The Hellcat Is Too Good

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  • Опубліковано 13 кві 2024
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    The M18 Hellcat tank destroyer is infamous in War Thunder for bullying German heavies like the Tiger. It has no armor whatsoever, but it is very fast and hits hard. Gaijin recently buffed its engine and are soon moving it to a higher battle rating. It's probably deserved, since it's not very hard to get a nuke with it.
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  • @Spookston
    @Spookston  Місяць тому +196

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    • @Doc829
      @Doc829 Місяць тому +15

      no thank you sir

    • @War_Thunder_Tortilla
      @War_Thunder_Tortilla Місяць тому +34

      Yooo congrats you got a sponsor!

    • @User-cv2xn
      @User-cv2xn Місяць тому +2

      Key Spoon do you know how can i Uninstall myself?

    • @pfguy.
      @pfguy. Місяць тому +5

      fish

    • @Jelle_gaming
      @Jelle_gaming Місяць тому

      TYSM FOR LIKE

  • @isad4youi783
    @isad4youi783 Місяць тому +4095

    Petition for Spookston to do a video of him fishing irl

    • @Spookston
      @Spookston  Місяць тому +1464

      bluegill time

    • @azbestowa7819
      @azbestowa7819 Місяць тому

      femboy fishing

    • @SchrodingerMil
      @SchrodingerMil Місяць тому +560

      @@Spookston Do a collab with Femboy Fishing

    • @Zoabdy
      @Zoabdy Місяць тому +42

      DreamCast Sega Bass Fishing is also acceptable

    • @War_Thunder_Tortilla
      @War_Thunder_Tortilla Місяць тому +28

      Livestream it I dare you

  • @hieuluong4532
    @hieuluong4532 Місяць тому +1680

    i did not expect a fishing ad for a tank game vid

  • @homiedaclown4381
    @homiedaclown4381 Місяць тому +407

    The anti-CAS lineup being used for revenge CAS is the start of Spookstons' villain arc

    • @mashedpotato7219
      @mashedpotato7219 Місяць тому +31

      villain? bro CAS users are the villains , he is doing a public service to the lobbies

    • @smonk3074
      @smonk3074 Місяць тому +7

      @@mashedpotato7219Just bring some SPAA, CAS isn’t hard to deal with lol

    • @Skykid3307
      @Skykid3307 Місяць тому +26

      ​@@smonk3074 except cas xan just kill SPAA.
      (I say this as someone who regularly kills AA with CAS)

    • @fire_drake12.arc.24
      @fire_drake12.arc.24 Місяць тому +2

      @@Skykid3307 SPAA can also just kill CAS. (I say this as someone who regularly kills CAS using SPAA in a nation with some of the worst SPAA in the game)

    • @daskollektiv4593
      @daskollektiv4593 Місяць тому +18

      @@smonk3074 the overwhelming majority of spaa is terrible either at aa or just overall

  • @KyIoQuinn
    @KyIoQuinn Місяць тому +56

    13:18 "You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"

  • @barryj3748
    @barryj3748 Місяць тому +694

    Spook: "That is a VFW"
    Me: That's a tree

    • @vikingsundlof9040
      @vikingsundlof9040 Місяць тому +46

      What a life of WT does to a man

    • @Bl2ckout7556
      @Bl2ckout7556 Місяць тому +32

      I agree. All I saw was a bunch of trees and a scout marker

    • @borbduck
      @borbduck Місяць тому +11

      Vietnam gameplay

    • @loganwalker8537
      @loganwalker8537 Місяць тому +6

      @@Bl2ckout7556 i blame you tube compression

    • @charlescourtwright2229
      @charlescourtwright2229 Місяць тому

      @@vikingsundlof9040 yeah cant tell you how many tiems ive confused bushes and rocks for tanks, though i once did spot a tank in a bush due to seeing the barrel

  • @kyriakoshourtsidis1161
    @kyriakoshourtsidis1161 Місяць тому +580

    someone needs to make a spookston "im out of it" compilation. Like dog, when are you in it?

    • @Spookston
      @Spookston  Місяць тому +344

      never

    • @info0
      @info0 Місяць тому +30

      @@Spookston or "my brain is just not working right now," "I am not a very smart person" - Spookston favorite lines ;)
      Don't worry Spook, this game makes me feel like an idiot a lot of times too.

