The Weirdest Light Tank
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The Swedish Strv 74 is a very strange looking light tank. It is hilariously skinny and tall, looking like an M47 Patton that was stuffed into a trash compactor. It is very slow but has a nice cannon that can fire potent APHE shells or APDS. I do wish Gaijin would fix APDS so that it can return to being useful.
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The Weirdest Light Tank - Hry
Spookston: “Why do I make such poor decisions?” - Gets 8 kills in a game
Me: Flanks the enemy and only gets 3 kills
Me: you get kills?
Me: They allowed you to Flank?
Me: you got to play the game?
It is because he asks that question that he gets this many. Perhaps you too should ask that from yourself.
Me flanks enemy: Gets 1 kill 8 assists 3 deaths
I know something way uglier and way weirder. It’s name literally translates to Thing or Creature. You know him well, we all love him. Here we go. That’s right it’s the M50 Ontos. 6 105mm Recoilless guns on a cheese wedge chassis being manned by two of uncle Sams most courageous marines.
Something a bit more weird is the swing fire and you had so much fun with the last one I said you should play
I'd say use the striker! (the ATGM one anyway) :)
My and my friend played with the swing fire and it was fun
How tf a atgm launcher is stranger than it
don't ask but they're spoopy bois
I fucking despise it , takes no skill
the STRV-74 is such a strange looking tank. I cant tell if its a stretched M-41 or a Squished M-47.
Simple! Enlarged Toldi!
Its a strv m/42 with a bigger turret
@@snekiege9796 twas a joke, comparing it to somewhat similar looking American designs like the M41 and M47 (which should not have dashes in their name)
@@r.ndomperson indeed dashes are the difference between a cold war american heavy tank and an early war soviet medium tank that was in service for more than 60 years
@@snekiege9796 its a Lago with a bigger turret
Here's a fun fact, the Stridsvagn 74 was nicked named "Sanslös" or senseless by her crews, due to the fact of how violently it would rock while firing at the 3 and 9 o'clock positions.
I wonder why it did that
As wierd as the Strv 74 is, it is suprisingly effective in game. If you can take advantage of the gun depression it doesn't show much of its grotesque turret.
Something I'm curious about is if they can model the backup generator that it has in the turret bustle. It had an aux generator in back to allow for power to the turret w/o having the main engine running.
I'm just a fan of odd and unusual tank designs, which is why I also love tanks like the Strv 103 and Object 416. (Gaijin please don't add Obj 416... it's not good...)
Its an absolute hulldown monstrosity. You get high pen APHE to 1 shot most enemys and for when a tiger 2 or the like comescalog you have APDS. Which it can frontaly pen if theyre unangled.
That grotesque turret is also surprisingly sturdy. The mantel, despite it's thin armor, is more effective than you'd think thanks to it's shape.
This tank is quite fun in world of Tanks for the reasons this tank is unique in WT.
Is the 416 the pancake tank with the rear mounted turret ?
Also a large number of tanks. If not the majority. Had generators to power the turret when the engine is off. And they arnt modeled in game.
The strv 74 is an amazing turreted tank destroyer. It amazing firepower for a medium tank. It also gets scouting like other light tanks, but that also means it shares it's weak armor with them. Sadly like most heavy tanks in its class, it's very slow.
I think it classed light tank because they changed the measuring. M26 Pershing was a heavy tank too, before they change to medium tank.
Strv 74 shares hull with old medium tanks. It was medium tank, but in it's small in its era
The FV4202 is super underrated. It’s hull down is pretty insane or at least it used to be at 6.7. No clue how high it is now…
Yup. I used it before i got the centurions so i expected the centurions to be decent. But holy fuck. it is so much better than the centurions. Only issue is its reverse gese. But it bounces a LOT with its turret. Centurions were the single worst grind iv ever had.
@@robertharris6092 idk it was diff for me, loved grinding the cents, but they were still 7.0 when I did
@@alexhohl8530 i remember when centurions were 6.7 and britain had an insane lineup at that tier, then they bumped most of them up to 7.0 and then 7.3 :(
@@bilge677 Yeah, when British Apds could ammo rack your poor King Tiger from across the map😂
I'd say the Caernarvon tank is more underrated with its conqueror hull
The reason you saw the airplane under the map at 2:30 was because the Tiger player respawned in one. The game always spawns the new vehicle at the players last instance point, then teleports them to the correct spawn.
> shoots 380mm rocket
> misses
> doesnt elaborate further
> leaves
3:40 is it just me or does it really look better when the turret is turned 180 degrees
I like to think of this like a bulldog. Tall, has four crew, post-war design, and fires APDS that plays like a mixed bag
To me it looks like a crushed bulldog
its only like 35% postwar, the hull and gun are both from ww2
I love how unique the Swedish tanks are, both in how they look and how they play which makes them really fun, you should play the Strv-103C next!
There beauty in ugliness
One thing I love about the Strv 74 is the geometry of its armor. With that insane slope on the turret, and great gun depression, you will bounce a surprising number of shots off your turret when you're hill sniping.
