World of Tanks - Sweaty Badger 

It's bad because it's called BADger and not GOODger. I'll see my self out, thank you for the applause

Jingles in a trench : "Dont worry boys there are still 5 of us" The 4 other in the trench : "oh *****..."

"Help me, Doc, my tank's exploding." "Merely a Placebo effect."

At the risk of sounding like "actually Jingles", there's a few things I think need a bit of clarification in regards to why the Badger has a bit of a polarizing reputation depending on who's playing it. A lot of people consider it a downgrade to the Tortoise, especially tier for tier. The main problem with the Badger lies in its armor profile, which is simultaneously ridiculously good and ridiculously bad. On a ridgeline, where it gets to use its gun depression and hide its only real main weakspot, the lower plate, the Badger is virtually unkillable. The only things you'll need to watch out for are Tier 10 tds firing gold, and artillery. But that is its main problem, this only works on a ridgeline On flat ground, if it's unable to hide the lower plate, it's extremely vulnerable. The gun arc is good, but not enough to be able to angle the tank well enough to hide the lower plate and return fire. Angling the side at a 45 degree angle is a horrible idea, because people won't shoot at the upper parts of the side armor, rather they'll shoot at the front drive wheel, both tracking you and dealing damage. Compared to the Tortoise, which has a noticeably wider gun arc(which means you can angle the armor better), and the only weakspot being the cupola, the Badger is basically a completely different playstyle to the tortoise. The Badger excels on a defensive playstyle, taking a ridgeline and holding it with its extremely good damage output. But it's not the rolling traumatic event that is the Tortoise, a tank that is far more capable for an assault. The Badger's not a bad tank by any means, but it's a completely different beast to the Tortoise, and can feel like a downgrade especially in regards to overall playstyle..

The badgers biggest sin, was replacing the death star.

"I know how your minds work by now." Minds? What minds?

Plot twist: ‘Sweaty Badger’ is also Jingles stage name. 🕺😝

Actually Jingles!

i dont come here for the games, i come here to hear Jingles giggle to his own jokes

loses 15k credits despite heroic carrying efforts. Yeah, that's world of tanks' economy for you.

Actually Jingles, the IS-3-II only had the 100mm gun with 300 alpha damage and so couldn't win the match at the end with a high damage roll. Sorry, gotta keep the meme alive somehow...

Oh thank God, engine noise. The key to any video that anyone cares about!

"Badgers? ...... BADGERS? ..... We don't NEED no stinkin' badgers" - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre movie.

AAAcchooallly Jingles, I didn't google anything. Well... nothing worth sharing.

You should make a series of "Actually, Jingles", where you show how everyone explained that you were "wrong". Similar to "Um, actually".

You have in fact shown the badger before, brawling on the edge of some ruined arches and buildings and a field.

War gaming putting a completely fictional vehicle into one of their games, I don’t believe it.

I'm reminded of that daft "5% premium ammunition" statement WG made some time ago. A spiteful old part of me wishes they would actually enforce it as an in-game design choice and force vehicles to carry no more than 5% (rounded up) of their ammo load as premium rounds. I am well aware of some of the things that would do, but it would certainly slow the tide of armor creep and penetration creep we've been having in the past five years.

Baaadgers, they are the badgers! They stand for freedom and democracy! Badgers, they are the badgers yeah!

The IS-3-II had the 300 alpha damage gun, so he did not have a chance to win at the end there.

Sweaty Badger, there my safe words..

" it's far from a bad tank, unless your definition of a good tank is the Russian or Chinese medium that zips around the battlefield faster than other nations' light tanks, then instantly turns into a heavy tank the moment you get it hull down and mash your face all over the 2 key." Hey, Miners, we've got a new salt vein over here, grab your picks! Not gonna lie, the game IS turning I to that. If I can't afford premium ammo because I can't afford to spend money on this game and I'm running low on silver (ig currency), then how am I supposed to be competitive? It's honestly getting to the point where I can't play anything above tier 5, for fear of losing my shirt.

Actually Jingles, its pronaunced "Rubbish" not "Trash", Silly Jingles

last time I was this early tier 10 light tanks didn't exist

I really do enjoy watching your uploads, cheers 👍

Wow, just - wow, amazing match, thanks Jingles!