    • @UnPokemon
      @UnPokemon Місяць тому +22

      @@Spookston Dawg, you play at 3am, go to sleep. Your health will thank you

  • @thenewfireguy5658
    @thenewfireguy5658 Місяць тому +35

    relating to 4:04, I did some writing on Army Mechanization in the US. The TDs were noted in a few of my sources as having been highly effective, to the point that in the last 6 months of the war their role was shifting into also supporting the infantry as support guns. One source specifically noted that they were used to destroy occupied buildings in Aachen and Lanuvio.

    • @ICECAPPEDSKY
      @ICECAPPEDSKY Місяць тому +5

      That’s probably the best use case, with the size of the gun and the mobility, it’s more suited to acting as infantry support and mobile artillery. Doesn’t help much of the German armor was gone near the end of the war

  • @RyosukeWhiteComet
    @RyosukeWhiteComet Місяць тому +30

    3:46 "oh that is another hellcat" I was waiting for the spiderman meme, it would have been so good

  • @b.c.2281
    @b.c.2281 Місяць тому +263

    Fun fact: The guy that designed the M18's hull also designed the original Corvette, and most of the other iconic 1950s GM cars. Funny because I always assumed the M18 was a post war vehicle because of how much more modern it looks than contemporary US designs.

    • @ICECAPPEDSKY
      @ICECAPPEDSKY Місяць тому +27

      Which is odd considering it was built by GM’s Buick division. When like you said it was basically built by the most famous Chevy car designer at the time. So it’s hard to say if it’s designed and built by Buick, or designed by Chevy, built by Buick

    • @b.c.2281
      @b.c.2281 Місяць тому +13

      @@ICECAPPEDSKY Harley Earl worked at Buick originally, I'm not sure what role he was in by the time WW2 rolled around but he was essentially the head of all GM design in the post war years.
      Edit: Apparently he was made Vice President of GM in 1937 and was overseeing all styling within the individual GM makes at that point.

    • @borbduck
      @borbduck Місяць тому +11

      Many US and USSR WW2 tanks look more modern than they truly are because they were in service all the way into korea, palestine, vietnam, etc
      So we tend to associate those tanks with the cold war, even though they were developed in WW2
      Of course there are other factors, but this is one of the main reasons

    • @b.c.2281
      @b.c.2281 Місяць тому +12

      @@borbduck Late war tanks are a total mixed bag. The Comet and Centurion were designed a year apart and the Centurion looks 20 years newer. The T-55 and IS-3 as well, the IS-3's design looks pretty dated next to the T-55 even though they were both designed around the end of the war.
      I think it's just that tank design kind of solidified around the end of the war for most nations. They start to take on a much more conventional shape by modern standards and not much has changed since. (In terms of the basics that is.)

    • @frankenwaifu8092
      @frankenwaifu8092 Місяць тому +2

      Nice to know. I always thought the M18 was the prettiest looking tank of the US in WW2.

  • @katgut
    @katgut Місяць тому +353

    Welcome to the fun side of warthunder, being the bigger man only makes it easier for goblins to bite your ankles

    • @mrwalk6171
      @mrwalk6171 Місяць тому +28

      I like this line, i will use it.

    • @Playdate-ts5mw
      @Playdate-ts5mw Місяць тому +1

      *the wiesel 1A2 smiling in a corner

    • @elijahmontgomery4146
      @elijahmontgomery4146 Місяць тому +6

      Totally understand where you’re coming from, but keep in mind. If you beat down new players too hard and too often, the game you love will whither and die before your very eyes as all the experienced players eventually leave and no new ones stick around.

    • @owo1744
      @owo1744 Місяць тому +3

      @@elijahmontgomery4146 Well too bad, I kinda want War Thunder to fail, even though I love the game.

  • @oFalKs
    @oFalKs Місяць тому +14

    13:40 man became what he swore to destroy 😂

  • @baz5042
    @baz5042 Місяць тому +6

    “I’m tired of being the bigger man.” Most terrifying Spookstoon the Gremlin quote.

  • @Apricot_418
    @Apricot_418 Місяць тому +766

    0:13 "It's much more balanced now"
    Wild how a video released one minute ago has already aged like milk

    • @DzinkyDzink
      @DzinkyDzink Місяць тому +64

      There's a reason a person with 3.25 KD on T-34-85 has 5+ on M18.
      I just can't quite get it... It eludes my mind... Mayhapse it's the dreaded "Skill Issue"? What do you think?

    • @Teh0X
      @Teh0X Місяць тому +1

      One minit laderr...

