I refuse to believe a frenchman wasn't involved in making the Archer happen, no one else could design such stellar rev.. I mean "forwards in another direction" gear. :D
Archer was invented because the 17lbr barrel stuck out too far in front when it was mounted in the Valentine's chassis. So, they turned it into a "Reverse Marder." My puzzlement is, given the time (post-DDay) and the tactics (they were on the Offensive & were already using Wolverines and Achilles), why the British settled for a purely-Defensive SP-AT?? They must have been jonesin' for as many 17lbr guns as they could get into the field.
@@dphalanx7465 perhaps there was a lack of chassis available for retrofitting into Achilles and Firefly’s at the time. If you have a ton of obsolete (in regards to firepower and armour) but otherwise sound tank chassis kicking around and a load of 17 pounder guns then why not experiment like this. I can certainly see the Archer as being useful for the static artillery role and as AT weapons when supported by infantry.
@@dphalanx7465 Besides it quickly became clear further on into operation overlord and especially by the time of the battle of the bulge that the vaunted German panzer army was already crippled. Tanks and tank destroyers were engaging far more soft targets (infantry, APCs/IFVs (like the Puma) and pillboxes/emplacements) than they were armoured tanks, and even then they began to face a lot of obsolete tanks. Mostly this was down to the fact that the majority of the truly heavy and super heavy tanks (such as the King Tiger) were busy fighting on the eastern front, as Russian tanks were far more of a threat than the British and American tanks, and the Russians had pushed far further into German territory than the British and Americans (plus the Germans feared them more). It probably showed the British high command that there was no longer a screaming need for as many 17 pounders on the field as possible as what they had (plus the new 76mm that the Americans began to upgrade to) was already sufficient. The battle of the bulge scared the hell out of the Americans and showed that the super heavy tanks were still around and were a threat, yet they and the British never truly faced the panzer army in the way the Russians did and so didn’t have the need for massive guns (such as the 85mm, the 100 mm, and then 120 mm guns) and heavy armour like the Russians did. Plus Churchill was already thinking defensively by that point against the Russians so a defensive TD made sense.
You mentioning getting disoriented with the controls since you're often reversing reminded me of a fun fact: in World of Tanks the controls for the Archer are set up as though the gun direction is forward, as is the direction it faced at spawn, but the gearbox is still modeled correctly. This leads to people constantly asking why the Archer is "faster in reverse."
The Archer is genuinely incredible - I think I have a similar-ish K/D after over 100 battles, it's just nuts at what it does. Pick a position not too far up, get set up, and just wait - that's all you have to do. Retreat if you get pushed, and pick a new spot further up if your team is winning. Full-bore 17-pounder at this level and anywhere up to 5.7 just deletes people no questions asked, and I've found the Archer itself often can take a number of hits when in position as people will shoot into the engine rather than the gun shield half the time, so it's not even as bad as it first looks. The only downside is the slow gun traverse - which, hilariously enough, is why uptiering it works better than at 2.7, because you fight tanks that are slower and won't sprint about faster than you can aim as often as lots of 1.7 - 2.0 tanks do Genuinely such a fun tank if you have a little patience when playing it, and I'm glad you can show how fantastic it is Odd!
Its handy create a controls file with vehicle control keys reversed for things like the Archer and other tankish things where driving them backwards is an advantage. AB41/43s etc. With mixed presets, I have the arrow keys set up as reversed controls.
Odd sounds like he might be Glaswegian, and that accent is a distinct dialect that is very difficult to understand without prior exposure to it. It's one of those English (or more accurately, Scots) language dialects that is heavily influenced by other older languages, and has a particularly noticeable Highland Scots twang over modern Scots. It pretty much now exists as a cultural offshoot of the more common language. Yorkshire accents are tricky, especially black country, but Glaswegian is a whole different beast.
The archer has a reason for a reverse-pointing gun, and when used properly in WT you can take advantage of this. The gun faces backwards so that you can back the TD into place, somewhere hidden and disguised, and easily snipe at enemy tanks. However, when you need to make a getaway, all you need to do is drive forward! You are using the fast forward gear to remove yourself from your position without needing to turn around.
