I want to live in the Spookston universe where "planes tend to avoid SPAA". I think getting CAS'd makes up 90% of all my deaths in SPAA, not getting shot by other tanks.
@@lemanael8199 the theory is to hide whenever you can't shoot at them like you shouldn't search for planes in plain open grounds and instead stay near other objects like sheds, hills, or houses so planes either don't go for you first or have to do a fly by to search for you, either way enough time to spot and line up shots that would actually kill planes rather than just pepper them
Shooting something and not hitting paints a huge target on you, especially with 2 or 3 planes in the air where the others can come from the other direction and strafe you. Not shooting gives roaming CAS that doubt that you might be looking at them and are just waiting for them to come for an easy hit. Different story for missile AA.
@@luthfihar3211 exactly this. i like to play fighters in GRB and hunt CAS, but as soon as there's no more enemies in the sky i'll start to look down in open fields near the enemy spawn. almost a garuanteed 2-3 kills on spaa that are just sitting there that i would definitely not get if they hid somewhere since im as blind as a german main
There's something so funny about the anachronism of a hapless Ju-87 fresh out of the Spanish Civil War getting poofed out of the sky by a giant proxy shell from the 2000s.
The guy dropped his bombs right before he hit the ground so his own bomb killed him. Had the same exact thing happen to me in the Bkan and I watched the replay.
I liked the Type 75 but I absolutely adore the Type 99. I've had so many absolutely insane carries with that thing. Especially since it gets L15A2 with nearly 15Kg of TNT equivalent. Not that puny OE F3 of the VIDAR with only 9Kg. The suspension dampening is really good and in combination with the fast gun elevation the gun feels like it has a stabilizer. Combined with it's decent mobility it's probably the best artillery vehicle in the game.
although it isn't a CAS killer, the venerable M3 GMC surely does pack a punch and allows you to delete things from existence. It behooves you to play such a great gremlin-esque vehicle (please sir pleeeease play the M3 GMC)
@@megakirbo4250 that was 5 years ago. He's played vehicles multiple times in that 5 years. We can have another M3 GMC video with the current state of the game. I also will not quit asking so get over it lmao
I love prox. The 2S3M is probably one of the best proxy tanks in the game because it's at a BR where you only see WW2 props, which are a lot slower and easier to track. Oh, and video #72 asking you to play the T-10M
“Planes tend to avoid spaa” Everytime I try to play spaa and take down one or 2 planes I get jumped by every other plane left on the enemy team 😂 Tracers flying into the air is like the Bat signal to them
I mean Gajin does give all the AA proximity rounds. You know, the vehicles that are meant to fire shells at ground targets from long range. Which for gameplay purposes isn't a bad thing as most AA sucks between these tiers. (Except for Russia and Germany's. Imagine that)
@robertharris6092 I think you mean Wirbel. Though even before the Skink (Which would also be nice in the American tree.) But Skink aside, alot of the British AA is really good. There countries like France and the US that have no mid tier AA. For France they have no early tier AA now that is effective.
@robertharris6092 The French tractor actually gets 14.5s a slightly larger round. Though a severely reduced ammo and turret speed. The Gepard is better as a TD apparently. Considering how most people use it. Japan you'd think would have more Anti-Air being an island nation and kind of needing something to be located around the island. Or at least something lend lease in the cold War. Then a lot of countries just have mid tier gaps. Except for one, Russia. Pretty much all of its Br gaps are full in some way. Even if they aren't good.
@@aiedenoldstien9751 About Japan not having large amount of spaa, it is about money. Back then it is because the pacifist political climate. Now days, it is how you pay for everything. Anyways, they still maintain at about 400 counts of shorad missile launcher of various kind, half and half split between sp and towed. Retired all of their towed gun system, and maintain roughtly 50 count of sp gun system. Then they have roughly 30 count of domestic long range aa system, roughly 12 count of patriot, 30 plus count of serviceable destroyer (8 count of agies capable vessel), and 2 counts of "helicopter destroyer". Oh, lastly, 250 counts of combat aircraft. Not to mention the 2 US carrier group thats more or less permanently there. And protection net provided by South Korea, which has some truely insanely level of equipment. While it does not look like the front line of Ukraine, it is not exactly an easy target.
