Honestly point blank should be estimated on the relative angle of the shot Since, point blank range used to mean where there was no need to elevate one's sights or adjust ranging in any way
I wonder if they had some additional gunpowder bags/discs for the dustbins to increase the range irl, because a mortar with only 150 meters of effective range sounds like a bad joke.
@@Bingus__KhanIt was used for demolition by royal engineers, and not really for combat so it just had to be present. It's like having a tractor with a building eraser around.
As a 222 player, by the time the Churchill AVRE fires; I would've made coffee, drank it, watch the morning weather, go to the grocery store, pick up groceries, drive back, hop back on War Thunder, see the shell still coming towards me, turn my armored car around and sidestep the shell.
@@ludovitbradovka5208 Kind of, the mortar rotated like 90 degrees vertically and it was loaded from the hull hatch so basically only hands were exposed but yeah, it was suboptimal to lose your hands anyway.
*Playing Churchill AVRE was like a big fat guy dropkick a toddler. He is surely slow af and has a short attack range, but he damn sure most likely kill the toddler* 🗿
you can change how fast the scroll wheel changes the distance in controls (mouse wheel multiplier), but you can also bind increasing and decreasing the distance as well as resetting it instantly back to zero to keys on your keyboard (sight distance control: increase value, decrease value, reset axis value), since you can set the speed at which holding a key changes the distance (sight distance control: relative control sensitivity and multiplier) and the instant reset is even more useful, although obviously you still have to wait for the gun itself to depress.
Bright side, if you are stuck fighting around a building you can effectively prefire a corner so after they complete their 3rd lap of the block the shell will catch them off guard!
This tank is basically the War Thunder equivalent of a T-rex, its got a bite that can deal tremendous damage but its arm length is so short it can't reach
It would depend, if, and this is a massive IF, Gaijin added some more thematic missions, like some of Wargamming's special events, this could be useful. One example would be recreating the Dieppe raid, and having the UK/USA attacking points Germany/Italy are supposed to defend, with alternate flank routes being able to be opened by using enough explosives. Beyond that, this tank is way to dependent on getting close range maps like ruined city and Poland.
I mean, IRL the AVRE was able to knock out a panther from 3 meters away after hitting a telephone pole in front of it. so its kill radius should actually be quite a bit larger then it is in game. Ive also heard that its true maximum range was closer to 230m instead of the awful 100-150m that its got ingame, but ive heard varying accounts on that If it just had a range of damage that was larger than a pinhead then it may actually be worthwhile
@@Person4772 yeah i doubt its range was only 130 like ingame snf the kill radius should def be larger because if this was accurate then it wouldent even be viable for clearing buildings
Spookston: uses range finder The sight: ranged at a tank's tracks according to rangefinder The round: lands near the tank's tracks Spookston: "the rangefinder lied"
in real life, this tank wasnt suposed to engage in tank to tank combat, it was made for the Royal Engineers to blow up bunkers and obstacles. usually this thing carried around some much needed materials for the D day operations
It was mildly worse in real life, it has to be reloaded externally, as in a hatch opened in the hull roof and a guy flipped the barrel down to reload it by sticking his hands outside the tank with a huge HE round, this would not be so bad if the AVRE was not intended to attack fortifications full of machineguns or something. the US tested the Petard system and found it to be so unsatisfactory that it believed using a M12 Gun Motor Carriage was considerably safer for the anti-bunker role, and that says alot considering the M12 is a 155MM artillery piece with almost no armor, but it did not have to engage from sub machinegun range like the AVRE did.
@@deepbludreams I mean, yeah. Reloading was much worse irl but on the other hand, it was more meant to be an engineer vehicle - obstacle removal (any kind of obstacles). Basically: fire once, clear the road. If advancing bunkers etc.: fire, clear, smoke, reverse/give cover to infantry. Also it meant to be supported by Crocodiles or other vehicles (not just go on its own). But yeah, I think Brits didn't really like it either and that's why they've made things with 95mm howitzer or taking 105 Shermans. EDIT: I've allowed myself to dig into Churchills AVRE and Churchills in general, and as far as I can see, AVREs were doing pretty okay job with clearing things (bunkers etc) - mostly due to its armour. Can't read anything about anybody getting for example hit while reloading the AVRE even during the battle. Reloading was indeed pain in the ass, but if it works then works I guess.
