SDP wz 66 Grom - Tank Review - World of Tanks

The SDP wz 66 Grom is the new highest DpM of any premium in World of Tanks! Here's if this T8 Polish TD is the new best credit maker!

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Chapters:
0:00 The SDP wz 66 Grom Tank Review
1:11 The Stats
5:59 Crew Skills
7:41 Equipment
8:04 Field Mods
8:30 Game 1
17:43 Game 2
21:56 Game 3
24:14 Game 4
29:44 Conclusion

[TheContaxt]

Mailand testet the lowest possible dmg at maximum range of 720 m. Its 69 lol

[Tommy_The_Gun]

Well, games are far too long anyway, we need another huge alpha, burst & DPM monster that makes thickest armour obsletet & itself remains invulnerable anyway... At least it has 220 mm "weakspot" that is larger than 3 pixels. But again, if you mange to hide it, then you can block an entire flank. Can't see how adding such a tank will improve the player experience & overall health of the game.

[janfelchner]

BTW: Grom translates to Thunder, and Błyskawica to Lightning :-)

[parallax_aerial_photography]

I've just made it to their tier 9 in the polish TDs, guess I'll have a crew trainer for them now. I disagree with the assessment that the tanks are boring, and are in fact quite the opposite for me. I find them to be incredibly dynamic and much more interesting to play than your usual heavies where you just sit on a corner, sidescrape, and fling gold at the other team's weakpoints until eventually someone wins out. I really enjoy playing both the tier 8 and tier 9 on the medium tank flanks of most maps, and you can have a huge impact on the match. My average damage in the Kilana was something like 3200, and took my account damage record away from my STRV 103B with a 9800 damage and 9 kill game vs tier 10s. The carry potential is insane for a TD

[Yixuan-sm]

Went though the gap and got punished by skorpion. 2 sec later, went the the same gap again and got punished again. 🎉

[MikeMorrinson]

Great. A High-DPM, Hull-Down, armoured, in-your-face-TD. Exactly what we needed in these battles that are getting faster and faster. What could go wrong ...

[Anriandor]

Tier X Tank destroyers used to have 850 alpha.
They got nerfed.
Tier VIII TDs now have 800 alpha...
Think about it 🤯

[altair]

Playing the Kilana then facing a bz176 then they hit you for only 100 premium round damage is funny

[sylvercloud]

Important note, up to 230m, the Grom will do more damage than the Kilana (both 560 damage at 230m), it's only beyond this range that the Kilana will do more.
That's quite a long range. So unless you really snipe, the Grom will always have higher alpha.

And if you really want to snipe at long range in the Grom, you might as well use HE on most targets.

Formulas to compute the damage (except below 50m):

Grom: Damage = (-Distance+50)*(600/450) + 800
Kilana: Damage = (-Distance+50)*(350/450) + 700

[AetherYes]

Ya know what's depressing .... Look at the tier 8 match maker you barely see any tech tree tanks in that match (I'm not including tech tree artillery ...)


Back in the day Tiger II, Centurion mk 1, Ferdinand were the best tanks to play nowadays is BZ-176, Skoda T-56, Bourrasque and Progetto 46 in every match what's the point having stock tech tree tanks anyway




(On the bright side at least my O-HO doesn't even have is own premium counterpart which I'm glad)

[kasugaryuichi]

750 dpm tank destroyer? We already have that, it's called Foch 155

[pihip]

Reminds me of the old SU-122-44 - decent mobility, strong but unreliable frontal armor, and a big boom gun that can threaten anything at same tier and below.
QB calls it "boring" but for people not used to flexing across the battlefield, I think Grom will do fine.

[tambarlas]

These marathons always happen when I'm travelling. Oh, well.

[mjtheko]

so...WG is telling us with this tank and many of the others. don't play tier 8 tech tree heavy.

[jforden]

I think lots of players are going to struggle with this tank because they aren't going to get into the fight to see the real damage, and others who get stuck in won't hide the midplate well enough.

[robg]

Don’t know why QB recommends the concealment skill for every tank and every crew member, especially this tank when the point is to get into close quarters.

[jagdpanzere.onehundred]

Yay a mission marathon! I'll take it over loot boxes

[KurkkuGo]

I have enjoyed the polish TDs. With many TDs you can just sit far from the action and snipe but with these tanks you have to get on the enemys face and make feel the dmg. Oh and that 1, 2k HE was brutal from a tier VIII tank.

[kachew]

QB staring at the sweaty bz-176 player with HE is terrifying but also really funny at the same time.

[nephalos]

Given the rage-inducing experience I had with the tier 8 Kilana, thanks but no thanks, I'll pass.