The Weirdest Heavy Tank
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The Soviet Mk-IX Valentine medium tank in War Thunder is a very strange and rare vehicle. It's supposed to support infantry, but its armor isn't very strong, it doesn't have a coax MG, and it is quite slow. Its armament is very strong, but that's the only thing it has going for it.
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The Weirdest Heavy Tank
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Day 130 of asking spookston to play the 15cm sIG 33b sfl
SPOOKIEEEEEE :DDDDDDDD
Cool, day 41 asking for 75/18m41
Så sant @@SwedishGunTree
I will welcome this annually as a video!
Playing the valentine on valentines day, truly a war thunder gamer moment
i was gonna say the same thing XD Happy Valentines day!
😕
😂
Also played only valentine today
😂😂
Thousanth like
having a 17 kill match while your team is polishing their brains into oblivion has to be the most warthunder experience there is
Me when I get 9 kills:
They are ironing out their brain because it has too many wrinkles
Something about that map - I do fairly well, it's a nice map, but I always end up chasing the enemies from cap to cap while half of both teams leave immediately and a quarter are useless. So many times I've been in a slow tank just inching towards the cap while I run out of tickets on that map
@@enterchannelname8981 the noobs never take the high ground at C, they either rush low on A or C, disregard B and get flanked to hell
@@B-52H
My brain Your brain
-smooth -bumpy weird
-no winkles -GROSS WINKLES
-cute -UGLY!!
No where near as confusing as the British centurion AVRE…. The best engineering vehicle ever made.
War Thunder Demoman
@@dulguunjargal1199nah that’s the M728 CEV, because it makes you want to drink yourself into a coma
@@LettuceGayming I bought the cev thinking it was good, and it is ok IF you know where to shoot (tracks appear to be a universal OP point
and it came to the game xD
7:59 fun fact in real life it was actually quite fast, not in terms of max speed but average speed. it was faster than most light tanks offroad, and faster than all light tanks over long distances even on roads. As a result the british used it as a cruiser tank sometimes, and the soviets used it as a light tank.
So is the speed wrong ingame?
@@holdencross5904time to leak some really old docs
@@holdencross5904 not necessarily, its more that it was a tank that could sustain a good average speed than could reach a high one
I did not have fun
@@joshcorbett9674 I always love to lead with the fact the Valentine tank was a light tank.
Fun fact : In North Africa, a few 6-pounder Valentines got modified by the REME so they can receive a .30 cal machine-gun back at the breech block and shoot through the empty barrel ! Genius !
REME after the modification: sometimes my genius, it generates gravity.
That is such a REME thing to do
Genius is putting one in the first place
@@aircraftnut15 It was an extemporised solution to get a 6 pounder into the tank's original 2 pounder turret, they had to delete the BESA to make room.. Later on they made a new turret that had a BESA again.
@@edireland8983 exactly my point. Just design a new turret instead of taking away a machine gun when your doctrine is to support infantry.
Spookston bingo:
[x] jeez Louise
[x] oop
[x] *PFFFFFFF* noise
[x] left dead in the water by his team
[x] pestered by CAS
[x] gets scared by something
[x] excuse me?
Its pronounced
Ope
[x] Uses any tank as a light tank
mid western dialect
steel pipes
Pestered but didn’t die. Quite the accomplishment.
Spookston putting 16 kills into the thumbnail, while getting 17 kills:
"My goals are beyond your comprehension"
perhaps he didn’t want to make a new graphic again
He literally got 17 in the first match lmao
Its one of those tanks I hate to play but also hate to face. Never works for me.
I use the one with the 75mm and it's pretty much invincible unless you face panzer 4s
@@Rorywizzit's got big weak spots. It was designed to be proof against 37mm being a pre war tank. Use the in game armour vier and protection map to see its weak points. It's stronger in reverse then frontally
Me with the M41 and T34 lmao
Good way of putting it
too bad it has a garbage reverse gear@@solreaver83
Normally, Bo Time Gaming does a video on the Soviet Valentine Mk. IX every year. Now Spookston has joined in on the action, nice to see someone else get on board with the tradition.
