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Storm confirmed today – Soviet T-54 Obr.1945 (Model 1945) first T-54 prototype tank will be the Soviet premium tier 8 medium tank instead of the LT-54 (which will become a tier 8 light tank).

So, what IS this “Model 1945″ then?

Let’s have a look at some Russian sources on this. The history of the T-54 tank started in the Fall of 1944, when the Nizhny Tagil designers created as a “side project” a proposal for very strong modification of the T-44 medium tank, designed to further improve the protection and firepower of the T-44 while keeping the adequate level of mobility and terrain passability. The first documents and drawings were shown to the Tank Industry Comissariat in the last days of October 1944 and on 1st of November 1944, the comissar, V.A.Malyshev signed an order for the Plant No.183 to create a prototype.

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Thanks to iBeNoob for this one!

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a column of historical vehicles passed through the city of Verkhnyaya Pyshma in Russia. I think most need no introduction. Enjoy!

by Vollketten

So, for those who don’t know, the firm of William Fosters and Co. Ltd. was based in Lincoln, England and was the home of the first British tanks – and, later on in the next war the great and glorious TOG vehicles. For some time, I have been trying to track down a rumour of a tank designed for the Kingdom of Italy sometimes in the 1930′s and after much searching, I feel it’s finally possibly to say with some certainly what that tank was and what it looked like.

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if you’ve seen the 9.2 test server patch notes, you know that several tanks’ models are listed as “improved” – until there is an unofficial full list of changes, this is the list we know about. The English patchnotes say the following:

- Visual models of the following tank models improved: ISU-152, SU-122?, M18 Hellcat, M3 Lee, M4A3E2 Sherman Jumbo, Tortoise, Black Prince, Conqueror Gun Carriage, Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf. D, Sturmpanzer I Bison, Pz.Kpfw. B2 740 (f) and Type 4 Chi-To.

If you are wondering what “SU-122?” is, it’s SU-122A – the reason the question mark is there is that they copied the text from Russian forums and probably filtered it through some editor, that doesn’t display cyrillic letters properly and turns azbuka into questionmarks.

I went through the models displayed and here’s what I found – a part of the models listed above (specifically, ISU-152, SU-122A, M3 Lee, Sturmpanzer I Bison, B2 740(f) and Chi-To) have had no changes whatsoever – or rather, it’s possible a pixel was changed here or there, but I haven’t been able to find them.

M18 Hellcat was lowered a tiny bit and the texture now displays more “wear and tear”, so it doesn’t look that much plastic.

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Source: http://worldoftanks.ru/ru/news/pc-browser/1/wargaming_in_working/

An interesting video appared on Russian portal, explaining “how Wargaming works” (there are English subtitles). I mean, I guess it’s okay… I just wonder whether the artist who made this took some LSD before he started working…

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well, the patch 9.2 is here and it’s time to gather some feedback. The thing is… there is not a whole lot going on with this patch. Not from the things that can be thoroughly tested anyway. There is the Stronkhold mode, but last night and today morning there was noone from my clan to play it and even if there was, there is not much to say about it that wasn’t already said.

Some vehicles got buffed and nerfed and some had their armor changed, which can be seen here (not a complete list, I will gather the other changes when the data is available). Then there are the new maps, including the reworked Prokhorovka – they warrant a separate post and I’ll get to it (although some the main changes were leaked already – Sacrad Valley, Cliff, Hidden Village).

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Thanks to Vangelis for the screenies.

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as you probably know, the Prokhorovka map was reworked and now is in the game (god knows why) under the name of Fire Arc. Earlier (very long time ago) it was said that this map would appear along with the old Prokhorovka – at this moment it’s unclear whether both maps will be in the map pool at the same time.

Either way, the map now looks somewhat different, as I am about to show you. First the minimap:

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