Well you're exactly right that would be the tactics that it would be best suited for And I have to give credit to whoevers idea that was able to get a 17 pounder in a tracked chassis Problem is that's about the only way to use it what about the rest of the time ??? I would have to say it's really limited. One thing in your favor was the incredible amount of smoke generated by the 17 pounder when it fired that would give you cover and give you a chance to get away Because it also generated a huge muzzle flash which would be sure to give your position away as well. It was common in those days for armored cars to have a forward driver's position and a rear drivers position and that would give you the best of both worlds like the Swedish S-Tank
The idea is sound but I never understood why they couldn't have done that with a standard turret style of tank. I don't see how difficult it is to face the hull towards your escape route but point the turret backwards. Isn't that the point of having a 360 degree turret in the first place?
@@hardlylivin6602 I'm pretty sure they did it like this, because the Valentine chassis had issues with the 17 pounder. The Valentines had turrets at the fron of the tank and when they tried mounting the gun the correct way, it was sticking way out in the front. It was also heavy and the tank was unstable and could bury the gun into the ground while braking. It was installed backwards to keep the whole thing balanced.
Okay, the scene at 4:40 forward is literally a punch in the face for me; given I've never had any opponents that were that crowded together nor without any sharpshooting one-hit-kill M10's or whatever in the other team that would directly ruin such a shoot-fest, I "could" have done the same with any Panzer IV with the 75 long KwK. The problem simply is that I never get scenes like that. I have the impression Phly and you have incredible luck and knowledge when and against who you play. That's just ridiculously funny at times. Like many have already said: Odd: Shoots 5 targets like skeet shooting arranged in a row Me: Gets shot from 1500m by an M10 through a house; me possible invisible at that distance but... anyway
Apart from the whole… backwards thing, the archer is actually a really good TD at the BR. You can pen basically any tank from the front even in a full uptier. And people have no idea what to shoot (Until they mg your whole crew)
I love this thing but I can never seem to make it work. I always end up spending 5 minutes getting to a spot, getting killed, and just bringing out the Crusader
One of my most fondest memories in War Thunder is bringing my Archer into a 10.0 match and 1 shotting a T-72B with an 1100m shot straight through the drivers hatch. And in the same game 1 tapping another T-72 with the 57mm armed Mosquito, also straight down through the drivers hatch. War Thunder really has that meme factor that rarely any other game has by giving you the ability to bring WW2 tanks into battle vs modern tanks and have the WW2 tanks still able to get kills
Terrorizing top/high tier in low br vehicles is generally fun, id recommend the locust or chaffee. Its quite funny getting 5 kills with solely the locust against stuff like t54s
@@awacsrazgriz967 Me and my brother call the Chaffee the destroyer of worlds. its hilarious to bring it up and most often 1-shot modern tanks if you can see the sides below their turret.
Always the way. If I had the luck that streamers get the game would't be nearly so annoying. Instead the enemy team has super radar and never target my team-mates. I seem to spend all my luck shrugging off artillery.
I gave the archer a try and had to defend a point by myself with it. I asked “where are my teammates?” One dude got mad at me and said to shut up. But then he saw what I was in and apologized.
Hey Odd, the T-34 1942 is really fun when you don't use the APHE, the solid shot has crazy shrapnel and the smoke shell is surprisingly useful! It would be cool to see you do a challenge video trying that!
Aaaa i love this thing. Once got a triple strike on port novorobosick after 3 guys tunnelvisioned in front of my slowly reversing steel boulder of a gun. A panzer literally got close enough to throw hands and proceeded to shoot at my teammate somewhere behind me. He got 17 pounds of fresh tea in the face. I then shot 2 of his teammates on my way to the B point.
I love the ingenuity of Archer. I imagine the design was like "how do we strap a 17 ponder to a Valentine?" "Idk, mate, just mount it on backwards" and bam! Archer
I remember a 5.3 battle on Cargo Port sometimes in January in which a guy in an Archer brawled at the objective and totally massacred my entire team and ended up at the top of the leaderbord.
@@danghostman2814 The 17pdr is great. The post-pen damage could be better but I love it anyway. I do have a problem with the Archer though, that thing is just pure pain.
I've always found the Archer great, it's by far my best k/d tank. Although I'm pretty sure they must've nerfed the gun accuracy when they moved it down to 2.7, I was trying to play it last week and the inaccuracy really caught me off guard. Speaking of k/d; by far my worst k/d tank (aka bus) is the Ratel 20, seems pretty good on paper but I can never make it work. Fancy suffering it for our viewing pleasure Mr Unusual Bollocks?