Thats actually the only reason i know the soviet one exists
True! Wonder if that will be the video for tomorrow.
Lets see spookston play the british crusaider "the saint", because its a rare case where low tier british has APHE, fast reload rate AND a stabilizer in one tank.
Its Aphe is pretty good for a low tier tank. Though its Stabilizer "works"
yep its OP
I am pretty sure all of the rank I 40mms for Britain have APHE
@lubomiraposova9749 It's not that Op. It's a solid tank but it isn't op. It's got a pretty good gun with no real armor.
Just played this thing recently.
It's a fantastic vehicle and very fun to play unlike most of the British Techtree.
Spook, I think you should revisit the Falcon now it's gone up to 8.3 in the recent BR changes. Usually, this makes certain tanks worse (*cough* Char 25T *cough*), but I think the Falcon just got better. A reasonable number of 9.3 tanks are very much edible, such as the MBT-70/KPz, the rare Type 93, the Begleit, the Leo A1A1, 2S25, CV9030, etc etc. Plus, you're less likely to see WW2 monsters with a focus on heavier armour which the Falcon simply can't pen. Like the Maus, for example. Much rarer to see compared to last patch, I find.
Bonus try out the Rooikat Mk.1D. It's much less good :D
30/35mm APDS can go through T-10M driver port, I found that out (I was the T-10M, died to an AMX-30 DCA that way, I was embarrassed about it)
i.... did not know this. that's ridiculous @@ironicness_gone
you can even kill the object 279 @@ironicness_gone hit it near the radio on the back of the turret once in a while a round goes trough
@@ironicness_gone The falcon is capable of killing almost every tank in the game in most cases pretty easily. Its the speed that and acceleration that are its weakness. If I recall I have a 3.X K/D ratio with around 500 kills in the Falcon.
even the speed doesn't feel too bad once you actually get it up to it; compared to stuff like the Chieftain the mobility is just so much better @@LKN117
Saw the Valentine at bovington today with the missus, genuinely shocked at how short he is! Only about 7'6" or so, must have been easy to hide in real life.
Bought her a Sherman Firefly and a Cromwell IV airfix model kit, probably won't see her again for a few weeks lol
Attempt number 18 at getting Spookston to play any tank with a dozer blade, the catch is, he has to dig in before engaging. Movement around the map is allowed, but he has to dig in again.
Don't give up, we'll win eventually
Keep trying until it works.
I love the Valentine, just has a special place in my heart and carried me out of 3.0-4.0. In the British tree that range is just painful.
no way bro 3.3 is awesome, churchill 1 has outstanding armor, achilles is the 2nd best TD at its BR, Valentine is love, and the SARC is pretty good.
Bro 3.3 and 3.7 is so fun. Cromwell, churchill, sherman, achilles
please play the Sturer Emil, it has more gun depression then elevation wich makes it very niche
the gall of that Pz.IV H lmao
Average german main
German teammate moment
the happy new year on the back really made it for me
Players like that I purposefully push out of cover lol
If you're interested, the reason the Valentine Mk. IX didn't have a coax was because of how the six pounder was mounted internally. They could have probably built around it but the Mk.IXs were being built at a pretty critical moment in the war and production counts were more important than anything at that point. Later variants would re-gain the coax once the 6 pounder was replaced with the 75mm quick firing gun.
I'm a pretty big Valentine enjoyer, it served in every theatre of the war and the diesel engine versions were brutally reliable, there were certain units that drove 5,000km in North Africa, a notoriously harsh environment on most tanks of the time. Pretty much everyone who received them liked them, the Soviets were still ordering new Valentines as late as '44 even though on paper they had far better tanks available to them.
Well, time to copy paste the dumb as fuck challenge I posted in the last video verbatim.
Okay I have a really, really stupid challenge for Spookston: He has to play eveery single Sherman from every single tech tree, and all of their variants. That's it. No further gimmicks, no further little challenges. He just has to play "Oops, all Shermans!". Once you do the count of Shermans, you will understand why this is a challenge.
