The Hellcat Is Too Good
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The M18 Hellcat tank destroyer is infamous in War Thunder for bullying German heavies like the Tiger. It has no armor whatsoever, but it is very fast and hits hard. Gaijin recently buffed its engine and are soon moving it to a higher battle rating. It's probably deserved, since it's not very hard to get a nuke with it.
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Petition for Spookston to do a video of him fishing irl
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@@Spookston Do a collab with Femboy Fishing
DreamCast Sega Bass Fishing is also acceptable
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The anti-CAS lineup being used for revenge CAS is the start of Spookstons' villain arc
villain? bro CAS users are the villains , he is doing a public service to the lobbies
@@mashedpotato7219Just bring some SPAA, CAS isn’t hard to deal with lol
@@smonk3074 except cas xan just kill SPAA.
(I say this as someone who regularly kills AA with CAS)
@@Skykid3307 SPAA can also just kill CAS. (I say this as someone who regularly kills CAS using SPAA in a nation with some of the worst SPAA in the game)
@@smonk3074 the overwhelming majority of spaa is terrible either at aa or just overall
13:18 "You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
someone needs to make a spookston "im out of it" compilation. Like dog, when are you in it?
never
@@Spookston or "my brain is just not working right now," "I am not a very smart person" - Spookston favorite lines ;)
Don't worry Spook, this game makes me feel like an idiot a lot of times too.
@@Spookston Dawg, you play at 3am, go to sleep. Your health will thank you
Spook: "That is a VFW"
Me: That's a tree
What a life of WT does to a man
I agree. All I saw was a bunch of trees and a scout marker
Vietnam gameplay
@@Bl2ckout7556 i blame you tube compression
@@vikingsundlof9040 yeah cant tell you how many tiems ive confused bushes and rocks for tanks, though i once did spot a tank in a bush due to seeing the barrel
relating to 4:04, I did some writing on Army Mechanization in the US. The TDs were noted in a few of my sources as having been highly effective, to the point that in the last 6 months of the war their role was shifting into also supporting the infantry as support guns. One source specifically noted that they were used to destroy occupied buildings in Aachen and Lanuvio.
That’s probably the best use case, with the size of the gun and the mobility, it’s more suited to acting as infantry support and mobile artillery. Doesn’t help much of the German armor was gone near the end of the war
3:46 "oh that is another hellcat" I was waiting for the spiderman meme, it would have been so good
Fun fact: The guy that designed the M18's hull also designed the original Corvette, and most of the other iconic 1950s GM cars. Funny because I always assumed the M18 was a post war vehicle because of how much more modern it looks than contemporary US designs.
Which is odd considering it was built by GM’s Buick division. When like you said it was basically built by the most famous Chevy car designer at the time. So it’s hard to say if it’s designed and built by Buick, or designed by Chevy, built by Buick
@@ICECAPPEDSKY Harley Earl worked at Buick originally, I'm not sure what role he was in by the time WW2 rolled around but he was essentially the head of all GM design in the post war years.
Edit: Apparently he was made Vice President of GM in 1937 and was overseeing all styling within the individual GM makes at that point.
Many US and USSR WW2 tanks look more modern than they truly are because they were in service all the way into korea, palestine, vietnam, etc
So we tend to associate those tanks with the cold war, even though they were developed in WW2
Of course there are other factors, but this is one of the main reasons
@@borbduck Late war tanks are a total mixed bag. The Comet and Centurion were designed a year apart and the Centurion looks 20 years newer. The T-55 and IS-3 as well, the IS-3's design looks pretty dated next to the T-55 even though they were both designed around the end of the war.
I think it's just that tank design kind of solidified around the end of the war for most nations. They start to take on a much more conventional shape by modern standards and not much has changed since. (In terms of the basics that is.)
Nice to know. I always thought the M18 was the prettiest looking tank of the US in WW2.
Welcome to the fun side of warthunder, being the bigger man only makes it easier for goblins to bite your ankles
I like this line, i will use it.
