The Scariest German Tank Destroyer
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The German VFW tank destroyer is a vehicle that I have a special hatred for. When gaijin first added it to War Thunder, it was incredibly powerful. Overpressure has tempered it a bit, but it is still an absolute menace in the right conditions. The long 88mm cannon combined with the 4s reload make it an exceptional TD.
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The Scariest German Tank Destroyer
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I should know, I had a carer who's SurfShark VPN was blocked by Netflix before he switched to Cyber Ghost VPN.
Play the strv m/42 TD .
surf shark is so caca for a vpn lmaoooo
What’s really scary is the warrior IFV and you should for sure play it
I agree with this message!
Yes, modern ifvs are really fun
That mf be turning on a dime
You are the spy?
Bootleg British Bradley
I remember when this thing was spammed and the highest br tank I had was the t-34-85. It was pain
That's how I learned to hate the thing. Anyone who plays it gets my he shell or a bomb.
They must pay penance for the horrors they wreaked on my grind.
I remember this before overpressure was added. It was bad enough on close-mid range maps, but if you got a long range one like Maginot or Kursk, god help you
The VFW made me quit playing. Highest tank i had was the 76 Sherman
@@filmandfirearms oh yeah, hehe back when hull break was a thing I killed a VFW 1 time by hitting the very edge of the flap XD
AGS vid would be real cool I think u would like the speed that little bastard is fast
tbh i dont think that most of the planes are people beeing angry but just seeing a defenceless opentop massive tank destroyer
They should allow you to raise and lower the sides in-game with the VFW. The mechanic for this already exists (bulldozer blades) and would make for a neat and actually useful feature
Maybe also for the Breda 501
(The italian anti tank car)
You actually can. You can raise the sides in the game but reload time will be longer.
I've seen it with sides up. Looks like a toaster.
@@Kijby it's a good trace and i think it's actually raised for traveling and such, but yeah 6 seconds is still fast.
Its totally useless. I have a VFW and its fantastic due to the 4s reload but if you raise the side pannels you are severely limiting the gun traverse, reload nearly doubles and the protection is barely adequate for rifle caliber machineguns while HE and arty will still murder you.
VFW with sides down = cold blooded deadeye predator
VFW with sides up = a harmless toaster
You should play the QF Ram, it’s quite quick and I personally find it fun. It’s essentially the Canadian alternative to the VFW
Please
Bought but did not use it yet.
Its actually better in my opinion it has a 90mm gun that fires solid slugs that just obliterate pretty much anything they touch
It's realy bad. I earned it in the event way back when and it's not very fun. 94mm shells suffer from volumetric, the velocity is suprisingly bad for an AA gun, you dont get a range finder, it fires solid shot and ofcourse you get pressure waved to death.
Probably my least favorit event vehicle tbh.
@@jamescassady4629 it have worse penetration, much worse damage and lower firerate.
Are you okay? Why british trash can is better?
10:12 with the sides lowered down they can act like wings to allow the vfw to glide over some obstacles if starting from a high enough vantage point.
can it be towed by an plane and act as a glider
They planned to use them to drop tactical nukes over the battlefield but the project was thankfully cut short
As a German and a German player I sincerely apologize for my community’s lack fathers. It is a problem we have been facing for a while now.
No no the Americans are the ones with the lack of fathers
Only during WW2 and the early cold war, draft ends after that I guess because the teams behave
Spookston dying to planes over and over again:
Me: Do I need to remind you that this is an SPAA
6:20 I don't think it's that people hate it, it's that planes see anything with crew exposed and immediately go for it
For the people that know about it they hate it but for people who don't they just see it as a free gun kill
It probably doesn't help thats its so damn w i d e either. Surely visible from orbit
@Colonel Dickens I can attest, it's visible from Pluto
*Loads HE with malicious intent*
*7 kills with no retaliation and solo-holding points*
"Omg people hate this why would they bomb meeeeee?"
Lol I don't understand this mentality of doing well and then claiming its unjust to be targeted, or being in an open-top vehicle and thinking its unreasonable for planes to shoot it.
