World of Tanks || Why the T18 was Removed 

I remember T18 on province. Oh the filthyness

If you didn’t get 4+ kills in the t18, that was considered a bad round. Lol

A free OP tank from the teck tree? Let's remove!!! A pay to win OP tank from premium store? Let's sell over and over!!

We need old KV-1S replay!

Ahh the good old square render range. After the 'circle update' pretty much every map was broken...

it was a tier 2; TYPE 5 HEAVY.

Will be re released for 120 Euros in the not so distant future.

Yeah, this tank was ridiculous. Imagine if we had a vehicle nowadays that was impenetrable to all but premium rounds, with a ridiculous HE gun capable of practically 1-shotting enemy vehicles if it penetrates, or just shredding them for huge amounts of splash damage if it didn't... Oh right, the Type 5. Except it's at Tier 10 instead of Tier 2. And has a turret. And more armour tier for tier. And the second largest health pool in the game. Huh.

Shit quicky. You gave me some Post T18 Stress Disorder. Not cool.

I started playing back in 2011, The T18 was my first tier 2 tank and I always loved it. RIP T18

I remember getting behind a t18 in my t2 light, killing it, then feeling like a hero

I remember this, back then we called it "The Lunchbox of Doom"

O the goolden age when op tanks werent premium and not at tier 8

7:40 “Man, these kinda tanks...we’re looking back on it, it makes you realize that when people think about the good ol’ golden age of World of Tanks, was it really the good ol golden age? Eh, you know what? There were some aspects about the game back then that were a hell of a lot more fun than there was now. But, you know, that’s going to be with everything in life. You have those kinda ‘Oh in my days, things used to be better.’ You always remember when things were fresh and exciting at the beginning. You remember the more fondly… It’s hard to say. Obviously for me, personally, World of Tanks is not quite as exciting now as it used to be because that thrill of picking up a new vehicle. You’ve been there, you’ve done that, and now it’s just case of “Oh, how does this tank differ from the other 3-400 tanks that I’ve played in the game.” But for all of you new players out there, I hope the game’s exciting right? Maybe it is. Maybe it’s not. It’s hard to say.” -QuickyBaby, December 2017. This is perhaps the most clever and insightful commentary of World of Tanks I've heard in a long time. As a player who's been in the game since 2011, I personally relate to these words...

T18 is more like Deathstar of tier 2.

Basically a T2 Type 5 Heavy. Can't pen it with standard rounds and it has a huge derp gun

QuickyBaby please make a video *"Why the E25 was Removed"* ! Oh wait... 🤔

This thing had the deadly, laser-like accuracy of the KV-2 ;)

It was removed because it was OP and wasnt russian

And people say the wt e100 td is op but think again lol

The best seal clubber was the t 57 tier 2 artillery before it was changed. It had amazing armor so you would just shotgun with it

It was practically a tier 2 T95 with speed

Do you guys remember the good old days, when you were tooned with your buds in 3 T18's with binocs, camo nets etc on that map Province...lol those were some of the most brutal seal clubbings I have ever been a part of.

Brings back happy memories - T18s in Province. WG wasn’t happy having players have fun with tanks like these because it’s not profitable for them.

The T-18 was lit, now I only have the BT-7 arty to fill my sadistic, low tier, one shot-ing feelings.

The good old Legendary tier 2 Death Star ☺

When u feel bad for playing a op tank.......then you face Russian heavies......... doesn't feel bad for using op tank anymore

I dont want to be salty or unnecessary negative but the fact that QB spends so much time looking at WoT in retrospect says a lot about the game at present. QB has always appeared very positive no matter how weird WG have acted. I sense his retirement soon. He also has had enough

the 11 or 12 seconds of reload time is as an arty... it used to have like 5 to 6 seconds of reload

I really miss old days cuz there was a meaning of having skills. Nobody was able to gold spam or HE abuse and there was actually a meaning of Heavy class. You could break-through flanks like Swats are breaching doors etc. Today you either get penned by some gay heat/gold or eat a derpy he in the face then spend the rest of the game hide behind stuff. Nice armor mechanics Wargayming...

