The Scariest German Tank Destroyer

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The German VFW tank destroyer is a vehicle that I have a special hatred for. When gaijin first added it to War Thunder, it was incredibly powerful. Overpressure has tempered it a bit, but it is still an absolute menace in the right conditions. The long 88mm cannon combined with the 4s reload make it an exceptional TD.
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The Scariest German Tank Destroyer
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@Spookston Год назад

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@FatherGrigori Год назад

Smooth transition to sponsor

@redterror7242 Год назад

Tortoise

@theroyalaustralian Год назад

Blocked by Netflix. I should know, I had a carer who's SurfShark VPN was blocked by Netflix before he switched to Cyber Ghost VPN.

@familyjobe853 Год назад

Play the strv m/42 TD .

@pothead_parryz9171 Год назад

surf shark is so caca for a vpn lmaoooo

@britishspy4791 Год назад

What’s really scary is the warrior IFV and you should for sure play it

@FuriousFire898 Год назад

I agree with this message!

@FatherGrigori Год назад

Yes, modern ifvs are really fun

@person0-016 Год назад

That mf be turning on a dime

@DubiousFIN Год назад

You are the spy?

@TheLifeguard Год назад

Bootleg British Bradley

@OumuamuaOumuamua Год назад

I remember when this thing was spammed and the highest br tank I had was the t-34-85. It was pain

@cookiecracker2 Год назад

That's how I learned to hate the thing. Anyone who plays it gets my he shell or a bomb. They must pay penance for the horrors they wreaked on my grind.

@filmandfirearms Год назад

I remember this before overpressure was added. It was bad enough on close-mid range maps, but if you got a long range one like Maginot or Kursk, god help you

@Dronerivers Год назад

The VFW made me quit playing. Highest tank i had was the 76 Sherman

@cookiecracker2 Год назад

@@filmandfirearms oh yeah, hehe back when hull break was a thing I killed a VFW 1 time by hitting the very edge of the flap XD

@bigggmomenttt Год назад

AGS vid would be real cool I think u would like the speed that little bastard is fast

@255omega9 Год назад

tbh i dont think that most of the planes are people beeing angry but just seeing a defenceless opentop massive tank destroyer

@AndyKraken Год назад

They should allow you to raise and lower the sides in-game with the VFW. The mechanic for this already exists (bulldozer blades) and would make for a neat and actually useful feature

@emib6599 Год назад

Maybe also for the Breda 501 (The italian anti tank car)

@Kijby Год назад

You actually can. You can raise the sides in the game but reload time will be longer.

@garrettknox5266 Год назад

I've seen it with sides up. Looks like a toaster.

@insertname7557 Год назад

@@Kijby it's a good trace and i think it's actually raised for traveling and such, but yeah 6 seconds is still fast.

@andrealves2630 Год назад

Its totally useless. I have a VFW and its fantastic due to the 4s reload but if you raise the side pannels you are severely limiting the gun traverse, reload nearly doubles and the protection is barely adequate for rifle caliber machineguns while HE and arty will still murder you. VFW with sides down = cold blooded deadeye predator VFW with sides up = a harmless toaster

@PrometheanGOld4 Год назад

You should play the QF Ram, it’s quite quick and I personally find it fun. It’s essentially the Canadian alternative to the VFW

@privatecanook Год назад

Please

@vgames1543 Год назад

Bought but did not use it yet.

@jamescassady4629 Год назад

Its actually better in my opinion it has a 90mm gun that fires solid slugs that just obliterate pretty much anything they touch

@jakobc.2558 Год назад

It's realy bad. I earned it in the event way back when and it's not very fun. 94mm shells suffer from volumetric, the velocity is suprisingly bad for an AA gun, you dont get a range finder, it fires solid shot and ofcourse you get pressure waved to death. Probably my least favorit event vehicle tbh.

@_lliu3oqppehu9l_83 Год назад

@@jamescassady4629 it have worse penetration, much worse damage and lower firerate. Are you okay? Why british trash can is better?

