Complete Tank Guide | All Tanks, Crew Roles, and Strategies on How to Destroy Every Tank in the Game 

u ROCK Moi!!!

Hey Moi, can you actually upload the Excel document with the damages and penetration of armor please? Thanks!

and russian tanks has no depression

Cuz thats what good drivers do. They are allways there for you.

was about to commment this, ironical how in this case it's good to have "depression"

uhhh my SL keeps asking me about my depression. I almost feel like he cares about me, and i almost open up to him, but then he calls me a useless sack of shit and tells me to switch to sabot rounds. :'(

Roger that, ICD 11 and DSM-5 confirmed. CBT inbound.

Oye I need to learn from you lol.

Nice reference.

Gunner, Sabot, PC!

​@@_invencible_Why would you use APFSDS against a- oh. OOOOOH.

2 tanks for the price of one noice

nice story

good kills

Posthumously awarded Order of Lenin

Kind words, thank you!

Me reading this after 2 years i am so proud

Thats called a backogram

Looked for this comment.. who tf calls it a nest?

@@asciiCAT Yeah these are used a lot in the military. Choose something that sounds cool and then make it an an anagram of something so it sounds professional lol

@@ufoash440 Example: PATRIOT is an """acronym"""

I mean, its kind of like a machinegun nest, but more dangerous

They can be intimidating but I'm hoping this makes them a bit more accessible!

@@MoiDawg just go for it

Squad is one of the better communities I have seen and most people will support you when you try and learn. Personally I would recommend playing on a noob friendly server and just drive or gun tanks at first before moving into more challenging servers

If you need to hop into a crew, don't worry too much about your skill level. If you are low skilled, tell your crew commander, he will likely put you in the driver seat. In this position just listen to him, if he is a good cc he will give clear commands which really don't require any knowledge of armour to execute.

As much money as the game sucked out of me war thunder taught me a lot about how to tank and how not to tank, and that's been helping me greatly in squad. I got the game a few days ago and I'm caught off guard by how many people don't want squad lead/ don't want to use the armor. I've had more heli pilots than tankers, and for me flying the heli is intimidating af

the game is not realistic at all tho with tanks. Like most of those shots if they penetrate would mean that crew members would be heavily injured or dead. Also if for instance most of "LAT" would be able to kill tanks from the side (even in one shot).

Yup. That's why it got the nickname of "Whispering Death". IIRC its rubber tracks also made it less noisy.

@@RiktigaFimpen last I checked an Abrams tracks aren't made of rubber, unless you mean the ground contacts which is widespread and common, though not where most engine noise comes from. The noise of an Abrams engine is NOT quiet. It is "quiet" for a TANK. This is still a sixty-fucking-ton war machine. It's not quiet. Tanks are audible in this game at a drastically reduced range than what you could hear them at IRL across the board, and the Abrams is no exception where it is audible from half the realistic range of most tanks alongside everything else. It is also just as audible as everything else in Theis game, the difference is the noise it makes is much more distinct, many a time have I confused Russian vehicles from each other at significant range, very rarely if ever have I confused an Abrams for a Bradley or Helo at the same distances. It is not any kind of unhistorical inaccuracy (tell that to the BMP-1's gun firing rounds multiple times as fast as irl.), It is simply nature of the sound it makes.

@@clankplusm To be particularly precise yes, the Abrams has steel tracks but it's the rubber pads that make contact with the ground as you say - hence the reference to the "quiter" sound the of the tracks, nothing about the engine noise. The Abrams is damn loud, but maybe less so than other vehicles on the battlefield. Squad has definitely got the distinct sound right. The accounts I've read/heard are from people who was either on the receiving end of, or, worked alongside the Abrams. Is it all true? I don't know, but things usually earn their nickname for a reason. I think the issue here is that the engine of the Abrams, generally speaking, is made up to be the loudest one in games. But, these are sounds made for a game that has to be tweaked and made right compared to each other - so what the hell do I know. It would however be awesome to see (hear) a real comparison between the Abrams and the T-80s engine. I'd pay for that !

Some clarifications on the noise generated by the engine, the Abrams has a higher decibel reading (By like 2) at the source. However the noise is higher frequency, and without getting into the science that I don't understand, because of this, the sound dissipates at shorter range.

Happy hunting!

if oyu have a 3 man crew having the SL on the gun is always a last resort, even if he is the best gunner, only if he is the ONLY half decent gunner. Controlling the gun, running comms and commanding the vehicle and potentially a wingman is frankly not possible. You may think you are doing well, but you are letting something slip through, usually directing the driver.

"A dead tank is a useless tank" this is underappreciated by most squadies. Tanks have a long cooldown which makes a dead tank a huge handicap for the next 20 minutes of the game. They also cost 15 tickets which can be significant. While RTB can seem wasteful and boring, it is way better for your team in the long run because it will only take a few minutes and costs zero tickets.

This reminds of of a game I had as a HAT on Fallujah. At the start of the match my squad set up on the MSR in ambush and took out a LAV, Tracked IFV and a wheeled APC all because they had no infantry running support or commanders paying attention to their surroundings. Later on in said match me an the HAT of another squad + 2 LAT's snuck up on a leopard and wasted it with minimal effort as it was all on its own, first shot tracked it then we just flanked from all directions and it didn't stand a chance.

still a tanker? XD

It's definitely a hard role to learn but the more you spend in the tank the better you get. Good luck!

www.rustyinplaces.org/ We focus on teamwork in general - the people who like to do armor are keen on communication, including myself. I'd love it if we got more armor crews in the clan :3

@@glavemaster looks like you guys are EU, no?

