In this episode I show some matches from the recent "Rapid Fire" event, where SPAA vehicles are pitted against each other in a battle to the death! Or the end of the round. Yes that definitely seems more likely.
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00:00Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of War Thunder.
00:03As you can probably guess from the title and what you're seeing here
00:06this is a match from the Rapid Fire event that we just had last week.
00:11Basically for those of you who don't know it's anti-aircraft vehicles only
00:15so quite a bit different, definitely a lot riskier for
00:19enemy aircraft in theory. As you can see here I've taken out the
00:24I can't remember the name, the M13? Ah yes it's on the screen, the M13
00:29with two .50 calibre machine guns. Now this might seem a bit
00:33silly, all the German and Russian tanks have anti-aircraft vehicles
00:37the 20mm plus
00:39but these .50 calibre machine guns are no joke
00:42I did two games, one in this and one with the Flak Pants, I didn't do particularly
00:47well I didn't do bad in them but I didn't do massively good either
00:51I got one kill in each I think. But like I was saying these .50 calibre machine guns
00:56definitely not to be underestimated
01:00I can't quite remember but I think it's something like 27mm of
01:03penetration at
01:05100 metres
01:07which is quite a
01:09lot when you think about some of the
01:11early tier tanks
01:13Now there's our first target, I've started opening fire
01:17didn't get the kill but I believe I got an assist
01:20and I've got some points out of it
01:22So after an OK-ish start I got some points, got an assist so
01:27helped kill the enemy
01:29Now
01:30the anti-aircraft vehicles aren't particularly protected especially the
01:34truck based ones, went a bit laggy there for some reason. I kept having this
01:38I don't know if it's because of the map or
01:41the amount of
01:42vehicles all in
01:43close proximity
01:45Now the main problem I actually had in this match was not being able to aim
01:49down enough
01:51which is quite bad
01:52for an anti-aircraft vehicle that's meant to be able to fire upwards a lot
01:56to suddenly have to aim downwards
01:59not something
02:00that was really considered in the design process
02:03understandably
02:05We tried taking a shot at that other vehicle, we got some hits in I think
02:10no assist, no kill
02:12as of yet
02:13but here is where you'll see the
02:14.50 calibre machine guns come into their own
02:17just round the corner
02:18Enemy target ahead
02:21and riddled it with bullets and straight through the armour and got him
02:25It was a Werbelwind, which has I think
02:2920mm cannons, possibly 37mm
02:32and we completely trashed it despite all its armour
02:36Took some shots at this guy but didn't get him unfortunately
02:40Like I said these .50 calibre machine guns are
02:43very useful even in
02:45you know normal tank battles you can get
02:47I've been killed and have got killed just by spraying enemy tanks with these and getting
02:51good hits in at close range
02:54Went to shoot at that bomber but
02:56a bit too late, can't remember if it had been shot down or if I just couldn't aim in time
03:00Unfortunately as you can tell from the
03:03time at the bottom I didn't last much longer
03:07It was actually another .50 calibre machine gun vehicle
03:11As you can see we unloaded lead on each other but my driver
03:15unfortunately got a very bad case of being shot in the head
03:21Clean shot through the head
03:24He survived
03:25at least for now
03:26So that was the end of that match for me, unfortunately
03:32But not being one to admit defeat and only having
03:35had one game I decided to
03:37take the Flak Panzer 1 out
03:40Well I'm skipping forward here because there wasn't much going on at the beginning of the
03:44battle but it's not a particularly good vehicle
03:47It's actually based on the Panzer 1 chassis unless I'm mistaken
03:53It's quite god awful
03:55It's not particularly, I mean it's
03:56okay speed but it's very hard
03:59turning, getting up obstacles, I just don't like it very much
04:03This bit actually
04:05started lagging and you just saw there I just went straight ahead
04:08It sort of teleported me
04:10I was stuck there for ages, I remember I had that sped up on like four times
04:15speed
04:17I do have this problem with
04:20ground forces especially on the urban maps or this map
04:25which is unfortunate but I do
04:27try my best to avoid it
04:30Well you can't really avoid it but I try not to let it affect the videos
04:34or anything too much
04:36But anyway at this point I was just trying to flank the enemy
04:39You may have seen