I hate fighting that tank in my KV-220. They’re always super annoying. You should see if you have the same experience by playing the KV-220 as well!
Not being able to decimate anything on your br bracket with a kv-220 is a severe skill issue
@@prnob8869bro you burned him on a spit lmao
KV-220 players deserve the heatfs treatment
@@AlreadyTakenTag Okay I actually dislike HEAT-FS when I play the 220. That’s not a meme.
@@AlreadyTakenTag I love playing the IKV 103 and just obliterating literally any heavy tank I'm able to face
the Strv 74 is one of the greatest gems of the swedish TT. Swedish light tanks overall are one of the most fun of the game, especially the stuff you get after the Ikv-91
no way :O
I've been having fun playing the Char 25t, it's really low to the ground and is hard for people to notice. Plus its gun is pretty good and fast, so I recommend it!
They tried adding rockets to the strv 74. In order to increase the ability to combat armor at long range, an assembly with 3 pcs Rb 52 was tried.Further changes were introduced, as the weight increased by approx. 4 tons, among other things the engine power was increased by introducing an injection system instead of a carburettor, there would also be better fuel economy with injection. Other changes included wider bands, double periscopes in the driver's hatch and lots of detail changes for eg ammunition storage, other radio stations etc.
Re-watching this video because it came up, after getting to 9.3 Sweden I can say this tank was one of my favorites during the grind.
Gaijins shell deformation physics are both a beauty and a curse in both war thunder and enlisted, that tiger pen at 1:31 is similar to me trying to kill a puma with an m5a1 in enlisted where if you fire through the upper front into the driver the solid shot deform into a curl and while still pens the armor, the driver absorbs the entire shell lol
The strv 74 is also apart of an amazing lineup for Sweden. That 5.7 BR is nice, just hope they get some 5.7 CAS, cause while the j21a3 is rad, the bf109s they got as back up start to fall off.
Bf109 G and Pyorremyrsky both slap even at 5.7. The A21 also has a pretty great bomb load
Dont forget the T18B and T18B (57)
IIRC Swedish aphe is correctly modeled, which means it only has a cone shaped post pen instead of the spherical ones every other nation has. It's probably the reason some of those shots didn't oneshot
2:25 that visual glitch is "normal" for me, but it warns me that the guy is going to bomb me with their CAS
1:41 RIP PFC. Paul M. Tree
You should play the StuH42G, its got the 80mm armour plate on the front and is incredibly broken if you just make your opponent panic
Yeah specially when the german high pen guns are in your team. Getting 10 kills or more with it is pretty easy. And the gun is not bad at all, can pen pretty much anything and the damage is fine since you face a lot of small tanks
I'm well aware that not many people like the UK's tree, but I think that the Sherman Firefly or the Challenger DS would be cool to see sometime in the future :)
I have been asking for this for over a month. Thank you.
That sturmtiger j-ing out after missing his shot is such an appropriate response
Day 4 Suggestion: try out the leopard 1, Its in a spot at 7.3 where it does very well, and in downtiers, faces WWII tanks that don't stand much of a chance, But also works decently well in upteirs against most vehicles due to the APDS or the HEATFS round it gets (I personally prefer APDS)
You should try the D.371, the French 20 mm biplane, I think it's fun playing with it as little ammo is given in my opinion.
9:30 worlds first recorded instance of a M6A1 surviving more than one shot.
Thank you spookston I never expected you to actually play it
Day 11 of asking spookston to play the 2S25M sprut
Day 51 of asking for the M41 90/53
dawg I've been asking for the XM-803 or MBT-70 for the last 3 months on every single video
@@quizels0695 keep going bro 💪
@@deanwood1338 I will never give up
@@quizels0695 same, but u know, never give up
I had fun with this tank in WoT
But seeing you have fun with it in WT brings me joy.
Yo another video! Loving the constant uploads always a pleasure to see in my recommended
I remember a while ago all the tank corpses would turn into helicopters for a split second very curious glitch
First Sherman was one of the most intelligent ones so far
That "RIP Paul M. Tree" joke made me laugh way too hard lmfao
Please add more funny doogos, i love them a lot. Like ur films. Keep the good work mate!
Gotta love shooting anything with APDS and it only turns the crew into gummy bears
Had the pleasure of seeing one of these IRL. They do actually look that goofy in person
I just gotta say that I'm really liking the longer format videos. I know you've been doing for a while now but it's worth saying.
This Tank Probably Has The Most Beautiful Turret Designs.
Best video have watched so far, the memes add so much enjoyed it a lot
3:24
Spookston: I don’t think it don’t it matters, for survivable”
Me having flashbacks about how a single Strv 74 manage to eat the 120mm Obus De Rupture frontally from my AMX-50 Surbaissé
The sturmtiger hitting j when he missed was just amazing
This is probably one of my favorite Swedish tanks because of its gun and odd yet cool design, and its apds can pen the ufp of a tiger 2
Another beautiful day of Spookston getting spooked a ton
Spookston please have a sound mod commissioned that plays fart with extra reverb whenever a turret flies out on an ammo kill, it’s gotta be programmable
Spook: Weirdest Light Tank
"Laughs in Sheridan"
8:36 ¨I like that little curvy area... on the cast hull Shermans¨
My two favourite things that were added: Sweedish crew saying "Mister Moon" and the absolute donations of the ammo rack fully cooking off and leaving a crater behind
I love all of these weird Swedish tanks, I find them to be a blast to play
"I hear something Russian but I cant hear him over this IS-2" Peak Spookston commentary
It’s like someone pushed a M41 bulldog into trash compactor and the front and back were squeezed forward due to pressure
One of my favorite tanks in the game, and my best Swedish vehicle so far.
