This Prototype Tank Annihilates Tigers

Added: 2026-05-10

[00:00:00]When we think about tank building nations, we typically don't think about Australia.

[00:00:04]However, during World War II, Australia did put in a genuine effort to build a tank. This is the AC4, and as you can see, its design is pretty unique. It's got a 17 pounder, heavily sloped armor, and its mobility is pretty decent. I'm a pretty big fan of it. So, let's go ahead and try it out. There is like a chaffy next to us, I think. Oh, even better.

[00:00:22]There's a bulldog.

[00:00:24]I couldn't hear him because his engine noise is the exact same as mine.

[00:00:29]Oo, I didn't even know if that was center mass. I just fired blindly. This uh M6 is a little scary unless he just blindly runs forward as you do as an American player.

[00:00:45]Man, the 17 pounder is hitting hard.

[00:00:47]Some people think I don't like the 17 pounder. No, I love the 17 pounder. I just dislike most of the tanks that it's put on. See, we got like a decent 10 km per hour reverse speed, unlike the stinky doodoo ass 5 km reverse on the Firefly. Stinky doo ass is a technical engineering term. By the way, I didn't notice that this has some weird like HVSS adjacent suspension system. I think this was built earlier than the uh HVSS Shermans, although there were earlier HVSS experiments in America. So, who knows? I wish I was fighting Germany instead of being on their team. German players have absolutely no clue how to deal with the AC4. It's kind of funny and sad at the same time. I am going to get a lot of satisfaction out of doing this. I probably should have been a little more angled when I approached that corner, but that's all right. We only lost one guy.

[00:01:41]Worst bomb toss known to man. Oh my lord.

[00:01:44]Oh my lord.

[00:01:47]Yeah, I I don't know. I see people complain about solid shot on the 17 bounder. I think the 17 pounder is fine.

[00:01:54]Maybe some of the other ones are not so great. Like the US set like short 75 solid shot on that is pretty gross in a bad way. No, 17 pounder is fine for the most part. You'd expect people to hit the very obvious driver's weak spot more frequently, but for some reason people just love to shoot the front slope for no reason.

[00:02:17]very curious, very uh interesting specimens in this game. I got to tell you, I'm not sure I like the matchmaking situation going on right now. Only played two games so far. Everyone has been a full up tier, 6.3 game, and I seem to remember that being the case for another 5.3 vehicle that I played recently. Just nothing but full up tiers.

[00:02:40]So, this this might be a little more painful than I was expecting. I mean, at least we don't have to fight Tiger 2 Pas anymore, right? We don't have to fight Thrag. I think this Hellcat got himself wedged on a rock and now he's got evaporated by an ELC.

[00:02:58]Hopefully the M36 is a little smarter.

[00:03:00]He got evaporated by a Tiger E. The circle of life continues.

[00:03:05]There's a PT76, right? PT dead now. Where is the tiger?

[00:03:14]That would be very vital information. I think I He probably over there. He's very kindly machine gunning to let me know exactly where he is. He's so small.

[00:03:23]I don't know exactly where he is. Oh, there he is. Please don't see me.

[00:03:29]He saw me. Ow. Well, at least he's dead.

[00:03:33]It's okay. We'll just have the historically accurate 17 pounder reload right now.

[00:03:38]Wait. Go for a little bit more. Yes.

[00:03:44]I don't need a turret drive. How on earth did that pen? How thin is our sight again? I thought you could angle this like a little bit at least. Oh, wait, wait, wait. D34, look out.

[00:03:56]Cannot believe we shot that guy. Well, we did hit his ammo coincidentally. That thing is absolutely loaded with it.

[00:04:04]Am I going to get bombed now? Even though I really haven't done that much.

[00:04:07]So, fun fact, when they were designing the AC4, they needed to test if the recoil system could handle the 17 pounder, but they didn't have one yet.

[00:04:16]So, they used two 25p pounder Howitzers, which like may maybe Gajin could add that to the game. I mean, it was an actual vehicle.

[00:04:26]It meets their requirements. I don't know how would work exactly, but I think it'd be pretty fun.

