About that sound about 3 minutes in, it's probably just his family doing stuff around the house which he has no control over, and his house probably isn't too huge. I didn't find it to be too distracting and I'm just glad he's uploading for us again.
Exactly. With COVID-19, my wife and I are at home in our 1-bedroom condo 99.9% of the time. I want her to be comfortable and do what she needs to do. So I'll be publishing more videos but you can expect to hear some background noises like when she's in the kitchen. Hope y'all understand.
@@taugrim I'm sure most of us wouldn't mind, looking forward to more awesome content! Been a fan of yours for years ever since I first started playing tanks and really appreciate your great teaching style.
Thanks and I appreciated your earlier comment. If people have an issue with the background noise, and I have to choose between recording my narration with my wife doing things or not doing a recording, I'll choose the latter. Before COVID-19, I could time my recordings for when my wife was out, but now that's not an option since we're staying home as much as possible.
@Taugrim Can you make VK 30.02 (D) review? It's a great tank, suffers a little with silver penetration, but is very mobile and can flank easily. Having a great time with it, and would love to see you use it more properly than me :D Thank you
Taugrim you make the best WOT instructional videos. Love how you cover everything from basics to advanced. Always choose position over damage Ina HT! Thanks!
Dont let complaints about background noise get to you. Viewers tend to forget youtubers have lives going on in the back lmfao Really happy about the uploads again man good to have you back
I enjoy watching replays with analysis both lost and won battles... others would only brag how good they are in spending money and paying to win... such wallet warrior skill level is boring... this on the other hand is refreshing - thank you
Great tank and the first tier 9 besides the e75 that wasn't a total fail for me years ago, eventually ended up selling it taking the five skill crew for the is-3-2. The aim time even with a gun laying drive is ruinous but beyond that it was a great tank till it went HD. Trolling tier 10s in the SD era was a treat when hull down bouncing cHeat all day long.
The gun handling on the ST-I is poor, however I still don't use GLD on it. I'd rather have Vents as the 3rd piece of equipement. It's debatable which is better. The other 2 slots should definitely go to Rammer and VStab.
Good to see you uploading videos again mate. I did enjoy the ST-I. Also relatively easy 3-mark. I would suggest 3-marking this and the IS-4 while it’s still easy so when the buffs roll in you’ll be able to enjoy them Taugrim. Anyway, if ya get bored and wanna toon hit me up sometime. N3RV3
It's continuing the trend of removing weak spots. It's fair for the IS-4 and E-100, but I don't know whether those buffs are good for the game. Heavies as a class are very strong at tier 10 and 9 currently.
I’ve have never maxed out this tank and I haven’t played it much since I got it. My crew for this nation and class isn’t fully trained except for my special female crewmen who I don’t have a full tank crew, I’ve the gunner, radioman, and loader I’ve placed these in my most played tanks especially these crewmen per class and nation.
Own the ST-1 on console and i got it 3marked. Tank really works for me and i will be getting it for PC as well. it really could some some gun buffs and mobility buffs too. but doubt it'll happen to the degree would like. Still is a great tank but i'm not a fan of the hull for PC. looks annoying
A superb instructional video mate. Side scraping 101 with an excellent explanation as to the specific weaknesses of the tank you are driving. So happy to have your videos appearing on my UA-cam home page!
Wow, talk about timely. I unlocked this over a year ago but just started playing it yesterday. So far it seems to work for me a lot better than the other tier 9 Russian heavies, other than the IS-3-II which I have not played yet. Oddly enough, the gun has been awesome, I had to check to see if they'd buffed it or something, the amount of mid range cupola sniping I've done is incredible.
Awesome video as usual!! I prefer to use a reverse side scrapping method for Soviet heavies, it is a little more dangerous if they are close to you and you don’t have backup but I feel that you can aim in and shoot at them while not having to move at all. Just my two cents. Looking forward to you next vid!
Just some notes to the 2nd game: Your fate depended on the mediums up in the village. The enemy had the option to take the rubble position on the street up in the village. If they do you're out of position where you were. Your BC25 ran away from the city entrance and opened that option but the Type 61 + Borsig fortunately blocked that right away 16:20 and after they died the enemy Leo1 misplayed and ended up in front of the ISU-152. At 20:00 village was lost and the WT and you should have been taken out. Didn't happen and made the result closer than necessary ... (imho)
That's probably a viable choice. I choose Vents for the slight bonuses to everything. There are valid arguments for Vents, GLD, or Optics for the 3rd slot.