My favorite part of this video is the intro, where odd is playing UK vehicles while a American folk song plays in the background, keep it up man, I love your content lol
I think the main issue with it in WT is that it was made entirely for the ambush role but you have to get to said ambush position first whilst youre a sitting duck with no armour
(Yes I know I'm late shut up) I actually really like the archer, it has one of the fastest reloading 17 pounders in game and you can gtfo of a position once you get into a good spot upon discovery, but I think it does best at around 5.0 - 5.3 due to most other tanks being as sluggish as it unlike where it currently sits where it can be super easily flanked by hoards of light fast reloading tanks
The Archer is a stop gap TD based on the Valentine, they install the cannon backwards so they can relocate faster and it's small size made it ideal for ambush sonairos.
Archer is an underrated tank. Sure it's annoying to have a backward-facing turret, sure it turns, backs, and drives slowly. But it can penetrate tanks way above its BR, let alone its own. Got 8 kills myself snipping with this french influenced surrendering-looking tank
Archer!!! I've been asking you to play it un-ironically, as you can see. Its reload plus pen just eviscerates. Archer plus Tempest vickers P is my go to de-stress from top tier. But the question remains, how high up can the 17 pounder remain supreme?
i remember finally grinding out the archer when i was new to the game and was excited to have a tank destroyer. little did i know the horror i would reveal as i spawned into the first game...
easily the most slept on tank in WT. Beyond a doubt the best gun for it's tier in the game, and has surprising survivability with the engine block absorbing shots that would kill other lightly armoured TDs.
You finally said what my boy and i have been saying…the scenareo being dont kill bawz as a land creature, he turns into the nastiest lethal weapon imaginable in his bird form, we literally say, dont kill him for your own safety…
The barrel faces the rear. You can see little periscopes on the top behind the barrel on the top of that forward shield, like little frog eyes lol, so that would be the front of the tank.
My motto in these kinds of games is, "If it has good armament, it cannot be bad". Maybe you can find a few exceptions, but generally if you have a good gun you're all set. Meanwhile you could make a super fast, well-armored whatever and if you put a bad gun on it, it won't be good.
The Achilles is much better as I just got it after getting the 3-inch gun carrier which before it you guessed it the Archer which was good but the Achilles is just better.
Lol 😆 after watching enough outlander I can understand you just fine ODD. lol 😆 of course between seasons i go back to watch it and can't understand anything for the first few episodes 🙃 but I can keep watching your vids to stay current on my dialect detection. Love the channel ❤
Apparently the reason why the tank is backwards was because as the tank going forward just really fast the gun can pass enemy tanks and then if they pass them then they can kind of shoot them from behind
Actually the first tank I got a free Talisman on so I used it for grinding British lower ranks. Zoom on the sight is good, gun is fantastic, and the engine a lot of time tanks the hits. One of my most played vehicles and I regularly get top of the team with it.
the thing is the archer was never ment to fight things like panzer3 it was meant to be able to fight tigers. and instead of using armor to surive tiger shots they would shoot them then run away before the tiger could take aim
NAME A BETTER TANK DESTROYER THAN ARCHIE... I'LL WAIT!
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The archer shows just how committed Britain was against a reverse gear, to the point where they made a tank destroyer backwards
I refuse to believe a frenchman wasn't involved in making the Archer happen, no one else could design such stellar rev.. I mean "forwards in another direction" gear. :D
@@arcamean785 AcTualLY....
Archer was invented because the 17lbr barrel stuck out too far in front when it was mounted in the Valentine's chassis. So, they turned it into a "Reverse Marder." My puzzlement is, given the time (post-DDay) and the tactics (they were on the Offensive & were already using Wolverines and Achilles), why the British settled for a purely-Defensive SP-AT?? They must have been jonesin' for as many 17lbr guns as they could get into the field.
@@dphalanx7465 perhaps there was a lack of chassis available for retrofitting into Achilles and Firefly’s at the time. If you have a ton of obsolete (in regards to firepower and armour) but otherwise sound tank chassis kicking around and a load of 17 pounder guns then why not experiment like this. I can certainly see the Archer as being useful for the static artillery role and as AT weapons when supported by infantry.