*the wiesel 1A2 smiling in a corner
Totally understand where you’re coming from, but keep in mind. If you beat down new players too hard and too often, the game you love will whither and die before your very eyes as all the experienced players eventually leave and no new ones stick around.
@@elijahmontgomery4146 Well too bad, I kinda want War Thunder to fail, even though I love the game.
13:40 man became what he swore to destroy 😂
“I’m tired of being the bigger man.” Most terrifying Spookstoon the Gremlin quote.
M18 _gets buffed_
Spookston *_plays the unbuffed blackcat_*
M18 got buffed?
Got more engine horsepower and then is proceeding to get pushed to 6.0 lmao I reckon it has to do with gremlin players lol
thought it was pretty obvious this video was recorded prior to any changes
@@Spookston Yea it became clear after a very short time, but it was still a funny coincidence
0:13 "It's much more balanced now"
Wild how a video released one minute ago has already aged like milk
There's a reason a person with 3.25 KD on T-34-85 has 5+ on M18.
I just can't quite get it... It eludes my mind... Mayhapse it's the dreaded "Skill Issue"? What do you think?
One minit laderr...
The worst thing that's going to happen to the M18 is the fact the 5.7 lineup gets taken to 7.0 if you want to play the M18 with it. The actual tank will play the exact same.
@@shahramtondkarmobarakie1824 the super hellcat is way too fun now. It's as mobile as the black cat (that didn't get the engine buff), but with a 90mm with buffed pen. Although it shouldn't get upped in br, it definitely now should get tagged as a tank destroyer.
@@DzinkyDzink Well for one the T-34-85 isn't very good right now...
M18's saw action in Western Europe and Italy, I think they rolled them out in '43. They only made like a third as many as planned, in part because the 76mm wasn't as good as the 90mm on the M36 and couldn't frontally pen German heavies, the Soviets weren't interested in them for lend lease, and a doctrine change of using tanks and towed guns instead of a mobile gun platform like they planned when seeing the Blitzkrieg in Belgium and France. However, the shoot and scoot that it was designed for came in really handy for the Battle of the Bulge, where one company basically beat the Germans to a critical town and blocked part of their advance.
But yeah in WT it's dummy good. Keep up the great content!
The M18 was really good. It had the best K/D of any Allied AFV.
The Soviets didn't want it because their doctrine called for AFVs to act as assault guns and tank destroyers. The 76mm on the Hellcat wasn't much for killing bunkers. Also, the Russians didn't like any of the radial engined US vehicles. Their Army used diesel not high octane gasoline. Soviet gasoline was notoriously crappy
You know nothing 76mm can reliably penetrate German heavy tanks like Tiger-1 and medium tanks like Panther turret cheeks
And M18 has the best K/D of any tank in WW2
But the soviets and their vehicles and gasoline was crappy and trash so they didn't like it😒
You know nothing 76mm can reliably penetrate German heavy tanks like Tiger-1 and medium tanks like Panther turret cheeks
And M18 has the best K/D of any tank in WW2
But the soviets and their vehicles and gasoline was crappy and trash so they didn't like it😒
@RayanRayan-ih1sz to add because of tungsten shortages, we weren't sending the Russians any HVAP ammo. They didn't have any to make their own. They preferred just smacking heavies with big howitzer rounds like the 122mm and 152mm.
@@Fulcrum205 >80 Octane
>High Octane
You do know they produce only 500 horsepower, because they run on common 80 octane like all the other vehicles.
The Soviets were extra bad plus at allowing their soldiers to have something to think, so they were probably bending rods at breakneck speed, because Eeevahn was clueless to the nature of the engine at best. Hydroloc, plus bad maintenance, plus overrev, plus air cool, plus bad supply, plus automatic transmission that is witchcraft to them.
So I guess this is where Spookston's CAS villain arc begins.
I'm saving this video for future reference.
It would be sick if spookston played the M103
I think he's about to play the M103
It’s basically invincible in a downteir
I would kill to see that, the m103 is one of my favorite tanks
@@AustinSmith-gq5gc ikr, and going up against tiger 2’s 😏
6:05 Slight miscalculation.
