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I remember killing a KV-2 frontally through turret ring penetration in the Panzerwerfer and getting called a Pay2Winner for it. That was before the Nerf, btw.

The BM-8-24 does have 1 use, it is quite effective against the LVT 4/40 spam at close range. Only because few tanks at low tiers can kill ithe LVT with so few shots and at the same time have really short delay between shots

Surely it’s the BM-8-24

ZUT-37 is a good Tank Destroyer, its just you need to slow down on the rapid fire and treat it like a Auto loader. Had games where I got 12 kills including Air Targets. Helps that the Planes are slow at its BR

Wow! It’s the Celere “Wide” Sahariano! My favorite premium ever. I got like 150 kills in 2-3 weeks. Thank you for playing my boi

It's gotta be the BM-8-24

I would disagree on the ZUT-37, for me it's a good load of fun to play and I get a decent amount of kills with it, you just need to take your enemies off guard, pretty easy at low tiers and just aim for weak spots, 5 rounds should be all you need. It has been powercreeped out by much newer premiums, but it's still a good little tank to have some fun in.

I've test driven the BM-8-24 a few times just to marvel at the fact it can hardly even kill a panzer 2

I never expect to do well and it still feels pretty stressful

The only reason why’d you buy the ZUT-37 is the bucket.

2:20 holy smokes that turning was fast

I'm surprised at your choices. I actually do pretty well with both of those. The ZUT-37 is a light tank with AA spawn costs. If you think if it that way, it's not that bad as a last spawn. And yes, the BM-8-14 is not very good, but It kills things surprisingly well since the Overpressure up date, just not from the front. And since it got moved down to 1.3 instead of 2.3, that has helped it quite a bit. Although, in fairness, I have not looked into the subject of worst premium on my own, so I don't have any counter offers for you. Interesting video though. Keep up the good work.

I would never call ZUT-37 as a bad premium. Yes it's bad as an AA but as a light tank or tank destroyer it's pretty nice. Whenever i get the daily quest to do a kill with an "AA" ZUT is my first choice.

I remember getting a GE discount on the ZUT and I had enough GE to buy it, so I hopped into test drive to see how good it was. I couldn't go longer than 2 seconds without saying "why does this thing even exist?"

i once misclicked and bought Chi Ha Short Gun, when it was useless and HE were shit. Tech Support politely told me to scram. Now i use it to rest and slap some BT and lvt for shits and giggles.

How about the Ha-Go Commander? based off a tank so bad, they removed it from the game.

When I saw the Celere on your footage, I was about ready to throw hands. It's a fantastic tank and is the only reason I was able to slog through early Italy tree

honestly ive always thought the ZUT 37 was pretty good, as long as you play a lil ratty i tend to do pretty well, currently sit with a 3.5ish KD with it which is a lil higher then average for me.

Please do make a video on the absurdity of helicopter enduring confrontation. I was trying to grind my newly acquired YAH-64 in this mode. The results were as following: my average lifespan was around 30 seconds, before a Vikhr missile collided with my forehead. I ended up losing a couple of thousand SL, and, for 40+ minutes of doing whatever the circumstances allowed me to do, I didn`t even manage to research a quarter of one modification. Though, I suppose, gaijin has made this mode very intentionally. Why is that? Because, the only playable helicopters here are the russian ones (obviously). They are the only one who can throw missiles at every single enemy from 8km, bullying God-forsaken AH-1Gs, Mi-24s and *ugh* poor allouettes. So, to actually do something except crying in this mode, and to actually GRIND THE HELICOPTERS (honestly, since they were added, I haven`t researched even the AH-1F), they have to pay and buy the Ka-50. Gaijin only cares about money.

Honestly i have the zut and i find it extremely fun, the way to play it is just to full auto tanks and use the speed,

I got the zut because of a discount I got as a reward and to be perfectly honest, I disagree with this. Just treat it like an autoloader. I actually quite liked it while I was using it. It's a good ambush vehicle with its high mobility, fire rate and tap firing. The landships are all way worse vehicles than the zut.