@@dphalanx7465 Besides it quickly became clear further on into operation overlord and especially by the time of the battle of the bulge that the vaunted German panzer army was already crippled. Tanks and tank destroyers were engaging far more soft targets (infantry, APCs/IFVs (like the Puma) and pillboxes/emplacements) than they were armoured tanks, and even then they began to face a lot of obsolete tanks. Mostly this was down to the fact that the majority of the truly heavy and super heavy tanks (such as the King Tiger) were busy fighting on the eastern front, as Russian tanks were far more of a threat than the British and American tanks, and the Russians had pushed far further into German territory than the British and Americans (plus the Germans feared them more). It probably showed the British high command that there was no longer a screaming need for as many 17 pounders on the field as possible as what they had (plus the new 76mm that the Americans began to upgrade to) was already sufficient. The battle of the bulge scared the hell out of the Americans and showed that the super heavy tanks were still around and were a threat, yet they and the British never truly faced the panzer army in the way the Russians did and so didn’t have the need for massive guns (such as the 85mm, the 100 mm, and then 120 mm guns) and heavy armour like the Russians did.
Plus Churchill was already thinking defensively by that point against the Russians so a defensive TD made sense.
"I see you down there, with your fancy turrets facing the right way" made me wake up my kids from laughing lol
😂
You made my day when you say, "turn around and lets go". You just had to slide that one in there huh?
Let’s go Brandon!
@@BukitMan Poor cultist...
You mentioning getting disoriented with the controls since you're often reversing reminded me of a fun fact: in World of Tanks the controls for the Archer are set up as though the gun direction is forward, as is the direction it faced at spawn, but the gearbox is still modeled correctly. This leads to people constantly asking why the Archer is "faster in reverse."
The Archer is genuinely incredible - I think I have a similar-ish K/D after over 100 battles, it's just nuts at what it does. Pick a position not too far up, get set up, and just wait - that's all you have to do. Retreat if you get pushed, and pick a new spot further up if your team is winning. Full-bore 17-pounder at this level and anywhere up to 5.7 just deletes people no questions asked, and I've found the Archer itself often can take a number of hits when in position as people will shoot into the engine rather than the gun shield half the time, so it's not even as bad as it first looks. The only downside is the slow gun traverse - which, hilariously enough, is why uptiering it works better than at 2.7, because you fight tanks that are slower and won't sprint about faster than you can aim as often as lots of 1.7 - 2.0 tanks do
Genuinely such a fun tank if you have a little patience when playing it, and I'm glad you can show how fantastic it is Odd!
Nice to see someone else enjoys the Archer as I do. Talisman and one of my most played vehicles.
I hope they add the Bishop at some point too
Yep! Archie is just a beast and I love it! Have it slotted in 3 differend sets from 3.0, then 4.7 and 5.7 💪
I don’t like the archer very much the whole gamestyle is camping which is way to boring for me.
I play the Archer like a towed AT gun, ambush predator. Great results and you can outrange most everyone.
Its handy create a controls file with vehicle control keys reversed for things like the Archer and other tankish things where driving them backwards is an advantage. AB41/43s etc. With mixed presets, I have the arrow keys set up as reversed controls.
Good heavens, thats quite the gamer move.
It’s not that confusing lol
i just have the orientation right in my head all the other tank destroyers are backwards
4:57 Bawz: “You wouldn’t understand me with my real accent.”
Me, who lived near York for a few years:
Challenge Accepted.
Odd sounds like he might be Glaswegian, and that accent is a distinct dialect that is very difficult to understand without prior exposure to it. It's one of those English (or more accurately, Scots) language dialects that is heavily influenced by other older languages, and has a particularly noticeable Highland Scots twang over modern Scots. It pretty much now exists as a cultural offshoot of the more common language.
Yorkshire accents are tricky, especially black country, but Glaswegian is a whole different beast.
The archer has a reason for a reverse-pointing gun, and when used properly in WT you can take advantage of this. The gun faces backwards so that you can back the TD into place, somewhere hidden and disguised, and easily snipe at enemy tanks. However, when you need to make a getaway, all you need to do is drive forward! You are using the fast forward gear to remove yourself from your position without needing to turn around.
That sounds more like a physcology hack?
