The Hellcat Is Too Good 

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Petition for Spookston to do a video of him fishing irl

The anti-CAS lineup being used for revenge CAS is the start of Spookstons' villain arc

i did not expect a fishing ad for a tank game vid

someone needs to make a spookston "im out of it" compilation. Like dog, when are you in it?

8:03 - that cupola shot on the IS should evaporate his tank. In shot simulator it does, but as of a couple weeks ago, even long 88's can't pen it in matches.

0:13 "It's much more balanced now" Wild how a video released one minute ago has already aged like milk

Ah, my favourite line up to this day. M18 Black Cat, M18 GMC, M42, the 20mm F4U-4B, the AM1. I have talisman for all of them, so it is a real RP and SL earning lineup. It's also a very toxic lineup

M18 _gets buffed_ Spookston *_plays the unbuffed blackcat_*

Hullbreak is definitely a mechanic that should have remained in WT, but the amount of tweaking it would require was not worth the effort. Periscope is an external module so here's the counter example: imagine hitting M18 with 152mm APHE shell which fails to fuze. That M18 is still in battle... depite having a high 152mm ventilation tunnel all along it's side which together with welds giving up under such stress would mean that that hull has no structural integrity left behind it whatsoever. Or another example would be those reports of SU-152 mission kills on Tigers where a concrete busting round was utterly destroying turret ring, roof that it was a part of and heavily deforming turret and hull of the Tiger... and then Tiger continues to fight.

I think the M18 is the ground vehicle I've had the most plane kills with, something about a single top mounted M2 just resonates with me.

my little story of the m18 back in the day i got hull broken by *APCR* from a t-34 when it hit my ROAD WHEEL

M18's saw action in Western Europe and Italy, I think they rolled them out in '43. They only made like a third as many as planned, in part because the 76mm wasn't as good as the 90mm on the M36 and couldn't frontally pen German heavies, the Soviets weren't interested in them for lend lease, and a doctrine change of using tanks and towed guns instead of a mobile gun platform like they planned when seeing the Blitzkrieg in Belgium and France. However, the shoot and scoot that it was designed for came in really handy for the Battle of the Bulge, where one company basically beat the Germans to a critical town and blocked part of their advance. But yeah in WT it's dummy good. Keep up the great content!

Spookston revenge bombing revenge bombers is the start of his villain arc. I am 100% for this “I’m tired of being the bigger man”

This is the start of evil Spookston's arc, and I'm all for it!

Grab T86E1, add tracks of T87, add M36 turret of "Super Hellcat". Here, "we have Object 906 at home." In 1944.

War thunder logic: I can penetrate the front armour of a heavy tank in one hit. But a bus cannot be destroyed.

Spookston really giving off the "You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain" vibes with his counter-CAS, and I love it.

He has now become the 1 thing he swore to destroy

Hill break is actually still in the game. It applies to the tank train on the newer map with the Running Track and the Blimp and it might also apply to the train on American Desert

„You either die like a hero or live long enough to become a villain…” Basically Spookston with CAS

Spookston on his villian arc rn fr fr and pulled the uno reverse on the cas

The fact that they're moving this to 6.0 is criminal.

Spookston on his villain arc with the CAS this video

The fighting back has to be some of the funniest stuff I’ve seen in a while

Some logic behind the hullbreak makes sense. If M18 gets hit by 75L70 in the breech, I don't really think the turret can take the momentum of the shell without getting displaced, which essentialy means - an important piece of the tank is no longer properly attached. I've read about T-34 getting hit by 88L71 in the engine. Engine got ripped out of the chassis. So imagine what would occur if similar storry happened to even a smaller vehicle. Would the crew still be alive? Maybe! But with engine gone and a fireball in its place, the vehicle would be a goner. Of course in WT tank fire is usually absolutely harmless, unless it's a fuel explosion. IRL if you have a burning pit where once engine was - nobody is staying in the vehicle to find out what happens.

Spook playing the best tank to get cased, as a known cas magnet are probably his favourite gameplays

13:18 spookston has had enough

Great vid as always, hope your recovery is going well

13:40 Spookston's journey to the dark side begins

Thank you for bringing attention to the ELC's spotting problem

Attempt 11 Challenge: For high tier support a nations MBT with its respective APC/IFV counterpart (ie Abrams/Bradley, T90/BMP2M, etc.) Challenge is keeping the other player alive and supporting it without stealing kills (breaking barrels, tracking, repairing, etc) it being a random should help make it interesting.

i remember i used to get hull breaked in the m18 if someone shot a round at the side of the tank where there is empty space shell goes through it, does nothing yet i still died

7:47 If I remember correctly, hull break was gapenning. when you hit cannon (barrel or/and breach) or transmaission (not periscope). IMHO it was better, than overpressure, not ideal though...