There was an F9F Panther that in 1950 was fitted with the experimental Emerson turret, which housed four .50 cal. machine guns replacing the forward nose. I wish that would be in the game.
The regular Panther had 4x20mm. I'm not really seeing the utility of replacing those with 4x.50. As an aside the Soviets built 23mm gun pods (SPU series) that could depress for strafing ground targets.
@@Fulcrum205The gimmick with the Emmerson Turret was that it had notches made so that it could make those four .50 cals. elevate to 90 degrees up or down. Plus, the turret itself could also rotate. So it could theoretically shoot at an aircraft that was off to either it's left or right.
The G6 has an ok VT shell but it's nowhere near as good as the Type 99 VT shell and on top of this the Type 99 doesn't get fucked over by a limited turret traverse.
I don't play warthunder, I'm not even really a *tank* person per say, but between the memes the commentary and the gameplay I cannot stop watching these. They are like the perfect "I'm gonna sit down with a snack and giggle like a goblin while someone either suffers or succeeds with great hilarity." if that makes sense. Probably not, but I'm stoned as fuck so good enough. :D
4:39 damn bruh always hate how dumb sometimes the kill/crash/non-kill death credit is in WT sometimes. It's so frustrating especially when you get into a head-on in planes and do stupid amount of damage to the other guy but they barely scratched your wings - then they crashed into you.... so Gaijin just says "well the other guy kills you, but you didn't kill him. He just... crashed" smh.
according to soviet tests, you need ~50mm ABT-101 (or 102, i dont remember) millitiary alluminium to stop 155mm fragments from 10m distance... planes in WT: *casually shrugs off 155mm proxy HE exploding ~3m away*
I have been maining AA almost every other match because I have grown so exhausted with CAS, this fills me with hope and a reminder that I am doing the lord's work
Seeing spookston play the type99 put a smile on my face, this thing WILL delete anything that looking at you(mostly) including plane and pesky cas that always get me later on
I play WT sometimes while listening to your videos and I killed a T-34 zooming across the other end of the map right when the sound effect and 10:43 played.
I started playing as an air main and recently got into tanks. I usually play my own little game of air rb playing CAP and the CAS players get super mad because “just let me get the easy ground kills” or something. I enjoy watching the panic set in on a cas player who thinks they’re pretty decent at planes once I reverse then from a merge before they have time to think or drag them into a rolling scissor, and even when I reverse energy trap them and they compress into the ground.
I swear.. due to my general play style, I tend to play passive. And I love SPHs in which case a fair amount of the time, I end up getting more air kills than I do ground and I find it hilarious. One match I got more air kills than spaa. Type 75 SPH was really good imo, but Type 99 is very quickly becoming my favourite lol Love your content, and I find it very enjoyable and funny to watch!
First, I can confirm the intro is 100% correct. Second, I gotta love how just under a day ago your buddy OddBawZ posted a video titled "The best CAS plane right now..." 🤣
idea for a challenge video : play as "the average german tank main", meaning : -you can not stop, and have to be pressing forward all the time -you must in one way or another block your peripheral vision to get the true tunnel experience, like place paper around your screen or staying at most in commander hatch -you musnt listen to the game sound -spawn a plane each time it's possible
The type 99 is like the perfect sweet spot between the ridiculously high fire rate but low ammo of the bkan and the turreted but long reload m109. It has a good reload time, a turret and a decent amount of ammo.
One of my first attempts at using the SPG as AA was in Poland in the Russian Howitzer. 5km hit on a F8F from the southern spawn hill. If they at 1000m you lead about a 6in ahead an about 3500m mark
I'm going to be quite honest Spookston, the proxy blowing up and not doing anything has haunted me for years. my Swedish 40mm proxy makes me want to cry because it does do the proxy, but then does not hurt the dude.
