I once told my gamer dad NOT to go Israel. 6 months later, he got the last Merkava in the tech tree while only playing Arcade battles. What a gamer dad 🗿
@@crad5476 realistic has too much cas and flanking. It's quite overwhelming compared to arcade. Honestly, those who play realistic swear by it and those with aracde swears by it too
No it makes sense. NERA is usually made of a soft material (rubber, kevlar, etc.) sandwiched between two thin metal plates. An APFSDS will slice through if there’s no thick backing plate like on the Abrams. Also keep in mind the Merkava was built for urban warfare, especially the MK4.
All modern tanks have classified armor. Gaijin still managed to get pretty realistic protection levels with the exception of gun breaches that are intentionally nerfed.
@@tyykthunder it will get composite armor, and its in the dev server so it will be a subject to change so no way it wont have composite armor, like 61 tons of weight for what?!?!
There's a one-off M-50 Super Sherman variant/prototype from the early to mid 60s called the Degem Yud, which is an M-50 (An M4A3 large hatch) hull that was lowered by 30 cm in order to lower the height of the tank. After the first tests, the project was sadly abandoned & more likely than not the prototype was scrapped. But pictures exist of it, and it literally looks like a Sherman that was partially squashed.
The Nakba that everyone talk about is a tactic to manipulation the progressive left You will see. This is a self-inflicted outcome. During the Nakba, ARAB armies told the local Arabs to leave the areas where they planned to attack the Jews. The ARAB armies told them leave their homes, and everything behind, because the Arab Armies were planning an attack to destroy Israel. The ARAB armies then lost the war. The Arab countries told the displaced Arab people to settled in refugee camps. Some Arabs stayed and are not Israeli citizens and thriving. But the majority decided to exile themselves. Still 75 years later they never moved on and won’t accept the situation they caused for themselves and still dream of turning the lost into a victory. Meanwhile, many Arabs leaders of the displaced have made billions of dollars from global financial support and almost none of it made it to the people. Only since the 1968 has the displaced Arab started to call themselves, "Palestinians" - which is a name given by Europeans to the region, after they forcibly expelled the Jews, there's no P in Arabic, so why would they name themselves with a name, that doesn't exist in Arabic. justify more violence Ever since the Ottoman Empire the Arab just can't accept the Jews to be free people. Arabs are from the Arabian Peninsula - they speak Arabs. They pray to the Mecca in Saudi Arabia Muslim are not from Jerusalem. They are not from the land of Judea. Arabs are the colonizers and now need to accept co-existence. Islamic education needs to be reformed. Why does anyone think Hamas would stop its ambitions of destroying Israel? In a time of war, Muslim are encouraged to lie and to manipulate infidels. Anyone who is not muslim they do not accept as equal. But they will pretend to accept them until they acquire enough power to kill them. Do they not understand the Islamic “Taqiyya appears in Sura 3:28:" ? “Let not the believers take the unbelievers for friends; and whoever does this, shall have nothing to do with Allâh in any matter; unless you do this to protect yourselves from the unbelievers. Thus Allâh cautions you to have reverence only for him. To Allâh is destiny.” in other words, in a time of war its encouraged to lie; Regarding 3:28, Ibn Kathir writes, “… believers who in some areas or times fear for their safety from the disbelievers… are allowed to show friendship to the disbelievers outwardly, but never inwardly.” Ibn Kafthir quotes Muhammad‘s companion, Abu Ad-Darda’, who said “we smile in the face of some people although our hearts curse them"