I love when spookston does the angry animal thing snarling intensely on tanks. It is funny!

i was playing with the hellcat and thought “ wow in surprised spookston hasn’t made a video about this yet, it seems like the perfect tank for him.” and low and behold he made a video

Hey spookston it’s not that it was too late to make a difference but in fact refused to outright use it. They wanted something more mobile but the same armor as a m10 so becoming a faster tank with a lot less armor became issue for crews so they said I’ll stick with m10 basically until they got the m36 into production. With only thirteen millimeters on the front hull, the M18’s armor was less than that of the M8 armored car. Of the nineteen tank destroyer battalions allocated for the invasion of France only 3 were equipped with the Hellcat prior to landing in Normandy. You have to think that the crews went from the half track with a 75 mm canon in North African to the m10 than the m18 I don’t think they would want to go back to a lightly armored tank destroyer again

I absolutely love the hellcat, it's still one of the vehicles I have the highest win rates in. It'll be strange when it goes up to 6.0, but I'm not too upset about it

Spookston lore line: 1. Start off as a plane player 2. Realizes tanks are better 3. “It’s annoying to get CASed but I guess it’s part of the game 4. Bro this is getting annoying 5. Realizes that he’s cursed 6. “IM PLAYING TANK BATTLES WHY DOES THERE NEED TO BE PLANES” 7. Literally crying* 8. Not even phased 9. Does a heroic shot to save ally but fails anyways 10. Fulfills descent into madness 11. That’s it I’m tired of being the bigger man 12. Becomes a plane player 13. Repeat 🔁

7:25 yeah hull break, I remember how you could hull break Warrior by firing MG from side at the boxes in the back, or centauro by hitting the wheel

At the end I got so nervous watching him fly right above the trees

As a german main, the hellcat and m18s were the bane of my existence. The US cas that would result after finally buzzkilling one was always hell too

Mans was fishing as young as 3 and they trusted him with an actual hook. I just had the rubber fish shape on the end of my fishing rod

"I'm tired of being the bigger man" *insert aggressive phonk here*

I thought that fisherman in the ad segment looked familiar. Turns out it's from Stimpee, a Rust youtube with questionable thumbnails.

13:38 Welcome to the club. At this point I get more enjoyment from ruining other people's fun as a side-effect of playing than anything

11:30 Man is so vindictive against CAS the sturmtiger rocket was enough to trigger him into a plane to kill CAS

Alright here's a challenge to follow up on this video: You go to the Chinese Tree, take the M18 they have, take the M42 they have, and the M64, try to get as many kills as you can with the M64, but need to play either the Hellcat or Duster first to prove that you are being historically accurate. Or just a general video on the M64, that thing is adorable!

Man, Hull Break was...something. Imagine intsa-killing an M10 or M18 by hitting it with APCR in like, the corner of its hull.

In this episode, Spookston begins to enbrace the power of being the problem.

I think the worst part of the M18 moving up in BR is I can't have it in my line-up with the Jumbo 75

Me: why can’t I see anything that spookston sees? He has amazing situational awareness! Also me watching on 480p on an iPhone

the Spookston Villan arc is here with taking out CAS

Yeah funny story, I was once, on one particularly bad match in that annoying port map everyone hates, down to the Hellcat (Italian tree), the only tank I could use, I reluctantly spawned it in because of a streak of "gaijin moments" happening to me when using the vehicle, but low and behold I was kicking ass left and right, uncapping points BY MYSELF, and for a moment I thought absolutely NOTHING could stop me, until I met my match: The PREMIUM Hellcat, I fired at it first but one TINY detail on the frontal plate SOMEHOW sent my shell to the Backrooms, then he fired back at me on the same exact spot I tried shooting at and I died immediately. We lost that match but I saved the replay, shame it's dated now and I can't view it anymore.

“I’m tired of being the bigger man.” - Spookston, April 2024

I NEED AND IRL SPOOKSTON FISHIN’ VLOG!!!!

I really want to see spookston make a video of him being a manace taking revenge and targeting only those who cas'ed him until the player in question leave the match XD

For being the King of Rat Vehicles, I’m surprised to see that Spookston has never made a video on The Rat King, the M22 Locust

“An excellent addition to a lineup” Gaijin, getting ready to absolutely obliterate the 5.7 American lineup 😈

Only OG Spookston viewers remember the 10 second Apex Gaming ads.

talking about hullbreak my fondest memory of that was when I shot a ZSU-57-2 in its side all the way near the back of the hull it didnt hit anything yet I got the kill because I broke the hull.

