Also, if you’re doing some gardening Spook, may I recommend carnivorous plants? They’re higher maintenance but very rewarding to grow, and absolutely fascinating. I would recommend doing some research first though.
i heard you hate british vehicles, vehicles that do no damage and vehicles that are basically CAS magnets, so i think you should play the ratel 90; a gigantic british light tank with no armor, that only gets 90mm HEAT with a 7 second aced reload and that somehow always gets strafed by planes before it's even allowed to leave spawn (day 73)
@@rusellgonzalez3564 I'm not sure if they really envisioned having so many different variants when they designed it initially, but it was certainly a fantastic all around platform that could be modified relatively easily to suit the mission.
@@rusellgonzalez3564at the practical level the mark 4 was the first universal tank, with 1-3 being prototypes or trainers. The mark 4 would be turned into basically anything, from infantry support with both cannon and machine gun models. Engineering vehicles, with the ability to destroy trenches, an armoured personal carrier (see the one at the bovington tank museum for example), a mobile command bunker, a self propelled gun, and even a blimp towing port.
The intro meme is something i resonate with so much. Us mains (me included) get so cocky thinking that they can easily take a pnz 4 until they get shot in the mg port.
So glad you took this tank out. I love bouncing KV-1 shots and then drilling through them with hvap. I take it out in a lineup with the chaffee and m10 and it rules. One plane I enjoy taking out for CAS/anti-CAS is the p61c1. It's stoopid fast and hits super hard with its bombs and cannons, and has a search radar which I've found actually pretty helpful in ground rb. Thanks again for being a pro gamer, Spookston :)
The mention of the Amish was something I didn't expect being a PA resident next door to Ohio. They're most prevelant in Lancaster County, PA. Pair that with Strasburg railroad and you'd think it's 1912 up there XD
I was just in Pymatuning in the Jamestown campground and 80% of the people there are Amish. Which is a unique experience since I live in McKeesport right under Pittsburgh.
@@TeurastajaNexusWhat are you on about the Panzer IV or even the Turan is much better💀. The sherman doesn't excel at anything except numbers (which isn't a matter in war thunder). The panzer 4 is pretty similar but has greater firepower which makes it much more reliable and can easily deal with heavier targets unlike the sherman. The mobility and armor is pretty much the same, aswell as their height. So because of the firepower, the panzer 4 is a clear winner pound to pound if not in other ways aswell. Edit: I forgot to mention I'm obviously only talking about this specific type of shermans and not any other, like the jumbo.
@@KokenyRichard I'm a German main originally and I stand on my opinion that the Shermans are overall superior at 3.7-4.2 BR range. Their APCBC is good, they have better armor than the Panzer 4s and also they are equipped with vertical stabilizers. Don't get me wrong, the Panzer 4s are good but I'm just better at smacking them with the Shermans.
@@TeurastajaNexus Oh yea true the sherman has a stabiliser but it doesn't seem to matter for me, like that's just a little good thing to have but it's not necessary idk🤷🏻♂️ The sherman may have better armor on paper but in practice it really worths as much the panzer 4s💀 It's practically useless from my experience. The apcbc IMO is literally bad, it has what 103 mms of pen? Like that's pretty bad if you ask me, IMO the panzer 4 is superior to the sherman at 4.0 because of it's firepower.
@@KokenyRichard Sure, the Panzer 4 has got a better round but it doesn't matter that much for me. The armor of the Sherman has worked better on several occasions in my experience. People bounce off their shots quite often and partly because the armor is angled.
People who knock U.S 75mm for low pen do not care to look at the average armor thickness it faces. Most tanks have plates 30-40mm thick. 100mm of pen is more than enough. Plus your height causes the round to more easily normalize on sloped plates.
@@ideadlift20kg83To be honest , US 75mm is way too overpowered in WT . He penetrated a SU-122's front plate at what 600m ? 45mm sloped at 50° , this is a T-34 front plate . Never ever this would pen , they just buffed the Shermans pretty hard . The fake stabilizer is the next thing , never worked like that irl .
@@5co756 The kill cam cannot show arching of shots. It will always regardless of distance show a straight line shot. At 600m the shot will arch downwards. It also is not accurate at depicting where you actually hit. Latency and so on affects it. I have had shells do 180s back and forth until it just magically decides to normalize on the plate I shot.
