I feel your pain for wanting to CAS, but the true trick of German Teams past 1st tier is 1) Spawn in your favorite tonk or SPG 2)Shoot one or two tanks 3)Inevitably die because everyone is blind 4)Spawn in your favorite fighter 5)Lay waste to every allied CAS vehicle imaginable. Leave none alive. Make them regret thinking they're going to farm. 6)Lose anyway despite sending over half the team back to the main menu.

As someone who plays germany at this point I start to think that mission failed just means mission succesful in german

Getting kills with the duck never gets old, but playing low to mid tier Germany feels like most team mates have IQ below 70

its is astonishing how the noobs can manage to stay away from the cap more effectively than from the enemy, all while enjoying a tall glass of mayonnaise.

The Tiger H1 is the tank I've got the most kills with and is one of my favorite vehicles, but the teammates... Half the time the team is drunk or the other half of the time everyone is Michael Wittman incarnated

They trade the ability to think for more complete line-ups, constant addition in each update, and undertiered tanks

As a decent german main i feel your pain

Reminds me of US air teams, honestly. So many games of watching an entire team with bombs on their fighters at treetop level die within one minute as they try to turnfight zeros or head-on do335's, then being last alive with the enemy team converging on me. Kind of stuff that makes me think they need to disable ground pounding armaments on fighters in air RB until the player has landed during the match to rearm.

Being a German main causes a player to go through every stage of grief during a game.

For some reason German mains always treat the game like it's team death match and completely forget that caps exist

As an avid Italy player, it’s hard to get a team with more brain power than a rotisserie chicken. It still amazes me how people go for kills and a subsequent loss rather than objectives and a win.

It’s funny how after watching and learning from your videos my dogfighting skill has drastically increased

God i hate room temperature IQ teammates

german games be like: lose 25 kills 5 captured points 9 assists, win 1 kill 4 deaths.

Me playing against German teams : Defeat Also me playing with German teams : Defeat

German mains at low-mid tiers = russia mains at top tier Love playing sweden 10.7 and being able to tell if I'm winning or losing before the match begins :) Those were sick duck shots though holy shit

I try to get deathless games with at least 4 kill in the Pz III M but after a few hour of German teams always losing I feel like throwing my controller out the window.

True but also the Russian lineups at 3.3-4.3 are incredibly strong (troll armor, rounds that pen under steep angles and lots of filler)

This video is why you dont base balancing on stats alone. New players play germany: germany has a bad winrate, it gets buffed, german tanks become op in the hands of a competent player. Everyone complains, but Gajing goes Nuh-huh using winrate as an accurate measure of strength.

Straight up, the reason German teams suffer so much is because they are the newest players to the game. When sponsorships show up on KZfaq for example, they are ALWAYS for German TT starter packs….. It really is sad because they have some of the coolest tech to play

These made me genuinely laugh, god bless war thunder players for being even less competent than the 15 years olds they employed in the army back then

I feel it. They rarely go for a cap, are blind and deaf, rarely angle if they can or use their tanks properly at all, and lets not forget how they always hotbox as if they are going to use more than 30 shells.

The fireball flythrough around 2:18 made me yell out and pull back on the stick, just awesome play. Wins and defeats are determined by a matchmaker RNG, don't sweat it.

no chance of winning when 70% of the team is wiped in the 1st minute

I haven't played ground RB in years (and WT in general for a year) but I distinctly remember having a 24% winrate ratio on the Tiger H1. I AM THE BAD TEAMMATE :D

The worst is when you start off strong, your team is in semi-alright positions. You get 4-5 kills and think "they've got the ground safe, I'll take to the skies and provide air superiority. You take the occasional ground pound target too, cause it's there and hey, you're helping your te-what the hell happened to the entire team why are they on all three caps simultaneously"

Playing Germany (and every other nation with this many hours in the game) feels like I'm Otto Carius surrounded by 14 y.o. HJ conscripts.

best part of the video is the duck constant struggle to just not crash

I remember one match on paris or something where a jagtiger a king tiger and a tiger E just drove past me in my su100p, while I was firing down the road. Needless to say they all got killed and I got a pretty good score that game

Most capable German team.

