, but AUBL/C13 and fiat 6616/R3-T106 make you a god of speed. OF-40 is great, it is Leo 1 but with slighly better armour and laser

@lessermoon8060

9 ай бұрын

​@@FifingFossil Personally I find the armor/volumetric pretty much the same performance as Leopard 1 rather than better but that's intended for copying the design ofc R3-T106 is so damn fun

I've overpressured KV-1Es, 105 Shermans, STuHs, and even an Abrams once. The P40 is by far the best tank i've ever played and I hope Gaijin doesn't change a single thing about it.

@thetoastedsniper5760

9 ай бұрын

I love the Breda 501 even though it barley has any armor it’s gun and maneuverability is it’s strong point

@cortexoftheego4568

6 ай бұрын

abrams? you mean that you blowed up its ammo stack, protected by very thin armor.

@timharnans

3 күн бұрын

@@cortexoftheego4568 it has 37mm armour right over the driver's head iirc

The #1 at the end of a name means that they tried to use their username but it was, supposedly, already taken. Mine was, somehow, taken already according to Gaijin and so at first the name was all screwed up in-game with a bunch of weird characters about halfway through. So I tried to use my one free name change and Gaijin decided my name was already taken... which I somehow doubt, and so they just tacked on the #1 at the end. Given my name is oddly specific and usual, I have a feeling my initial entry was actually registered correctly with their database but in-game it was all garbled... somehow? Spaghetti code go brrrrr. No idea if anything similar happened with the other players, but that's usually what the #1 is, it means they tried to take a username that was at least registered in the servers already.

@n147258noah

2 ай бұрын

My steam account and my username when I first signed up at the same. My original account's research got wiped but the account still exists, so my steam account has almost the same amount of research completed.

I play the p40 all the time in Italy and I love using it, it's heat rounds melt through anything and I started primarily using those after one match I ran out of ammo with AP rounds so I started using heat and I realized I didn't need to double tap half the enemy's I shot

@theBrid-gv8je

9 ай бұрын

Also love hitting open tops that you can't pen with the HEAT shell and simply overpressuring them

@ManySighs

9 ай бұрын

At some points I just stopped using the P40 and started using the pnz 3 instead it’s just faster with about the same armor

@m.t.fguard8309

9 ай бұрын

@@ManySighs that one's really fun to

@m.t.fguard8309

9 ай бұрын

@@theBrid-gv8je I shot an m10 and I hit 50 caliber with a heat round and just everything got Thanos snapped

@theBrid-gv8je

9 ай бұрын

@@m.t.fguard8309 You don't even need to be that accurate with it, any hit near the top does the trick

Funny thing : the "P" letter in P40 stand for "pesante" that means "heavy", the tank was invented as "heavy tank"

0:48 "Is that a 2C? I can't "C" it very well" Pun intentional

0:41 Striking him directly on his "Good Luck" emblem is poetic

Well this might actually get me to grind to get the p40 since it’s by spookston and he shows what tanks are capable of

@erikkusters378

9 ай бұрын

He got me to buy the chi nu 2 and it was totally worth it that thing is amazing.

@Germanempireaboolilel

9 ай бұрын

It's not worth it. It's literally just a Sherman but with worse armor, pen and mobility.

@miltank180

9 ай бұрын

Worse mobility? Sure, worse gun? Debatable, the Sherman has like 100 something mm of pen with the aphe but way worse filler, if the p40 pen It Will oneshot unless you hit the engine or the game screws you over, now worse armor i call bs on that, an angled p40 can bounce a ton of shells with the only weakness being the turret, the Sherman on the other hand depending on which One has insane weakspots in the hull and in the turret, the p40 can oneshot every sherman he faces, even shooting the lower plate Is fine, avoid the trasmission and the Sherman Is gone.

@miltank180

9 ай бұрын

I mean, it's 3.3 It doesen't take much to grind it and at this br Is one of the funniest lineups, the p40, the semovente with 100mm armor, the m42, the panzer3 N and the semovente 105, i love 3.0/3.3 italy

@747simmer4

9 ай бұрын

low tier italy wasnt bad to grind through but i did that a year and a half ago so im not sure if the grind has gotten harder

"How did I not see that?" Spookston trying to find a ant on hill 500m away.

I am convinced Spookston has never experienced room-temperature.

It helps to have more explosive mass than the IS2

@panther-nk2hn

9 ай бұрын

nuclear bombs

@vannlo355

9 ай бұрын

Why wouldnt they design the IS2 shell to have as much HE filler as possible?

