Gaijin thought process: "If we fix HESH what would help sell this premium ... however it would also help British tanks" "We decided to delete the M728 CEV instead"
Honestly, the first few mins of this vid explains why I feel that deliberately not hitting tanks is sometimes a better choice than aiming at them in the Cent AVRE. Often times I've gotten used to aiming at the ground or wall next to a tank because I know it's more likely to kill than hitting the enemy straight on lmao
thats exactly what i do, if i find a t95 or maus or anything that i dont think i can kill with a direct hit i always aim right below the tank and its a kill every single time, love the avre but dont know why they removed the cev and not the avre
@@andrewpower1314 I feel that AVRE is overall a better tank, ERA, reverse speed, survivability (although not necessarily armor), extra crew member, and no stupid lights that block your traverse when depressed; the only thing that is worse seems to be the top speed - I'm not sure how much this contributed to its sales, which I assume is why the CEV got removed, but the US also has better premiums at about the same rating (which is not necessarily true for the UK)
With volumetric armour especially, I've just given up aiming at some vehicles entirely (mainly T-34s and KV-1s). Instead I just shoot in their general direction, hoping that at least one of the shots penetrates, unless I've got a very easy shot at a weakspot and they aren't moving.
So if you miss it uses the high explosive damage model, but if you hit you get a poor man's ap, but never both? That might explain why 4005 felt so disapointing to use
I bought this when I first started and regretted it 2 seconds later. Its a fun meme tank. Hopefully next year they could work on HESH? We can hope lol.
Now for real life. I was an M728 gunner and commander for the 72nd Engineer Company of the 197th Inf BDE (Mechanized Separate) from 1985 to 1988. I can tell you the M135 Main Gun has a maximum effective range of 800 meters, a maximum range of 1000 meters, and the ammunition used is not called HESH, it is designated HEP (High Explosive Plastique). The M135 main gun is designated as a Demolition Gun, and it is intended to destroy objects like log cribs, bunkers, and other battlefield obstacles. The M728 was not intended to fight with other combat vehicles but a crew has to deal with what's in front of it and I did have the pleasure of gunning the M728 on the first, and only time that they were allowed to fire live rounds for Tank Gunnery during crew qualifications at Fort Benning, GA. It was the first and last time because, yes, our demolition guns demolished the range. I fired and scored a direct hit on an M48 target tank and the round tore the M48 apart. The shot was at night, I got the order to engage the tank from my TC, we had no laser range finder so distance was a visual estimate, he called it at 600 meters. I laid the gun on target, fired, and when the round hit the explosion was real, and the M48 was side -on to us, the target rocked back like it had been slapped, the engine deck which weighs probably 3000 pounds was ripped off and flew up into the air slowly rotating and spinning while burning. A couple of road wheels were burning and thrown perhaps as high as 20 meters up. There was an overall impression that a lot of other unidentifiable pieces/parts were flying all over. That tank would not have been able to continue fighting, and I don't think an enemy crew would have lived. The rest of the range, well the range personnel spent a week on bulldozers filling in the holes and repairing the other targets. The M48 I hit, they had to haul it off a bring a replacement. But all of this aside, while I did hit the enemy tank, the other two tank crews did not, and in a real situation probably would have been killed. The crews only got to train like this one time a year, and with nothing but visual range estimation and the targeting reticle to use for ranging shots, it's not an easy thing to do. I'd recommend shooting short before shooting long, a short shot at least throws up a ton of dirt and debris that will make it harder for the enemy to target you in return. Then you can hope he doesn't move while you quickly adjust and fire again hoping to score a hit. Which brings me to the next problem with the game, the reload time is stupidly wrong. It takes almost no more time to reload the M135 than any other manually loaded tank gun in service. I good loader will use the recoil of the main gun, to help lever open the breach so it's open as soon as it's been fired, there is no empty casing to extract as the entire thing does down range and only a small plastic white colored disk of plastic about the size of a quarter remains, the loader just reaches in and sweeps it out with his fingers. Much easier then dealing with a shell casing. Then the process is the same as any other tank, move the securing bar that keeps new rounds from falling out of the honeycombed ammo rack, pull out the next round and ram it into the breach with your fist, hit the release to close the breach, and yell "UP". Might have to take the electronic safety off, I forget. But in the end, the M728 reload is just as fast as any other tank not using an autoloader.
Mind you, this is designed by the same people who thinks- -That a clear line of sight from the mid-section of maps, and sometimes even further than that, straight into spawn-areas is a good idea. -That HE, HESH and HEAT-shells should arm on bushes, fences and twigs, randomly and without any form of consistency whatsoever. -That sometimes, trees and random props are enough to stop AP-shells. -That ATGM-launchers facing WW2 vehicles is perfectly fine and balanced. -That the auto-loader on T-series tanks should be immune to ammo racks, even though Russia's boogaloo proves otherwise. -That literally anything is a better solution to the horrendous balancing issues than BR-decompression. Top-tier should have been 12.7-13.3, around 3 years ago. -That helicopters should, on occasion, survive multiple ATGM and HE-shell hits directly, without any damage to avionics or on-board systems whatsoever. -That a single 11.7 ground vehicle should cost more in terms of RP and SL than the first 1-3 complete tiers of vehicles in the same nation. -That apparently, adding a Ground-only game mode without any aircraft is a bad idea. -That volumetrics is somehow fine without any issues and does not need to be looked into any further. -That helicopters can fly straight without a tail rotor or rudder, should it ever come to lose them. -That UAV's are a great addition to the game. -That sub-calibre munition impacts causes no internal damage whatsoever. Even though the force being imparted upon the impacted target should produce an overpressure shockwave strong enough to completely destroy the crew inside, should the shell penetrate said target. This is just off the top of my head, I could probably go on for hours just listing things that are either plain wrong, broken or otherwise dysfunctional in the game.
@@Nick-rs5if To be fair, the WW2 vehicles that are at BR's with ATGM's are kind of hard to balance, since they usually just have too much armor to be below where they are, while at the same time being sorta bad, but at least not impossible to kill or get kills. You don't really see people saying that everything with ATGM's is necessarily meta or overpowered, either, just that these vehicles are terrible where they are. but yeah, I agree. The shell damage is absolute BS. APHE is literally the only thing that (mostly) works the way it's supposed to. I wouldn't say they suffer as much as vehicles that use APDS/APCR, but the inconsistency is definitely there for HE lobbers, too, which is what stops a lot of them from being better. Don't get me wrong, the "HESH-like effects" argument is a little overexaggerated, but I don't think half a mm of armor should be the difference as to whether or not the BT-42 can even damage M3 Stuarts.
@@Nick-rs5ifforgot to add, - thinks their next entry of russian top tier tanks deserve to have correctly modelled spall liner protection, but refuses to acknowledge that all of the top tier nato tanks have spall liners that were not modelled into their models in game on the same BR.
@@Nick-rs5if Agreed. The only exception is Helicopters flying without tails or Tail Rotors, and that exception is only on 3 vehicles. The Ka-52 (And its predecessor the Ka-50, as well as the other product of the Kamov Design Berau: The Ka-29) has a dual rotor design. Thanks to that these helicopters are able to fly with entire tail sections missing. Even then if one of the rotors is damaged the whole helicopter falls. Everything else should be falling if the tail section is shot off or the rotor fails due to battle damage.