Noticed the enemy team had two t 18's and they didn't do squat!!! So this tank was OP for many but like any powerful tank learn how to play against it. I'm so tired of tanks being removed or nurfed because a few whine and complain cause they do not adapt. That is one aspect of this game that has me playing it less and less.

When I first played the T18 as a new player a few years ago, I was like "Is this armor even legal at tier II?" When facing Tier IIIs this tank destroyer would still struggle against most enemies, but when it was top tier, it shined. I originally didn't think it was overpowered because I played it with the small pop gun until I discovered the 75mm Pak howitzer a little later. When I mounted that gun, I was in heaven. I enjoyed using the armor to my advantage and the gun to wreck house, however I didn't use it as effectively as I would have now. Back then I was not that good of a player and that lead me to become so overconfident that I was flanked quite regularly. Eventually after I gained my first Tier X vehicle and gained some new found experience, I re-bought the T18 post-nerf and found it was still viable as this replay just demonstrated. The T18, before I discovered the low-tier French tanks/T67, had the highest kill count among all the tanks that I had played (at 10 kills, the only high tier tank that I had a comparable battle in was my E-100 at 8 kills - alone against 6 enemies - found on my channel). I was sad to see the T18 go as it was truly one of the best tanks that I had ever played and had a playstyle that was to my liking (at least at the time). I realize, after the abominable Chrysler GF and the other powerful Premium vehicles that came on the scene; that the T18 needed to go. Although I understand the decision to re-purpose it as an SPG, I do not understand the decision that Wargaming has made recently by giving us such vehicles that are more competitive, arguably, than the tanks a free player could ever research while putting such competitiveness behind a paywall in order to fill SerB's and the Russian's pockets. These kinds of vehicles are ruining the game for me, especially since I am still grinding to my end goal in tier X for many nations. I try to get better, but due to wallet warriors and gold spammers, such feats of the old days are less possible to achieve in regular tanks. What's worse, despite the reformation of the Matchmaker, many people including me see little to no change at all in how a battle plays out. True there are no more 0-15 defeats in NA, or at least reduced occurrences, however ROFL stomps seem to be more common as me being the one stomped instead of stomping the enemy; despite giving my all to carry my teams to victory. I know there is more for me to learn in this game, but I had thought my skills bordering on 1600 WN8 Recent would be enough. Unfortunately I currently underestimate the overall intellect of the playerbase in NA servers and as a result I am at a loss as to how to continue to have fun with a game that is becoming more and more unwelcome to those who want to be competitive without spending the money now required to stay competitive. SerB and the Russians have given us free players a choice: either pay to win or, at least, be better at the game or be prepared to lose, despite putting in a lot of time and effort to improve yourself in the game.

Back in the day when shots didn't diversify so much from the middle of the aiming circle...

The HMC version is still pretty fun (not OP) to play, because it's one if the few artillery that can actually pull off some bounces.

My favorite Tier 2 back then when I was a New player stuck at tier 3 tanks. Gosh the memories back then

This was very interesting. I got into WoT about a year ago and had never seen this T18 tank before. What an interesting look at the past I never knew happened. Thanks for the video!

I miss the tier 6 Kv-3 with the long gun. Sold it after they moved it to tier7 as it just wasn't effective at that tier. When the kv1 and 2 were the same tank with a turret swap, those were the days lol Especially the kv2 with the zis7 that gun was troll at tier 5 of course the derp gun too is still troll lol

I loved the old T18 it was one of the best td, i mean the first T18 before the Traverse speeds got nerfed.

I remmber when I started playing this tank...absolutely amazing!Fun at lower tiers.But then I quit Wot from 2014 and started again in 2016 so a 2 years break!Quite a lot of changes in the game then.When I saw my garage,i first searched for Pz II,then for T7 Car and then for T18...but T18 was no more in the garage.I went to my stats and T18 wasn't there neither.Finally checked the tech tree and saw the T18!But it was different....it was a tier 3 SPG....I searched for an answer for ages but no result....and now Qb came with a video.THANKS MATE!And the same situation I had was with the Province-one of my favorite maps.Now I just hope they won't take away my other low tier fun tank-Hetzer.

i really enjoy your work QuickyBaby, keep it up.

I started playing WOT on a very old laptop with no mouse - think track pad. The T 18 gave me enough advantage to overcome my technology impairment. Had I not had that advantage I'd of likely stopped playing the game.