4:17 I want to see you get 5 kills in it

"I started with the Independent, it kinda looked sad to me" Man, poor Independent will need therapy because of you

I still remember the BM-8-24 5 kills event, I spent an hour before it started putting sellotape on my monitor as a ranging guide, first game I had was 4 kills followed by 1 kill in a respawn - I have never been more proud/happy. (The event gate you the Katuysha as a reward) Further context: Gajin said it needed 5 kills (maybe in 1 match, I can't remember) originally but they meant 5 kills in 1 life, the ambiguity lead to thousands of support tickets so they massively lowered the requirements.

T-60: amazing and super fun T-60 with rockets mounted to some goofy scaffolding: >:(

After playing for hours gaijin finally blessed me with a post match drop. I already got excited when i saw that the spin was gonna land on a 50% discount for a premium vehicle. OFC you can probably already guess what vehicle i got discounted: good ol' BM 8

"Such a bad tank" still continues to destroy tanks like 10 tanks

I'd really love to see a "best premium tanks to grind with for each nation" video. It'd make the slog just a little more bearable.

The Panzerwerfer will keep a special place to my heart - I bought it (at discount, sice it can be a bit pricy just because it's a Rocket launching vehicle) and it can be actually fun and some people will freak out when they hear those missiles launch at them. It was a bad vehicle when the HE projectiles were lackluster in damage and was sitting at a BR of 3.0, but right now I would say it's all right. It is true it's not very mobile and it does not get amazing penetration (heavy tanks like KV-1 for example will survive pretty well against it, otherwise just aim for the turret and the blast damage will pen the roof of most tanks, T-34 included) plus the paper thin armor, but it can kill, sounds quite amazing and now with a proper gun sight you can actually aim properly (it used to lack the distance markers in gunner optics). It has an MG with great elevation, although it can fire +/- 45 degrees frontally - still, it can save you from soft targets like exposed SPAAs. It's main downside though: the reload rate in cap points once all 20 rockets are spent. It takes ages - I believe 2 minutes, to reload a full salvo of 10 rockets (another 10 are available for reload), if you move an inch the reload cicle must start again. This leaves the vehicle very vulnerable since it can't defend itself. if you move - you lose the chance to get the ammo back.

I struggled with the ZUT-37 when I first got it, but I think I've got the hang of it now. It's better to fire one shot at a time instead of full automatic fire unless in very close combat.

Weird, the ZUT has to be one of the most fun vehicles I ever got, got some aces with it at times and while being opentop, the turret is small enough for you to be fairly surviveable against strafing runs, especially if you move about

i love the subnautica sound in the background lol

Love the subnautica background music

The old event challenge of getting 5 kills in 1 game before your free BM8 test drive expired wasn't thought out; I cheesed it in the very last game before time ran out using arcade CAS, and I'm 90% sure an arty teamkill counted as my 5th

I love the subnautica music in the background

I remember the event for the BM-13 (wish I had kept that coupon...), before they introduced the new shell penetration formula. I faintly remember killing a Matilda with the BM-8-24, and if I still remember correctly, it was the last kill I needed for the 13N.

Oh, BM-8-24, i still remember 2017 event with katyusha, before they made special event battle for these things only it was incredibly frustrating to attempt to get those 5 kills in a single battle

You know what makes them better tho? The brand new Spookton decal!

I'm very surprised there was no mention of Ro-Go.