@@genericscottishchannel1603 the loading is like a break-action shotgun. The muzzle flipped to point upwards. The hinge that allows it to be reloaded is a separate thing and not related to the elevation mechanism.
@@gregoryclark8217 not one of you could comprehend the fact that I questioned how the gun has such a limited elevation when it loads externally and not from a breech within the turret
I think this is one of the best things added in recent times. I have a 4.8 k/d ratio and consistent 8 kill games in it. Not only is it hilarious watching the round swoop in but it is extremely well armoured for 2.7
I love how the shell essentially takes as long as my country's mail service does to deliver mail to land regardless of range. Like, the perceivable delay between firing and the shell hitting even at point blank
Modern mbt turret rotation with ww2 armor and early cold war gun/ammo Honestly not bad from the base synopsis Really could use a very slight BR reduction though... 8.3 isn't the most workable in a full uptier
Churchill AVRE in CoH: This is a nice looking grill Churchill AVRE in WT: Why doesn't mine look like that?! As James Rolfe said, there is bad, there is funny bad and this one is not very funny But i have to admit, a shell disappearing before hitting the M8 right before you got bombed is comedy gold As a healing vehicle, can you try out the M4A1? at 3.3, it's basically the American equivalent to Panzer 4 G version
@@dse763me when the vehicle not designed to fight tanks is bad at fighting tanks Everyone knew it was going to be bad. No idea why this is a surprise all of a sudden
be thankful its handwaved the reload. the actual AVRE petard is a spigot mortar. The reload is done via a hatch behind the driver, under the gun. If they made it accurate, after every shot you'd have to point the gun forward and then expose the loaders arms to, well everything, by sticking their arms out the top. IDK why they added this vehicle to WT other than a box ticketing exercise. You don't fight concrete bunkers.
This is the first event vehicle I have taken the time to grind for (I only play casually) but in the first three games I have played in it I have had fun, it has the mantra of "Drive me closer, I want to hit them with my sword"
I feel like this calls for playing the complete opposite, which is just the CV90120 for something with no armor but decent mobility, range and an AP round and is also importantly still a tracked vehicle rather than wheeled. Also i genuinelly believe that if the commander just pulled out a bazooka from the hatch, it'd be more effective than the actual mortar launcher it has.
4:23 That fucking sound perfectly describes what it's like to be annihilated by this thing. A guttural scream of terror immediately followed by complete erasure.
Shots 1-5: Clearly missed. Shots 6-9: Missed due to overestimation (due to rangefinder). Shots 10-11: Very close, but overestimation and rangefinder make these reasonable misses. Shot 12: Likely didn't actually fire because he was already dead.
This thing genuinely feels like a scam. If it was like 10-15k for a tier I'd understand since it's a joke vehicle. But full on 35k for a pretty bad tank is ridiculous, and when people complained about it asking why it was that much, the moderator on the Gajin page just linked to the page explaining how the new event system works... Also: Players: "We want larger maps!" Gaijin: "Melee tank lmao"
Long time ago when i was still playing wot and was playing arty, i was always feeling like in the avre and was always shouting "stop, dont move pls, just for 5 sec"
I learned in the Sturmtiger that the crew voice that comes with the range finder is far more accurate for slow moving projectiles. Which can be bothersome if the radio chat is full with "attack the D point" messages. Or... if you don't speak the language.
this is the kind of vehicle you add for, say, an April fools game mode. give it some ludicrous reload and spawn everyone in them and let them duke it out it would be hysterical. but it just doesn't fuckin work as an actual proper tank
That's because it's not a conventional tank as such. It's a vehicle specifically designed for bunker-busting and obstacle clearance. It did its job very effectively in the Normandy campaign especially when working with a Crocodile and even managed to knock out German Panther it encountered.
8:24 I remember shooting a stryker with slat armor and it ate a 152mm HE round because of the slat. I understand how that might work for heat but I don’t get how that works for pounds of HE.