@@phill-b4jthe only round the gun can fire is HESH, the round isn’t being sent out of the barrel at like Mach 1 it’s just being forced out by a semi powerful explosive charge
@@phill-b4j U might be thinking of the Churchill with the (iirc) 290mm mortar. The other guys here are talking about the Centurion with the 165mm gun.
I remember when this thing was first added. I was scared of it at first but the amount of times I've been shot by HESH and literally nothing happens has taught me that this thing doesn't matter, so much to the point I'd run at one knowing its fate is sealed
"war thunder is super realistic!" war thunder realism: HESH shell has a stroke and can't decide whether it should not act like a HESH shell does, act like a HESH shell does, or be an HE shell instead
@@jw6337 Except really these tanks shouldn't even be in the game because this isn't they're intended role. I commanded a M728 and if we had gotten into a fight while digging positions or breaching an obstacle I would have disengaged as soon as possible, not try to face off against them. These vehicles aren't intended or suited for anti armor combat. The crews aren't trained for it, not really. It's as stupid as Gaijin putting SPG Artillery in the game in a direct fire role when they should be 12 miles back shooting fire missions.
@piperp9535 and yet arty tanks do more than fine in warthunder as their shells actually work lmao. If they would make hesh work like it used to these tanks would be more than fine. I'm nearly a 4.0 kd in the avre as it's legit what I used to grind britain as it was just a stupidly fun tank
You know Oddbawz, the one thing I love about your videos so much, making you probably my favorite WT creator, is the amount of interactivity in your videos. You spent the first four minutes explaining everything that was about to go down, like having a direct conversation with us
From my HESH experience, this is what I’ve concluded. It *does* have a mechanic for overpressure, just modelled differently (and incorrectly) in relation to standard HE. The HESH shell on this thing and the AVRE has around 25kg of TNT, so any armour plate below around 66mm (calculated via the BM-31-12 HE rocket, as that has about the same HE filler as the AVRE shell) will be penetrated via the HE overpressure - rather than HESH mechanics. This is why stuff like the Bulldog is consistently one-tapped, despite having angled armour like the Tiger II, which as we know regularly survives UFP shots. Bulldogs are penned via the UFP with HE overpressure (which is an effectively guaranteed kill) whereas the Tiger II is penned via the UFP with HESH mechanics (which won’t one-tap cause HESH is scuffed). As mentioned, anything above this armour threshold (assume about 66mm) up until the HESH’s maximum penetration of 203mm, and penetration works via HESH rather than HE. As we’ve seen, this is consistently inconsistent. This is also why track shots and shooting *near* the tank seems to reliably one tap them - you will notice that you can kill tanks the same way with traditional HE. In these cases, the HESH kills via HE overpressure. There are two ways in which (in my eyes at least) which would fix HESH: • Give HESH the ability to overpressure the same way as HE does, not just directionally. Pretty self explanatory, as Odd talked about this himself. • Model the internal ricochet of spall inside the tank for HESH. This is the more developed solution, but in real life, spall fragments heavily ricochet inside of a tank. As you can see on the kill cam, all these spall fragments simply vanish after travelling adjacent from the impact spot. If even 10% of these were modelled to ricochet, again HESH would be both more realistic and also viable, although if HESH is to ever be fixed it would most likely be via the first option. Giving the AVRE back its LRF would also be welcome.
When it comes to internal spall ricochets, every shell would likely be able to recieve it because thats how every shell works in real life too. I'm not sure gaijin servers will ever be up for the amount of ricochet the spall would have, because it would only add another very heavy workload of calculation to whats already a heavy workload of existing shell mechanic calculation
@@Gracefulwarrior2124 yeah I kinda took that into account, that’s partly why I think Gaijin would opt into the other solution. Still something to pay mind too though
That's the problem - you are trying to use rockets (Which are frag-optimised) to compare it with HESH (Which is explosion-optimised). The thing that makes it through armor in case of powerful HE blasts is NOT the explosion itself, but a frag that is violently pressed into the armor. Explosion itself is too happy to be redirrected into less dense materials, that's why NERA works to begin with. Essentially, you get the same effect as HEAT, except penetrator is suboptimal since it's not really shaped by explosion.
I had wanted this tank in game for years because it was the first tank I ever saw in person at my local military base. Then they released it as a premium, and it PERFORMS HORRIBLE. Such a genuine letdown
Same with me and some soviets vehicles. Bought British hitting machine from 7.0, now I'm guessing how to properly use it. Btw that's why I'm watching this video...
I used to play the FV4005 frequently a while ago, and I noticed that it was almost always a one shot kill if you hit the enemy tank in the turret side. For some reason, the higher the impact angle, the higher the "HE effect" the shell has is.
I think it's because the turret sides are really weak and you have the same pen regardless of angle. My strat has always been to hit the sides if I can see them, but we're a long time from when the AVRE could 1 shot a Maus with a good shot into the bottom of the turret.
ive shot a sherman on a zero degreee angle in the side with the shit barn and had it only kill his driver. Its always a 50/50 chance on whether or not you get a kill or not.
On average I get around 5 kills a game with the AVRE. What's different about this one? I understand that HESH is pretty awful on every other vehicle I've tried but the AVRE (which I think has the same gun as this??) oneshots everything it comes across. I've even killed a Leopard 2 a kilometer away with it.
I don't think HESH is modelled too poorly its more just the fact that in the real world if 3 out of the 5 guys in a tank get turned into a fine paste by a HESH shell larger than a toddler, the other 2 guys don't tend to stick around to try to fight back, unlike war thunder.
HE and HESH have always been poorly modeled. Gaijin can't give a shit about it. Like how shrapnel created has inherently no penetration and gets blocked by the first thing they hit, which incidentally is the same thing that causes a majority of the "volumetric" issues. They don't program further than the first interaction and then it just vanishes. I understand that programming internal ricochets and pieces of armour bouncing around the tank is impossible to put into the game but the fact the HE\HESH damage marker makes it look like you literally remove chunks of armour and then "only" killing like one part of the tank and a crew member is an insane lapse in thinking from gaijin's end. Also the shot at 36:21 kinda made me think that the reason your engine went out in the first match when facing that Tiger 2P is because he hit your engine with the MG through that armour hole that is apparently there. The only armour that shell seemed to interact with it the mudguard after that it's counted as shrapnel\past first interaction (or there is an actual armour hole) and just ignores armour. Gaijin should really look into the shell\shrapnel\spalling and armour interaction cus there is so much bullshit going in in there you could write a fucking book about it.
@@GewelReal Tbf, directly hitting a tank with a 155mm arty HE shell should kill it. But you still have to aim a bit since more hull hits are just going to track rather than kill. I agree HE is strong, but I think it should be,
depends on the cannon size and vehicle being fired at (in-game I mean). the bigger the HE shell the more likely to create spalling and turn the crew to a red paste in the fighting compartment as was the case IRL, even a 76mm HE shell should cause all kinds of issues even to a heavy tank. Gaijin has gone all over the place from making HE worthless to making it close to reality then back again.
its not impossible , post scriptum added it(shrapnel bouncing inside tank and penetrating objects) and its not even tank oriented game. , you would think tank oriented game who often wears flag of realism would care about such details , but seams not.