Spookston: *spawns the VFW the first time*
Every Plane in the match: _And as for you, I don't know you but I'm sure you're a jerk!_
6:05
>"i would not spend money to make a war thunder video"
>plays the premium vechicle
FRRRR
But its an event vehicle
@@theneef174 war thunder wiki says it is a premium, and it is in a premium tree
Haven’t seen a transition that smooth in my life from a video to a sponsor
You've got to admire those guys that drove around the corner to see what made the other tanks burst into flames
A spooky Tank is the U-SH 405. Might even be a little Gremlin
Yes cover it all over with bushes and you zooming all over the map without being seen
@@DaddysBelt92 Add in camping behind whatever ridiculous set of rocks you can find and the thing is untouchable except from the air, had one sit up on a hilltop behind rocks and dude farmed my team. You literally couldn't do anything because the breach (i think) would just eat your rounds and he'd duck behind the rocks, add on the proximity to his spawn and trying to flank was suicide.
@@Josh10Force bro it's ammo is all inside the gun.. genuine skill issue
VFW: *exists*
Literally everyone on the opposite side: And I took that personally
The VFW chassis looks like someone who is having a really bad day.
Attempt 2
You should try the CA Lorraine. Fast AF for its size, deadly and accurate gun, but thin armor. Loads of fun in my opinion
I LOVE the ca Lorraine. although you often have shots where you take out nearly everything but not enough to just one shot them..
Oh yeah, CA Lorraine lovers assemble !
Not deadly a shitty post pen
@@lechardonrouge6172 Solid shots have amazing post-pen after 90mm. And the CA Lorraine is no different, being able to quite often one-shot things.
I just steamed through a T44, Tiger 2 and Ferdinand in a Lorraine today in one quick sprint. Was not expecting to be able to play hyper aggressive in a SPG, the speed actually makes it somewhat viable
Nice video as usual. I don't think it's really the tank itself, stuff like the Nashorn gets absolutely tunneled by CAS as well, so ig it comes down to the CAS player seeing an easy kill. That's one of the reasons I avoid playing paper TDs.
fr i have the nashorn and the stug 3 g in the same lineup and i barely touch the nashorn cus it gets ripped apart immediately lmao
I go from sniping a plane out of the sky with a SU-85, to I can't even hear a plane before I get my shit shredded
You editing is a masterclass Spookston, Bravo
CAS is such a dynamic addition to ground realistic battles
Misspelled shit addition
You mean terrible addition right?
tbh sometimes you are given time or a margin of error to dodge the falling bomb or some strafing. that can be pretty thrilling to do.
however that's like 1% of plane/tanks interactions with the rest just being that "hide yo kids from the blitz or die" game not a lot of people likes.
@@MetalX34 i like the asymmetry it makes the fame original
@@dozergames2395 you must be a very casual player.
I love my mom
Edit: Why no heart for this original comment
Same here!
Same Here!
Same
We do too, bro ✊️
Same here!
I absolutely adore that you use C&C Generals OST in your videos. One of my alltime favorite OSTs.
@9:02 has the same energy as multiple teammates in seige or any other FPS peeking the same window they just watched someone get their head blown off from.
Can we get a video on Tunguska? It seams that Gajin misunderstood it's role as SPAA and decided to make it anti-tank as well.
Have you perchance ever played an spaa in war thunder? like half of them can be used to kill tanks
@@braedenh4687 most AA in Warthunder also effective in anti tank role lmao
@@braedenh4687 Sure, you can also use tanks and tank destroyers to destroy planes, but that is not the point I was trying to make. Tunguska is extremely capable in both AA and AT roles. The only better SPAA I can think of in those two roles is ADATS in US tree, as it has APDS rounds (extra 16mm od pen compared to Tunguska) and rockets capable of penetrating up to 900mm of armor. You can argue that other SPAAs using APDS ammo have better pen, but they either don't have access to rockets (Falcon, Chieftain Marksman) or those rockets are IR guided (Gepard 1A2), so that's a good trade-off in my eyes.
@@janglin488 Gepard at 8.0 be like:
Guy got killed once by a Tunguska and came this this comment section.
I like how this thing has more depth of gameplay in terms of playstyle, allowing players to sacrifice protection for offensive prowess.
Glass cannon style.
That was quite fast! Thank you.
That fuze time on those bombs were so long, you could've unironically gotten away
I remember this one guy i the forums calling for this thing to be moved to 6.7 because, and I quote: "It's nearly impossible to kill with AP of any kind in one shot". Apparently US mains forget the HE and .50 cals exist
Yea xD they often do
But they also like to just whine around even when they can use he or .50cal which every US tank and their mom's have
VFW players forgetting how much the thing absorbs, the post. You're probably dead by the time you get HE loaded since the VFW reloads faster than a 75mm Sherman and the 50cal will have issue with the gunner since he is sheltered at an angle by module structure. VFW only has to click once to the anywhere and you have to aim specific shots. It does belong higher up.