You seem to have forgotten that this is a British vehicle, and thus Gaijin won't allow it to be even mildly functional, even as a premium with high explosive.
Ok, some tips for this tank: - Close the distance. You don't need to range find when you're ramming the enemy - Angle. You have great armor, angle it and wiggle towards the enemy (alternate angle between their shots) - Hide the barrel. Angling the turret helps a lot. You might also want to fire your round so you're reloading while approaching enemies since if your gun is loaded, they can machinegun the round to ammo rack you - Range on the scroll wheel (change the scale if needed) so you can use your machine gun and change range to point blank quickly - Use your machine gun. There are a lot of open tops at this tier, give them hell. You were stopping to rangefind at the petard's medium to max range. You can just keep driving at them, and worry about rangefinding if they track you. I usually end up in the enemy spawn after killing everyone on the way, but you can always go towards caps. Either way, I get 6-10 kills pretty often. Probably in my top 5 favorite tanks to play
My most successful game with the AVRE was on single cap finland where I long flanked around the objective, turned around, and simply blended in with the enemy team heading to the cap, the only enemy who had a brain was a T-28 which was completely helpless in penetrating me anywhere and so I managed to kill 4 people in quick succession while the poor guy was shooting me over and over again. I only died because a teammate dropped a 4000 pound HC bomb directly on the cap and killed me and 3 enemies, no one else noticed a giant churchill among their panzer IIIs and SU-122s and ignored me when I shadow blasted an enemy teammate every 25 or so seconds.
When ever he said “get back here you rascal, where you think your going” and since he’s playing a British I imagine him saying “return back to me ye devious rapscallion, where doth you thinkith you are going”
Gaijin needs to stop adding artillery and start adding experimental *tanks*. At least prototypes like the 10TP. Attempt 38: requesting Spookston to play one of the "Alternate" Top Tier tanks: M48 Super AMX 40 Olifant II
I don't know the game very well, only by watching your videos have I been even introduced to it (thank you very much your channel is very nice by the way). But after watching a few of your videos, I find the idea that the only suggestion they'd take seriously from (in my maybe naive view) a significant UA-camr across all these videos you've posted being the small, 100 m spawn separation map both hilarious and extremely concerning. As a side note, I love when you take the weird, the wild and the unwieldy vehicles this game seems to offer regardless of....points? Tiers? It's really fun to see you legitimately trying to tackle matches with some of histories oddities. I think I'm gonna stay here, watch a little more of your stuff ^~^ hope you're having a good day/night sir and thanks for the enjoyment!
I know opinions on this thing are very mixed but I did not enjoy it much
Makes sense, it's the equivalent of throwing a grenade towards people
As funny as the tank is, it's a horrible addition
average british firepower
Play jpz-45
@@chiefpaposfairly certain people said the same thing about the sturmtiger, but it could just be my memory messing with me
Commander calling "range, point blank" on a target outside of your max range is hilarious.
Like NO it is NOT POINT BLANK 😭😭
Honestly point blank should be estimated on the relative angle of the shot
Since, point blank range used to mean where there was no need to elevate one's sights or adjust ranging in any way
I wonder if they had some additional gunpowder bags/discs for the dustbins to increase the range irl, because a mortar with only 150 meters of effective range sounds like a bad joke.
@@Bingus__KhanIt was used for demolition by royal engineers, and not really for combat so it just had to be present. It's like having a tractor with a building eraser around.
Even worse, sometimes it feels like the dude is just saying "Yeah" as for the range. Like, wtf bro, that ain't even a *number.*
As a 222 player, by the time the Churchill AVRE fires; I would've made coffee, drank it, watch the morning weather, go to the grocery store, pick up groceries, drive back, hop back on War Thunder, see the shell still coming towards me, turn my armored car around and sidestep the shell.
i would probably be able to escape it as a maus
arb players will feel right at home
@@dm33enjoyerI could probably escape it on neutral gear
@@dm33enjoyer i could probably escape it as an L3 with both tracks out
you could probably escape it as a tutel with both tracks gone@@ThatRandomEstonian
The Gunner just throwing out Bombs out of the turret 💀
“I bet he wishes he were tossin’ cabers!”
no, then the reload would be much stronger and it would become more viable
They just be throwing grenades I swear. Shoulda drafted Tom Brady or something
the round is launched by a spring
IIRC the crew had to get out and load it from the muzzle.