Re: HESH being inconsistent.. just add it to the list, but yeah, it's worse than a lot of the other inconsistencies. To be honest, the only thing consistent about this game is that it's so consistently inconsistent.
The only reason why i dont have the Centurion avre is how long it takes for the range indication in your scope to change. It take about 15 seconds to go from 100m to 200m and i cant figure out how to make it fast enough to make it worth while
Change your multiplier on sight distance control in settings but you will need to change it back to play any other tank hope that helps I play this thing almost every day pretty successfully
I one time got overpressured in a stug III F by a HE that landed like 20 feet above me. It was on korelia and it hit the red bridge. Fired by some italian thing.
The AVRE has now also been taken off the store when the holiday sales ended. They would rather get rid of all the tanks using this shell than actually put effort into fixing it lol. With that said, I still have fun with both the AVRE and this thing. The AVRE gets great ERA protection against HEAT slingers which are plentiful at this rank, and the CEV makes up with mobility, better base armour and a good .50 cal.
Like this tank the british cent AVRE is also really bad due to how they make HESH work in the game.................... although if they fixed Hesh I honestly think the Cent version would be better mainly do to the ERA on it. I can't begin to tell you how many times that ERA has saved my ass........
@@superiorpotato598 tbh I do really, at one point I was so good with it I could eyeball shots 3rd person, I love the thing to death. Even with its many flaws
The time for plushies has come. *[edit]* that shot at 14:03 was really interesting: your shell produced a shaped charge (HEAT) effect because it hit right in the middle of a V-shaped armour part and squashed around it before detonating.
That actually used to be a thing for a while. HESH rounds created both a "primary" fragment that traveled parallel to the shell's flight path (so going straight), and the spalling perpendicular to the armour plate (like it is now). HESH was basically a better HEAT-FS then, as it could easily kill the entire crew with just one shot to the hull. Bear in mind that this was back when APDS used the APCR penetration curve and the L7 APDS struggled to penetrate T-54/T-62 hulls. So around 2017-2018, maybe.
@@RYNOCIRATOR_V5 It was just HESH. Not sure if it was intentional or just a bug that Gaijin failed to notice for like a year. I think it was around the same time when HESH had more pen at angles. I tired to go back through Gszabi's datamine but that only goes back 3 years and those changes were before that.
In reality HESH shells kind of are the be all and end all of explosive shells. There's a damn good reason the UK army is only just now moving to tank guns that can't shoot it. Mostly that the advantages of HESH shells have been overshadowed by the advantages of the new generation of long rod APFSDS rounds that can't be fired through a rifled HESH compatible gun.
I was actually kinda tempted to get this recently because I like goofy ahh short barreled bonkers in the American tech tree (talkin to you Sherridan) and was confused when I saw it wasn’t there. A shame it’s gone, but at this point I expected it from a tank game…
Would you please make a video about T-44-122 please? I believe you've made video about regular T-44 and T-44-100, but haven't yet about T-44-120..... (5x)
glad i bought it before they removed it. I find it a blast to play, being able to destroy anything i look at is a great feeling. The dozer blade is pretty fun too imo.
This thing kills me every time I see it. Although I can probably count it on my fingers, still every time. When I first faced this thing, it ate a good 6 heat-fs without critical cause I had (and still have) like 0 idea where to shoot this thing
Thankfully, Gaijin did the right thing and refunded the money of all the people who bought this tank that was removed from sale because it was so bad. /s
Ngl, I love my AVRE. It might not be the best tank but it's very derpy, very silly, and therefore very fun. The best way to make WT pain is to treat it super seriously and with a gun like this you just can't do that, its actually impossible.
The fact that the M109A1 is the exact same BR as the FV4005 which only gets HESH, has a 40 second reload, and can only carry 12 rounds (compared to 13 seconds and 24 rounds on the M109) proves that Gaijin has no idea what they're doing with balance.
These type of vehicles don't care too much about BR placement unless it gets into stabilizer territory. The FV could be 4.0 and still kill anything and be killed by anything
Poor HESH.. played the doom barn the other day to try have some laughs with friends, using big boom.. So many times you shoot a front plate that is not even 200mm thick, HESH doesn't pen and somehow kills one track..
I find it weirdly funny that APHE, a shell largely phased out some 60-70 years ago, is amazing while modern shells used on tanks still in service today are often terribly modelled and do worse than the shells they replaced IRL.
always remember the shell quality flowchart: Was it used by the ruzzians? shell is godlike was it not used by ruzzians? shell is bad was it even used against ruzzians? shell is like firing gummibears at the enemy, pathetic nato designs
@@thatonelocalauthority2809 Yea ikr; its arguably the most unrealistic thing in war thunder. It's unlikely to be changed out with real life dynamics though, because of how big a nerf it would be. I dont even know how many players players would likely complain and likely quit the game, costing gaijin its money and likely even reputation, for what thats worth.
I am convinced that Odd reads Phly comments because it has Happened twice now that I have suggested a tank in a Phly comment section and line 2 weeks later an OddBawZ video comes out on what I suggested (I approve 100%)
11:27, 😮 ya wee Willie.!.! Two violations of the bro code.!.?! 11:29 Raiding the spawn point while there's two cap points in enemy hands and then not helping someone repair what's up with you nowadays😮
I find it hilarious that is was removed on the basis of being bad, me and a mate picked it just prior to it getting removed and it is defiantly up there with some meta vehicles K/D wise. I mean the fact you can insta kill a Maus by hitting the gun mantle between the primary and secondary guns is ludicrous.
It's funny they literally tested the AVRE's cannon on a tiger 2 p irl and it absolutely annihilated the tank but gayjin is just like nah that never happened
Its called gaijin hates american tanks becuase in real life they are the best compared to russian tanks. thanks to the ukraine war we now know that any russian tank can be taken out by a grenade from a drone or 30mm cannons
I am so sad I didn't pick this up simply for nostalgia purposes. I play on console though so it was literally impossible to use since you can't adjust the elevation with the mouse wheel. Anyway, for those of you who don't know, the CEV is the Combat Engineer Vehicle. It's meant to clear obstacles. Not fight tanks.
You can assign a control to range your gun I personally have it set to hold L2 and up/down directional, I also fiddled with the sensitivity so it goes in 20 metre increments which is slow to use at long range but if I made it faster for range I wouldn't be able to get accurate adjustments
To think that you need to aim for HESH specific weak spots with this thing and the AVRE is awful but I still love both of them so much, way too much fun. Great content as always Bawz
@@thatonelocalauthority2809 I mean, youre not wrong, but a tank shouldnt be judged by the players using it, otherwise the Tiger would be at 3.0 Also you stole our navy in 1801 and we still want it back >:(
I've grabbed AVRE in a recent sale and it performs well for me, ~600 kills in ~200 battles. HESH definitely performs a bit weird against heavy armored targets, takes awhile to figure out where to aim.
