In this episode, despite my inexperience with dealing with tanks I attempt to look at some of the new tanks, tank destroyers and SPAA (self propelled anti aircraft) added to the Patch 1.43 dev server.
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00:00Hello everybody and welcome to the dev server, well I've actually left, I've actually just started this after my last video.
00:07Basically I'm just going to do a quick video looking at the tanks, I had a very very quick glance over of it last time, mainly looking at the T-35 Premium.
00:18Because obviously multi-turret tank, bit of a troll tank, you know everyone wanted to see it, well I guess everyone would want to see it.
00:27So today we're going to really look at the ordinary tanks that have been added into the game.
00:31We'll start off with the Russians, now it's mainly Germans who are getting new stuff.
00:36It seems to be mainly Flak Panzers and AA tanks.
00:42We'll quickly pop over to the patch notes to show you all the tanks.
00:48As you can see here, 6 tanks for the Russians, CSU, CUT, CSU-57, T-35, T-54 Type 1947 and the T-3 which is a Panzer III-J with a Leb 42 cannon.
01:06Now 2 of them are premium, sorry 3 of them are premium, the T-3, T-35 and I think the CUT, it's that or the CSU, it's one of them.
01:16The Germans getting the 4 Flak Panzers, Panzer II Ausf. H, Panzer III Ausf. J, L60 gun, Panzer IV Ausf. J, Panzer, I think that's a command tank, I'm not sure how to pronounce that.
01:31Panzer IV Ausf. J, Marder III, StuG III G and the KV-1.
01:37Now unlike the Russians most of these are normal tanks except for the, well the few premiums are the Panzer II Ausf. H which has a 50mm gun and the KV-1 with the K-40.
01:52So yeah most of these, Russians are getting well 50-50 premiums, Germans are getting mostly normal tanks which there's been a lot of complaints that Russia is basically overpowered especially in the later tiers so they seem to be sort of trying to help the Germans out a bit more.
02:09Now before I get properly on to discussing the different tanks I should leave a little disclaimer, I don't actually play tanks that much so obviously I'm a lot less experienced with them than with aircraft.
02:21Now you might be wondering why I haven't played tanks, well I've started playing it a bit more lately but I stopped playing it originally for this reason.
02:29Yes that is the map and no there is no ground, basically because of a flaw with Intel, something to do with the 3D settings the ground was about 200-300 metres below me, obviously not exactly practical and you'll see what this looks like from the air in about 2 seconds.
02:49You can see I'm just approaching the target in a stooker, heavy cruisers, you can see all their tanks, looks perfectly normal. Just give it a few more seconds, in any second now you'll see a bit of a stuttering possibly, maybe juddering.
03:05At the moment we're still advancing, everything's still going ok. This map is jungle by the way, only seems to happen on certain maps and there you go, the map becomes see through, or to be exact the ground teleports about 100 metres below you which makes it extremely dodgy to play.
03:25Kind of advantageous in that everything shows up a bit better but you can't see hills and stuff so that kind of makes taking cover and trying to shoot the enemy a bit dodgy because you think you're looking at the enemy when you're actually looking at a hill.
03:43But yeah, that's why I haven't done a lot of tanks lately, I've only played since this clip, it's only got 20 seconds left, or 10 seconds. Yeah, got a hit and any second now should be about to be shot down, there we go.
04:03So that's why I don't really play tanks, we'll start off with the premiums, we've already looked at the T35 a little bit, we're not really going to test drive them that much.
04:13Just loading up the T35, like I've said before, multi-turret tank, two 45mm guns and a 76mm howitzer, so the howitzer is low velocity, more high explosive, the 45mm guns are for more taking out tanks and a lot of ammo, a lot of crew, I think I counted 10 or something last time.
04:41Hasn't got the best armour, hull armour at the front is 30mm, turret only 20mm, it's actually got thicker armour at the back of the turret, 30mm, and the hull armour for the rest of it is just 20mm on the sides of the hull and the front and back of the turret.
04:59Of course with sloping it can be slightly thicker, but not much, like 31mm, 40mm, depending on where you're aiming at. Really this tank is quite ridiculously easy to penetrate, and I've tried using it, I did actually do a test drive and it is slow as hell.
05:19It seems more like a troll tank, or not something you'd seriously take if you want to win the battle. Paper thin armour, the guns are hard as hell to actually aim, I mean, you can't actually fire all the guns at once, well you can if you're at a very very specific angle, because they're all firing at different velocities and different angles, only one or none of them are going to hit, so you have to fire them all one at a time.