I love your measured analysis. I would be interested in a video with your opinion on the state of the game as a whole. I recently came back to play after not looking at it for a while, and it seems to me that things aren't good. There's a lot of mindless rushing (especially at lower tiers) and more P2W with the premiums. Meanwhile, basic flaws like unlimited gold ammo have not been fixed. It could just be me being rusty, which is why I'm interested in your thoughts. I've had some great experiences in WoT in the past and it'd be nice to enjoy playing again. (Also, I miss Rift ;)
Word on the street is Murazor at WG heavily influenced the OP tier 8 heavy premiums - Defender, Patriot, Chrysler K, etc - when he had a voice in tank design. A lot of the newer heavies between tiers 8-10 lack meaningful weak spots on their turrets and frontal hulls, which is bad as it puts pressure on players to spam premium ammo, which indirectly makes real money for WG (due to credit sink effect). I've been able to play through it but it's certainly not good for the game's health.
For me games have got a lot worse lately, people laid off and nothing better to do?? rarely do I get a decent game, its normally all tanks down one side on mass, like a steamroller destroying everything, I feel matchmaking should be based on WoT PR rating if you got 3k PR and your in games with 8-9k PR players then unless your lucky its doomed from the start, I felt it was me, but I have had shots where I cannot even see the top of the tank and they have hit for full damage, my shot hit the rock and theirs pass through, I even went back and tried to see if the rock had some ghosting, everytime the game is a loss its like 3-4minutes and when you check they are always high number games and high PR, matchmaker is broken, its not just me as 14 other players all died.
16:40 get close, angle out further. you waste 2minutes doing the same bad move... even IF he was not pulling back, you do NOT open the angle up! you just pull back further and expose the freaking lower plate a lot. eh
Hey Taugrim! I'm just amazed by how you can still do so much work with only 12hp left, that was eye-opening! Personally, I love playing heavies, but I still find it hard to play. I wish to see more of your heavy replays. Cheers!
I spent over 6 months grinding through the KV4. Thoroughly enjoyed it. I got into this sorry piece of shit and well....its slow, its turret is slow, lacking accuracy, no view range, weak bottom plate, weak side and back of the turret. If it was a bit quicker, I'd be able to get out of shit situations. There is next to no gun depression, so if you're hiding your bottom plate on a hill....how can you shoot over the crest? 9/10 games I'm in with tier 10's and currently its new at basically a tier 8. Its fucking god awful.
Came here because I just unlocked the ST-1 after an awful 38% WR KV4 grind, stayed because this taught me more about heavy tanking, really beautiful analysis and tutorial. Thank you.
Lol, watching the begining where you were salty with an IS-3 driver, yet from what i see you were in the wrong you captured his but and he couldn't steer to get off. Anyhow sorry you stopped vid's i always enjoyed them, especially for something like the ST-I which is very little reviewed (and now a buff). Always good to check your old videos though. gl and thanks.
There is a lot of good advise here, especially for newer players. I can't tell you how often I tell my team to be patient, don't rush, let things develop. Dying early puts your team behind from the start.
T10 is awesome it just trades hull armor for mobility, just do everything you can to protect your hull. I thought it was the best handling of the large caliber Soviet guns.
Keep in mind that the advice I give about brawling and sidescraping applies to a lot of heavies that have meaningful side hull armor. E.g. IS-4, ST-II, all the German heavies, 60TP, etc.
My ally ST-I will most certainly sidescrape at a full 90 degree all out horizontal angle so hé Can get penned by everyone. #botgaming #taliban vs navy seal Mm. #105k battle yet 300 wn8 teammates. #disabiltymap #what is angling #what is sidescraping #15-0
@@taugrim I love having you back doing these excellent videos, but please take care of your throat. Less videos if need be. Especially if it means hardship with work and family, and if we have to go another six months without one of your videos! Cheers and GG.
Same armor one tier higher, bad DPM. Double shitting is something you only do when you really really need to kill something, besides that situation you should never double shot. It ruins your dpm, and your likely to bounce one of the 2 shells that took you 20 seconds to load
ST-I was my first tier 9. I would recommend everyone don't waste your time with this shit tech tree line. There are billions other Russian lines you can grind but not this one.🤪
could you stop frying things in the back when you're recording? thank you. i loved this tank. good gun. good armor. baiting the shots on your side. wonderful
With COVID-19, my wife and I are at home in our 1-bedroom condo 99.9% of the time. I want her to be comfortable and do what she needs to do. So I'll be making more videos but you can expect to hear some background noises. Hope you understand. Cheers!