@frankdrebin3988 Год назад

Spookston: *spawns the VFW the first time* Every Plane in the match: _And as for you, I don't know you but I'm sure you're a jerk!_

@SlavaUkraine751 Год назад

As a German and a German player I sincerely apologize for my community’s lack fathers. It is a problem we have been facing for a while now.

@_aragornyesyes_7171 10 месяцев назад

No no the Americans are the ones with the lack of fathers

@BloopTube 4 месяца назад

Only during WW2 and the early cold war, draft ends after that I guess because the teams behave

@angelapolinar5343 Год назад

Spookston dying to planes over and over again: Me: Do I need to remind you that this is an SPAA

@mrpotato1543 Год назад

I love my mom Edit: Why no heart for this original comment

@dunkin8369 Год назад

Same here!

@FuriousFire898 Год назад

Same Here!

@allenjay896 Год назад

Same

@michaelbeale559 Год назад

We do too, bro ✊️

@Fion195 Год назад

Same here!

@diamonddollar1527 Год назад

6:20 I don't think it's that people hate it, it's that planes see anything with crew exposed and immediately go for it

@some_random_rando Год назад

For the people that know about it they hate it but for people who don't they just see it as a free gun kill

@coloneldickens9031 Год назад

It probably doesn't help thats its so damn w i d e either. Surely visible from orbit

@some_random_rando Год назад

@Colonel Dickens I can attest, it's visible from Pluto

@warthunderenjoyer Год назад

*Loads HE with malicious intent*

@chasingresonance8124 Год назад

*7 kills with no retaliation and solo-holding points* "Omg people hate this why would they bomb meeeeee?" Lol I don't understand this mentality of doing well and then claiming its unjust to be targeted, or being in an open-top vehicle and thinking its unreasonable for planes to shoot it.

@Ta-Dah-ei7qe 5 дней назад

Haven’t seen a transition that smooth in my life from a video to a sponsor

@szkielzu 3 месяца назад

6:05 >"i would not spend money to make a war thunder video" >plays the premium vechicle

@juliannng Месяц назад

FRRRR

@theneef174 15 дней назад

But its an event vehicle

@szkielzu 15 дней назад

@@theneef174 war thunder wiki says it is a premium, and it is in a premium tree

@tombeer9 Год назад

10:12 with the sides lowered down they can act like wings to allow the vfw to glide over some obstacles if starting from a high enough vantage point.

@Liguehunters Год назад

can it be towed by an plane and act as a glider

@Journey_Awaits Год назад

They planned to use them to drop tactical nukes over the battlefield but the project was thankfully cut short

@Ob1sdarkside Год назад

You've got to admire those guys that drove around the corner to see what made the other tanks burst into flames

@Tlhague998 Год назад

VFW: *exists* Literally everyone on the opposite side: And I took that personally

@Altazori Год назад

Nice video as usual. I don't think it's really the tank itself, stuff like the Nashorn gets absolutely tunneled by CAS as well, so ig it comes down to the CAS player seeing an easy kill. That's one of the reasons I avoid playing paper TDs.

@stevejobs335 Год назад

fr i have the nashorn and the stug 3 g in the same lineup and i barely touch the nashorn cus it gets ripped apart immediately lmao

@cogcog5264 8 месяцев назад

I go from sniping a plane out of the sky with a SU-85, to I can't even hear a plane before I get my shit shredded

@bulalonglomi7995 Год назад

Attempt 2 You should try the CA Lorraine. Fast AF for its size, deadly and accurate gun, but thin armor. Loads of fun in my opinion

@shronkler1994 Год назад

I LOVE the ca Lorraine. although you often have shots where you take out nearly everything but not enough to just one shot them..

@Haggard3152 Год назад

Oh yeah, CA Lorraine lovers assemble !