    • @marcusking3833
      @marcusking3833 Місяць тому +41

      The worst thing that's going to happen to the M18 is the fact the 5.7 lineup gets taken to 7.0 if you want to play the M18 with it. The actual tank will play the exact same.

    • @tigerbesteverything
      @tigerbesteverything Місяць тому +14

      @@shahramtondkarmobarakie1824 the super hellcat is way too fun now. It's as mobile as the black cat (that didn't get the engine buff), but with a 90mm with buffed pen. Although it shouldn't get upped in br, it definitely now should get tagged as a tank destroyer.

    • @sayerglasgow115
      @sayerglasgow115 Місяць тому +3

      @@DzinkyDzink Well for one the T-34-85 isn't very good right now...

  • @ValentineC137
    @ValentineC137 Місяць тому +112

    M18 _gets buffed_
    Spookston *_plays the unbuffed blackcat_*

    • @CharlieDoesntSurf
      @CharlieDoesntSurf Місяць тому +1

      M18 got buffed?

    • @chez6459
      @chez6459 Місяць тому +4

      Got more engine horsepower and then is proceeding to get pushed to 6.0 lmao I reckon it has to do with gremlin players lol

    • @Spookston
      @Spookston  Місяць тому +47

      thought it was pretty obvious this video was recorded prior to any changes

    • @ValentineC137
      @ValentineC137 Місяць тому +6

      @@Spookston Yea it became clear after a very short time, but it was still a funny coincidence

  • @LGMalz06
    @LGMalz06 Місяць тому +26

    M18's saw action in Western Europe and Italy, I think they rolled them out in '43. They only made like a third as many as planned, in part because the 76mm wasn't as good as the 90mm on the M36 and couldn't frontally pen German heavies, the Soviets weren't interested in them for lend lease, and a doctrine change of using tanks and towed guns instead of a mobile gun platform like they planned when seeing the Blitzkrieg in Belgium and France. However, the shoot and scoot that it was designed for came in really handy for the Battle of the Bulge, where one company basically beat the Germans to a critical town and blocked part of their advance.
    But yeah in WT it's dummy good. Keep up the great content!

    • @Fulcrum205
      @Fulcrum205 Місяць тому +1

      The M18 was really good. It had the best K/D of any Allied AFV.
      The Soviets didn't want it because their doctrine called for AFVs to act as assault guns and tank destroyers. The 76mm on the Hellcat wasn't much for killing bunkers. Also, the Russians didn't like any of the radial engined US vehicles. Their Army used diesel not high octane gasoline. Soviet gasoline was notoriously crappy

    • @RayanRayan-ih1sz
      @RayanRayan-ih1sz Місяць тому +3

      You know nothing 76mm can reliably penetrate German heavy tanks like Tiger-1 and medium tanks like Panther turret cheeks
      And M18 has the best K/D of any tank in WW2
      But the soviets and their vehicles and gasoline was crappy and trash so they didn't like it😒

    • @RayanRayan-ih1sz
      @RayanRayan-ih1sz Місяць тому +3

      You know nothing 76mm can reliably penetrate German heavy tanks like Tiger-1 and medium tanks like Panther turret cheeks
      And M18 has the best K/D of any tank in WW2
      But the soviets and their vehicles and gasoline was crappy and trash so they didn't like it😒

    • @Fulcrum205
      @Fulcrum205 Місяць тому +2

      @RayanRayan-ih1sz to add because of tungsten shortages, we weren't sending the Russians any HVAP ammo. They didn't have any to make their own. They preferred just smacking heavies with big howitzer rounds like the 122mm and 152mm.

    • @lector-dogmatixsicarii1537
      @lector-dogmatixsicarii1537 Місяць тому

      @@Fulcrum205 >80 Octane
      >High Octane
      You do know they produce only 500 horsepower, because they run on common 80 octane like all the other vehicles.
      The Soviets were extra bad plus at allowing their soldiers to have something to think, so they were probably bending rods at breakneck speed, because Eeevahn was clueless to the nature of the engine at best. Hydroloc, plus bad maintenance, plus overrev, plus air cool, plus bad supply, plus automatic transmission that is witchcraft to them.

  • @--ginebra3589
    @--ginebra3589 Місяць тому +7

    So I guess this is where Spookston's CAS villain arc begins.
    I'm saving this video for future reference.

  • @coleycoke9567
    @coleycoke9567 Місяць тому +102

    6:05 Slight miscalculation.