Id like to think I'm an above average German Main, having 3500+ battles and around 3k kills in the Jagdtiger has taught me a lot. Its also taught me that 90% of the time, its gonna be the swedish or french tank that comes to my help, not the tiger h1 three feet away facing head on.

The curse of the Germans...

That plane clip was insane. I had autoplay on and didn't see whose video this is, but the moment I saw you killing all those aircraft I knew this is asmigol clip.

German teams are only bad until you're against them, then they're unstoppable terminators.

Schmeegol actually trying to play the game. He is always remembered of the general WT player IQ. Man, the only thing to make this video more cancerous is to find an old japanese YTP called "futae no kiwami" and to use it instead of the original can-can (who knows, knows).

This hurt me on a cellular level. People always wondering why I complain all the time but it's egregious. 2 minutes in and half your team is in SPAA...

I'm getting anxiety watching the duck trying not to fall XD Btw at least german mains let you gather content for this video in the shortest period of time in your KZfaq career XD

RIP smeeg, Living the Wehrmacht/Luftwaffe reality as the one ace among an entire sea of otherwise underwhelming troops who haven’t been trained well enough and rushed to the front

What can i say. This was exactly my experience today

Meanwhile, Soviets at this br will throw everything at the other team in order to win. I've ran out of shells before they ran out of tanks.

Watching ground mains struggle to take down a slow-moving duck is funny

I feel this pain, but in American boats. I'll paint the ocean floor with the iron of dead ships but lose cause a sea plane capped a point on the other side of the map

4:45 Certified RealShatter™ moment

A bit late to the party but great video smigol! Would love to see a guide/tutorial type video on how to aim Duck. Great work, keep it up!

1:02 allow me to finish the sentence for him "out by teammates with the combined IQ of an amoeba"

Smigol in the duck is not something I knew I needed

Seems to be a common mystery for CAS players, how they keep losing while flying around in the air, watching the enemy team....cap. On the ground.

It is even worse in GF Smigol. We feel your pain

>me playing CAS or CAP over the battle >enemy team gets sick of my shit and spawns 4 planes to shoot me down >fly over 3 allied SPAA that just spawned >not a single one of them shoots at the planes in the 10 second window as they fly less than 200m overhead >they all drive to the contested cap point and get shot by tanks they can't pen as they desperately bounce rounds off them

Bro plays the duck so much he could probably play with his eyes closed or something

Kills with the duck never get old Just like dark humor jokes And children in africa (Joke)

This is why I'm taking a break from pulling the team in most battles. Been suffering since 2015 and I'm still not even good at it. I feel embarrassed on some aspect. 😞😑

And it gets even worse in Air RB when you have Germany as an ally in your team.

Smigol, I admire your tenacity to continue playing this game, but experiencing this with every nation I gave up. You will not go to hell for anything you have ever done, as you voluntarily experience it while playing War Thunder.

The reason I’m way more chill in WT than say, TF2 is because in WT, I don’t feel like my performance impacts the game, whether I’m first or last. With luck-based wins (ground strike targets getting blown up with no one around for example) and teammates being teammates, it doesn’t make me wanna win, despite winning litterally giving more rewards. Contrast that to Team Fortress 2, where EVERY little bit matters when deciding who wins, and I get quite sweaty when it comes to winning, and as a medic main, I am on the front row of seeing every little mistakes teammates make. And since everyone’s pooled up together regardless of skill… yeah, it happens often.

1:07 i feel you on that one i had it happen last night xD i was like "yo yall playing or what?" to my team lol.

its also impressive that my squad and i get 20 - 30 kills between us each game and still lose because of german teammates

Welcome to the WEHRMACHT but youre not outnumbered.

