Source: Yuri Pasholok’s blog

Hello everyone,

this post isn’t meant to show you some groundbreaking new info on the Japanese Ha-Go light tank, it’s meant to show you how Japanese drawings look like. They are… peculiar. Yuri Pasholok posted this on his personal blog. He comments:

“Often the technical culture can be judged by its technical documentation. In this sense, let’s say the Japanese military documents of WW2 period are very different from the rest of the world. To be honest, I don’t remember seeing such stuff anywhere else. To be clear – this is how the illustrations from the Ha-Go manual look like.”

Hello everyone,

Spanish in Polish description fail? Not enough. Since yesterday, as you can see from the comment thread, there was no E-25 discount during the event – but in the USA it was. So much for similiar events.

Well, as it turns out, it was a (surprise!) mistake on WG EU part and now, E-25 is added to the list of the discounted vehicles as you can see in the backedited original post.

Hello everyone,

we all know Wargaming EU can’t into national portals and sometimes, the portal posts in different language get so garbled it almost feels like it was googletranslated. But what I didn’t know was that WG EU employees can’t tell Polish from Spanish. Look:

But that’s not the reason why it appears here. I mean, mistakes happen. It’s important however they get fixed quickly. This has been sitting there for two days without anyone giving a crap about it. That’s the kind of service Wargaming EU provides. For a company that has enough time to make silly videos or enough money money to spend on Czech T-72 joyrides (although I have a suspicion that entire T-72M4CZ “promotion” (fuel and stuff) was paid by Czech taxpayers), we should expect a bit more.

Know about more Wargaming fails? Incompetent employees? Biased mods? Googletranslations? Other bugs? Feel free to contact me at fortherecordwot@gmail.com – if we as players don’t say “enough”, buggy events, language fails and other stuff will continue.

Hello everyone,

a bunch of invite codes:

Alienware code by BOD13

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Invite codes for US server (!) from Wolf Pack clan (US server), thanks a lot guys (they contain T14 premium tank)

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And as always, you can get the invite codes from Alienware here.

Source: Yuri Pasholok’s blog

Yuri has posted this interesting diagram on his blog showing what seems to be an Italian Leopard 1 with an autoloading mechanism for the L7 105 mm gun. There is no date known for this project, named the OTO-Centauro, at the moment.

Since this is an Italian it could be included into the Italian/Pan-Euro tree if it is ever implemented.

Hello everyone,

as you probably already know, Wargaming was recently featured in the National Geographic “Megafactories” show. Well, I’ve watched the show and – let’s be honest here: noone probably expected any negative facts to be mentioned, but it feels much like a 40 minute advertising reel. Well… no matter.

What was a bit more interesting though was the fact there were some pictures, depicting work in progress. One of the was a “leaked” sneakpeek at what is possibly the new upcoming American light tank, the T37 (pictures courtesy of Buck-O from Reddit)

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Hello everyone,

when asking about the FTR QA3, an interesting topic came up. Unified clans in Wargaming products – that is, all Wargaming products having unified clans. In effect, a clan of 300 people could have 100 tankers, 100 pilots and 100 warship captains – well, at least something like that. Is it actually a good idea?

Well, at first it seemed like a no-brainer. Sure – it’s great to have everyone playing under “one roof”, regardless of the product. With the new Chat 2.0, WoT players will be able to talk to people playing WoWp and vice versa, so that’s cool too. But then I remembered my raiding days.

For those who don’t know, I used to play World of Warcraft. Hardcore. Fun fact: I think I know Jingles from back then, if it is the same Jingles, then we played on the same server, he was an Alliance celebrity back then, I was just a regular Horde “grunt”. Could be another Jingles, but I think it’s the same guy. Anyway. If you never played WoW, let me explain what I mean:

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Source: Yuri Pasholok’s blog

Hello everyone,

looks like the Hunnicutt archives Wargaming bought are starting to bear fruit. What follows is the photo of the M2A4 light tank prototype, taken in the Fall of 1939 on Aberdeen proving grounds.

Yuri Pasholok writes:

With the appearance of this vehicle, the American tank industry finally caught up to the rest of the world with one impressive step. This however didn’t happen all at once: contrary to the belief of many authors, the US Army had quite modern tanks as early as mid-30′s, created for one concrete theater of war. Very high mobility and machinegun armament – that was what the US army needed in case there was ever a war with Mexico. Since this is the same reason why the Light Tank Mk.VIc was completely sufficient for the British in order to scatter some Papuan natives, it’s no wonder that in the beginning of World War Two, these vehicles formed the backbone of British armored forces.

The installation of the two-man turret on the M2 Light Tank chassis was only a matter of time. The resulting vehicle proved to be one of the better ones, when it came to world tank construction: it combined (at that time) completely sufficient anti-bullet protection, high speed, good visibility and a badass gun, the most powerful of its type at that time. Therefore it’s not surprising that the M2A4 concept became the main tank concept for the US light tanks for a very long time. Light Tank M2A4 became the first mass-produced American tank, manufactured in really big numbers (375 tanks). Furthermore, M2A4 proved to be the first American tank sent to England.

Hello everyone,

today, I have one Alienware invite code one guy redeemed by accident, so you can use that:

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Other than that, you can always get your code here, there are still plenty left. No point in hoarding them however, these codes will most likely be valid only in 2013