APHE Is VERY Balanced :)
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War Thunder is infamous for how it models APHE shells. They're extremely powerful, which creates a pretty interesting contrast between the rare Soviet Matilda II and British Matilda III.
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APHE Is VERY Balanced :) - Hry
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Hanging in there..!
waiting for you to play ST-A3 :D :D
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In school chilling watching your videos keep up the great work
Y'know what is also balanced AND uses APHE? The AS-42/47.
I have been asking him to play that also😂
Wait, that's the Italian low tier car right?
@@comradeiosif2794yes, the one with the gun mounted on a pole
@@IlllIlIlIIlll maybe it's a Mandela effect thing, but I swear he's played it already I think.
another thing that’s balanced and uses APHE is the t-34 1940
Just note that the telephone pole pillar thing or whatever it is stopped my 122mm shell from hitting an enemy at point blank range, getting me killed when I should've killed the enemy. Pretty great map design there.
They are straight up cylinders made from Concrete and steel. They were invented in Germany and are called Litfaßsäule
Those concrete cylinders seem to not stop any rounds of mine .. ive shot through it 3 times
because youre using APHE, once it makes its way through 19mm of whatever on average, itll detonate, destroying the shell, unless you use solid shot youre not making it through there
@@noahsawesomevids422 the base is solid poured concrete, the top is a sheet metal cylinder.
It is called a Litfaß pillar
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Classic Spooskton being completely unaware of the black hole about the consume the entire lobby. (It is dragging him in)
Funny enough, in actual combat maneuvers , it was found that it could keep up with most other tanks of it's time. What it lacked in top speed, it made up for in gearing, and it would normally clear courses in the same timeframe as other tanks.
if the Matilda 2 had a better engine, it would've been unstoppable
my favorite APHE fact is that the tech tree 2C has more explosive filler in its shells than the IS-2
The 2C is honestly bullying for low tier. Your armor isn't armor, it's the amount of people you have.
To be honest, the 122's shells don't have a large filler to begin with, especially when compared to the caliber
@bighobo7745 It's still enough to Overpressure most tanks if it enters into it.
The very first tech tree I went down when I got this game was the British. I raged so hard at the rounds at times when solid shot wouldn't actually kill anything. Then I tried the French and realized the British weren't so bad. : ^]
Great vid as always, Spookston.
The French early tier is absolutely miserable. Then you get to 4.0 and ironically you Play American tanks for a brief moment. Then the tree goes uphill as they start using HEAT and aphe.
The 2.7 2C (Not the Bis.) Is a sleeper.
@@aiedenoldstien9751 I played long before the 2C was added in, and it was nothing but solid shots. We ended up entertaining ourselves on the grind (because of course I forced my friends to play with me too. Suffer together, amirite?) by naming the shells “leftover baguettes”.
The Bis variant was such fun to play with it came out, and I wish more of their tanks were like that and the B1 for early tiers.
@SuperJakle1337 I assume that means you played before they "Removed" the reserve vehicles. Though The B1 is also a sleeper. The German mains don't expect you to double tap them.
But the stale baguettes indeed aren't the best ammo.
Maybe try the American T34 Heavy? I know you've played the T29 but personally I have a better experience with the T34 due to the slightly lower BR and better penetration. Solid shot is solid shot but in my experience it does a lot of damage *most* of the time.
Edit: Fixed a humorous typo
Edit 2: Aw, guessed it removed the heart I got.
U got it back I think
@@notfunny3397 Yep, seems so. Quite happy about it since the T34 is by far my most played tank at this point so it'd be neat to see it covered.
@@ThatGuyOrbyPlayed with the T34 yesterday. Got 10 kills, 0 deaths and spawned in the nuke B-29 but we lost due to ticket bleed and couldn't drop it :(
I've found that 100mm and up solid shot does pretty damn good damage. Anything within the general path through the tank will get destroyed. It's not as good as APHE but it will still one shot most things unless you hit the very edge of turrets or very low under the crew from the side
I've started to enjoy Spookston's use of "Are you bad guy and Teammate bad guy" It is quite comical
Aphe is one of the many reasons I love the us tree, m61 and m82 is so good. You could nake a video about the amx50 that has aphe, it seems nasty
It's one of the reasons I've quit the game, sadly. The way it grossly outperforms everything else in lethality makes it ridiculously advantageous and unbalanced. It's just especially dumb when there's pretty substantial evidence that APHE just doesn't act like or do what the game makes it do. It doesn't act like a hand grenade when it's bursting charge goes off and while it would and does cause some additional destruction it was often negligible in tank combat. Instead it's like a thermobaric bomb in War Thunder.