I have a nice challenge idea: achieve something with completely stock tanks, no modifications, stock rounds etc. Maybe getting a nuke? In addition to that maybe something terribly slow with incredibly bad stock rounds
Your video about the Type 99 convinced me to try out the Japanese tech tree and now because of it, I’ve almost got it, thank you! Update: I finally got it :D
13:16 The question I've been asking every M22 while starting on my French tree. Them and the Stuarts have been wrecking my aim all week with their L plate shenanigans.
Day 26You should play a tank with hydropneumatic suspension (recommend the MBT-70) But the catch is you have to drop the suspension as low as it can go for the whole match.
If you hate CAS you're a real one
Should have a challenge video coming out Friday or Sunday
I too hate CAS , this video is therapeutic.
Play ground rb
Look inside
Planes
I have one thing to add to this if you are playing a fighter and are flying over the ground and are just doing fly byes it is a lot of fun
HI SPOOKSTON 😎
i hate CAS but i also love to CAS. i also feel like i need a shower after tho so maybe im redeemable
I want to live in the Spookston universe where "planes tend to avoid SPAA". I think getting CAS'd makes up 90% of all my deaths in SPAA, not getting shot by other tanks.
Yeah the same happened to me but i learned that you need to play sneaky as spaa against planes you shoot less planes but you kill more of them
@@lemanael8199 the theory is to hide whenever you can't shoot at them like you shouldn't search for planes in plain open grounds and instead stay near other objects like sheds, hills, or houses so planes either don't go for you first or have to do a fly by to search for you, either way enough time to spot and line up shots that would actually kill planes rather than just pepper them
Shooting something and not hitting paints a huge target on you, especially with 2 or 3 planes in the air where the others can come from the other direction and strafe you.
Not shooting gives roaming CAS that doubt that you might be looking at them and are just waiting for them to come for an easy hit.
Different story for missile AA.
I am an SPAA main, and sadly it is true. Thus I am a carrot-top with bushes only on-top.
@@luthfihar3211 exactly this. i like to play fighters in GRB and hunt CAS, but as soon as there's no more enemies in the sky i'll start to look down in open fields near the enemy spawn. almost a garuanteed 2-3 kills on spaa that are just sitting there that i would definitely not get if they hid somewhere since im as blind as a german main
I love the fact that each time he plays to kill planes, he kills more tanks.
(even with SPAAs)
One must imagine Spookston happy.
7:25
Ah, yes. Hydrogen Baby vs. Coughing Bomb
nahh its bomb baby vs coughing hydrogen
_☠️_
One of my favorite stupid memes
the ultimate bait for those pesky cas players: lightly armored looking vehicle with big gun
Like moth to flame, they fly to their demise.
Its nice to see that your he addiction is now seeping over into anti cas
3:20
There's something so funny about the anachronism of a hapless Ju-87 fresh out of the Spanish Civil War getting poofed out of the sky by a giant proxy shell from the 2000s.
Thesis: Spookston absolutely hates CAS.
Antithesis: Smigol Absolutely hates SPAA.
even smigol is good at SPAA
@@rednax6955 he meant he hates fighting against it
SMIGOL?
A wise man once said: "CAS is doo-doo"
Possibly even poo-poo
7:47 is the most relatable thing i have ever heard about war thunder
I have to wipe my moniter everytime I play I swear I keep seeing shit, I also swear that im not schizo but we all know that’s not true
That's why I play arcade lmao, I kept getting wrecked in my 16 inch laptop in RB
Welp
Time to Clean My Screen again
A true plane bonk moment
9:28 He learned why Greek stories are known for their tragedies lol
“You don’t think that crash was… assisted… do you? Like by a 155 HE shell?”
The guy dropped his bombs right before he hit the ground so his own bomb killed him. Had the same exact thing happen to me in the Bkan and I watched the replay.
I liked the Type 75 but I absolutely adore the Type 99. I've had so many absolutely insane carries with that thing. Especially since it gets L15A2 with nearly 15Kg of TNT equivalent. Not that puny OE F3 of the VIDAR with only 9Kg. The suspension dampening is really good and in combination with the fast gun elevation the gun feels like it has a stabilizer. Combined with it's decent mobility it's probably the best artillery vehicle in the game.
although it isn't a CAS killer, the venerable M3 GMC surely does pack a punch and allows you to delete things from existence. It behooves you to play such a great gremlin-esque vehicle (please sir pleeeease play the M3 GMC)
He already has played it, even against top tier stuff.