05:45How it's, like I said, is pretty low velocity, the machine guns you can't use yet, you're mainly going to be relying on the 45mm guns, but again, two different turrets, paper thin armour, maybe it could be used effectively if you manage all these guns right, you know, firing them one at a time or something.
06:09Using the, you know, your 360 degree angle from, you know, all your turrets can fire, one of your turrets can be fired at some point, you know, every point is covered on this tank, but um, yeah, it doesn't really seem like that good a tank.
06:23Like I said, 50 tonnes, max speed 17mph, reloading rate 5.2 seconds, I suppose that's something good about it, and pretty bad armour penetration, 23mm at 100m, I'm guessing that's with the howitzer though.
06:41Now, the other tank, the TU-3, like I said, it's just a captured German Panzer III, Panzer IIIJ with the Lenk 42 gun I think it is, 50mm gun, ok armour, this is the one with the thicker armour at the back rather than the sides.
07:01So, we go here, um, yeah, 50mm here, but only 30mm here. I can't remember exactly, I think it's something to do with retreating or, because obviously if you reverse you're going to be going quite slow, so something to do with being able to turn around and go full speed, I'm not entirely sure if that sort of line of thought actually worked out.
07:25Got good penetration, 58mm at 100m, 36 at 1000m, so fairly decent penetration, I think it is anyway, remember I don't play tanks much.
07:39Max speed of 33mph, 21 tonnes, so quite fast, packs an ok punch I suppose, and obviously it's premium so you get double, well not double, but you know, more lines.
07:53What else have we got, is it the ZUT, that was the other premium, and this is actually quite weird, it looks more like a, it looks like a tank destroyer, but it's actually a, um, if we go for modifications, it's actually a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun.
08:13So um, yeah I was quite surprised at that. Um, armour, not, it's got ok armour, it's got quite good armour at the front actually, 45mm on the hull, doesn't say, yeah, but that's mainly at the bottom, the main area is 35mm but effective thickness of 60mm to 40mm depending on where you shoot.
08:3737mm gun, um, not, it's got ok armour penetration actually, 57mm at 100m, or 33 at 1000m, um, not bad than I thought it would be. Turret armour isn't that great, um, if we go into x-ray, only two people in the whole tank, so, yeah, if driving a gunner that could actually turn out quite badly if one of them was to be killed or injured.
09:05Weighs only 7, well, 8 tonnes, 26 miles an hour, um, so I suppose fairly nimble, um, maybe not the best in the world, fires something like 300 shots per minute, but it only has 200 shots, so, 200, yeah, 260 shots per minute but only 200 shots, um, it's a quite fast firing gun but ammo's going to be its limitation, um, and of course a premium again, so extra rewards.
09:33Now the other tanks added, look at the T-54 first, this is the model 1947, um, we'll actually go back, um, 200 turret armour, um, hull armour 100, um, it actually has thicker, 20mm thicker hull armour at the front.
09:57And, 100, I believe, quite a bit, but thinner on the turret, um, yeah, on the turret, the 51 version has 160 on the turret side, 65 on the rear turret, um, is it the rear turret, um, yeah, turret, and the 47 has only 125 and 50.
10:23So, yeah, it's got slightly better frontal armour on the turret, but, um, slightly worse hull armour, um, rear and side armour.
10:35But still, it's going to be quite a tough tank, especially since it's got a, has it got a lower battle range, 7.3 and 8.0, yeah.
10:43So, one of those tanks you're really going to have to flank to deal any damage with, um, reloading rate is 16.3 seconds, so, I suppose that's quite a bad thing for it, um, quite thick armour at the front when you take into account sloping.
11:01Um, well, 300 odd millimetres here, 350 odd here, um, it's 36 tonnes, and top speed of 28 miles an hour, so, again, not as nimble as some of the earlier tanks, but still quite fast, um, armour penetration, well, 175 at 100, and 145 at 1000, so, only loses 30 millimetres of penetration, between the, you know, for the extra 900 metres.
11:29Now, again, we can't use the machine gun on top, I believe that's, we will be able to in the future, quickly look at the x-ray, four man crew, um, driver, gunner, loader, and commander, yeah, commander.
11:43So, ammo's stored in quite a few places, but it's got to go through that thick frontal armour. If you hit it from the side, you could, you know, where the armour's slightly thinner, could ammo-rack the enemy, or, you know, could ammo-rack the enemy.
11:59You could try as well, from the side, um, not on the left side though, um, the rear and the right side, mainly at the back of the turret seems to be it's weak spot for ammo-racking. Again, like I said, I don't really play tanks, but this does seem like quite a good tank.
