THIS HUGE GUN IS AMAZING BUT IT'S A MAGNET FOR PLANES - Nashorn in War Thunder 

WHO IS BETTER? NASHORN, DICKER MAX OR STURER EMIL?! THE ANSWER IS MY DECAL! :) store.gaijin.net/catalog.php?category=WarThunder&partner=Oddbawz&partner_val=2bpa5qx4

I love how Bawz is a youtuber that actually brings somewhat of a lineup to help win the game for his team, and doesn't leave at the slightest sign of a game loss!

The fire damaged Nashorn is nearly finished and is going to be at tankfest (Bovington) this year.

The thumbnail perfectly describes how I feel about the tank, considering it has no gun depression and is the size of the eagle’s nest.

its so amazing how he can manage to guess the distance so acurat on long distances really show what a lot of playtime gets u

35:15 The timed fuzes on the 88 and the Russian YaG would be fine if manually setting the range also adjusted the fuze on the HE rounds, but because it only works when you rangefind it's completely useless as you say.

Actually playing this during the world war over the weekend was actually great fun due to what you faced and the maps being so big most of the time.

"even if the bomb lands 20 metres away you're still a gonna"... well, with the size of bombs available at all tiers now, even if you're in a tank, and the bomb lands the other side of buildings 100 metres away you're a gonna. The problem is that even normally useless rifle caliber rounds from a plane will do you in.

Fun side game: Any time someone rams you (or odd) and is a general jerk driving around. Pay attention to their score at the end. They almost ALWAYS end up near the bottom with 1 or zero kills. People who are trying to win the game / score the highest, aren't obsessed with ruining other people's fun.

Welcome to what 90% of us have as a game experience, continually getting taking out by air gets a little tedious!

The nashorn is actually quite an enjoyable TD to play if done correctly

I honestly love the Emil Sturer, one step below the nashorn. Get cannon with -15 degrees of depression. And the BR is better imho. If the Nashorn had more gun depression then you can just sit on top of hills sniping long distances but you really can’t. Still fun but still an open top with paper armor.

It can actually excel in urban maps if you know the maps pretty well, its advantage is a very high gun placement and scope allows you to peak over a lot of urban terrain most can't and if you find a nice building to sit in makes it very hard for planes to even notice you, trick is to find a spot like this that can cover high traffic crossings at a good distance

Can we get a M3 GMC video? A pickup truck with a tank gun strapped to it, I love it

The Nashorn, KingTiger, Jagdpanther and Elefant ( or Ferdinand) all shared the same Absolute Devastating Kwk 88mm Pak 43 L/71 AT gun. The most Powerfull AT gun of WW2. It could engage and destroy any allied tank at distances superior to 2.5 kms,and in some cases even Further. If the 88mm Shell of the Tiger I was already a Nightmare for any allied Tank,just imagine that same shell but with Twice the Proppelant,that was the ones used by the Pak 43. Absolutely Devastating the sheer Power of that Huge gun.

Hey odd! You should play the 38t it’s very fun with its short stop stabilizer! Plus use some amazing cas you can dominate the battlefield! Yes I copy pasted ;)

2 Years ago i played the Nashorn not as Sniper but as Attacktank in Citys, was a lot of fun because reload is good and mobility is also real good

I just love the casual remark "That guy did not angle today". Entertaining stuff as always.

I recently finished off an M18 with the side mounted lmg's on my Nashorn. The M18 commander survived the main gun hit, but was pretty exposed.

"This tank is awful, useless, can't do a think, totally weak." Double ace. 😆

getting bombed or even singletapped by a 20mm is the fate I meet whenever I take my Jackson out too

"That guy did not angle today" Dollar would be so happy to hear you say that

Well, proxy fuze would be unhistorical af... But I think it would be fun to have the crew automatically guess the enemies distancr and speed and setting the time fuze accordingly and have a decent way to manually set a fuze-distance.

It's one of those vehicles that when you do well in it, you do REALLY well in it.

So in other words the tank suffers from CAS and from cold war vehicles, so balanced

I always feel a little bad when I destroy a Nashorn

In reality, Nashorn gave the longest hit of all WW2 Tanks. Kill at 4km

I want to see a lineup of Dicker Max, Sturer Emil, and Nashorn (Maybe Ferdinand/Elefant too, idk)

I have been taking a break from War Thunder and now I found you finally playing the Nashorn. Despite how overpressure and CAS can shred you, I found it deceptively survivable at times due to No armor best armor shenanigans. Taking around 25 rounds empties the ammo on the sides and many AP rounds simply pass right through the top superstructure without detonating. Since this thing is not very common and not considered that much of a threat, many people are not fully aware of its layout and might fail to disable you with one shot of AP. My preferred playstyle is using this as a first spawn and staying somewhat close to teammates. Just enough to know that they are engaged with something and take it out if its giving them trouble. Or park in chokepoints where enemies will drive right into my sights. In my lineup, my goal is to use it to soften the enemy as much as possible before I use the Tiger to clean up the rest late game.