9:25 Ah yes, 18 Kg of TNT disappearing into thin air. Truly a Gaijin moment
slow tank, check...
big HE thing, check...
NO range, check...
British, check...
spookston's kryptonite has been found: the melee Churchill!
He likes big he things
The loader is having a full on workout just trying to carry the round
the loader handing the rocket to the gunner for him to throw 🤣
you are not wrong, the loader was kinda in danger cause he had to reload this thing from the outside
@@ludovitbradovka5208 Kind of, the mortar rotated like 90 degrees vertically and it was loaded from the hull hatch so basically only hands were exposed but yeah, it was suboptimal to lose your hands anyway.
@@pizzerinoitaliano3049new quote of the day: losing hands is suboptimal
@@pizzerinoitaliano3049 losing ur hand as a loader 💀
Playing the AVRE is 90% creeping towards people going “im gonna getcha” and 10% “HEY BUDDY!”.
1% boom
There's at least 5% "they don't know how to pen me" as well.
Lamp oil, Rope, BOMBS ? you want it? Its yours my friend, as long as you are closer than 150 Meters
From my experience it's ≈126m-127m
Sorry Churchill I can't give elevation, come back when you're a little more, mmmm richer!
@@Manraged Come back when you're a little mhhh higher (br)
*Playing Churchill AVRE was like a big fat guy dropkick a toddler. He is surely slow af and has a short attack range, but he damn sure most likely kill the toddler* 🗿
You called me?
Unless the toddler is the child of stalin aka somehow not overpreassuring a T-34
@@knightartorias6473 stalinium
Things was never meant to fight a tank... why even put it in!
@@Njuregen Neither was sturm tiger...
6:14
That “VAPORIZED” had so much anger behind it
Having an un-lockable scroll wheel is an absolute godsend in the AVRE
And it still takes forever TwT
Gotta use the compressed air can trick on it to get it to max range in under 5 minutes
@@edenfeledrum1540exactly!
@@edenfeledrum1540 or just bind an additional key to it
you can change how fast the scroll wheel changes the distance in controls (mouse wheel multiplier), but you can also bind increasing and decreasing the distance as well as resetting it instantly back to zero to keys on your keyboard (sight distance control: increase value, decrease value, reset axis value), since you can set the speed at which holding a key changes the distance (sight distance control: relative control sensitivity and multiplier) and the instant reset is even more useful, although obviously you still have to wait for the gun itself to depress.
“Why is the elevation so bad? That’s just even more depressing…” -spookston, comedy genius
proot
Two proots ^
fart
@@missingid7620 non-proot detected
put him in NASA's corpse wiggler
@@missingid7620 this person is not a proot
sacrifice him to NASA's corpse wiggler
The first melee only tank in war thunder
11:19
fix bayonets
You ain't wrong
It's like that Warhammer 40k meme of needing to get closer to hit the enemy with his sword.
9:24 Gaijin : "prepare for trouble!"
9:37 Random cas : "And make it double!"
"drive me closer, I want to throw a dustbin at them"
2:05 black prince mentioned, better play that soon
i wish, my favourite tank in both games...
@@Kazuya.Mishima that must be depressing
@@panther-nk2hn Average British man
@@NetAnon i main britain and my fav tank is the crocodile
@@panther-nk2hn not at all, I enjoy a lot playing it
9:23 that was painful to watch. The wrath of the snail knows no limits.
HE no matter the tank has just been evaporating lately. Has to be a bug.
I like how the commander says ,,point blank" during range finding even when the target is 200m away. He just wants to believe..
It's point blank. Just for the enemy tank.
@@Talendale true bro
Not even he can believe how terrible the range is on this tank.
The BT ramping off the M3 has to be the most "Dudes Rock" thing I've seen in this game
Bright side, if you are stuck fighting around a building you can effectively prefire a corner so after they complete their 3rd lap of the block the shell will catch them off guard!