@Ballistics_Computer

9 ай бұрын

@@vannlo355 structural integrity most likely

@Chimera262

9 ай бұрын

how?!

@Ballistics_Computer

9 ай бұрын

@@Chimera262 the secret spaghetti sauce

10:37 They recently changed how usernames work in the latest update, so many people who play War Thunder through Steam had their names reverted/changed to their Steam names. And because you can have countless Steam users with the same name the #(number) is being used to identify/differentiate between different users.

spookston: kills a barrel also spookston: did he fire a smoke shell at me

@alexturnbackthearmy1907

9 ай бұрын

Also: Shoots valentine in ONLY place where he would do nothing. If he aimed at any part of hull it will be done in 1 shot.

The AB 43 would have my wholehearted recommendation if your playing Italy. Fires a good round, amazing speed, no armour best armour.

@dulguunjargal1199

9 ай бұрын

Thr Italian Puma Its a reliable boy

@quicksite0

9 ай бұрын

i nonpenned a kv-2 turrets side using that

@zacharytang3840

9 ай бұрын

@@quicksite0the pen is pretty bad but it is a speedy recon boi

@zacharytang3840

9 ай бұрын

If you encounter a heavy just run

@roadrunner5424

9 ай бұрын

Also the turn rate is really good

Thanks for this video about our creation (Me and Kolin0) done years ago for the game. We always appreciate when someone enjoy and have fun with our vehicles (we did also the Semoventes , the Sahariano and the Lancia 3ro)

@CelicaDan

Ай бұрын

Thank you for your service

I WAS THE 2C YOU KILLED :D

@MotherSoren

Ай бұрын

yippie!!!

@AidenColson

Ай бұрын

Get better

@kartikghora2212

Ай бұрын

😂😂​@@AidenColson

@xenoanimations527

Ай бұрын

skill issue

@chonk4101

Ай бұрын

​​@@xenoanimations527 yo stfu you probably ain't any better at the game you lvl 9

Just as an aside, this thing is also unique for having a unique sight you can activate without changing anything, even on console where you don’t have access to the WT page.

You should play the Class 3 (p) It’s ridiculously big

@747simmer4

9 ай бұрын

no for real. that thing is massive

@philfree286

9 ай бұрын

@@747simmer4 Ikr, you could put the entire Bundeswehr in 10 of those glorified school bus

@LaneB16

9 ай бұрын

Been wanting him to play it for ages

Thank you very much for playing with it!, your videos are incredible, keep it up!

The P40 is a wonderful tank to pair with the Semovente 43/34 (the one at 3.3). One has a turret, he other has 100mm of armor on the front (75+25), making them a deadly combo when against lighter tanks (aphe) and heavier tanks (heat). KVs will still give you trouble sadly.

@mashedpotato7219

9 ай бұрын

The KV tanks give everyone trouble

@Vortex-7358

9 ай бұрын

most KVs are can be taken out relatively easily if you know where to aim. its that up armored one that is more or less invulnerable

@KappuccinoXVIII

7 ай бұрын

For the KV's you can use the 105mm M43 that is 3.0, it has better pen, better tnt filler, but less armour

thanks for featuring this. This is a tank that i realized was a mosnter a year ago. Helped me get to the centauro quicker than it took me to get to the equivelant AMX-30 with the premium one for the french

I actually just recently started playing the P40 while I'm setting up a lineup for the Turan III and I always knew the P40 was a at least a decent tank since it was the only low tier italian tank I struggled to fight in my low tier Sherman's but actually taking it out myself had been way more pleasant than I could have ever expected

I was that m3 you killed in the second match. That was me... Specifically the one at 6:32

Spookston enjoying himself and having a genuinely good time playing a vehicle? Next video is going to be absolutely cursed for Spookston.

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. I am not gonna surrender in proposing this. (Day 99)

The P40 for me was the light at the end of the tunnel that is the Italian med tank line I also just checked that P40 can have 100+mm of effective armor when angled

Italian shells are very interesting. Usually less pen than everyone else but assuming it does pen it's usually a really big boom

Im glad you made a video on this, I LOVE the P40. My most commonly played tank.

7:05 trying not to cry xd

During my whole Italian grind I had the most fun in the P40. It really is a good vechile.