Comedy gold
it took me a second take that hes trying to shoot spookston but the house is blocking the shots, and said house also killed the plane afterwards.
this is why people play war thunder
8:00 The M18 Hellcat was a tank destroyer used by the United States Army in World War II and the Korean War but it in war thunder its a light tank so it could still get scouting even if its reclassified as a TD
Honestly did not expect the Spookston Revenge for Revenge CAS Arc but im all for it
Day 2 of asking Spookston to play the T-10M
he liked it, what have you done
He won’t, it’s not a rat tank enough to be played by spook
T10M is gonna be fun, 122 APDS is gonna make him cry
Approved
@@onejoestar42Imagine using anything but the APHE on the T-10M.
We must continue the trend of Spookston playing enjoyable American tanks. I nominate the M4A2 (75) Sherman. It's the best low tier Sherman, with myriad of shell types and the best hull. Plus the addon armour turns it into a pseudo heavy.
We are officially entering Spookston's 2024 villain arc
Petition for Spookston to do more videos like this one - with anti-CAS anti-revenge bomb setup. It's so fun to watch.
It was such a pleasure to see Spookston "Stop being the bigger man"
13:30 looks like that German was happy dishing out lumps but couldn't take them himself.
average German Main. loves dishing out pain, can't handle when he is delieved it in return.
Rare footage of spookston using a F8F or having it on a lineup
"You know what? Good. I'm tired of being the bigger man." lol
Spookston mentioned hull break and sent me back a couple years. I never want to live through that again
„You either die like a hero or live long enough to become a villain…” Basically Spookston with CAS
awesome pfp btw
Paxiti pfp identified
Spookston since you did such a great job with the integration as punishment you should play the flak boat or Wirbelboat.
Is the flakboat the ChiHaLG or the 8.8cm flakpanzer?
@@borbduckNeither, it's a barge in the German naval line that has 4 Flak 88's
That kill on the KV-122 at 10:38 was pretty bull. Shoots the front part of his turret, at THAT angle, and this somehow results in his fuel exploding lol.
Always nice to learn something new about tanks in your videos like the extended rail for hellcats power pack. Very cool little things that are for me sometimes more important than the gameplay itself. Thanks for that and for adding the pictures as well.
Attack the d point
Never!
Negative!
negative
no!
NO! NYET! NEIN!!!
"The armor on the Sherman isn't much more effective"
No need to remind the american mains how their entire tech tree is essentially Sherman
Meanwhile warthunder playerbase:
No you can’t add more tech trees, it’s boring and will be copy paste.
US with Shermans, Stuarts and more Shermans: Sweating
There are almost 40 shermans in warthunder 💀
Not sure what he was on about there, the sherman's armor is pretty solid for a medium tank, it's not gonna do much against 88s and the like of course but it'll protect you from autocannons that'll shred M18s and it bounces the occasional shot if you angle well.
@@sayerglasgow115the m18s armor being almost non existent alot of times doesnt fuse shells so they just fly through the whole vehicle in a way making it more effecrive than the shermans armor xD, although yeah autocannons and heavy machine guns shred it
Spookston, I just wanted to say thank you for the videos you post. Not only are they entertaining but informative. I've been *trying* to play war thunder for years and always get frustrated and end up uninstalling the game for a few months until I try again out of boredom.
I reinstalled it Friday night and I've been having a blast. I had my first match where I didn't die, got 5 kills and capped a point. I feel like the T29 I bought for the American tree is actually useful now.
I got 7 kills with the Sherman 105 shortly after and it's because of you.
I've been paying attention to how you play, your angles, positioning and where you aim on certain tanks.
I managed to juke a SU tank destroyer and get him to bounce while I was reloading and BECAUSE OF YOU I knew where to aim to boop him.
Thank you Spookston.