Commander : "Point blank !"
Sir, that's way beyond our range.
When the anti building tank encounters anti everything bullets.
the gunner just blowing the bombs out like its a straw💀
The smokes are literally a godsend, turning long range fights into a brawl, you just gotta spam em everywhere whenever you see a bad guy
This tank is basically the War Thunder equivalent of a T-rex, its got a bite that can deal tremendous damage but its arm length is so short it can't reach
T-rex is Sturmtiger - this thing is a freaking mononykus
Perhaps adding this thing was an example of "Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should"
It would depend, if, and this is a massive IF, Gaijin added some more thematic missions, like some of Wargamming's special events, this could be useful.
One example would be recreating the Dieppe raid, and having the UK/USA attacking points Germany/Italy are supposed to defend, with alternate flank routes being able to be opened by using enough explosives.
Beyond that, this tank is way to dependent on getting close range maps like ruined city and Poland.
Imagine bunker busting gamemode
I mean, IRL the AVRE was able to knock out a panther from 3 meters away after hitting a telephone pole in front of it. so its kill radius should actually be quite a bit larger then it is in game.
Ive also heard that its true maximum range was closer to 230m instead of the awful 100-150m that its got ingame, but ive heard varying accounts on that
If it just had a range of damage that was larger than a pinhead then it may actually be worthwhile
@@Person4772 yeah i doubt its range was only 130 like ingame snf the kill radius should def be larger because if this was accurate then it wouldent even be viable for clearing buildings
@@membranealpha5961 i think it's just scale because 130 meters irl is pretty far
When the muzzle velocity is so bad you might as well mail the enemy your shell 💀
The Royal Mail had a hand in designing this tank they wanted you to pay for stamps
Youre more likely to hit a tank with a water bottle than the shell at 110+ meters
when your political view is so bad that you out yourself as nazi online with that pfp
@@tgirlshark when you're so presumptuous that you see an eagle next to a German flag and immediately go, "ah yes, a Nazi"
@@tgirlshark What 💀💀 Dude chill its the german eagle thats literally on our flag, its a german meme 😂
U can throw a ball faster than this tank shoots 😂
Maybe if you’re a professional baseball player with a shotgun for an arm. 50 m/s is 111 mph.
Dont you mean farther?
@@Cirrus2000well, you can throw a rock with a sling faster than this tank shoots.
I have Nerf guns that shoot faster than this
@@Cirrus2000 Only slightly faster than a good fastball
09:40 No way, Spookston shouting, I don't think I've ever heard him raising his voice like that.
When the mortar launches off the Petard for me, it plays the Free Bird solo and I see no better alternative for it
Spookston: uses range finder
The sight: ranged at a tank's tracks according to rangefinder
The round: lands near the tank's tracks
Spookston: "the rangefinder lied"
get a proper pfp first then comment
evertime you fire it's like watching someone throw a shopping bag full of explosives
in real life, this tank wasnt suposed to engage in tank to tank combat, it was made for the Royal Engineers to blow up bunkers and obstacles. usually this thing carried around some much needed materials for the D day operations
It was mildly worse in real life, it has to be reloaded externally, as in a hatch opened in the hull roof and a guy flipped the barrel down to reload it by sticking his hands outside the tank with a huge HE round, this would not be so bad if the AVRE was not intended to attack fortifications full of machineguns or something.
the US tested the Petard system and found it to be so unsatisfactory that it believed using a M12 Gun Motor Carriage was considerably safer for the anti-bunker role, and that says alot considering the M12 is a 155MM artillery piece with almost no armor, but it did not have to engage from sub machinegun range like the AVRE did.
@@deepbludreams I mean, yeah. Reloading was much worse irl but on the other hand, it was more meant to be an engineer vehicle - obstacle removal (any kind of obstacles). Basically: fire once, clear the road. If advancing bunkers etc.: fire, clear, smoke, reverse/give cover to infantry. Also it meant to be supported by Crocodiles or other vehicles (not just go on its own). But yeah, I think Brits didn't really like it either and that's why they've made things with 95mm howitzer or taking 105 Shermans.
