The Moderna Experience

Yet another one of Gaijin's infamous crafting events is ongoing, and that means there's probably a gimmicky top tier tank that's going to be ruining the matchmaker for a while. The top reward for the Battle for Arachis event is the T-72M2 Moderna, a Slovakian retrofit of the ubiquitous Soviet T-72 main battle tank. I think another top tier MBT is the last thing the Russian tech tree needed, but Gaijin will be Gaijin. The Moderna sports a fair number of new bells and whistles, but how does it actually play?

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Songs used (in order from first to last):
Command and Conquer: Generals - Various USA Themes
Halo 3: ODST - Rain (Deference for Darkness)

Sound mods:
Epic Thunder (Pre-release)

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[Kminek]

Fun fact: it should have a also different gunner optics. It should have a same optics as a Leceerch (4x-12x or 14x) but Gaijin for some reason decided to give it the Russian standard T-72 optics (8x)

[datankz]

Welcome, to the world's, quietest, War Thunder video.

[chadtheafricanbullfrog]

From what I understand the TAPNA is a really light round for 120/125mm (3.4kg compared to DM53 5kg, while 105mm M900 is 3.7kg) and War Thunder models a lot of post-pen damage on shell weight, so with it being so light it has good penetration but the spalling similar to that of a 105mm round.

[Zenturion]

You sound more relaxed and casual in this video, good to listen to.

[riff-_-]

Yes Spookston! I'm so glad we get less scripted videos, nice to hear actual personality in your voice for once. Love your Videos, keep it up!

[jaxrammus]

i swear to god any time spook says

"its early/late af right now"

the vid is 1. commentary and 2. great fun

[darkninjacorporation]

This thing, as of now, is really the end-all be-all for the T-72 MBT. It’s got so much modern tech crammed into such an old frame, the fact that it plays as well as it does is incredible. Right now on Marketplace these things cost like $70. If they go below 40 like most event top rewards do I’m definitely getting one

[wyattfarcry]

idk why but i love it when you do raw videos like this

[Jilve]

Absolutely lovely being in Lapland and missing this, although in reality i couldn't get it even if i tried

[master]

1. Tapna is light, 3.4kg from 125mm cannon is some 105 performance. It helps that its fast.
2. NVD is just night in green. It improves if you play ULQ, and I think it has not been changed since old, old, old renderer.

[VaciliNikoMavich]

"If only i could tell my teams to get over here kill this guy"

My thoughts exactly for a while now.

[richiestang]

Pretty much all War Thunder maps are bad. The game has some of the most consistently bad maps of any multiplayer game I've ever played, the team involved should be ashamed and or fired. The spawn camping could easily be fixed by adding a no fire protection zone, but as long as people keep buying over priced vehicles and premiums then Gaijin has no reason to actually fix anything.

[livslab]

Cant wait for Gaijin to add the T72 Pfizer and the T72 Astra-Zeneca

[anonymous-cszt]

watching this 2 years later and hearing spookton saying russia doesnt have a good 10.0 line up made me laugh

[EnterpriseKnight]

"It's late and I need to record, but I don't wanna wake up anyone"
Welp it's time for:

SPOOKSTON ASMR CHANNEL:
"HEICH EES TEE VEE ELL"

[Lelleboy]

I’ve had this tank for a litle bit now but I have learned that the auto cannon is mostly used for killing tanks from the side and it’s only used to snipe barrels if it’s needed but that is just for me

[TrueCanadan]

I'm taking a break from high tiers for a bit. Getting chopper ATGMs, CAS and spawn camped in the 1st 1 minute of the game has worn me down.

[pxerc]

I just want the moderna because im from Slovakia and its nice to see our vehicle in game

[Brother_Rony]

The tank isn't really what the game needed nor is the even even passable but 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰SLOVENSKOOOO 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰

[silverwolf]

If i was spooks roommate, I'd make a cup of hot cocoa or coffee or something comforting for him during late night and make him comfortable while watching him make content