Spookston what I lLOVE about your videos is the halo sound effects that just give me nostalgia from my Xbox days playing with my little brother. PLEASE NEVER CHANGE
I think the round at 9:00 actually bounced off the ground in front of you and penetrated your weak underbelly, judging by the dirt being kicked up in front of your tank from a ground impact and the fact that it destroyed your engine over anything else. 😮
Literally my favourite lineup in all game, 2x 3.7 M4s (one from WT mobile) and the 4.0 one with the P-51 with 4 cannons and an M16 or M10 to complete it ♥. Good job Pookie
Dude this sherman is so good. It's literally my go-to whenever I need quick SL. Average kill count on that thing is probably 6 to 8. Nice to see you play it.
Love facing KV1 (E&B) in this thing. Frontally they struggle to pen you and dont have the stabilizer like you. Best part you can one shot them in the lower front plate every time its incredible.
The M4A2 is genuinely one of my most favorite tanks in the game its stupid fun and easy to play. Stabilized, aphe, good armor at such a low br with new players is insane. It was lowered from Rank 3 to Rank 2 though so you can't grind events with it but its still amazing!
grind italy 3.7, they have rank 3 sherman, m24, some good TD, m42 contraereo which is an amazing SPAA. Did most of my challenges and dailies in this BP with this lineup Or go premium sweden with sherman and sav
Hi Spookston, I don’t know if you’ve already done a video on it, but it would be really funny to watch you play the sturmpanzer. The 1.0 big German HE slinger would obliterate the tanks and the low velocity of the round would make the gameplay more comical. Thanks for reading!
28th time challenging Spookston to bring the Char 25t into an 8.3 lineup, and then incrementally increase the BR to find when the tank becomes unironically unplayable.
That buggy problem speaks too much to me. Anyone that lives in rural PA, OH and the other major Amish areas know the pain of being on a 45mph and never being able to pass
My Friend: Ah, you're playing the USA Me: Yes My Friend: When do you think you'll have enough Shermans Me: Yes My Friend: What Me: You can never have enough Shermans
You know it's the good part of the week when it is Wednesday evening (6pm in Germany) and you know that within the next five days, there will be three Spookston videos up 🙂 Keep up the good work buddy, love your videos! Greetings from Berlin 😊
First of all that tank is a beast and i love it and second of all; I got a challenge for you, pick any tank of your choosing but you can only have five shells and there must be at least two different types(day idk)
I just discovered your channel late last night and binged your videos, and I'm glad to have found another WT youtuber other than KilaWest and Trekpas. Not that I don't like them, it's just always nice to have some more stuff to watch. Anyways, I started the US ground tech tree a few months ago and though I'm in higher tiers now, I still use the T1E1. I think it's incredible, and though that might just be me, I'd like to see you give it a whirl and see what you have to say.
Hey spookston, i've been watching your videos for a year or so and i just wanted to say thank you for making me laugh even in the toughest of situations. I also thank you for being an inspiration to getting better at War Thunder.
At 15:38 it seems you hit the edge where the armor 90 degree and 45 degree armor slopes meet. When imagining that behind the the skirt then the observation matches my War Thunder intuition about non-penning.
I think you should play the sherman m4a1 76w its the best tank in the game for its br and feels so nice to play with all the features of the regular sherman spookie
Attempt 40 Challenge: For high tier support a nations MBT with its respective APC/IFV counterpart (ie Abrams/Bradley, T90/BMP2M, etc.) Challenge is keeping the other player alive and supporting it without stealing kills (breaking barrels, tracking, repairing, etc) it being a random should help make it interesting.
Another good thing about the M4A2 are your AA options in a lineup. Something like the P-51A mixed with the M16 or M42, and you can have those planes regretting their decision to play GRB
M4A2 when they started doing the front plate as a single piece, instead of welding lots of parts together, had 100mm effective armor AKA the same as a non-angled Tiger I. This was by far the best Sherman out of the 4 initial models (A1 to A4).
You should give the Centurion Mk.5 AVRE a go. Since the recent HESH change, it's quite reliable (thought there's the occasional certified gaijin moment). Plus you can lobe a child-sized amount of HE from behind hills, and the ERA plates protects you from a lot of things at its BR.