EDIT: I've allowed myself to dig into Churchills AVRE and Churchills in general, and as far as I can see, AVREs were doing pretty okay job with clearing things (bunkers etc) - mostly due to its armour. Can't read anything about anybody getting for example hit while reloading the AVRE even during the battle. Reloading was indeed pain in the ass, but if it works then works I guess.
@@deepbludreams If that's how its loaded then why is the elevation so bad
@@genericscottishchannel1603 the loading is like a break-action shotgun. The muzzle flipped to point upwards. The hinge that allows it to be reloaded is a separate thing and not related to the elevation mechanism.
@@gregoryclark8217 not one of you could comprehend the fact that I questioned how the gun has such a limited elevation when it loads externally and not from a breech within the turret
that thing is the literal "snail that instantly kills you if it touches you" except it can die
14:44 Imagine being the driver of that Panzer and just seeing a bomb flop over the wall
The fact that you have to say "How far away are you" when it's 45 metres away is just peak comedy 3:30
The entire thing is a giant grenade launcher, but it only barely works when you melee with it
the most petarded tank ever
You forgot a 1 there mate
@@thecatman2400 more like a \
I think this is one of the best things added in recent times. I have a 4.8 k/d ratio and consistent 8 kill games in it. Not only is it hilarious watching the round swoop in but it is extremely well armoured for 2.7
Almost like its OP for its BR or something.
I love how the shell essentially takes as long as my country's mail service does to deliver mail to land regardless of range. Like, the perceivable delay between firing and the shell hitting even at point blank
Giorno 204 of asking Spookston to play Semovente 75/46 M43.
Man these days are breaking me...
Stay strong, king! 🫡💪 He'll have to play eventually!
Keep going bro
Please give up.
the absolute max range you can get out of this is 200m, the bomb self explodes any further but you have to angle your hole tank up
You know, I really enjoy this video. This is the first time I hear you lose your mind like I do playing ANY tank.
Spookston is sounds very pumped and excited, never seen him like this before
Love the unloved M47 Patton day 161!
Modern mbt turret rotation with ww2 armor and early cold war gun/ammo
Honestly not bad from the base synopsis
Really could use a very slight BR reduction though... 8.3 isn't the most workable in a full uptier
Damn, you’ve been doing this for 7.590705e+286 days? Impressive
@@Ballistics_Computer it has panther 2 armor, 101mm at 59 degrees, which is stupidly good at 7.3 as long as you don't get too cocky with solid shot
Churchill AVRE in CoH: This is a nice looking grill
Churchill AVRE in WT: Why doesn't mine look like that?!
As James Rolfe said, there is bad, there is funny bad and this one is not very funny
But i have to admit, a shell disappearing before hitting the M8 right before you got bombed is comedy gold
As a healing vehicle, can you try out the M4A1? at 3.3, it's basically the American equivalent to Panzer 4 G version
The Crocodile Wargaming introduced in WoT is way better than this, despite the Churchill Mk 7 being one of the worst tech tree vehicle.
@@dse763me when the vehicle not designed to fight tanks is bad at fighting tanks
Everyone knew it was going to be bad. No idea why this is a surprise all of a sudden
I love how in the beginning of the video between your AVRE and allied Nebelwehrfer, enemy have to face exactly 0,6 of a combat capable vehicle😅
I like how we are slowly getting closer to hearing the entire happy wheels theme song each video.
>FV3903
>exists
"Nah, let's give them the one you have to get outside and climb in front to reload."
Theres always that one churchill who had enough to unpen some enemies until he brought a big derp gun.
be thankful its handwaved the reload. the actual AVRE petard is a spigot mortar. The reload is done via a hatch behind the driver, under the gun. If they made it accurate, after every shot you'd have to point the gun forward and then expose the loaders arms to, well everything, by sticking their arms out the top.
IDK why they added this vehicle to WT other than a box ticketing exercise. You don't fight concrete bunkers.
Yet!
This is the first event vehicle I have taken the time to grind for (I only play casually) but in the first three games I have played in it I have had fun, it has the mantra of "Drive me closer, I want to hit them with my sword"
"Mom, can we have a sturmtiger at home?"