    • @NFDave1992
      @NFDave1992 Місяць тому +1

      Comedy gold

    • @Namiz00
      @Namiz00 Місяць тому +1

      it took me a second take that hes trying to shoot spookston but the house is blocking the shots, and said house also killed the plane afterwards.
      this is why people play war thunder

  • @War_Thunder_Tortilla
    @War_Thunder_Tortilla Місяць тому +245

    It would be sick if spookston played the M103

    • @DerpyGuy3345
      @DerpyGuy3345 Місяць тому +10

      I think he's about to play the M103

    • @War_Thunder_Tortilla
      @War_Thunder_Tortilla Місяць тому

      It’s basically invincible in a downteir

    • @AustinSmith-gq5gc
      @AustinSmith-gq5gc Місяць тому

      I would kill to see that, the m103 is one of my favorite tanks

    • @War_Thunder_Tortilla
      @War_Thunder_Tortilla Місяць тому

      @@AustinSmith-gq5gc ikr, and going up against tiger 2’s 😏

  • @gamerzunited2
    @gamerzunited2 Місяць тому +2

    8:00 The M18 Hellcat was a tank destroyer used by the United States Army in World War II and the Korean War but it in war thunder its a light tank so it could still get scouting even if its reclassified as a TD

  • @erikb6124
    @erikb6124 Місяць тому +4

    Honestly did not expect the Spookston Revenge for Revenge CAS Arc but im all for it

  • @CryptonicNova
    @CryptonicNova Місяць тому +59

    We must continue the trend of Spookston playing enjoyable American tanks. I nominate the M4A2 (75) Sherman. It's the best low tier Sherman, with myriad of shell types and the best hull. Plus the addon armour turns it into a pseudo heavy.

  • @SirMcMuffin
    @SirMcMuffin Місяць тому +53

    13:30 looks like that German was happy dishing out lumps but couldn't take them himself.

    • @zerrierslizer1
      @zerrierslizer1 Місяць тому +1

      average German Main. loves dishing out pain, can't handle when he is delieved it in return.

  • @eragon0147
    @eragon0147 Місяць тому

    Always nice to learn something new about tanks in your videos like the extended rail for hellcats power pack. Very cool little things that are for me sometimes more important than the gameplay itself. Thanks for that and for adding the pictures as well.

  • @atomicdeath10
    @atomicdeath10 Місяць тому

    Spookston, I just wanted to say thank you for the videos you post. Not only are they entertaining but informative. I've been *trying* to play war thunder for years and always get frustrated and end up uninstalling the game for a few months until I try again out of boredom.
    I reinstalled it Friday night and I've been having a blast. I had my first match where I didn't die, got 5 kills and capped a point. I feel like the T29 I bought for the American tree is actually useful now.
    I got 7 kills with the Sherman 105 shortly after and it's because of you.
    I've been paying attention to how you play, your angles, positioning and where you aim on certain tanks.
    I managed to juke a SU tank destroyer and get him to bounce while I was reloading and BECAUSE OF YOU I knew where to aim to boop him.
    Thank you Spookston.
    Also, please play the T29. 😊

  • @TheNoahConstrictor
    @TheNoahConstrictor Місяць тому +413

    Day 2 of asking Spookston to play the T-10M

  • @potatogamer9482
    @potatogamer9482 Місяць тому +38

    Rare footage of spookston using a F8F or having it on a lineup

  • @AGNQuasar
    @AGNQuasar Місяць тому +1

    Petition for Spookston to do more videos like this one - with anti-CAS anti-revenge bomb setup. It's so fun to watch.
    It was such a pleasure to see Spookston "Stop being the bigger man"

  • @barongrimthorpe344
    @barongrimthorpe344 Місяць тому +2

    That kill on the KV-122 at 10:38 was pretty bull. Shoots the front part of his turret, at THAT angle, and this somehow results in his fuel exploding lol.

  • @azbestowa7819
    @azbestowa7819 Місяць тому +25

    „You either die like a hero or live long enough to become a villain…” Basically Spookston with CAS

  • @R95Q
    @R95Q Місяць тому +102

    Spookston since you did such a great job with the integration as punishment you should play the flak boat or Wirbelboat.

    • @borbduck
      @borbduck Місяць тому

      Is the flakboat the ChiHaLG or the 8.8cm flakpanzer?