Should I release a 4th of July video on Friday
Also, if you’re doing some gardening Spook, may I recommend carnivorous plants? They’re higher maintenance but very rewarding to grow, and absolutely fascinating. I would recommend doing some research first though.
Yes please
Yes
Yes 🦅🦅🦅🦅!!!
Have you got another American tank video ready to go for it?
i heard you hate british vehicles, vehicles that do no damage and vehicles that are basically CAS magnets, so i think you should play the ratel 90; a gigantic british light tank with no armor, that only gets 90mm HEAT with a 7 second aced reload and that somehow always gets strafed by planes before it's even allowed to leave spawn (day 73)
and you listen to HIM/HER/idk. Enjoy your tomato juice (the state drink of ohio)
I'm killing myself
south african
It's if a tank was designed to look like a dachshund. But terribly designed
YES. OMG ITS SUCH A CAS MAGNET
“Activate your tow rope mayonnaise!” Such a wild amalgamation of words.
I'm definitely using that on someone
“Sir, we got a bunch of Sherman tanks heading our way.”
“How many?”
*”Too many.”*
The "first" attempt of a universal tank but being serious for once before the centurion could fullfill that role (at practical level)
@@rusellgonzalez3564 I'm not sure if they really envisioned having so many different variants when they designed it initially, but it was certainly a fantastic all around platform that could be modified relatively easily to suit the mission.
@@rusellgonzalez3564at the practical level the mark 4 was the first universal tank, with 1-3 being prototypes or trainers. The mark 4 would be turned into basically anything, from infantry support with both cannon and machine gun models. Engineering vehicles, with the ability to destroy trenches, an armoured personal carrier (see the one at the bovington tank museum for example), a mobile command bunker, a self propelled gun, and even a blimp towing port.
"And they're all fucking different!"
They really do travel in packs
Lucky shot from the t34 at 9:00, bro hit the dirt under Spookston and had the round ricochet up into his hull floor
Stalin's hand guided the shell, no luck involved.
T34 is broken tbh
The intro meme is something i resonate with so much. Us mains (me included) get so cocky thinking that they can easily take a pnz 4 until they get shot in the mg port.
The M4A2, chaffe, M10 and M19A1 combo is something that will never get old to me.
Easily peak load out especially with cas
I like all of them but with a lineup of the m4a1 76w
Cause its the best tank in game for the br
@@Harry-wx3nfnot anymore, they bumped all 76 Sherman's up, because fuck america
@@alpejohnson491 Reject CAS, embrace 40mm bofors
You can also use M42 now since they made it 4.0
So glad you took this tank out. I love bouncing KV-1 shots and then drilling through them with hvap. I take it out in a lineup with the chaffee and m10 and it rules. One plane I enjoy taking out for CAS/anti-CAS is the p61c1. It's stoopid fast and hits super hard with its bombs and cannons, and has a search radar which I've found actually pretty helpful in ground rb. Thanks again for being a pro gamer, Spookston :)
The mention of the Amish was something I didn't expect being a PA resident next door to Ohio. They're most prevelant in Lancaster County, PA. Pair that with Strasburg railroad and you'd think it's 1912 up there XD
Fr
i only seen 1 when i stayed there for a night last week
Huh didn't expect to see you here thunderbolt
Love visiting the strasburg railroad museum up there.
I was just in Pymatuning in the Jamestown campground and 80% of the people there are Amish. Which is a unique experience since I live in McKeesport right under Pittsburgh.
Spookston "you ain't penning me from this range." *Gets corrected*
😭😭😭
as a Pennsylvanian myself about an hour of the 3 hour drive to where I hunt in central PA is trying to avoid buggys
Relatable
Dang catholics
Giorno 211 of asking Spookston to play Semovente 75/46 M43.
I have cripplin depression.
Keep fighting brother
Just j out bro
So sadge
Sei il nostro paladino lunga vita ai carristi
If anything I believe Spookston should give this man an hour long smorgashboard of Semovente gameplay.
I love the shermans, especially the stabilizer and aphe, its so good
Shermans are the best in this game.
@@TeurastajaNexusWhat are you on about the Panzer IV or even the Turan is much better💀. The sherman doesn't excel at anything except numbers (which isn't a matter in war thunder). The panzer 4 is pretty similar but has greater firepower which makes it much more reliable and can easily deal with heavier targets unlike the sherman. The mobility and armor is pretty much the same, aswell as their height. So because of the firepower, the panzer 4 is a clear winner pound to pound if not in other ways aswell.