I love the P40, always angle the side of the front plate that has the extra armor plate. Its incredibly trolly and often bounces and tanks shots

The #1 thing is when you try to change your username to something that is already taken, gaijin suggests adding a #1 to the end and if you press the change username button again it automatically changes it to the name with the #1 at the end, it then costs like 1000 ge to change your username again

Gotta love how aggressive the voice likes for the guy rangefinding targets are

You should play the Italian tank Destroyer with 100mm of front armour, it has this same 75mm gun but more armour you can angle it a little to.

Little tip in uptiers switch the ap with the heat and downtiers keep ap. Also the p40 is a angling beast. Also video on 3.7 arl pls

I am happy to hear a Who Killed Captain Alex reference in your videos Spook 😂

That was interesting. Also your plush is really cool. Enjoy having it in my living room

2:11 indeed

You should really play the "Turan I" at (2.3 or 2.7, I don't remember). it's APHE basically worse solid shot that has like 15g of explosive filler.

7:03 is easily the best picture you have every included in your videos

As someone who plays the P40 a lot, the whole time I’m just shouting “ANGLE!”

Spook always jinxed himself 🗿

Yay! Another banger from my favorite wt cc. And a Italian vehicle nonetheless 😊

Thanks for doing a video on an Italian tank while I'm in Italy my dude

Received my spookston plush the other day and am loving it adding it to my collection of content creators plushies

You should try the italian AB 43, the mobility is really really good and it has a pretty good gun for its BR.

You should make a video on the Turan III in the Hungarian tech tree. It’s armor is average but it gets an insane amount of Pen on its PG round for low tier, something like 113mm of pen

@airsoftpopcorn

9 ай бұрын

It is just a worse armored pz4h

@TheLordNovo

9 ай бұрын

@@airsoftpopcorntrue, but I went to check the armor analysis on it after my KV2 got one shot by one almost a kilometer away, it gets like 113 mm of pen at 800m, and like 123 at 500. It’s fun is fucking insane. Definition of a glass cannon

@jPlanerv2

9 ай бұрын

@@airsoftpopcorn you mean better

@airsoftpopcorn

9 ай бұрын

@@jPlanerv2 how is it better

@airsoftpopcorn

9 ай бұрын

@@TheLordNovo it is the exact same gun that the pz4h and j have, but at a higher battle rating

This man always be playin when he’s “out of it” and still mercs everyone.

Started War Thunder around a month ago and couldn’t find a tech tree that felt like it was doing what I enjoyed until I started playing the Italian one, and the P40 was super surprising. I had it in the line up as “something to use when my good tanks are dead” but found it was the one I was actually performing best with at its BR. It isn’t a beast, but it just kind of performs slightly better than expected in pretty much everything. A bit more survivable than expected, hits a bit harder than expected, can get around a bit faster than expected. I like the lil guy.

If you enjoyed the p40, you should definitely play the japanese Ho-I, it is at 2.0 with an aphe round that has about 400g of explosive filler, as compared to the p40 with 270g, makes it an absolute monster

@theoneandonlyartyom

9 ай бұрын

yeah 400mg of he filler to cause a minor inconvenience to crew

@jonnoMoto

9 ай бұрын

Milligrams?

(Day 31) Really wanted to see you try out the French Lorraine 37L, it's an open top tank destroyer with 47mm gun that has a 104mm of penetration, it's a fun vehicle to play around

I’m gobsmacked you can see B from that position in your first kill, I’ll have to keep an eye on there

"Even when you pop off your team can just let you down so hard. My backpack isnt big enough for everyone." Real Kurt Knispel feels right there.

The P40's turret has 45mm+45mm armor all over the turret face, which is why it's so absurdly tanky. Also, since you played the P40, you have to play the 75/34 M43. 100mm of spaced 25+75mm armour up front at 3.3 is really OP.

The mobility is pretty good. Acceleration is definitely good and it maintains its speed on terrain.

you get #1 when the nickname you want is taken

This is just the Scorpion Tank in Generals and the bgm Spookston uses fits well lol

Day 46 of asking Spookston to play the ikv 72

Day 23 of requesting CV9030fin , since you had a blast with other terrible IFV's this one should be fun.

Angling the P40 practically makes you invincible and I love it.

Spookson: Man I am really out of it -> *dumpsters opposing team*

Day 12 for Chi Ha LG

Spookston that dodgeball sfx at 9:57 got me dead XD

You say your suprised you see half the targets you do, I cant see most of them. Honestly, good job.

and thus spooks became an italian main, our numbers shall continue to grow

That dice roll was pretty fun lol

It's really funny cuz irl this and other Italian tanks were death traps. The rivets in place of welds would explode with the lightest impact and shoot off into the tank like shrapnel even if it was a grazing blow. Parts would fall off and crews would get shredded

@aiedenoldstien9751

9 ай бұрын

I don't know if it would be worse to die from your tank popping apart like a lego character or dying to spall from a terrible weld job.