"it's not always sunshine and rainbows"
Proceeds to get 3 kills and 6 assists
This is one of my favorite tanks in the game
The Strv 74 was a cheap way to add a light tank beside the Centurion in the Swedish army after WW2. Basicly it's the Strv m/42 with a new turret given a Bofors 75 mm AA-gun. The gun is so big to the tiny tank, that it had to be balanced with clock type springs in the back. With the new turret the tank was 3.3 meter high, compared to 2.58 meter at the Strv m/42.
There was two versions of Strv 74; H with double hydraulic transmissions from Atlas diesel and V with a single mecanic Volvo transmission. Strv 74V served from 1957 to 1981 and Strv 74H to 1984. However, the tank was in it's original task replaced with the Strv 103 from the late 60's.
Wouold love to see you play the Delat Torn
I'm not that deep into the Swedish ground tree (Working on getting the Rank III vehicles rn)
I love the gun depression on them. Gives you so much more flexibility on the field compared to other vehicles, especially the Ikv 103 with it's 400 pen HEATFS rounds kekw
spookston give my motivation to grind more
Love to see a video on the ab-43, that and the ab42/47 (I think) are really fun
I like that all Swedish tanks have good depression since they were made for mountains terrain
I actually think a great video would be the 'sunshine and rainbows' you mentioned. Just a bunch of hysterical clips.
that sturmtiger SD killed me
9:50 that's a super hero landing!
Spook, you bring you joy. And that’s by you being you
The sturmtiger player when he sees the reload timer after missing his first shot.
2:25 this happens when people switch to new tank/airplane, you see it for split second sometimes before they teleport to spawn
This vehicle has the added affect of dealing psychic damage to anyone who sees it, first time am saw one my brain shut down amd am jus mindlessly stopped in front of it amd fired shells until it died
Probably my fav bobble head tank beside the PVKV 2. Gun pens everything, no armour, giant turret, somehow great.
this was my main for the longest time when it came out ... its just a vibe you get from the damn thing ... hell put some dopy eyes on it and a mouth ... and get ready to laugh everytime you spawn in
My brian can't comprehend the frontal profile of this tank and I swear that because of how wrong it is I fail to notice it most the time.
Not many people realize this, but the Strv 74, in additional to it's two truck engines, has a backup power supply of four bicycle engines.
3:43 legit the first time I have ever heard spookston curse
because your are playing so much Swedish tanks, i think you will enjoy the Swedish light tank, ikv 91 it goes 40 mph top with lazer range finder and heatfs at 7.3. the only down side i can think of is its carboard armor I have lots of fun playing it and i think you should try it out
funny enough the museum that i work at has a strv 74 on display and its one of the funniest looking tanks in the museum
This light tank is surprisingly survivable rarely do i ever get frontaly one shot
As weird as the Strv 74 looks in-game, it doesn't look as bad in person, I went to see one a year or two ago. It actually looks like a real tank in person!
I swear that made this so it could fit between the buildings in the cities.
I'll stop asking for the elend or aml, fun video! Hope you have a nice day
I would love to see the 2S3M. Very interesting vehicle to play.
About time you do the American M-26!
The “we have walker bulldog at home”
One thing i noticed about the swedes in War Thunder is that, while their mobility often leaves much to be desired, their cannons tend to be pretty ridiculous.
this thing is the yin to the s tank's yang in terms of appearance
Love your vids
The fact the Tiger 1 has a he filler with more inside then a is 2 round is also fun
i realy enjoy this bobblehead
I'll never forgive that one Strv 74 that was spawnkilling my entire team on south side of Ardennes
The sturmtiger j'd out when he missed. Actually 100% realistic, they often times just abandoned them when they ran out of ammo.
I personally like the Stridsvagn 74 and admire its unique appearance. It has been a tank I've been wanting to have in the game even before I started playing.
"Let's uhh, roll with that. :D"
You sir, you....
is like a bulldog that got pressed between two mauses
That fart.mp3 clip you had was perfect. Like emperors nee groove meme perfect
This tank just makes we wish the Swedish Centurions got APHE
the sturer emil's got 15 degrees of gun depression and a lot of explosive
This was a WWII Swedish tank that had a much smaller turret with a short 75 on it. After the war, the Swedes looked around and realized their tank was outclassed, so they designed a larger upgunned turret for it. Lo and behold you have the STRV 74. The turret's too big for the tank and it's clumsy as hell, but the Swedes figured they'd be fighting defense, and the thing didn't need to be a world beater. That accounts for the slow speed, bad mobility, and the incredible depression.