@lechardonrouge6172 Год назад

Not deadly a shitty post pen

@hunlepto2239 Год назад

@@lechardonrouge6172 Solid shots have amazing post-pen after 90mm. And the CA Lorraine is no different, being able to quite often one-shot things.

@cheesemarine Год назад

I just steamed through a T44, Tiger 2 and Ferdinand in a Lorraine today in one quick sprint. Was not expecting to be able to play hyper aggressive in a SPG, the speed actually makes it somewhat viable

@ErumTheProwler Год назад

A spooky Tank is the U-SH 405. Might even be a little Gremlin

@DaddysBelt92 Год назад

Yes cover it all over with bushes and you zooming all over the map without being seen

@Josh10Force Год назад

@@DaddysBelt92 Add in camping behind whatever ridiculous set of rocks you can find and the thing is untouchable except from the air, had one sit up on a hilltop behind rocks and dude farmed my team. You literally couldn't do anything because the breach (i think) would just eat your rounds and he'd duck behind the rocks, add on the proximity to his spawn and trying to flank was suicide.

@MrTeddy12397 Год назад

@@Josh10Force bro it's ammo is all inside the gun.. genuine skill issue

@AceTheMM Год назад

There's also a version of this with the short 88. Would make for a nice squadron vehicle.

@DonHaka 4 месяца назад

I absolutely adore that you use C&C Generals OST in your videos. One of my alltime favorite OSTs.

@dr.raccoonphd8045 Год назад

CAS is such a dynamic addition to ground realistic battles

@jPlanerv2 Год назад

Misspelled shit addition

@cookiecracker2 Год назад

You mean terrible addition right?

@MetalX34 Год назад

tbh sometimes you are given time or a margin of error to dodge the falling bomb or some strafing. that can be pretty thrilling to do. however that's like 1% of plane/tanks interactions with the rest just being that "hide yo kids from the blitz or die" game not a lot of people likes.

@dozergames2395 Год назад

@@MetalX34 i like the asymmetry it makes the fame original

@cookiecracker2 Год назад

@@dozergames2395 you must be a very casual player.

@mechwarrior7278 Год назад

You editing is a masterclass Spookston, Bravo

@SilvaDreams Год назад

When they introduced the VFW I was excited thinking we could raise or lower the sides in game.. I was sadly disappointed when it's purely a in-hanger option. Also the Timed fuse HE for air is utterly useless for shooting down planes because to activate the timer you have to some how range a moving plane and by the time it finishes ranging they are no where near that range anymore.

@janglin488 Год назад

Can we get a video on Tunguska? It seams that Gajin misunderstood it's role as SPAA and decided to make it anti-tank as well.

@braedenh4687 Год назад

Have you perchance ever played an spaa in war thunder? like half of them can be used to kill tanks

@drmaulana2600 Год назад

@@braedenh4687 most AA in Warthunder also effective in anti tank role lmao

@janglin488 Год назад

@@braedenh4687 Sure, you can also use tanks and tank destroyers to destroy planes, but that is not the point I was trying to make. Tunguska is extremely capable in both AA and AT roles. The only better SPAA I can think of in those two roles is ADATS in US tree, as it has APDS rounds (extra 16mm od pen compared to Tunguska) and rockets capable of penetrating up to 900mm of armor. You can argue that other SPAAs using APDS ammo have better pen, but they either don't have access to rockets (Falcon, Chieftain Marksman) or those rockets are IR guided (Gepard 1A2), so that's a good trade-off in my eyes.

@prnob8869 Год назад

@@janglin488 Gepard at 8.0 be like:

@ricardohumildebrabo Год назад

Guy got killed once by a Tunguska and came this this comment section.

@person0-016 Год назад

I like how this thing has more depth of gameplay in terms of playstyle, allowing players to sacrifice protection for offensive prowess.

@Flippyisawesome13 Год назад

Glass cannon style.

@christopherpolly6805 Год назад

@9:02 has the same energy as multiple teammates in seige or any other FPS peeking the same window they just watched someone get their head blown off from.