Thanks for the example of how messed up HESH is. I've had the same problem with the FV 4005, which has the best HESH shell in the game. Specifically, I shot 3 different Tiger I's in the lower front plate, the turret face, and the muzzle brake. The only one that died was the one that I shot in the muzzle brake.
Here's a thought. Tun a challenge with anything HESH with a big shell - AVRE, this thing, the 4005 - what have you. But exclusively shoot for tracks the whole video and see if that doesn't consistently kill more XD
Fun fact about Odds Discord, I got banned from it after telling one of the mods or a mods friend, idk, because I told him to fuck off after he was being homophobic in a VC, and when I asked one of the other mods why I was banned banned, he said “harassment” but there is literally a guy on there who joins VCs just to yell and insult people, and then I got told the mod who banned me was “asleep”. What a load of bullshit.
Personally I love using HESH, especially on Strv 103A and C. The fast reload makes up for lower damage and with laser rangefinder it's much easier to aim at weakspots. And it's so satisfying to see some tank angling only to use this angle against them with a nice sideshot. That's actually something one has to learn when using HESH. It's not a 100 or 0 like HE. It's kinda more like APDS. The difference is instead of having high pen perpendicular to surface you have high pen at high angles. Instead of shooting flattest surface you aim at purely lowest armoured part you can see, no matter the angle. And a surface which normal points at a lot of important stuff. Overall it ain't best but it's workable and at least unlike APDS isn't straight outclassed by other types of ammo and it has some niche advantages over other types of ammo. And ofc, the HE part working only when not hitting directly is a bullshit.
I use and love the cev yes i am sad with hesh inconsitancys but calling it the worst premium is stupid it has great armor against kentic shells against the broken aphe or heat fs it suffers the avre has bad under armor so its era is its only saveing grace
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nahh that shot at the begining
If I had the money, I would.
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Is it intended, that the plushie looks like a blob fish from the front?
Gaijin thought process:
"If we fix HESH what would help sell this premium ... however it would also help British tanks"
"We decided to delete the M728 CEV instead"
couldnt of said it any better myself
its because they couldnt decide who they wanted to screw over more.. US or UK.. gaijin decided to do what it does best and screw over both.
If you want hesh fixed give russia hesh
Delete tank>make britain more playable
@@sethdaboss245 *couldn't have
Honestly, the first few mins of this vid explains why I feel that deliberately not hitting tanks is sometimes a better choice than aiming at them in the Cent AVRE. Often times I've gotten used to aiming at the ground or wall next to a tank because I know it's more likely to kill than hitting the enemy straight on lmao
thats exactly what i do, if i find a t95 or maus or anything that i dont think i can kill with a direct hit i always aim right below the tank and its a kill every single time, love the avre but dont know why they removed the cev and not the avre
I am under tanks with the AVRE and the my CEV works most of the time now if the fixed the HESH shell it wouldnt matter
@@andrewpower1314 I feel that AVRE is overall a better tank, ERA, reverse speed, survivability (although not necessarily armor), extra crew member, and no stupid lights that block your traverse when depressed; the only thing that is worse seems to be the top speed - I'm not sure how much this contributed to its sales, which I assume is why the CEV got removed, but the US also has better premiums at about the same rating (which is not necessarily true for the UK)
With volumetric armour especially, I've just given up aiming at some vehicles entirely (mainly T-34s and KV-1s). Instead I just shoot in their general direction, hoping that at least one of the shots penetrates, unless I've got a very easy shot at a weakspot and they aren't moving.
So if you miss it uses the high explosive damage model, but if you hit you get a poor man's ap, but never both? That might explain why 4005 felt so disapointing to use
I’m surprised as punishment they haven’t added to normal tech tree to try and make players spade it
It would be a fun alternative to the AVRE if it were grindable, but then again 165mm gun sucks.
@@snickersmyknickers5120 the gun is great, the hesh ammo sucks in game
Thanks OddBawZ I'm done with asking for one video on the South African TTD centurion after 3 years of asking thanks mate have a good one.
You have the most unbelievable timing ever... :)
FV 4005 crying in the corner while the cent AVRE is trying to confort him...
I bought this when I first started and regretted it 2 seconds later. Its a fun meme tank. Hopefully next year they could work on HESH? We can hope lol.
The AVRE watching this tank, seeing what it could be if it could move faster.
Was this tank removed? I just bought it last month during the 50% off sale. Still haven't played it yet.
Why use a shell when you have a trebuchet on your back?
Gaijin after making it a premium pack: 🤡
Wasnt it a premium pack to begin with?
Idk i may be having a mendela effect or something
@@freedeoxide
No you aren't having a Mandela effect it was a premium tank in a pack to begin with
@@iforgore then i dont get The initial comment
@@freedeoxide doing clown emoji cause they sold a broken (for once in a bad way) vehicle as a $60 premium
@@Mystic-Midnightyup. And I Bought it, on sale for half price at least lol.
Now for real life. I was an M728 gunner and commander for the 72nd Engineer Company of the 197th Inf BDE (Mechanized Separate) from 1985 to 1988. I can tell you the M135 Main Gun has a maximum effective range of 800 meters, a maximum range of 1000 meters, and the ammunition used is not called HESH, it is designated HEP (High Explosive Plastique). The M135 main gun is designated as a Demolition Gun, and it is intended to destroy objects like log cribs, bunkers, and other battlefield obstacles. The M728 was not intended to fight with other combat vehicles but a crew has to deal with what's in front of it and I did have the pleasure of gunning the M728 on the first, and only time that they were allowed to fire live rounds for Tank Gunnery during crew qualifications at Fort Benning, GA. It was the first and last time because, yes, our demolition guns demolished the range. I fired and scored a direct hit on an M48 target tank and the round tore the M48 apart. The shot was at night, I got the order to engage the tank from my TC, we had no laser range finder so distance was a visual estimate, he called it at 600 meters. I laid the gun on target, fired, and when the round hit the explosion was real, and the M48 was side -on to us, the target rocked back like it had been slapped, the engine deck which weighs probably 3000 pounds was ripped off and flew up into the air slowly rotating and spinning while burning. A couple of road wheels were burning and thrown perhaps as high as 20 meters up. There was an overall impression that a lot of other unidentifiable pieces/parts were flying all over. That tank would not have been able to continue fighting, and I don't think an enemy crew would have lived. The rest of the range, well the range personnel spent a week on bulldozers filling in the holes and repairing the other targets. The M48 I hit, they had to haul it off a bring a replacement.