On those sorts of vehicles they need to make it so that the driver in the hull can't be overpressured then put another crewman in the hull sitting next to him. That way even if you're hit by HE/HEAT you have 2 crewmen who always survive.

You're colourblind?! Damn man, I have 20/20 vision and couldn't see what you see in that game all the time! Hats off!!!

I often play the Flakbus and death by air with angry revenge kill is common, proxy fuse would be awesome, I probably get around one kill a month with the timed fuses on soft targets.

I absolutely love the idea of open top tank destroyers getting proxy fuse!

My fav TD used to be Ferdinand, but when Gaijin up tiered it, I drop playing it. Shifted to Nashorn and never complain ). Almost same performance, except it is not tanking, it is just living a bit more under fire). My favorite application of his gun: Cargo port - those shoot outs along the highway, Tunisia - east spawn on a beach allows you to shoot tanks incoming to the city right from the spawn -:) and of course Firearc, and other big maps to use snipe shooting. Eastern Province? Where people can shoot from spawns directly 2450 meters to take out any tank who appeared out of hills (if your spawn on the west)

Killed an IS-2 with a 2.7 kilometer yeet on Red Desert with the Nastyhorn. Special place in my heart.

Good to see that the Nashorn still can do the job - in the hands of someone that knows what they are doing - and at the same time deliver some funny comments on the way. Im impressed :)

Thanks BawZ! Was actually looking for something to watch to joint

The variety in cas planes is appreciated :)

@35:20 "German 88 proxy fuzes?" But the Germans never had proxy fuses during WWII, so it wouldn't be historical. But they SHOULD give tanks with time delay fuses much faster ranging/setting, since IRL they would have had someone yelling out the range for the loaders to set the fuse to as they were throwing them into the breech.

Nice! You should play the M103. It's funny how far it is from real life, because real life the M103 could pen the front of even the T10M, but in Gaijin-land it can't even pen the upper frontal plate of a Tiger II

The Nashorn is one of my favourite tanks of all time, along with Waffentrager and Leopard 1A5

Bro when you said “Tiger don’t die here” you sounded like a Dollar store Arnold Schwarznegger

Yo odd it's been like two years since you had a mid-low tier Sweden air support vid like the j21 a3. Just started playing Sweden so I'd love to see it!

That's some good shooting in these videos. Good stuff👍

Wow a Nashorn video! Thx Odd!

Yeah, if I am in CAS and see that there are enemy Nashorns, Dickers, or Waffletractors out and about, you better believe I am looking for them!

Nashorn's good as a Emergency vehicle for uptiers if you wanna play 5.0-5.7 Germany. I have lovingly nicknamed mine "Jumbo Be-Gone"

Proxy fuzes would make those vehicles so much more fun to play, and considering this BR is always full of powerful props I think it would make the matches more interesting.

I think proxy fuse would be too much but ability to set fuse distance manually i.e. using alt +scroll could make timed munition less senseless

the Nashorn is a great support vehicle, very good sniper, if you play it properly it can be a menace. And it has decent mobility for re-locating when needed. The gun for it's BR is just insane. Correct camouflage, bush it up and you're very good to go.

Gotta luv it when you play a tank that needs a specific type of map and for many many games gaijin just doesn't want to give you a viable map for the tank you are grinding out. But around this BR I think is the most fun for tanks between 4.0 and 5.7 rite in that spot where its not a tank with a million different types of equipment and you have to use your good ole eye sight to spot enemy with out thermals.

Love the Nashorn. Statistically second only to my Panther A. There are some maps were I just won’t use it, like Sweden.

18:28 That's DOLLARPLAYS Decal

My poor Dicker Max crew knows this pain all too well.

2 things I would say, I cannot imagine nashorn being above dicker-max. Nashorn have speed, but every other metrics is weaker. 105 on d-max and -15 depression is absurdly stronger. if you find a steep hill D can shoot without showing himself at all, which is nice.

5:58 - 6:04 "I'm not him" Oh the irony: 6:09 It's not your fault, it's the greatest map design ever.

I saw this video at 03:45 AM after oddbawz 5 minutes upload this video. It is my best record of all time

I can remember when I first unlocked the comet struggling to kill these things due to no armour best armour etc, until I found out I could one shot hull break it with APDS by hitting directly above breach, those were the days

If you load the front of the Nashorn or any of the german SPGs with foliage you can sit right out in the open for at least one good shot. But you're not big on camouflage.

what really kills this thing is the lack of gun depression. The Sturer Emil is a vastly superior vehicle, with actual armor and even a better gun - a full BR lower.

Lol! You said it! He did not angle today. Please do something with Dollar! I am waiting for so long to see that happening.

making oddbawz laugh is the best thing

i have the bst rounds for a long time with the nashorn. this is an awsome tank

Regarding the video title, it's even worse in combined simulator battles, since you can spawn a plane immeadietly. If you roll thru an open field on a large map it's over. Sam if you show up in a destruction feed. I try to look where it happened and go after the open top vehicle. Marder, Dicker Max, Nashorn, VFW..

