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How to Spawnkill top BR with a Milktruck 101
By Guardsman Drogowit
A simple guide on spawnkill artillery-slap with BM-38-24.
   
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Step 1: Vehicle of Choice
Your vehicle of choice is rusty but trusty BM-31-12 "Megabonk" - Even USSR milktruck.


Vehicle is known for it's murderous glorified propane gas tanks, horrible angling, but great lethality and velocity allowing to hit vehicles and overpressure them + roofslap them.

For these reasons, Megabonk is a very valuable vehicle, provided that you know on which maps to use it, as it is critical to strike at enemy spawn location at sufficient timing (When they move just enough to lose spawn protection)
Step 2: How to Spawnkill effectively
1. Know your maps.
Preferred maps to do this strategy are:
-Hurtgen Forest
-Normandy
-Poland
-Fulda (if you are lucky af)
-Aral Sea
-Any other map with sufficient distance and not overly obstructed

BAD MAP EXAMPLES:
-Sweden
-Novorrosyisk
-Sinai (it seems like a good idea but map is obstructed by boulders around spawns)

2. Select correct spawn and enemy target spawn destination
This example will show Normandy Eastern Team Top Spawn location as a choice, due to great exposure to enemy location and short distance to A cap:

3. Learn your angles, landmarks, and distances
On various maps you can memorize approximate landmarks such as fence positions, single trees, towers (i.e. Iberia south spawn church tower and radio tower give you good estimate)

Pay attention to your angle, where exactly you are within spawn area to accomodate for minor corrections.

If you know enemy spawn location precisely, keep spread within 100-150 meters in directions toward where you think they're going (i.e. A point or just alongside it as on Normandy)
The screenshot below is precisely moment of firing 2nd rocket, which resulted in 1st out of 3 frags.

4. Watch the hell unleash on enemy top BR vehicles as they have no way of countering your fire
Step 3: Analyze your results!!!
Make sure to check your replays on maps and refer to where you hit them vs. your angle points.

On example of this particular battle, refer to this replay:
https://warthunder.com/en/tournament/replay/104640830854928416
Megabonk operator: =300= Drogowit

This will greatly help you learn the angles and locations, and which maps suit you more than others.

To summarize this battle, the results are approximately as follows:

Table:

Result #1

Result #2

Once you're done with it, jump out of the Megabonk and spawn in whatever the fluff you please!!!
Research Materials: Replays Post-Guide
Here I will pop in any useful replays where I actually managed to score hits.

Normandy:
Doublekill on Spawn, then wrecked with CAS and messed around
https://warthunder.com/en/tournament/replay/104703447183235390