But all of this aside, while I did hit the enemy tank, the other two tank crews did not, and in a real situation probably would have been killed. The crews only got to train like this one time a year, and with nothing but visual range estimation and the targeting reticle to use for ranging shots, it's not an easy thing to do. I'd recommend shooting short before shooting long, a short shot at least throws up a ton of dirt and debris that will make it harder for the enemy to target you in return. Then you can hope he doesn't move while you quickly adjust and fire again hoping to score a hit. Which brings me to the next problem with the game, the reload time is stupidly wrong. It takes almost no more time to reload the M135 than any other manually loaded tank gun in service. I good loader will use the recoil of the main gun, to help lever open the breach so it's open as soon as it's been fired, there is no empty casing to extract as the entire thing does down range and only a small plastic white colored disk of plastic about the size of a quarter remains, the loader just reaches in and sweeps it out with his fingers. Much easier then dealing with a shell casing. Then the process is the same as any other tank, move the securing bar that keeps new rounds from falling out of the honeycombed ammo rack, pull out the next round and ram it into the breach with your fist, hit the release to close the breach, and yell "UP". Might have to take the electronic safety off, I forget. But in the end, the M728 reload is just as fast as any other tank not using an autoloader.
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great story and information, cheers!
What do you think HESH?
@@jester5ify Only if you're English
@@piperp9535 HESH is plastic explosive. HEP is exactly the same thing...sept if you're MURICAN!!
hit track: act like HE.
hit armor: act like shrapnel shell
gaijin: works for me :)
Mind you, this is designed by the same people who thinks-
-That a clear line of sight from the mid-section of maps, and sometimes even further than that, straight into spawn-areas is a good idea.
-That HE, HESH and HEAT-shells should arm on bushes, fences and twigs, randomly and without any form of consistency whatsoever.
-That sometimes, trees and random props are enough to stop AP-shells.
-That ATGM-launchers facing WW2 vehicles is perfectly fine and balanced.
-That the auto-loader on T-series tanks should be immune to ammo racks, even though Russia's boogaloo proves otherwise.
-That literally anything is a better solution to the horrendous balancing issues than BR-decompression. Top-tier should have been 12.7-13.3, around 3 years ago.
-That helicopters should, on occasion, survive multiple ATGM and HE-shell hits directly, without any damage to avionics or on-board systems whatsoever.
-That a single 11.7 ground vehicle should cost more in terms of RP and SL than the first 1-3 complete tiers of vehicles in the same nation.
-That apparently, adding a Ground-only game mode without any aircraft is a bad idea.
-That volumetrics is somehow fine without any issues and does not need to be looked into any further.
-That helicopters can fly straight without a tail rotor or rudder, should it ever come to lose them.
-That UAV's are a great addition to the game.
-That sub-calibre munition impacts causes no internal damage whatsoever. Even though the force being imparted upon the impacted target should produce an overpressure shockwave strong enough to completely destroy the crew inside, should the shell penetrate said target.
This is just off the top of my head, I could probably go on for hours just listing things that are either plain wrong, broken or otherwise dysfunctional in the game.
@@Nick-rs5if To be fair, the WW2 vehicles that are at BR's with ATGM's are kind of hard to balance, since they usually just have too much armor to be below where they are, while at the same time being sorta bad, but at least not impossible to kill or get kills. You don't really see people saying that everything with ATGM's is necessarily meta or overpowered, either, just that these vehicles are terrible where they are.
but yeah, I agree. The shell damage is absolute BS. APHE is literally the only thing that (mostly) works the way it's supposed to. I wouldn't say they suffer as much as vehicles that use APDS/APCR, but the inconsistency is definitely there for HE lobbers, too, which is what stops a lot of them from being better.
Don't get me wrong, the "HESH-like effects" argument is a little overexaggerated, but I don't think half a mm of armor should be the difference as to whether or not the BT-42 can even damage M3 Stuarts.
@@Nick-rs5ifforgot to add,
- thinks their next entry of russian top tier tanks deserve to have correctly modelled spall liner protection, but refuses to acknowledge that all of the top tier nato tanks have spall liners that were not modelled into their models in game on the same BR.
@@wotwott2319 most NATO tanks don't have a spall liner at all instead of just missing a model of it
@@Nick-rs5if Agreed. The only exception is Helicopters flying without tails or Tail Rotors, and that exception is only on 3 vehicles. The Ka-52 (And its predecessor the Ka-50, as well as the other product of the Kamov Design Berau: The Ka-29) has a dual rotor design. Thanks to that these helicopters are able to fly with entire tail sections missing. Even then if one of the rotors is damaged the whole helicopter falls. Everything else should be falling if the tail section is shot off or the rotor fails due to battle damage.
The AVRE is decent but it has the same issues with HESH because Gaijin wont fix it. If I hit your tank with a 165mm hesh charge it should not exist.
the avre is a muzzle loading mortar which fires a barrel loaded with explosive so cant have hesh
@@phill-b4jthe only round the gun can fire is HESH, the round isn’t being sent out of the barrel at like Mach 1 it’s just being forced out by a semi powerful explosive charge
also it aint the avre for the cent and the Churchill can both be loaded from inside the tank. @@phill-b4j
@@phill-b4j
U might be thinking of the Churchill with the (iirc) 290mm mortar.
The other guys here are talking about the Centurion with the 165mm gun.
@@high-velocitymammal5030 He is thinking of the churchill AVRE that used a spigot mortar, but said mortar was a 29mm spigot mortar not 290mm
I remember when this thing was first added. I was scared of it at first but the amount of times I've been shot by HESH and literally nothing happens has taught me that this thing doesn't matter, so much to the point I'd run at one knowing its fate is sealed
You, when i shoot your track: 💥💥💥
I was so excited to get the FV4005. it's almost as underwhelming as any tank that uses an M113 chassis.
@@pinguino5105aim better then, any flat piece is a death sentence
@@bodieleblanc2577 Any tank with an HE shell as heavy as a fucking washing machine should atleast overpressure a Tiger H1 when shooting its hatch.
@@pinguino5105 I've never had a problem of it not
Typical gaijin antics of just straight up deleting perfectly feasible vehicles from the game instead of fixing fundamental issues with said game
"war thunder is super realistic!"
war thunder realism: HESH shell has a stroke and can't decide whether it should not act like a HESH shell does, act like a HESH shell does, or be an HE shell instead
*HESH vaporizes itself so gaijin wont waste time fixing it*
gaijin just hates usa. they are ruzzian shills. meanwhile they keep adding russian paper tanks that only appeared one time on a paper drawing
@@jw6337 Except really these tanks shouldn't even be in the game because this isn't they're intended role. I commanded a M728 and if we had gotten into a fight while digging positions or breaching an obstacle I would have disengaged as soon as possible, not try to face off against them. These vehicles aren't intended or suited for anti armor combat. The crews aren't trained for it, not really. It's as stupid as Gaijin putting SPG Artillery in the game in a direct fire role when they should be 12 miles back shooting fire missions.
@piperp9535 and yet arty tanks do more than fine in warthunder as their shells actually work lmao. If they would make hesh work like it used to these tanks would be more than fine. I'm nearly a 4.0 kd in the avre as it's legit what I used to grind britain as it was just a stupidly fun tank
That T44 deserves a medal. I wish my teammates held the line like he did and assist you in repairing when they could
Idiots always drive past and don't help repair ffs
HESH is so bad a toddler punching the enemy would deal more damage
i love using the avre, it can troll sometimes but more often than not its a one shot kill
If only hesh just actually worked like it's supposed to.