Yeah i didnt think there was a KZfaq that did make war Thunder content this is so cool

Omg that rain tho It looks so gooooood

Would’ve also liked to see which is the worst rank 3-6 premium as well or the worst top tier premium

I think the BM-13N is technically worse than the BM-8-24 as the 13N has 2 crew, is a truck, has a gun *DEPRESSION* of +8 and has a bad engine, machine guns can wipe your crew and you only have 31mm of pen with 8 rockets

Hey for the next vid you should do the best premium because I’d love to hear your recommendations and best value for price tank

The Katyusha has to be on this list somewhere. Terrible pen, not enough explosive yield to overpressure, can only fire forward, 0 degree of depression so if a tank is within 20 meters you’ll sometimes shoot over it. Horrible vehicle

Why was the sponsorship so perfectly timed lmao

Me the entire video: don't say t-35, don't say t-35, don't say t-35, don't say t-35.

When the BM-8 came out the thing was really good. You definitely had to place rockets in the correct places because the pen was still not that great. But at the BR, you could get 5-7 kills with it if you ambushed from the flanks. Now it's so bad that you can shoot open tops and still not kill them. I've shot inside the crew compartment on a marter and it lived.

Everytime spookston says "if your looking to upgrade" it sounds like hes saying "if youre looking upgrade"

Like the subnautica music in the background

I actually did all right in the ZUT...even killed a few planes. Mind you I used a 150 crew and Expert and Ace XD The LVT 4/40 is going to 3.0 anyway (Would have preferred it to be 2.7 but oh well) it needed the move to break up the 2.3 line up of death with the B1ter

I remember the BM-8-24 kill chalenge. I was so happy i jumped out my chair when i won the chalenge and got the katusha. Wish i hadnt redemed the tank becuse it probly sells for allot. but its a realy fun tank to play

Love the subnatica music!

You broke my heart dissing on the ZUT

is it just me or did you edit ghpc audio in with the gameplay? amazing.

What??? The ZUT 37 is awesome! First premium I ever got it and was always effective for me when I was new to the game.

ZUT-37 is a beast. Love it to death in my 2.7 lineup.

You forget that the ZUT-37 has a battle bucket (also that the front plate is T-80 thickness and actually bounces rounds but the bucket is more important)

4:18 this thing is GOATED in Enlisted, you can kill sooo many infantry with it

I will keep this in mind

I love the BM-8-24... I use it sometimes in top tier to shoot down helicopters

The first tank looks like something someone make on sprocket for their first build

Every gold box reward I got for the longest time were BM-8-24 test drives. I wish I could take all the free backups off it. The fact you can't aim the rack down and the chassis is the T-60 with that awful rocking chair suspension makes it painful in the current meta of time traveling OP wagons.

I actually really like to the German rocket tank I only had it for a day because I got it as a rent vehicle out of a crate but when I had it it was great especially if you're on a map with good cover at one of the actives cos you can just sit there reload every time you run out of ammo when kill anything that comes near you

The event you mentioned, if you played it in arcade the kills with spawned planes counted, so it wasn't that hard.

1:10 i lost it laughing, "....the first i tried to get a refund for" that in itself sounds like an interesting video(s)

This will be helpful

The thumbnail is just like “who’s that pokemon”. And I am proud to say I guessed right

Spookston has been sponsored by apex more times then I’ve got kills in war thunder

The subnautica music on the background 🥰

If anybody wants the crew voice spookston has its the GHPC crew lines on WT live.

worst is the black prince imho. When they introduced the heatfs at that br, and lowered some bigger tanks, that thing is pretty useless. It should be 5.0

Absolutely the bm8. I did a3 hour stream with that thing for the memes and only managed one or two lucky kills. That thing is abysmal.

I noticed you featured the Celere Saharino early in the video, what’s your opinion on that? I personally own the vehicle, but I am curious on what your thoughts are.

I play the Independant from time to time and purchased it mostly for its unusual look and the guilty pleasure of playing a bizarre inefecient tank most of people will laught at... and it perfectly reachs the goals ^^ I purchased the RO-GO for the same exact reason and it also works well in that sense.

Bruh you remind me the mission event to get the katyusha rocket launcher :'0c I actually completed the misión...before they made an special mode for it where you could only face the same bm 8

Instead of "the worst" may you please make a "bad" list for premiums?

i got a bm-8-24 test drive about a year ago or so it was funny enough to be fun, lol

After watching the PhlyDaily video I already knew the answer here

The Nebelwerfer in amazing.