I still wonder why you cant elevate the mg34s upwards to disencourage planes... They have anti air visors and are clearly modeled on a pivot mount. Would be nice to crit a plane before getting quashed

I usually use Nashorn to get a quick kill and get into bf109 k4 to destroy US CAS planes. Been having a fantastic time

My most played vehicle actually. Love it. I feel it's really survivable to most things but MGs. But that's usually not an issue as I sit at range mostly.

i remember when i played the nashorn i had went into a brawl with a t-34-57 and we kept going around and around, it was so funny and even thought the t-34 had so many opportunities to shoot me i think they had breach damage or smth. i ended up killing 2 other tanks and the t-34 and died from a bomb literally inside my vehicle

Nah, Nashorn was not SPAA, but flak bus actually was. Probably adding proxy fuse is not great idea, but time fuse mechanic should be reworked somehow in order to be more usable.

This thing with it's gun at it's br is absolutely insane, ive been playing it recently and average 5-9 kills a game with it, absolutely ridiculous

2:30 The discussion about why the Nashorn isn’t good does sum up quite well the problem with lightly armored TDs. I never bothered with TDs playing Germany in BR 1.0-3.7 since I always had good guns at my disposal, while the TDs do have better penetration or damage, they only matter in a few edge cases and the lack of a turret, thin armor, and open top just make them not worthwhile. I did use the ZiS-30 at BRs 3.3-3.7 in USSR since Russian guns are not as powerful and do struggle with against Sherman’s in frontal engagements and is inconsistent with the up-armored Pz.III and Pz.IV as well, so taking something with a more powerful gun does make sense but it was horrible otherwise. I didn’t have much success with the SU-85 but it was far more survivable. Sadly these vehicles are difficult to make worthwhile, since there isn’t any benefit to having far more penetration than necessary and you can’t make things more dead past a certain point. I only see them beneficial to nations with generally weak guns like low tier Japan, France, or Italy.

That first match, poor YanVit, man was just tryna recover from the first cheek clappin Odd gave him... And then Odd flips him over and does it again...😅😆

As a Nashorn main player (approx. 3.7m sl won and im level 37.) It is a good sniper tank. Very fun to play with.

Hey Odd, thx for giving some love to the Nashorn and Me 410. Can you play the Japanese Sub-l-ll next?

I unlocked it a few days ago and this thing rocks

first time i hawe heard him sneeze 6:40 *silently* UAAAAACHAAAH👹👹👹

With you and a few other content creators around playing this game and basically offering advice about map advice and positioning it is insane how many teammates so often seen completely oblivious as to a good way forward... It's like it's their first time playing the game, every time 😔😔😔

Instead of giving them proximity fuses, they should give each team a radar station on the map to feed rangefinding data to AA platforms. Make the timed fuzes take their timer setting from the range you set your scope to instead of having to rangefind to a random rock or tree.

that sneeze was cute man

In the polen map I slaugther the spawn from longrange with the Nashorn. I would had gotten many nukes if it had it at that BR. Why not, I thinks it is fair as getting slaugthered by air everytime. War in a nutshell.

Love the nashorn and the 88 flak truck lol.

Just completed my 5.3 line up, even stock, this thing slaps, but yeah, you MUST play it a bit passive, always sneaking around in ambush

what i don't get is that the nashorn has 2 MGs with anti air sights but they can't elevate upwards lol

Odd try saying purple burgler alarm 3 times in your scottish accent

Bless you!

Absolute legend!!!

I like how you pronounced this vehicle correctly :)

If you want a difficult challenge try playing the Churchill 1 but only using the secondary HE cannon

Should try the amx-10 rc next. A french, wheeled vehicle that turns like it's a tank with neutral steering because why not.

If you kill someone while using and open top it's like you just started a timer ticking down to your demise. It's only a matter of time until someone you kill is gonna spawn that plane and come back to bomb or strafe you.

Yay, OddBawZ!

Had you brought a 109f4/g2 or 190A8, the last game would've been a lot different.

Yeah the Pershing is a monster when down tiered. I got 8 kills with it just taking shots from panthers and tigers.

Yup, I love the Nashorn, but as the BRs increase, I like the three SPGs less. Dicker Max is by far my favourite (I actually have a video on my channel where I use it) and the Sturer is fun, 128mm bonk is a joke and then the Nashorn just gets honked by most things and the 88 is pretty standard at 5.3 Not to mention it only has 5 degrees depression, compared to the Dicker Max and Sturer Emil with the ability to peek over hills (very useful)

ty odd

Nice games. Proxy fuse was one of the allies big secrets. It was only allowed to be used in specific circumstances and with high level permission. Just a game - I know. ;)

Bless you bro

i love your content i wish you the best and you have teached me alot

Where's the amongus chongus lol love this man haha

I like the new overpressure mechanic, I just think it's far to powerful. If it just stunned the crew for a period of time instead of out right killing them all. I think that would be a more balanced game.