i love it when you say "squishy" when you are talking about armor

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the side of the S1 above the tracks from front to back is spaced armour, I once absorbed a HEAT round from an E100 in the side above the tracks without damage.

Great tips about using that Bush. Thanks! I use a lot of HE in tanks that have “better” HE rounds (RU, Black Bulldog, Italian tier 4, many Brits, etc.) It’s true they can be trollish, but remember that they are also great for crits, including tracking. So even when they fail to pen, they can be a force multiplier. Arguably, anyway. At the end of the day, though, I just get a kick out of the big hits.

I find this as one of the cutest wheeled vehicles. I plan to keep all of them even when I pass them. This is also one of the only lines that I'll use free XP to unlock modules but grind between tiers on their own Steam

I just want to say that you have deepened my enjoyment of the game and I love your videos. Don't change a thing!!!!!!♡♡♡

As always, you cover the facts in this review but also go a layer deeper than that. It's the thoughtful additions which make these evaluations so valuable.

Great content...as always!

I really appreciate your videos

Great review; knowledge is power.

Yay, more of the tanks I'm grinding as well! :D

ty for this video. I'm really struggling so far after 10 games in this thing and i really hate it. i need to make some adjustments to how i've tried playing it so far. thanks again.

I had the same problem with Sweeden TDs, Taugrin. They have really bad side armor; but, it is spaced armor: Below you have tracks and up you have fuel tanks. Its sides are for AP.

I tried playing the 168B as a fast active scout but i'm finding that at Tier 6 & 7 that most of the team rarely leverages my spotting, even when I take into consideration their locations and try to scout where it's the most useful and when they should be able to get shots in. What I have realized is that the gun is rather superb when harrassing and can do alot for me when I use it with my acceleration and speed. I think I will focus my gameplay now more on the fact that I have a fast firing, decent penetration gun with great aimtime, and use my speed, camo, and acceleration to complement that, while scouting a little more passively. Thanks for the great videos!

That GW Panther must have tried really hard to turn blue.

In real life do you think that wheeled light tankers used their speed to get into trouble, or to get them out of trouble? I'm gonna say that if they had half a brain they advanced in a slow and tactical manner, and only used their speed to get the hell out of bad situations. In WOT a lot of people won't give it the least bit of consideration, so they'll rush in and die.

I would like to see the review where reviewer has crew with max 2 skills, and stock tank then tanks thorough the progress instead of all tip top. Most tanks in top configuration are easy to handle.

Taugrim, thanks for your great videos, I just have one proposal for the review/guide series (especially when reviewing "non-standard" tanks and/or tank lines): Would you take a moment and discuss the crew skills and equipment possibilities of non-standard tanks? I.e. the whole French wheeled line seems to me to be very specific in terms of skill and equipment "hunger": it is a LT so camo would be priority as usual, still the viewrange is really poor and considering you cannot use binocs suggests viewrange skills to be a priority (or at least second in line). But the mechanism of flat tires which don't detrack you but slow you down for the repair time combined with the really huge wheels that get hit more often than tracks on other LT's suggest repairs to be a priority, a skill less useful on standard LT's as if you get 2x tracked you're probably dead anyway as you're sitting in the same spot while repairing whereas in the wheeled you still move and have a much higher possibility to evade the ensuing killing shots... Now different play-styles mandate the priorities, yours is definitely not repairs, but a player that aggressively uses speed and gun (the play-style that you don't recommend, neither do I) should make gun handling and repairs first? As I'm planning to move the crew through the line, and I put the best crew available (Santa and 3 girls), I'll play some 1357 to train up at least 2 skills beside BiA and 6th so I can start with having a fully useful tank, otherwise it's a true pinata. I'll go with all camo and special skills myself (viewrange and gun), then train repairs as I grind the wheeled line so I can opt to become aggressive when situations on the battlefield require it. About some other tanks where this type of discussion would be useful is i.e. superheavy armor of different kinds (HT's, TD's) - which tanks would profit from i.e. toolboxes or spall liners etc. I'm just getting my VK100 which I plan to use pretty exclusively for the bounce missions (I hate superslow tanks) and I'm planning to crew and equip it primarily for self-defense (combo of toolbox and spall liner, 2x repair kit, preventative passive crew skills too, I want to prevent HE damage in order to push enemies to shoot pen requiring ammo). Another type of tanks with possible different crew and skills layouts are tanks with real shitty gun handling... when and why to equip both GLD's and Vertstabs or whether to do that in any tank or rather go Verstab+Vents etc etc. Yet another are camo TD's like Strv's or SU130 or aggro TD's like Skorpion

How did you know that su 100 had the little gun not the 390?