    • @NarcassiticGamer
      @NarcassiticGamer Місяць тому

      ​@@borbduckNeither, it's a barge in the German naval line that has 4 Flak 88's

  • @orrenpiper3103
    @orrenpiper3103 Місяць тому +1

    Spookston mentioned hull break and sent me back a couple years. I never want to live through that again

  • @venstoma
    @venstoma Місяць тому +4

    We are officially entering Spookston's 2024 villain arc

  • @Infinity_Squad
    @Infinity_Squad Місяць тому +103

    Attack the d point

  • @ActuallyEarth
    @ActuallyEarth Місяць тому +32

    "The armor on the Sherman isn't much more effective"
    No need to remind the american mains how their entire tech tree is essentially Sherman

    • @ICECAPPEDSKY
      @ICECAPPEDSKY Місяць тому +10

      Meanwhile warthunder playerbase:
      No you can’t add more tech trees, it’s boring and will be copy paste.
      US with Shermans, Stuarts and more Shermans: Sweating

    • @borbduck
      @borbduck Місяць тому +4

      There are almost 40 shermans in warthunder 💀

    • @sayerglasgow115
      @sayerglasgow115 Місяць тому +2

      Not sure what he was on about there, the sherman's armor is pretty solid for a medium tank, it's not gonna do much against 88s and the like of course but it'll protect you from autocannons that'll shred M18s and it bounces the occasional shot if you angle well.

    • @nigelwigglwattle
      @nigelwigglwattle Місяць тому +1

      ​​@@sayerglasgow115the m18s armor being almost non existent alot of times doesnt fuse shells so they just fly through the whole vehicle in a way making it more effecrive than the shermans armor xD, although yeah autocannons and heavy machine guns shred it

  • @NathanAnStuff
    @NathanAnStuff День тому

    7:45 the entire enemy team is being scouted lol

  • @zachattackp1566
    @zachattackp1566 Місяць тому

    I like the fun facts about the tank. You should add that more to videos. Made me smile and I learned something.

  • @Heisenberg-jf1ve
    @Heisenberg-jf1ve Місяць тому +83

    The fact that they're moving this to 6.0 is criminal.

    • @ICE-jr7np
      @ICE-jr7np Місяць тому

      what really ?

    • @tbomb69
      @tbomb69 Місяць тому +8

      @@ICE-jr7npyeah its going up, and the super hellcat is going to 6.3

    • @nattly6340
      @nattly6340 Місяць тому +14

      @@tbomb69 no its going to 6.7... mad

    • @dulguunjargal1199
      @dulguunjargal1199 Місяць тому +26

      ​@@nattly6340 I know they making them 7.0 by 2025

    • @sayerglasgow115
      @sayerglasgow115 Місяць тому +20

      Seriously? Ffs, this is fucking germany mains again isn't it.

  • @silvershades6689
    @silvershades6689 Місяць тому +15

    Damn, villain arc Spookston and I'm here for it XD

  • @donovanchau3483
    @donovanchau3483 Місяць тому +1

    As fun as the M18 is in game, it’s kinda redundant in history with only its speed being something unique, but even then that caused them to over extend and go too fast for friendly vehicles. Its gun was also redundant as a tank destroyer since some Shermans already had the same firepower and it really just ended up becoming yet another chassis in the already growing logistical nightmare of the US armor inventory. The M36 was what the program that made the M18 really wanted.

  • @velaikka
    @velaikka Місяць тому +2

    Remember back in the days before hull break and so on, when everything just went through it , like no one is bringing HE so they had to pick out individual crew member basically. Man this tank was so good, that and M10 was my most played vehicles.

  • @corndoge3992
    @corndoge3992 Місяць тому +9

    I saw a hellcat in real life for the first time, and it was so cool to see that a thing that size can go so fast

  • @kadinboguszewicz3591
    @kadinboguszewicz3591 Місяць тому +6

    The fighting back has to be some of the funniest stuff I’ve seen in a while

  • @Robertorinohrn
    @Robertorinohrn Місяць тому

    i was playing with the hellcat and thought “ wow in surprised spookston hasn’t made a video about this yet, it seems like the perfect tank for him.” and low and behold he made a video

  • @corsairsofnarshaddaa
    @corsairsofnarshaddaa Місяць тому +1

    8:03 - that cupola shot on the IS should evaporate his tank. In shot simulator it does, but as of a couple weeks ago, even long 88's can't pen it in matches.

