World of Tanks

http://game.worldoftanks.com/registration/

Not much of a selection process.... create name, password, reply to email within 24 hours... your in.

Downloading now. I'm in and I know Ron plays too.

I'll start a download when I go home for lunch.

Installed, updated and playing in about 1:30 min - like every thing else, sucks being level 1 and trying to learn game.

Don't get too far ahead of me 😛

Have not figured out how to join specific games so far all joins are random accumulation of players - may be a way to join on friends - my in game name GRB_Duck

Very nice graphics - looks like you earn exp and gold then you buy better equip - guns, turrets, engines, optics - then small, ed, large and tank destroyers chassis....

Will give it a week or so - but if I had to choose Navy Field hands down so far. Easier to learn - quicker to join - though not as visually nice looking as WoT

Duck wrote:Have not figured out how to join specific games so far all joins are random accumulation of players - may be a way to join on friends - my in game name GRB_Duck

Very nice graphics - looks like you earn exp and gold then you buy better equip - guns, turrets, engines, optics - then small, ed, large and tank destroyers chassis....

Will give it a week or so - but if I had to choose Navy Field hands down so far. Easier to learn - quicker to join - though not as visually nice looking as WoT

First, you dont earn gold. Gold is going to be the currency for the game to make money, but its ok cause you don't "NEED" gold. Gold is only spent on premium ammo, which really isnt needed till Tier V. Or if you have enough gold you can buy an "elite" tank. These are usually pretty good tanks for their tier, however they are woefully underpowered for tiers above them.

You should be able to get off tier I and II in one day of play.

WoT is a hella good game, the interaction between random battles and tank companies is awesome. Random the game changes everytime, tank companies you can design every aspect of your game.

Now that I have the feel for it - it's growing on me - a question about tiers -

Use the Soviet as an example:
http://downloads.worldoftanks.ru/wotru/a3j...soviet_tree.jpg

If I chose the T-26 as my tier II am I then on that specific path? And do I upgrade the T-26 to the T-46 when I move to tier III or do I keep the T-26 and then am able to purchase the T-46 as another tank in my maintenance shop?

Also If I chose the T-26 and then decide I want the BT-7 what do I do? Sell the 26 or purchase a BT-2 then the HT-7?

I'm sure all this info is out there on the forums, but if you can clear it up it would help during the decision process (Yah I'm ready to buy tier II just don;t know whos)

Another tip for you guys, the first win of every day is double XP. So run around with HE ammo and just shoot alot of tanks for tons of xp.

Had fun with that game last night. I traded gold pieces for the silver coins needed to buy up to the M2 tank and had plenty left over to upgrade the guns and turret on the way to the next level.

Still haven't figured out why my push to talk on vent won't work when in game....

Yeah that's weird. Works fine for me. It really is an addictive game. The push to get bigger and better tanks gets addicting.

I see it as a month tops - same as Navy Field - grind like hell to get the ships, guns, gunners you think you want/need only to find the next big thing is another grind of "X" hours and not quite what you wanted once you got there.

So you possibly hit up another nationality to try its specialty - vicious circle, same results.

Ultimately in the end its the same 5 maps run on the same 20 min intervals with the same "full time" expert players with all the high speed low drag tanks kicking the crap out of lesser mortals.

(Navy Field is exactly the same but with 6 nationalities and 3 maps)

Fun to play - real nice to look at but I think it will hold my attention for about as long as NF did and then it gets relegated to a play time of 20 min once a month at lunch time to keep my account active and catch up on any patches that may come out.

For me - Fun but not subscription fun.

I've already felt the same way Duck. I'm really not sure how this game is going to make money. They so far have done a decent job in adding new maps to keep it "fresh." The nice thing is though there is no such thing as elite players stomping on people tho. The tier balancing system for the most part keeps that from happening. When you get to tier V is a bit frustrating because half the time your fighting TierV and lower, which is fun..the other half your fighting tier VI and higher, which is not so fun. For the most part though from tier VI on, you can always hurt your opponents.

Oh cool so it divides skill class..... something that NF is starting to implement sort of.
Good to know.

Fixed my vent issue - needed to run it as administrator while the game was active for the push to talk to work.

Played a few rounds late last night and had my first multi-kill round.

Played a few more late night rounds before bed and things are improving. I used some of my "gold" to train my crew commander and gunner to 100% and add the camouflage skill to each. I also changed my tactics to hang back a bit, find a good spot with some cover and wait for things to develop. It paid off on the last map I played where I got 8 kills and 3 damaged, with 4 of the kills coming for the win after I was the last guy on our team. I should probably drop the game right now as I don't expect I'll ever have such a good round again 😀

Lol sarge you bastard, your playing TD tactics in a medium tank. I hate people like you! It works very well though. Usually as a medium, I hang back, see how things develop. Then I push like crazy on one side or the other. Its nice if you have a platoon of mediums doing it.

Still has not lit a fire for me. I go in shoot a few things - die - leave.

I can't say that I'm fired up on this game either. It's fun and I can play a bunch of rounds in a half hour or so but can't see it holding any long term appeal for me.

I've seen the potential of platoons to absolutely decimate the other team however, and having 3 or 4 of us working together on comms has the potential to make things very fun now that we have a better idea of how the game works.

True - all.

Have managed to up grade to M3 Stewart with all the correct "fixins'" for the M5 just need the EXP for the M5

Starting to be able to implement what Ron was talking bout spotting tagging running to spot again - M3 has 2.5x the armor and a little more speed, put the top level gun and it hits for 50 so if you get a good point to spot for the arty you can pin them o at least slow them and actually do damage. Best round is a 4 kill by just me.

See what I like about the game is, I go in and play a few rounds and then I'm good for the day. I don't feel like its a huge commitment to play. Be perfect for preFNFs and such.
A good platoon with a plan is gonna wreck most maps because people just do not work together. They dont focus fire, they scatter in crazy directions.

One of the most frustrating things as a TD is watching your whole team abandon a side of the map. Your now forced to defend the base by yourself.

Yah getting better at the game - and the 30 min mess a round is good. Not like needing 2 hours a map.

All research done for M5 just need the $$

Also going to start an American Arty line. Just to see how I like it.

Ron, it appears what ever is said about U.S. Tanks also applies to U.S. Arty and TD's - not the most powerful, not then fasted, not the most accurate - but does combine all of the attributes in to decent over all packages?

(Hitting the forums hard for info - would like your input.)

Well there arent any US TDs yet. But yeah it seems to be they are very middle of the road until the higher tier stuff. The m7 (the highest of the light tanks) is awesome, it packs the same gun as a sherman which is just awesome. The SPGs get better quicker then anyone else. The US SPGs get the 155mm gun a tier lower then the germans get thier 15cm gun.

Arty - YAH!
Found my place in the game, at least for now even in T1 - M57 having a MUCH better time in game.

when your team isnt a bunch of tards, arty can be awesome...otherwise its meat for fast tanks.

Averaging 2 kills and 2 ~ 4 damage per map w arty made it through T1, 2 and 3 today and all I need is the EXP for M7

Schools in -
Radio ?

My M37 SPG has a 300 M Radio
Upgrade 1 is 390 M and Upgrade 2 is 700 M
It looks like U1 and U2 do not carry over to the M7 Priest

So what does the radio do for us and it looks like I'll be in the 37 for a few days - worth the upgrade?

****

Figured it out - Radio is view distance from you to friendly on map if your view is longer then you can see them across the map and thus if they see an enemy all the way over there the better chance you have of gunning them,

Exactly.
I dont know on the SPGs, but on all the American tanks they basically share one radio tree. Its quite handy because once you upgrade it to the top level one, you have it for most of the tanks.

Will dig around tech tree a little more to verify.
Turning in to quite a little thread here - game really turned fun when I moved to atry and I do see the need for good fast light tanks for scouting now.

In turn it's made me a better light tanker - I've developed scoot to a hull down/corner/BFR (Big Fraking Rock) - have a look and see... scoot to next BFR and just find best vantage for the arty I can ..... works better than trying to fight... that's for the M and H kids.

Yeah very few of the lights can really fight. The leopard and the m7 with the upgraded gun are actually suited to combat. They are a terror to see when your in an SPG.

Managed to get on for a few rounds last night and did pretty well. I've managed to accumulate enough money to get the level III M2 Medium Tank but am trying to bank a bit more so that I can afford repairs and ammo, and retraining my crew....

Had one round last night where I didn't even get off a shot but was one-shotted by an SPG about 30 seconds into the map. My first thought was that someone was hacking as I'd never been taken out in one shot like that. The guy that killed me was dead about 2 minutes later so I don't know.

The grind goes slow in arty world also. About 1/3 - 1/2 way to M7 Priest.
I did notice yesterday both in coming and out going atry rounds as soon as guns are loaded and thought the very same thing - pot-shots.

Off hand chance of hitting someone in enemy main that has not moved at game start - just dumb luck that they got the one shot off on you would be my guess.

Saw you on last night just wish there was a way to play with out having a premium member to create a platoon, saw Ron's message to me about 1 hour 43 min too late.... also

Made the mistake of spending some EXP to research and buy the up gun for the M37 arty and now I can't mount it as its too heavy with out researching and buying new suspension, all at the expense or spending EXP toward getting the M7 - so I own a gun I'm not going to mount.....

Learning curve.

Like I said, the guy who took me out was dead shortly after I was, and even though I was his only kill it made me suspicious. I was moving, pretty much at full speed on the flanks of the battle. Not too worried about it, but it just surprised me.

In the same idea had three kills today just by watching their main and seeing shots come out of bushes and I just dropped shells on to where the lines were emanating from.... never did see or spot them just kept blind shooting the bush until I got the kills.

Not the best use of arty but if no one was showing and my sight distance was to short - blast away (mind you American Arty carry a S* ton of shells - I have 143 on my track, Russian arty carry 19 German 43 in my class (or there about))

Managed to get both my Tier 4's today
M7 Priest and M5 Light

🤘

Funny reply on U.S. SPG forum.

The few matches I have played, I spend either out of range of the enemy recieving abuse from my team to for being useless, or getting killed by turret tanks/TD as I get into range of the enemy.

3800 exp to get next gun, 9000 to get radio , probably best tactic till then is join game, hide in bush, read forums/feed cat/browse pron , repair tank, join game , rinse/repeat.

I know what he means. I got my Tier III tank last night and spent a half dozen rounds getting the crap beat out of me by people with much bigger guns and much thicker armor. I had to go back to my Tier II tank for a round just to get some of my pride back.

Sarge one of the things you gotta be very careful of, especially in the lower tiers is map destructables. The SPGs load alot faster in the lower tiers, so if they see you knock down a tree, run over a fence, clip a building...they can put an early shot into you.

Since yall are upto tier 3 and 4, i think i will buy back my Lee and research the american heavies.

So if I knock over a fence across the map, the artillery pieces can see it? I can understand seeing a tree or a building fall, but fences too?

oooOOOOOoooohhhh Yahhhhhh
Half my time is putting shots in to things that mysteriously crumble.
I'll put my tube over an area that had some sightings but no enemy markers, and just be patient. I'll see the ammo leave the tank gun as a gray line originating from nowhere, a fence collapse, a hay bail get run over....
All are worth a round down range.

With arty in shooting mode we have a top down view - max view angle (wide view) is about a game grid square. max zoom is about 1/8 square.

Can see a lot from wide view - even if the map does not show you - the things you run over give your positions away in areal view.

Noticing the new tier of enemy are harder to crack - fighting Tiger VI, KV-3, IS took me 5 shots with 4 critical hits (base Priest nothing upgraded yet) to get a Tiger from 100% to 7% before I died.

Upgraded gun and track and now I can shoot corner to corner | top to bottom with out moving now.
Circular error has increased x2.5 though - no matter how stable the track is and even if the enemy is not moving .... still x2.5 the error of base Priest gun, but I think I'll like the rage over the accuracy - with the base track I had to keep with the main body to be able to keep hitting what they find, the new gun all I need to do is follow them from my hide....
Rate of fire up too from 4 to 6.5 rounds a min.

I researched the 75mm howitzer gun for the M2 Medium last night and bought it but have been unable to mount it on my tank because I need to upgrade the tracks 🙁 Wish that had been more clear on the tech tree....Now I'm trying to build the XP to research the track upgrades....sigh.

Same issue with the up gun on the T37 - researched it, bought it couldn't mount it w/o more exp or cash for the chassis upgrade.

Fail. Sold.

But the next step for me is 45k exp in the Priest so this time I am going to get the middle upgrades (already have max chassis and gun now) will get engine and radio also just to give me the best I can get while I live and sleep in it.

The upgrades DO make a difference in my opinion its just weighing the cost of upgrade vs the work on the next tier.

.02

FWIW Joe also has been playing WoT for about a week also - so if Ron's on we could actually have a platoon of four tonight.

I see you lookin'

Ron - Tier IV A-20 (72 KPH) or Leopard (68 KPH) which do you like better?

EDIT

Answered my own ? - Leopard as the A-20 loses a lot of speed if it even thinks about turning where the Leopard keeps scooting along.
Made it to the Luchs today and should have the Leopard tomorrow,

I actually hate the leopard. Its annoying as hell to kill, but its a dead end tank. It leads nowhere on the tree.

Your right, for some reason I thought I could get back to Pz III then Tiger - meh - not a bog deal - have to have Pz II

This game has grown on me a lot, but the issue with 3 in a platoon is a pisser.

I'm still floundering around in the M2 with the 75mm howitzer hoping someone lets me get close enough to kill them. I've researched the Lee and am trying to earn enough $ to buy it.

Start an arty track - any nation - there cash cows. !
I'm closing in on 1,000,000 cash in a week -

Also you can parallel exp - as in I'm running the U.S. Arty line and the light / med line is opening in parallel as I gain ties on the arty. I just h ave to pay research price for the items through the tank line but not actually buy it until I'm ready to move to the next track.

And again loving the game as an arty player (though fast scouting is starting to get hot too now that I know what I'm looking for as a arty player my scouting is getting better and better)

That's a good idea. Scouting would be fun too. I saw a Leopard absolutely decimate a handful of medium tanks simply because he could move a lot faster than they could and was out running the track of their turrets.

Leopards used to be the bane of my existence in a TD. You just cant hit the things, and then they are past you eating your arty.

Getting closer to the Leopard, just can't pull a winning game to save my life right now.
Also debating on final engine upgrade to M3.... flat speed is 58KPH max is 61 - have everything researched for M5 up to M7 purchase just don't have the M5 as I don't know if its worth the time in tank - though I suppose I have to buy one anyhow to get in to the M7.....

Anyways yah Sarge - Arty makes the dough big time - and I'm jonsing the Leopard. The Luchs is the suck but then again I'm just riding it to get to the Leopard.
Hopefully by the end of today.

Ron would you change to the M5 while waiting for the M7 unlock or just stick w a cherry M3?

if your close to the m7, just stick with the m3 for now. Not that much of a difference, more frontal armor but its a higher tier so it just gets whacked anyways.

Got the Leopard (w00t) and added the first of two upgraded engines.
Also bought Spall armor and Improved ventilation (+5% skill for crew) and bought Gold level crew from get-go.

Bought the M5 added top tier engine and gun and turret but just the 51% crew and no extras.

Speed is life.

Maxed everything on the Leopard
Maxed everything on the M5 (The 75mm Howitzer mad ALL the difference)

About two days away from moving out of the Priest. (Thinking of keeping it and buying another slot - just to damn fond of the old girl now.)

Ron - who do you like for Heavy tank line?

Bought the Lee last night and it is a definite improvement over the M2. Still getting used to the whole lack of a turret deal, but otherwise pretty good.

I'm such a bone head... (like you all didn't already know that)
In looking at the tree if I would have gone Panzer III I wold have had a better gun and better armor and only lost 4 KPH over the Leopard.

Sooooooo I started a PZ III line have the Tier 2 AufS A now and will have the III- this allows me to later split to Panthers (medium) or Tiger (Heavy) or both...

Still fun - learning curve and all.

Another question for you Ron - Penetration VS: Damage.
I have the choice of 4 guns on the Pz III of them the best two have different stats.

Highest Penetration of 90 mm damage of 90
Highest Damage 190 and Penetration of 45

I'm starting to think the gun that has the higher penetration gun is better as when I get placed in higher tiers I can at least dent the armor of Tier 5 and 6 tracks - opposed to just bouncing the round.

Penetration is life. The higher penetration the better. I like the tigers or the American heavies for the heavy lines.

Yup just coming back to comment on it -
Noticed with the 175 Dam gun the gunner says - That bounced right off - or we didn't even scratch them.
But with the high Pen gun I don't see any damage % drop I do ALWAYS hear Critical hit - or that went right through them - one more like that and there done for.
That's for the me VS: higher tier tracks.
When I'm mid stack or top track obviously either gun does equally as well as the other.


Pen it is.

Sarge - FYI - Premium adds +50% to exp - helps with the grind.

not going there so soon after DDO.