[00:04:33]I don't know how powerful the 25 pounder is, but I imagine it'd be pretty decent.

[00:04:38]Maybe get some heat rounds or something like that. Please, one shot. Thank you.

[00:04:42]See, you just had to be nice to it. It's a British round, so you have to be polite. Use your manners. I do say, old sport, if you could oneot that vehicle over there, I'd be most appreciative.

[00:04:52]Send my regards to the misses.

[00:04:56]No.

[00:04:57]Apparently, you had to be careful of 40 ms in this thing. I I think it penned our turret. It didn't even pen our driver's port. Pinned our turret somehow. That's a little concerning. Did they like nerf this thing's turret? Is that where you penned, brother?

[00:05:13]Yeah. I don't know if they like nerf this thing's turret armor or what. I was looking at the Koopa on this and it sure is something.

[00:05:22]Wait, it's the gunner's Koopa. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. What? Hang on.

[00:05:34]I'm so confused right now.

[00:05:37]Is Is it supposed to be like two a two loader situation? Is the gunner also the commander? What is going on here?

[00:05:46]I'm so confused. Anyway, it has a single periscope, which, as you can imagine, not good for visibility, even if you can rotate it. I mean, the Sherman had the same thing. early Shermans, but at least they fixed it like kind of quickly.

[00:06:01]Hello, Panther. Just got to get that exactly right. Otherwise, it doesn't pen cuz it's a Panther's mantlet. Looks like everyone's having a ball over here. See if we can't help out a smidge. Just have to be careful because there's like always a constant flow of people coming from their spawn. Mr. Tiger, wonder if we can shoot all the way through his tank. No, we only took out his engine. That's That's beast mode right there. There we go. Like the one advantage the solid shot has and it's hit or miss. Shout out, brother. Oh, this is juicy. Hang on. Anyone else looking?

[00:06:42]Uh, absolutely. Kill that one first.

[00:06:44]Yes. Well, Nashworn, you got two options.

[00:06:48]You can drive out and get Hed by me, or you can sit behind there and get hed by artillery. Oh, he made his choice. Uh, not a not a bright choice, I have to say. I know I've already made this comparison before, but this really does feel like the Australian Panther. Like, very weak sides, very heavily sloped front that's good at deflecting rounds, and the mantlet that is supposed to be weak, but sometimes just eats rounds completely. And obviously the long gun that doesn't do a ton of damage. Oh, hang on. We got an Owin problem back here. Now, we got a multi-tank assault here. have to sneak up behind them all sneaky beaky like another Owind. I think I don't think that's the same one.

[00:07:31]I think I think the T34 has got this handled. Just waiting to ambush the tiger here. There's our man. Got him.

[00:07:38]Mud tiger. Fitting. I'm not really sure where the mud part applies in that scenario. Like maybe he's covered in mud cuz he's uh dead. Like I don't know. I'm pretty sure I hear up. Yes.

[00:07:53]Wait, the puma somehow penned our side at that angle. He almost killed us.

[00:07:59]>> What the What is this thing's side made out of?

[00:08:03]Like, is it aluminum? Is Is it aircraft grade aluminum?

[00:08:09]Getting in early on the composite hole construction.

[00:08:15]Hello.

[00:08:17]I was waiting to see if you would notice also for him to unangle a little bit more. You want to shoot the right side, your right, if you can, cuz that's where the ammo is. I believe the gunner as well. Oh, what? What is this fella right next to me? Oh, it's a panther.

[00:08:34]I just got to do that to him. And um interesting strategy.

[00:08:40]I don't think it played off.

[00:08:47]I don't even think he could really see me even after extending his hole that far. Hang on. I actually don't want to approach the Owind with my side exposed like that cuz I don't know if he can pen it or not.

[00:09:02]Hang on. Load H. Oh, I think I've made a mistake here. I think I made a big mistake here. Hello, Panther. All right, we got his breach. That is good. Good.

[00:09:13]Good.