@@megakirbo4250I thought that was the russian one with a different cannon
Oh you mean that old video when he was doing all the m3s
@@megakirbo4250 that was 5 years ago. He's played vehicles multiple times in that 5 years. We can have another M3 GMC video with the current state of the game. I also will not quit asking so get over it lmao
That family feud meme was probably my favorite one you've ever added.
Steve Harvey commanding "KILL" will never not be funny
3:17 ironically killed by an aa while trying to do aa work
Love how the auf 1 tanks the most potent 155 HE round in war thunder and the type99 is incinerated by the least potent 155HE
I'm pretty sure the Auf 1s 155 irl is what the type 99 uses not sure
11:34 the spirit of penguinz0 has entered Spookston`s body for a second
Na-To next? you know you wanna play the funny prototype late war Japanese TD
Spookston: Planes tend to avoid SPAA
The background: Type 81 SAM rolling
I love prox. The 2S3M is probably one of the best proxy tanks in the game because it's at a BR where you only see WW2 props, which are a lot slower and easier to track.
Oh, and video #72 asking you to play the T-10M
4:30 not the Avatar Tsu’tey fall music 😂
The slow turn to look at the friendly Tiger had be cracking up 😂 love the vid, Spookston!
“Planes tend to avoid spaa”
Everytime I try to play spaa and take down one or 2 planes I get jumped by every other plane left on the enemy team 😂
Tracers flying into the air is like the Bat signal to them
When a self-propelled artillery vehicle performs better than every SPAA player in my team
I mean Gajin does give all the AA proximity rounds. You know, the vehicles that are meant to fire shells at ground targets from long range.
Which for gameplay purposes isn't a bad thing as most AA sucks between these tiers. (Except for Russia and Germany's. Imagine that)
@robertharris6092 I think you mean Wirbel.
Though even before the Skink (Which would also be nice in the American tree.)
But Skink aside, alot of the British AA is really good. There countries like France and the US that have no mid tier AA. For France they have no early tier AA now that is effective.
@robertharris6092 The French tractor actually gets 14.5s a slightly larger round. Though a severely reduced ammo and turret speed.
The Gepard is better as a TD apparently. Considering how most people use it.
Japan you'd think would have more Anti-Air being an island nation and kind of needing something to be located around the island. Or at least something lend lease in the cold War.
Then a lot of countries just have mid tier gaps. Except for one, Russia. Pretty much all of its Br gaps are full in some way. Even if they aren't good.
@@aiedenoldstien9751
About Japan not having large amount of spaa, it is about money. Back then it is because the pacifist political climate. Now days, it is how you pay for everything.
Anyways, they still maintain at about 400 counts of shorad missile launcher of various kind, half and half split between sp and towed. Retired all of their towed gun system, and maintain roughtly 50 count of sp gun system.
Then they have roughly 30 count of domestic long range aa system, roughly 12 count of patriot, 30 plus count of serviceable destroyer (8 count of agies capable vessel), and 2 counts of "helicopter destroyer".
Oh, lastly, 250 counts of combat aircraft.
Not to mention the 2 US carrier group thats more or less permanently there. And protection net provided by South Korea, which has some truely insanely level of equipment.
While it does not look like the front line of Ukraine, it is not exactly an easy target.
7:20 new second favorite audio clip, the times you add the 2001 two mixed choirs is still the best
PPFFFBBBBTTT
- Spookston after every kill
God the type99 is really what I was waiting for it's so fun to play, guaranteed fun content
There was an F9F Panther that in 1950 was fitted with the experimental Emerson turret, which housed four .50 cal. machine guns replacing the forward nose.
I wish that would be in the game.
Something Gaijin would add as part of the battle pass, or just a straight-up premium.
The regular Panther had 4x20mm. I'm not really seeing the utility of replacing those with 4x.50.
As an aside the Soviets built 23mm gun pods (SPU series) that could depress for strafing ground targets.