No no no - the gold you earn in game you can spend on premium account for a day, 3 days or a week.
I just picked a 3 day premium (250 gold I think) and was able to get enough EXP to get out of my Priest M7 to the M41 (What a piece of CRAP the M41 is (no upgrades yet I hope it gets MUCH better))

I was able to get out of the M5 to the M7 Medium (and do two upgrades) Starting to like the M7 as much as my Priest

And I am 75% through the PZ III exp in one day just from spending some gold to get premium.

No WAGRO involved...

(DDO what is this DDO you speak of? )

Ahhhh! I see now. That sounds like a much better proposition.

Been doing a little digging and the release of WoT will be 10~15 March or May
I don't know if the game it self will need to be purchased or if it will be free but the gold will not be earned in game but purchased by sub $10/month or (hopefully) free to play store.

On live all beta accounts are wiped and everyone starts out Tier 1 - but beta test account appear to be getting a Russian KV-220 premium Tier 5 tank

http://game.worldoftanks.com/encyclopedia/...miumTank/kv-220


I hope its free to play with purchase gold

HA!

Decided to re-purchase the Hetzer again as that's what Joe was "shooting for" and another friend Joe and I know also plays and just moved from Hetzer to Stug also.

Will say TD's played in tandem or triplicate supporting each other is quite deadly - we ran the same deal with Sarge, he in his weeee lill arty and Joe and I in the TD's trying to keep him alive.
If nothing else it was fun to have more purpose other than sit here and wait for them to come in to your sights.

Fun time.

lol. I'm not quite that bad (yet). I fully expect that once the beta ends and they reset me, I'll lose all desire to go through all of the craptastic tanks again.

I was going to post today that the go live / wipe is March 10-15
Was wondering if any one will be playing the actual game - I know I will. This game is fun in that no game lasts the full 15 min - and if I have to jump up and help the wife for anything and I afk die, I don't care - so it's an easy game to play for me.

Sarge After playing all three nations I find the American line the worst, and the Lee line in particular the worst of the worst - I think it was just bad luck you took that route.
On live I'll be running German Medium as it leads straight down to Heavy and it also branches to TD and SPG

I may try the Russians right now I only have T-46 (Tier 3) open with the T-46-5 (Tier 4) ready to go with all exp I just have not clicked it as I'm working hard on the STUG and VK-3601 and don't think I'm going to go far as I REALLY want to fight in a Tiger before the wipe (15K exp let)

Then I may push to the KV (next after the T-46-5) to see how Russian Heavy fight.

But the basis is - I'm in - who else?

Bah duck your nuts. The American line is one of the best. You just never got to the good parts. The m3 lee is pretty terrible but its got a decent gun for its tier. Plus it leads to alot of other tanks. If they add the full lines on march 10th I may play for a bit. American TDs just sound awesome.

Not that I've tried it yet but WoT is very user customizable, you can skin your tanks (only you can see the skins though)

You can modify the tank files to show on game start to color code tier and display tier number - then in game you can have the same display beside the players name.

See post link for pictures.

http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/t...__1#entry222307

hmmmm....I'll have to give that a try.

Figuring out I like my Mediums a lot.
After watching you own in your M4 Sherman the other night I bought back my M4A3E8 and maxed it out...

WoW what a rig -I like it much better than my all most maxed out VK-3601 (just need one more engine upgrade to MAX the VK)

Tiger - meh - it can take a beating but I play it least.

Trying like mad to get a Russian medium to at least level 6 to compare I'm about 600 Exp from a T5 T-34 right now.

TD's are fun but need to be tun in twos and threes supporting each other like we do at night. Would like to try Russian TD's before the wipe but may not have the time.

To big to post bu the U.S. Tank tree is changing quite a bit on "live"

http://game.worldoftanks.com/media/uploads...erican_tree.jpg

Even though I was thinking of going Russian on live the U.S. tree looks do-able now (specifically I don't have to mess with the Lee) and the M2/M7 line will still net me the M4A3E8 medium, Heavy and the new U.S. TD line.

Live info - Item 3 Viability "fixed" *as we know some fixes actually make things worse.... item 9 looks cool - keep it fresh maybe?

http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/t...-release-notes/

Overall this game is holding my attention far longer than I expected. Looks like I've got some time with my Easy8 before the wipe at least.

Well as I've said before, E8 rocks.

I pretty much stopped playing my VK-3601 which is same tier, my Tiger is sitting in the barn and really only take it out once a day for a win to get double Exp - but I'm kidding my self to think I'll go any where in it before the wipe - so I've just stopped trying.

I do like the TD line and will play a TD on live with Joe but again single TD is a death trap, but when you have 2 or 3 TD's setting a trap your survivability skyrockets.
So when I play alone or with you Sarge - the E8 is my ride.

Did some comparison to Russian mediums this morning - the are better than the American but not by much. It's the typical game setting - Russian more damage, U.S. faster rate of fire....

It looks like there are more shared components in the Russian Medium / TD (than the German Med / TD (as U.S. has no TD info out yet)) So if you plan on running parallel lines TD and Med (Heavy) Russia has the edge (TBD for U.S.) which saves exp if you unlock on a Med and then the TD can use it as it's already researched.

Anyway - I was surprised how much I like the E8 and feel when played right I can actually support the high tier tanks in upper level matches by placing critical hits on higher tier tanks then me by shooting tracks and turret rings so our heavy's can kill the other heavy's

Ron did you make it in to your T20?
Like it as much as E8?

I've made it through a partially upgraded T-34-85 (it's no E8) and am almost in to a SU-85 td (for comparison to STUG)

But I think I'm solid in my decision that when the wipe comes, I like my American tanks the best.
I may dabble with the Russian stuff after I make it back to the E8 - but starting with American.

(Not looking forward to the re-grind, but I accomplished what I set out to do - compare all nations maxed out Tier 6 mediums.)

Sarge - how you doing with your E8?

Grinding but going well. Have the XP to unlock everything except the next tier and it has been performing well. I've definitely had to modify my tactics as too often I get stuck on the bottom of the pile going against some very heavy opponents. I've found if I hang back and provide support to some of the big boys, I can do ok and not get roasted in the first 30 seconds. Using that formula last night I racked up a 4 kill/4 damaged round as well as a couple of other decent rounds in between getting smooshed flat. I need to upgrade my engine and am hoping a bit more speed will get me out of trouble faster 😀

I may also change my crew training to all repair and firefighting just to see how much that helps my survivability. Currently I've got them split between repair and camouflage.

My .02 Camo only good for Arty and TDs - you need to be dead still no track or turret movement for 6 seconds for Camo to start to work, every time you move anything timer resets and you need to wait another 6 seconds.

Personal on E8 - 3 repair, 2 fire fighters,
Add :
Vertical Stabilizer Mk1 (+20% aiming during moving or tracking a moving target)
Medium Caliber gun rummer (-10% loading speed (on the M1A2 is insane))
Improved Ventilation class 2 (+5% to crew skill)

My gunner has a skill of +125%
Everyone else has a skill of +105%

I rarely have ammo rack failure, or fires so I don't use Co2 tanks or Wet ammo rack (Some thing the Panther drivers live and die by as I read on the forums)

And your right - I use the speed of the E8 to get to a good spot to hide/shoot from cover - at least as a blocking / delaying tank for the big boys to lumber on up and then pass me - then I pick on their targets from behind.

Played well I average 4 kills 4+ damaged per map

Found something yesterday - if you hit ALT key in game you get all your team mates name, tank icon and health bar over their tanks and enemy name and tank icon over theirs (no health info though for enemy)

Some times it displays enemy icon around corners where you can't see or did not know where they are.....

Good tip. I'll have to check that out. Haven't been able to play much this week but got on last night for an hour late (my time) alternating between my Easy8 and the Priest. Had fun and didn't get pwned too much. Again found that the cautious route and using some of the heavies as mobile armor makes a big difference in survivability.

Poking around my stats screen and was VERY surprised to see that I'm about 30% better in my VK-3601 than my T-34-85 or E8 (Which are about equal to each other)

Last week I would have said the VK- is my worst tank.... now I'm trying to really play each one in a round robin to see which I like... it's true I still like the E8 better, but I kill as much in the VK as the E8 now that I watch my play.

The E8 faster tracks and gun (47 KPH and 22 Rounds per min) least damaging gun and weak armor 650 (but longest effective range for any of the guns (~700 meters)

The VK (slowest of the T6 tanks) 39KPH 17R.P.M but hell-a' armor 950 and almost Russian damage (at ranges of 450 - 500 meters)

T-34-85 = 51KPH - 9 Rounds PM - 690 armor Like Joe called it - It's a TD with a turret - the 100mm D 10T main gun can take on IS3 - T29 - Tiger II with frontal shots and do ~33% damage per hit where the E8 and VK need to hit them from side/rear to even be noticed. I can 1 or 2 shot IS from side / rear (all shots need to be under 300 meters)


I was hoping that there would be a clear winner in the Tier 6 tanks, but with them all maxed out - it's all how you want to play.

I hate going against the VKs. They are tough to take down. The only things that save me in my E8 are speed and the high firing rate as I can get several shots in on most opponents before they can get multiple shots at me. I was taking on a Tiger II last night along with another or T7+ tank and was using the high firing rate to get of 3 or 4 shots on him to his one at us, and the speed to back out of sight in between shots. The two of us were able to get him with the help of some artillery, but I was doing just a few percentage points of damage. I think I was mostly a distraction while the arti and other tank actually did the damage 😀

Yup - back to the Mediums working in a "wolf pack" chewing away on a Heavy - works well if everyone steps up you can run and gun and keep out of its turret traverse - so when he goes to aim at one you hide and the other "X" pound on it - when he traverses some one else hides and you pop out and start chewing.

That's how Joe, Joe M and I play with our JagPzr TD's - hard to battle 3 maxed out TD's talking to each other and shooting at the same target together.


And the scuttlebutt is the hard wipe is now end of the month + (will believe it when were still here next week, but they say there is a post (I can not find) on the forums that states there not ready for live yet.

w00t

Not going to be on much during the week nights any more due to M A S S I V E


But I did have to share that screen shot -
With the wipe delayed, working on getting as close to a Panther as I can. And to get there I needed to go back and unlock the III/IV - all items were already unlocked - it does not feel like it's a Tier 5 tank, it drives like a scout Tier 3 but is hits like a T5 or 6 - has an odd feeling about it - but it plays really well.

Does it have a +2 or +3 Vorpal turret??

It must as I accounted for 50% if our sides kills.

Forum info is hard wipe not until May / June now.....
Hello Panther.

Posted 12 March 2011
v.0.6.4 preliminary patch notes:
(ETA - to be announced.)

http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/t...ks-v064-update/

• Minimap - Added icons for different tank types. Added colored icons of different colors for tanks in player’s platoon.

• Added an option to turn-off tank shaking during shooting/moving/stopping/being hit in sniper mode. Default setting is shaking on.

Turning off the shaking? Would your aim still be affected or would it suddenly not matter that you are getting hit?

Looks like they are fixing the problem where you get stuck on borders and slopes. That will help a lot.

If they hold out too long on releasing the game everyone will be bored with it. There was a note at the bottom of the page that said that this update would likely be the release version so maybe it will be out sooner than May or June.

I will assume that gun stabilization will be effected even though your video will no longer shake.
Yah I saw that it will be released before may/June but Overlord (same guy who posted this on the 12) said on the 14th May/June.....

I don't think they know what they know, but I'm more than happy to take free gold and premium to try out more and more tanks and classes before the wipe to fix my position on what nation/line to go when (if) the wipe comes.

RPS says WoT launches April 12th.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/17...hes-april-12th/

Yup - at least the statement is up on the WoT site.

http://game.worldoftanks.com/news/general_...d-tanks-release

London (17th March, 2011) — Wargaming.net is glad to announce today that its highly-anticipated free-to-play action MMO game World of Tanks is set to launch on 12th April, 2011 in Europe and North America.

With this announcement, the company reports World of Tanks to be gradually entering the release phase after nine successive months of closed and open beta testing that let the game recruit an impressive number of players building up a strong and responsive community that helped the development team enhance and polish the game by providing valuable feedback and reporting issues.

World of Tanks is one of the most recognizable vehicle-based MMO games where players fight action-packed battles driving historically accurate WWII-era armored machines. The game’s stunning graphics, destructible environments, a wide variety of military hardware with a vast choice of upgrade options along with captivating and well-balanced gameplay make it a must-try for almost every gamer.

“Our team has been working really hard to create a unique blend of action, strategy, simulation and RPG elements in World of Tanks, and now the moment all fans across the globe have been waiting for is right around the corner”, said Victor Kislyi, CEO of Wargaming.net. “We are delighted to be finally announcing the release date for this ground-breaking title and invite all veteran players and those new to the game to enjoy tense and uncompromising armored warfare on World of Tanks battlegrounds”.

During preparation stage for release all vehicles, achievements, statistics, inactive/duplicate accounts will be wiped, except vehicles received within PR events! All players who did a long way from CBT to Release will get some bonuses, stay tuned!

Atomm have you tried this game yet? Seems like it might be one that you could do without getting sick as it is pretty slow movement for the most part.

And...it has tanks!

Not a lot of winning tonight - but the last battle was Joe and I against 6 - Yah we kicked ass.
Joe in his JagPzr TD and me in my shiny new VK-3002 DB Medium VS T-29, KV-3, KV-3, IS, SU-14 and a Lee (poor bastard)

I picked up Confederate and Invader to boot. Man we were hollering in Vent wen it was over.... made all the losses of the night seem less tragic. Was a real fun fight.

Sorry I missed it. I'm AFK this weekend. I tried playing on my laptop, and while it worked, it wasn't all that much fun.

Funny signature on forum.

Please donate to my "Buy me my equipment!" fund! : Just stand still or move predictably to donate!
*non-tax-deductible, E3 charities is not responsible for high repair costs, module damage, crew death, or anger management courses required after donation.


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Sarge,

It's funny you ask me if I have tried WoT because I haven't look at this thread in a while. I was reading the Press Release thinking, "You know, I really miss me some good WWII action." And the next post was you asking me if I tried this yet. Kind of creepy actually.......

So, do I just sign up, then download?

BTW, I don't think he's posted in here, but I talked to Silent on Steam the other day. Apparently, you guys have him hooked on WoT as well. I thought that was funny.

Yeah, just download and sign up or sign up and download, I don't remember in which order it works. Open beta lasts another few weeks and should give you a good feel for the game. It's a bit of a slow start since you begin in these wee lawn-mower engine powered tanks, but you can pretty quickly get to the fun levels. If you have Duck or Ron or Silent or I on comms when you play we can give you some good starting tips.

I've played with Silent a few times and we had him on vent last week sometime. Heck we even had Bubba playing once!

...once.

You certainly feel the progression of your tank upgrades as you buy bigger tanks and add better guns, engines, turrets and also your crew training (anywhere from 51% to 125%) on the tanks.

They did well in that aspect - you know when your dialed in, the issue you'll groan about (like us all) is the matchmaking.
The tanks are tiered from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest)

As you can see from the chart below (hope it posts) is that as a tier 5 light tank you can conceivably be place against (or with) tier 9 Heavy tanks and tier 9 SPG (Self propelled guns (Artillery))

You just find a not traveled place on the map or some bug stud tank to hide behind and pray they don't find you. But on the other hand the game does scale experience - so if you do get shot on (does not even need to penetrate or damage) you'll get more EXP on your tank for at least trying.

It's a fun game, I'm hooked.
When it goes live the micro-transactions will be for gold which is used for accelerated crew training, buying more tank slots in your garage, buying premium account access (which gives +50% exp and cash per fight)
The rate will be $10 (U.S) for 2,500 gold. (A good value in my eyes)

P.S. Sarge - made it in to my VK-3002 DB tier 7 German Medium (Pre-Panther), also have my tier 7 JagdPanther TD (cool thing is all my upgrades to my Tiger (T7 Heavy) all cross over the the JgdPanther) so the second I got it, it had 75& upgrades ready to go - and same goes to the T8 Medium Panther, it shares items with the Tiger ,,,, any way.... JgdPanther is a blast.

Sorry guys... game did very little for me. Not to mention, somehow life has gotten very busy

So apparently the game is reset-ing tomorrow.

They moved it up????? Rat Bastards!!!!! I just got enough XP for my Tier VII. All I need is a few thousand more coins to buy the damn thing!

No more bug fix testing - not the hard wipe.

Damn Sarge... I think you need an aspirin for your blood pressure.

Sarge how did it go after I left last night?
Get a chance to run through the tracks for double XP?

Made enough EXP today to max out the JagdPanzer - the 10.5 CM main gun is a BEAST but I have to make the shots count as they are 1K$ per round, so it makes me place my shots....

Still waffling on Nation after wipe, still have great regard for the Russian tanks and TD's and the massive damage they do, but the reload and accuracy issue........ grrrrrrr.

I played two rounds with my M7 to get a win and the double XP/coin. Then went to bed.