Edit: I forgot to mention I'm obviously only talking about this specific type of shermans and not any other, like the jumbo.
@@KokenyRichard I'm a German main originally and I stand on my opinion that the Shermans are overall superior at 3.7-4.2 BR range. Their APCBC is good, they have better armor than the Panzer 4s and also they are equipped with vertical stabilizers. Don't get me wrong, the Panzer 4s are good but I'm just better at smacking them with the Shermans.
@@TeurastajaNexus Oh yea true the sherman has a stabiliser but it doesn't seem to matter for me, like that's just a little good thing to have but it's not necessary idk🤷🏻♂️ The sherman may have better armor on paper but in practice it really worths as much the panzer 4s💀 It's practically useless from my experience. The apcbc IMO is literally bad, it has what 103 mms of pen? Like that's pretty bad if you ask me, IMO the panzer 4 is superior to the sherman at 4.0 because of it's firepower.
@@KokenyRichard Sure, the Panzer 4 has got a better round but it doesn't matter that much for me. The armor of the Sherman has worked better on several occasions in my experience. People bounce off their shots quite often and partly because the armor is angled.
0:01 Bro that was a perfect intro 😭😂🙏
*m3 is all you need flashbacks intensify*
you're an OG
@@Spookston Its amazing how far this channel has come and Im glad to have been here for it. Hope youre having a good day man
@@SpookstonM3 and Actual M3 are all you need got me onto your content, wonderful videos.
I miss those videos.
I thought that was yesterday but it's 2024 already
5:10 you call that a mini sleep? I call that a good night’s rest.
The grunt scream on the stug absolutely floored me 😂😂😂
8:24 hardest spookston line in recent memory
also loving the amount of snoopy in this one
spookston's love for shermans has been confirmed
Spookston's love for any american vehicle has been confirmed a long time ago
@@Drakey_Fenix i think that may be the joke, just maybe
0:02 i need the source for this lmaooo 😂
People who knock U.S 75mm for low pen do not care to look at the average armor thickness it faces. Most tanks have plates 30-40mm thick. 100mm of pen is more than enough. Plus your height causes the round to more easily normalize on sloped plates.
its trash. you're trash. fight me
That is true but it really suffers on the jumbo.
@@josejaimes-ramos1546 Yeah, but it is still pretty funny to play 5.7 Jumbo and clap 6.7 Tiger IIs lmao.
@@ideadlift20kg83To be honest , US 75mm is way too overpowered in WT . He penetrated a SU-122's front plate at what 600m ? 45mm sloped at 50° , this is a T-34 front plate . Never ever this would pen , they just buffed the Shermans pretty hard . The fake stabilizer is the next thing , never worked like that irl .
@@5co756 The kill cam cannot show arching of shots. It will always regardless of distance show a straight line shot. At 600m the shot will arch downwards. It also is not accurate at depicting where you actually hit. Latency and so on affects it.
I have had shells do 180s back and forth until it just magically decides to normalize on the plate I shot.
your editing in this one was on point. Love the music and grunt noises
Nah, that intro is crazy💀💀
The Tom and Jerry scream is just amazing
As someone that watched Tom & Jerry as a kid, I've not laughed so hard in ages.
why were his clothes flying off ☹what were those sounds ☹
@@shronkler1994 whos gonna tell bro
Where can you find that Intro? I need to save it.
easily one of your best videos man, the edits were perfect
The snoopy images are great, I want more :)
Yes, we need more snoopy 🥰
That intro just awoke hidden memories, thank you immensely.
XM8 WHEEEEEEEEEENN?!
Thanks for always making my days with the videos! :)
Spookston what I lLOVE about your videos is the halo sound effects that just give me nostalgia from my Xbox days playing with my little brother. PLEASE NEVER CHANGE
I think the round at 9:00 actually bounced off the ground in front of you and penetrated your weak underbelly, judging by the dirt being kicked up in front of your tank from a ground impact and the fact that it destroyed your engine over anything else. 😮
I once killed a Maus in a Char 25t like that 💀
Or it has more pen due to the bell curve trajectory of the shell on the inclined front plate.
Happened to me once in a Tortoise and a T34-85 killed me like that from 800m. I got so mad and Alt+F4'd.