04:40some of the bombs being dropped all over the town, it was just hectic and explosions
04:47Now, well fortunately I noticed this guy but unfortunately I should have been
04:51I should have been looking, checking my flanks, checking over the river in the
04:55first place, I don't know why I wasn't
04:57This is in play a few but I managed to get an assist on the other guy
05:02As you can see, and I'm taking another pot shot at, I think it's a German tank
05:06Possibly, can't quite tell from here
05:09But again another assist
05:12Now, again to speed it up a little bit because I was trying to outflank the enemy, I was across the river
05:18and you know, just trying to
05:20get through town, clearing the sides of the river
05:22Went laggy a bit again for some reason
05:25There was one, I think someone else came over the river with me and I ended up
05:28following them, I think they were in an Ostwind or whatever wind, I can't quite
05:34tell all the different German anti-aircraft tanks apart unfortunately
05:39But yeah, there they are, so I started following them, I think they've got the 37mm gun
05:44I don't know where they went
05:46because I've got it sped up, I think he did actually cross the bridge
05:50but it went a bit weird, it made it look like he fell in for some reason
05:54Flak Panzer showing it's
05:56pretty uselessness, getting past obstacles again
06:00not being able to knock over an umbrella
06:03Took a few shots at that bomber, I forgot to slow it down again at that point
06:07because I remembered attacking it
06:09before I did the re-recording
06:13but I didn't get any hits or anything
06:16Now this is where I finally
06:18did quite well
06:20came up to the capture point, well we've captured them all but
06:25we still had some enemies around this one
06:28nothing to my right
06:30I don't know why I was looking to my right, that's where all our allies come from
06:34went to attack a bomber again I think, or I was at least searching them out
06:40but I can't see anything
06:42so at this point
06:44an enemy tank sort of pops around the corner and we try to deal with them
06:48bombs are exploding everywhere, artillery
06:52I should see the tank, yeah I've just seen it on the left if you're
06:55lucky
06:58should just be clearing up
07:00there we go
07:01so it's another
07:02is it a way over wind?
07:05like I said I can't quite tell the German tanks apart, but I can't remember the names properly
07:09I've taken some damage to the track, suspension, vertical drive
07:13I can't remember if he did the damage or not
07:17but I finally managed to get him
07:22what was it?
07:23Flak Panther, oh it's Ostwind
07:26for some reason I
07:28didn't consider that name
07:29now
07:30it was pretty much the end of the match at this point but I wanted to do my bit
07:34attacking bombers
07:36and I tried to advance
07:39very badly
07:41as you can see here there's a bit of a trench line
07:44you know the Flak Panther is quite light
07:46it's not the best at crossing obstacles but I thought this little wooden plank
07:50at the bottom over here would be
07:52possibly a good crossing point
07:55and at first it was
07:57I got up here
07:59tried to cross the trench and
08:02just as I get across it manages to get
08:05the track caught on something and it's all pulled back into the trench and yeah
08:09that's basically what I spent the whole match
08:12I was going to actually leave the vehicle when
08:15this happened
08:18yes I was killed by an artillery shell
08:21which apparently travelled underground and
08:25yeah I don't quite get how that worked
08:29but yeah I was killed by it
08:32so yeah that was my match
08:34well that was my two matches during the Rapid Fire AA event
08:39now unfortunately I didn't really get time to do any more
08:42matches because of uni work and all that
08:45so I only got those two matches but I thought I'd better put them up you know
08:49just so you've got something to watch. I'm actually going to do a video on the simulator battles
08:54the no HUD battles
08:57I did pretty well in an M3 League
09:00during one of them and I'm going to put that video up sometime during the week or
09:03next week when I get a chance
09:05but anyway thank you for watching apologies it's not
09:08particularly great or
09:10you know as good as some of my other videos but I mean it's a bit short but
09:14you know with uni at the moment I just haven't had the time to
09:17put all as much effort into the videos as I would have liked but you know when I get a
09:21chance I will do some more videos
09:23anyway thanks for watching leave a like if you like the video
09:27subscribe if you like these sorts of videos leave feedback I can always do with more feedback
09:31again thanks for watching I'll see you next time