Hello everyone,

many of you have probably already seen the World of Tanks: Blitz trailer. For those who don’t know, WoTB is a mobile version of World of Tanks, that – considering it runs on mobile platforms – looks really great. ETA is currently unknown as far as I know.

A day or two ago, an official trailer came out:

Notice anything strange on that Youtube video? Yea, it’s a pretty bad mashup of old trailers, showing nothing from the game itself. What is however even funnier is Wargaming’s behavior: when this “trailer” recieved mostly negative feedback on Youtube, they pulled it down and re-uploaded it, this time with comments and voting disabled.

So much for “we want to know your opinion”…

Hello everyone,

well, this is a sad turn of events. Wargaming apparently decided that all new premium tanks will enter the game only via giftshop. It all started by Quasar’s post and one of his answers:

Well, Quasar was wrong in the past, so I wondered whether it’s true and asked around in Russian LJ community. And Storm commented:

So, basically, we now have confirmed that ALL new premium tanks/airplanes will enter WoT or WoWp via gift shop only. Which means: if you still have the Superpershing gold, you won’t be able to buy some other new premium tank for it and will have to wait until 9.0 or so to buy the Japanese premium Chi-Nu Kai, or the Soviet premium T-44-85.

What a nice moneygrab. But then again, I guess stuff like this gets pretty expensive.

Hello everyone,

another bunch of CD-Action invite codes (1000g, 3 days of prem I think), thanks to the wonderful readers of FTR :)

Players, who donated codes: Mandalor, Wiochi, Oliwia, ExarKunMaster, MaxVarEmreis,Xaero_PL

Codes:

PKR29Z-29D3F8
PKR29T-53Z7H2
PKR29H-37N8Z7
PKR29M-63T3D6
PKR29W-23R8F6
B5KA5E-8PW3PA

Salfetkoruzhie is a portmanteau of Russian words “salfetka” (napkin) and “oruzhiye” (weapon), the equivalent of German “napkinwaffe”.  

If you read a list of GABTU’s desires in 1940, you will encounter a mention of a 180 mm SPG on the SMK chassis. The tank proposal, and indeed, any 180 mm SPG was scratched out. Such a huge gun would be entirely impractical.

However, this is World of Tanks! Phrases like “impractical”, “overcomplicated”, “it would never happen”, and “oh god what are you doing” have no meaning here! Let’s grab a napkin and begin designing!

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Source: Quasar’s post

In an unexpected turn of events, 8.9 upcoming Japanese premium tank Chi-Nu Kai will be apparently available only via gift shop in 8.9, just like the Chinese 112 and T-34-3 were.

I wonder if this is a new trend to force people to spend more money, because (unlike the “Type 59 plague” fear with 112/T-34-3), there is IMHO no real reason for Wargaming to introduce Chi-Nu Kai via giftshop only, apart from ripping players off…

Thanks to SpectreHD for posting this :) For those who know the Attack on Titan anime. Pro-tip: wait till the end for SerB

Hello everyone,

regarding the 20-kill weekend mission (last weekend it was T-34, T1 Heavy and AT-2, get 20 kills with them and get 1 mil credits, 7 days of prem and some gold consumables):

The vehicles for the upcoming weekend missions are: M4 Sherman, BDR G1B and T49

(the reason we know this is the fact that Russian server has the same missions as the EU one and it was shown prematurely in the RU client)

Source: http://forum.worldoftanks.eu/index.php?/topic/298430-hall-of-kv-4-design-proposals/
Author: Giganaut_EU

Silentstalker:

This was originally posted on the link above (I just corrected some typos). I repost this with Giganaut’s permission, because this is simpke too good to pass up. As some of you know, there were actually numerous KV-4 proposals – some relatively simple, while others were completely outlandish. Let’s have a look at them.

Giganaut_EU:

Note: I modelled these in Google sketchup, with existing plans provided in Battlefield.ru with their collected data given – somewhat proved to be a bit insufficient because it was missing a few things. This thread could be the official if not centralized discussion thread for all KV-4s.

This particular KV series is an interesting one in the Kliment Voroshilov heavy tank program. Its design purpose was to withstand any German gun and to destroy any opposing heavy German tanks. It was to remain unbuilt and its design proposals would be used if the time comes when it is needed.

Designers began to work on the KV-4 design in April 1941. Since the Kirov Plant did not have experience in this area, the chief of the SKB-2, J.Kotin, assigned almost all the engineers of his design bureau to the design of this tank and made the task a competition.

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Hello everyone,

as I informed you yesterday, Polish magazine/portal CD-Action came out with an invite code (1200 gold, 3 days of prem IIRC). A bunch of players have sent me a number of invite codes, I’ll post them now. Also, there are some other codes mixed within (CeBit – 1k gold, 7 days premium).

Players, who sent codes: XC80, HaVoC_PL, Reffan, PhobosX (the Cebit codes are from him), matt_77, dONMis, sgtAngry, Darr_Anix, red_baron40, MH90, Cayden_Cailean, Wojtus

Thanks everyone, very much appreciated! If anyone has more invite codes they have no need for, feel free to send them, I will publish them like this and you’ll be doing a good deed.

(codes below the “more” line – and yes, the “weird” code works too)

Edit: Looks like all are used already.

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