@@adamg7984are you a Great Britain player
The soviet T-34's APHE can 1shot most things, it's so satisfying I'm shocked there are no shorts with T34 gameplay below them 💀
@@adamg7984the real problem is tanks are ridiculously survivable in War Thunder. 2 guys aren't going to keep fighting with the rest of the crew splattered around the tank. And you can't repair a busted engine in 30 seconds in real life. So solid shot, APDS and HEAT are much less effective because a hit that would kill a vehicle in real life is only a minor inconvenience in game.
@@AetherOnYT A nation that should ironically be far better than it is in the game. The only reason it isn't is because Gajin can't make ammunition work properly. Both APHE and the AP shells do around the same damage. Now the obvious damage difference being the filler in larger shells.
The man is right though, the explosion just doesn't have any momentum when it enters a tank. It just detonates and throws shrapnel everywhere. Where most of the shrapnel would keep it's momentum.
Hey Spookston, I just realized that me and my friend was playing together in your second to last match of the video. I'm Mikota0 and he was Twoston.
When you came out of the wall and killed me saying "hola" was a legit jumpscare for me in game.
It was a honor, fun match. Thanks for the fun roasts. You cooked us up real good, brother. 11:06
I have a recommendation if you haven't played it yet the turan 1 whenever ive used people seem to kill my machine gunner thinking its my driver and its really good at deflecting shots (dont know if its luck or not) and it has amazing reverse and foward speed (i think about 24kmh reverse fully uograded) and its all at 2.3 overall very fun tank to play
I forget the specific name, but the Turan 1 can go full speed in reverse actually, like 43km/hr.
@@sinterso2.036 oh thanks I actually never got it to go that fast before good to know
i love how you can see the difference of how gaijin and CAS has affected this man from watching the first ever specific tank gameplay until now
War thunder done drained his braincells (too much hstvl in mind)
I love your content keep it up, you are the best War Thunder content creator❤️
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Spookston uploads are always right in the middle of my history class and I love it. A great source of entertainment to offset something so boring.
(I love war and tank history, I just don't really care for British trade routes or whatever.)
History is great. It just need a good enthusiastic teacher, it is a feast of famine subject, it can be like info dump after info dump, but if you have a good teacher that wont be the case making boring info palatable
ye, its usually teachers and school system that makes subject boring, not subject itself being boring
sad that the system has failed you so horribly
history is the study of what makes a person and their culture, it's incredibly meaningful and rich when taught well
U find history class boring?? I’d eat that shit up if I had Social Studies again.
It's really weird finding someone on Spookston's channel of all things saying "history is boring".
i love how spook is so chill when he dies i would be smashing my house
Maybe because he doesn't have as much penalty for losing
I suggest you play T-10M. its a fun and kinda underrated soviet heavy tank with almost 300mm of pen on aphe :)
Spook, you are a blessing and a curse. You keep me sane with your great vids, but I can get zero work done… keep the great content coming!
"Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, you'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me" Australia's army march is based off the notes for this song.
As an Australian i appreciate the waltzing matilda joke
Once Update 2.33 'Air Superiority' goes live in a few weeks, I feel like the T-90M will be the first video covering the new vehicles that Spookston will do.
F-15, JAS 39, & SU-27: "Am I a joke to you?".
@@liladoodle these are planes spookson doesnt care about planes
11:32 Yep, thats how I felt when I encountered you there. Now it makes sense why that Matilda obliterated my team, it was you XD
Love your videos BTW
nuke ammo is when they have more than 190g tnt and when it explodes it overpressures
-2 depression? Jesus Christ... The slightest bump in the road is your mortal enemy.
I think you would greatly enjoy the Italian Ab 43. It's def a gremlin tank and it has decent pen and APHE for its BR. Also it's got the fun Italian camo
On one hand I love aphe since it is a lot more easier to one shot people but on the hand given how french tanks and british ones do use solid shot it can work if there is backup like good armor or a fast reload.
Gajin "You don't have connection so of course you want to go into the wall (ground if air rb)"
Love the videos Spookston ❤️ keep em coming!