I’m thirsty for a Jingles WOT video right now. Glad to be here

Accckkkkshually Jingles, a tank 20 feet in front of you would have been proxy-spotted long before that.

Impressive work!

Wow Jingles !!!..............enjoyed a lot, .....the tension..... I myself am sweating just watching it, incredible !!!!

Sweaty Badger was the name of our grunge band back in the 90's.

Dude. Well played Placebo. Congrats on that victory!

I love these epic comebacks!

"Sir, we're surrounded." "No Corporal, we're in a Target Rich Environment."

that rewind at the end was awesome

Just to come back and say actually Jingles!?! Why thats a preposterous accusation Lord Jingles! We're just your ever so loyal Salt Miners answering the call for Salt, Crown & Country!

Now that was fun to watch. GG Placebo

Actually Jingles, I think you're correct this is the first Badger video on the channel. Jolly good job, Knomelord.

Thanks Jingles

Now THAT was a good game! Thanks J Man :)

I was expecting an epic RU-vidr crossover video with that title.

and here I thought tonight would be awful, Jingles here again to save my sanity

Thanks Jingles.

used to love runnin my T-50-2 through the magic forest. Good times

I have experience with sweaty badgers...

Aktshually Jingles, i am going to just sit here and enjoy the video!

Crazy vid

A Magic Forest? Reminds me of a drinking challenge with a glass of beer and peppermint liquor. On the way to the Forest one gulp of beer is drunk and then the glass is refilled. When the glass is all green you successfully arrived in the forest. On your way back you just gulp the green and refill with beer. The rumor has it that nobody came back from the magic forest so far. So now you know what's going on in Murovanka ;)

IS-3 II hits the badger in the Butt. Jingles: Took another hit from that M46.

Actually, Jingles.

Haven't seen this tank in forever

Actually Jingles, we have all the time in the world, cause we can pause the video to do the search! :P

is that the AC sounding in the background ey? ;D Sweaty Jingles!

Nice Machine.

Ohhhhh!!! Good Battle!

Just the title had me in hysterics 😁

“YOU LET A WHOLE COLUMN GET STALLED AND STRAFED BECAUSE OF A COUPLE JACKASSES!?”

Actually Jingles, that’s not a lemming train. GTA V has taught us that trains keep moving forward no matter what. This is more like a Boyscout Camping Trip.

All the other team had to do was push into the last 3 tanks together

As for the Badgers armour - I'm pretty sure one of the major issues pointed out when it was first introduced was lower front plate - it is quite a huge hunk of metal with "only" ~238mm effective. This is NOT bad, but consider it is bound to be compared to Tortoise. Suddenly the armour on Badger doesn't look that hot - sure, superstructure is great, but the lower front plate presents an annoying and easy to hit weakspot. Tortroise is more consistent in armour layout from the front. The major complaint was - Badger is hardly an improvement over Tortoise - it is more mobile, arguably weaker armoured, but gets worse MM spread at Tier10, while having only marginally better DPM and far worse gun angles.

I can't help but imagine how technical and skill-oriented a game World of Tanks could be at any tier, if only gold ammo didn't exist. But it's a free to play game. Have to have *some* way to pay to win, right?

Jingles I need to sleep

The beauty of the Tortoise is that it does have well-known and obvious weakpoints, and people usually dont't immidiately hit 2 key and farm it, but rather try to hit the weakpoints. And even if they are spamming gold, you still can wiggle around and move, blocking lots of damage anyway. Badger just a boring tank following the new meta, with no weakpoints whatsoever, so people just spam gold at it. They did the same to the old 263 with 268-4. Removing the fun and skill needed to play.

i quickly checked through all his world of tanks videos in the last 2 years and didnt find a video on the badger

The scouting Maus is amazing! More people need this but at tier VI; you know, that tank.... that needs no other introductions

I loved the magic forest so much. I miss over the top map features in the game today

Jingles!