Well you're exactly right that would be the tactics that it would be best suited for And I have to give credit to whoevers idea that was able to get a 17 pounder in a tracked chassis Problem is that's about the only way to use it what about the rest of the time ??? I would have to say it's really limited. One thing in your favor was the incredible amount of smoke generated by the 17 pounder when it fired that would give you cover and give you a chance to get away Because it also generated a huge muzzle flash which would be sure to give your position away as well. It was common in those days for armored cars to have a forward driver's position and a rear drivers position and that would give you the best of both worlds like the Swedish S-Tank
The idea is sound but I never understood why they couldn't have done that with a standard turret style of tank. I don't see how difficult it is to face the hull towards your escape route but point the turret backwards. Isn't that the point of having a 360 degree turret in the first place?
@@hardlylivin6602 I'm pretty sure they did it like this, because the Valentine chassis had issues with the 17 pounder. The Valentines had turrets at the fron of the tank and when they tried mounting the gun the correct way, it was sticking way out in the front. It was also heavy and the tank was unstable and could bury the gun into the ground while braking. It was installed backwards to keep the whole thing balanced.
"I told you, you would regret it. You killed a little baby Archer and I spawned back in a Demon."
Loving these intros Odd. The "tanks as characters" vibe works.
I love the archer! The guys at Bovington also said that IRL it was one of the most well liked tank destroyers used by the British in WW2.
Okay, the scene at 4:40 forward is literally a punch in the face for me; given I've never had any opponents that were that crowded together nor without any sharpshooting one-hit-kill M10's or whatever in the other team that would directly ruin such a shoot-fest, I "could" have done the same with any Panzer IV with the 75 long KwK.
The problem simply is that I never get scenes like that.
I have the impression Phly and you have incredible luck and knowledge when and against who you play. That's just ridiculously funny at times.
Like many have already said:
Odd: Shoots 5 targets like skeet shooting arranged in a row
Me: Gets shot from 1500m by an M10 through a house; me possible invisible at that distance but... anyway
Apart from the whole… backwards thing, the archer is actually a really good TD at the BR. You can pen basically any tank from the front even in a full uptier.
And people have no idea what to shoot
(Until they mg your whole crew)
I love this thing but I can never seem to make it work. I always end up spending 5 minutes getting to a spot, getting killed, and just bringing out the Crusader
One of my most fondest memories in War Thunder is bringing my Archer into a 10.0 match and 1 shotting a T-72B with an 1100m shot straight through the drivers hatch. And in the same game 1 tapping another T-72 with the 57mm armed Mosquito, also straight down through the drivers hatch. War Thunder really has that meme factor that rarely any other game has by giving you the ability to bring WW2 tanks into battle vs modern tanks and have the WW2 tanks still able to get kills
Terrorizing top/high tier in low br vehicles is generally fun, id recommend the locust or chaffee.
Its quite funny getting 5 kills with solely the locust against stuff like t54s
@@awacsrazgriz967 Me and my brother call the Chaffee the destroyer of worlds. its hilarious to bring it up and most often 1-shot modern tanks if you can see the sides below their turret.
5:05 The whole tank was moving back with every shot, or should I say forward.
I think in that second game you were on the receiving end of a ghost shell. Truly Gaijin smiled upon the Archer that day.
Saw this beauty again last week at dutch military museum closeby!
Bless the queen and Odd ♥
Wait, what museum? I'd love to go!
@@OddBawZ The Overloon War Museum, there was a special event last weekend. They even brought in a Nashorn and 2 Stugs :3
-Look at you down there with your fancy turrets facing the right direction! Ahahahah OMG LMFAO🤣🤣🤣
"you wouldn't understand me with my real accent" now I wanna hear your real accent.
I saw one of them and was completely bewildered at how it was reversing into battle and moving quickly while doing it.
Odd: best TD in the game!
The game: *gets the most unatentive window licking enemies*
Always the way. If I had the luck that streamers get the game would't be nearly so annoying. Instead the enemy team has super radar and never target my team-mates. I seem to spend all my luck shrugging off artillery.
I gave the archer a try and had to defend a point by myself with it. I asked “where are my teammates?” One dude got mad at me and said to shut up. But then he saw what I was in and apologized.
Hey Odd, the T-34 1942 is really fun when you don't use the APHE, the solid shot has crazy shrapnel and the smoke shell is surprisingly useful! It would be cool to see you do a challenge video trying that!