12:15Now, what else was added? Ah, the, um, two AA guns, the CSU-37 and the 57-2. Look at the CSU-37 first. Um, again, it looks like, not that great hull armour, I mean, if you're against early tanks, yeah, but, um, by this point you're probably going against quite heavy tanks.
12:36Um, can go up to effective thickness of about 60 odd, but they're at really specific points. The bit you're aiming at, you're going to cause quite a bit of damage. Um, sure, x-ray. Good news is, most of it's at the back, so it's got to go through the driver and all this stuff to get to the ammo and the crew.
12:55But, um, bad news is, they've only got like 20mm, or under 20mm thickness at the, um, I'll call it the turret area. Um, again, 37mm cannon can fire only 160 shots, but it has more ammo, so, better than the CUT in that respect.
13:17Um, armour penetration, getting quite good armour penetration. If you're close range, 57mm, probably not too great at this tier, I suppose, though. 12 tonnes, 26mph, um, max speed. Seems like an alright AA tank, um, whether it'll do any good in battle, I'm not entirely sure. Um, seems kind of vulnerable, but I suppose it is an AA tank, it's not meant to be going against other tanks.
13:46Um, the next one is called a bit of an outlaw, because, um, there were some people who just refused to believe it was introduced in the timeframe. Prototype of it was, um, the CSU, and CSU-57, and yes, that is twin 57mm cannons.
14:01They can fire 120 shots a minute, and has 250 odd ammo. Really bad armour, though. I mean, literally, even with sloping, it's barely getting 25mm. 30 tops at really specific points, and that's on the whole, the turret is just awful.
14:23It's just awful. I mean, this is something you really want to keep behind the lines. It's actually got better at the rear, in some places, because of the, um, actually no, that's flat down, so you wouldn't be hitting it at that angle.
14:39Yeah, this is just bad armour. But, um, again, it's an AA tank, so it's not really expected to be shot at. Go to x-ray, and there is a tonne of ammo all over the place. Um, the only thing stopping it is literally the armour, the fuel tank, and the driver.
14:56If, you know, one shot goes through the driver and hits the ammo, you are going to cause a lot of damage. The turret is literally surrounded by ammo. There's only four crew, well, again, for an AA tank, I suppose you're not expected to lose many. The commander, gunner, loader, driver. Um, you've got a lot of engine stuff at the back, I suppose that could help with, um, protecting the rear.
15:20Ugh. Honestly, it seems like a good AA tank, but it's not something, you know, if you get shot at, you're screwed. Um, it doesn't actually have armour penetration for some reason. Um, I don't know if it only fires high explosive or something?
15:34Yeah, that's weird, um, with the full width, 60mm at 2000m, 115mm at 10m, um, yeah, even with the best upgrade, you could actually probably take on a decent amount of tanks. Um, 83mm at 2000m, 132mm at 10m.
15:57If you surprise a tank, you could probably do some damage, but yeah, this is something I'd want to keep behind the lines, if I could.
16:04Now, this is the, um, German tank, um, well, I'm looking at the Panzer Bfw IV, um, the command tank, um, which has this weird, um, skirt that seems to, um, well, mesh skirt that seems to vary in thickness, um, for some reason, um, depending on, I don't know, it seems to get thinner at the front or something? I don't know how that's working, but, um, it's got a 75mm gun, okay penetration, or good penetration.
16:32Um, 114mm at 100m, um, 84mm at 1000m, um, it's got okay front and, it's always got okay front hull armour, not particularly great turret armour, very bad, um, rear and side turret and hull armour, um, these skirt things, or whatever they're called around the turret are probably, you know, they help a little bit, but they're not going to be great.
16:58Uh, reload rate, 7.5 seconds, uh, 24mph, 25 tonnes, let's look at the X-ray, four, five crew, um, driver and a, oh, it's a machine gunner, and then gunner, loader, um, commander.
17:14Looking at it from the front, um, oh, you've got an optics you can knock out, didn't know about that, um, seems like there's actually quite a good shot of the ammo from the front, especially between the driver and the gunner, um, machine gunner, uh, seems like you could probably do quite a bit of damage, um, again from the side it all seems quite easy to hit, from the rear you're just going to hit the engine and everything.
17:42Uh, seems like an okay tank, um, not the best in the world and I don't know if it's worth being a premium, but I suppose it's a unique tank, um, so I suppose there's some of you out there who might want it.
17:56Um, the other premium was the, not the deck, the horse H, uh, the Panzer II horse H even, 35mph, not very good armour, 30mm front, um, on the hull and turret, 20mm everywhere else, but it's got the 50mm gun with, um, tarp or something protecting the roof, um, not particularly well armoured.