Also, please play the T29. 😊
As fun as the M18 is in game, it’s kinda redundant in history with only its speed being something unique, but even then that caused them to over extend and go too fast for friendly vehicles. Its gun was also redundant as a tank destroyer since some Shermans already had the same firepower and it really just ended up becoming yet another chassis in the already growing logistical nightmare of the US armor inventory. The M36 was what the program that made the M18 really wanted.
The fact that they're moving this to 6.0 is criminal.
what really ?
@@ICE-jr7npyeah its going up, and the super hellcat is going to 6.3
@@tbomb69 no its going to 6.7... mad
@@nattly6340 I know they making them 7.0 by 2025
Seriously? Ffs, this is fucking germany mains again isn't it.
Damn, villain arc Spookston and I'm here for it XD
8:03 - that cupola shot on the IS should evaporate his tank. In shot simulator it does, but as of a couple weeks ago, even long 88's can't pen it in matches.
i was playing with the hellcat and thought “ wow in surprised spookston hasn’t made a video about this yet, it seems like the perfect tank for him.” and low and behold he made a video
I saw a hellcat in real life for the first time, and it was so cool to see that a thing that size can go so fast
The fighting back has to be some of the funniest stuff I’ve seen in a while
Hullbreak is definitely a mechanic that should have remained in WT, but the amount of tweaking it would require was not worth the effort.
Periscope is an external module so here's the counter example: imagine hitting M18 with 152mm APHE shell which fails to fuze. That M18 is still in battle... depite having a high 152mm ventilation tunnel all along it's side which together with welds giving up under such stress would mean that that hull has no structural integrity left behind it whatsoever.
Or another example would be those reports of SU-152 mission kills on Tigers where a concrete busting round was utterly destroying turret ring, roof that it was a part of and heavily deforming turret and hull of the Tiger... and then Tiger continues to fight.
Remember back in the days before hull break and so on, when everything just went through it , like no one is bringing HE so they had to pick out individual crew member basically. Man this tank was so good, that and M10 was my most played vehicles.
Spookston and being tired and/or sick, name a more iconic duo
Attempt 11 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.
That's a fun challenge ngl !
@@nobody5217 Question is if Spookston can carry a average Joe to a nuke
Spookston revenge bombing revenge bombers is the start of his villain arc. I am 100% for this
“I’m tired of being the bigger man”
gaijin in all of their wisdom decided to reclass the M18 and varients to light tanks so they could get scouting, much like the F3D being classed as an attacker so it could get an airspawn
And increased spawn cost. And the asu-57 is a TD and gets scouting.
Spook playing the best tank to get cased, as a known cas magnet are probably his favourite gameplays
Great vid as always, hope your recovery is going well
This is the start of evil Spookston's arc, and I'm all for it!
remember spookston, if the cows are sleeping in the field, its pasture bedtime
Spookston: The Hellcat is perfectly balanced
Gaijin: So your fancy premium is now 60hp short compared to the others because 'hIsToRiCaL aCcUrAcY' (while we ignore the M1 KVT), oh, and they're all going to 6.0. Have fun!
I absolutely love the hellcat, it's still one of the vehicles I have the highest win rates in. It'll be strange when it goes up to 6.0, but I'm not too upset about it
2:35 the horror I felt through the screen lol
I think the M18 is the ground vehicle I've had the most plane kills with, something about a single top mounted M2 just resonates with me.
13:25 Spookston villain arc, it feels too good though
my little story of the m18
back in the day i got hull broken
by *APCR* from a t-34 when it hit my ROAD WHEEL
Grab T86E1, add tracks of T87, add M36 turret of "Super Hellcat".
Here, "we have Object 906 at home." In 1944.
Spookston day 6 of asking for the g6 (since you love Britain so much)
Americans when they don't have a stabilizer below 8.0 😢
Only thing that makes the shermans worth anything
They don’t have a stabilizer at 8.0 either
France when they don’t have stabiliser below 9.3
When playing aircrafts with wing mounted guns try to set target at 300/400 meters, it helps a lot especially when you have a ton of 50. Cals
That poor P-47 at the end was just trying to escort lol
Spookston, how do you say "pants" in polish?