Taugrim about He penetration. For penetrating hits HE calculates rather normally but THEN if you DON"T penetrate he damage is calculated vs the weakest armor in the HE shell blast radius and since armor thickness influences HE damage that's why it's important. Though more so for bigger shells

I was hatin’ this thing and regretting I put a Christmas female commander in it until I realized I should use more HE. Not enjoying the wheeled vehicles generally, but maybe I’ll give 'em second chance.

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3:45 I'm pretty sure that that's the damage calculation for shots that don't penetrate. So if an HE shell hits a tank, first it's checked if the penetration values are high enough to penetrate (like for HEAT shells - or AP/APCR minus the normalization) and if they aren't, then it calculates the explosion radius on hit and finds the most vulnerable armor in that radius. source: wot wiki, sections wiki.wargaming.net/en/Battle_Mechanics#Impact_Angle and wiki.wargaming.net/en/Battle_Mechanics#Armour_Damage

Me and my friend went for the wheeled vehicles , he got the AMD first , and on every single battle he hated it. When I got the 178B and maxed out his crew , It was fun to play with until I was able to buy the next vehicle , sadly I had to sell it to buy the EBR Hotch.

👍👍👍👍 as usual

tnx

About going city or rails and that killzone when u try to push out of the city... Well it's true that it is killzone and you typically don't want to push anymore but same goes for rails part. If you have south spawn you can't push, bcs TD's got perfect bushes and you need insane advantage to be able to win whole flank up to the enemy base. But the north got decent path, first those hills, where you can hide and fight on hulldown and later after the bridge you have bushes and buildings. But capping on this map is very hard, so I usually go to the other flank after I push rails. I very often go city, but not bcs it's better and offers higher win chance, but there alaways has to be 3 ret*rds in spgs per team and if you attempt to go rails, you simply loose *all* hp to them. I would always go rails, but sometimes it's just pointless. And here is where I disagree with you Taugrim - in city you have a lot of cover and you can avoid getting clicked. Also playing in city well, requires some skill and noobs usually make a lot of mistakes which you can punish. PS. At the ranked season I remember those battles where it was 15vs15 everyone on rails fighting for win :D Literally noone mid and city. And SPGs getting 6-7k dmg... This is balance WG...

You get low dmg rolls on th STRV because it has something like 0.2m of spaced armour on the side and your HE has almost 0 splash, so it's basically like splashing someone at the edge of the splash radius. which usually deals about 0 dmg.

So the thing about Strv's and HE is that the majority of their sides are either tracks or spaced armor. This mean that actually shooting the sides of a Strv is a bad idea, unless you have a high enough caliber gun. Even my Centurion 7/1, firing 210mm pen HESH doesnt deal witht he sides of Strvs that well. Your shot against that AMD 178B hit a wheel and with such low alpha, you werent going to do much damage on a splash. You can read the full mechanics of how HE works here: wiki.wargaming.net/en/Battle_Mechanics#HE_Shells as well as get the full HE splash damage formula. You can see further examples of how the HE splash mechanics work here: www.13disciple.stream/hull-damage-mechanics.html

6:16 Correction, Cent 1 has 230 alpha not 240 :P

When i just started playing this vehicle with it's stock gun, it was very horrendous to me. Every time you are trying to poke some damage out of it, you are literally poking them with your 50 base damage with your AP shells and the HE rounds aren't that reliable either. Now I already got it's top gun, at least its a lot more better now, and i'm on my way to get the tier 7 EBR Hotchkiss.

i'm not a fan of what the wheeled vehicles have done to the game, particularly in the hands of yolo artists. your deliberate style of play in these things, however, is making me reconsider. cheers. flipitandslamit

Wheelie Taug!