18:24Got an okay gun, 187mm penetration at 100m, 65 at 1000, so, um, it's only battle rating 3, so, quite a good tank, only 3 crew, driver, loader, gunner, oh, commander, sorry, um, commander besides the gun and command.
18:42And all the ammo is at, you know, a lot of it's at the back, some of it's at the sides, um, side ammo would be easy to hit, but, um, rear ammo would probably be quite hard to hit, um, seems like a nice little tank actually, um, not well protected, but with it's speed you could do a lot of hit and run attacks with it.
19:00Now the other premium was the KV-1B, premium that, it's got the 75mm L48 cannon, um, go to, there, there he is, um, 26mph, 50 tonnes, hull armour, very good, turret armour, extremely good, 100 odd millimetres all around the turret, 105 millimetres around all of the turret, and remember the sloping so it can be actually thicker than that.
19:28And the hull, 75 on the front and rear, um, side, sorry, and 70 at the rear, but again, effective thickness here, um, at some point it's going to go up to 150 millimetres, most of the time it'll only be just above 70, but, you know, quite good.
19:44This looks like a really good tank actually, um, penetrating 114 millimetres at 100, oh this is the same gun as the Panzer IV command tank, 114 at 100, 84 at 1000 metres, this seems like a really good tank and I probably would recommend it if you're going to go for a premium.
20:04Um, costs 1600, but, um, yeah, this seems like probably one of the better tanks I've seen that's premium so far. Um, show the x-ray quick, got machine gunner, driver, gunner, commander, loader, and the ammo's sort of in the tank, the middle of the tank I suppose, um, can't really see it properly from here.
20:28Ah, the fuel tank's covering up, um, I don't know how much protection a fuel tank would give, probably would explode, um, it's such a heavily armoured tank, you're probably not going to, it's not going to be something you'd hit, you know, you wouldn't hit the ammo racks easily.
20:44Now the other tanks, um, well we've got the four AA tanks, the verbal wind, Flak Panzer IV verbal wind, 450 shots a minute, 3200 ammo, um, very good tank, um, for AA by the looks of it.
21:02Good hull armour, not very good turret armour, or good frontal hull armour, 80mm Fickin, in, um, quite a lot of places, only 20 at other places, but, um, not very good turret protection, uh, crew are probably quite exposed in there, and there was ammo all over the place.
21:26Um, seems like a nice little tank, um, fast firing, not very good armour penetration, but seems, again, quite vulnerable, but, we've got all the other, like with the AA tanks and the Russian tree, they're not something you want in the battle in the first place, you know, you want them behind your own lines.
21:46Now the Flak Panzer IV Aust Wind, um, 37mm cannon, 250 shots a minute, 320 ammo, um, slightly better armour penetration, 48 at 100, still not something I'd take on tanks with.
22:04Same hull armour, roughly, or pretty much, I don't know if it's slightly worse turret armour, about 16mm, due to sloping about, effectively, 20 odd, um, quite fast, oh, quite slow actually, 24mph, again, crew's quite exposed, or the gunner and the loader are.
22:26Um, the ammo's, um, all in the turret again, none of it's actually down, or there's some of it, um, in the actual tank, where it would be more protected, but again, not very good side armour.
22:38So, it seems like the Aust Wind would be good for taking out heavier vehicles, or aircraft, sorry, while the Flak Panzer would be good at just putting up a lot of shots, um, while the Aust Wind would be more likely to take out in one shot, while the Wearable Wind would take them out in quite a lot of shots, because it's firing so much ammo.
22:56Move on to the Kugelblitz. Um, again, good hull armour, slightly better turret armour, armour penetration 53mm at 100m, um, not particularly good for the other ranges, 1200 ammo, 450 odd shots a minute, but 65 seconds for reloading, and quite slow.
23:18Um, effective thickness is practically 20, fairly, at certain angles it can go up to 30, 40mm almost, but yeah, it's not particularly the most protected turret in the world, better than the others, but not great, and, well, the crew's actually enclosed this time, so it's slightly more protected, but still quite a vulnerable turret.
23:42Um, but a fast-firing gun, um, a lot of ammo, again, something I would have at the, well, behind enemy lines, should probably venture out a bit further than the other tanks, but then again, higher battle rating, so, again, keep behind enemy lines, or, sorry, your own lines, and you should be okay.
24:00And the Karelian, which, um, I've heard people say it's more like an armoured fighting vehicle, and it does look it, um, I don't know what these bits at the top are, are they hatches, or where machine guns are meant to go? I assume they are, I assume the front one is, at least. Much better turret armour, 60, 40, 40, hull armour, 80, 50, 40, and 250 shots a minute, 1500 ammo, and a quick reload time, one and a half seconds.