Hydrogen Baby (toddler) vs Coughing Bomb (HESH)
You just don't use it right
@@KptKosmit91 A true spooksten moment lol
You know Oddbawz, the one thing I love about your videos so much, making you probably my favorite WT creator, is the amount of interactivity in your videos. You spent the first four minutes explaining everything that was about to go down, like having a direct conversation with us
And then theres me, just watching because of his accent
@@HEEROCKSS yeah, although sometimes I wish we had subtitles LOL
@HEEROCfrKSS fr his voice and accent are so cute like a cutie patootie pookie bear
From my HESH experience, this is what I’ve concluded.
It *does* have a mechanic for overpressure, just modelled differently (and incorrectly) in relation to standard HE. The HESH shell on this thing and the AVRE has around 25kg of TNT, so any armour plate below around 66mm (calculated via the BM-31-12 HE rocket, as that has about the same HE filler as the AVRE shell) will be penetrated via the HE overpressure - rather than HESH mechanics. This is why stuff like the Bulldog is consistently one-tapped, despite having angled armour like the Tiger II, which as we know regularly survives UFP shots. Bulldogs are penned via the UFP with HE overpressure (which is an effectively guaranteed kill) whereas the Tiger II is penned via the UFP with HESH mechanics (which won’t one-tap cause HESH is scuffed).
As mentioned, anything above this armour threshold (assume about 66mm) up until the HESH’s maximum penetration of 203mm, and penetration works via HESH rather than HE. As we’ve seen, this is consistently inconsistent.
This is also why track shots and shooting *near* the tank seems to reliably one tap them - you will notice that you can kill tanks the same way with traditional HE. In these cases, the HESH kills via HE overpressure.
There are two ways in which (in my eyes at least) which would fix HESH:
• Give HESH the ability to overpressure the same way as HE does, not just directionally. Pretty self explanatory, as Odd talked about this himself.
• Model the internal ricochet of spall inside the tank for HESH. This is the more developed solution, but in real life, spall fragments heavily ricochet inside of a tank. As you can see on the kill cam, all these spall fragments simply vanish after travelling adjacent from the impact spot. If even 10% of these were modelled to ricochet, again HESH would be both more realistic and also viable, although if HESH is to ever be fixed it would most likely be via the first option.
Giving the AVRE back its LRF would also be welcome.
When it comes to internal spall ricochets, every shell would likely be able to recieve it because thats how every shell works in real life too.
I'm not sure gaijin servers will ever be up for the amount of ricochet the spall would have, because it would only add another very heavy workload of calculation to whats already a heavy workload of existing shell mechanic calculation
@@Gracefulwarrior2124 yeah I kinda took that into account, that’s partly why I think Gaijin would opt into the other solution. Still something to pay mind too though
That's the problem - you are trying to use rockets (Which are frag-optimised) to compare it with HESH (Which is explosion-optimised).
The thing that makes it through armor in case of powerful HE blasts is NOT the explosion itself, but a frag that is violently pressed into the armor. Explosion itself is too happy to be redirrected into less dense materials, that's why NERA works to begin with. Essentially, you get the same effect as HEAT, except penetrator is suboptimal since it's not really shaped by explosion.
I remember this tank when it came out and seeing a handful for the first week afterwards, but I didn't know Gaijin removed it after the fact.
Same, I didn't even remember Gaijin say anything about them removing the M728 CEV from sale.
It's almost funny but a bit sad as I remember they made a full dev blog for this thing and it's technically not even a year old.
Itr was remove quite recently, and I can also remember it's devblog, thought it would be a quite nice and fun tank but, doesnt seem that way
@@Iron_Blood_Enjoyer1933every time they announce a sale they say which ones are removed from the store, this one was listed
I had wanted this tank in game for years because it was the first tank I ever saw in person at my local military base. Then they released it as a premium, and it PERFORMS HORRIBLE. Such a genuine letdown
Same with me and some soviets vehicles. Bought British hitting machine from 7.0, now I'm guessing how to properly use it. Btw that's why I'm watching this video...
I used to play the FV4005 frequently a while ago, and I noticed that it was almost always a one shot kill if you hit the enemy tank in the turret side. For some reason, the higher the impact angle, the higher the "HE effect" the shell has is.
I think it's because the turret sides are really weak and you have the same pen regardless of angle.
My strat has always been to hit the sides if I can see them, but we're a long time from when the AVRE could 1 shot a Maus with a good shot into the bottom of the turret.
ive shot a sherman on a zero degreee angle in the side with the shit barn and had it only kill his driver.
Its always a 50/50 chance on whether or not you get a kill or not.
28:23 Oddbawz pulled an old school COD knife throw at the start of a match right there
Calling this the worst premium when the 15cm Nebelwerfer exist lol
Nah, the russian version is worst, at least the 15cm can overpressire mediums
On average I get around 5 kills a game with the AVRE. What's different about this one? I understand that HESH is pretty awful on every other vehicle I've tried but the AVRE (which I think has the same gun as this??) oneshots everything it comes across. I've even killed a Leopard 2 a kilometer away with it.
Cupola is a one shot on this and it's only 45mm thick. An Ostwind can one shot you from any angle... very annoying.
@@OddBawZ Ah! that explains it! Ty!
I don't think HESH is modelled too poorly its more just the fact that in the real world if 3 out of the 5 guys in a tank get turned into a fine paste by a HESH shell larger than a toddler, the other 2 guys don't tend to stick around to try to fight back, unlike war thunder.
HE and HESH have always been poorly modeled.
Gaijin can't give a shit about it. Like how shrapnel created has inherently no penetration and gets blocked by the first thing they hit, which incidentally is the same thing that causes a majority of the "volumetric" issues. They don't program further than the first interaction and then it just vanishes.
I understand that programming internal ricochets and pieces of armour bouncing around the tank is impossible to put into the game but the fact the HE\HESH damage marker makes it look like you literally remove chunks of armour and then "only" killing like one part of the tank and a crew member is an insane lapse in thinking from gaijin's end.
Also the shot at 36:21 kinda made me think that the reason your engine went out in the first match when facing that Tiger 2P is because he hit your engine with the MG through that armour hole that is apparently there. The only armour that shell seemed to interact with it the mudguard after that it's counted as shrapnel\past first interaction (or there is an actual armour hole) and just ignores armour. Gaijin should really look into the shell\shrapnel\spalling and armour interaction cus there is so much bullshit going in in there you could write a fucking book about it.
HE is overperforming heavily right now. It's honestly overpowered looking at how conaistent it is. It's literally a guaranteed kill
@@GewelReal Tbf, directly hitting a tank with a 155mm arty HE shell should kill it. But you still have to aim a bit since more hull hits are just going to track rather than kill. I agree HE is strong, but I think it should be,
depends on the cannon size and vehicle being fired at (in-game I mean). the bigger the HE shell the more likely to create spalling and turn the crew to a red paste in the fighting compartment as was the case IRL, even a 76mm HE shell should cause all kinds of issues even to a heavy tank. Gaijin has gone all over the place from making HE worthless to making it close to reality then back again.
its not impossible , post scriptum added it(shrapnel bouncing inside tank and penetrating objects) and its not even tank oriented game. , you would think tank oriented game who often wears flag of realism would care about such details , but seams not.