I wish unique vehicles like this one would become available again, especially for console players.
For real, dude.
I know, I’ve said a few times Gaijin should do a redux event a couple times a year where you earn old event vehicles
@@tyrannicswinen117 can't have an artificially inflated econ if you just re-release vehicles willy-nilly
@@apunishedmannamed2473 I don’t see the harm in occasionally allowing players the opportunity to earn vehicles they may have missed because they didn’t have a rank 3 vehicle or are a new player, like I joined War Thunder when the QF 3.7 Ram was available and I’m always annoyed I missed that.
Tell me you're a post COVID player without telling me you're a post COVID player.
This was the 2019 red I-180/Merkava event where you fixed the plane between micro-transactions that ruined the mechanic premise. It's not a console issue, you just weren't there, lol.
Bro's wrecking enemies in a mobile patio with an 88 screwed to the bottom
I've seen entire teams drop anything they are doing and hunt down this thing as soon as it pops in the killfeed
The problem with this type of vehicle and spaas generally: You exist to counter planes (or in your case not) you can get killed by any plane in existence. Most people dont see spaas or something like the flaktruck or the vfw as actual threats, they see it as cheap kills. And i dont know how the snail could buff them but idk, lets remove the coellion (yes im still tilted about that) and replace it with another easy to kill spaa. Seriously, make planes harder to spawn, if one team wins then they are just everywhere. I do like the VFW tho and the flakbus aswell. Fast firing funguns that look goofy but kick ass. Generally like them and im happy you played the vfw
I always love seeing all the revenge kills, helps remind me a little bit about why I quit
"Because it's cool" and "because it's funny" are perfectly valid reasons for playing suboptimally.
This format of video is actually very good, keep it up
Attempt 6 at getting Spookston to play the CA Lorraine.
It's good I swear, just press w.
Epic fast flanking tutel
@@destroyerarmor2846 big gun go zoooooooooooom
When I got it in WoTB(mobile WoT) I fell in love with it because you can use 88mm in tier V. We call it the toaster because the panels(?) are up and not like what WT has.
You can pull the sides and back up, but it limits gun movement, reload goes significantly up and its just not worth it
it does have them up if you select that modification. However, it increases the reload to 6 seconds, but with them down the reload is only 4 seconds (for essentially a tiger 2 gun lmao)
thank god spookston made a video on this, i have it and love it with the 4.3 second reload
There's also a version of this with the short 88. Would make for a nice squadron vehicle.
Dear Spookston,
I've been watching your videos for a while, although I've only played WT for a couple hours. I really find all the graphics and control settings overwhelming. Could you make a video explaing them and giving opinions for which key binds and graphics settings you recommend, what you're using?
Thanks!
There's already a lot of videos out there doing just that. Keybinds is down to personal preference for the most part
@@jcool42069 That is very true. I, for instance, steer with my pedals for the most part and my binoculars button is the space bar.
Spookston being sad about dying after one kill like that's a rare thing to see in WarThunder
8:52
Waltuh,
Put your tank away Waltuh
The enemy is watching your corner Waltuh
I appreciate all your edits. They are funny and well done. Thank you.
How about ZIS-30 ? I love that TD, and I'd love to see you playing it, maybe even on higher tiers, as cannon is pretty powerful.
It can be played to any tier lmao
Good video, thanks! Since you are trying out German tank destroyers maybe Sturer Emil/Dicker Max next? Quite interesting in their respective BR
“I only killed one person!” I feel the same way, but the judge still sent me to prison anyways
hey i just want to say your vids have helped me go from 1 rank 5 tank to 3 rank 5 tanks thanks for making these vids
In a weird way if you put add on armor it'll put the plates on the sides up
Ya know, you should for sure do the Comet at some point. Kind of an underappreciated tank.
I love how it was the jumbo right at the start that was the one who killed you in the corsair
"I have 1 kill and I'm already being strafed by a Corsair" just sounds like every game of WT I ever play
I remember when this absolute menace came to WT ground, I never got one (though I very badly wanted it). I was maining Russia at the time, and let me tell you that I *completely* understand why they get strafed to high hell. Community PTSD around this thing's monstrous introduction is still strong
Now that you've played this, play it's much worse younger brother, the flakbus (forgot what it actually was called, but the halftrack truck with the 88)
It's like being the one dude tasked with carrying the flamethrower.