24:28Effective thickness has actually gone up to 100mm at places. Um, yeah, this is actually a lot better, but of course a higher battle rating. Um, let's see where the crew are.
24:42They're in the turret, but a bit lower down, or, the gunner's command is quite high up, the rest are quite, a bit lower down, they've got the gun protecting them. Ammo's all, sort of spread all over the place. You know, the armour's not going to stop a shot hitting the ammo. The bits in the turret are probably a bit better, because they're sort of, sort of between the turret and the hull, so, you know, that's sort of an awkward place to hit.
25:09Um, quite a bit faster than the other tanks, again, you'll have to keep this behind your own lines, otherwise it's just going to be slaughtered. Now we've got the Panzer III J, I believe it's the other tank.
25:23Right. So, um, I think this is pretty much like the Russian version. Um, again, better rear armour than side armour. Um, good gun, good penetration, 87mm at 100m, 65mm at 1000m. Seems to be quite okay armour, well, maybe not the best, but, um, I suppose for its battle rating it's quite good.
25:50Um, where's the crew? Um, yep, two in the hull, three in the turret. I think this is pretty much like the Russian one. Ammo's quite low down, which is good. That means it's quite well protected. Um, seems like a good tank for its battle rating. Um, 33mph, probably a good hit and run tank. You know, fire a shot or two and then get the hell out of there.
26:15Uh, Panzer IV J, where's that? Um, Panzer IV J. Again, quite good frontal armour, not very good side and rear hull armour. Turret is, um, 50mm, which isn't as good and quite bad side and rear armour.
26:37It's got those little skirt type things, or, it hasn't got the mesh skirt that the Russian, um, well, sorry, the command tank has. Um, got a good gun, 70.7.5 second reload time. I think this is pretty much the same as the command tank, as far as I can tell. There's not much to add, really. Seems quite good, um, like I said, I don't play tanks that much, so I don't, you know, I could be wrong.
27:0124mph on the slow side, but still. The other tank, the Marder, which is basically an anti-tank gun mounted on a tank. Um, trails, I think it's trails and all. Um, it's got ok hull armour at the front, the rest is quite bad, um, and very bad turret armour.
27:27Um, I don't know if this is mounted on a Panzer II, um, it's mounted on a Panzer 38 or 35, I know they use obsolete tanks and this sort of stuff. Good armour penetration, 115mm at 100m, 86 at 1000. Reloading time is almost 10 seconds, so not as good there. 26mph top speed, so fairly fast, but not the fastest thing in the world.
27:51Crew are exposed, um, well the gunner and loader are. The machine gunner and the driver have got ok armour protecting them. Ammo is mainly in the hull, which is good, unless you're being shot at from the side. Again, another sort of shoot and scoot tank, um, take advantage of its, um, sort of ok speed.
28:13And the last tank is the Stug III Orfsum G, um, go that quick. I think this is the first long barrelled gun. Yeah, 110mm penetration at 100m, 82 at 1000. Very good hull armour, doesn't really have a turret as such. Well, it's very good frontal hull armour, it's got the side skirts, um, they're not mesh, so they might provide a bit more protection.
28:39Yeah, um, again, 25mph quite slow, but low profile, so it seems like more of an ambush tank. Let's see where the crew are. Actually, um, let's see how thick the armour is at this bit. Oh yeah, mainly 80mm.
28:59Crew are sort of, well this doesn't really have a turret, but it's a low down tank. They all seem reasonably well protected, the ammo seems quite low down, which is good. It's probably one of the better tanks for where they've positioned everything, um, battle rating of 4.3, um, first long barrelled tank I believe, or is it the F, I'll check the F quick.
29:25Oh no, the F has a slightly, it's got a long barrelled gun, maybe not as long. Seems like a good enough tank destroyer, um, for between the Jagdpanzer and the Stug E, is it the E? Yeah, oh sorry, between the F and the Jagdpanzer IV.
29:45So, yeah, that was a bit of a long winded video, and probably not the best, um, like I said, I haven't really used tanks, um, so I'm not entirely, you know, sure what to look for in the tanks, um, but yeah, that was basically a really, really basic overview of some of the tanks.
30:01Um, sorry I couldn't give a more in depth view, um, like I said, I don't really know much about them, dev server's only open for a few hours, so I just wanted to get something out there, because I haven't really looked at them properly, but, um, yeah, thank you for watching, leave feedback, could always do with more feedback, um, subscribe if you like these sort of videos, leave a like, um, could always, if you, you know, if you like the video, and, well, thank you for watching, and I'll see you next time.