@@Fulcrum205The gimmick with the Emmerson Turret was that it had notches made so that it could make those four .50 cals. elevate to 90 degrees up or down.
Plus, the turret itself could also rotate. So it could theoretically shoot at an aircraft that was off to either it's left or right.
A rare moment when CAS actually spawns when spookston plays a plane killer.
0:05, AGREED
"Best AA properties"
G6 - Am I a joke to you?
The G6 has an ok VT shell but it's nowhere near as good as the Type 99 VT shell and on top of this the Type 99 doesn't get fucked over by a limited turret traverse.
0:23 and 3, planes just vanish as soon as you spawn in an AA so you end up just wasting spawn points for nothing
I absolutely love the comedic timing of the Tan-SAM driving past lmao
6:08 AYO WHAT!!!
Let me explode you AH😂
he just wants to he him
I don't play warthunder, I'm not even really a *tank* person per say, but between the memes the commentary and the gameplay I cannot stop watching these. They are like the perfect "I'm gonna sit down with a snack and giggle like a goblin while someone either suffers or succeeds with great hilarity." if that makes sense. Probably not, but I'm stoned as fuck so good enough. :D
4:39 damn bruh always hate how dumb sometimes the kill/crash/non-kill death credit is in WT sometimes.
It's so frustrating especially when you get into a head-on in planes and do stupid amount of damage to the other guy but they barely scratched your wings - then they crashed into you.... so Gaijin just says "well the other guy kills you, but you didn't kill him. He just... crashed" smh.
I can see Stimpee's meme clips, sounds and general editing in Spookston's videos and I love them
4:11 atomic bomb vs coughing baby
Wait a god damn second. I think I was in a match against you. Some guy killed me in a Type99 from a very cheeky spot later died and then left.
according to soviet tests, you need ~50mm ABT-101 (or 102, i dont remember) millitiary alluminium to stop 155mm fragments from 10m distance...
planes in WT: *casually shrugs off 155mm proxy HE exploding ~3m away*
Tbf, they can just get penetrated in spots without vital systems
Gajin sure knows how you balance it right?
That fucking edit after the friendly German shot you cracked me up.
Day 115 of asking Spookston to play the Btr-80a
Loved M107 slowly riding into the view over the bridge at 12:58 and you suffering tunnel syndrome like us, mortals😅
I have been maining AA almost every other match because I have grown so exhausted with CAS, this fills me with hope and a reminder that I am doing the lord's work
Spookston finally getting revenge
You are making me want to grind the Japanese tech tree when I already have the M109A.
2:49 "surely thats got to attract a plane right" *plane flies over*
Seeing spookston play the type99 put a smile on my face, this thing WILL delete anything that looking at you(mostly) including plane and pesky cas that always get me later on
I play WT sometimes while listening to your videos and I killed a T-34 zooming across the other end of the map right when the sound effect and 10:43 played.
Spook finally getting revenge against CAS players in RB
6:08
Your “sir” sounds just enough like “Siri” apparently to trigger Siri to pause the video and listen. Lol
Me killing Perishing's in my Flakpanzer 341: Ah yes, dead weight.
I love how he puts a meme before every video
“Sir please let me explode you” something sounded off about it.. 6:05
I never heard Spookston THIS excited before
That was brilliant to see. Almost as brilliant as a Churchill video would be.That's right, this is video 105 of asking for a Churchill.
I started playing as an air main and recently got into tanks. I usually play my own little game of air rb playing CAP and the CAS players get super mad because “just let me get the easy ground kills” or something. I enjoy watching the panic set in on a cas player who thinks they’re pretty decent at planes once I reverse then from a merge before they have time to think or drag them into a rolling scissor, and even when I reverse energy trap them and they compress into the ground.
I swear.. due to my general play style, I tend to play passive. And I love SPHs in which case a fair amount of the time, I end up getting more air kills than I do ground and I find it hilarious. One match I got more air kills than spaa. Type 75 SPH was really good imo, but Type 99 is very quickly becoming my favourite lol
Love your content, and I find it very enjoyable and funny to watch!