[00:09:16]He's a little smart. It appears he is uh trying to provide himself cover. You know, I'm just going to rush. I don't think that Austin's rushing. So, I got smoke cover. He very kindly provided me his own smoke. Hi, Panther.

[00:09:32]Bye, Panther.

[00:09:34]All right. Now, let's see if we can get the Owind.

[00:09:38]Oh, nope. Not Not quite yet. Not quite yet. Not quite. Can we overrun play the Panther? I don't really want to try.

[00:09:46]Commander gunner reach is really hurt and he's going to try to turn side on to get away. It's not going to work.

[00:09:56]The game becomes so much easier when you fight like 5.3 5.7 Germany.

[00:10:02]I I think I'm carrying the team here.

[00:10:04]God, there's one more positive couple more positive people. Hey, you should try to push me now that I fired.

[00:10:14]Wait a minute. Oh, I see.

[00:10:18]Act like I'm disabled.

[00:10:21]Surprise, you idiot.

[00:10:28]I don't have any more high explosive, unfortunately. I think the LVKB's gunner is on that side. I'm not entirely sure.

[00:10:34]Hey, you should try to you should try to shoot me, man. Okay, you guys. Cannon breach. You're done, bud. You are done.

[00:10:41]Oh my god. The world's slowest firing machine gun. Right. Come back here. No, I want to kill him. Let me kill him. Let me kill him. Yeah, we killed him. That's 13.

[00:10:53]So stupid.

[00:10:55]But hang on. Let me before I get into another match. Let me check. 44 mm.

[00:11:00]That's not even that bad. That's That's Sherman level or even better than Sherman. Is it Is it this bit? I think it's this bit that's doing it. like people somehow repeatedly hitting that or like that. No, cuz it's effective thickness is insane. I think people are hitting that and it's penning. I think that's the issue. And the mantlet or the turret in general is uh not not very thick. It's cast too. Yeah, that'd do it.

[00:11:32]Waiting to drive to the battlefield has me rediscovering stims I haven't used since I was like 12. Okay, so important thing to keep in mind, hole sometimes tank shots. Turret does not tank shots unless like they hit the mantlet at a weird position. I think I can I can over pressure this thing, right? Cuz it it's open topped.

[00:11:52]Yeah, good one, man. Excellent work. Why is there a Stor here? Did I get put down to like 2.3 somehow? What is going on?

[00:12:01]Oh my lord, so much artillery. Give it a rest already.

[00:12:06]I like when I say something for emphasis and it coincides with me shooting someone. Hands are too, buddy. We're doing this again. I guess we're doing this again.

[00:12:16]I don't I get it, man. Yeah, it's a good way past this VR, but like maybe maybe after the first time you'd realize, hm, they'll probably see this coming.

[00:12:27]Nothing says War Thunder player like bashing your head into a wall repeatedly until it eventually works for like a quarter of the expected game. Oh, is this M36 back? Yeah, I'm just going to call artillery on you. Yeah, I know. I know.

[00:12:42]Everyone's just back for seconds, I guess. I don't think he's going to see this one coming. Nope, he didn't. Good try, man. Still got you the second time.

[00:12:51]It's all about patience. You have to have the patience of a sage when you play this game. Otherwise, you'll just go insane cuz people will wait like 5 minutes to kill you on one corner.

[00:13:01]Speaking of uh killing people on corners, why did he just fire into the ground?

[00:13:09]I hope I can just shot me in the back of the head. I think I think my teammate just shot me in the back of the head cuz he's highly intelligent.

[00:13:18]Reddit mod 500 IQ. And we'll just lower front plate. You bulldog. Oh, sorry. It wasn't Bulldog. I was in a crater.

[00:13:25]That's why my tank was shaking. My bad.

[00:13:28]I didn't mean to accuse you.

[00:13:31]unnecessarily. Uh, without high explosive, this is going to be so annoying, especially since the Nasorn has like a somewhat good reload, unless he just accepts fate and dies. I don't think that's a friendly thing behind me.

[00:13:43]That does not sound friendly in the slightest.