Disagree on ZUT-37 Penetration was okay when I last time played the game. If you don't hit, pen, kill crewman or damage any components you have second, third, fourth and fifth shot to do it. Also, I consider it as light tank, not AA. And spawn cost as AA is great asset to have. Ofc you have to adapt gameplay to it a bit, but if you want, you can get decent amount of kills. Fun to play, fast, quick reload, okay pen, armor can stand most 20mm cannons for some time

The Independent is pretty cool though, basically the British T-28.

I play with the mentality of "in WT you will die at least once and will die for stupid reasons" and I usually have lots of fun, only getting irritated at like an M18 flanking my entire team or my French tank getting cross maped

3:34 Bruh you just got arty'd mid-flight

U make my day

The A1E1 independent definitely has it’s flaws.

I'm really surprised that the Cromwell V (RP-3) didn't pop up cause it's rockets are unaimable

I wish the Katyusha event will come back as it probably is easier to get at least 3 K with the BM-8-24 due to having more paper thin armor.

As a Naval player, I think the USS Welborn C. Wood is the worst premium. It’s a copy paste of the USS Litchfield. But both have 4, dinky 4-inch cannons with a slow reload, no aa, the cannons don’t get aa rounds, poorly placed torpedo tubes, weak torpedos, a bad rangefinder, mediocre speed, low crew/survivability. + Naval compression has it facing exponentially better destroyers, it can’t stop any plane bombing or rocketing it, and it can’t protect itself from fast torpedo boats either. Therefore, it is literally useless against any kind of threat in naval besides a small gunboat (unless they disable your guns first, then u still lose). The only thing is benefits from is the strong US aircraft that can complement it, but GL even getting enough points for them. It’s honestly not even worth the ≈ $2

I would have said Matilda Hedgehog, the Hedgehog mortar is so poorly modelled you can barely hit anything with it and if it gets hit the ammo is more than likely going to detonate and kill your tank (and it can detonate even when you're out of ammo for some godforsaken reason), you're essentially paying money to get a free to play tank and strap on something that makes it objectively worse

I enjoyed the video. good stuff. I've been playing this game a long time so at one point or another all these lower tier premiums were on sale or part of a pack of some kind of deal at some ridiculously low price so I have them all or at least most. I really like the ZUT-37, and occasionally do ok with it, but I like a lot of vehicles that are horrible. If you mess around with just about anything in the game good or bad, you'll still wind up doing ok sometimes and having a whole lot of fun. The gaijin store really sucks now. It used to be half full of vehicles I bought for 3.99 or 5.99. Now everything is around 50 bucks except for the lame starter packs which I already have all those vehicles anyway from back when they were for sale individually with the exception of the new nations anyway. As it is I still stick to USA, USSR, and Germany, a little bit of British air just as the game was when I first joined it. If you are new to the game though I would get yourself a starter pack if you can afford it. You'll outgrow it so fast, but it'll give you a leg up those first 10- 20 battles and the extra SL will come in handy. One of the early premiums I bought was the USMC M3 Stuart. The GE and SL were well worth the 3 bucks I think I paid alone.

Surprised that katyuszka (or whatever they called it) isn't on the spot. It's literally a truck with rockets which cant fire at either long or short range

Hey Spookston, can you cover an old Gaijin entertainment game called X-blades?

Spookston are you ever gonna talk about the italian m60 premium tank? Its a really forgotten tank right now and i feel like noone talks about it

Well, in Test drive, the Panzerwerfer even kills T-44 from the front if aimed right

I love the Tiger 2 SLA 16 it great just had a 8 kill match we’re we spawn camped the enemy

Quality entertainment :3

Did you mod the audio to those of that very realistic tank game?

My friend actually does really well (in arcade) with the BM-8