@@calvindreesman4951 hi i know this is an old comment but squad is played at such a slow pace that having high ping isnt nearly the disadvantage it is in other games. You arent relying on your speed or reflexes in squad, but rather your teamwork and positioning

Principles are the same so a separate video is not really worth it, hop on the range, drive it around and learn the gun and you are set.

Not always true, i had times i wished my gun was out

Man you are so hardcore; saving nanoseconds with "vic"

@@ballaking1000 You are so extremely right "sl" I am sorry for the inconvenience, may you be able to put a Forward Operating Base on "VCP" so we can get a Hesco Accommodation Bunker in order for us to spawn on "VCP" once again. I do not want to get "steam rolled" "sl."

@@rixce5706 No Private, VCP is too susceptible to Mortars. Squad 2 is going to post up at the group of buildings roughly 300 feet North of VCP. They will be on the lookout for any incoming vehicles from the vast openness of their base camp and will be setting mines along the bridges. Squad 6 is going to build a stealth FOB in the grassy fields between the two Northern bridges leading towards VCP from the enemies base camp. I will lead you all to the group of buildings about 250 feet South-West of VCP and we will be covering the Western flank for any enemies travelling South. Medics, I want you to remember your duties and stay with the majority of the group. AT's can venture out within 200 feet of me and I want every HAT to have 1 assigned rifleman so that they can resupply their rockets. I spoke to the 2 automatic rifleman's earlier and once they've reached their nesting positions; we will advance. As we move, I want you all in single file about 10 paces apart and crouching when in the fields. We will rendezvous at these locations to regain stamina... Hit 'Escape' Jimmy, come on... Now, when we regroup at these locations, we will have to sprint across these open fields between all the dunes and hills- same as before; I want you all 10 paces apart in single file but I want you sprinting to minimize exposure time. As we're sprinting, I want all grenadiers to have their smokes out and ready in case enemies start shooting at us, then we can quickly get smoke between them and us and will provide more visual cover for the medics to give first aid to those initially wounded. Once we reach the location I will drop down the radio but we will likely still have to wait a couple minutes for supplies as Squad 5 is first going to make 3 trips to Squad 6's FOB by those 2 bridges mentioned earlier as keeping the enemies North of the river is of utmost importance. Hey "zzSniperVIIcIIous69zz", you have about 20 seconds to switch your marksman kit or you'll be kicked and "h3adcrackka"- I'd rather hear the other squad leaders than the enemies national anthem!.... Any AT's, AR's or grenadiers want fireteam leads?

I've played many milsims but this is the only game community that uses the word "vic," I don't even know what the hell it means, only that it refers to some kind of vehicle and I find it very confusing. Say something more specific or don't talk at all. You can tell the difference between a tank, truck, IFV, and scout car right?

What Russian bias? This game is BLUFOR biased if anything

@@clankplusm you didnt get the joke ...

@@clankplusm its a war thunder meme. Russian tanks are cheap and good in that game compared to everything else

@@jungletroll3844 Russian bias started in WoT long before WT, and WG was actually possible to consider Russian biased. Gaijin is just FotM and everyone points and screams Russian bias when they get to be the golden boy. Hell, RU winrate heatmap is actually awful right now, they're bad on both sides of the 7.x flip.

@@clankplusm fair enough. i learned something new today

Longtime War Thunder player who migrated from V12. This game is much better than WT IMO for having fun in armour, difenetely recommend giving it a shot. Source: > 2K Hours WT. > 1K Hours Squad.

same lol and i have drove a leo irl so i'm looking forward to driving it in game when i get the game tonight

i think people know that, but OWI just makes you compute everything manually, so there's no autolead or palm switch modelled for that you'll have to go to Steel Beasts or GHPC

The T-72 uses a carousel-type autoloader. This means the ammo is stored in a giant circle/ring around the turret basket. The ammo rack is basically center-mass beneath the turret.

what?

@@inkozebadigbadig37 The turbine engine is louder than other tanks' diesel engines only when close. Further away the Abrams' turbine is quieter.

Yeah, HESH is a bit weird. Although it may be a direct copy from HEAT it definitely FEELS like it works a lot better than it against infantry. In the real world it's also effective against buildings so it makes sense. I typically use it for room clearing and stuff like logis if they're a bit too far for coax. Downside is is that it travels REALLY slowly compared to AP.

@@MoiDawg There's a good reason why the HESH shell is slower! HESH stands for High Explosive Squash Head. The "squash" part is basically how the shell is malleable: it will deform and flatten itself onto a target (i.e a tank with sloped armor). When it flattens itself out, it detonates. This brings the full brunt of the shell's explosive power down on the surface (a normal HE shell would send its explosive power everywhere around it, when the explosive is flattened against the surface, more of the boom goes into the surface than away from it). This allowed HESH to basically negate sloped armor and cause a shockwave that would cause the interior armor to fragment into the crew compartment. Why does that have anything to do with HESH traveling slowly? Well, the faster the round goes, the less condensed the flattened out explosive will be (the flattened out explosive is called a "pat"). The pat will be tighter together if the shell doesn't impact with as high of a velocity, so the effect will be greater. Sorry for the long post, just thought I'd explain why HESH travels slowly.

@@bluntcabbage6042 Awesome explanation, thanks!

This has been a feature since the T-44…

It literally only has downsides, as the crewmembers wouldn't know which driver is referred to or which tank the heading is given from. Just let the 2 commanders talk to each other and the crews focus on their own situation. As for assigning fire teams: pretty clever, so crewmen can designate targets on the map too

rayo toxi well duh but in a battle no one is gonna take time to say APFSDS Depleted uranium Sabot round, it’s easier to say ap or sabot

APFSDS-T Accualy, but I don't think they have the T in game lmao

the local/offline test range has completely wrong damage models, that's been a bug for a long time now and isn't a high priority one