About that sound about 3 minutes in, it's probably just his family doing stuff around the house which he has no control over, and his house probably isn't too huge. I didn't find it to be too distracting and I'm just glad he's uploading for us again.
Exactly.
With COVID-19, my wife and I are at home in our 1-bedroom condo 99.9% of the time. I want her to be comfortable and do what she needs to do. So I'll be publishing more videos but you can expect to hear some background noises like when she's in the kitchen.
Hope y'all understand.
@@taugrim I'm sure most of us wouldn't mind, looking forward to more awesome content! Been a fan of yours for years ever since I first started playing tanks and really appreciate your great teaching style.
Thanks and I appreciated your earlier comment.
If people have an issue with the background noise, and I have to choose between recording my narration with my wife doing things or not doing a recording, I'll choose the latter.
Before COVID-19, I could time my recordings for when my wife was out, but now that's not an option since we're staying home as much as possible.
@@taugrim Thanks for sharing again! Stay safe and see you on the otherside.
@Taugrim Can you make VK 30.02 (D) review? It's a great tank, suffers a little with silver penetration, but is very mobile and can flank easily. Having a great time with it, and would love to see you use it more properly than me :D Thank you
Taugrim you make the best WOT instructional videos. Love how you cover everything from basics to advanced. Always choose position over damage Ina HT! Thanks!
Really glad you're uploading again.
Me too 😊
Dont let complaints about background noise get to you. Viewers tend to forget youtubers have lives going on in the back lmfao
Really happy about the uploads again man good to have you back
Glad you're making videos again!
Me too 😀
I enjoy watching replays with analysis both lost and won battles... others would only brag how good they are in spending money and paying to win... such wallet warrior skill level is boring... this on the other hand is refreshing - thank you
So glad youre pumping out the content again. Great quality. Great play without gold spam. Great calm explaination. The best!
I was lucky enough to play in a match with you when the bourasque came out. I played terribly but watching you play was like art.
Thanks for the video Taugrim. Stay safe during this virus mess.
You too!
Great tank and the first tier 9 besides the e75 that wasn't a total fail for me years ago, eventually ended up selling it taking the five skill crew for the is-3-2. The aim time even with a gun laying drive is ruinous but beyond that it was a great tank till it went HD. Trolling tier 10s in the SD era was a treat when hull down bouncing cHeat all day long.
The gun handling on the ST-I is poor, however I still don't use GLD on it. I'd rather have Vents as the 3rd piece of equipement. It's debatable which is better.
The other 2 slots should definitely go to Rammer and VStab.
Good to see you uploading videos again mate.
I did enjoy the ST-I. Also relatively easy 3-mark. I would suggest 3-marking this and the IS-4 while it’s still easy so when the buffs roll in you’ll be able to enjoy them Taugrim.
Anyway, if ya get bored and wanna toon hit me up sometime.
N3RV3
Taugrim, what do you think about the upcoming IS4 buff, especially for it's armor and gun? Will this finally make it a competitive tier 10 heavy?
It's continuing the trend of removing weak spots. It's fair for the IS-4 and E-100, but I don't know whether those buffs are good for the game. Heavies as a class are very strong at tier 10 and 9 currently.
I’ve have never maxed out this tank and I haven’t played it much since I got it. My crew for this nation and class isn’t fully trained except for my special female crewmen who I don’t have a full tank crew, I’ve the gunner, radioman, and loader I’ve placed these in my most played tanks especially these crewmen per class and nation.
This video made me buy the ST-1 :)
You played well still I think you made a few mistakes on the ruinberg battle.But you did well nonetheless.ST-1 is my favorite tank in the game btw.
Own the ST-1 on console and i got it 3marked. Tank really works for me and i will be getting it for PC as well. it really could some some gun buffs and mobility buffs too. but doubt it'll happen to the degree would like. Still is a great tank but i'm not a fan of the hull for PC. looks annoying
In the first match at the end when it was just the wafflecock and arty left you might think to use HE since either of those are thinly armoured.
Agreed
A superb instructional video mate. Side scraping 101 with an excellent explanation as to the specific weaknesses of the tank you are driving. So happy to have your videos appearing on my UA-cam home page!