Re: HESH being inconsistent.. just add it to the list, but yeah, it's worse than a lot of the other inconsistencies.
To be honest, the only thing consistent about this game is that it's so consistently inconsistent.
Odd, I’ve been waiting for you to do a video on the Centurion AVREs less desirable brother, and here she is. ❤🎉🎉 keep up the content!
The only reason why i dont have the Centurion avre is how long it takes for the range indication in your scope to change. It take about 15 seconds to go from 100m to 200m and i cant figure out how to make it fast enough to make it worth while
Change your multiplier on sight distance control in settings but you will need to change it back to play any other tank hope that helps I play this thing almost every day pretty successfully
I was once killed by one of these things in Object 268 when the HESH round landed about 20 or so feet in front of my tank, and it overpressured me. :/
It may have been me was it a winter map?
such scenarios show once more that the devs are unable to fix their own game and code.
Deserved for playing thst undertiered tank
I one time got overpressured in a stug III F by a HE that landed like 20 feet above me. It was on korelia and it hit the red bridge. Fired by some italian thing.
Good. That what would realistically happen lmao.
The AVRE has now also been taken off the store when the holiday sales ended. They would rather get rid of all the tanks using this shell than actually put effort into fixing it lol.
With that said, I still have fun with both the AVRE and this thing. The AVRE gets great ERA protection against HEAT slingers which are plentiful at this rank, and the CEV makes up with mobility, better base armour and a good .50 cal.
I miss when HESH was BESH..............
lesson of the day: high caliber hesh goes to the track!
Like this tank the british cent AVRE is also really bad due to how they make HESH work in the game.................... although if they fixed Hesh I honestly think the Cent version would be better mainly do to the ERA on it. I can't begin to tell you how many times that ERA has saved my ass........
That yeet from spawn 😂 absolute Chad
im glad warthunder never became an esport. people would have lineups CS style for every spawn/cap with all the arty tanks being added.
10:10 ah yes 5 people running into enemy spawn while the enemy has more capture points
I dont care how bad it is, it's still my first premium I ever bought so it will always hold a special place in my heart.
same
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@@Optimusprime56241tbh owning any discontinued tank is a W
That's rough bro, but i hope you enjoy the thing,maybe one day in the far future HESH will be fuxed and your first premium will be viable.
@@superiorpotato598 tbh I do really, at one point I was so good with it I could eyeball shots 3rd person, I love the thing to death. Even with its many flaws
The time for plushies has come.
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that shot at 14:03 was really interesting: your shell produced a shaped charge (HEAT) effect because it hit right in the middle of a V-shaped armour part and squashed around it before detonating.
That actually used to be a thing for a while. HESH rounds created both a "primary" fragment that traveled parallel to the shell's flight path (so going straight), and the spalling perpendicular to the armour plate (like it is now). HESH was basically a better HEAT-FS then, as it could easily kill the entire crew with just one shot to the hull.
Bear in mind that this was back when APDS used the APCR penetration curve and the L7 APDS struggled to penetrate T-54/T-62 hulls. So around 2017-2018, maybe.
@@Creepus_Explodus What's the name of that weirdo HESH type?
@@RYNOCIRATOR_V5 It was just HESH. Not sure if it was intentional or just a bug that Gaijin failed to notice for like a year. I think it was around the same time when HESH had more pen at angles. I tired to go back through Gszabi's datamine but that only goes back 3 years and those changes were before that.
@@Creepus_Explodus Oh I see, for some reason I thought you meant this was a thing IRL, experimental HESH or some shit LOL
They made APHE the best shell in the game so logically they had to model HESH as if it were HEAP and make it the worst
In reality HESH shells kind of are the be all and end all of explosive shells. There's a damn good reason the UK army is only just now moving to tank guns that can't shoot it. Mostly that the advantages of HESH shells have been overshadowed by the advantages of the new generation of long rod APFSDS rounds that can't be fired through a rifled HESH compatible gun.
“it isn’t that bad”
- me seeing this video right after i was about to try it for the first time
28:20 legend says this man activated 500% RP booster
I was actually kinda tempted to get this recently because I like goofy ahh short barreled bonkers in the American tech tree (talkin to you Sherridan) and was confused when I saw it wasn’t there. A shame it’s gone, but at this point I expected it from a tank game…
Would you please make a video about T-44-122 please? I believe you've made video about regular T-44 and T-44-100, but haven't yet about T-44-120..... (5x)
I barely see the Cent AVREs anymore, and when they released it they were everywhere. But once they added this I’ve seen maybe a total of 3 since.
The biggest issue ive ever had with this thing is my HESH just having like a 50/50 chance of ghost shelling, mostly against tiger 2s and T-44s.
Gaijin when your HESH literally disappears into the NECK of a tank:
That's your wifi
glad i bought it before they removed it. I find it a blast to play, being able to destroy anything i look at is a great feeling.
The dozer blade is pretty fun too imo.
This thing kills me every time I see it. Although I can probably count it on my fingers, still every time.
When I first faced this thing, it ate a good 6 heat-fs without critical cause I had (and still have) like 0 idea where to shoot this thing
it makes me cry. always late and out of cash.
Thankfully, Gaijin did the right thing and refunded the money of all the people who bought this tank that was removed from sale because it was so bad. /s
I love this tank, so fun to arc shells, and most of the time aiming near the top is a kill
Ngl, I love my AVRE. It might not be the best tank but it's very derpy, very silly, and therefore very fun. The best way to make WT pain is to treat it super seriously and with a gun like this you just can't do that, its actually impossible.
At about the 13 minute mark, you got penned by the Tiger II's MGs somehow...what?
I havent used it since before they messed with the hesh physics, so thank you for the forewarning lol
The fact that the M109A1 is the exact same BR as the FV4005 which only gets HESH, has a 40 second reload, and can only carry 12 rounds (compared to 13 seconds and 24 rounds on the M109) proves that Gaijin has no idea what they're doing with balance.
These type of vehicles don't care too much about BR placement unless it gets into stabilizer territory. The FV could be 4.0 and still kill anything and be killed by anything
Poor HESH.. played the doom barn the other day to try have some laughs with friends, using big boom..
So many times you shoot a front plate that is not even 200mm thick, HESH doesn't pen and somehow kills one track..
I find it weirdly funny that APHE, a shell largely phased out some 60-70 years ago, is amazing while modern shells used on tanks still in service today are often terribly modelled and do worse than the shells they replaced IRL.
always remember the shell quality flowchart:
Was it used by the ruzzians? shell is godlike
was it not used by ruzzians? shell is bad
was it even used against ruzzians? shell is like firing gummibears at the enemy, pathetic nato designs
WT APHE does not mimic real life APHE tho, so its not terribly comparable lol
@@Gracefulwarrior2124yea APHE is worse irl. Its spall is cone shaped, in war thunder it just arcs like a circle once it penetrates lmao.
@@thatonelocalauthority2809 Yea ikr; its arguably the most unrealistic thing in war thunder. It's unlikely to be changed out with real life dynamics though, because of how big a nerf it would be. I dont even know how many players players would likely complain and likely quit the game, costing gaijin its money and likely even reputation, for what thats worth.
