A Desert Eagle aimed below the belt gives TheTacticalBrit another WARDOGS hit
The British FPS channel's crotch-shot experiment drew about fifteen times its usual first day, two days after its economy video took off.
TheTacticalBritStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 80,009 views a day, 15 times a normal first day on this channel (5,283).
WARDOGS Most Embarrassing Secret Weapon
What does TheTacticalBrit do after crashing WARDOGS' economy? He aims lower. "WARDOGS Most Embarrassing Secret Weapon" passed 64,000 views in its first fifteen hours. On this channel a new video usually draws a little over 5,000 in a whole first day.
The joke is right there in the description. While everyone else hunts for headshots, it promises, the Desert Eagle has a hidden damage bonus that makes it a one-hit kill when you hit a target well below the head. The video takes that idea into public lobbies, and the description calls the result the most disrespectful playstyle in gaming. The commenters are less interested in the myth than in the chaos around it. One moment early on, when the squad runs into what looks like the entire green team at once, comes up again and again. So does a rescue up a staircase that ran into a second claymore. Another viewer has already named it the "Desert Squirrel" meta.
WARDOGS is the new 100-player tactical shooter from Bulkhead and Team17. The channel joined it on its first Steam Early Access day, a turn for a creator whose about page is built around Battlefield and Warzone. The economy video from two days earlier is now close to a quarter of a million views, and the two together have nearly doubled the channel's usual daily views. The short clips posted in between are drawing far smaller crowds.
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What viewers say
1:45 "You have alerted the horde".
Man, you basically found the ENTIRE green team in that situation all in the time span of 10 seconds.@DenemeDokioSee it on YouTube18:15 You guys don't know but I was screaming "NOOOOO" when you drag him up the stairs. Because there's one reliable rule of thumb, it's that the rats who use claymore, never come bringing just one.
@AwootisticSee it on YouTubeThe Desert Squirrel meta is now a thing
@Rickles_ChSee it on YouTube
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- Channel
- TheTacticalBrit
- Subscribers
- 188,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 108,465 (on a normal day: 57,310)
- Video published
- October 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 64,123 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 80,009
The numbers
A second WARDOGS video in three days starts far ahead of anything the channel usually sees on a first day.
💡 Test your knowledge
The Desert Eagle pistol at the center of the video was developed by which American company?
The Desert Eagle was developed by Magnum Research in the early 1980s. Much of its manufacturing was later done in Israel.