Wow, talk about timely. I unlocked this over a year ago but just started playing it yesterday. So far it seems to work for me a lot better than the other tier 9 Russian heavies, other than the IS-3-II which I have not played yet. Oddly enough, the gun has been awesome, I had to check to see if they'd buffed it or something, the amount of mid range cupola sniping I've done is incredible.
I love your heavy tank play, and tips as you go.
thanks for this video i like the ST-I. can you do one on the IS-4 when it is buffed
Yes
Thanks Taugrim for another great vid! Keep up the good work.
Awesome video as usual!! I prefer to use a reverse side scrapping method for Soviet heavies, it is a little more dangerous if they are close to you and you don’t have backup but I feel that you can aim in and shoot at them while not having to move at all. Just my two cents. Looking forward to you next vid!
Just some notes to the 2nd game: Your fate depended on the mediums up in the village. The enemy had the option to take the rubble position on the street up in the village. If they do you're out of position where you were. Your BC25 ran away from the city entrance and opened that option but the Type 61 + Borsig fortunately blocked that right away 16:20 and after they died the enemy Leo1 misplayed and ended up in front of the ISU-152.
At 20:00 village was lost and the WT and you should have been taken out. Didn't happen and made the result closer than necessary ... (imho)
Love the videos Taugrim! Enjoyable and I learn - TY!
Thx Taugrim, it's so darn good to have you back :)
Great to have you back. I really enjoy these videos.
Have you considered running optics instead of vents? you can reach the maximum view range with a decent crew that way.
That's probably a viable choice. I choose Vents for the slight bonuses to everything.
There are valid arguments for Vents, GLD, or Optics for the 3rd slot.
taugrim thanks for the videos its really helpful, Tums up
I love your measured analysis. I would be interested in a video with your opinion on the state of the game as a whole. I recently came back to play after not looking at it for a while, and it seems to me that things aren't good. There's a lot of mindless rushing (especially at lower tiers) and more P2W with the premiums. Meanwhile, basic flaws like unlimited gold ammo have not been fixed. It could just be me being rusty, which is why I'm interested in your thoughts. I've had some great experiences in WoT in the past and it'd be nice to enjoy playing again. (Also, I miss Rift ;)
Word on the street is Murazor at WG heavily influenced the OP tier 8 heavy premiums - Defender, Patriot, Chrysler K, etc - when he had a voice in tank design. A lot of the newer heavies between tiers 8-10 lack meaningful weak spots on their turrets and frontal hulls, which is bad as it puts pressure on players to spam premium ammo, which indirectly makes real money for WG (due to credit sink effect).
I've been able to play through it but it's certainly not good for the game's health.
For me games have got a lot worse lately, people laid off and nothing better to do?? rarely do I get a decent game, its normally all tanks down one side on mass, like a steamroller destroying everything, I feel matchmaking should be based on WoT PR rating if you got 3k PR and your in games with 8-9k PR players then unless your lucky its doomed from the start, I felt it was me, but I have had shots where I cannot even see the top of the tank and they have hit for full damage, my shot hit the rock and theirs pass through, I even went back and tried to see if the rock had some ghosting, everytime the game is a loss its like 3-4minutes and when you check they are always high number games and high PR, matchmaker is broken, its not just me as 14 other players all died.
16:40 get close, angle out further. you waste 2minutes doing the same bad move... even IF he was not pulling back, you do NOT open the angle up! you just pull back further and expose the freaking lower plate a lot. eh
Hey Taugrim! I'm just amazed by how you can still do so much work with only 12hp left, that was eye-opening! Personally, I love playing heavies, but I still find it hard to play. I wish to see more of your heavy replays. Cheers!
I spent over 6 months grinding through the KV4. Thoroughly enjoyed it. I got into this sorry piece of shit and well....its slow, its turret is slow, lacking accuracy, no view range, weak bottom plate, weak side and back of the turret. If it was a bit quicker, I'd be able to get out of shit situations. There is next to no gun depression, so if you're hiding your bottom plate on a hill....how can you shoot over the crest? 9/10 games I'm in with tier 10's and currently its new at basically a tier 8. Its fucking god awful.
Thank you for such a great guide, I really like watching your guides and it helped me greatly. Keep up the good work!!
Came here because I just unlocked the ST-1 after an awful 38% WR KV4 grind, stayed because this taught me more about heavy tanking, really beautiful analysis and tutorial. Thank you.
Glad to see you back!!
Lol, watching the begining where you were salty with an IS-3 driver, yet from what i see you were in the wrong you captured his but and he couldn't steer to get off. Anyhow sorry you stopped vid's i always enjoyed them, especially for something like the ST-I which is very little reviewed (and now a buff). Always good to check your old videos though. gl and thanks.