"We already have a sturmtiger at home"
The sturmtiger in question:
3:35 spookston actually having fun in the game but it's an instance so rare he got an allergic reaction and almost died
The silence after the round poofed itself into the void has to be one of the funniest moments in all of Spookston history
That shell goes so slow you could probably catch it mid-air
I feel like this calls for playing the complete opposite, which is just the CV90120 for something with no armor but decent mobility, range and an AP round and is also importantly still a tracked vehicle rather than wheeled.
Also i genuinelly believe that if the commander just pulled out a bazooka from the hatch, it'd be more effective than the actual mortar launcher it has.
4:23
That fucking sound perfectly describes what it's like to be annihilated by this thing. A guttural scream of terror immediately followed by complete erasure.
Thank you Spookston for playing the PETARD, it truly has made my day. Also sorry you didn’t enjoy the experience.
Shots 1-5: Clearly missed.
Shots 6-9: Missed due to overestimation (due to rangefinder).
Shots 10-11: Very close, but overestimation and rangefinder make these reasonable misses.
Shot 12: Likely didn't actually fire because he was already dead.
Most of those misses is because he did not zero but half zero and half elevated
And he never used the MG on the squishes - it goes through most gun shields easily!
@@RamonInNZ You're responding to a copypasta
It would probably be more effective to just have the crews get out and put AT mines around the enemy tanks
They don't even have to get out. The AVRE had hatches on the side for placing demo charges
Tbf irl the AVRE was for destroying bunkers and other structures, it was literally intended to drive right up to a target and just obliterate it.
This thing genuinely feels like a scam. If it was like 10-15k for a tier I'd understand since it's a joke vehicle. But full on 35k for a pretty bad tank is ridiculous, and when people complained about it asking why it was that much, the moderator on the Gajin page just linked to the page explaining how the new event system works...
Also:
Players: "We want larger maps!"
Gaijin: "Melee tank lmao"
Long time ago when i was still playing wot and was playing arty, i was always feeling like in the avre and was always shouting "stop, dont move pls, just for 5 sec"
Title should've been "Britain makes the worst AVRE, asked to Leave Battle of Normandy."
*"This tank broke my brain"*
Yeah, like there are still parts of your brain saved
left...
I learned in the Sturmtiger that the crew voice that comes with the range finder is far more accurate for slow moving projectiles.
Which can be bothersome if the radio chat is full with "attack the D point" messages.
Or... if you don't speak the language.
you can change in the setting that crews always have the game lauguage voice lines instead of the tanks nationality voice lines
the issue is, that with this thing when you are withing range the commander just blurts out "point blank"
Nimm die Stolzmonat, Nationalisten Verschandelung unserer Flagge aus'm Profilbild.
The commander just yells "point blank" instead of the range which is funny because it's still out of range lmao
Name may check out, wtf is that pfp
this is the kind of vehicle you add for, say, an April fools game mode. give it some ludicrous reload and spawn everyone in them and let them duke it out it would be hysterical. but it just doesn't fuckin work as an actual proper tank
That's because it's not a conventional tank as such. It's a vehicle specifically designed for bunker-busting and obstacle clearance. It did its job very effectively in the Normandy campaign especially when working with a Crocodile and even managed to knock out German Panther it encountered.
8:24 I remember shooting a stryker with slat armor and it ate a 152mm HE round because of the slat. I understand how that might work for heat but I don’t get how that works for pounds of HE.
Absolute frustration to watch the shots fall short even after range finding. Can't imagine the pain you went through to make this video for us
I love seeing Spookston lose his mind every time the round disappears or does absolutely nothing.
this thing is basically a juggernaut killstreak that can only attack by chucking a big satchel of C4 at it's enemies
Spookston has unlocked new vocabulary “he got vaporized”
9:37 this whole segment was "Press F to throw back grenade"
The sherman You where thinking was the premium sherman called "Caliope"
You seem to have forgotten that this is a British vehicle, and thus Gaijin won't allow it to be even mildly functional, even as a premium with high explosive.