APHE used to be quite realistic back in 2015, but they changed it into OPHE and it acts like a nuclear bomb inside a tank nowadays.
I am convinced that Odd reads Phly comments because it has Happened twice now that I have suggested a tank in a Phly comment section and line 2 weeks later an OddBawZ video comes out on what I suggested (I approve 100%)
This is an engineer's vehicle for clearing obstacles, thus why it has the HESH round. Max range 1000 yards and NOT meant to engage other tanks.
11:27, 😮 ya wee Willie.!.! Two violations of the bro code.!.?! 11:29 Raiding the spawn point while there's two cap points in enemy hands and then not helping someone repair what's up with you nowadays😮
I find it hilarious that is was removed on the basis of being bad, me and a mate picked it just prior to it getting removed and it is defiantly up there with some meta vehicles K/D wise. I mean the fact you can insta kill a Maus by hitting the gun mantle between the primary and secondary guns is ludicrous.
Imagine Snail making hesh and solid shot work right. Or HE. Or HEAT...
Its day 304 of writing comments for the algorithm No.5
(Well it’s actually day 303, I miscounted lol)
Actually liked this thing, but yea hesh is so bad right now. Had a Sh*tbarn shoot my comet point blank and it only killed my driver; its that bad...
It's funny they literally tested the AVRE's cannon on a tiger 2 p irl and it absolutely annihilated the tank but gayjin is just like nah that never happened
Its called gaijin hates american tanks becuase in real life they are the best compared to russian tanks. thanks to the ukraine war we now know that any russian tank can be taken out by a grenade from a drone or 30mm cannons
I am so sad I didn't pick this up simply for nostalgia purposes. I play on console though so it was literally impossible to use since you can't adjust the elevation with the mouse wheel. Anyway, for those of you who don't know, the CEV is the Combat Engineer Vehicle. It's meant to clear obstacles. Not fight tanks.
It still could’ve been a decent vehicle in war thunder if gaijin was smart enough to treat hesh different than normal he
Wait, it was removed?
the british equivalent of this seems to be fine fighting tanks.. so there should be no reason this one would do bad.. it's got the same cannon..
You can assign a control to range your gun I personally have it set to hold L2 and up/down directional, I also fiddled with the sensitivity so it goes in 20 metre increments which is slow to use at long range but if I made it faster for range I wouldn't be able to get accurate adjustments
@@thebeastmk2 which setting did ypoi tweak to.adjust how many metres of goes up n down
To think that you need to aim for HESH specific weak spots with this thing and the AVRE is awful but I still love both of them so much, way too much fun. Great content as always Bawz
"Worst premium ever added"
*Happy BM-8-24 noises*
Atleast you are facing inexperienced players with the BM, this thing faces Cold War vehicles and experienced players constantly.
@@thatonelocalauthority2809 I mean, youre not wrong, but a tank shouldnt be judged by the players using it, otherwise the Tiger would be at 3.0
Also you stole our navy in 1801 and we still want it back >:(
Day 2 (since I started counting again) of asking for a video on the Strv m/42 EH.
Would love to buy the 279 Plush, but I am legit hella broke rn. Feels bad man... :(
Your in their spawn while they still have a base captured and are in the field.
That doesn’t show the capability of the tank.
Classic Warthunder team moment around @10:40 - all caps lost but the entire team in the enemy spawn... and it is not even a German team LOL
Combat Engineer's Vehicle..... Struggles to repair own track..... DOH!
Sad i let this one pass. would be a collection tank in my garage but still want it.
I've grabbed AVRE in a recent sale and it performs well for me, ~600 kills in ~200 battles. HESH definitely performs a bit weird against heavy armored targets, takes awhile to figure out where to aim.
19.50-20.10 "the is-2 got him"(The bulldog disappeared)😂😂
how hard could it be for gaijin to just roll it back to when HESH worked
Thanks for the example of how messed up HESH is. I've had the same problem with the FV 4005, which has the best HESH shell in the game. Specifically, I shot 3 different Tiger I's in the lower front plate, the turret face, and the muzzle brake. The only one that died was the one that I shot in the muzzle brake.
Here's a thought.
Tun a challenge with anything HESH with a big shell - AVRE, this thing, the 4005 - what have you.
But exclusively shoot for tracks the whole video and see if that doesn't consistently kill more XD
Fun fact about Odds Discord, I got banned from it after telling one of the mods or a mods friend, idk, because I told him to fuck off after he was being homophobic in a VC, and when I asked one of the other mods why I was banned banned, he said “harassment” but there is literally a guy on there who joins VCs just to yell and insult people, and then I got told the mod who banned me was “asleep”. What a load of bullshit.
Personally I love using HESH, especially on Strv 103A and C. The fast reload makes up for lower damage and with laser rangefinder it's much easier to aim at weakspots. And it's so satisfying to see some tank angling only to use this angle against them with a nice sideshot. That's actually something one has to learn when using HESH. It's not a 100 or 0 like HE. It's kinda more like APDS. The difference is instead of having high pen perpendicular to surface you have high pen at high angles. Instead of shooting flattest surface you aim at purely lowest armoured part you can see, no matter the angle. And a surface which normal points at a lot of important stuff.
Overall it ain't best but it's workable and at least unlike APDS isn't straight outclassed by other types of ammo and it has some niche advantages over other types of ammo.
And ofc, the HE part working only when not hitting directly is a bullshit.
i got nuke with flakbus on top tier 2 times in a row one with 500% booster
Day 1 of asking odd to Play the T90M when it comes out
day 1 of asking u to play the bf2c-1 goshawk for a video
If I were that tiger I wouldn't be playing war thunder again for the day
I was looking for this the other day and I thought I was going crazy for not finding it
M109s really highlight how trash HESH vehicles are.
Loved this video!
I've actually seen it twice in a match and was wondering what it was
Gaijin will always be out of touch with their own game.
I honesty love this thing. Got a nice 7.0 lineup with it
I use and love the cev yes i am sad with hesh inconsitancys but calling it the worst premium is stupid it has great armor against kentic shells against the broken aphe or heat fs it suffers the avre has bad under armor so its era is its only saveing grace
I King Tiger MG'd me through the front at 12:52 it doesn't have good armor! lol
@@OddBawZ that is some sletchy gijian bs there its like the other m60s are good against ap shells but suffer against heat
@@OddBawZ it ends up better than the a1 as that bucket eats alot of shells i face my freinds is 6 and in customs so much he despises my cev
@@OddBawZ it could be a new mesh issue some tanls have spots were mgs pen for no reason but thats just gajjin not able to program
i love that zachlam player, he knew he was in a garbage box xd
Can you do a video on the jagdpanther and the tiger ll (H)
Honestly this is one of my favorite premium purchases- even if it isn’t technically good, it is so fun to donk people
Also it looks cool
Bro that shell drop is freaking insane!
Video 61 of asking you to play the m3 gmc
i have the cev and i just use it to dig trenches and set smoke
I thought the thumbnail was “Big sh*t”