I haven’t played the AMD yet (still grinding the ELC). But I find them very very strong opponents. Often able to cross the battlefield without receiving hits and easily circle slower tanks, even lights and especially turretless TD’s or (yesterday) even a group of them and come out on top. So I wonder what do you and others think are the best counter vehicles against those wheeled french lights?

My first 3 mark

i have that tank but im bad using it. this can help

Amazing video as always @taugrim, very informative and strategical. However, while I do respect the way you played the AMD, I personally believe you were a bit too passive with it, I have around a 65% winratio on mine over the course of 120 battle and I personally play it WAY more aggressively than the footage shown in your video. I personally take my AMD to areas where I can maximize the limited viewrange (i.e instead of the bush you stood on Lakeville I'll make a drive by to the enemy's corridors of entrance) to spot, then wait for my friendlies to show up and I put in flanking fire and I've been pretty successful with it. Other times I'll go to where I predict enemy lights will be preloaded with my HE and take them out as well, but to each their own.

what key activates turbo mode ?

How is his green circle so big? When I play with this tank it is very small even though my tank has the best stuff in research.

I noticed you do not have full view range yet. On your 178b

Great review Taugrim. I personally will be skipping the wheeled vehicles for now (still have the RU light line to grind). I really don't see an advantage over the standard lights ATM. Avalon is correct about the splash radius but it is more complicated than that. Zeven did a great video about the different module and crew damage, in it he explains how HE is calculated. The whole video is worth the watch if you haven't seen it before but I linked the HE mechanic below. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jJhoZ5pmt8vcaKM.html

Hey, here is a good drinking game. Every time you see an amd survive till the end of the match take a shot. It’s a good drinking game cause you don’t end up drinking. Stay sober kids.

Just got through this one, so far pretty good luck with wheeled vehicles. The Hotchiss isn't fully unlocked, but the HE ammo and mobility feel like a large power spike compared to the tier 6.

Don't think I"ve said this yet, but very happy to not see that YOUJO tag next to your name anymore.

Yo what tank can you use to research this tank and how much xp does it cost?

HOW DO YOU GO FULL SPEED???? I tried ; but it doesn’t work and R is my Forwad Cruise control, HELP PLZ, I am at tier 7

Can you review the WZ 111111111 14?

Taugrim do you play in NA?

This think is remarkably dangerous against other lts

Tier 6

Do you think this class of vehicle will come to console?

Luv u lemming rush

I love your videos, but in AMD please use gold!!!! at least 5 or 10

I like the 47 better, it's just all round better

7:14 Well you can't... The fact that Su-100 had wrong gun doesn't mean that u weren't lucky. Unless you saw caliber of his gun earlier in the battle, but I doubt it really. Risking getting killed by su and not even having a chance to kill him wasn't good idea, right? :3

If this was intel tank it would be much better tank

You sound a bit tired in this video. Are you okay?

You are kind to this tank, it seems the worst tank I have ever played.

im so early

I found Lakeville game too passive. You might save that Skoda by calling him for 'fall back' a do the spot run. You have Progetto on left moving forward so I dont understand why you went to left area so late. I personally play more actively and sacrifice Wn8 for WR. The tank needs a buff in speed or view range, otherwise it will be played like mobile medium tank and without spotting assist.

silver ammo? what

Yeah, wheeled cars cant turn when sitting still. Frusterating

i do Not like this line,hate to depend on my team driving my tank,low damage gun,No Pen, inaccurate,not really mobile until hy tiers,tall turret .....i'm at tier 5 AMX it's real Pain to ping-ping some shots and penetrate none..........

This thing is pretty ugly.

mate u speak tooooo mush and say nothing

This is the only video that you have produced, that I have down voted and that is because it is a clown car video. Clown cars have no place in WOT and need to be removed. I down vote all clown care videos and do not watch any of them.