That's a great idea actually lmao
@@Spookston It's for when you have like, an entire day to kill. And possibly the day after that as well.
@@Spookston The real question here would be, either go through them BR wise horizontally across every nation or stay on a tech tree and finish either the line or also go through horizontally there rather than horizontally across every nation.
Something interesting, the Valentin MK.1 (or mk.2 I forget, the first in TT) has substantial more armor on the sides, making angling at its B.R insane.
When a real valentine doesn’t work war thunder always has several
I absolutely loved the Valentine IX for the British tree, it just works! Armor works nicely in my experience, and the mighty 6 Pdr takes care of most things you'll face.
has great survivability cause while its armor is not very thick, it is very bouncy when angled
The most annoying thing about the Valentine IX (and the Churchill III) is that Gaijin got the guns wrong.
They gave the Churchill III the 6pdr Mk V whilst giving the Valentine IX the shorter 6pdr Mk III version. In reality it was the other way around and you can see that ingame by the fact that the Valentine has a significantly longer barrel.
Also the Valentine X version has a slightly redesigned turret to allow a coaxial machine gun. I don't know why Gaijin didn't add this version.
'Couldnt think of anything better to do on Valentine's Day than play WT'
Same bro
Holding a flank solo and still being on the losing team is such an upsetting experience
9:21 if you use your towing cable it's easier to push dead tanks!
Unironically, the Valentine with the 6 pounder is one of my favorite tanks.
13:41 Dude was a dumb-dumb. I've had so many players who'd done that to me, so once I decided to just block the dude and pin him in such a way that he couldn't move away. Then I call arty on myself and leave at the very last minute lmao.
It's so dumb but I actually did it to the same guy twice (cos he got mad and decided to ram me after respawning in an even lighter tank lol). My teammates actually helped me after seeing how he rammed everyone with his bad driving, so that was a funny wholesome moment.
lol I had the same encounter with a pz 4 H as well, he ramed me while i was hull down in a spot in a Swedish TD and this pz rams me out of cover and I was on my side (mind you I was a casemate) and gets me killed and he keeps driving like an idiot, and mind you I was in a hill top in a corner so I was out of everyone's way, German main are advanced stupid
@@porkfreegaming5278 damn man that must've been aneurism-inducing af. I'm so flabbergasted sometimes by how clueless people's driving are. Gaijin rly need a drivers-ed and "situation awareness"/team-manners tutorial ngl.
It's always the panzer 4's ngl as a German main we think that it's call of duty and we don't really care about strategy we just run in and gun and pray for the best.
the worst part is that panzer IV H that pushed you isn't even a new player
it's either you tank every shots known to mankind (including KV-2s HE shell) or just get killed by any SPAAs by them shooting your turret ring.
0:05 spoken like a true War Thunder player
You can't escape me forever, The Alecto-1 Goblin waggon calls to you. play it.
"I'm a little out of it right now" but still gets 17 kills. What are you like when you're not out of it?
you should play the ‘40 mil thing,’ it is very fun and trolly at times
seeing that Pz 4 and what he was doing made me realize that yes, sometimes, Teamkilling IS in fact not ALWAYS a bad thing.
Kugelblitz when? 🙂
12:38 "My stummy hurt"
This tank was designed to the cheapest (when germans run trough France british forces lost a lots of tanks and other stuff) it was good tank ,only need to hold until churchill and other better tanks are arived , matilda 2 was way more expensive to produce, most of this was sended to soviets cuz they more desperate to have tanks ,at this time they moving production behind ural where they are safe
It was basically a welded Matilda 2, From what I can find the engines were also derived from commercial engines and the tank was rather reliable, likely because it wasn't especially heavy, at about half the weight of the Sherman.
@@InsufficientGravitas Nah its was based on a10 cruiser tanks chase, and yes it was very sturdy litle boy I like it 😊
Spookston: If you can’t tell, I’m out of it
17 kill match
Valentines are paradoxical tanks in that it’s basically a free kill for someone and nobody knows who’s going to be the free kill
The british and french tech trees are the only ones that actually force you to get better at the game, with how much gaijin goofs the balance the brits and franks actually reward skill quite a lot
CA Lorraine? Casemate TD that goes at 60km/h and drifts around corners with a powerful gun. Not the best armoured but a lot of fun
Yeah with only 50 mm of upf, you're gonna get one-shotted by everything.
