I remember watching an episode of "Greatest Tank Battles" which covered the Battle of France. This tank was in it, they interviewed a former crew member of one of these things, and he talked about how a group of them battled a group of Panzer IIIs, somehow they managed to get the Panzer IIIs to fall back. I have a soft spot for the allied tanks of the Battle Of France, these early war tanks are pretty cool.
By shooting at view ports, with heavy losses to unit operating those near useless tracked bunkers.I mean, what is the point of tank with so much frontal armor,but so bad AP and HE shells (it has less explosive than hand grenade)? Machine gun was more dangerous to enemy infantry than the main gun.
The fcm 36 was one of the more technologically advanced tanks of its time with great armour. French tankers had that advantage as well as knowledge of the territories. I've got a soft spot for the wee little french tanks that get no love these days. They really were good tanks in their own respect.
This game fails to have armour degrading over multiple hits, as well as shattering the optical ports of gunners/drivers. The French probably knew their shit well and went for the vital points to disable the tanks.
I know I'm late but this was likely the crossing of the Meuse river. During this battle neither sides tanks could reliably take out eachother: the Pz. 3's gun couldn't penetrate the FCM's armour (also due to the lack of APCR) and neither could the FCM's weak gun damage the Panzer back, so tank engagements often escalated into close range brawls. Eventualy the welds on the FCM's broke and began getting penetrated, so it was decided to withdraw. 26 out of 36 tanks were left behind or lost. The 'servicable' tanks were likely left behind because of the priorly mentioned welds breaking. Despite struggling with the Panzer 3's the FCM's were able to destroy some more lighter armour like Pz. 2's and Armored cars. What some also fail to realize is that the FCM 36 was a infantry tank, meaning it was meant to support infantry attacks by surpressing enemy fire and taking out defensive positions. Suddenly its slow speed, 'weak' gun and strong armour make sense. It was never designed to face enemy tanks, atleast not head-to-head.
Mommy, I've put too much beans on my spoon! Jimmy, you're 29 and you still watch animes. Get out of the house. Eat some fuckin' vegetables. I'm absolutely dead 😂
If you're on a friendly cap and one crew member dies it will automatically start using the crew replenishment. This is the only situation where you can survive with one crew in RB.
@@arbiter787 By the way, in the case of the rest of the tanks, where there are more than two crew members, it works the same way, replenishment occurs automatically if there is only one left?
"Pain" means "Bread" in French. So basically the title of the video is "The Bread" wich is very fitting for a video about a French video. Oddbaws is just doing some accidental wonbo combo over there ! Nice video ! And I'm sorry for the suffering you had to face making it.. next time we will build a better tank ! - The Baguette Team
that "Crash Bandicoot"-esque Caveman noises made me burst out in laughter. the "Brother Jacob" made me giggle and reminded me of decades back when I was a wee lad, attending basic schooling, learning that song in numerous languages.
This tank reminds me of one of those awful robots from Robot Wars, that some kids and their dad spent months building but was useless and got destroyed in less than a minute
Out of EVERY video odd has made, this video is the best one ever, because: When he gets a kill he sounds SO happy He keeps making the 69 joke He made an arm joke that was really funny He had a great attitude while playing a shit tank The first joke he made that was the "good things" about this tank was really funny The "shitter" joke was funny When he said(yelled) "SON OF A BAGUETTE" that was AMAZING He accomplished his mission HE SANG A LIL SONG FOR US He helped dan and made him his fren So yes, i rest my case
Valiant effort, however you failed to notice that the AMC.34 is even worse with a whopping 24mm of ideal pen on a very average at best chassis. Have fun :)
I spent a solid 3 minutes trash talking this tank but my friend equipped it anyway, he held the C POINT on abandoned factory , and got 3 kills, then finally being taken down by a by-5
Respect for doing this. Actually grinded the French with these when it came out and dear god it was a pain that never ended :D Stopped at some point when i noticed all the good french tanks are M4:s.
I recall in the "Great Tank Battles" episode about the invasion of France, a French veteran who served in one of these death traps, pretty much confirmed how lousy it was. And the thing that really broke his heart was; they were scoring hits, but that glorified starter-pistol of a gun just could do nothing against the Germans... and this was the early era German armor, and those were far from being great either.
9:45 lmaooo!! XD Nah but for real though, I've never had so many people intentionally ramming me and spinning me out at the start of a match than playing low tier France. At one point it happened literally 8 games in a row. I was about to start TKing people who rammed me by the end of that session lol
HQ needs you to tell the difference between these 2 pictures: *FCM and KV-1E* Gaijin: its the same picture ('decent armour' with a 'bad gun', justifying the KV-1E to be 4.0)
I was actually having fun in this pyramid tank the other day. I began torturing myself with unlocking and upgrading all French tanks and a the light tank and two mediums at 1.3 made me rage to 2.0. I had more fun in the 1.3 AA tractor then those 3 trash boxes..
Remember that poor T26-4 Odd killed? That thing is somehow even worse....... It lacks armour completely, it's just as slow and its APHE only has 1 mm more pen than this thing....Now THAT would be a suffer video, no lucky bounces in that bloody tin can!
We can all agree that no matter what tank Odd takes out he is going to do better than me with the best tank. Odd your singing abilities are second to none in that amphitheater. Kinda like singing in the shower. In closing: Odd you make world go round with your positive attitude..Thank you
Don't mind me, I'm just writing down something for...future fruition! 09:52 Ooga booga, ugheugabugabuga 10:07 Mommy I've put too much beans on my spoon! 16:50 ***clears voice***
I remember grinding through low tier France when it first dropped, and I spaded those tanks before they pulled those two tanks out and reworked them and put them as the reserves, I though I was gonna kill myself....
i decided to work on spading every single tank and aircraft that is researchable, nothing in the premium line or anything that has to be obtained through events/market, but anything a new player can load up and see in the researchable tree, and research when reaching it. and when i had these abominations, i almost caved and just started buying the upgrades instead of playing a match just to not even reach the first cap before the rest of my team already got and capped the point, and then die to the first thing i see because one of my crew decided to look at the tank, and the pressure from the enemy tanks exhaust backfire killed him.
OddBawZ 103K subscribers Agreed. The French FCM 36 Light Tank while an impressive, odd looking, but somewhat poorly armed Post World War I Tank. During the start of World War II the French FCM 36 Tanks didn't do so well during the Battle of France, as it was totally outmatched and outgunned by Germany's newer Panzer III Medium Tanks at the time.
This is not the worst tank in the game, just the meme got pretty big and people believe it. The worst one is another french tank, the AMC.34 YS, worse armor profile and a worse gun (24mm pen aphe at 0m). A video on that one would be really cool :)