[00:13:46]In fact, it was not. That's why you got to trust your ears in this game. Is there another one? What the heck was that like toilet flushing noise? I might get scolded for not bringing more ammo, but I don't know how much ammo I can safely bring. So, I'm not going over what past me brought. So, I imagine if I go over that, then I'm going to explode violently if I get tickled.

[00:14:11]Very interesting. Very, very interesting.

[00:14:15]Oh my lord. Man was [ __ ] hauling. All right. Now, can I peek out here without getting my ass exploded?

[00:14:27]All right, that's pretty pretty good, I would say. Unfortunately, couldn't get a kill on the spa, but that's all right. I went exploded with the force of 5,000 sons.

[00:14:39]The hell? Oh, it's a hater.

[00:14:43]It looked green, so I thought it was like Japanese.

[00:14:48]I mean, sure has green camos. What the am I talking about? That's like some [ __ ] see in COD zombies. He [ __ ] pack-a-punched his M6. Nero Z25. Okay.

[00:14:59]Who sees the what, like hundreds of Roman emperors and thinks, "Yeah, Nero's my favorite." Is this Panther turning around to engage or like what's going on with this man? All right, his gunner is dead. His reach is out. We can just go ahead and do that. Nice. Oh, we can ammo rack a panther that way. That's good to know.

[00:15:21]I mean, I imagine it's fairly risky. Did I I can't tell if I said very or fairly.

[00:15:26]I think I went for a mix of both. You know what I mean? I imagine it's pretty risky.

[00:15:35]Oh, Pack-a-Punch M6 is coming this way.

[00:15:38]The entire team is coming this way.

[00:15:39]Nice. Yeah, they're they're already getting spawn camped. It's like 2 minutes into the game.

[00:15:46]That's why I don't like being paired with 53 Germany.

[00:15:51]Oh my lord.

[00:15:54]Did I go clear through and hit his ammo?

[00:15:56]I did. That's beast mode. That's why we like solid shots sometimes.

[00:16:01]Gunner loader.

[00:16:04]And that guy is desperate to get my kill.

[00:16:08]Oh, his transmission ate it. Yeah, that's probably why you don't want to aim for lower front plate too much. Kill assist. Rick, really? Ricochet, are you spawn protected? No. Uh, good nature is taking effect here. Rea got around behind us and is uh killing everybody. Oh, they got the they got the pack-a-punch M6. Well, that's no good.

[00:16:31]That's all right. We got one. And we can we can tank this. Wonder if I can shoot him through the Brea. Oh, I don't even know what the hell that is. Oh, it's just a puma. Unfortunately, I just gave him cover.

[00:16:45]I can still see his exhaust, though. And he's still trying to shoot me from I think the exact same location.

[00:16:52]Good one.

[00:16:54]Yeah, buddy. 17 pounder. Sorry. You angled. Doesn't matter.

[00:17:03]Impressive. I got to get out of here.

[00:17:05]Oh, it's an M44.

[00:17:08]Somehow amoract him.

[00:17:10]Actually, if that was a that wouldn't have him, I don't think. Another score for a solid shot. Oh, crit the Hellcat.

[00:17:20]My artillery is critting now. I I said a couple videos ago like, "Wow, the artillery is killing people more frequently and Gajun decided to uh smite me for being excited about something."

[00:17:31]Uh-oh.

[00:17:33]Maybe you shouldn't have rushed your shot there, fella.

[00:17:38]It would have been really cool if that had gone through and hit the tiger as well, but after going through an entire other heavy tank, probably wouldn't have done anything. I help I'm being absorbed into the building.

[00:17:49]Boy, you think you can be joyful around here.

[00:17:54]If I had hit him, that would have been uh really funny and sad. So, yeah, that was the Australian AC4 medium tank.

[00:18:02]Definitely pretty quirky as a lot of things Australian are, but like I said, it's a pretty good workhorse. Up tiers can be a little rough when everything pens you, but that's pretty par for the course. Anyway, if you guys have suggestions, vehicles to play or challenges to do, leave a comment and I'll see you on the next