  • @KH-nm9xg
    @KH-nm9xg Місяць тому +4

    Spookston and being tired and/or sick, name a more iconic duo

  • @The-e
    @The-e Місяць тому +11

    Great vid as always, hope your recovery is going well

  • @prosandcons-fl2cc
    @prosandcons-fl2cc Місяць тому

    dont know if anyones mentioned it yet, but im really enjoying the little cutaways you do

  • @TheArklyte
    @TheArklyte Місяць тому +2

    Hullbreak is definitely a mechanic that should have remained in WT, but the amount of tweaking it would require was not worth the effort.
    Periscope is an external module so here's the counter example: imagine hitting M18 with 152mm APHE shell which fails to fuze. That M18 is still in battle... depite having a high 152mm ventilation tunnel all along it's side which together with welds giving up under such stress would mean that that hull has no structural integrity left behind it whatsoever.
    Or another example would be those reports of SU-152 mission kills on Tigers where a concrete busting round was utterly destroying turret ring, roof that it was a part of and heavily deforming turret and hull of the Tiger... and then Tiger continues to fight.

  • @Gurtanic_1912
    @Gurtanic_1912 Місяць тому +7

    Spook playing the best tank to get cased, as a known cas magnet are probably his favourite gameplays

  • @tykendrick8523
    @tykendrick8523 Місяць тому +11

    Attempt 11 Challenge: For high tier support a nations MBT with its respective APC/IFV counterpart (ie Abrams/Bradley, T90/BMP2M, etc.) Challenge is keeping the other player alive and supporting it without stealing kills (breaking barrels, tracking, repairing, etc) it being a random should help make it interesting.

    • @nobody5217
      @nobody5217 Місяць тому +4

      That's a fun challenge ngl !

    • @tykendrick8523
      @tykendrick8523 Місяць тому +3

      @@nobody5217 Question is if Spookston can carry a average Joe to a nuke

  • @JackMurray-cf6pr
    @JackMurray-cf6pr Місяць тому +1

    gaijin in all of their wisdom decided to reclass the M18 and varients to light tanks so they could get scouting, much like the F3D being classed as an attacker so it could get an airspawn

    • @robertharris6092
      @robertharris6092 Місяць тому

      And increased spawn cost. And the asu-57 is a TD and gets scouting.

  • @CranyUm
    @CranyUm Місяць тому

    Hill break is actually still in the game. It applies to the tank train on the newer map with the Running Track and the Blimp and it might also apply to the train on American Desert

  • @Mort221
    @Mort221 Місяць тому +4

    Spookston: The Hellcat is perfectly balanced
    Gaijin: So your fancy premium is now 60hp short compared to the others because 'hIsToRiCaL aCcUrAcY' (while we ignore the M1 KVT), oh, and they're all going to 6.0. Have fun!

  • @Turk3YbAstEr
    @Turk3YbAstEr Місяць тому +6

    13:25 Spookston villain arc, it feels too good though

  • @DanielCoffey67
    @DanielCoffey67 Місяць тому

    I loved the sound effects at 6:10 - hilarious!

  • @Snipe4261
    @Snipe4261 Місяць тому

    "You know what? Good. I'm tired of being the bigger man." lol

  • @FatherGrigori
    @FatherGrigori Місяць тому +4

    I absolutely love the hellcat, it's still one of the vehicles I have the highest win rates in. It'll be strange when it goes up to 6.0, but I'm not too upset about it

  • @matteoperuzzi184
    @matteoperuzzi184 Місяць тому +1

    When playing aircrafts with wing mounted guns try to set target at 300/400 meters, it helps a lot especially when you have a ton of 50. Cals

  • @ssuuss539
    @ssuuss539 Місяць тому +1

    2:35 the horror I felt through the screen lol

  • @Biigfishy
    @Biigfishy Місяць тому +2

    Spookston day 6 of asking for the g6 (since you love Britain so much)

  • @somebody5368
    @somebody5368 Місяць тому +5

    Americans when they don't have a stabilizer below 8.0 😢

    • @ICECAPPEDSKY
      @ICECAPPEDSKY Місяць тому +1

      Only thing that makes the shermans worth anything

    • @Optimusprime56241
      @Optimusprime56241 Місяць тому +5

      They don’t have a stabilizer at 8.0 either

    • @Luftwaffles1
      @Luftwaffles1 Місяць тому

      France when they don’t have stabiliser below 9.3

  • @amit2smadar
    @amit2smadar Місяць тому +1

    This is the start of evil Spookston's arc, and I'm all for it!