Realized that I had way more exp in the E8 than I needed for the T20 - so I unlocked and bought it today.
Now I realize with a 75% crew and just the first gun and radio unlocked I have a long way to go in a full T20, but right now - it's a HUGE let down. H U G E

I see the U.S. pre-order is up today.

http://game.worldoftanks.com/account/pre-order/

Gee only $45, $67, $90 for 12,500 / 18,700 / 25,000 gold and a special Light / Medium Heavy tank.
I'll take one of each - N O T

25,000 gold is a about a 1 year premium account right? That's $7.50 a month if you play for a year which isn't bad. Not that I'm going to spend that kind of money on it.

FWIW
Friday, March 25, 2011

http://overlord-wot.blogspot.com/

1. Only designated gold packages will be available (5 per server), ie it won't be possible to purchase custom sum of gold.
2. Gold packages will provide progressive discounts. The larger the package, the cheaper the gold in it.
3. The Gold available per 1EUR - 215-300 (depending on the package for EU server), per 1GBP - 252-353 (depending on the package for EU server), per 1 USD - 179-250 (depending on the package for US server).

The exact gold prices are given in the tables below.

http://overlord-wot.blogspot.com/2011/03/g...-tanks-cbt.html

Gift Tank for World of Tanks CBT-participants
M4A2E4 is going to be a gift tank for the participants of WOT closed beta.

M4A2E4 is a tier 5 US medium tank [premium].
The two M4A2s built by General Motors Corporation in 1943, both featured a wide track torsion bar suspension. The first tank was completed on 22 July and the second on 15 August.

Preliminary specs:
Hull: 64/38/38
Turret: 76/51/51
Gun: 75mm M3L/37

Played last night just to try and get a win with my 3 main tracks expecting that I might have to play a couple with each to get them. It took an hour and a half as I strung together the longest streak of losses in recent memory. I gave up after getting wins for 2 of 3. Each game we'd start out strong and then I'd look at the standings a few minutes later and there would be three of us left vs 10 of them. That happened at least 6-8 times last night. Between that and being thrown on the bottom of the pile with my T20 each and every fricken time, it was a frustrating evening.....without a lot to show for it.

Don't I know that song.
The key I'm told is when you get in that vicious loop at the end of a battle wait 5 min or so - so your no longer in the same field of players that re cycling through the same maps together.

Any more thoughts on the 90?

Do you mean am I going to invest $90 in the game or the 90MM on the T20?

The answer to the $90 is no. We are remodeling our kitchen this spring so outlays of that size will be frowned upon. I'll likely make a couple of small purchases of gold to move things along a little quicker in the middle levels. The first few levels can go pretty quickly even without premium so I may wait until I get things in the 3-4 level before I spend too much. I also want to wait in case they find their pricing model too high and lower them a bit. I've got maybe $25-30 that I could invest in the game so I want to maximize the use of it 😀

As to the 90MM on the T20, that seems to be working pretty well. Does some excellent damage to the heavies if I hit them in the side or back and took out a Tiger and a IS-4 in Ruinberg last night with the gun. Was doing very good damage on hits to the side on both with it but that also may have been the gold level ammo for that, I can't remember.

Meant the 90mm.... good to know you like it, has stats close to the Russian 100mm D 10 T - including reload time.

Completely understand the $$ on the game, I was planning to NOT buy gold until I hit level 6 actually - I think the lower levels are not worth the real $$ cost.

Decided to spend the first day making a spreadsheet of item details and costs, I don't like the that the cost of pieces go away when I go to research / compare the costs later on.
This may also give a better view of what tracks share items and which lines may need less exp to progress through.

Looks like were getting 5 tank slots on live. That's 3 more than I thought they'd give us.

Although I'm running 12 active tanks right now.... at least that helps me decide with what nation / lines I want to run.

Hey Sargie-Pants. Beeeeeeeeeend Over!

We got SCREWED!

M4A2E4 is going to be a gift tank for the participants of Word of Tanks closed beta.

Note 1. WOT CBT finished January 27, 2011.

GRB_Duck: Joined: 28-January 11
GRBSarge: Joined: 28-January 11

Missed it by T H A T much

Rat bastards!

Didn't want it anyhow....

Skins - have you tried them yet?
Just tried a few and it's like barbies for Tanks.

How to link:
http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/t...s-for-painting/

But basically all you really need to know as a user,

Q. How do I put the skin into the game folder, or take the file out if I want to paint my own skin?
A. The skins are located in the following folder: World of Tanks > Res > Vehicles > Side > Vehicle name > 'thevehiclename.dds'
If you want to add a new skin, make sure you have a copy of the original saved safely, then just copy the new 'thevehiclename.dds' file into the folder. Nice and easy to do.

That's all I did - I found this for my SU-100


I replaced my SU-100.DDS and my SU-100 Crash.DDS in the default location and now I have a blood red SU-100.

Addicting.

Ending on a high.
Me in Ferdtrude, Raptor23 in a Tiger II, and Poltergeist in a T32 - 3 manned (I forget the map name) but the map that has the windmill up in the NE cornet and it's always a camp fest across the open field.

We 3 went across the open field shoulder to shoulder getting five kills each and just destroying everyone on red.

A fitting end to Ferdtrude and the wipe.

Sounds like you are going out with a bang! 😄

Is the wipe today/tonight? I really, really don't want to start over.....

According to forums 12:00 midnight EST down time up to 18 hours.

Like I said before - I think I'll take a day screen shotting everything as exp values go away once unlocked. What sucks is we'll need to have to buy gold to platoon - so the Rat Bastards are making it so you have to pay real dollars to play with your friends......
(awwww Sargiepants.... Your my fwend)

I don't think I'll be buying gold until I get to about tier 6 - but we'll see when the time comes.

Just for someplace to put them - here are the charts I was talking about that the guy posted on the forums that got his account banned and his game account closed.

Everyone said the Russians get bonus to detection, devs say no all are lines are equal.
You decide.

Blue = camouflage stealth while moving
Red = camouflage stopped
Green - camouflage , stopped with camo net


US, USSR, German Scouts

_______________________________________________________________

US, USSR, German Mediums

_______________________________________________________________

US, USSR, German Heavy

_______________________________________________________________

US. USSR, German Arty

______________________________________________________________

And the HEAVILY debated cammo USSR VS: German TD

Call me a die hard, but I had to see the world die.
Grabbed the Tiger and joined a map 2 min before 12:00 - it was like the charge of the light brigade they charged us - we charged them - I held back a little and ended up the last one alive on our side VS three theirs.....

Was taking hits but was not dead yet..... then we all self destructed, and received "The server is unavailable at this time" server message.

*sniff* By Tiger, Fertrude, Panther, Svetlana, Olga, Easy, T20, *sniff*

Couldn't be there to see all the hours of slogging in crappy tin cans disappear. I much prefer to break up with the game than have the game break up with me 😛

Getting the shakes yet Duck? 😀

I've hit the game about 20 times already.
Rat Bastards
(you too)

🤣

*Edit - So fraking desperate for something to do I updated DDO and took Dduck for a spin in Searing Heights just for kicks.

The L4D2, then BFBC2 then CodW@W...... now I'm junking out at Armorgames.com

Ha! DDO! I see that Update 9 is coming soon....don't let it temp you too much 😀

Ugh the garage looks might barren.

Leaning toward starting out Russian Medium and Heavy - simply because I know the game code favors Russian tanks.

But my German tanks..... they call to me.....

After I get established with a pair of Medium / Heavy (tier 5 or 6) to make money - I'll start the long road of the Lee to the T29
They really make you pay your dues there the Lee, T1, M6 all easy tanks to overwhelm and kill in a million ways. But the pay off.... worth it all after that.

After tonight, I'm not sure I have the patience to go through it all again 🙁
The slow trickle of money and experience is killing me after having gold to buy premium for so long.

The thought of the Lee again (or the German or Russian equivalent) sucks the desire to play right out of me. It's like rolling a new character in DDO, except that you can't pick something that is cool and different. Instead you have to choose the same class but get to be a female character this time.

Russian equivalent is the T28 or the A20
T28 is good once upgraded with the typical two class above cannon to the other nations, the A20 is the light scout and just a speed daemon leading you down to the T34, T34-85, T43 all great tanks.

German Pz38(t) nt much to write home about - get through it - move on. But then you get the PzIII/Iv which was deadly and then the Vk 3001 - pre panther.... rocked.
Or the other side is PzIII I really like that track and the rest of the line. VK3601 and Tiger.....

Also a decent set of tanks. It's just the American chunk there in the middle is so full of suck.

German guns faster (ish) reloads and a lot more accuracy, Russian slower reload but in general 2 tiers above the other nations - and they cross three tiers of tanks taking less exp once unlocked, they just start to reload faster each tier you advance.

Still think I'm going Russian Medium first to get to the T54 and may parallel with German Mediums as I still liked the Panther - was a hell of a tank to fight once it got the 88 Long.

I have totally forgotten how much SUCK one game can hold at low levels.

I recall having that very same thought last night several times....

Well I made it to T-28 Russian But have not unlocked it yet .. need about 12K $ and have unlocked M2 Medium U.S. with about the same $$ to go.

It's starting to "feel" like the game we played last week - all maps open arty ruining your fun.... low vision, disappearing tanks, Russian guns over powered.

Same as it ever was.... same as it ever was.....

Have enough finally for the T-28 or the LEE (51% crew) may hold for the 75% (only 29 more battles at present exp earning *sigh*)

Leaning toward T-28 as primary and using secondary exp to get LEE (call me masochist - I still want to try one)

Slow going though. That's for sure.
Looks like Joe is still slogging along with his only Russian TD -

T-28 First map.... we had 3 IS they had 3 Tigers..... *sigh*

I've got the T-2 medium in the US line and the PzII in the german line from playing some rounds on Friday night after BF and on Saturday too. I've the XP for the level III in each of those, as well as the level two russian (BT-2?) but not the funds. I'm hating the slow, slow, slow going big time and may need to re-think my advancement strategy....or quit entirely 😀

My credits went from 2K normal (3K for a really good round) in my T46 to a steady 6k in my T28 even with the 51% crew and no special awards.

Starting to feel a little breathing room now, will max the set up of the T28 to get the most of it and not just try to get out the other side to the KV as this is where the Russian items start laying over three tiers so its not mis-spent EXP.

Will also use it to help get me out of the M2 to the LEE for cash.
(I will sooner or later try out that damn American T-29)

I've got all three tier II tanks now and mostly they are maxed out. Another night of first wins should give me the XP necessary for all three Tier III tanks in the lines. Just need to build the cash.

At this point I'm going Russian and US Medium Line and German Heavy.

Been out of it for three days (you should see the shakes)
Operating system crashed and waiting for the UPS guy right now to get Win 7 installed.

Still on the Russian Heavy route - almost have the T-28 maxed out - the Lee is still unlocked but not enough cash to buy it, but like I said before, the T28 is making about 6K per map so the cash is flowing now.

Once I get - I may re-asses and drop the arty and pick up Russian Mediums they are were not as fun as the German mediums to me but they share a good amount of equipment and there is NO denying, theT54 was a killer to fight.

Truth be told the T-34-85 and the T43 were both decent tanks in their own right.

ahhhhhhh I'm home.....
Made it in to, and maxed out my PZ III today.

Feels like a favorite pair of shoes and plays SO MUCH better then that P.O.S. T-28
I've all but stopped playing the Russian Heavy line, and arty now and am back to enjoying the game like before now that I'm in the German tanks again.

The key I found is to keep the PZ III Ausf A after you get the III - use the III to unlock the second turret and 5 cm that leads to the PZ III/IV and use the Ausf A to unlock the engines and radios, as engines and radios carry through III/A, III and III/IV

Made it in to the KV - and I thought the T28 was a cash machine.
Losses net me 8K and wins about 16K ~ 19K

Ran a map today that had every tank a heavy - no arty, no TD, no Med or Lite.... our side had 6 T29 Tiger 2's, Tigers, KV, IS-4 it was mad.

Same Story, different day. I've maxed out the upgrades for the M2 light, T2 Medium, BT-2, and have most of the stuff for the PzIII Ausf. A. I've unlocked all the next tier tanks but do not have enough cash to buy any of them yet. Will probably take another night of grinding for cash to get either the A-20 or the M-3 Stuart. I need a bunch of XP still to move up in the German line so that won't happen for probably a week at my current rate of play/earning.

It seems like their XP/cash upgrade system is somewhat out of balance. At the early levels you have massively more XP than you need but not nearly enough cash to buy without grinding through match after match in a crappy little tank. At the higher levels, it seems like it takes forever to earn the XP but you have plenty of cash. At least the tanks are more fun to grind in at the higher levels....and I guess the battles are never quite the same each time.

Yah I agree on the flip flop of the EXP/Cash I'm happy that I'm out of the Ronsonol T-28 I sold it outright and never want to go back to it (although some people LOVE it and keep it around)

Am liking the KV - have the tracks and the 15% fire engine (down form 30%) and almost got the bottle top turret. Speaking of high expectations of EXP the 107 cm gun for the bottle top (that killer gun everyone hates to dee on the enemy KV) costs MORE EXP that it will take to get completely through the PZIII to the III/IV

HA!

But I think I'll go for it as I'll still be in the KV for a few weeks at least before I'll have enough for KV-3 so might as well enjoy the ride while I'm in it.

I do think I'll buy gold so we can platoon this on Fridays until something else comes along.
Still getting the finger pointing form VALVE and EA Games as to why I can not play online with BFBC:2
No one wants to say it's their problem - it must be the other guys issue with my S/N - so for the foreseable future it's tanks (will get L4D2 installed later so maybe we can play that too, but 2 manning L4D2 kind of sucks)

Any way - grinding the PZIII (need about 8K more for the III/IV) have the LEE unlocked and enough for the 50% crew, may grind the other 120K cred for the 75% crew, but need to go and look at tech tree, I may be able to just buy the eng and move on to T1...... some thing to look at next week.

You on Fri?

Found this little tib-bit in the WoT WIKI

Will there be an option to get gold by credits?
Such an option will be available after we add ingame auctions.

But no date or update number was referenced.
In another thread they said the next patch you will be able to move dead thanks around by pushing them with your tank.

I will not be around this Friday night so don't spend your gold just for that reason. I should be around on Saturday night however but not 100% on that as I am going on an overnight trip Friday with a bunch of children so we'll see how much sleep I actually get. I may need to crash early on Saturday.

Bought enough Gold to buy 12 weeks of 3 day VIP
I'll run it Wed, Thur, Fri to get the most of it - a waste to buy a month as I don't play on Sat and Sun

Should be good until Fri July 15 with the three day plan.

Was very simple - just make sure your logged in to the web site under the same email address you log on to the game with - I also used PayPal to separate my CC/Bank form UltimatePay.
It was in my account the second I payed, and also got an email from a real person (Pamela) at UltimatePay with her email and phone number and tracking information should I have an issue with Wargaming.net not giving the gold.

So it looks like UltimatePay is straight up. - they also gave me 1,000 UltimatePay bucks to buy anything I want at there site for the 1,000's of games they support for bring a first time customer.

Have enough $ to buy the BT-7, or if I wait a couple of rounds, could get the M3 Stuart instead. May go with the BT-7 simply because I have absolutely atrocious luck with the BT-2. I cannot win a match in that thing to save my life so the BT-7 will certainly be a step up as I can't do much worse 🙂

Don't recall the BT2/BT7 I believe I had enough free exp to unlock straight to the A20 which is a speed demon in a straight line but loses about 1/3 of its momentum in corners - decent gun too.

The M3, M5, M7 line are a hoot - fast, faster and fastest
I had great fun in all three of those tanks (and then the E8 after the M7 obviously) I kept the M5 and M7 they were so much fun to play.

The T-34 after the A-20 starts to feel like a TANK not a toy and the T34-85 with the 100 D10T felt more powerful than the E8 but was played different due to its very slow reload.

Down to what you want first speed / agility / rate of fire (but less damage - U.S.
Armor / Fire power - USSR

Re-reading the new tech tree changes looks like I'm gaining two new slots and two new free USSR tanks.

The KV-2 and a T-150 -

Also know that I need to stop playing my KV-3 as it will be split down a new heavy tree that I don;t want to be on - I want the IS-7 so I have to wait for the new tree and go back to my KV and unlock the KV-IS line to go down the IS-7 line.

Also noticed that (like we said Friday) the new German line will split from the PZ III/IV to the Medium and to the Heavy line - unlike now which has two parallel lines one for Med one for Heavy.
I like that new tree.

SP for now I'll stop my Russian Heavy line - pick up Russian Medium and keep on with my U.S. T1 and maxing out the PZ III/IV and wait for the split.

Maxed out my M3 Stuart last night and it is a much more potent tank with the biggest gun and engine. Still have trouble taking on anything bigger than me, but it is great for going after artillery as long as I keep moving. I need to get the stabilizer and I'll be good to go.

Basically need $$$$$$$$ now as I've maxed exp for my PzII Ausf. A and BT-2 as well. Just no money to buy the next level tanks.

May have to buy some gold to hurry this along for a while as it is quite painful and slow.

I loved the M3, M5, M7, E8, T20 - each one was at least 50% or more better than the last, as usual each one coming in to its own with the 80+ % crew and the max equipment.

