The Sturmtiger Is Very Dumb

A while ago I made a video saying that Gaijin should not add the infamous Sturmtiger (aka 38cm Sturmorser) to War Thunder, as it would probably be both frustrating to use and play against. After getting a test drive for the ungainly heavy tank turned assault vehicle, I think I was more or less correct. The 380mm rocket has abysmal velocity and loves to do no damage sometimes. It also can be destroyed if someone shoots the barrel, sending you back to the hangar real quick. Don't get me wrong, it's definitely fun for a bit, but it does get old.

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The Sturmtiger Is Very Dumb

[blackegret]

The Sturmtiger, the tank where you can miss by an entire post code and still kill multiple targets from halfway across the continent.

[TheLordNovo]

My favorite Sturmtiger story is the only one where it was recorded with tank kills. A Sturmtiger on the western front was ordered to destroy a bridge over a river in France to slow the allied advance, so the Sturmtiger in question went to a hill overlook of the bridge, took aim, and fired. What supposedly happened is that it severely overshot the bridge, and just happened to land in between 5 Shermans in an American camp that were refueling, and destroyed all of them. Reasonably, the Sturmtiger fucked off after that bc a 38cm rocket randomly annihilating 5 mediums at once would raise some alarms among the enemy

[hungryhedgehog]

IS tank surviving a direct hit from a 380mm rocket is the most on brand thing for this game.

[Registered_Simp]

The Sturmtiger is the ultimate form of a pure strength build in RPG's brought to WT. Literally the energy of "I only need to hit you once DEX nerd!"

[CrhisLulz]

The Sturmtiger is one of those tanks where you can't be mad while playing it - you whip it out knowing you're at a disadvantage just by choosing it and then have fun with how stupid it is

[Phantom-bhru]

Imagine a entire team of sturm tigers just shooting into the enemy teams spawn at the start of the match

[maral]

pro tip: Set the range to 100m to account for rapid drop at the start. If the tank is less than 100 meters from you, just aim the 100m mark at its tracks.

[angryman_]

I feel like it should just be an instant kill no matter what if it directly hits a vehicle just because no matter the armor, even a maus would have it's crew be vaporized by the blast.
Also they should add the churchill AVRE with the 290mm mortar.

[yarnickgoovaerts]

You can kill someone by shooting a postcode next to them, but sometimes they survive a direct hit
Gaijing logic

[tiseril]

2:01 I can imagine this IS-1 having a giant shell stuck in the turret unexploded. And there's this unlucky guy who got hit by it

[areusure]

Spookston: doesnt want sturmtiger
Gaijin: gets sturmtiger
Spookston and the sturmtiger:

[Endrju]

I really like it when Gaijin adds a lol tank like Sturmtiger because it brings back joy into the game. Most people aren't even trying to be competitive while playing it and because of it the game becomes what it should be all along. A place where you can just fool around in your favourite tanks and vent out some stress. Usually it's the exact opposite.

[zeepje]

I once got a double kill from spawn, it was magnificent.

[GnougnouA]

1:47 : "Russian Bias does not exist"

[dddude]

Love how you can aim at one target and somehow kill another one 20 meters away

[letsflipp]

00:17 i didn't expect to stumple upon one of the worst and creepiest dudes i ever met on discord in a spookston vid... well, i guess you always meet twice.

[Blackhawk]

I was playing around with the protection analysis for the 38cm shell yesterday, and saw something that almost made me spit out my drink. If you simulate a 38cm shell going into one of the big stowage boxes on the side of the Boarhound, the armor deformation goes so crazy that the stowage box balloons out taller than the turret and about half the length of the vehicle. If you simulate the round hitting one of the Soviet AA trucks, the armor deformation is so extreme that the truck basically ceases to exist. It’s incredible to look at.

[calthepeacelovingclover]

*Imagine just driving along ready to take the first point and you see a giant brick being lobbed at breakneck speed right into your tank out of nowhere.*

[KW_]

so many people are using this thing that germany will be on both sides of a Ground Realistic battle and there are all just trying to cross map each other for the first 4 minutes

[standard-carrier-wo-chan]

Sturmtiger is fun because you jump into the game with it knowing full well you won't get anything, but then the sheer joy of "how tf did that work?!" when you do get someone is just chefs kiss. I love how Spook is just having fun with this lmao