There is a lot of good advise here, especially for newer players. I can't tell you how often I tell my team to be patient, don't rush, let things develop. Dying early puts your team behind from the start.
Great instructions while you’re playing. Really learned a lot from this. Keep it up!
Slow and steady I love st1
Hi, have you ever done a video about how to avoid the annoying zoom in and out thing that happens when you're in built up areas and streets?
Would u ever do a vid on your gaming setup/equipment?
By game setup do you mean Settings?
I may do one on crew skills and equipment someday.
I meant like the mice and keyboards you use
Awesome
About time you did a video on my favorite tank :)
st-i has the longest turret in the game? Maus would like to have a word with you
Could you do a Т-10 vid? Recently researched the tank and I am having a horrible time playing it :(
T10 is awesome it just trades hull armor for mobility, just do everything you can to protect your hull. I thought it was the best handling of the large caliber Soviet guns.
Covered back in Episode #15.
I don't like playing the tier 9 and 10 pikenose tanks. Just doesn't gel for me.
Ugh. That aim time though😬 exactly why I cant stand most heavies.
Yea the gun handling on heavies can be brutal. Especially Russian heavies.
such a random tank to review....keep em coming anyway
Keep in mind that the advice I give about brawling and sidescraping applies to a lot of heavies that have meaningful side hull armor. E.g. IS-4, ST-II, all the German heavies, 60TP, etc.
PERFECT REVIEW! + NEW INFORMATIONS 🙏🙏🙏
Hello, can u do some tips on 279 missions?
You drove into IS-3, not the otter way around.
You can he was using Heat, can't you bait that into your tracks? as heat will get absorbed ?
You can try to bait HEAT shots into your tracks. A smart player will simply wait, but less-experienced folks will fire into your tracks.
Are you playing in the shower? :o
Doesn't reverse sidescrape work on st1?
Why do he only use Ap rounds and no heat?
gg
"If you punch a wall, your fist will go through" Hmm, I don't know what kind of wall you have, mine don't work like that...
I assume older buildings
insightful as always
Yay taugrim I’m earllyyy
fu wg
My ally ST-I will most certainly sidescrape at a full 90 degree all out horizontal angle so hé Can get penned by everyone. #botgaming #taliban vs navy seal Mm. #105k battle yet 300 wn8 teammates. #disabiltymap #what is angling #what is sidescraping #15-0
why do you have 30-40 fps?
Older recordings before my new laptop.
@@taugrim oh ok
Not sure if i never noticed or something's wrong, but your voice sounds a bit weird
My voice has been a bit more hoarse after I was sick in the fall. My throat still isn't 100%.
@@taugrim Ahhh i see. Hope it gets better soon then!
@@taugrim I love having you back doing these excellent videos, but please take care of your throat. Less videos if need be. Especially if it means hardship with work and family, and if we have to go another six months without one of your videos!
Cheers and GG.
now we need the st-ii
Same armor one tier higher, bad DPM. Double shitting is something you only do when you really really need to kill something, besides that situation you should never double shot. It ruins your dpm, and your likely to bounce one of the 2 shells that took you 20 seconds to load
Listen to the comment above me, I Climb Everything is giving spot-on advice.
Good to see you back. For the love of god, do dishes later! BTW, you killed me one battle, it was a badge of honor for me :)
Why would you make a review on a tank right before it gets buffed/altered?
Wow this is the first time I see Taugrim playing HT.
2:40 What is up with that water sound? lol xD
Is someone having a shower 3 mins in?
She was using the sink.
whats the noise i hear around 2:57
Someone washing dishes probably.
Can't they wait until you are done to wash dishes?
Taugrim is a good man and a good man wouldn't make it an issue if the wife is washing dishes for him.
@@davws88 Fair enough
ST-I was my first tier 9. I would recommend everyone don't waste your time with this shit tech tree line. There are billions other Russian lines you can grind but not this one.🤪
The ST-I is the gem of the line and is worth getting, but I hear you.
could you stop frying things in the back when you're recording? thank you. i loved this tank. good gun. good armor. baiting the shots on your side. wonderful
With COVID-19, my wife and I are at home in our 1-bedroom condo 99.9% of the time. I want her to be comfortable and do what she needs to do.
So I'll be making more videos but you can expect to hear some background noises. Hope you understand.
Cheers!