Neat

ACTUALLY JINGLES I didn't google if you've featured the badger yet 🤣

Badgers? Don't got no Badgers. Don't need no Steeenkin' Badgers.

aaaaaaaaactually jingles.... i just felt like saying that lol

Possible to get captions on this? Most vids have em and hearing impaired like me need them. Thanks for the vids, gives me something to look forward to most days

Jingles seems to left out a bit. Badger players were coming from the tortoise, which had a different armor profile and got a super heavy spall liner, while the badger could only get a heavy spall liner. Recent changes have negated the spall liner difference but at the time it was added to the tech tree, that was an important difference for a tank that was guaranteed to draw major arty fire. It also didn't help that the Badger relied on "effective" armor rating that went out the window when your enemy got any kind of height advantage. So there were a few more reasons it was not well received.

"We live in a world where 272mm of penetration is considered bad", no one tell him there's ATGMs with over 1400mm of penetration

ooo very good after doing training

Oh wow. Thought it was going to be an unhappy ending

Noice!

Jingles, you DO realize that a sweaty badger is also a STINKY badger?!? ;^}

I liked that meta of the dark murky forest. It was a proxy of the cold war; just that in WoT; the clock is ticking and there usually Has to be A winner (in that the cold war; winners are not as easily measured)

You know jingles is out of shape, when he sweats from using Google

Just started playing this game on the PC, loving it, but want the T34-88

AcTuAlLy jingles the magic forest was remodeled before the 1.0 update

Yeah I remember the badger, I grinded that thing just before the death star removal so I can get the death star. Armor is average even frontal that is assuming your against tier 10s. Rate of fire is godly, if your firing all gold is good but anything else you are taking a chance. Camo is kinda meh if your in a bush; not good but not bad either. Accuracy is Okish for long range, great for firing on the move. If this TD had a little more health or even more slope on the armor it would have been better. Ideally if you had partner with tank with high profile and big beefy cannon. Maybe like a E-100 you can literally push by having you go first. Hiding the lower glacius of the E-100 while even if they track your tank, you have fasting firing rate than the defenders plus you got your buddy with big beefy cannon fire over you while that is happening. Oh the memories.

You can technically understand what shot at you from the caliber, angle and penetration, and a good tanker might know this. So I guess that's Wargamings' reasoning. But it definitely is an Arcade-y information.

"Look, if we built this large wooden badger . . ." *CLANK*

To be fair about the Lemming Train, one of them was the EBR and they probably didn't want to incur its wrath as last I checked French Armored Cars were still broken. Speaking of which, when will War Gaming get around to adding to other nation's armored cars into the game, I don't know about anyone else, but maybe they should take page from War Thunder and add vehicles like the M8 Greyhound or the Puma to the Light Tank class just to make the other tech trees more balanced.

for those looking to join the salt mines discord server, the one where our overlord is the ruler of, I would recommend against it, the staff are toxic and encourage the spread of it and personal attacks are rampant, thanks for reading the warning

Great gameplay! 😊 Thank you for an entertaining video, as allways Jingles! 👍😊 I just wish the game was less pay to win, like in the old days...

7:07 It's not just that no 123mm gun was ever fielded by the British Army. I'm pretty sure that no gun of that particular caliber has ever been fielded by *anyone* anywhere on Earth.

You should try Hell Let Loose tanking. Slower paced at times but pretty brutal. You would love it

@jingles, Please take the Badger on a Gnomearion run. It has to be possible by now.

There are some things you never ever type into a search engine.

I love my Badger

Badger booger

" Lemming Train " a rare thing in today's great game. Nah, kidding... Certain loose material.

as somebody who tried to three mark the grille 15, i can confidently say that 270-280 pen on t10 tds is not nearly enough, the amount of times that thing bounces is a miracle, and the second-best accuracy in the game means nothing because its a german gun so it hit outside the aiming circle half of the time, and the heat just gets eaten up by spaced armor as intended, apcr would make a far better gold ammo for it.

I had a thought: I can't remember why jingles quit featuring War Thunder videos as often as he did years ago and it's eating away at my soul that I can't remember this uhh little help with joggin' my memory anyone?

Just here to remind you ppl that the obj 705a has an upper plate which can, when not angled, bounce ONLY half of all known tier X gold rounds 😂

is it an option to show actual hp numbers at the top? all i get is just the hp bar.

Mushroom, mushroom