@Colonel_cucumber Год назад

hey i just want to say your vids have helped me go from 1 rank 5 tank to 3 rank 5 tanks thanks for making these vids

@judedeschamps2369 Год назад

I remember this one guy i the forums calling for this thing to be moved to 6.7 because, and I quote: "It's nearly impossible to kill with AP of any kind in one shot". Apparently US mains forget the HE and .50 cals exist

@evo3s75 Год назад

Yea xD they often do But they also like to just whine around even when they can use he or .50cal which every US tank and their mom's have

@lector-dogmatixsicarii1537 Год назад

VFW players forgetting how much the thing absorbs, the post. You're probably dead by the time you get HE loaded since the VFW reloads faster than a 75mm Sherman and the 50cal will have issue with the gunner since he is sheltered at an angle by module structure. VFW only has to click once to the anywhere and you have to aim specific shots. It does belong higher up.

@lplayerjohnny9778 Год назад

The problem with this type of vehicle and spaas generally: You exist to counter planes (or in your case not) you can get killed by any plane in existence. Most people dont see spaas or something like the flaktruck or the vfw as actual threats, they see it as cheap kills. And i dont know how the snail could buff them but idk, lets remove the coellion (yes im still tilted about that) and replace it with another easy to kill spaa. Seriously, make planes harder to spawn, if one team wins then they are just everywhere. I do like the VFW tho and the flakbus aswell. Fast firing funguns that look goofy but kick ass. Generally like them and im happy you played the vfw

@BrockvsTV Год назад

I appreciate all your edits. They are funny and well done. Thank you.

@Nightmare_52 Год назад

i love seeing VFWs, good target for a quick HE shell to the dome it is also very funny with the side flaps up, actual toaster

@Haggard3152 Год назад

Attempt 6 at getting Spookston to play the CA Lorraine. It's good I swear, just press w.

@destroyerarmor2846 Год назад

Epic fast flanking tutel

@Haggard3152 Год назад

@@destroyerarmor2846 big gun go zoooooooooooom

@garretturbaczewski2019 Год назад

I wish unique vehicles like this one would become available again, especially for console players.

@brandor763 Год назад

For real, dude.

@tyrannicswinen117 Год назад

I know, I’ve said a few times Gaijin should do a redux event a couple times a year where you earn old event vehicles

@apunishedmannamed2473 Год назад

@@tyrannicswinen117 can't have an artificially inflated econ if you just re-release vehicles willy-nilly

@tyrannicswinen117 Год назад

@@apunishedmannamed2473 I don’t see the harm in occasionally allowing players the opportunity to earn vehicles they may have missed because they didn’t have a rank 3 vehicle or are a new player, like I joined War Thunder when the QF 3.7 Ram was available and I’m always annoyed I missed that.

@lector-dogmatixsicarii1537 Год назад

Tell me you're a post COVID player without telling me you're a post COVID player. This was the 2019 red I-180/Merkava event where you fixed the plane between micro-transactions that ruined the mechanic premise. It's not a console issue, you just weren't there, lol.

@spartan14x26 Год назад

thank god spookston made a video on this, i have it and love it with the 4.3 second reload

@chemicalconfusion6164 Год назад

This format of video is actually very good, keep it up

@feraltrafficcone4483 Год назад

I always love seeing all the revenge kills, helps remind me a little bit about why I quit

@wasditus2408 Год назад

Dear Spookston, I've been watching your videos for a while, although I've only played WT for a couple hours. I really find all the graphics and control settings overwhelming. Could you make a video explaing them and giving opinions for which key binds and graphics settings you recommend, what you're using? Thanks!

@jcool42069 Год назад

There's already a lot of videos out there doing just that. Keybinds is down to personal preference for the most part

@theol.1988 Год назад

@@jcool42069 That is very true. I, for instance, steer with my pedals for the most part and my binoculars button is the space bar.