Spookston: 10:13
Tego to się nie spodziewałem
We need like just an unedited video that’s like 2 hours long of spookston just fishing irl
Spookston on his villian arc rn fr fr and pulled the uno reverse on the cas
Spookston villain arc, finally
Spookston really giving off the "You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain" vibes with his counter-CAS, and I love it.
13:30 "I'm tired of being the bigger man" - spookston revenge cas 2024 colorized
Spookston on his villain arc with the CAS this video
For being the King of Rat Vehicles, I’m surprised to see that Spookston has never made a video on The Rat King, the M22 Locust
Bros on his villain arc, he’s now becoming the revenge bomber
Hill break is actually still in the game. It applies to the tank train on the newer map with the Running Track and the Blimp and it might also apply to the train on American Desert
12:40 - 13:45 A complete demonstration of war thunder lore
My great grandfather was a cook for a hellcat squadron. He said he enjoyed working with them, and the hellcat reminds me of him.
Spookston CAS villain arc
Some logic behind the hullbreak makes sense.
If M18 gets hit by 75L70 in the breech, I don't really think the turret can take the momentum of the shell without getting displaced, which essentialy means - an important piece of the tank is no longer properly attached.
I've read about T-34 getting hit by 88L71 in the engine. Engine got ripped out of the chassis. So imagine what would occur if similar storry happened to even a smaller vehicle. Would the crew still be alive?
Maybe!
But with engine gone and a fireball in its place, the vehicle would be a goner. Of course in WT tank fire is usually absolutely harmless, unless it's a fuel explosion. IRL if you have a burning pit where once engine was - nobody is staying in the vehicle to find out what happens.
dont know if anyones mentioned it yet, but im really enjoying the little cutaways you do
“Tools for vengeance” by that he means the best planes in that tech tree at that br
When he said "it's 3am" my brain went "but it's daytime in the video, how early is sunrise in his part of the world!?"
Took me a moment to remember that video games can be daytime even if it's dark outside. I am not clever.
I've heard that the reason the M18 isn't well known from a historical aspect is that the crews preferred the M10 instead. I've forgotten the reason why that was the case.
“I’m tired of being the bigger man.”
- Spookston, April 2024
I like the fun facts about the tank. You should add that more to videos. Made me smile and I learned something.
Spookston going planes is him going on his Joker arc against CAS
"I'm tired of being the bigger man" *insert aggressive phonk here*
now that you mention it, i remember hull break ... it was weird but funny sometimes but frustrating
Spookston just had enough in this one and went into his villain arc 😂
7:47 If I remember correctly, hull break was gapenning. when you hit cannon (barrel or/and breach) or transmaission (not periscope). IMHO it was better, than overpressure, not ideal though...
7:25 yeah hull break, I remember how you could hull break Warrior by firing MG from side at the boxes in the back, or centauro by hitting the wheel
Spookston about start his villain arc with that revenge revenge bomb
I have been struggling with in in IS-1's, i love to see how it plays
The new Spookston villain arc is pretty good so far
Spookston is probably the only hellcat player that whose commander didn't get headshotted after 2 seconds of any engagement
Spookston seemingly forgot that this is in fact a light tank and not a td in-game
In fairness to the scouting ability on the Hellcat, it was in fact used as a scout tank in Italy, as well as a tank destroyer.
back many years ago it was the next tank after the AT halftrack and was much lower BR, i came back many years later to try the game and my whole lineup was messed up and spread across 3 tiers
Oh my god, my brain just connected the dots. I started watching this channel for the "If the *insert tank here* was historically accurate videos. I literally only just realized that my favorite WT meme channel is the same channel as those videos! My brain is fighting for its life right now lol
Watching Spookston fight back on planes is like seeing a domestic abuse victum fight back
I've been waiting for a black cat video for FOREVER. This tank is so ridiculously good. It was the first premium I ever bought and I have thousands of kills with it. It's my #1 played tank