Forgive this for lack of detail but this was years ago. Also this takes place on sand river. Once, long ago, I fail platooned my T18 into a tier 6-8 game. I kept jokingly saying I would kill a tier 8. Well after sitting behind my team and sniping HE shells at tier 6 tanks I managed to kill an old model KV-85 with 20 HP left. The rage was glorious. However toward the end of the match I followed my platoon to the mountain where we got ambushed by I wanna say a T34 American, and some tier 8 light tank, well my platoon mates dies in seconds leaving just me. I hit being the dead tank to avoid the T34, but the light tank was coming around the back, I turned my T18 as fast as it could go, fired, and got a lucky pen in the side killing the tier 8 light. The T34 then killed my but that's my story of killing a tier 8 in my T18. pece m9

Having played WoT since 2011, with a few breaks, its great to see the old game play and vehicles.

Actually the lower half of tank(not only the lower plate) was around 30mm so I had quite the fun countering those tanks with the pz. ll which have 33mm pen on the autoloader

Was the T18 over powered, yes it was, but it was so much fun to play. Everyone who started WOT a few years back survived the T18, then got their own. Please bring it back.

Loved those games way back with the T18. What was that map called, with the deep valley in the middle and the 2 monestaries on the right and the 2 towns on the left( if you spawned on the right)? Province? Golden days for sure! Aaaahhhh.

Why do we need the T18 now, when we have the E25, stat padder, seal clubbing tank?

...and have you noticed how much more accurate this cannon than the present ones? That's all that WOT has changed over the years ... (and the more and more unplayable maps)

To be fair, each team had two t18's but none of the others had so much as one kill. Also, as I hope people aren't stat padding while seal clubbing, maybe if you have more than 10 or 15k games that you can't play tier 3 or below (unless it's with a vehicle you haven't previously played for at least 100 games). Conversely if you have less than 10-15k games you can't play above tier 7 or 8. It's painful to see someone playing a tier 8 premium with less than 1k total games in high tier games.

The funny thing is actually that the T18 and T57 always had been misplaced at birth, so to say. T18 is a howitzer for support fire, while T56/T57 had the 3inch gun that was meant for anti-tank combat (later found on the M10 Wolverine).

Quickybaby pls do the same for the T-50-2!!!

Thank You all, was a pleasure playing! :D

This is how I feel in my SU-76i sometimes.

I remember this tank I was a new player and I was playing this tank so much because it was so broken but then they removed it so i started playing the KV-1. oh well...

I miss T18 and those battles Where there were half of The team fully T18 td’s

I loved my T18, i hated to see it go.

Some of my fondest early memories of this game are catching T18s sitting in the open, completely confident, and chewing them up with my brit 6-pounder gun.

I loved this tank and am so sad it’s gone. Fun, exiting, pure force.

Hopeless mm these days, specially for tier 8s where all they see are tier 10s, whats the point when you're spending real money on a fake tank to make fake credits but really can't cause the filthy mm keeps putting it face to face with type 5s and mauses where one is forced to spam gold rounds and end up loosing more credits.

It was truly wonderful when the T7 car or the Light VIC were both released and everyone played those, everyone other than the sealclubbers who were basically immortal in T18s when the enemies only had their little machineguns... Good times!

Considering the enemy team had 2 T18's, I would say that Diverzg did some good work here.

It wasn't that scary once one knew the upper hull plate was garbage.

Do a "now it's nerfed" for elc... We all wanna see it when it was a great tank

Bloody hell, E25 is back in the advent calendar, again... So, 13-57 in the next few days? Micro Maus? Pz 2J?

As I remember, most of the machine gun tanks couldn t pen even it s side armor👏👏👏

Still a tier 2 in Blitz, fairly op

I loved this map at tier 2. It helped me learn the basic mechanics of the game. This map and Province were great with tier 1 and 2 tanks. It made the Tetrarch relevant. :) It seems like they keep trying to ruin the game a little bit at a time with their changes by removing or restricting maps; by changing the matchmaker to a set of strict templates. WG just keeps chipping away at what makes this game fun.