@redbuttons573 Год назад

Great vids! Would like to see the EBR (1954) in action. Haven’t seen them around since the BR change

@xecoflow852 Год назад

The VFW chassis looks like someone who is having a really bad day.

@alexandertouma5588 Год назад

When I got it in WoTB(mobile WoT) I fell in love with it because you can use 88mm in tier V. We call it the toaster because the panels(?) are up and not like what WT has.

@wickedjaws5400 Год назад

You can pull the sides and back up, but it limits gun movement, reload goes significantly up and its just not worth it

@fluffyboom Год назад

it does have them up if you select that modification. However, it increases the reload to 6 seconds, but with them down the reload is only 4 seconds (for essentially a tiger 2 gun lmao)

@AleLGB Год назад

Spookston being sad about dying after one kill like that's a rare thing to see in WarThunder

@moriartyholmes8172 Год назад

That was quite fast! Thank you.

@collinolson8926 Год назад

Strv 42 both DT and EH are fun at their tiers. The EH has surprisingly good armor and is pretty bouncy at times with a decent gun and mobility. The DT has a fantastic 4 round semi-autoloader and is very mobile. And even the turret front gets bounces occasionally despite being rather thin.

@Dinozavr210 Год назад

Good video, thanks! Since you are trying out German tank destroyers maybe Sturer Emil/Dicker Max next? Quite interesting in their respective BR

@duumek201 Год назад

How about ZIS-30 ? I love that TD, and I'd love to see you playing it, maybe even on higher tiers, as cannon is pretty powerful.

@princessapplestrach6327 Год назад

It can be played to any tier lmao

@neogeo39 6 месяцев назад

I've seen entire teams drop anything they are doing and hunt down this thing as soon as it pops in the killfeed

@camoking5059 Год назад

“I only killed one person!” I feel the same way, but the judge still sent me to prison anyways

@goldenwind7138 Год назад

In a weird way if you put add on armor it'll put the plates on the sides up

@FreudRulz Год назад

I remember when this absolute menace came to WT ground, I never got one (though I very badly wanted it). I was maining Russia at the time, and let me tell you that I *completely* understand why they get strafed to high hell. Community PTSD around this thing's monstrous introduction is still strong

@dingoe8841 Год назад

I love how it was the jumbo right at the start that was the one who killed you in the corsair

@EnemyAtom65 Год назад

Bro's wrecking enemies in a mobile patio with an 88 screwed to the bottom

@aevisprimedrg7297 Год назад

Ya know, you should for sure do the Comet at some point. Kind of an underappreciated tank.

@Just_Adrian_ Год назад

Now that you've played this, play it's much worse younger brother, the flakbus (forgot what it actually was called, but the halftrack truck with the 88)

@fantasticalium Год назад

That fuze time on those bombs were so long, you could've unironically gotten away

@lucasvyner1502 Год назад

it's a cas magnet because even a blind tank main ( as you demonstrated) can apparently see it from space in a plane, too easy to find for middling cas that just find enemy targets vs pro cas that will scope the battlefield for priority targets ( like a guy solo wiping half the team).

@CaptainScorchMane Год назад

I'd love to see your take on the Concept 3. I've heard a lot of mixed shit about it, but I've loved every second of playing it. It's a pretty punchy Light Tank, for its' BR.

@guiltyofbias8818 Год назад

I loved zipping around the map with it and just dunking on tigers, it was great for cat hunting

@dewoitine 11 месяцев назад

I love it when spookston gets revenge bomb. Respawns in the same tank and kills the guy who revenge bombed him in their tank. You know they HAVE to be even more salty after that

@donovanchau3483 Год назад

Coincidentally I got an ad for an Adam Driver movie so seeing that initial meme caught me off guard

@Klumzy05 Год назад

There's another German tank destroyer I forgot what it's called but I think it's good, it's in 1.0 re but it's weird why they put it in such a low br.

@Snack-Sized-Femboy Год назад

mizkid

@Palozon Год назад

"Because it's cool" and "because it's funny" are perfectly valid reasons for playing suboptimally.