2:38 I strafe in the He 162 :) It's one of my favorite aircraft, though my absolute favorite is the MiG-25
Snapshot direct hit kills a P-51.
Not even a second later:
"I'm pretty terrible at aiming these..."
Happened to me too.
Attempt 22: requesting Spookston to play one of the "Alternate" Top Tier tanks:
M48 Super
AMX 40
I always used my M109 as a tank destroyer, i had no idea what a proxy did, now i see what its used for, and it looks satisfying af
First, I can confirm the intro is 100% correct.
Second, I gotta love how just under a day ago your buddy OddBawZ posted a video titled "The best CAS plane right now..."
🤣
Love the little lick of command and conquer music.
Spookston seems like the kind of friend we all want to have
What I love about spookston is that he makes good, fun, and relatable content while still being a relatively family friendly goofball
Spookston, did you ever wonder what happens when you cover a Sturmtiger in bushes?
I could go for another hour of this, that was very satisfying
The laugh of childlike glee Spookson gets from whacking planes with 155mm HE is both wholesome and disturbing at the same time.
Spookston: Leave me alone, I'm trying to shoot planes
Also Spookston: Big HE slap tank
watching the m103 crest the hill at 12:54 was nerve racking
idea for a challenge video : play as "the average german tank main", meaning :
-you can not stop, and have to be pressing forward all the time
-you must in one way or another block your peripheral vision to get the true tunnel experience, like place paper around your screen or staying at most in commander hatch
-you musnt listen to the game sound
-spawn a plane each time it's possible
Spookston not making a pffffft noise after every kill challenge (impossible)
Opens “The Ultimate CAS Killer” looks inside, ground vehicle kills 😂
Another great video 👍🏻
The Oblivion music always makes me lol like an idiot. Please keep using that.
The type 99 is like the perfect sweet spot between the ridiculously high fire rate but low ammo of the bkan and the turreted but long reload m109. It has a good reload time, a turret and a decent amount of ammo.
Logic behind WT artillery:
If you can't pen it, use a big HE shell.
If you still can't pen it, you are not using a big enough HE shell.
How about the M247 Sergeant York? It does a funny RWR prank because it has the F-16’s RADAR.
spookston discovering the wonders of flak
type 99 my beloved
as this video airs this is my favourite way of smacking object 292 out of high tier matches
15:14 Hah, I like how you wait till the end of the video to tell us that.
spookston: oh there's a plane!
me when he fire's: what plane?
Very funny 😐
5:30 bro dumb juice has my dark unhappy sadness smiling thank you
spookston turned into lowtiergod lol
*"Sir, Please let me explode you."* Has to be one of The moments of all time.
I figured you picked the Type 99 because it has a nice little balcony where you can chill and grill.
One of my first attempts at using the SPG as AA was in Poland in the Russian Howitzer. 5km hit on a F8F from the southern spawn hill.
If they at 1000m you lead about a 6in ahead an about 3500m mark
I'm going to be quite honest Spookston, the proxy blowing up and not doing anything has haunted me for years. my Swedish 40mm proxy makes me want to cry because it does do the proxy, but then does not hurt the dude.
I have a nice challenge idea: achieve something with completely stock tanks, no modifications, stock rounds etc. Maybe getting a nuke? In addition to that maybe something terribly slow with incredibly bad stock rounds
The avatar death music as he flat spins absolutely sent me😂😂😂
Your video about the Type 99 convinced me to try out the Japanese tech tree and now because of it, I’ve almost got it, thank you!
Update: I finally got it :D
13:16 The question I've been asking every M22 while starting on my French tree. Them and the Stuarts have been wrecking my aim all week with their L plate shenanigans.
Day 26You should play a tank with hydropneumatic suspension (recommend the MBT-70) But the catch is you have to drop the suspension as low as it can go for the whole match.
This was immensely satisfying, and very enjoyable.
My favorite thing to do in warthunder is to delete planes with big cannon
"t-800's for pilots?!" - lol. Nice one. That's a good reference. I wonder if it's a T1 or T2 reference, vs a T3ROTM, TG or TDF reference? :D
Let's be real, we kinda expected this spookston arc was going to happen eventually