@@megakirbo4250Yeah that’s the real struggle. It’s like the ultimate big rat. Can frontally pen most stuff, but if seen is dead.
I love the British engineering doctrine of lawnmower engines and solid shot combined with a lack of obvious features.
... And the silly reverse gears - they are like something Hitler would think up to enforce his "no retreat" policy😅
I want to see spookston play the italian M41M, it is really good for its Br, a 90mm gun, its volumetric hell and often ricochets bullets, and has an absolutely crazy 350g of HE filler. the only downside is its ammo capacity.
Eight rounds, eight kills
@@XanderTuron together with the turan III and the P40 the M41M is one of my favorite vehicles in the game, its just absolutely hilarious when a hetzer or something like that shoots me and the round ricochets.
lmao i love how u were asking ur team for help, reminds me of the time i was getting pummeled by a sturmtiger, is2, fv4202, and a dicker max and an allied centurion drove right by, completely unaware of the 7 tanks that were fucking destroying me
I will never not love the Oblivion voice-acting.
"can this tank be any slower?"
Yes. It can. In reverse.
1 step closer to playing the 3inch gun carrier
the AB43 for italy is fast as hell and the 47mm hits hard from the side, genuinely a very fun tank
Saying ‘stopping kids from saying first’ makes you a first kid too, don’t deny it.
Edit: This is my most liked comment and it had nothing to do with the video, damn
Tru
You know that saying "Saying "stopping kids from saying first" makes you a first kid too, don't deny it." makes you a first kid too, don't deny it.
Someone give this guy the E key
@@lllz9800the paradox
Saying something reduces your age? Wild
Wow, the only video where spookston doesn"t get killed by any CAS Good joob 👏👏, also in 13:45 that was a very good exaple of most of German players lol
you can use q and e to turn on cruise control to come out of cover so that your turret doesnt swing up and down from accelerating
The Valentines are so good because people rarely take them seriously, mostly because you don't see them often. I found myself dying more times due to numerical superiority that just so happens to have taken place after the team collapses, which usually takes place in situations where you are mopping the floor with the other team until you just can't hold a position anymore. Them and the Crusader carried me through british low tier up until 3.7 when i finally learned how to properly play the Cromwells
Attempt 13: Play the maus but only the 75mm gun
i think that these tanks were called infantry one because they are supposed to move at the same pace as walking/sprinting infantry
10:02 low tier moment
I'm sick as a dog on valentines day, luckily I have a video from my little pookie to cheer me up :3
Fun fact: at 4:15 you can see Spookston reveal his sadistic tendencies of tormenting Germany mains before putting them out of their misery, but he manages to find jusy enough empathy inside of him to quickly finish off the poor Timmy.
Thanks for playing one of my favourite tanks on my Birthday
Noooo way I was that t-70 that died, I remember that game, I've been looking for my name in the vids for a while now, love your vids man
I am still waiting for a Sturmtiger video where it is entirely covered in bushes.
I recommend playing Lancia Ro 100/17. It has terrible mobility, turret traverse and no armour, but it gets big boom cannon with comically slow shells.
I also have a challenge for it: get 10 kills in single 10.0 match.
I love how the Brits were like “yeah let’s turn this slow tank into a case mate TD with the gun facing backwards”
And you know what? It works beautifully
Rare canadian tank day, the tank was designed really early so it was okayish armor wise for its time. The lack of an MG is due to the 6pdr, as it was originally made with a 2pdr but the design was upgunned like so many others
One of the best Italian pizza delivery vehicles is the breda 90/53 you should play it
I honestly think the valentine 1 is the best one bc it has more side armor which means you can angle it really well. And at 2.3 the 2pdr isn't obsolete just yet
who needs a stabilizer when you cant move faster than 10kph
British engineering, we can get outflanked, we can get out gunned but we can shoot when moving
Funny looking Celere Sahariano, you must have gotten them mixed up in the wash
"I don't know what the British were thinking"
Neither did they lmao
"So we need, like, small tank for infantry suppport. It will have pretty bad armour and be slow as hell, so infantry can easly keep up with it! But it also has to have good cannon to destroy enemy's armoured vechicles!"