Being stuck behind an Amish buggy is also very much an Iowa problem.
The hell is that first clip holy crap that's amazing
The Israeli soldiers doing a mix of war crimes and imitating cartoons on tik Tok... That rubble is damage they did kind of sad honestly
4:12 “hey was that important commander?” “Nahhhhhhh”
Literally my favourite lineup in all game, 2x 3.7 M4s (one from WT mobile) and the 4.0 one with the P-51 with 4 cannons and an M16 or M10 to complete it ♥. Good job Pookie
13:58 bro initiated a boss fight for a second
As a Pennsylvanian I can confirm that 1 city will be incredibly technologically advanced and the next will be entirely amish.
The Tom and Jerry reference in the beginning had me roling!
I LOVE THIS SERIES SO MUCH! Thanks for referencing it!
Sherman? AND SPOOKSTON?? These games gonna be crazy
Dude this sherman is so good. It's literally my go-to whenever I need quick SL. Average kill count on that thing is probably 6 to 8. Nice to see you play it.
Love facing KV1 (E&B) in this thing. Frontally they struggle to pen you and dont have the stabilizer like you. Best part you can one shot them in the lower front plate every time its incredible.
As someone who learned to drive and recently got licensed in Pennsylvania, the Amish buggy statement is complete true 😂.
I've been having that 3:40 fence eating rounds bug so many times, best one was when it ate my IS-2 shell.
Spookton: gets like 1milion kills: not so good a match
me: actually doesn't die: o thank god
i will never EVER have fun on war thunder
Can relate.
The M4A2 is genuinely one of my most favorite tanks in the game its stupid fun and easy to play.
Stabilized, aphe, good armor at such a low br with new players is insane. It was lowered from Rank 3 to Rank 2 though so you can't grind events with it but its still amazing!
grind italy 3.7, they have rank 3 sherman, m24, some good TD, m42 contraereo which is an amazing SPAA.
Did most of my challenges and dailies in this BP with this lineup
Or go premium sweden with sherman and sav
@@LokirofRorikstedSwede 3.7 my fav because the sav and Sherman lol, the Sherman is total bully machine at 3.7
Hi Spookston, I don’t know if you’ve already done a video on it, but it would be really funny to watch you play the sturmpanzer. The 1.0 big German HE slinger would obliterate the tanks and the low velocity of the round would make the gameplay more comical. Thanks for reading!
28th time challenging Spookston to bring the Char 25t into an 8.3 lineup, and then incrementally increase the BR to find when the tank becomes unironically unplayable.
He already did that
Thanks for being a reason that they made the sherman stabiliser work up to 24km/h
I swear the crew kept saying "HAMBURGER!!!!!"
That amish buggy comment was insanely relatable, especially since I live near a countryside part of pennsylvania.. it's not fun at all.
The regular m4, m10 and 105 shermans are one of the scariest lineups in the game
oh don't worry we got the amish buggy problem in missouri too
9:00 you're on the downslope, he's shooting from above. I think even your own gun could have penetrated you here.
and shell will angle slightly downwards from the drop at that range, negating a few degrees of the hulls slope
4:10 If that one specific plane company made tanks
I love the snoopy images!
That buggy problem speaks too much to me. Anyone that lives in rural PA, OH and the other major Amish areas know the pain of being on a 45mph and never being able to pass
Dear Spookston, I once again humbly request the Sturmtiger to be turned into a big bush.
As someone who lives in Lancaster Pennsylvania i can agree Amish buggy's suck being stuck behind...
Please Breda 501 spookie
Day 105
My Friend: Ah, you're playing the USA
Me: Yes
My Friend: When do you think you'll have enough Shermans
Me: Yes
My Friend: What
Me: You can never have enough Shermans
Is there anybody else who thinks that Spookston’s voice kinda sounds like Sam’s voice from the RUclips channel Sam O’Nella Academy…?
no
@jeremythehusky379 , go listen to Sam’s voice in some of his older videos, and you’ll see what I’m talking about.
7:20 "Smoked him like beef jerky"
*Immediately starts talking about beef jerky*
Hi
The m4 Sherman is a personal favorite in game and one of the first tanks I saw when I was young.