Be interesting to see what they do with the added M46 Patton tot he US Medium line.
Although in real life the T20/T23/M26/M46 were mounted with the 90mm the game also gives them the 105mm I wonder if the game will give the M46 a 155mm Heavy main gun with the speed of a med.

Ker-Pow!


I really noticed my credits skyrocketing when I hit the KV (Tier 5) it appears the more damage you do per shot the more credits you get - the 107 may have highr penetration for the KV but the 122/152 mm DERP guns do 700 damage with HE and they give me 40K (lose) ~ 75K (win) credit per match just from brute force.

Best use of my premium will still be Wed, Thur, Friday as I can get the most for my time/money and still allow us to platoon on Friday nights.

Wow - really enjoying the T1 Heavy - made the LEE slog really worth it.
Just having fun in it.

You're through the Lee already? It seemed to take me months....

Two days last week on premium (but remember for me that's 20 hours of play) I was through the LEE and then stayed two more days to get enough credits and to not advance too far above you and Joe for last Friday night.

Will start a Russian Medium and get to the A-20 (tomorrow when I buy my 3 day premium again) so I'll have a track to play with you both at your tier.

Joe is still at Tier 3 and is only running a SU-76 TD - windging about not having any money to move on..... I keep telling him to at least fill your garage and rotate through the tracks for the free exp and the progression of credits, but for some reason he just plays one TD and QQ's about not progressing fast.

But yah rotating through PV III/IV, KV-3, KV, anf T1 - sold the Byson for the soon to be BT-2 Medium line.

Do you know how much a 1 month premium is? If it isn't too expensive, I'm thinking of doing that to power through to the fun levels and build as much cash as I can getting to the higher levels.

Answered my own question regarding how much gold it costs to get a month premium.

http://wiki.worldoftanks.com/Gold_Economy

30 Days premium = 2500 Gold

3000 Gold = $14.95
6500 Gold = $29.95

Picked up my first ban today.
not to bad - only 12 hours -
The map is the one where the two flags are real close to each other and the island is in the center....

Some fucking clan kept jumping in front of my KV-3 and stopping - basically blocking my movement - one of the ass holes was shooting me in the engine - not doing much damage but still damage.

So I killed them all, and went on playing the game.

BAN.


I'll be back in game Wed 12 noon EST. (10 am my time)

You go girl!

Broke down and bout 3K gold last night and went for the 1 month premium. Man what a difference in cash and Exp. I pulled in over $100,000 in about two hours last night. Bought my BT-7, outfitted it to where it needs to be and have a good funding base, and am just earning XP for the next level tanks and cash.

General consensus on the forums that Tier 5 are the ATM tanks for crazy cash - and I agree - I'm still doing exceptionally well witht he KV and the T1 is not far behind.

It is amazing how much more premium gives. Bastards.
Still going to run parallel lines or are you focusing on a specific as a main?

I'm kind of penned in right now.
The present Red tree is KV - KV-3 - IS - IS-3
The new tree is KV-3 on one side and IS on the other... so I'm going to unlock the great 100mm D 10T main gun which is used on both heavy and medium lines and stop with the heavy until the split.

(I'll start a Red medium and get to the BT-7 so Friday/Sat we can be same tier.)


German tree is the same - I'm maxing out the PZ III/IV and unlocking the VK-3001 (H) to go toward Panthers but then need to wait as they are adding the VK-3601 (H) to the III/IV which it is not part of the tree now. But I think its cool that one tank now unlocks both the Panther and Tiger lines.

U.S. I'm good - no changes in the Heavy line so if nothing else I can keep chugging along to the T29

I'm going to keep on going like I have been. I run a 5 tank rotation at the moment, although I think I'll use some gold to add a 6th slot once I have the funds to buy another tank. I just rotate through them all making sure that I get at least one win with each. When I run out of slots, I drop the lowest tier tank and add a new one.

My goal is to get the Easy8, T34-85 and the VK3601(H) or possibly the Tiger during the next 30 Days. Once I get to those Level 5-6-7 tanks, I'm not worried about advancing too much as at that level they are really fun to play and can compete with the higher level tanks as well.

Easy8, T34-85 and the VK3601(H)

ALL stellar tanks - great choice - mediums, fast, real hard hitting all in their own ways - can't argue with any one of them!

And once the new tree comes o ut the 3601 and the 34-85 lead to their nations heavy tree.
Bonus.

Check out this site - he's just getting it up and running so parts that are not working he says so 0n each page bit its a great start.

I really like the Data and Guns VS: Armor pages.

http://www.tarrif.net/wot/


Go back to his main site also there are some great links and what not there too.

http://www.tarrif.net

Excellent resources there. I'll need to keep that handy when I'm playing to know who I have a shot against with specific guns. I know generally who I'll have trouble with in any particular tank, but this will help

Did some grinding last night and got the XP for the PzIII and am pretty close to having the XP for the M5 Stuart as well. My Bt-7 is upgunned as much as possible and I have the biggest engine as well so it is quite speedy. Building a nice piggy bank as well 😀

BT-7 fun - and with an A-20 maxed out you'll scream like a giddy school gilr seeing the Beatles for the first time on the Ed Sullivan show.

PZ III is also a real zippy tank in its own right. You'll like driving that too.

What's interesting is the PV III is fast the III/IV is slower but more nimble at slow speeds or stopped with more armor and a better gun then you go to the VK-3001 (H) which is a III on steroids back to being fast and nimble with a great gun and 3x the armor of the III then on to the Panther which they say is a macho III/IV (and the 88 long w00t) and finally the Panther II which is the Uber PZ III.

I felt that II - III/IV - VK-3001 (H) differences and yes it is true that far. I was close to the Panter and can not see why it would not follow the convention.
(I will get my Panther II E-50 this time around)

Though it's a dead tree the Leopard all maxed out is as fun if not more than the A-20 as it has 3x the armor and holds its speed in turns and shrugs off a lot of damage - problem is it is a nowhere tank.

I will get a BT-7 up and running today for tomorrow night.

when the heck are the american TDs coming out?

Next patch - but th en again all the chatter is about the new Russian and German Heavy and the ability to push dead tanks around...
Supposedly the sighting is fixed (when the US TD line rolls out too) .... So who the hell knows.

All set Sarge (actually more then all set) went up to a virgin A-20 and ready to go for tomorrow.

Picked up the PzIII last night and was able to upgrade the engine to the fastest, the tracks, and the turret - but need a bit more XP to get a better gun. I now have 1 level 4 tank 3 Level 3s and 2 Level 2s now. Building the cash for purchase of the M5 Stuart and cash and XP for the A-20 at this point.

Sounds like your doing at lest good if not real well with the cash/progression now.
Joe FINALLY got in to his SU-85B Tier 3 TD so that's not to bad.

We keep getting put in there horrible matches with IS-4, T29, Feries', T32 and were in BT7/SU-76 tier 2/3 tanks.... day time matchmaking SUCKS

Sarge - Today and tomorrow 3 day premium is just 250 gold instead of 650 - and if you by more than one they stack.
6 days 400 gold
9 days 650 gold

Will stack with your month and all modules are 50% off.... may but binos, cammo net and optics as they are depot and not locked to tank.

Will have to check that out later.


Picked up the M5 Stuart last night and am at the point where I'm getting XP for the M7 already. Not noticing a huge difference between the M3 and M5, but I'm not using the 75 howitzer either.

The changes comes with a maxed out tank - also did not see much from M3 to M5 and same from M5 to M7 but the maxed M7 is worth keeping even after you get the E8 - M7 is just fun to play.

Gratz on the M5 - unlocked the T-34 so A-20 will be gone today (adding exp for hand over radio and eng from A-20 to T-34 before purchase) and will get my M6 today or tomorrow latest.

Have the 75 Howitzer for the M5 Stuart now which gives it a bit more punch. Have unlocked the Pz III/IV and have enough cash to buy it too, which I am thinking may happen tonight. Just need to drop a tank first (likely the M2 light as that is the only Tier 2 tank I am running).

About halfway to unlocking the Pz IV too. Those 3 days of 5x XP were a big help. Wish they would continue that.

That's cool. I have been holding off playing the T-34 as it was 2 tiers above your M5 so I did not want to move too fast -
But with a III.IV and a IV you'd be same tier as the T-34 and only 1 tier off my VK-3001 (P) and the KV-3 and the M6 (which is taking A LONG TIME to level) so were not mis-matched at all.

Found I need to keep the KV and KV-3 in garage at time of update to get he free tanks and slots, not just researched but actually have in house.... taking up 2 slots I could be doing something better with (though I may never get rid of the KV - to damn fun to own and cash machine to boot)

Now if they could nail down update release I hear end of month... September 2011 ..... W T F over?

Wow talk about no situational awareness.
The present German tree is Pz III. Pz III/IV. VK-3001(P), VK-3002 (DB), Panther, Panther II

The NEW Tree
Pz III. Pz III/IV, VK-3001 (H), Panther, P II

So after the tree change - I'm in a mega nowhere tank in the 3001 (P).
F - c k

I suppose by Tuesday I can grind big time to get into the VK-3002 (DB) which in the new tree is parallel to the Panther....
But grinding to just get a parallel tank to grind over to get to the Panther when all I really have to do is wait a few weeks and pick up the III/IV to the 3001 (H) which is a better tank then the (P) and then hit the Panther....

At least I can re-start the KV-3 as I've decided to go for the IS-4 over the IS-7 - so I guess I can change my focus back to the Red heavy s for a while.


Ugh - looks like I may be putting the German line on ice for a little while and just fight my M6 and the KV-3 until you get a little further ahead in your mediums then get the T-34-85 but damn they need to get on the ball now and change up the trees so we can continue on with out having to back track too much.

So a word of caution on that German tree at least - you may not want to go past your III/IV
(or Shame on me for not having any reading comprehension - even thought the pretty colored pictures were telling me the story right in front of my face......)

I picked up the Pz III/IV last night and it's nice to be back in a tank with some ooomph! 😀

It will take me a while to get beyond that one, but like the KV, it is a moneymaker. Played two rounds with it last night and cleared around $15k for each which is double what I've been pulling in with the other tanks.

They do say the Tier 5 tanks are the money makers in the game. And its no lie.
Just realized the standard T-34 can unlock the SU-85 TD so I may do that for a bit to take the place of the German tree.

I liked the SU-85 and I already have the 107mm gun unlocked with the KV which fits on the -85
(Drat - just looked it up - the KV is a 107 ZiS-6 and the -85 is a 107 ZiS-6s bastards)
but none the less... I have something to work towards. (again)

Yah the Tier 5 tanks start to "feel" like a tank and not a tin can.

WoT Patch Details wrote:PzIII/IV:
- Changed the thickness for front hull armor from 80 to 60 mm.
- Weight of the vehicle hull decreased from 14570 to 13570 kg.
- Increased the front armor for the PzIV ausfH turret from 65 to 80 mm.
- Weight of the PzIV ausfH turret increased from 3500 to 4000 kg.
- Traverse speed increased for the PzIV ausfH turret from 50 to 60 degrees per second.
- Hit points of the PzIV ausfH turret decreased by 10.
- Maximum speed increased from 43 to 55 km/h.
- Hit points of the tank hull increased by 30.

ETA of Patch = May

Not that your not reading it here.

http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/t...ks-v064-update/

But last post is final release. But yah.... tin foil hat time and it just shows how the Devs want the German tanks to be less than the Russian ones.
Rat Bastards.

80 to 60 is a huge change.

I'm trying to tell how much of a change it will be. Not quite as much frontal armor thickness, but more HP for the hull, thicker armor on the turret, faster turret traverse, and significantly faster top speed. Maybe it will behave more like a Medium than a heavy 😀

May round it out - I guess all in all more HP is more HP - and speed is life for the Mediums.

So.... TD's I can pick up a Reskie SU-85 from my T-34 for 40,500 ecx or I can start at tier 1 and only need 19,555 to get one.

Is it better to grind the -34 the 40K or 20K from no where to Tier 5 TD?
(I average 700 EXP in the -34 so that's 54 battles.... I think I'd rather fight a tier 5 tank more than work up T1 > T5 TD getting 123 exp per round in those mighty might fights.


(just rambling on a Friday.... .)

http://game.worldoftanks.com/news/general_...ore_world_tanks

We've been waiting for the new patch to come out for so long and at last World of Tanks readily announces the date of its release - patch v.0.6.4 is due to come out on May 17th! Get ready for the new batch of battles and features!

But before you go deep into plans for the future and dreams of new tanks, watch the update trailer by World of Tanks and feel the tank power!

The video features highly anticipated vehicles: Lowe and KV-5, top SPGs Object 261, Gw-E serie and T-92. What is more, new picturesque maps will appear in World of Tanks: the adorable Mountain Pass and the immense Prairies! Check out the video and start preparing for the patch!

Honestly - I've been wanting both types of maps - a wide open brawl map and a mountain close quarters type map too - hope there decent maps once we get playing them.

Anyways out the 17th

http://forum.worldoftanks.com/index.php?/t...ill-autosystem/

^ ^ ^
Full write up of team killing / auto ban mechanism.

2. Displaying in in-game interface
2.1.1 Battle interface

Having received the local status of “teamkiller” in a battle, the player has to immediately get visual identification of the status in in-game interface for the team-mates (his appearance does not change for rivals).
His nick either has to appear in blue in the “ears” or a special blue sign has to appear next to it (or him).
Instead of a traditional green sign above the tank the same blue sign has to appear.

I'm soooooo Blue.
Er. I mean AWESOME!

Definitely looking forward to any new maps.

Making good progress on the XP necessary to unlock the PzIV, the M7, and the VK3001(P). Also making pretty good money to bank for when I go back to non-premium. While the III/IV isn't taking me in the direction that I want to go at this point, the thing is a moneymaker and I can usually pull in 100k in 4-5 battles, compared to 7-10 for some of the other tanks I'm running. I'm going to keep the beast just for that reason.

At some point I need to upgrade out of my BT-7 into the A-20 but I have been focusing on the German/US lines more. Maybe I'll do that tonight...

Following links from the news update -

Vehicle Production

Tanks planned to be added in Q2 2011:

US tank destroyers line (8 vehicles), M46 Patton.
German E-series, Pz. VI Tiger (P), VK 4502 (P) Ausf A, M103, Object 252.

That means to me the German tree re-work will be complete, allowing us to go from the III/IV to the VK-3001 (H) to Panther medium tree and the addition of the two Heavy lines.
So III/IV will now lead to VK-3601 (H) [YES! - Hello sweet heart] down to Tiger I and II and E-75 and E-100

So some time by the end of June - so I'l be grabbing a slot for a new III/IV and just grid the exp to get both the 3601 and 3001 (H)'s

Something to look forward to -

Also interested in seeing the US TD tree to then.

Finally UD TDs are here. I'm going to be just doing US TDs from now on.

Something to wet your whistle then.



I've watched this battle on History channel three times now and am STILL amazed that 8 VS: 19 = WIN!

I saw that just recently as well. Amazing stuff.

*Sigh*
More slots - More grind - LOL

Would be nice to have a good TD that can move like lightning - Where the Russians have the cloaking device and the Germans sniper guns - I hope we can get the advantage of being able to shoot and scoot well.

Can you imagine a platoon of 3 M-18's shooting the same targets like we saw the arty doing on Friday?
Cool!

m18s and m10s better get gyroscopic stabilizers...christ all mighty the american tanks don't met real world American tanks.

The A-20 is as much a piece of sh*t as the BT-7 🙁 I think I've got one kill with it in six or eight games. Of course I've been on the bottom of the pile almost every single game with the damn thing which does not help.

On the positive side, I only need another 9000 XP to unlock whatever is next (T-34?) and another day or two will give me the XP for the PzIV and the M7 as well as I am pretty close on getting the XP needed for those.

A-20 is crap - once the game is back I'll tell you what if anything I upgraded but all-in-all keep moving, never stop, lead your shots and hope like hell they hit and your out of the A-20 as soon as possible.

Once you hit the T-34 you are getting in to Russian Mediums and no longer the kiddie carnival ride tanks.
Stick with it to the -34 and -34-85 (I think I'll alway s have a T-34-85 in my garage.) with the -85 you'll get a real good feeling for why people always complain about Ruskie tanks being OP

Quite a patch - 864.51 Meg
DL'ing now

I'll not say too much - but the change on the map that has the island with the radio tower (name changed to Mine) is much better - they did good on the up date.

Steeps - WOW - a high tier medium wet dream map.
Picture one flag SW one NE in the corners, the center of the map is the highest tier to teh left and right a middle tier and the far left and right a low tier - each tier a little more than 1.5 tanks high but gentle transitions in most places so you can keep your speed in a medium.

Plenty of rocks and for TD to set up - for wide open lanes of fire.

My Karkand of WoT


Have not seen Mountain pass yet.

No more wall suck !!! you can drive on to and in to with no ill effects - FIXED!

Have earned and purchased my PZIV and M7 so I'm a bit low on cash but have a trio of true medium tanks. Now if I could get into a map where I wasn't the lowest guy on the totem pole, I'd be a happy camper 😀

Like the redesign of "Mines" and Mountain Pass seems like it would be cool if you don't die in the first minute 🙄 Steppes also seems like a good one, especially now that I have some guns that will actually do damage to heavier tanks.

