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[ThatBaconGuyFTW]

What is Seal Clubbing?

 

Seal Clubbing - v. - to go into a low tier battle and absoulutely destroy the enemy with an overpowered tank (usually that has a derp gun). For example, the T18 with the 75mm M1A1 Howitzer.

 

More seal clubbing tanks:

British Cruiser tanks with a howitzer or Pom-Pom

T82

Leichtractor (did I spell that right?)

M4 (with derp gun)

KV-1

T18

Hetzer

Matilda

T1 Cunningham

etc, etc...

 

 

 

[TMac1256]

And you completely just leave out the poor hetzer...

Or for me the pz. 38 nA.

[that_f_in_guy]

The Matilda can be added to this as well.

[jtemple507]

I love my T1 Cunningham as a seal-clubber...the 37mm Browning does an amazing job of wrecking the enemy. I love the fact that it is basically an autoloader.

[ThatBaconGuyFTW]

jtemple507, on 25 January 2015 - 01:05 PM, said:

I love my T1 Cunningham as a seal-clubber...the 37mm Browning does an amazing job of wrecking the enemy. I love the fact that it is basically an autoloader.

 

that_f_in_guy, on 25 January 2015 - 01:03 PM, said:

The Matilda can be added to this as well.

 

TMac1256, on 25 January 2015 - 12:39 PM, said:

And you completely just leave out the poor hetzer...

Or for me the pz. 38 nA.

 

I'll add all of these to the list, but I did put etc, etc.

[Looney999]

I believe it's spelled LOLtractor...

[acrisis]

I think I may possibly have seen the first user who fits that "seal clubber" definition more than anybody.

I was one shotted in the lowerst tier
(bonus weekend, riding the little ones till victory to get free xp and silver up a bit, V & especially the VI are getting to be quite expensive buggers!) 
Summary comes.
Click through to profile of my killer: 
- more games played than anybody in the forum (afaik) 
- sky high personal rating
- excellent victory rating
- more valuable medals in that single row than I've even played battles 
... and you know there's some experts online with a lot of games and notches on their belt, great personal ratings, victory rates etc ...
So, now I really have to click through to see his garage and a few of his numbers ... and, eh, guess what? 

 

75% of ALL games in the lowest tier with the first American TD you can get.
It was the only thing holding up the numbers  

 
Possibly gathering silver for a gold ammo habit and maybe saving for a V or VI. I just thought it was  

 

[Kevin_Thebeast]

There are a few like that. Some people just prefer to putz around the low tiers in an OP vehicle and never move up the tech tree. I remember one player with around 2,500 battles in their T18 and almost nothing else.

[acrisis]

Might be the same person, but now you have to multiply that 2500 T18 battles number a few times (and not just double or triple it)

[LE_gend_VI]

What about the pz.ıv in its tier with the derp I've come to like that tank. 

[merome99]

I fond a guy with 16000 battles, 4000 in the Pz. 3, 2000 in the T-18 and with one tier 8 tank... of which he had played 9 games in... I just don't even know anymore

[OBTanker]

Stop me if you've heard this joke before...   "So this Baby Seal walks into a Club..."

[Kiser_Sosei]

OBTanker, on 06 February 2015 - 11:03 AM, said:

Stop me if you've heard this joke before...   "So this Baby Seal walks into a Club..."

 

Uhm no I have not heard it. Please do tell.

[Captain_Dread]

Just a thought.  Do you play the game because you like building a big garage of tanks?  Or do you play because you like blowing up tanks?  Therein lies the motivation for playing lower tier OP tanks, other than credit grinding.

[Good_Goy]

75mm howitzer sucks considering the fact that it cannot one-shot destroy a T82.
T82+105mm all the way.
Also, Marder should be added too. It has amazing alpha.

[zoom900]

Good_Goy, on 06 February 2015 - 08:42 PM, said:

75mm howitzer sucks considering the fact that it cannot one-shot destroy a T82.
T82+105mm all the way.
Also, Marder should be added too. It has amazing alpha.

 

Su-85B ^^

[Catainium]

T18 and Hetzer are the definition of Sealclubbing no other words needed

[DeathScrub]

The Russian T46 with 76mm and HEAT...  AT-1 with 76mm and HEAT (one-shot kills on most Tier-I tanks)... and Cruiser-III with 40mm pom-pom come to mind. The new Pz S35 can be a kitten killer, too. For the middle tiers, Ram-2 (surprisingly) and T-150 are real bullies... 

 

I have three Tier-X mediums,  two IX heavies, and half a dozen VIIIs - these are the most beloved, but doing Tier-II and III battles can be really fun, and help build good statistics. Beginning players are unpredictable, though - they show up in the 'wrong' place unexpectedly, and can kill you. Also, you may kill 4 or 5 - but find your last teammate doing circles on a hill, trembling in a corner, or otherwise unable to finish an 'easy' victory, so even a 'sure thing' doesn't always work...

 

 

 

 

 

[StrykerGameZ]

zoom900, on 08 February 2015 - 04:27 PM, said:

 

Su-85B ^^

 

The SU-85B is what keeps hetzers in check 

[christian1470]

Catainium, on 08 February 2015 - 08:17 PM, said:

T18 and Hetzer are the definition of Sealclubbing no other words needed

 

I have to get this off my chest. I have an exceptional win rate in the t18, for me, anyway, and I do pretty well with all my American TDs, so I thought, "I'll get a Hetzer!" Over the weekend, starting at tier 2, I ground my way up to the Hetzer, and fully upgraded it. Yeah, Nope. My win rate is abysmal. Marder II is even worse. I feel much more like the seal than the club. I just die over and over. Many of my games I was low tier, but still. I remember the Hetzer being crazy op, both in gun and frontal armor, when I was facing it back in my noobish days, but I just keep getting [edited]slapped in the damn thing.