"Ehm, but why make it slow? It could just drive slower when fighting alongside infantry. Also, what about machineguns?"
"Why would it need machinegun? Infantrymen have their own guns! Also, what would the tank need mobility higher than 20km/h for lol?"
It was designed to be slow so it didnt have the oppurtunity to abandon infantry in a "go down with the ship" fashion. Also its armor was certainly good for its time, especially considering its low weight.
@@cybernetic_crocodile8462 At the time the Valentine was introduced, that was actually really good armor. This tank was introduced in 1940. This was the same time period where Panzer IVs had short 75s and 30mm of armor.
I’ll give you this one since it’s valentines day, but there’s this other rlly funny soviet tank at 1.3 called the T-35. It’s very silly and versatile, great at fending off multiple opponents from multiple directions thanks to controlling turrets independently of each other
of course he plays the valentine on valentine's day
First Task and Purpose with his sponsor being the friggin General Atomics with their new UAV...
Now Spookston with his sponsor being a site where you can learn how to code the fun way just as i am learning how to code myself...
Today has been the first time i didnt skip any sponsors
A "fun“ challenge for you: Play the Lago 1, but without the apds.
3:16 The Halo shield down sounds are peak
BR YOU DIDNT GET CASED ONCE
Video 4 of asking Spookston to play the LAV-AD with Anti-Tank HEAT
Could you play the ARL-44? Its a very fun french tank destroyer
cromwell V has similar armor but it's fast (not on reverse gear), I really like it
Day 79 of asking Spookston to play the AMX-50 Foch
Playing a Valentine tank on Valentine's Day is so awesome.
Day 8 of asking spookston to play the IS-3
The Valentine tank was Vickers promising to build an infantry support tank that was lightweight and cheap. The Valentine manages to be lighter than a Crusader light tank and has around twice the armor. Also, its production started on the early years of the war and mainly saw combat in North Africa. The German army in North Africa was basically last to get vehicles, equipment, and supplies.
Britain would stop using it in front line combat as soon as the Churchill and Shermans became mainstays of the British armor divisions.
Day 106 of asking Spookston to play the Type 90s
As an Ikv 73 / strv m/42 player, I can say that playing against Valentine or Matildas it's a hell, every part might be a shot trap xd
Day 1 asking to get nuke using SU-100Y
After playing this thing today I now really really appreciate the little things my MG can do
I really wanna see you play the Alecto 1 if you have it
I found what stole its machine gun, on the crusader AA MK 2 theres a random machine gun on the cannons that doesnt work for some reason
Spookston havin Valentines day witn Gajin RNG
From my time playing war thunder I have learned that the british hate 3 things:
1. Fighting their own tanks
2. Reverse gears
3. Using aphe
Wouldn’t be a spookston video without him taking too little ammo into every battle lol
British tanks are pretty wild with their variety aside from their mobility.
Truly one of the tanks, good video again though Spookston we always enjoy!
Hey, at least you didn't get bombed in this one!
5mm or 10mm of structural steel: Exists
Solidshot: My main job is to bounce or shatter
"I'm not built for this slow tank life"
It's a peaceful life
Speaking of the 6 pounder, you should play the crusader 3. The one that has the 6 pounder.
I think this is one of those rare instances where Spookston diden't get bombed. Someone mark this date.
If I ever want a 6 pounder at 3.0 I will use the crusader.
That plane spinning to his death for no reason definitely needed a clip of Anakin saying “spinning is a good trick!” Before the plane then promptly explodes
How comedic playing the Valentine on Valentines day
Suprisingly when you fit a 6pdr into a turret built for a 2pdr so you can fight tanks you don't really have coax space
That Dirk Diggler is often seen in Spookston's vids. Usually in a plane.