I've grinded to 8.7 UK and I still uptier my TOG because it's the only British tank that can 1 shot MBTs
@@simplsquamwhat's uptiering ?
9:22 this whole scene was just so sad
Spookston is going to have a deep vein thrombosis playing this 😭😭😭
4:22 what is the guttural scream I need it 😂
waa
Ok, some tips for this tank:
- Close the distance. You don't need to range find when you're ramming the enemy
- Angle. You have great armor, angle it and wiggle towards the enemy (alternate angle between their shots)
- Hide the barrel. Angling the turret helps a lot. You might also want to fire your round so you're reloading while approaching enemies since if your gun is loaded, they can machinegun the round to ammo rack you
- Range on the scroll wheel (change the scale if needed) so you can use your machine gun and change range to point blank quickly
- Use your machine gun. There are a lot of open tops at this tier, give them hell.
You were stopping to rangefind at the petard's medium to max range. You can just keep driving at them, and worry about rangefinding if they track you.
I usually end up in the enemy spawn after killing everyone on the way, but you can always go towards caps. Either way, I get 6-10 kills pretty often. Probably in my top 5 favorite tanks to play
I’m glad they add more interesting vehicles with a gimmick rather than vehicles that will just do really well in the BR they put it in.
Oddbawz: I love this tank
Spookston: I hate this tank
The duality of WT players 😅😅
The first melee tank in the game.
Honestly though the title should be:
Britain makes discount strumtiger, asked to leave NATO
Asked to leave the Allies then
@@Someone-lr6guasked to leave d-day
Asked to leave Earth
I love how @9:28 he just goes silent then gets bombed. I felt this so much as this is a common experience for me. Like literally every match.
10:35 that "RETARD" on the other Petard's hull, lmao 😂
Spookston was hoisted by his own petard
This tank is basically a melee weapon 💀
One will surely feel like a petard after they grind for this vehicle and play a single game with it.
its premium
@@sabotabby3372 i may or may not be petarded
0:56 casually putting the Seismic Bomb Explosion from Star Wars as SFX lol
My most successful game with the AVRE was on single cap finland where I long flanked around the objective, turned around, and simply blended in with the enemy team heading to the cap, the only enemy who had a brain was a T-28 which was completely helpless in penetrating me anywhere and so I managed to kill 4 people in quick succession while the poor guy was shooting me over and over again. I only died because a teammate dropped a 4000 pound HC bomb directly on the cap and killed me and 3 enemies, no one else noticed a giant churchill among their panzer IIIs and SU-122s and ignored me when I shadow blasted an enemy teammate every 25 or so seconds.
It would be sick if you played the M103
Lobotomy Code
Day 16 of asking spookston to play the Leopard 1
That point blank miss at 8 mins absolutely killed me 😂😂😂
Just imagine you being all, “Definitely don’t need to range this, he’s right there!”
*Miss*
When ever he said “get back here you rascal, where you think your going” and since he’s playing a British I imagine him saying “return back to me ye devious rapscallion, where doth you thinkith you are going”
Sturmtiger’s petarded cousin
All of you really thought you could get a mini sturmtiger at 2.7, think again 😂
Gaijin needs to stop adding artillery and start adding experimental *tanks*. At least prototypes like the 10TP.
Attempt 38: requesting Spookston to play one of the "Alternate" Top Tier tanks:
M48 Super
AMX 40
Olifant II
I couldn't stop laughing, it's way too comical but on the expense of Spookston's Sanity. What a ridiculous vehicle
I don't know the game very well, only by watching your videos have I been even introduced to it (thank you very much your channel is very nice by the way). But after watching a few of your videos, I find the idea that the only suggestion they'd take seriously from (in my maybe naive view) a significant UA-camr across all these videos you've posted being the small, 100 m spawn separation map both hilarious and extremely concerning.
As a side note, I love when you take the weird, the wild and the unwieldy vehicles this game seems to offer regardless of....points? Tiers? It's really fun to see you legitimately trying to tackle matches with some of histories oddities. I think I'm gonna stay here, watch a little more of your stuff ^~^ hope you're having a good day/night sir and thanks for the enjoyment!