I love it when spookston gets revenge bomb. Respawns in the same tank and kills the guy who revenge bombed him in their tank. You know they HAVE to be even more salty after that
I'd love to see your take on the Concept 3.
I've heard a lot of mixed shit about it, but I've loved every second of playing it. It's a pretty punchy Light Tank, for its' BR.
I loved zipping around the map with it and just dunking on tigers, it was great for cat hunting
i love seeing VFWs, good target for a quick HE shell to the dome
it is also very funny with the side flaps up, actual toaster
It's a fun fact that you're the only one CZcamsr I watch the entire sponsor ad without skipping it
There's another German tank destroyer I forgot what it's called but I think it's good, it's in 1.0 re but it's weird why they put it in such a low br.
mizkid
8:46
Loved how you just stood there and accepted your fate
Id like to think of that random dude shooting people as him headpatting people lmao
>complain about cas
>don't switch to he-vt
>profit
Coincidentally I got an ad for an Adam Driver movie so seeing that initial meme caught me off guard
Only thing scary here is the low quality of enemies, always just happens to find the seemingly bots for enemy team :
Plays a flak gun and worries about planes flying at him directly to strafe him.
this tank scream : " LOOK AT ME IM THE FUNNY LOOKING TANK "
Of course the corsair that gunned you down was the jumbo player back from the dead, man really flew right back to you.
I think the half track was showing you affection
The 151 at the end was just vibing with you lmao
Strv 42 both DT and EH are fun at their tiers. The EH has surprisingly good armor and is pretty bouncy at times with a decent gun and mobility. The DT has a fantastic 4 round semi-autoloader and is very mobile. And even the turret front gets bounces occasionally despite being rather thin.
Great vids! Would like to see the EBR (1954) in action. Haven’t seen them around since the BR change
-Brings out AA
-Doesn't shoot down a plane
I think the Aircraft target the VFW, not because players hate it, but because it is a large, open vehilce. Easy to see form the air and even a few 7.7's can do damage.
When they introduced the VFW I was excited thinking we could raise or lower the sides in game.. I was sadly disappointed when it's purely a in-hanger option.
Also the Timed fuse HE for air is utterly useless for shooting down planes because to activate the timer you have to some how range a moving plane and by the time it finishes ranging they are no where near that range anymore.
Spookston: I am winning the war by myself.
M-51: Are you sure about that?
This thing is a beast. Loved it on Kursk since you could effectively engage two tanks at one
I have literally never seen a vfw before so i can understand people pushing it despite its super fast reload simply because they have no idea what they are looking at or how fast it can shoot.
it's a cas magnet because even a blind tank main ( as you demonstrated) can apparently see it from space in a plane, too easy to find for middling cas that just find enemy targets vs pro cas that will scope the battlefield for priority targets ( like a guy solo wiping half the team).
Bro won the war by himself twice
I love this thing.
*This thing is the equivalent of bullying someone calling them fat everyday, and they turn around and slap you with their hand so hard you pass out for few seconds...then you come back the next day with your parents because he's bullying you.*
Same vibes.
You will never be able to convince me that a bush-spamming Panther who MG's his own teammate out of spite is not your typical German player in terms of skill or arrogance.
the people you get in battles are a different type of special.
8:02 this is the sassiest I've seen spookston get and I'm loving it
I love the VFX because my 50s get a warm up
So glad we got a cameo from the tanker named Finger
A Spookston vid is the perfect balance of shitpostery, toxicity, and education. And I love it.
I forgot I had this thing, I'm now addicted.
Would be great to see the Breda 501 being used as well
Spookston: Why do they get this tank? See everyone hates this tank!
Me in my airplane: oh thank god a VFW I need some spawn points.. sorry buddy.
I would honestly love to see you play the Yag-10. I thought I would hate it when I first unlocked it, but it became my best TD so far
With the side flaps down, from the air, the VFW is the largest target to spot.
13:30, that was a friendship shot
Remember the first time I saw this thing, I was in my 2c bis and was like DAMN YOU THICC BOI! helipad on tracks, bloody sucker blocks the entire street
Me on an IS-2 back then when a wild Toaster appears: I guess I'll die
The toaster is great, Just watched out for CAS but that goes for every tank
I like how Spookston didn't notice the Corsair was the M4 he killed xD
"I would not spend money for a war thunder video" proceeds to play rare premium TD/AA
German 5.7 is so stacked. This thing is just icing on the cake honestly.
I would argue the most scariest german tank destroyer would be the sturmtiger despite being a siege tank its rocket enough to 1 shot any tank