Aaaa i love this thing. Once got a triple strike on port novorobosick after 3 guys tunnelvisioned in front of my slowly reversing steel boulder of a gun. A panzer literally got close enough to throw hands and proceeded to shoot at my teammate somewhere behind me. He got 17 pounds of fresh tea in the face. I then shot 2 of his teammates on my way to the B point.
Though technically its driving forward, its nice to see a british tank with a good reverse speed 😂😂
Hands down my favourite into yet. Smacking tanks with o'l backwards boi there and then the utter revenge destruction. Beautiful.
I love the ingenuity of Archer.
I imagine the design was like "how do we strap a 17 ponder to a Valentine?" "Idk, mate, just mount it on backwards" and bam! Archer
Funny how Archers destroyed Tigers in real life but in WT you cant even get Panthers normally.
I remember a 5.3 battle on Cargo Port sometimes in January in which a guy in an Archer brawled at the objective and totally massacred my entire team and ended up at the top of the leaderbord.
Hey, to be fair the 17pdr is the gun the British 4.7s are just upgrading into.
Just... stuck on weirdly to make a 2.7.
@@danghostman2814 The 17pdr is great. The post-pen damage could be better but I love it anyway. I do have a problem with the Archer though, that thing is just pure pain.
Very impressive! I found playing the Archer a miserable experience (like most British tanks). Top work!
I've always found the Archer great, it's by far my best k/d tank. Although I'm pretty sure they must've nerfed the gun accuracy when they moved it down to 2.7, I was trying to play it last week and the inaccuracy really caught me off guard.
Speaking of k/d; by far my worst k/d tank (aka bus) is the Ratel 20, seems pretty good on paper but I can never make it work. Fancy suffering it for our viewing pleasure Mr Unusual Bollocks?
Archer: Wreaking tanks while driving with a backwards gun
Archie needs some sunglasses for this flex
*and wear them at the back of the head
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My favorite part of this video is the intro, where odd is playing UK vehicles while a American folk song plays in the background, keep it up man, I love your content lol
I loved the archer the feelin when you drift that shot just right be like…
I love this tank one of reason why I played war thunder and have around 1k kills with it
Odd, this is total confirmation - Archie says you are the #1 tank whisperer. Killer intro and killer video. As usual.
I think the main issue with it in WT is that it was made entirely for the ambush role but you have to get to said ambush position first whilst youre a sitting duck with no armour
And sod's law dictates in a group of three half the enemy team is aiming at you, all the time, every time.
NGL man after watching your video's for a bit I learned some really good power spots on certain maps. My skill has improved.
I have about ~300 hours in this game now and I consistently top frag in my teams. I contribute that almost entirely to watching your videos.
I love your new into's Odd, keep them up, they're great!
(Yes I know I'm late shut up) I actually really like the archer, it has one of the fastest reloading 17 pounders in game and you can gtfo of a position once you get into a good spot upon discovery, but I think it does best at around 5.0 - 5.3 due to most other tanks being as sluggish as it unlike where it currently sits where it can be super easily flanked by hoards of light fast reloading tanks
The archer is like that weird kid who was really strange until he spun his cap around, then he became the cool kid we all know today
The rear guard/caboose of every British convoy.
Dude I love these new intros for the past few videos. Please keep doing them!
Archie is a fantastic little boy, but this just reminds me how much I love the late Typhoon. Basically a British P-47, but with cannons.
I love the archer it's fun having 2 17 pounders at such a low BR
The Archer is a stop gap TD based on the Valentine, they install the cannon backwards so they can relocate faster and it's small size made it ideal for ambush sonairos.
"Look at you with your fancy turrets, facing the right direction!" - OddBawZ, 2022
Archer is an underrated tank. Sure it's annoying to have a backward-facing turret, sure it turns, backs, and drives slowly. But it can penetrate tanks way above its BR, let alone its own. Got 8 kills myself snipping with this french influenced surrendering-looking tank
3:03 the 17pdr is actually used until 6.0 but we dont talk about it
I love this TD because it keeps me awake and aware.
Archer!!! I've been asking you to play it un-ironically, as you can see. Its reload plus pen just eviscerates. Archer plus Tempest vickers P is my go to de-stress from top tier. But the question remains, how high up can the 17 pounder remain supreme?
Pettiest revenge kill ever. Love it!