I’ve been playing it a lot recently, and a few things to note for anyone looking into grinding top tier Israel: 1: the Merkava loves to occasionally bounce sometimes and tank 3BM60, but majority of the time it will go right through. 2: the Merkava Mk.4 usually loose their engine or a crew member or two, but they are quite hard to kill in one shot. 3: the main advantage of the Merkava is the gun, so try to get the highest reload rate you can, and maybe even buy an ace crew for the Mk.4M just to have an easier time with the 6 seconds. 4: the Barack II is amazing, is has stand off capability (to an extent) with lock and forget guided 2000Lb bombs, and then the capability to carry even more guided bombs (you can max it out with 8 total lgbs!) 5: the AH-60 has a pretty good loadout for dealing with SPAA and tanks alike, and the spikes are pretty good at dealing with enemy helis. 6: no light vehicles (yet) and no wheeled ones. 7: the premiums aren’t very good, the Merkava Mk.2D (which is off sale atm) could be a potent premium if it gets a 5s reload in the future, but for now it suffers with 6.7. The Raam Segol is decent but it lacks high gen thermals, any armor what so ever, and can be sluggish in mobility. I’ve grinded the tree using both and it was quite miserable at times…
Merkava Mk4M and Merkava Mk4B main here. I use it liked a mixed bag tank, although my main way of playing is exploiting some spots which are wonderful for long range sniping. You have 64kph reverse and you can easily disengage after killing someone before the enemy team can react. When it comes to CQB maps, I stay in second lines and support frontliners by covering their flanks and engage enemy tanks that get the first shot and cripple our frontliners. The art of Merkava is a hard thing to master but a good merkava player will make the enemy team puke blood as you have some resistance against enemy helicopter CAS with your APS.
I find playing aggressive works the most reliable with the merkavas because the spaciousness ends up causing enemies to take shots that even though they shoot correctly it doesn’t knock out all necessary components so you can just turn and blast em. Long range is fun but it’s definitely requires lots of repositioning whenever you get spotted and patience
With the merkava's i play passive/agressive (just keep pressure on the enemy position without taking to mutch risk and play with the turret cheeks you Can pull some overpenetration without damage
Don't know if you have found out yet, but the new f15 does have new avionics in addition to the fox 3s. New radar and HMD, so it is getting some improvements
4:00 there really isn’t a playstyle for the Merkava, it’s not the best at something, yet it’s not the worst at everything. You can play it however you like, just keep in mind the massive profile this thing has, so things like flanking might be a bit harder.
Merkavas are best played in a bit of a sniper/flanking hybrid. Getting to a position where you can use your commander sight to shoot enemies is the best you can do. unfortunately not all maps provide this and you get stuck with either a sniper only or flank only role.
How I play the merkavas: For the mk3 and mk4 I just use the HE round and laugh when I one tap mbts. The only ones I really like playing are the 9.3 ones.
Set yourself up at the front with the first surge of team and once they die off, pop a kill or two then backup. Defensive media a is best merkava. I find the whole line plays that way
it depends on the map and how well the team as a whole is running. I usually like to be aggressive in a flanking posture to reach a firing point, but more often than not, I snipe since its best armor is the turret PS: yeah, I've been noticing that as well. a lot of the games ive played as israel, I've been on the losing side. sometimes I play well, sometimes shit hits the fan. but recently it feels like it happens more often
I don’t know why exactly, but Israel is my second favorite nation in the game after Germany. Only two things I hate about it: - absence of any good anti air, - 99% games will be together with weak USA at top tier.
My answer to the very first question of the video: you play Merkava slow, but aggressive. This is not a sniping tank due to bad angles of the gun and close to zero armor of the turret. The only reason why Israel always loses is the fact they always play alongside USA
you just gotta learn how to use that HE round my guy, it turns the merkavas from mid to deadass hilarious to play, being able to nuke every top tier mbt with what is essentially aphe is incredibly funny, it singlehandedly got to me to 1300+ kills in the merk4m
You should do a low tier video on the Italian P40. Its a 3.3 medium tank that has amazing armor and a 75MM APHE that has 270 Grams of explosive filler. Very underused tank.
Don't play too shy with the merks, but make sure you don't get into trouble. Just make sure you have a teammate or two around and use them as a morale boost xD. I like to take around 27 rounds so the back left side of tank is empty, which lets me poke it out and bait enemies into shooting it.