I love spookston videos, this things a menace at its br. Anyway video 32 of asking spookston to play the AML-90
Please play The M3A3 Bradley. It's missiles are a lot easier to use now, but it still suffers a bit
Well I mean it's not like it can be overpressured by getting hit in the track while the Marders and BMPs can't for some reason
As an Aussie that waltzing joke made me chuckle
"thank you for ramming me i really appreciate that" -spookston 2023.
Gajin casually modeling solid shot so it makes other nations harder to use and Russia directly better. Despite both shells irl having similar performance.
Day 11 of asking for Leopard 1
Gotta say your uploads are the only thing I watch lately, keep up the good work
0:34 I like to imagine people in the War Thunder universe hide black holes in their houses which is why you got pulled into them. The time dilation causes the lag/ping.
If APHE was fixed to deal its historical lower damage more akin to AP, that would be the best single change in this game's last 5 years by a mile and improve the game SO MUCH.
Either that or Buff AP to its historical damage.
they can’t. given how the big three nation’s are the most played/dominant nation’s, nerfing it will lose Thousend’s of player’s from playing those nation’s
@@PanzerHistorian Then why add the other nations to begin with? They want people to play all the nations, make all the nations viable.
APHE rant incoming...
If it was historically accurate then it would have worse ballistics and penetration across the board.
The shrapnel from the blast would only travel forwards because the explosive is not enough to overcome the inertia, and it would create only a small amount more spalling in a marginally wider spread.
It would also have to have a pretty high chance of premature detonation when it hits a tank, this would of course ruin penetration.
And It would also have to have a fair chance of not exploding when it penetrates a tank, like it goes in and hits the back wall of the tank and falls to the floor without exploding.
If it penetrated a tank where the armour was too close to the max penetration maybe 75% of it's max pen, it would have deformed too much to detonate inside the tanks thus would not explode.
In these instances it would be like a worse solid shot round.
And Russian APHE rounds would have to have the very highest values in these failures because it was famously unreliable for the Russians.
The British tested is extensively before the war with their 2 pounder gun, they were the only nation to do so which is why they never developed any APHE outside of the test rounds for the 2 pounder.
They knew the trade off for slightly more spalling and spread for a round that was worse in every area was not worth it at all.
After the war only the Russians kept trying (unsuccessfully) to make it work, everyone else in the world dropped it in favour of Solid shot and APDS then later APFSDS.
APHE never worked as intended and it's showing in War Thunder is a complete fantasy, a total work of fiction.
@@commanderdon4300It's blatant Russian propaganda to pander to the soviet goblins that play this game. Take a look at the Russian forums and you'll realise pretty quick how much they break the laws of physics and actual historical fact to "fix" anything their Russian playerbase cries about.
The collab we never knew we needed. No more oddballs, we need spookston and twoston
The dead space 3 reference for aphe is the perfect example for spalling in the the shell.
"Waltzing Matilda" a song about a bloke that'd rather drown than go to prison for stealing a sheep.
11:43 HE BROKE YOUR BREECH WITH MACHINE GUNS WHAT
Doesn't have to be winter to see spookston ice skating in a tank across the roads.
That frickin random pillar at 1:19 also shocked me when my 120mm AP (T34) just didnt pen right through it resulting me dying to a Tiger 2(H)
14:33 that HL scientist XD
i never expected spook would use dead space as a meme template
That exact pole had me in shambles as it completely engulfed my IS-2 Shot, I could only watch as my tank got taken apart piece by piece
In an alternate universe, British tanks all come with aphe, and are actually fun to play.
TT Matilda DOES come with APHE. If only that continued...
Fun fact, in the game Rainbow 6: Siege there's an Australian operator named Mozzie
Hey spookston thank ya for the amazing content just want to say we appreciate the effort you put into youre videos man take care and enjoy dude why dont you just play youre favorite tank next vid you deserve it
Wanted to get this but just checked, it's 200 GJ. So, I will live vicariously through Spookston.
Thats why i still use APHE in any rank possible because how powerful it is, and one of my matches I was playing a Churchill 1 and I had to fight 2 of those at once and somehow won.
Course it's more powerful. Almost like APHE being the most powerful shell directly benefits Russia.
@@aiedenoldstien9751 I agree
FINALLY THANK YOU SPOOK
I promise I did actually laugh at the Waltzing Matilda joke. It wasn't THAT bad.