Cool - fraking customers have been keeping me from my assigned game play - RB's
But am about 14K away from unlocking the SU-85 TD from the T-34 so that will give me 2 Red Heavy's, 2 Med and 1 TD all Tiers 5 and 6

After the SU-85 unlock I'll settle in to the M6 to get the T29 ~ nextweek

Elited my T-34 then put the crew in Barracks sold it and bought my SU-85 in at 75%

I am >| |< that close to the T29 (~6K)

But man the lag at night is killing me - hopefully its people downloading and it will go away next week. If I recall we saw that with DDO on patch nights.

(Anyone see all the new crafting they have brought out and are rolling more of out soon? I almost want to DL it again just to try it)

(Almost....)

You like your III/IV?
Like your IV?


I think some time next week I'll re-purchase a III/IV and start putting away EXP for the 3601 and 3001 (H) for the tree change in June.

Man I was watching a guy run a III/IV just RAPE a group of higher tiers by not stopping just moving - circling - and using cover to just trash about 5 heavies.

I need to get the final upgraded engine and top turret still ti get it all maxed out.

Holy crap the lag last night. I had a match where I could not play at all because it was like watching stop motion animation. I was pinging over 500 that match. I had another where I was pinging over 200. I quit playing for 15-20 minutes and tried again and had much better success with pings in the 80 range which is higher than usual (40s) but not too bad.


I occasionally think about picking up DDO again, but the desire never gets to be enough that I actually go and play it. Especially since I will have to pay to play my two main characters 🙁

Guild Wars II continues to look interesting as well, and word is that there will be a beta this year sometime.

T29 - YES!

Glad you finally got it. You can be my protector now 😀 I'm part of the way to the Easy8 in the American line but it will take me another week or so probably to get there. The M7 isn't bad when I'm not completely overmatched against level 7 and 8 tanks. I'm working on upgrading the gun from the 6 pounder to a 75 and that should help. After that it is just grinding for XP for the E8.

Which should I take as my Level VI Medium the VK3001(H) or VK3601(H)? I'm thinking the 3601 as it seems a more "heavy" medium and will be a better platform to move to the tiger. If I continue down the Panther path with my III/IV, I'll have to go through the 3001(P) too.

It my be a exp suck by max out your M7 and laugh like a little girl - fast. nimble and hits decent with the 75

VK-3601 hands down - I really miss not having one (sooner or later I will again) and then to the Tiger.
Those two tanks are the epitome of what a TANK should be in World of Tanks (to me) if you can afford it I would HIGHLY recommend getting the 100% crew on the Tiger at time of purchase.

I tried both the 50 and 75% and sold it twice before I used the free gold to get the 100% different tank - fraking hoot to drive and snipe with.

I've got a bit of gold left, I think enough to bring one 5 man crew to 100%.

I carried a couple of my crews that had high 70's training forward to new tanks and that seems to be working pretty well. One of the crews (I can't remember which) entered the new tank at 60 or 61% which makes a big difference.

I usually keep my top two tanks from each line. I'm only running one Russian tank right now however as the BT-7 was so completely crap that I wanted to get rid of it ASAP. The A-20 will go that way as well and I'll keep a third German or American when the time comes.

Aw damn it!

http://game.worldoftanks.com/news/general_...shells_discount

It would be nice if they gave a discount on buying gold too...

I've got 11 days left on my premium and have figured out how much XP I need to get each day to unlock the Easy8, VK3601, and the T-34. I'll decide at that point if I do another month or something like the 3 day like you are doing.

Btw, I've got the long 75mm on the PzIV now and that thing is brutal in the amount of damage that it does to other tanks. I feel like the number of kills I am getting with that tank now has increased tremendously.

HA! I stopped doing the Wed, Thur, Fri a week ago when I did not watch what I was doing and re-upped my premium and did not watch my clicks and now have a month of premium.

Oh well.

I did like the wed, thur, fri 3 day stretch for longevity of my money but that left us high and dry on sat night and mon and tues really sucked playing with no bonus.....

Give and take I guess.

Which 75mm? there are three..... But yah once you get in to the 75's you just FEEL like your actually driving a tank and taking hits and giving them also - not just a pesky annoyance.

Then comes the 88 on the VK yah!
Then finally the 88 long on the Tiger and the 10.5 long your a 500 ~ 700 M sharp shooter.

With teeth.

Glad your liking it.

It is the 75 mm KwK 42 L/70

Damage: 135/135/175(HP)

Penetration: 138/194/38(mm)

Rate of Fire: 15(r/m)

Accuracy: 0.29-0.31(m)

Aim time: 2.0(s)

There is also a 105mm available that does a lot more damage, like the KV Derp gun, but penetration is much lower.

Cool yah you got the "gppd pme" top tier. Nice.
DERPs are cool is you can get in close enough to hit, as it's a HE only gun and in the game HE does not lose damage from distance like AP does.

But you have to be close enough to hit - ~200 / 300 M max.
Not worth it in my opinion Germans are snipers not brawlers like Ruskie tanks.

Lag was significantly better last night. There was one map that was really bad for the first few minutes and then evened out. Otherwise nothing noticable.

They "say" its tracked down to data center in the Carolina area and not related to their update - purely coincidence .... and Australia dropped off the face of the game for the last three days also....

They assure us they are working closely with their chosen data server providers to fix the lag - (which is not theirs nor created by them or the patch by the way) as soon as possible.

Yeah, I enjoyed the "It's not me, it's you" portion of their statement quite a lot 😀

When I first read it and the discussion of the causes of lag, I was thinking they were blaming the end users, but then it shifted to the infrastructure.

Getting one shoted a lot - even in my T29 fraking gold ammo

Server maintenance today so maybe this will address the lag issues....

Making steady progress on all fronts. I'm really enjoying the PzIV when I don't get one-shotted by some high level heavy. The M7 isn't too bad either, it's fast and has a semi-decent gun. As long as I don't get caught out in the open by myself, I can do pretty well.

The A-20 still sucks. Have 3/4 of the XP needed to move on however.

Honestly play just to get my double for the day on each track and then log off for the most part.
Although when I'm board I do go back and fight the -34-85 as it's just fun.

I think I have enough EXP to move out of my KV-3 when the KV-4's are added (I think I have 48,000 exp and to move to an IS right now is 42,000 - but when the tree changes the IS is in the wrong tree and the KV-3 will unlock the -4 so I'm just banking the EXP until then)

T29 is slow going literally and figuratively and just not fun yet (pisser once you get there..... ) and the SU-85 I'm trying to not get in front of Joe's tier.

Still have not re-opened my German line - although I look at my German line and I see that I have ALL equipment unlocked in the PZ IV so if I grab a new III to unlock a IV all I'd need to do is get the EXP for a 3601 (thanks to having the 3001 (P) )

But still just kind of spinning my shells until the gold ammo is depleted as I'm sick to death of one shotted on start. But I guess getting a IV would not be bad as in this tree and the new tree both lead to the 3601 so it will not be wasted EXP.

Glad you like the IV and yes the M7 is a scream if you can keep from getting tracked you can run circles around heavies and most mediums too. pop pop pop goes the Howitzer.

Just deal with the A20 the best you can - the T-34 is (again) the turning point for Russian mediums and that -34-85 with the 100mm D 10T is just Russian tanks - hell that gun used on 8 tanks from the -34-85 > T-54 so all mediums and the KV-1S > IS-4 Heavy

Well grabbed a new PZ III and made 6,500 EXP in three hours towards a PZ IV
Needed something to do.

You around Friday / Sat night?

may be late(ish) Friday but will be on.

Should be around for a while on Friday. Not sure exactly what time yet though. Also maybe relatively late.

Not sure that I'm going to make it this evening. Feeling like shite and may need to actually sleep.

No problem - hope your better - we got in about midnight your time so we just went to bed too.

Got my PZ IV tonight, sorry no platoon - WAGRO - saw you on.
Was able to add right off tracks, top engine, top radio, and the next to best gun were all unlocked so I put them all on straight away, just need 8K exp for the top turret and the best 7.5mm gun (4K each) (the one you have I believe.)

The better gun is worth every penny and you need the other turret to mount it so they should make it a package deal.

Made the XP for the T-34 and the VK3601(H) last night and am just a couple thousand XP from the Easy8 all with 4 premium days left to spare. The last week or so I set a minimum XP goal for each tank and played to that goal which usually amounted to 1-2 wins or 1 win and 3-4 losses. Made grinding a little more tolerable 😀

I need to sell the A-20 ASAP but I'm going to keep the pzIV just for the money that it makes.

That's HOT that you've made it to the -34 and VK
Man if you like the Pz IV the VK will blow your mind - especially when you hit the 88

Good stuff

Trying to figure out what the hell to do with the KV-3 / KV and looking high and low for update info -
Overloards blog finally has info:

In Development: Vol. 2
Preliminary patch notes of v.6.6 update planned for release after v.6.5:

New map Fishing Bay (working title, subject to change)
New map Siegfried Line (working title, subject to change)
New German heavy tanks line: Pz.VI Tiger (P), VK 4502 (P) Ausf A, Е-75, Е-100.
New US heavy tank М103, a substitution to Т34 as tier 9 US heavy tank.
Soviet heavy tank IS-4 shift to tier 10 and introduction of Object 252 as new tier 9 Soviet heavy tank.
New US premium light tank M22 Locust.
New Soviet premium light tank Т-127.

The introduction of German medium tank Е-50 in v.6.6 update is under consideration.

ETA - July 2011.

So I guess for now I'll grab the 122mm for the KV-3 to play with and will give me 60 days to remake the 19K exp it will take to buy the gun.
And keep working on the German Pz IV / VK 3601 progression.

At least we have a date - 07/11

Looks like I needed to read further down .... so BEFORE the above change will be this change.

Currently in development v.6.5 update. Preliminary patch notes:

New map Redshire (working title, subject to change)
New map Mannerheim Line (working title, subject to change)
US tank destroyers line: Т18, Т82, Т40, M10, M36, T25, T28, T95
New tank M46 Patton, a substitution to M26 Pershing as tier 9 US medium tank. Changes to US medium tanks line according to the revised US tech tree
Multiple bug fixes and improvements to v.6.4.

ETA - end of June - July 2011.

Picked up the VK3601 and the T-34 last night and both still have stock equipment. VK performs well but the T-34 seems to suck. With the last few days of premium upon me I should be able to swing several upgrades in the next few days however and maybe that will help.

While all tanks suck stock - I think the red tanks suffer the most stock.
Picked up the 122mm for the KV-3 just to play with - it one shots maxed out KV's - makes me giggle.

Have had some real stellar heavy battles today - played Campa-nova in the KV-3 and I was low man on tree with 4 Tier 8 arty each side and a S*ton of tier 10 heavy's... was a win - I even survived with two kills.

Later we played Mines and we had 5 T-29's - we were all about the top third of the tree. Another win and was an arty free slug fest - just plane fun when it's all heavy's and tough mediums.

About 10K exp away from the 54K to get in to the T-43 - so I think I'm working the T-29 to get the 40K for the 105mm and the T-43 next.

You going to re-up on the VIP anytime soon after this runs out?
I have two weeks left on VIP with another 2K gold left to do what ever with - week end VIP for platoons etc.

Not sure about buying more right away - all depends which way FNF swings I guess.

I'm not sure about doing a VIP again immediately. I'll have made my goals for progress during the month and the level tanks that I am in are pretty fun for the most part so progress to the next level isn't as critical for me. I'll give it some time without VIP and see how it goes.

In case you miss it tonight

World of Tanks commemorates D-Day and launches the new action! Starting June 3rd and till June 6th all our warriors get a unique opportunity to purchase additional slots in the shed at half-price! What is more, on these days you can buy the following Premium Tanks at half price: Heavy Tank T14 and Medium Tanks Ram II and T2 Lt! Do not miss this great chance to stock up and turn your shed into shining steel paradise!

All offers are available up to the scheduled server restart on June 6th.

Don't care too much about the premium tanks but I may add 2 more slots - just to have more tanks in double point rotation line in Beta.

Slots are originally 300 gold right? I've enough for one more slot then....I may need to consider that then as I have 200 gold. Of course I currently am running one fewer tank than I have slots for now so maybe I don't really need it.

Yes - 300 normal now 150
I just remember that having more tanks in garage in Beta the faster I made money and free EXP - even if I just ran the track for a single win per day - the more we had in garage the faster the funds/exp grew.

Good day stomping around today.
T29 - upgraded turret and 105mm added.
SU-85 advanced to SU-100 and added engine and radio.
T43 - upgraded turret and 100mm D 10 T mounted.
Pz IV down to 8K exp to move to VK-3601 (H)

13 days left on VIP, and 1200 gold left in bank - thinking of keeping 1,000 gold aside for the Tiger as I really found it only played like you think a Tiger would play when the crew was at 100% so may spend the gold there.

Haven't had a chance to play since Friday night as I've been occupied with other stuff.

Kept the PZ IV like you did - added a VK-3691 (H) w00t
Bought a German TD and maxed out the Marder II today (enough) EXP to get a Hetzer and have stopped as when the new tree comes out I want the new TD tree not the Hetzer line.

(Will have to check when the German line is updated - may mess around w Hetz .....)

The VK has a hodge-podge of bits open but have not upgraded it until I get 6 more K to get the tracks both engines, radio, turret and top 7.5 put on at once.
Then I'll just grind out the 88


As of now I think I have all the lines I want unlocked and purchased except for one of the two U.S. TD lines - want to see the stats of them before I commit to a line.
For some reason I'm not jonesing a U.S. Medium line.
But after the tree change - I'll have two spare slots - so who knows.....

Red> TD, Heavy and Medium
Germ Med > working on Heavy, Medium unlocked for Medium tree after change, TD maxed waiting for tree change
U.S> Heavy. One space open for U.S. TD

Beginning with the June 17th server restart and all the way through June 21th, the first victory of each day, for each vehicle, will be worth 5x normal experience instead of the usual double normal experience.

On top of that, since you've probably spent all of your savings buying something really nice for your father for this holiday, we're also slashing prices on all equipment by 50% for the duration.

Note! Please be informed that there will be no confirmation message for 5x nomral experience gained.

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I'm out of VIP today - may have to get a three day for this weekend so that will be 50% + on top of the 5x

Might have to do the same. I'm determined to get some game time this weekend.

FWIW - System message justcame up June 30 W0T down @ 7:00am for 6.5 update.
So ..... American TD's and hopefully I cam move out of my KV-3

I haven't played in weeks 🙁

It sucks because I was finally in some really fun tanks.....

Just U.S. TD , 2 new maps, 2 re-worked maps.
Still in a holding pattern on the Kv's

I'm just playing for the 2x EXP through the rotation and then quitting as getting 400 EXP is the suck.

Update 6.6 End of July - Mid Aug

"Free platoons for 2 players, premium account is required for platoon leader to invite a 3rd member."

Keeping the dream alive.

That is a good addition

Bah.. just needed that one more seat. Well at least the active team can play together.. I just need to get some magical time back and convince Bubba to play..

I have been feeding my relapsed addiction to TF2 every night since last Fri. My wife mentioned something about goign to the lawyer to have them draw up some sort of papers... I wasn't paying attention there was a lvl 3 turret that I needed to blow up

Commenting in TF2 thread
(pad)

Fired the game up again. A lot of my friends have gotten hardcore into it...American TDs kick ass, seriously.

I'll get one sooner or later as I purchased a slot for one - but looking at the specs they look close to Russian TD but about 10% less powerful and a bit slower untill you hit Tier 7 where the ISU-152 moves at 42 KPH and the US T25 at 18 KPH max.
US has 50 more armor but the Russian gun does 330 more damage.

So as usual - Wargaming.net F's the US line -

duck, your forgetting turrets!

'Splane please.... US TD have turrets?

Yeah the mid tier US tank destroyers have turrets, the m10, the slugger and the one above that I believe.

I did not know that *gasp*
So would it be fair to assume to compare US TD line to other mediums?
Compere guns, armor, speed and sight distance. Interesting,,,,,

I'm on the tier 3 american tank destroyer, it's a fun little platform. It tops 47kph and now that I'm using the 57mm gun its got a decent weapon. It has no armor, but who cares? It's whole job is to get places quick and lay ambushes. I'm not sure if the speed is going to continue up the tier, but if it does, American TDs are gonna be awesome.

No at tier 5 to the end of the tree your max speed tops out at 18 KPH and you lose your turrets.

Duck,
I'm not sure where you got this information but everything I'm reading is that at least until the T-25, american TDs are the quickest in the game.

I'm upto the wolverine now, and I have to say it's awesome. The turret is too slow to defend yourself from fast tanks, but apparently you don't uncammo when you use the turret to find targets.

I was getting the speed off the tank descriptions in game.
I have the garage space ready for a U.S. TD just not the time yet to start one, next time I buy gold and go VIP I'll start one, I also want to wait for the full tree to be in effect before I start.

Same with my KV-3 still waiting for the split, have not moved off my SU-100 because I want the SU-100M-1 that is coming out not the SU-152.