The “hi there” *flip aspect* “hi there!” Was comedy gold
Great vid! Thanks Odd, you never fail to make me laugh out loud.
Hey man I joined your discord and glad it’s a great community and very helpful to newer players
I hope you're dog is doing better and you can recover from the stress. Stay strong.
Britain sacrificed all her reverse abilities to give it to this tank
i remember finally grinding out the archer when i was new to the game and was excited to have a tank destroyer. little did i know the horror i would reveal as i spawned into the first game...
I died after the you said this “for your fancy turrets facing the right way”
I love these 'talking with the tanks' intros
I definitely see the appeal of instantly being able to boogie out of dodge.
Archer and Achilles are my favorite TDs in game
Because going forward is faster than going in reverse
Unless you're a French tank
A lot of the British low tiers are actually really fun in higher BR's. I remember killing a Magach with an Archer and a Marder A1 with a Crusader III
easily the most slept on tank in WT. Beyond a doubt the best gun for it's tier in the game, and has surprising survivability with the engine block absorbing shots that would kill other lightly armoured TDs.
An Archer took a Tiger I out, though a building, the 17 pdr is bliss!
So the idea of firing the rhinos turret backwards to move faster in vice city had real life inspiration.
I played the archer a while back and used it as my back up until... I think 7.7, but it's always fun to bring out
Bonus feature: You drive so slowly that you look dead to aircraft.
Loved the Archer, played it enough to unlock all the camo's.
You finally said what my boy and i have been saying…the scenareo being dont kill bawz as a land creature, he turns into the nastiest lethal weapon imaginable in his bird form, we literally say, dont kill him for your own safety…
The barrel faces the rear. You can see little periscopes on the top behind the barrel on the top of that forward shield, like little frog eyes lol, so that would be the front of the tank.
Hope your little doggo is going to be alright!
I like these new intros with you talking to the tank.
between the shet maps and you revenge bombers...
it's a wonder i even play this game. :P
Yeeee the cute Intros keep coming, i love it! :D
My motto in these kinds of games is, "If it has good armament, it cannot be bad". Maybe you can find a few exceptions, but generally if you have a good gun you're all set. Meanwhile you could make a super fast, well-armored whatever and if you put a bad gun on it, it won't be good.
The Achilles is much better as I just got it after getting the 3-inch gun carrier which before it you guessed it the Archer which was good but the Achilles is just better.
This is my favourite tank destroyer. It's just weird but still works.
Lol 😆 after watching enough outlander I can understand you just fine ODD. lol 😆 of course between seasons i go back to watch it and can't understand anything for the first few episodes 🙃 but I can keep watching your vids to stay current on my dialect detection. Love the channel ❤
If you watch Outlander then you know my full name, too! :)
@@OddBawZ i have a son with a Mckenzie.
Archer is awesome. It takes a bit of skill to master but then it's just the best.
Beautiful sound from that gun .. ;) If the reverse (forward?) gear was a bit quicker it'd go a long way to make us mortals like the Archer more!
Apparently the reason why the tank is backwards was because as the tank going forward just really fast the gun can pass enemy tanks and then if they pass them then they can kind of shoot them from behind
Archer, Achilles (65th), Typhoon, Crusader Mk.III = Constant British Grenadiers in the background.
Bruh, you took it on a personal level
Glad to hear puppoe is well!
Actually the first tank I got a free Talisman on so I used it for grinding British lower ranks. Zoom on the sight is good, gun is fantastic, and the engine a lot of time tanks the hits. One of my most played vehicles and I regularly get top of the team with it.
the thing is the archer was never ment to fight things like panzer3 it was meant to be able to fight tigers. and instead of using armor to surive tiger shots they would shoot them then run away before the tiger could take aim
That intro deserves a good like and a comment
There are 3 laughs that make me laugh every time. Out of control baby laugh, comedian Jim Bruer and Oddwawz.
The false start at 2:40 is low key quality humour
The archer is the BEST
Thank you
Those intros are super adorable, how can tanks act cute?!
I used to be an APHE fanboy. Then I played the British 17 pounder AP shot. My life changed.
Ken whit yeh mean Odd aboot the dug thing Am the same like bearins Hope the wee fella is back 100%
TC and give him a biscuit fi me
Not sure what I am more jealous of: your WT skill or your accent :D