I miss the good old KV1-S :(

Type 59 before it was nerfed pls.

never seen one player getting 15 kills and believe me, I have seen plenty of replays from a variety of channels....

Now the E25 has gone on sale for a laughable £42 bundle QB can talk about it in his next video. They know everyone wants an E25 so they shove extra bundle stuff on and put any price on it because everyone will pay anything for an E25. I myself would love an E25 and I'm actually contemplating getting one. I have no moral soul. But then I guess WG is to blame for putting it on sale in the first place, not the players.

T 18 was my favourite tier 2 td OVERPOWERED

in the past I got 10 kills one time with this tank! (My record)

The T18 was a beast. With binos and a camo net you could absolutely rule Province

QB please do a T-50-2 replay if you have :) Good ol speed demon

T18, Hetzer with 105mm, old KV with 107mm or 152mm at tier V, SU-85 with 107mm... .. I remember many many op tanks lol :D

If it had been a premium tank it would still exist and be on the advent calendar in a $100 package with shit loads of fluff ...

Ok, how about a crack at T30 while it was still a tier X heavy? That would be some blast from the past

Well, I remember when I've got 13 kills on the B1, I think, definetly was filled of adrenaline lol xd

I didn't even realized that this tank had been removed since I was gone for awhile, but this was my favorite tank back in the old days. This was the tank I got my first 6 kills in and raelly got me hooked into the game for awhile.

Back in my day we had alot more fun maps

I remember one of the weirdest things about it, other than it was so op as to be a posterchild for the term, was that when you were fighting it front on your first instinct was to aim for the lower glacis, cause on almost every tank the lower is thinner than the upper. Thing was it was much easier to get through the upper glacis than the lower or the casemate. I've never encountered another tank like that in the game.

Funny how they realized this tank was broken and nerfed it in WOT but then still put it into Blitz in its pre-nerfed state afterwards. This thing was OP in Blitz for a long time after 2014, and I have many fond memories of seal clubbing

the old time T18 is the past of the time of why this are the way,

reloading got a bit wrong in 4:35. I think Quicky means DPM, not reload secs... :) time edit...

Next vehicle can be old KV-1S.

I played world of tanks since 2013 but my most fun years were 2014 and 2015 i must say, nowadays i play like 1 match a month

Watching this video ... now I know QB has no idea what happened in tier2, hm, most of cruiser III could 1v12.. in most of the maps.. t18 isn't ..good.. lol

This thing on himmelsdorf down the alley was a great time

next good old kv 1s

I’ve not played this game in a few years, but I still watch the occasional qb video. Watching this made me remember the dark times, of 7 arty either side, laser guns. And when arty had tracers, and the good ‘ol hellcat. And +-3 matchmaking. I miss it. Nowadays, the game is too saturated, too many people, too much gold spam, gold tanks. Everything is gold- automated report system; making reporting useless compared to the original time when actual people responded. These new maps- the old maps; port, old sand river, north west, serene coast, dragons ridge; overlord is cool ‘n all, but still. The only map I’m glad is gone is that one with a centre island and campfest woods to the east. I miss the good ‘ol days, as it were- Wargaming became too big, money became their drive, not the game. I miss it.

It isn't that the memories make it more fond. It WAS a better experience.

Me and my buddy used to duo pz2's and just t18 hunt all day. One distracts the other tracks. Before I quit I killed twice as many t18s as any other tank. I knew every weak spot and hidey hole and always spotted them for the artys too. Fuck that tank.

first tank to give me 5 frags... giving happy face to a tomato

Wot has definitely reached its golden age cuz everyone spams gold round

T57 Heavy Before it was nerfed !! It would Be awesome to See That beast how it was in The past

The most impressive thing in this replay is not his 15 kills, but that none of his teammates managed to get a kill 😆🤦‍♂️

T18 made a good target for the loltractor: you could pen them from the front from 400 meters away with premium. I killed a LOT of them trying to protect my fellow tier 1s. I'm not particularly interested in seal clubbing: I was grinding for sixth sense on the LT for team play, back in the days where tier 1s were useful for that as scouts.

i remember driving across the field in malanovka in this because i just watched a t95 do it. i had similar success to say the least XD

For some reason you're in the the playlist "All Kurzgesagt Backround Soundtracks"