7:32 thats actually the easiest to pen part of the entire matilda tank, however it normally does 0 damage if hit because its extending out te main hull
"Welcome to WT, its either packet loss or pocket loss"
-Nordern
1:18 That is Pulowski preservation shelter.
Gaijin locking some of the coolest vehicles behind an event that ended before 90% of the playerbase started playing the game:
Play as 42/47 I’ve had a great time with it and it’s suprisly good for low tier Italy. It is also a gremlin.
The most kills spookston has had in my memory was 22 in the T14
2:40 the legendary oop, then an ope a bit later...
I was going to suggest this tank. Really interesting historically.
Got this tank in an April SL crate which was a nice surprise
Would love to see an uncommon soviet tank destroyer get showcased, like the SU-100P. Great pen for br, only thing is it is open topped (day 87)
6:03 the guy in your squad named "einsatzgruppenSS" is just quintessential war thunder...
The Matilda is extremely survivable, I was once surrounded by 4 panzers and I took them all out one by one
btw for thise that don't know 4:55 is referencing "waltzing matilda" which is an australian folk song
5:00 i get waltzing matilda theres a song about it too :D
Finals week, very busy, but on the bright side it finally snowed.
Spookston : run locus don't let that KV-2 disintegrate you.
Also Spookston : *Kills a locus with his mini nuke round*
9:04 The Spookston dialect
The editor should play eurobeat when packetloss makes the tank drift
Didn't even know this tank existed 💀
i have just had a game in the sherman 105, where i got bombed three times in 10 seconds, i guess i have been infected with the spookston curse
Not even a minute in to the video and Spookston is already suffering.
spookstons ability to find something to complain about even when dumpstering on people is impressive
soviets do not like depressed guns, it makes the crew very sad because the gun sad.
9:06: Well, I'm doing that, so, eh, thank you
I like to imagine when spookston plays sliw tanks that hes just stumbling around in a drunken stupor getting in a slapping match now and then
I’m new to your content and War thunder! How did you learn so much about tanks and ammo?
Love ya spookston!
11:39
3POV: Your commander left the radio on vibrate, and it's an old flip phone.
Zoomers will never understand the horror of having a loose blender go off in a sealed metal box.
Fun fact, a coworker of mine didn't know what the Mosin-Nagant rifle was called, only knowing that it started with "Mosi", so he pronounced it as "Mosey"
You killed me! I was the B1 at the beginning of the video hahah
My Friday tradition. Pizza and Spookston vid
Spookston you should try playing the M4A3 (105) with the observation tank camo. would be funny to see how many kills you could get with a bright yellow Sherman at low tier.
One must imagine a spookston video without at least one CAS death
Man is seal clubbing lowtier and complains about his only weakness
It's crazy watching those awards constantly rolling on the top screen
10:30 I felt at that point you had earned that bomb
Imagine having APHE in every British tank, that would be unstoppable.
There was a moment when Holy HESH of Antioch was good. Then gaijoobles came up with sauce thta was only avaible in russian
1:25 i see youve never heard of a LITTFASSSÄULE
Epic video! Now time to ask to please play the chieftain once again (video 10?).
The gun mantlet on that matilda reminds me of those images of dogs that had their face stung by a bee and it's all swollen.
3:39 and that's why they made cruisers as well.
I hope you're doing well Spookston
11:56 from what I can recall your record is 22 with a t14
Man I always watch your videos seeing you wrecking noobs then I go to play and realize I'm the noob getting rekt XD
That beginning had me rolling lolol
If you like British tanks with APHE, try the Churchill Mk.IV NA75.
Shame the churchils get nothing but +1 matchmaking. Every single time i bring one out its max Br. The churchill VII is the worst tank in the game because of that.
@@blowbert9126 That's why I prefer the Churchill 1. I love the VII but the 1 just seal clubs no matter the BR.
After this guy makes a video on the M2A2 he's gonna make the intro that astronaut guy banging the window looking at his past self.
As an Aussie I thought your waltzing Matilda joke was funny
If you dont like British tanks having AP rounds only, try the Churchill NA75 which has the 75mm M3 from the Sherman :)
Does that actually get the APHE round? I thought it only got the AP.
@@aiedenoldstien9751 your right, it doesn't get full APHE, but gets the closets thing to it, APCBC, which usually gets the job done just as good in my opinion
@o.m.5269 It's basically the same thing. I just didn't remember it having it. Though then again I never really played Britain much due to the nerfs to AP and Sabot.