Should You Buy The 2S38? 

the amount of times i shot the ammo of the 2S38 with 105mm DM33 and nothing happened...

the FACT THAT this thing along with all other Rus lights has IRST and while CV90s are all still missing their IRST (except for the LVKV9040 wich is cv9040 with radar on turret) is just rediculus

Obscene this is 10.0, easily the most versatile premium out there. Thermals, 3 useful ammo types, LWS, fast, unmanned turret. Full 1.3br lower than HSTV-L (Empasis on L)

,, I see no Russian bias here" said Gaijin

One of the sad things about the HSTV-L and S238 comparison is that the HSTV-L doesn't even get it's proximity fuze shell. It seems that bias is just angry that the US tank from the 70s beats a modern 2016 Russian light tank in every metric besides 2nd gen thermals.

They actually buffed this thing in the seek and destroy update. It no longer has that 20 round belt. It can now fire all 147 shells in one go without having to reload

I got a nuke with this thing…that’s saying a lot considering I’m ass

I agree i have this monster and it is a puma in much better at the same br it should be 11.0 indeed straight ptw

i bring the 2S38 into top tier with zero issues because its so flexible with its APFSDS, APCBC, and HEVT

IRL the main thing about 2S38 was always it's frontline AA capability, but gaijin changed that completely by giving it a barely existing APFSDS round. So why don't other nations in WT have anything similar? Some fast shooting APDS or APFSDS lobber? They simply are NOT ALLOWED. 35mm AA is strictly limited to one short APDS belt. Similarly Italian OTOMATIC can have only 12x 76mm APFSDS rounds. Then again ZPU-57-2 AA is strangely allowed to have as many APCBC rounds as you want to take. This nothing more than abuse of an artificial classicification system.

ever since the object 292 got added and we had mixed battles for 10.0 (ussr vs ussr), as a russian main I found it extremely frustrating to deal with soviet vehicles in that br bracket, I fell you now nato players

It's crazy how strong that lineup is.

As somebody with the full Russian 10.0 premium lineup including bmp-2m I can confidently say they all need to be removed from the game

Have to disagree about the survivability. This thing generates absolutely no spalling from darts, and even a direct hit to the ammo or breach on the turret will just turn them yellow most of the time. It also eats hellfires with its magic russian composite, and it has a LWR, allowing it to kill helicopters effectively with impunity. If only other nations had something similar to kill Ka-52s.

As a Russian main I can't even defend this things existence and I also agree that the T-80UD should be put up but to like 10.3 or even 10.7 to give the T-90A a friend at that BR

Im gonna wait until Christmas or anniversary so I can get su25k and t80ud to finally complete the OP 10.0 bias lineup

It can kill EVERYTHING. APFSDS and HEVT can kill all vehicles in game, and frontally pen all tanks (without mentioning an instant incap is possible by spamming APFSDS at barrels and tracks). Literally the most broken POS in game.

i love using 2s38 came out of the corner with the rear of the tank

If it was Italian it would be, oh wait! It already is, with the Otomatic

I think in order to combat Russian bias at 9.3 and 10.0 is to just let every tank from the M60A3 to the last M1 with the 105 mm gun that you get fire M900

They need to remove 2S38 from the tech tree

Great video, love your "dry" sense of humor, LOLOL!!!

best thing is that the Strela was at 9.3 russian tree the absolute balance

I think Russia has the best SL grinding lineup at 10.0 if you have nothing but premiums to spawn in

I would like to say thank you for the new update on 2S38 about buying. On youtube. Thank you for this information. Content!!! YEEET

3BM69 is truly one of the shells of all time.

this thing is op as it can be

otomatic just cry over this

the russia 10.0 line up is really just vehicles you cant research you only have 4 vehicles from the tech tree rest are either event or premiums

The most effective tank in-game. Perfect for new players

sako is the dog in your intro your spaniel?

"Which Gaijin conveniently fixed after every one bought it" --truth!

while swedish cv/strf actually are even better then the game suggest they are the S238 is a fantasy tank from russia. it excist but is so over powered it's nuts. and the russian bias that does'nt excist is totally there. russia in this game are for lame people who have no skill, and that pretty much sums the russian tech tree up pretty well

3bm69 2s38 should be rank 8 💀💀💀 It makes the otomatic useless (im italian main)

I wouldn't say that the T-80UD has great mobility

"A single hit is going to kill this tank." lies...