  • @moore_mond
    @moore_mond Місяць тому

    7:47 If I remember correctly, hull break was gapenning. when you hit cannon (barrel or/and breach) or transmaission (not periscope). IMHO it was better, than overpressure, not ideal though...

  • @gehcy_
    @gehcy_ Місяць тому +6

    Spookston, how do you say "pants" in polish?
    Spookston: 10:13

  • @daag1851
    @daag1851 Місяць тому

    7:25 yeah hull break, I remember how you could hull break Warrior by firing MG from side at the boxes in the back, or centauro by hitting the wheel

  • @CharlieDoesntSurf
    @CharlieDoesntSurf Місяць тому

    I've been waiting for a black cat video for FOREVER. This tank is so ridiculously good. It was the first premium I ever bought and I have thousands of kills with it. It's my #1 played tank

  • @silverwolf5643
    @silverwolf5643 Місяць тому +1

    now that you mention it, i remember hull break ... it was weird but funny sometimes but frustrating

  • @Twistshock
    @Twistshock Місяць тому +1

    I think the M18 is the ground vehicle I've had the most plane kills with, something about a single top mounted M2 just resonates with me.

  • @anangrylumberjack1229
    @anangrylumberjack1229 Місяць тому

    Spookston revenge bombing revenge bombers is the start of his villain arc. I am 100% for this
    “I’m tired of being the bigger man”

  • @TheArklyte
    @TheArklyte Місяць тому +1

    Grab T86E1, add tracks of T87, add M36 turret of "Super Hellcat".
    Here, "we have Object 906 at home." In 1944.

  • @BrandonVonOtt
    @BrandonVonOtt Місяць тому

    My great grandfather was a cook for a hellcat squadron. He said he enjoyed working with them, and the hellcat reminds me of him.

  • @Ontario_Mapper
    @Ontario_Mapper Місяць тому +1

    Spookston on his villian arc rn fr fr and pulled the uno reverse on the cas

  • @Maddog3060
    @Maddog3060 Місяць тому

    Spookston really giving off the "You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain" vibes with his counter-CAS, and I love it.

  • @NCRRangerVet47
    @NCRRangerVet47 Місяць тому

    Happy to see Spookston getting revenge on the revenge cas. Hope to see more of this.

  • @haruharii
    @haruharii Місяць тому +1

    back many years ago it was the next tank after the AT halftrack and was much lower BR, i came back many years later to try the game and my whole lineup was messed up and spread across 3 tiers

  • @DatTurboBrick
    @DatTurboBrick Місяць тому

    Oh my god, my brain just connected the dots. I started watching this channel for the "If the *insert tank here* was historically accurate videos. I literally only just realized that my favorite WT meme channel is the same channel as those videos! My brain is fighting for its life right now lol

  • @valerysdrageryion9085
    @valerysdrageryion9085 Місяць тому

    I've heard that the reason the M18 isn't well known from a historical aspect is that the crews preferred the M10 instead. I've forgotten the reason why that was the case.

  • @Active_Genesis
    @Active_Genesis Місяць тому

    Finding Spookston was a blessing for me, he has taught me me so much I didn’t know about the game despite having 700 hours in the game. Like, copula shots are something I never knew I could do until I started watching him.

  • @allenliu8820
    @allenliu8820 Місяць тому

    i remember i used to get hull breaked in the m18 if someone shot a round at the side of the tank where there is empty space
    shell goes through it, does nothing yet
    i still died

  • @cyroostetherington3335
    @cyroostetherington3335 Місяць тому +1

    my little story of the m18
    back in the day i got hull broken
    by *APCR* from a t-34 when it hit my ROAD WHEEL

  • @katyushatman5187
    @katyushatman5187 Місяць тому

    7:18 yeah i remember hullbreak and m18 wasnt that affected by it, pt-76 with heat one shot m18 BUT only when hit hull, if pt-76 hit m18 turret then no hullbreak (guess its in the name), BUT the buggest annoyance was when panther, tiger or even is-2 could not hullbreak m18 when hit hull side, m18 only got hullbreak when hit frontaly, but that killed them either way
    if you wanna play something fun then i suggest the Hungarian Turán and Zrínyi tanks

  • @Lawnmower979
    @Lawnmower979 Місяць тому

    We need like just an unedited video that’s like 2 hours long of spookston just fishing irl