Check out this video - they finally have English subtitles, Man that E-75 gun is H U G E
and I really like what there doing with cammo in 7.0




(and she's not hard on the eyes.....)

Man I was good until I hit the T40 - I just can't catch a break in that damn thing.
I get some kills with the first 76mm but think I could win one ever once in a while?
Hell no.

I feel like Sarge in his miserable LEE days.

I have to cut and paste this post - cuz' it won't be up for long....

Almost every post on the Tiger is an estrogen-fueled bitch-fest. The latest was some limp-dick asking what anti-depressant he should take while driving the Tiger.

Cstriker01's first reply sums it up nicely:

The best anti-depressant to take while driving is a Tiger is a big heaping pile of Nut-up-or-shut-up. This a mans tank for those that eat nails and piss excellence. Real men do more with less. Long 88, upgraded turret, huge range, huge penetration, deadly accurate. This thing is for reaching out with the finger of God. Know its weaknesses and play to its strengths. This is not a russian "O Hai! I kanz run inz an shoot thngz UFC stylz? I lik 2 hid bhind mah phat armorz!"

As for his second, well, I never got laid by buying some bitch a "Gun Rammer (lol)," but I do play online games so maybe I am doing it wrong.

But my two cents is simply, it's a goddamn Tiger 1E! Seriously, find your goddamn balls! This is one fifth of a mother-fucking VOLTRON! This is the big cat that singularly caused so many allied and Russian soldiers to spontaneously piss themselves and bail out of their PoS tanks and run for their lives that half of it's (well-deserved) reputation is based on mother-fucking myth and legend. The Tiger was so bad-ass that during WWII Russian soldiers called ALL German tanks Tigers because going up against a Tiger pretty much excused you for being a total pussy. The fucking Tiger so pissed on the Russian psyche that even now, more than six decades later, the Russians gotta gimp the beast in a videogame in order to make their shitty Russian tanks palatable to players who know nothing of WWII tanks... but know in their very souls that the Tiger 1E ist uber alles! Look at the WoT homepage ferchrissakes. The most prominent tank is the Tiger, because to put any other tank in its place would immediately discredit the game as bullshit. The only other WWII vehicle that created that kind of dread in it's enemies was the Ju-87 divebomber, so guess what will be gimped in the next game...

I am so tired of whiny bitches complaining about the Tiger. "I don't bounce 2/3 of the shots fired at me... I can't auto-pen Tier 10 tanks... Wahhhh!" Just blow the sand out of your vagina and roll a Russian, easy-mode tank if that's your game. When you are ready to nut the fuck up, the Tiger will be there, just as she was in WWII. Being epic. God wouldn't have sided with the Nazi's in WWII, that's for sure, but even He would've wished He had a Tiger.

To Hell with gameplay. When you roll out in a Tiger you are playing a WWII based game. When you roll out in an American or Russian heavy you are playing what they wished they had in 1944 to challenge the Tiger's reign... you are playing a fraud.

If you're the player that frets over his win/loss ratio like it somehow defines you as a person, and drinks your Cosmopolitan with your pinky extended, then the Tiger, and most likely the entire German tree is not for you. Go ahead and cry into your wine-cooler with the rest of your support group about how under-gunned and under-armored the Tiger is. But if you're a man who drinks his scotch straight (like God intended), and understands that this game is for entertainment and not for e-peen development, and doesn't even know what the fuck a "support group" is for, well the Germans made just the tank for you, it's called the Tiger.

Welcome! Pick it, and your official man club card up at the door.

Duck wrote:Welcome! Pick it, and your official man club card up at the door.

I don't quite understand what is going on here, is the Tiger crap ingame then? Nerfed to kingdom come? and people are complaining about it and then told to stuff it and play it weak because otherwise it would be way to uber for any normal player?

I need to get back in that game.

Exactley right - in game Russian armor is king - even if was not in real life - AND they tend to produce (in game) drawing board only ideas for the Russian side (as the game is made in Russia)
They also quite blatantly nerf tanks and nations that would other wise rule the Red armor.
IE the above post on the Tiger - it should dominate the game but has been nerfed to a slow lumbering hunk of steel that catches fire often, gets tracked even more so, ans is as week as a baby on the sides and rear.

Fortunately they get the 88mm right but then they nerf the ruskie armor and make it quite a bit more damage resistant than other nations.....

I just had to laugh at the post, and he did get a week ban from forums and game for stating his opinion, and his post was locked, and all the "bad words" were simply missing after the lock.

Rat Bastards

Duck,
People who think the tiger is nerfed don't know their history very well. Soviets knocked out of service a staggering amount of the tigers in the eastern theatre. Every tank the germans threw into that meat grinder got worn down. In fact it was because of the tigers lackluster performance (mostly due to Hitler's using them too piecemeal to ever be effective), that the maus and other monstrosities were built.

Duck wrote:Exactley right - in game Russian armor is king - even if was not in real life - AND they tend to produce (in game) drawing board only ideas for the Russian side (as the game is made in Russia)
They also quite blatantly nerf tanks and nations that would other wise rule the Red armor.
IE the above post on the Tiger - it should dominate the game but has been nerfed to a slow lumbering hunk of steel that catches fire often, gets tracked even more so, ans is as week as a baby on the sides and rear.

Fortunately they get the 88mm right but then they nerf the ruskie armor and make it quite a bit more damage resistant than other nations.....

I just had to laugh at the post, and he did get a week ban from forums and game for stating his opinion, and his post was locked, and all the "bad words" were simply missing after the lock.

Rat Bastards

.6.6 is out - means 1 new map and 2 player platoons for free now.

Have not played the game for about 2 weeks now.

I haven't played in a month or more as I've 1 not had a lot of free time, and 2 needed to play something that I can just walk away from at a moments notice. It is unfortunate as I really enjoyed the game.

The free two player platoons are a good thing however.

I'm at a point that I need (want) the new russian line to open up - and the new German TDs to appear. I have more than enough EXP to progress in all my tanks, they just keep adding to lines I'm not interested in.

Nor do I want to grind a new line with out VIP


So I wait.

Dear players!

August 12 is the most significant day for World of Tanks game project, as this day marks one year since the official release of the Russian version of World of Tanks. And now we are glad to announce that the development team has prepared terrific presents for all its tankers! We thank and honour all those who are with us for over a year since Alpha and Beta Tests, those who have been involved in tank battles for a few months, and those who have just rolled their first tank out of the shed.

That is you who made us grow older, and now we are glad to give prizes away!

Surprise #1. Each player will receive one day premium account by activating the special promo code at any convenient day between 11:30 UTC August 12th and 11:00 UTC August 22nd!

Surprise #2. Starting from 11:30 UTC on August 12th and till 11:00 UTC, August 15th, all World of Tanks players will enjoy the following tempting bonuses:

50% discount on slots. Fill the shed with new steel monsters!
50% discount on additional equipment. Stock up to struggle nobly!
The exprerience for the first win of the day increases by 5 (!) times. Do not miss the epic chance to earn five times more!

Surprise #3. And starting from 11:30 UTC on August 12th and till 11:00 UTC, September 12th, all our tankers will taste the following bonuses:

60% discount on all consumables purchased for gold: Fire Extinguishers, First Aid Kits, Chocolate, Cases of Cola, Repair Kits, and etc... Pump your tanks up!
Save up to 58% on all premium shells!


Surprise #4. All players registered on the North American server before 23:59 UTC on August 12th, 2010, will get a premium account for a week as a bonus.

N.B. You can find your registration date in your forum profile. The registration time is displayed according to your local time zone.


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PROMO CODE ACTIVATION
Promo Code Activation

Dear players!

In order to activate this promo code:

WOT1YEAR


and received 1 day premium, please do the following steps:

Attention! The promo code can be activated only during the specified period of time: starting from 11:30 UTC, August 12, and till 11:30 UTC, August 22.

Enter the official website of World of Tanks and find the authorization section in the top right corner of the page.
Log on the official website of World of Tanks by entering your email and password.
Click on Use promo code tab in the profile.

Sweet. That might get me to take a tank or two out for a spin.

At least for a week huh?
Just logged on and it is not turned on yet.

FNF?
You on?

Could use the week to grind the VK 3601 (H) to Tiger or re-open the Pz III/IV to 3001 (H) to get to the Panther (finally)

I might be on tonight, not sure yet. I won't be on much this week however as I will be AFK and only have my laptop.

Almost felt bad last night - in my T29 with the 105 and the other side had a IS-4 teamed up with a LolTraktor in a platoon.

The poor thing (we were on MINE) rounded the corner right in to me.
I let him get about 10 shots on me for EXP then with a cringe pulled the trigger, I think he went straight to powdered metal.

Just dust.

That's pretty funny.

Ugh....
You know your in for a fight when your in a T-43 and the lowest man on team and the next two above you are a Object 704 and a Ferdinand.

Pulled a win and sniper (had to.... too small to fight in the open)

Sold off my U.S. TD line - just could not get in to them, killed my Russian arty and German Arty too.

Debating on getting the IS as Russian tree split now looks like Spring 2012, but really I like the Red TD (Have a 50% up graded SU-152 now) and a maxed out StugIII and re-ran the Lee to get a M4 Sherman (maxed out) - just need the Exp for the E8 again.

World of Tanks is glad to inform tankers that the Operation Avalanche Special will be held within World of Tanks from September 9th till September 12th!

Starting from 11:30 UTC, September 9th, and till 11:00 UTC, September 12th, all our brave tankers will enjoy the following offers:

Crew training rates doubled!
The exprerience for the first victory of the day increases by 5 (!) times!
50% discount on slots!

Cool deal. I'm so far from unlocking anything that it probably won't matter until I pay for premium again. Was fun playing the other night though.

Decided to go from the 3601 (H) to the 3001 DB instead of (H) to Tiger.
Believe it or not the path to the Tiger through the DB is faster (less EXP) then straight from the (H)
In fact the total EXP needed from (H) to Tiger is the same as going to teh DB and unlocking the Panther and Tiger - which is what I decided to do.

I bought two extra garage slots today as they are 50% off of the Panther and Tiger, and am remembering how much fun the DB is.
Its a fast Panzer III or maybe IV with 1150 armor and a pop gun that penetrates better than the E8's top gun with a max speed of 55 KPH

And yah it was fun to platoon with someone - its been a while.

Well at least there still putting effort in to the game, damn good work for free.

http://game.worldoftanks.com/news/general_..._plan_2011_2012

Yeah,

Why bother adding Japanese tanks though? Seems like you could have a level 1 and 2 tank and that would be the end of it for that line....

Can't say really - other than it is a "world game" and they just may be playing to the Asian customers with Chinese and Japanese tanks?
Dunno.


The Japs had light tanks that swam quite well......

I like the new game modes coming up too, as long as they allow you to choose game type and not a random mix when your in the queue.

Looks like I was right with the spring prediction on the KV and KV-3 upgrade..... heavy tanks KV-1, KV-2, KV-4, Т-150, ST 1, Object 252 - Q1 2012.
So I guess I can sell both of them now to get the cash for the Panther and Tiger - or try to grind the KV-3 to the IS-4 between now and Spring.
(I have 2.25x the EXP in the KV-3 to open the IS right now.)

In case you missed it Sarge -

World of Tanks announces the new special, dedicated to Operation Market-Garden! And we welcome all our tankers to try the following offers from 11:30 UTC, September 23, and till 11:00 UTC, September 26:

Buy PzKpfw V Panther, PzKpfw VI Tiger, PzKpfw IV, M36 Slugger, M4 Sherman, M4A3E8 at half-price!

Get doubled amount of credits from PzKpfw V Panther, PzKpfw VI Tiger, PzKpfw IV, M36 Slugger, M4 Sherman, M4A3E8!

Additional equipment at half-price!

Take 3 days of premium at the price of 1 day premium!

Which is cool as I almost bout a Tiger yesterday - glad I looked at the in game announcement for once.....

Crap, bought the Easy8 last time we played and don't have the XP to unlock any of the others. I think I have enough gold for a 1 day premium so maybe I'll do that and get three days out of it.

Thanks for the heads up.

NP - I'm quite sure Joe and I are tanking tonight also - He's finally been bit by the premium bug and has given up his grip in TD's and started both an American and German Medium line and is really close to an E8 him self (great time to grind one) and just purchased a German VK 3001 (H)

So we're all really in a sweet spot for credits and such this weekend.

Cool. I don't see any reason why I wouldn't be on tonight to play some. Likely 10ish EST but hopefully a bit earlier.

Sarge - I know you have at least a Pz IV so you may be interested this weekend


We are holding a special this weekend in honor of the Battle of Moscow! This battle started the 2nd of October 1941 and ended the 7th of January 1942. The German forces launched an operation named Operation Typhoon to try and take over the Moscow region. After months of struggle and defense, the German offensive was pushed back and surrounded.

Here is a list of the many specials we will be having this weekend, from October 14 (starting at 4 AM PDT) to October 17th (ending at 4 AM PDT):

These tanks will be half price and earn double credits:
PzKpfw 38 nA
PzKpfw IV
PzKpfw VI Tiger (P)
VK 3001 (P)
T-28
KV
KV-3
IS
These premium tanks are also half off:
PzKpfw B2 740
Matilda
5x XP for the first victory each day (on each of your tanks)
(That's each tank - not just the tanks in the special...)

Enlarging barracks are half off (150 gold)
100% crew training is half off (100 gold per member)
Retraining crew to 100% primary skill will be half off (100 gold)
Training a crew bought with a tanks to 100% also half off (100 gold)

Be sure to log on this weekend to take advantage of these specials!

Be aware that if you win your first victory before 4 AM PDT on October 14th, you will not be eligible for the 5x XP till after 5 PM PDT time.

I'll check it out. Now that the BF3 beta is over, that won't be drawing me away. I think I have a bit of gold stashed still that I can use too.

Cool - I will be running my Tiger this weekend for the credits -
I'm 10K exp from the T-44 which I'll unlock and may purchase if I sell my T-43, KV and KV-3 which will only require me to spend 230K of my money after the sales. (2,010,000 for the T-44 😱 )

I read good and bad things on the T-44, and in Nov it will be getting as its newest high tier gun which is the lowest first upgrade gun of the T-54 which should bring it back in line damage wise with the M26 Pershing and the Panther II

Sand River, I was about three or four up from lowest tank so I sat and sniped until there was about 5 min left,
Saw the Maus for a brief second between dunes slowly making its way to our cap - knew I had no chance on a 400m shot so used the 44's speed to race around behind.

Maus had a T20 escort but T20 was 45% - one shot the T20 and went to work on the Maus, HE 100MM where rear turret meets hull, and just kept hammering,
He knew he was doomed, he just kept rolling as his turret and track travers was far slower than mine - so he relied on their arty to support and they did not even get splash on me - about two or three wide shots from them.

It rocked.

Nice! It's very satisfying to take out a heavier tank 😈

I had a great round with my 3601 last night on Mountain Pass. I raced out from the top base with a big group but they all either went for the bridge or through the valley in the middle. I used the road and flanked to the right where no one from their team had gone. The other team engaged our guys from the opposite side of the bridge and in the valley and I was able to get in behind them. I took out an Easy8, PzIV, and one other. As well as doing damage and distracting a Tiger P and two other tanks. This allowed our group to sweep that right side and get to their flag with very little trouble. It was great to feel like I was tipping point.

3601 can really hold its own - find a good spot to hammer away and your tough enough to not need others to support -
I forget - are the credits in a 3601 as good as they are in the E8?

Tried the top of the hill in the T44 the other day like we all did over looking the bridge - got HAMMERED by arty - it was like all three of their arty tracks fired A ONCE on that spot where our arty typically sets up (good blind shot spot) but our arty was over on the ice flow and I was on the hill......

Smeared me good enough to make me leave the hill and be ineffective the rest of the map.

The T444 is a ball to play - a lot of people on the forums say how suckie it is, and how the Type 59 made the T44 obsolete - but for me it made the grind of the T34, T34-85 and T43 worth the wait.
(I did like the -34-85 best of the three)
But with the 100mm gun, fast engine and nimble tracks and a good amount of armor is fun - I can take a hit or two and survive to get my self out of the fur ball.

Almost scrapped the Red Medium line as I did not want to keep grinding ANOTHER tank that felt like the last three.

In honor of this Battle, we will be holding another special this weekend, from October 21 – 23.

The list of tanks that will be earning double income this weekend:

USA:

T25 - AT
M36 Slugger
M3 Lee
M7 Priest

German:

Hetzer
PzKpfw III
VK 3002 (DB)
Grille


Looks like we all have the PzKpfw III (Joe and I the LEE also) in common.
I also have all the German ones unlocked, but not a single one in inventory (I do miss the DB....)
Not sure I'm willing to re-purchase a new PzKpfw III (182,500 credits) just for double credits over two days -

Lets say 20K income after repairs, 9 battles to break even for the purchase.
Worth it?

I don't have any of those tanks in my garage so I won't be getting any double credit this weekend at least.

Yah I don't think there is any gain by going backwards for double credits this weekend.

I need a medium EXP elixir.....