@yubisnake

9 ай бұрын

@@aiedenoldstien9751 and we can't even ask the ones that got hit because they went the Lego route

@aiedenoldstien9751

9 ай бұрын

@@yubisnake Can't ask the other side either as the spalling more or less liquified them. They'd have really helped Gajin make a more realistic game like they pride themselves on. Although I do understand that they can't make it 100% realistic for gameplay purposes, but they could step up other parts.

If you are still curious about the #1 suffix of player nickname, that's actually some steam related naming feature to identify players with identical names AFAIK (as you might be aware of it's possible for steam users to create accounts with identical names).

I'm happy that you tried it. All the old videos about the P-40 call it a bad tank, meanwhile i was sure it was good because i suck at war thunder but i was getting kills with it, so by logic it couldn't possibly be bad.

Spookston try not to say Jeez-louise every 2 minutes challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

Spookston, if you like big booms take out the PV-2D in ground RB. It carries 6 MASSIVE sea mines that drop individually and has also EIGHT .50cals in the nose. It is awesome.

I think I’ve only seen spooks enjoying himself when he is in low tier tanks or in he slingers

I had a dream where I was watching a new war thunder video you made. You were playing on a city map and were trapped next to your teammates bc they all decided to push the same corner to meet the enemy push. Suddenly an enemy Technical drives into frame and "Tides of Wrath" from C&C Generals starts playing while it eats a few tank rounds. It survives for another minute by crazily driving back and forth round the wreckage. You land the kill shot, the music stops, and the Enel face gif plays on screen. That's it. It ended after that. Nothing seemed out of place, and you were talking like it was a normal video. Idk what this means. Besides that, War Thunder is getting a Technical added to the game at some point.

Im convinced spookston lives in alog cabin with no heat or ac

13:22 bro is just vibin' in the chill corner.

Finally! I’ve enjoyed the P40 since starting the Italian tt and has always been one of my favorite vehicles It’s always fun to play Italy 3.3 and 4.7/5.3 when grinding at 10.3 Especially the TD’s and Breda 501 and 90/53

14:20 you don't have to hate yourself!!

awesome video as ussual. i think we have not seen obj 268 in a while :)

hey spookston you can do a CAS video with this, there is a italian strike aircraft somewhere around rank 1 with a 102mm cannon on it

i love how every other phrase is jeez louise

The P40 and their casemate TDs at the 3.0 to 3.7 range is just this insane little line up of fun hard hitting tanks with sometimes frankly comically thick armor and kinda shows that Italy knew how to build great tanks they just weren't ready when Adolf decided to kick things off early

@matthiuskoenig3378

9 ай бұрын

Even the m14/41 isn't that bad when you consider it's a anti-infantry mountain tank (and has surprisingly good breakdown/repair rate. At 2nd Alamein they had the 2nd best reliability, 2nd only to the valentine and greater than the sherman)

@michaelkeha

9 ай бұрын

​@@matthiuskoenig3378 more so when you consider that it's entire family are essentially pre war designs that just had to keep fighting into the war due to industrial limitations and arguably during the inter war period they were some of if not the best tanks you could ask for

I won a million sl from a daily crate while watching this, thank you spookston

Hey Spookston you should play the doom tutel, the T95. Tigers and panthers got up tiered to 6.0 and the tutel eats them alive

watching you get cas'd must've given me ptsd or something. I actually had a nightmare where an A-10 without wings just gremlin'd his way through the battlefield to take you out. At least you two traded tho.

Finally, the tank I wanted Spookston to play

AMX-13 DCA 40 is another fun vehicle, basically a 4.3 cv9040 on crack with no restricting first stage ammo and a built in 40mm nitro to get to early game rat spots, would recommend playing it.

I know this is early for the topic, but are you going to make a best / worst of 2023 compilation for the end of this year? You've made a lot of really good videos this year and perhaps it wont be easy picking out the highlights. Really good video as always!

I'll be honest, on the USA lineup I had there were no "long distance" tanks that could really dance with panthers. So on said long distance maps I'd just leave instead of banging my head against a wall with a sherman or gun carriage at long range vs a panther.

Spookston slowly becoming an Italian main:

love ya spookston thanks for making my day