  • @bezimienny_andzej6425
    @bezimienny_andzej6425 Місяць тому

    Some logic behind the hullbreak makes sense.
    If M18 gets hit by 75L70 in the breech, I don't really think the turret can take the momentum of the shell without getting displaced, which essentialy means - an important piece of the tank is no longer properly attached.
    I've read about T-34 getting hit by 88L71 in the engine. Engine got ripped out of the chassis. So imagine what would occur if similar storry happened to even a smaller vehicle. Would the crew still be alive?
    Maybe!
    But with engine gone and a fireball in its place, the vehicle would be a goner. Of course in WT tank fire is usually absolutely harmless, unless it's a fuel explosion. IRL if you have a burning pit where once engine was - nobody is staying in the vehicle to find out what happens.

  • @zacharymathey3901
    @zacharymathey3901 Місяць тому

    I love when spookston does the angry animal thing snarling intensely on tanks. It is funny!

  • @mew1023
    @mew1023 Місяць тому

    For being the King of Rat Vehicles, I’m surprised to see that Spookston has never made a video on The Rat King, the M22 Locust

  • @VirtualKota
    @VirtualKota Місяць тому

    You starting your fight against CAS is something I'm super excited about

  • @Kaiberus
    @Kaiberus Місяць тому

    remember spookston, if the cows are sleeping in the field, its pasture bedtime

  • @user-zo1kn8ob7h
    @user-zo1kn8ob7h Місяць тому

    5:40 i love the zombie ass rush dog growl noise things like when hellcat go fas brr and when you get chased like this v funi funi man ty mak laf

  • @Greeev
    @Greeev Місяць тому

    0:46 Shimano Sienna. Man's got good taste in fishing reels. (if that is him in the video)

  • @M26Persh
    @M26Persh Місяць тому

    Love the video man
    Now i wanna see you play the PVRBV 551 in the swedish techtree as i rarely see people playing it in 8.0 games and above

  • @ronaldmcreagann6343
    @ronaldmcreagann6343 Місяць тому +1

    Spookston on his villain arc with the CAS this video

  • @szymonguzik6450
    @szymonguzik6450 Місяць тому

    These ahkrt meme sketches are awesome. Mad respect for the effort

  • @horizon1043
    @horizon1043 Місяць тому

    I’m loving spookston’s new approach to CAS

  • @ejomatic7480
    @ejomatic7480 Місяць тому

    When he said "it's 3am" my brain went "but it's daytime in the video, how early is sunrise in his part of the world!?"
    Took me a moment to remember that video games can be daytime even if it's dark outside. I am not clever.

  • @Nikarus2370
    @Nikarus2370 Місяць тому

    3:00. You don't hear much about the hellcat historically for a few reasons. Primarily because they were intended for a reactionary defensive role to mass guns rapidly against some large German push which rarely materialized compared to reports from earlier in the war on the eastern front. So they spend a lot of time slinging HE in firesupport for infantry and other roles (as while an M18's armor won't do much against other tanks. It's pretty good at shrugging off rifle/mg fire). By the end of the war IIRC they had a 2.4:1 KD in destroyed tanks according to Zaloga's book, but I can't remember if that was exclusively "they destroyed 2.4 tanks per hellcat lost in combat with tanks" or "they destroyed 2.4 tanks per hellcat lost to any cause"
    Zaloga doesn't seem like them much though.

  • @snoopcatt5175
    @snoopcatt5175 Місяць тому

    “Tools for vengeance” by that he means the best planes in that tech tree at that br

  • @ripreq6580
    @ripreq6580 Місяць тому

    I have been struggling with in in IS-1's, i love to see how it plays

  • @phreedomphart4293
    @phreedomphart4293 Місяць тому +1

    13:40 Spookston's journey to the dark side begins

  • @Tales_of_Tanks
    @Tales_of_Tanks Місяць тому

    Hey spookston it’s not that it was too late to make a difference but in fact refused to outright use it. They wanted something more mobile but the same armor as a m10 so becoming a faster tank with a lot less armor became issue for crews so they said I’ll stick with m10 basically until they got the m36 into production. With only thirteen millimeters on the front hull, the M18’s armor was less than that of the M8 armored car. Of the nineteen tank destroyer battalions allocated for the invasion of France only 3 were equipped with the Hellcat prior to landing in Normandy. You have to think that the crews went from the half track with a 75 mm canon in North African to the m10 than the m18 I don’t think they would want to go back to a lightly armored tank destroyer again