Merkava 4 plays like a glass cannon to be honest. Though it does angle well, surprisingly. It should be one of the more armored in the game, but it's not allowed that.
when i play the merkava's i usually semi rush the enemy and then just kinda snipe. or i just try to flanks since the merks obviously have no armor. when playing the tanks like this i usually get either enoughj spawn points for the kurnass2k or around 7 to 9 kills i do lose pretty much every single game tho, unless i play together with ussr
I mean 8.7 Israel is just an absolute destroyer of a line up but got nerfed with the A4s br changes but the mystere IVA isnt too bad with the merks you gotta play them passive aggressive don't push dumb but play like they don't expect you to play in a merk (a neat buff for the merks would be to add their spall liners but gaijin says they don't exists so they don't exists ig)
the only merkava i have for now is the 2D and i play it like a t72, mostly passive but when given the chance i push aggresively...unless its a full uptier
Top tier Israel, i can't win a match to save my life. Every team evaporates, and recently, with the merkava, i noticed the shells dont spawl that much. I find myself camping and ambushing.
3:48 Nah man you have to be passive-aggressive as in: focus on sniping but be aggressive whilst doing it. With all those smoke bombs u can move from place to place or disappear to another position. Is about keeping distance, flanking, staying hidden (unless you know your armor can save you) and slowly pick out the more aggressive russian players. Grinded out Israel around when it first came out and honestly I haven’t switched nations then. (I am a little biased since I’m Jewish lol) but Merkavas are just a force to be reckoned with if you know how to play them and use their awkward angles to ur advantage as well.
Any tips on grinding I just switched to ussr because I found USA unfun(mainly air) so now I’m grinding ussr and the air grind is fun for now but ground is not doing so well
The issue with israel now is that it is matched with US Clickbait premium buyers, destroying the winrate and whole experience. You play Israel, you watch your team get farmed for two minutes before the other team is in your spawn. Courtesy of the summer sale!
The Netz is getting dropped down to 11.7 in GRB, so you can kill Cas with out up tiering yourself too much. Though the Merkavas should all be at 11.3 including the Mk. 4M, why missile hardkill uptiers it, idk and gaijin probably doesn't know either.
Can you do a video overviewing all the premium helis to buy so that i can see their pros and cons? I'm really stuck between getting the prem american apache and the z-19 prem.
Israel is a fun nation to play, what's not fun is you're almost guaranteed to be in the same team with US, and yeah we all know how it goes from there...
Im only at 8.0 on isreal but i play top tier in russia and germany so i know what it is fighting merkavas. So far if i can see them theyre dead, but most time i get killed by a merkava, theyre far away and out of sight. So thats how ill play them.
I have the Premium Merkava but I have not climbed the ranks sufficiently yet to make use of it so I cannot give a recommendation. I may be lvl 100 but I don't Main any nation (I'm between 6.7 and 8.0 across all nations atm for ground)
Aggressive all the way. I'm a brit main so sitting still in a MBT is kinda the meta, which gets kinda boring. Anytime I get something with some mobility I go all out with it.
You just experienced the israeli top tier situation, you have to carry a bunch or clueless us mains to try to win, otherwise youre win-rate is going to be awfull
im a merkava main and u should play it like a light tank its has great mobility so use it and a lot of awearness and u cn carry games u said the merkava isnt fast but keep in mind it accelerate faster then most if not all other mbts
Hey Justin! I'm currently on the izzy grind, I was wondering if you have or know of a good way to use smokes effectively. As you know the merkava has a lot of smoke charges and I want to utilize them without annoying teammates. Awesome video as always!
Hello justin, there is a new upcoming youtuber named BPA_Jon he is a ex pro wt player and started making video's not long ago. His vids are supercool cuz hes extremely good, maybe u guys could play together at some point. Two very good top tier players should be a joy to watch!
utilize ESS, i have killed quite a few people with ESS, for some reason alot of people dont realize you can thremal through it, and you can catch people out with it. It wont work all the time but its great when it does work and you kill 2 people cause of it.