3BM69- nice

My pet conspiracy theory about the T-80UD's 10.0 BR is that it's a rhetorical foil for the Object 292. The 292's 10.0 rating is supposedly justified on its lack of thermals, auxiliary armament, and extended reload. The 80UD solves 2 of those 3 deficiencies, but maintains the gimped Soviet reverse speed and has a comparable round to the TURMS so that "equates" to being roughly equivalent to the 292. While bumping the 80UD up to 10.7, or higher, wouldn't necessarily affect sales all that much, doing so would be an admission of imbalance that would, logically, also affect the 292 and its pricing structure on the GJN Marketplace. For one, I doubt the $80+ of the 292 would hold (less money for Gaijin). Also, since Gaijin takes a 15% cut of the seller's price on a successful transaction, it's incentivizing the seller to add more of their own money into the account balance should they want to spring for something like a $70 premium, even if it is a paltry amount (~$2) compared to them getting nothing. The players who ground the coupon see the value and in future events will do so again, perhaps even buying a star here or there to ensure they get what they need so it's not just about a lone marketplace transaction either. P.S. If you want to see why that 10.0 lineup stays 10.0, since they balance off performance metrics, I suggest you queue for different server regions at different times of the day. From about 11:00 to 16:00 MT, the Russian teams (especially at 10.0) on EU and NA tend to be utterly abysmal with the US doing really well. After 16:00 MT though? With rare exception, it's pretty much flipped.

The hstvl is just sad.

Tl;dr: yes buy it, its ungodly overpowered.

russia also has a bigger 10.0 lineup thn like all of the minor nations combined

3BM69...Nice

I'm a simple man. I see a SAKO vid, I hit like.

Теперь я понимаю, почему Джонов зовут нытиками

3BM69 NICE

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i have most of 10.0 line up listed here and i tell you thery are criminally undertiered

It is so annoying tank to fight with

It just shows how russia gets always better stuff, but yeah i guess this isnt really bad if you like ifvs but its just another op russian thing

3BM69 nice

Honestly, I don’t like the 2S38. I know some people are good with it, but I hate it. I wish I could refund honestly…

3bm69 noice!

I'm not sure for the reasoning behind wanting the T-80UD to be 11.0, its pretty much a T-72B (1989) (also 10.0) with a T-80U skin. I mean the T-80UM2 is just a T-80U with APS and no thermals, and that's at 11.0, it also gets 3BM46 unlike the T-80UD. Maybe if it got 3BM69 then 11.0 would be balanced

3BM69. All day.

2S38 literally requires NO skill to use. Need to move it up to 11.0.

The only weakness of 2S38 is its trash teammates. Russian teams at 10.0 have a whopping 48% win rate with all the OP tanks at that BR. Worst of all nations. Yes, they have a worse win rate than the US at that BR. Let that sink in for a moment.

Honestly the T72AV Turms needs to loose its 3BM42 and go down to 9.3, the HSTV-L needs a lower BR as its been power creeped to hell, the T80UD still has inferior protection to the T72B 1989 at the same BR. The 2S38 is supposed to be a sneaky SPAA IRL using its IR based Tracking to ambush aircraft with RWRs. If Gaijin really wanted to do anything they could limit the APFSDS compliment like they did to the Otomatic - its 12 round on the Oto as this vehicle featured two 12 round rotating cylinders that could hold different ammo. The 2s38 could be limited to 20 APFSDS IE a full 1st stage loadout...like the Otomatic APCBC and HEVT can be fully laden

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The amount of the absolute most vile hate chats I receive that come when I clap up people with the 2s38 is outstanding. Dozens of people have threatened to "R" and "K" my whole family because I smoked their lines of code and pixels with some lines of code and pixels lmao.

People always malding over that lineup, I think it's all the 10.0's, if you just wiggled them around a little bit everyone would be quiet about it and would STILL be dying to it. LOL The Russian lineup whining is so old now. TONS of crying in the comments.

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As someone with a full Russian 10.0 lineup, Russia 10.0 isn’t as good as USA 10.0, bro literally tried to say the T-80UD needs to be 11.0 XD y’all are so bad at aiming I guess. T-80UD literally only gets armor.. no thermals, speed, ammo, etc. This video is super biased, @9:44 the Leo 2a7 is the newest MBT in game, it’s actually newer than the T-14 Armata and SEPV3 (2019). Hstvl is a prototype blueprint vehicle, same with the XM1069… so Sako why are you lying so much in this video? SMH Considering I have a brain and can aim I smite the Russian tanks with ease

Wow, the most op one is not leo2a4 prem, what a sock! As I said, it seems hitting center of mass is still too hard of many postwar br players. Skill issue