Got sick of the E-75 /Ferd grind - decided to purchase a clown car.
2nd ever outing.

It's a keeper.

Duck wrote:Got sick of the E-75 /Ferd grind - decided to purchase a clown car.
2nd ever outing.

It's a keeper.

Very nice...

Wow! That is a keeper. I don't know that I've ever seen anyone clean up that much of one side before. Congrats.

Like I said - 2nd battle ever in it.
Took it out stock just to see what bare bones was like and a LEE passed me by and the other T-50 was well - a T-50

Unfortunately the first time out was a win - that would have been astounding with a x2 win.... oh well.
So I spent a little free EXP and put the tracks, 2nd of three engines and the top 57mm gun on it.

The pictures tell the story.

Going to see if I can convince Joe (and you) to grab one and platoon with 2 (3) T-50's which would be a freaking riot!

But thanks I think that was he larges adrenalin rush I've had gaming in several years.
- I was able to pretty much get behind every tank I killed and with its speed and unearthly traverse just keep behind them - once there...... (see above!)

Last thank was a maxed out T-28 in our cap - he took me down to about 5 hit points, and almost killed me but pulled the trigger too soon and hit the dirt in front of me. I was able to get behind him and stay ahead of his turret traverse.

Yah - if I smoked - I'd have had a cigarette after that one.

In case you haven't logged on to Tanks in a bit -

November 24th, 2011 marks a national holiday in the United States, and we’re bringing the festivities to World of Tanks!

With that in mind, we’re excited to give a sneak peek of “Tanksgiving Special” – an event that will take place from 11:30AM UTC on November 24th through 11:00AM UTC on November 28th.

We’ll have full details on “Tanksgiving” soon, but wanted to share a sneak peek of some of what you can expect on the 24th.

During the Tanksgiving Special, the following tanks will earn double credits for every battle they participate in:

M4A3E2
M4A3E8
StuG III
JagdPz IV
SU-5
SU-8

Again, this is just a sample of what’s coming. Keep your eyes peeled to the World of Tanks community portal for full details!

Between November 24th @ 11:30AM UTC and November 28th @ 11:00AM UTC, all World of Tanks NA players will have access to:

5x experience for the first victory each day, on all of your tanks
50% off all Gold ammo
Double credit income on the following tanks:
America
M4A3E2
M4A3E8
Germany
StuG III
JagdPz IV
Russia
SU-5
SU-8
50% off the following Premium tanks:
M22 Locust
T-15
T-127

Be sure to feast on these discounts and bonuses while they last! They’ll be returning to normal on November 28th, 2011.

Thanks for the heads up. If I can pull my self away from the BFcrack for a bit, I'll fire up some tanks.

CAPS LOCK + 0 (number zero)

Will add to the inside of your aiming reticle a BLUE device.
This is where the server sees your center of aim - and places your shot.

Talk about becoming super sniper in German TD's now.... wow! And my Panther II is just a machine with this CAPS+0

sounds almost like a hack that shouldn't be allowed.

Devs put it in to check where the green circle you see vs where the server thinks you are aiming.
It does some interesting things - most of my tanks are centered together when not moving and settled.

The Turdinand is about 3~5 pixels low so my green device is sighting consistently high. That is one miserable TD - made it in to my top three worst tanks in the game.

Sarge / Ron / Anyone else - Wargaming is binging out the French tanks Jan 05 2012 when the 7.1 revision is applied.

They are giving away a free garage slot and free tank as long as you use the free code listed below which is active from Dec 30 to Jan 30 (don't ask... there Russian)

See below.

The final countdown to New Year has begun – the time to unwrap the presents has almost arrived! The unique premium light tank Mk VII Tetrarch will soon be ready to be delivered into your garage.
IMPORTANT: The code may be activated only after the update 7.1 release: we are working hard to bring 7.1 as soon as it is humanly possible -- 7.1 is NOT released on the NA server yet.

If you already submitted your code, do not fret, all the codes will be reset when 7.1 comes out, and you will be able to resubmit it to receive your tank.

USE CAPS
The code may only be activated once per account (one account – one code activation
The code is valid for 30 days from now

If you wish to accept this Wargaming present, you need to login on the portal and on your Account Management page enter Bonus Code:

NEWYEAR

More detailed information on how to activate a Bonus Code may be found here

I'll try to remember and grab that.

Thanks Duck!

Free tank code changed to NEWYEARNA to separate North American / Europe / GODless Ruskie servers.


Side note on free tank - its a HUGE credit earner for Tier 1, no tech tree so its almost a Premium light - I can get totally decimated in it - never firing a shot and lose the battle - pay only 300 to repair and still make 7K ~ 9K credit......

I need to remember to do this....

Update is small also - was thinking several hours as a new tree is added, took about 10 min and ready to go.

Duck wrote:Update is small also - was thinking several hours as a new tree is added, took about 10 min and ready to go.

If your connection wasn't based on a red squirrel running inside a 2" schedule 40 pipe.

There is a new tank in game called the G1B - I get all excited thinking I see GRB "Oh! Someone picked up the " game - Sweet! "

FAIL.


Sad face.

4-25-12

Ron - saw you in WOT today - saw you sent me a message, clicked the "X" instead of the "-" and accidentally closed the window while I was trying to open it.

Sorry mate - not being typical ME - just hit the wrong damn button.

I know you haven't logged on for a coons age Sarge - but....

On May 8, 1945 Germany officially surrendered, resulting in a victory for the Allied forces in World War II's European campaign. To celebrate this momentous occasion, we are holding the Military Parade Special, offering many of your favorite discounts and bonuses.

Starting at 1130 UTC on May 7, 2012 and lasting until 1100 UTC on May 11, 2012 the following discounts and bonuses will be active. Curious what time this is in your region? Use this handy Time Zone Converter to help you out.

• x5 experience for the first victory of the day on each of your tanks
• 50% discount on equipment
• 50% discount on 100% Tank Academy training
• 50% discount on Crew Skill reset
• 15% discount on one-year Premium account
• 15% discount on half-year Premium account
• 58% discount on Premium ammunition
• 50% discount on the credit cost of:
• • T-43
  • KV-13
  • IS
  • SU-152
  • S-51
  • SU-14
  • PzKpfw V Panther
  • VK 3002 (DB)
  • PzKpfw VI Tiger (P)
  • PzKpfw VI Tiger
  • Jagdpanther
  • GW Panther
  • T20
  • T25 AT
  • T25/2
  • T29
  • M12
  • AMX 13 90
  • AMX M4 (1945)

FWIW - WoT has just updated to version 7.4 - which means they added French Artillery and Tank Destroyer lines.

So if anyone was interested, it may be a good time to test the WoT waters.

Do the French tanks automatically blow up when the battle starts?

No but they have one forward gear and three for reverse.

(Warning... DO NOT post that in WOT forum.... it gets you three days off.... with out pay)

Actually the TD's are interesting, the first two tiers are based on infantry - so there slow as a man walking... then they realize like their light/mediums speed is life and from tier 4 on they gain speed like a mad man, same for tier 5 arty - 60 KPH .....

Cool that the tier 4 td gets the Churchill 6 pound gun with a 1.5 second rate of fire.... silly fun

I know it's been like 32 years since you logged on to Tanks Sarge - but they are adding real world physics to the game in update 8.0 (soon)




I have stopped playing for about 6 moths now as they keep nerfing and changing and resetting and renerfing to get ready for new nations and rebalanced issue - but will be checking out the new physics when it shows .

That was a game that could be quite enjoyable or quite frustrating depending on the "draw". Maybe will have to check it out again once the update hits.

to draw from a friend....

blah blah blah tanks blah blah... I don't play stupid tank games, call me when you want to play with vorpal swords :-)

Thanks Paladin

Just got to brag a bit about this one.
I had no idea what the hell my team was doing - or why they were not coming to assist me while I was capturing the enemy base.

Then I looked at the team roster
My team 14 dead and me still alive.
Enemy team 9 still alive and the map showed every single one (that I could detect) coming straight for me.

I trashed two of them while I was taking their base, took one hit which re-sets the cap timer... (about 1 min 30 seconds for a cap - I was about 45 seconds in when it reset)

And at about 15 seconds left 2 more showed up, I was able to critically damage one tanks turret so he could not bring his gun on me - and tracked the second tank and get behind a little cover from his gun....

The adrenaline rush was massive.

Koloblonov's Medal

Awarded to a player who stands alone against five or more enemy tanks or self-propelled guns and wins. This medal is not awarded for clan battles.

Colonel Zinoviy Kolobanov was a Soviet tank ace who destroyed 22 German tanks, 2 guns and 2 halftracks with his KV-1 in battle on August 19, 1941.

🍻 🍻 🍻

Nice one! The times gaming where you come out on top against long odds are always some of my favorites.

I know Sarge no longer plays, but we still do have SOME traffic here...
Update 8.4 hits Thursday March 07
Prices are changing on some things, and some new vehicles are being added to the German Line.

When you sell an item, they sell for half the cost of buying them, typically a tank doubles in price form the last tank (or there about) in the tree so you NEVER make money selling them.
BUT - in 8.4 there moving the Luchs light tank up two tiers and increasing the purchase price.

The current price for said vehicle is 39,000 Credits, while the 8.4 price will be 155,000 Credits.
Selling the tank at half price after patch 8.4 has been applied to the NA server will return 77,500 Credits to your account resulting in a profit 38,500 credits for nothing more than purchasing a tank and keeping it in your garage for a few hours.
Meaning you'll get 98.72% of the Credits you invested returned in profits.


Next is the cost of the British tier 8 - 20 Lb. gun OQF 20 Lb gun Type A or B

In 8.4, the price for 83mm High-Explosive HE Mk.3 shells will quadruple (already confirmed as 8.4 is live on RU server). Now it costs 85 credit per shell, in 8.4 it will cost 260 silver per shell. Which means if you buy one for 85 now, you can sell it in 8.4 for 130, generating 45 credits of pure income. You can buy shells for guns you don't own in the store.

A little math.

30,000 rounds * 85 = 2,550,000 to buy now
30,000 rounds * 45 =1,350,000 profit after you sell them back
(30,000 * 130 = 3,900,000 - 2,550,00 (initial cost) = 1,350,000 return)

10,000 * 85 = 850,000 Buy
10,000 * 130 = 450,000 profit


Wargaming hardly ever fumbles like this.... so if you have the cash to spare - go make some free cash.

Sarge the new support portal for thanks is:

https://support.worldoftanks.com/

So I downloaded WoT and reinstalled. New install works great until I try to log in. After repeated tries with "incorrect user or password" and much swearing I realize that I had downloaded and installed the EU version of the game 🙁 I downloaded the US version last night while playing something else and may try to install it tonight.

On a side note, my dogs started barking during this and when I got up to investigate my headset cable got tangled between my feet and I ripped the cord out of the plugs 🙁 🙁 For the time being I am without a headset and mic.

We're winning 12 - 4 (We killed 12 of their 15 tanks they killed 4 of us)
As a team we are heading to their cap to kill the last three defending their base (we see all three on the mini map)

One of our heavy tanks cuts in front of me and some how I track him (new physics engine does some weird tank collision decisions)

In game he blows his ever loving mind calling me every name in the book.

All I say to him is "I'll pray for you"
(Kindness kills the incensed)
After battle here is the one sided conversation he has with me as a private message.

I still laugh.

Victory!
Battle: Lakeville Friday, April 26, 2013 9:27:56 AMVehicle: T25/2
Experience received: 1,920 (fine for causing damage to allies: 189; x3 for the first victory each day)

Credits received: 17,728 (fine for causing damage to allies: 990; compensation for damage caused by allies: 3,360)

Jett_Lee (9:36:49 AM) im a lower tier than you and did more damage and you have a negataive kill to battle ratio and have been

playing 10 times longer than me

Jett_Lee (10:35:48 AM) so you should probably unistall and go jack off since i know you dont get laid when you have 11 thousand

battles

Jett_Lee (10:36:27 AM) just sad when someone who has been playing for over a year does that bad
Jett_Lee (9:37:11 AM) ive been playing for 3 months and just whooped your ass in stats
Jett_Lee (9:37:13 AM) fuck off
Jett_Lee (9:37:15 AM) learn to play
Jett_Lee (9:37:22 AM) this game is not that hard
Jett_Lee (9:37:35 AM) oh if you have a girl i bet she looks my dog\
Jett_Lee (9:37:58 AM) cuz aint no pretty lady have time to deal with a shitty playing nerd like yourself
Jett_Lee (9:38:14 AM) and pray for me all you want but there is no god
Jett_Lee (9:38:28 AM) its a ficticious thing people made up to control the masses
Jett_Lee (9:39:09 AM) so next time you go to church, if you go to church (which most practcing christians dont) then think about

how many things you have asked from "god" and how many of them come true
Jett_Lee (9:40:16 AM) and if god exists he is an evil son of a bitch who does not have mercy because terrible shit happens

everyday so fuck off, eat shit, and die. then you will be buried and become fertilizer becuase we have no souls and there is no

heaven
Jett_Lee (9:41:03 AM) who are a shit player
Jett_Lee (9:41:06 AM) shit player
Jett_Lee (9:41:39 AM) seriously hope i hear about GRB_Duck committing suicide
Jett_Lee (9:41:51 AM) i would laugh and toast to that

🤣 🤣

Hahhaha, you need some WoT medic paddles

Damn I don't have that much time to be that pissed about anything.

Mind you - That is the WHOLE ONE SIDED conversation.
It want (he went) on and on with out me there - I was already in game in another tank while he was talking to his invisible friend.

Interesting news from WarGaming.Net who makes World Of Tanks and is about to open Beta World of Warplanes and is in closed Alpha of World of Warships.

They have decided to make unified account services - meaning if you purchase premium time - account options (VIP account so to speak - though no subscriptions) they are making it across the platforms premium.

So I run premium on a monthly basis in Tanks, this will now give me the same premium access to the other two when live, so not needing three separate purchases.

That is pretty cool and nice to see a company doing.

Agreed while hey do have hopes of adding all three games in to a single unified battle (WarThunder is working on Planes/Ships/Tanks also - and has planes done with Tanks about to be open Beta)

There was talk that each game would be it's own world in respect to premium time, so it is good to see them say that (that news released released today)


Did you ever sort out your tanks issue?
(do you care? haha)

I have the right version downloaded but haven't attempted to install it yet. Still no headset and precious little game time.....

I saw on RPS today that Wargaming.net is moving away from "pay to win". I think that's a good move on their part.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/06/04...in/#more-155389

Yes, what they are moving to is the GOLD rounds that you could only purchase with GOLD that you bought with real world money - you can now purchase with in game silver won on your tanks (in game currency)

Example My Tier 9 M46 Patton could get gold rounds for 10 G / round I can now select a drop down for 4800 silver per round over the normal AP round cost of 1,000 silver per shot.

The same is now true for GOLD consumables - the health kit that brings back ALL dead or wounded crew is 50 GOLD or 20,000 silver.

So while no longer "Pay" to win it is expensive as all hell to use silver to buy and replace consumables.

The offset to this is to buy a premium tank (with real world cash) that has a substantially higher income curve over a like tank to earn credits to pay for the "free to win" model.

Note that a comparable tank once fully unlocked will preform better in every way tot eh premium - the premium tank will ALWAYS get preferential matchmaking to place it in the upper 1/4 of the match making and make about 4x the credits of its non-premium counterpart.

- So while not technically Pay-to-Win. You'll never sustain any tier 9 or 10 vehicle with out a premium vehicle keeping your bank full - and/or buying VIP/Premium time in game to give you the extra +50% experience ans +50% silver per game.

Example - I just had a win with my Tier 9 Lorraine medium tank
W/O premium time - Credit received 13,967 - After re-arm, Repair, and resupply of consumables (I used a repair kit and first aid kit (non-premium versions)) I would have a net loss of -17,541

But because I have premium time in game I received 26,814 silver and after repair, rearm and consumables, I made a positive +603 silver....

VS - Premium account running a premium JagdTiger 8.8 tank destroyer.
Lost the map, lost the vehicle, did virtually NOTHING for damage and basically took up space on the team.
Made 66,060 silver and after rearm and repair of a dead tank (no kits used)
I still made 54,898 silver.

Pay to win - no - but you'll truly NEVER get there with out a premium tank (or two or three) and premium time.

.02

(I still love he hell out of this game though.)

I finally broke down and bought my first premium tank. I picked up the super pershing. Man it's weird bouncing shots off my armor. I've gotten so used to running around in my Easy 8 and getting shot to hell and back.

Oh good news everyone, I heard derp shermans are finally getting nerfed.

Hey bud. Yah the Super Pershing is a ball. Three layers of spaced angled armor is awesome... I went 17 straight shots from a KV-5 and Lowe with only ONE damaging hit.

With the HE nerf inbound and a +3deg angle change to the frontal hull armor.... forgeddaboutit.

Its a monster.

I have picked up the
Chirchill III - underwhelming premium.
T26E4 - Super Pershing - Great as you know but not the best money maker.
JagdTiger 8.8 - It's criminal how much money it make.

The JgdT is enough to support poor tier 9 loss and Tier 10 tank ownership.