Should try the UDES 33. It has really good depression at 20° and it got an upgraded tow missile last year.

One thing this thing lacks to make it top tier fun is stabilizer. After playing with USA tanks for a long while, you kind of get used to having stabilizer in your tanks, so getting into one without it feels kind of meh. It's still my favorite thing to use when playing USA tho :D.

bro joined the dark side with CAS

Im pretty sure I heard plenty about the hellcat on the history channel back when the history channel would actually talk about history

Hellcat getting to 6.0 is certified zerstorer food

the puma 3.3 German armored vehicle meeting each in the same route:

"You never really hear about the Hellcat" I think that's in part because, though it did a lot of good work in WWII, it failed to properly replace the M10. Although the M18 improved on the M10 in many ways, it had a different layout and more notably had less armor. Some people didn't mind because the M18 can stop bullets and it's not like the M10 was going to stop much late war munitions anyways, but between the thin armor and needing to learn an entirely new layout a lot of groups armed with the M10 elected to keep using it instead of the M18.

I would have rather kept the m18 at its BR and corrected its penetration back down to accurate levels for the M1.

Don't use gun pods if you're flying CAP(Combat Air Patrol). The extra burst mass often is not worth the significant reduction in flight performance. Welcome to Team CAS Clappers.

goal in life is getting good enough to CAS spookston

That Sturmtiger wanted you GONE

when do we get a video on the ptz-89? it has 450+ mm pen at 8.7 and with 5 seconds autoloader. its an interesting vehicle for sure

Quick fyi. M28 in game is a light tank. Not a td. That's why it gets scouting. I would not be happy if they took that away

11:58 that dude thought he was being stealth mode.... (totally not leaving a dust trail) he expected to come around that house.... but his nose on you..... and slap you down . little did he know.... all he was going to do was turn right into a wall of bullets . thats one of the funniest things ive seen for air to air combat.... from Aces High to DCS..... holy fuck that was funny! . . like.. .most will probably not understand why i find that so funny but you just out flew AND!!! outsmarted DA FUQ out of that dude... . just turned the tables on his ass LOL

0:46 Shimano Sienna. Man's got good taste in fishing reels. (if that is him in the video)

7:40 tbh, Hullbrake was more consistent than Overpressure. And didn’t say “Fck you” to all vehicles. It was bad, But I preferred it to Overpressure. If Gaijin makes Overpressure consistent and less broken, It will surely be better.

Spookston villain arc just dropped

“That is a VFW” through the trees

I loved the sound effects at 6:10 - hilarious!

When he said "it's 3am" my brain went "but it's daytime in the video, how early is sunrise in his part of the world!?" Took me a moment to remember that video games can be daytime even if it's dark outside. I am not clever.

spookston should play the low tier fox daimler ll

Oh god... Spookston finally fall to the dark side. He's revenge CAS-ing.

Ah yes. The Go Kart with the Same gun as the 76 sherman.

I just unlcocked the Hellcat todat. I am absolutely considering getting myself the premium as well so I can have TWO hellcats. If only I could also have multiple M24s.

Spookston and Odd should play the silly Roblox game, Cursed Tank Simulator. It's like war thunder but you can put different components on different tanks

8:00 yeah, but the tank was designed as a scouting vehicle.

Yo spookston I think since you played the regular hellcat I think you should use the super hellcat, it’s even rattier than the regular hellcat and the 90mm gun is so satisfying when it connects with a Panther and a tiger’s turret (btw keep up the great work)

Ayyy stimpee’s fishing video got taken into a fishing mobile game ad

I’m glad spookston is finally taking the initiative in reverse CAS distribution

Spookston joined the Dark side of CAS xD

11:22 maybe a hacker seems crazy that he hit that without seeing you

Spookston is the best person to have on your team, god at tanks, destroyer of CAS.

You dont hear a lot about the M18 because it was the victim of the same thinking as the 76mm Sherman: units with M10 just didn't want them. Why go through the headache of switching to a new vehicle when what you already have works fine?

I would love to see spookston play the mighty T-10M

The Hellcat gets spotting because it's classed as Light Tank ingame and not as Tank Destroyer

Here for the Spookston villain arc

I've always wondered how you're able to hit aircraft with the main gun like during 14:00 Any tips??? btw love the content!

Spookston is have a actually good tank for you to have fun with the m46 Patton is a good tank it gets heatfs and can pen a tigers front hull armor and it has good mobility only downside to the tank is it dosnt have alot of armor.

I like the fun facts about the tank. You should add that more to videos. Made me smile and I learned something.