@ericgibson6352 Год назад

I would honestly love to see you play the Yag-10. I thought I would hate it when I first unlocked it, but it became my best TD so far

@Wulfenthrad 6 месяцев назад

8:52 Waltuh, Put your tank away Waltuh The enemy is watching your corner Waltuh

@rokinz3270 Год назад

This thing is a beast. Loved it on Kursk since you could effectively engage two tanks at one

@whyshouldishowmyname848 Год назад

Id like to think of that random dude shooting people as him headpatting people lmao

@Mug0ddity Год назад

Great video as always , i was wondering what sound mod do you use ? Those shots sound so much better

@DatNguyen-hk2zk Год назад

It's a fun fact that you're the only one RU-vidr I watch the entire sponsor ad without skipping it

@Pheonix_Freezing Год назад

8:46 Loved how you just stood there and accepted your fate

@clemencejg_br2724 Год назад

The 151 at the end was just vibing with you lmao

@edgysniper8575 Год назад

"I have 1 kill and I'm already being strafed by a Corsair" just sounds like every game of WT I ever play

@timothyzamora2292 9 месяцев назад

8:02 this is the sassiest I've seen spookston get and I'm loving it

@nineonine9082 Год назад

Remember the first time I saw this thing, I was in my 2c bis and was like DAMN YOU THICC BOI! helipad on tracks, bloody sucker blocks the entire street

@dankmaster1475 Год назад

Would be great to see the Breda 501 being used as well

@t2av159 Год назад

The toaster is great, Just watched out for CAS but that goes for every tank

@ReaperDaCreaper Год назад

Plays a flak gun and worries about planes flying at him directly to strafe him.

@Jay-ln1co Год назад

It's like being the one dude tasked with carrying the flamethrower.

@shrekgameplay4516 Год назад

Spookston: I am winning the war by myself. M-51: Are you sure about that?

@theteadrinkingowl.2295 Год назад

I think the Aircraft target the VFW, not because players hate it, but because it is a large, open vehilce. Easy to see form the air and even a few 7.7's can do damage.

@Viking88Power Год назад

I forgot I had this thing, I'm now addicted.

@shadowcatch4731 Год назад

I have literally never seen a vfw before so i can understand people pushing it despite its super fast reload simply because they have no idea what they are looking at or how fast it can shoot.

@marcelievsky Год назад

Would be cool if those huge platform on sides and rear could be toggleable in/out or on/off

@redcobra9588 3 месяца назад

this tank scream : " LOOK AT ME IM THE FUNNY LOOKING TANK "

@skippysbro Год назад

I’d love to see a video on the Object 279!

@andyhull9182 Год назад

Only thing scary here is the low quality of enemies, always just happens to find the seemingly bots for enemy team :

@silencian4789 Год назад

Of course the corsair that gunned you down was the jumbo player back from the dead, man really flew right back to you.

@monstersquadbro9178 Год назад

the day after i get a rocket kill in grb, on a vfw no less, you upload this

@Soviet20 Год назад

I love this thing. *This thing is the equivalent of bullying someone calling them fat everyday, and they turn around and slap you with their hand so hard you pass out for few seconds...then you come back the next day with your parents because he's bullying you.* Same vibes.

@shadowlord4569 Год назад

The funny thing is (idk if anyone else said this and you might already know this) in test driving the VSW, the sides are raised.

@bthsr7113 Год назад

I think the way to go is to put the side up situationally. Like when you're changing firing positions.

@DeathbyDawn141 Год назад

Spookston: Why do they get this tank? See everyone hates this tank! Me in my airplane: oh thank god a VFW I need some spawn points.. sorry buddy.

@bubby9175 Год назад

Bro won the war by himself twice

@Juel92 Год назад

Honestly I think that thing is so rare at that BR that no one knows what it is. I've never seen one in game as far as I can remember and I've played that BR a lot. I think it's just because it's super big and open that it becomes a CAS sponge.