I'm making pretty decent cash with the SP so far. Plus I have enough TDs to make me hate the JT

My problem is I only load "gold" on the T26E4... which chews up a lot of the over all profit.
The 8.8's gold round is not "THAT" much more impressive over silver rounds, so I tend to see more overall profit on it.

Once I got the 8.8 I've slacked off playing (grinding) the others.

704
AC Mle 1948 (hell I'm 20 K from Foch... and I just stopped - and it WAS my favorite TD)
Ferd grind to real JagdTiger
Dropped the full Brit line all together.
Unlocked the Proto
Free XP'd through the T25 and can unlock the T28.... But I have enough SLOW td's and the 704's gun matches the T95 (there's that speed over armor again....)

Anyway. Premium tanks.... good stuff.


Actually looking forward to getting the AMX50F155
(also decided to grind the BatChat - for some reason speed and autoloaders make me giggle.)

Undecided on the Patton M48 -

So I've decided, Im going to being the grind towards the battchat. I'm about 60k xp from the amx 13 90

eeeeeeexcelent choice.
Same here. I think I said before I rage sold the Lorraine (we'll talk when you get there.....) because I was losing more overall than what a I made.
(Tracked it weekly and monthly ~ 80K/mo. loss.

Was sad as I I really did like the Lorraine.

Now that I have the Sup Pers and Jgd 8.8 I was able to easily pay for the Lorraine's faults.
And I missed it. Damn good tank for what it is - once you know its weaknesses.
(it's BIG - Fraking HUGE with no armor, but quick and the 100mm WILL destroy a tier 10.)

Anyway - good choice.

- I see there taking the T26E4 out of the store as the "fix" to make the frontal spaced armor more "real life" accurate has made the armor MONSTER strong now that they are nerfing HE.

We'll get to keep them, but they will be gone when 8.6 shows up.
And they are undecided if they will bring it back.

Go us!

So we are the last of the super pershings?? Sweet. I heard if you dont like the nerf you can sell it back.

Yah for the full amount of GOLD you payed for it - normally on a special you get the silver equivalent of 100% of the gold amount.

And normally you would get 50% of the silver value of the gold amount you bought it for

- READ Screwed.


That tells me I need to keep mine because WG made it too strong and can not figure out how to fix it.

- READ Win.

Got my Beta invite for the xbox 360 version today. I'll have to check it out this weekend. But im grinding for my t28 right now and that cant be stopped!

Ron - I saw you send me an in game tell today (tonight) - I'm not ignoring you or trying to piss you off by closing it.... it's just that I'm banned from using the chat server until Thursday July 18th.

I have no idea WHY - and this is the third time it has happened to me, I am fine one day then get on the next and have a 5 day chat server ban.
No private channels, no tank company s, no "F" keys in game.

So not being my self... I just can't reply to anyone.

griefer

LOL in a way - yes.
They added a server cluster in California and split the country East / West -
You can (and I do) auto connect to best ping. - Always west for me.

Thing is they server population is NOT balanced East will have 31,000 + players and west will have 2,000 or 3,000 - and you can and do see the same players some times map after map after map.

Matchmaker is looking for cretin criteria to populate a room, and if you all get out of one match and hit the BATTLE button right away - on the west server you see a lot of the same people - though not necessarily on the same team make up - some are with you this time - some of your old people are enemy this time... etc

So grinding a single tank I tend to get better and better at driving and fighting it - and right now I am almost out of my T-54 (the spinny tank in my sig) and I'm getting pretty good at it - and I was owning this guy who ended up on the enemy team two times in a row - I single handedly sent him back to the garage early both other times.

So he starts talking crap and I replied.

Apparently Jane driving your E-100 has sand in her Vagina today -


POOF - 5 days without chat service. .... next time I use the word "girly parts" or "Squish mitten" and see where that gets me.


(For those that read this far... I kicked his ass for a third time - but with help on the last meeting.... he was sooooo pissed)

Like 'Squish Mitten', maybe that is Sarge's new work name

Squish Mitten? Never heard that one.

Shamelessplug - tooting my own damn horn
Normally you make about 30K silver on a good game with a win and killing some tanks and surviving when you play at the upper levels.

I did not know they are having a month long contest in game kill 30 tanks in 24 hours, get an ass load of cash.

As I did not know it was happening, this was a WTF moment for sure.

$351,135 cash in ya pocket!

Then I went out pub stomping in my new top tier Tank Destroyer - no normally I run about 3,000 damage on a good game and puts me in the top three players, as most people play in the 800 damage range, imagine my surprise when I ranks 2nd highest damage dealer for the day in my new TD - - 7,131 BAZINGA!

Damn it Sage - fix it!

good jorb ducky!

As the only person in GRB that continues to play multiplayer games, keep representing!

I shall soldier on carrying our tattered flag (and spreading our seed???) 😱

I thought I was in charge of spreading our seed....

manure....

LOL I had to post this, one of the kids over where I play tanks with IS NOT 'puter 'litrate.
So when someone said .... post a screen shot.......

(A (cellphone) picture is worth a thousand words....)

Best. Screenshot. Eva!

Have Mike all sorted out and unlocked to tier 3 - in a few hours of play and "do this - click here " type of information

"Sounds" like he at least likes the game.
IE: No swearing yet.... 🤣

Ranger - Destroy all enemy light tanks (at least 3) in the course of one battle.

Top Gun - Destroy more enemy vehicles than any other player in your team during the battle (at least 6).
If two or more players have destroyed equal amount vehicles, the achievement is granted to the player who has earned more XP for the battle, including additional XP provided to Premium account users. If the amount of XP is equal as well, the achievement is not granted.

Pool’s Medal - Awarded for destroying 10 or more enemy tanks and self-propelled guns with any vehicle. The targets must be at least tier four enemy vehicles.
Lafayette G. Pool is widely recognized as the U.S. tank ace of aces, credited with 12 confirmed tank kills and 258 total armored vehicle and self-propelled gun kills.

Mastery Badge: Ace Tanker - Earn more experience in a single battle than the average highest experience of 99% of all players in the same tank within the last seven days.

..... I will call your attention to the 10 (1)
I was so in the zone - I killed Joe in my own platoon too.....

So I guess I really got 11 kills and not 10. 🤣

is it going to be better to move up tiers fast, or stick to lower tiers for now?

I could move to tier 4 after work today, or stick around at 3 for a while.

EDIT:

is it going to be better to move up tiers fast, or stick to lower tiers for now?
I could move to tier 4 after work today, or stick around at 3 for a while.

Correction, you're tier 2 now going to Tier 3 moving in to a tanks called Cruiser Mk IV

- I'd move up.

End EDIT

For me its a balancing act on tiers.
I typically try to look at what modules (engine, radio, guns) cross over from the lower tier to the next.
I unlock them on the lower tier tank first before I move up a tier.
That way I can hopefully mount right off the newer upgraded from stock items on the new tank.

Nothing sucks more than grinding a stock tank at the next tier, when you could take a little more time in a lower tier tank that is upgraded already and unlock the next gun or radio first.

I find it better to move in to a tank with "stuff" unlocked.


Note one of the things you going to start seeing (Around tier 5 or 6) is you can not mount the new "stuff" with out putting on upgraded tracks first - so another thing to do is unlock the next tank and keep playing your present tank acquiring free exp. and once you have enough free to buy the tracks right away on the new tank - then move in to it.

Or have enough free to off set the amount of exp to get the tracks once you move to the new tank - if the tracks take 10,000 exp have 7,00 free and then it tank only a few plays to get enough combined to track it.
There are very few tanks that can mount much upgraded equipment with out a track upgrade.

- How to check a tanks load carrying ability - right click on the tank (In the overall tech tree or the detailed view) and select VIEW DETAILS
in the box that opens, the second line - WEIGHT/LOAD LIMIT (t)
So looking at Tier IV Covenantor you see 18.15/18.2 so it's telling you the MAX load stock is 18.2 Metric Tonnes and the weight is presently 18.15 Tonnes

- How to check how much something weighs - right click on the item and select CHARACTERISTICS second line is weight. Do that for your present item and the next item your trying to mount. IE 130 (KG) and 190 (KG) so there is a difference of .06 (KG)

Using that example adding .06 to the 18.15 load of the Covenantor would put you at 18.21 - so the game would not let you mount the item until you upgrade your tracks first

(Right click, look at load limit on upgraded tracks and see they are able to carry max load of 20 Tonnes)

- Lastly, once you get up in to tier 4 or 5 it's a different game with the next jump at tier 8.

4/5 you start doing more damage, better more accurate guns, "better' armor which allow you to take a few hits and still maneuver.

8 is what youthink of whn you have an idea of what a tank game should play like. Big guns dealing big hits. Armor that not only absorbs hits but deflects them etc....

I have kept tanks from tier 5 up still in my garage, crewed and ready to play because the game (for me) starts to be fun there.

...thats what she said!?!?

Bubb if you see Sargiepants tell him he has a semi-time-sensitive PM for me will you?

Duck wrote:Bubb if you see Sargiepants tell him he has a semi-time-sensitive PM for me will you?

Shit, what did I do this time......

Atomm,

We've decided you aren't working well with the group. Thus, if you could quietly leave, we would appreciate....

JK WE 💗 You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Um... that's Sarge's job Bubba.....
(Just sayin')
((From experience))
(((x2)))

x3 if you're not careful

I light of recent posts.....I feel quite confidant in saying ain't gonna happen.
nan-nah-nan-nah-boo-boo Paladin

Notice I never give Duck the 💗

It's implied....

or

Mike's hooked. 🤣

Duck wrote:

or

Mike's hooked. 🤣

still havnt got around to caulking yet......wife was not too happy last night.
on a side note, team speak wreaked havoc on my system.....it changed a ton of settings.
I just got the keyboard working again.

Looks like TS is out.
Strange that you were so effected.
Vent it is then.

although TS did change settings......that's not what was draining my system.
the wife changed internet security settings, so every cheap ass in town was using our modem.

thanks to a link my wife found, I know who it was......now to steal something of theirs......hmmmmm

ahhhhh good to know, man that was ASS when that happened.
- New update to WoT and 4 new maps dropped today.

When you on next?

ive got the daughter today, and tomorrow through the day.....will be on later tonight, and ditto tomorrow.
after that, its off to work I go.

@ Mike

http://wiki.worldoftanks.com/Tactics

@ Mike
http://ftr.wot-news.com/

HA, it worked, 300 gold for just changing my password.....nice find.

A good video and description of tier 2 and 3 SPG - why it's only on the Asian portal and nowhere else - who knows?
(It's WarGaming... I suppose that is ALL that needs to be said.)

I'll suggest the American Tier 2 T57 grab one (if you want) and (if you do) I'll create a training room to assist with the learning curve.

- - - - -

Found this site which has a real good visual guide.

http://www.elcomesoft.com/2011/05/small-in...s-of-world.html

good video, but the guy is so annoying......I wish dick cancer upon him.

Yah its a wall of text but Mike (and anyone else if they still show up here)

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<h1 class="entry-title">Beware of Greeks bearing gifts…</h1>
Hello everyone,

no, this post will not be about Greek players in World of Tanks, the title of the post is an English proverb, that came originally from the Aeneid. It will be about yet another way how to screw someone in World of Tanks, a way that has been in existence practically since the beginning, yet still happens from time to time. For a lot of you it might be an old and known issue, but it is still actual, so it is better to repeat something, that was said a thousand times rather than to have someone fall for it.

Three days ago, I was contacted by a player, who wants obviously to remain anonymous. That player (or his friend, without names it hardly matters) was just a regular player, until this Christmas, when he recieved a gift from the premium shop, the E-25 tank, from an unknown donor. Considering it a Christmas present from his friend, he accepted it and everything went smooth until recently, when his account was banned out of the blue. Not understanding the situation, he wrote a support ticket, asking what the hell is going on. The reply of Wargaming support staff member was as follows:

We would like to inform you that you have initiated a chargeback process with our company, a gift that you have accepted has been charged back. This chargeback is a result of withdrawing the money the person who gave you the gift used to purchase goods on our website. Therefore; if you want to remove the chargeback form your account you will need to buy an amount of at least 6700 Gold, form our website (the price of the gift received) that will be removed and your account unlocked. When your transaction is successfully completed please notify us and we will then reactivate your account after a successfull proof of payment validation (attach one after the payment)

Further communication revealed that there is practically nothing you can do about this situations, this is specifically mentioned in the gift shop instructions too:

WARNING! If a recipient accepts a gift, and a giver asks for a refund (for example, cancels the bank transaction), the total gift package cost will be deducted from the gift recipient's account. If an account has insufficient funds it will be blocked until sufficient funds are acquired. Do not accept gifts from strangers

Naturally, the player, not knowing what the hell happened was outraged and sent me an e-mail about this entire situation. So, what happened?

Chargeback is a nasty feature of certain forms of delayed payment of the Gift Shop, most notably the credit card payment. Basically, what happens: someone uses a credit card to buy you a gift and immediately cancels the transaction afterwards. You accept the gift in the meanwhile, yet the payment doesn't come through. It's more complicated than that, but I don't want to give anyone any ideas on how to do it, so I will skip some parts. At this point the logical thing to do would be to actually remove the purchased content and life goes on, but for example it might have been gold you already spent. Therefore, the general approach is to block the account until the price is actually paid (in gold). In other words, if you purchase a tank, instead of having the tank removed, you will have to buy its price in gold.

Please note that this might seem harsh at first glance, but it is justifiable. You see, these operations actually cost Wargaming money and without making SOMEONE pay for this thing, they'd actually lose money everytime this happened. You can imagine how abusable that would be. They can't force a bank to send the payment through obviously, so the only person they can get the money from to cover their expenses is the person, who is the "victim".

Maybe you ask yourself, why would you actually accept gifts from strangers? Well, there are tons of reasons why you would. It is human nature not to immediately suspect foul play, humans in general are pretty gullible. There are tons of transactions happening every day and these "bad" ones probably form just a tiny fraction of the whole, so the chance the gift is "legit" is probably pretty good. Another reason would be players that are a bit "famous". You don't have to be a blogger or a streamer to actually recieve something, you can be a good platoon, company or CW leader, you could have done something else to make people like you. Or you might think that the gift is from a friend, like the guy above, when it is not.

This method can unfortunately be abused to cause intentional damage to players to have their account locked and there is very little you can do about it. Imagine "buying" someone you dislike a huge ass "gift" for 99 Euro… you get the drift.

In case your account does get banned after a chargeback, here is a set of instructions from Wargaming, what to do. Best thing however is to prevent it by making absolutely sure you know who an incoming "gift" is from and whether that person is really not just screwing around,

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Apparently these anonymous gifts are showing up in A LOT of accounts.
BEWARE.

Hey Duck, incoming to you, or maybe not, or maybe ;-)

LOL It's been MONTHS since I let my sub end in WOT - (may be getting back in to it ... but that's ANOTHER story) but on April 01 they created a three day "joke" that stuck.

It is a full time - free tank - with a single map all it's own -

I bring you the super silly - even fun to play.......

8 Bit KARL
(and YES that is the real game sounds - the player has German language turned on - there is also an American sound bed also)

thats a game I could enjoy.

The new issue with WoT is that in the update is dropping on Tuesday April 15 they are adding Physics engine for real world destroyable environment AND ultra high detail tank models.

For those of us that have been playing all along this is a medium sized patch but anyone that will be looking to start WoT, the new down load is rumored to be HUGE.

The present full 8.11 client is 13.5 gig
The future 9.0 client (April 15 2014) 130 ~ 180 GIG 😲

A few months ago that would have been almost AT my monthly data cap.

A think I am looking forward to that will bring me back to the game is historical battles.
Where WarGaming.net has created historical maps and are expanding the tank trees to include correct and specific vehicles for the battles.

As an example there will no longer be a single Pz. IV at tank tier 3 there will be 6 variants in 4 different tiers - the radio ranges (mini map enemy spotting detection and relaying) will be historical, the ammo load will be correct along with tank speeds

Along with this mode the tanks match making weighting will matter too - It will now be possible to have a German team with just Tiger tanks and Panthers (4 Tigers and 6 Panthers) verses a Russian team that has (12) T-34 tanks.

Historically correct.

Of coarse they can still screw it up royally - but it looks like it will have potential to move from Free to Play arcade game to a more accurate tank game.

I cannot believe that patch size.... that is a TON of data.

Spectacular video on Historical battles that Paul posted.
8 German VS 15 Russian on Kursk.
Starts at 17:07 if you want to bypass the info on how vehicles are upgraded and configured on Historical.




@ 4:52 - Talks about the multiple Pz. IV models added
@ 6:55 - Talks about Tank matchmaking with game examples
@ 12:37 - 6 Russina VS: 3 German in a battle of the first Russian incursion in to Germany - Earlenberg - 1945
@ 17:07 the real good battle of Kursk (worth a watch - really)

Looking forward to Historical.

played a few rounds today, first one was good, then shit went downhill fast

Been real busy and no chance to play - but I want to try the Historical battles - I have a few of the required tanks in my garage and I think every one unlocked from past progression in the trees.