You know it's the good part of the week when it is Wednesday evening (6pm in Germany) and you know that within the next five days, there will be three Spookston videos up 🙂
Keep up the good work buddy, love your videos!
Greetings from Berlin 😊
3:00 you can actually .50 cal those ports
Using Grunt voice lines for ratty vehicles is amazing
Nah Spook, my grandpa is a cowboy, so he works with the Amish sometimes, so buggy problems happen here too, even in Texas.
“All up in our grill” is a legendary spookston quote and I’m all for it
First of all that tank is a beast and i love it and second of all; I got a challenge for you, pick any tank of your choosing but you can only have five shells and there must be at least two different types(day idk)
I just discovered your channel late last night and binged your videos, and I'm glad to have found another WT youtuber other than KilaWest and Trekpas. Not that I don't like them, it's just always nice to have some more stuff to watch. Anyways, I started the US ground tech tree a few months ago and though I'm in higher tiers now, I still use the T1E1. I think it's incredible, and though that might just be me, I'd like to see you give it a whirl and see what you have to say.
At 7:05 that kv-1 shot is actually the shot I go for on the B and E, and it kills them semi-reliably. Hope this helps if anyone sees this lol.
I really enjoyed the Snoopy reaction images you used. Very cute, and I hope you continue to use them :D
4:00 He was wiggling left and right as like a “No don’t kill me!”
You had to go and do it, I was enjoying this underrated beast and now watch it get uptiered now
4:10 the wheel tried to get a free ride but failed😞
Hey spookston, i've been watching your videos for a year or so and i just wanted to say thank you for making me laugh even in the toughest of situations. I also thank you for being an inspiration to getting better at War Thunder.
The meme at the beginning is brilliant omg
The Stuart rolling up at 14:30 was wholesome lol
I mained this tank for almost a year straight I’m so glad it’s finally getting the attention it deserves
Spookston you should play the LAV ad it was a great cannon with hydras and pretty good ir Sam’s
We have that issue in Minnesota. Amish buggy’s on the road that is
At 15:38 it seems you hit the edge where the armor 90 degree and 45 degree armor slopes meet. When imagining that behind the the skirt then the observation matches my War Thunder intuition about non-penning.
You get the right shot that 75 is devastating
13:55 no matter what tank you're playing, seeing the KV-2 whom you just whiffed a shot on turn to look at you is terrifying
the meme at the start is amazing. i love it
Spookston:”Mayonaise is going for it”
My RUclips the same second: Shows ad from Hellmanns Mayonaise👀
♥ love the sound effects u put in
The M4A2 is my best tank at low tier, I’ve got all modifications, so that’s good. It’s a great tank lol
Agree, M4A2 is my best Sherman.
Sherman my beloved
I think you should play the sherman m4a1 76w its the best tank in the game for its br and feels so nice to play with all the features of the regular sherman spookie
Attempt 40 Challenge: For high tier support a nations MBT with its respective APC/IFV counterpart (ie Abrams/Bradley, T90/BMP2M, etc.) Challenge is keeping the other player alive and supporting it without stealing kills (breaking barrels, tracking, repairing, etc) it being a random should help make it interesting.
I quite enjoy my Shermans also. Great video.
Video 67 of asking Spookston to play the LAV-AD with HEAT
I theorize you can tell how much Spook is enjoying the gameplay by how much Halo CE sfx he splices into the editing.
Another good thing about the M4A2 are your AA options in a lineup. Something like the P-51A mixed with the M16 or M42, and you can have those planes regretting their decision to play GRB
M4A2 when they started doing the front plate as a single piece, instead of welding lots of parts together, had 100mm effective armor AKA the same as a non-angled Tiger I.
This was by far the best Sherman out of the 4 initial models (A1 to A4).
This is my favorite Sherman and I am happy you see it’s greatness.
You should give the Centurion Mk.5 AVRE a go. Since the recent HESH change, it's quite reliable (thought there's the occasional certified gaijin moment). Plus you can lobe a child-sized amount of HE from behind hills, and the ERA plates protects you from a lot of things at its BR.
America 3.7-4.0 is my favorite lineup to play, 75 Shermans one shot most of the time and it’s so good
I just started playing the american tree and i love this tank honestly I never used to like shermans to much but now I love them
0:55 As a fellow Pennsylvanian citizen, I relate to this, but the Amish in Lancaster, PA are very polite.