As someone has grinds the entire German round force tech tree I am very familiar with this concept

Being a Main-German, i feel your pain

Putting your trust in german teams was the first mistake lol

I, too, am allergic to stupid people

Ive been playing low tier Japan and there is soviet B25 spam now, literally like 288C spam, spawn dive drop and die, and there will always be 5 players that dive for one aircraft....

God i feel that man, even if you're a pro or sum. Its pain whenever they just dont focus on capping and always rushing like they are playing the M18 or Sd.kfz 234/4 and died just a minute later to a sniper and then leave.

Top 1 inspirational video for main german like me

See, your team mates are simply offering you a challenge: Solo the entire opposing team.

Like my dad always says, Teammates are just enemies in blue.

I play a lot at 7.3 germany, first spawn depends on the map but most times is the RU 251, second spawn is either the ARADO C3 or the HO 229 depends if i get killed by a plane or not

Amazing gunnery.

There are two types of Germany tank main - those that are pure anti-son-of-a-bitch machines and those that are legally blind (and deaf and stupid too). That makes Germany incredibly frustrating to play because you'll lose 90% of the time, but also incredibly frustrating to fight against because sod's law states the guy you're shooting at is one of those good Germany players.

If you take the word "German team", remove everything but the first E, add in a H and two Ls you get "hell".

The whole war thunder community somehow: "oh yea I know this feeling I always carry the game but my team sucks"

imagine losing half your airforce to a wounded duck. because your pilots decided to ram it.

The realshatter experience, from the receiving end

Welcome to World of tank Blitz! We fell that feeling everyday, and it’s goes worse every battle!

Mission failed, we'll get 'em next time!

Speaking of "that feeling when you do your best...", yesterday I was playing at 8.7 (9.0 up-tier)... and *totally accidentally* spawned in a T-34-85 I had in my lineup just for fun. And of course, we lost, and I was the top 1st player with: 4 kills, 2 assists and 3 deaths (all with 2x T-34-85's and a T-34-85(D-5T)) and I must say... IT FELT GREAT! 😂

1:38 This clip right here is why the Battle gamemode is the BANE of my existence, and it's not limited to German teams either. People will not stay on/near the point, even though this strategy is VERY good since most enemy teams will try and rush the point.

The Ducks Reload on a Tank would be cool

Ive taken to playing with captured german vehicles at this point

This is what it feels like to play America from 8.0 up

just did this the other day - low tier stug, 7 or 8 kills, rest of team disappears

"If you ever feel handicapped, just remember the 90% of the German teams in WarThunder." (That one team chat during SRB)

It's always the team, it doesnt matter if you are in the top 3 or the best, they are like too afraid or smthn 😭😭😭😭

The Duck is the only accepteble form of CAS

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is Germany.

It really is a baffling thing. You lose by a ridiculous ticket margin, have 20 kills 3 caps etc and end up asking yourself who tf were yall dying too because clearly you werent fighting anyone or doing anything.

As a F2P Player, it's funny to see players focused on winning a battle while I'm just happy that I didn't lose SL and gain some RP for the next vehicle.

Yup, that pain is something i experience quite often, though usually around 8.0, and with every nation other than germany(somehow) and russia

That clip w/ the J22 was ungodly embarrassing...

My condolences.

It's historically accurate

nice video soundtrack

As a german main, I get an avarage of 1 kill per 3 games and always get killed when I leave my camping spot.

What lower tiers need is something sorta similar to the nuke. Im thinking 3500 SP and you can call in AI reinforcements set to an above average player of you're team flogged😂

gunsight connoisseurs unite!

my favorite part of being German main is Mission failed My place in the team:12 1 Air Targets Destroyed 1 Ground Targets Destroyed 0 assist 4 Death Score:970

German mains are either the most blind ppl ever or god, no inbetween

Warthunder is a painful addiction

Like any team they can do well. But German teams when they fail, they collapse like a wet paper cup.