Hello everyone,

probably for the sake of clarity, Wargaming NA decided to make a Q&A thread, where players can ask whether that respective mod is legal on US server. While in general terms the same conditions apply for all servers, please note that something being illegal on one server does NOT mean it’s automatically illegal on other servers – no idea why this is not unified, Wargaming is just funny that way.

From the thread:

- Warpack is illegal (duhhhh)
- the Battle Assistant (the arty mod) is legal
- XVM is allowed
- sniper-mode zoom-in and zoom-out mod is not allowed, except for replays for free camera

Explanation for the zoom mod from WG manager Pigeon_of_War:

This goes back to our Lens Scope prohibited mod rule. If you can zoom with your Sniper mode so much it removes foliage from the position you are in or the position you are zooming, it is Prohibited. These mods do exist and it seem to be caused be a mix up in someone coding it (accidentally?) so that you can zoom so for that it incidentally causes the foliage to be removed. Just note, it’s Prohibited if it removes foliage. Regular Zoom Mods that allow you to just increase the the area you are currently looking in are fine (for right now, we do reserve the right to change this at anytime, of course

So if you have an account on US server, you can ask whether a mod is legal or not. Haven’t seen any such thread for EU.

Hello everyone,

it’s always exciting to see some new unpublished drawings come to light – stuff that was never shown in any book or anything. In this case, it’s the Škoda T-23M (designated on the drawing Am 41738 from September 1940 as Panzerkampfwagen T23). This drawing was borrowed with kind permission of Mr. Vladimír Francev and Mr. Jiří Tintěra from their personal collection. I usually don’t use watermarks, but in this case, since it was not posted anywhere else, I will.

Anyway, the backstory for this tank – in detail I wrote about it here. Summarized: this tank was the final development of the original Škoda Š-IIc (T-21). A prototype was built and tested, but was never accepted in German service. T-21 was instead produced and improved in Hungary as the Turán medium tank. The Hungarian development was their own, the only thing in common with this vehicle is their common ancestor, the T-21.

From the official German vehicle summary (accompanying the drawing, late variant – early variant had less armor and was lighter):

Weight: 18000 kg
Engine: Škoda 15 liter V8, 260 horsepower at 2200 RPM
Power-to-weight: 14,44 hp/t
Maximum speed: 45 km/h

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Source: VK Wotleaks community

Hello everyone,

according to the supertesters, WG is planning to rework (in some case, heavily) certain maps, possibly in patch 9.6 (but this is not sure). These maps include:

Prokhorovka, Karelia, Steppes, Swamp, Siegfried Line, Live Oaks

Siegfried Line – the changed spots will be following – white lines show the changed spots:

Live Oaks – spot marked as 1 will be covered with houses and spot marked as 2 will have a small hill. Both changes are designed to make the north-eastern base harder to scout. Changes at point 3 are not known.

Thanks to Daigensui for this one.

Hello everyone,

those, who like to read about history – seriously, I mean – know of the poor repuation of History Channel, when it comes to real historicity. It is thus no surprise to find out that the History Channel’s “Never Surrender: The World Wars” show, that tries to appear “historical”, is sponsored by Wargaming.

And here’s a trailer for the series. It starts innocent enough, but just wait…

Why the fuck is there a World of Tanks footage in a historical show trailer? Why are there completely unrelated vehicles? Gosh… no wonder History Channel has such a poor reputation.

Hello everyone,

from the Insider (another one, there are several) comes something interesting, an exclusive leak of the English WoT Blitz skill/perk guide.

Okay, maybe that “interesting” is an overstatement, but what the hell. It’s a leak, it goes to FTR.

You can download the guide in PDF here.

Thanks to Martin K. for this one. The museum at Saumur on its youtube channel published another video – this time sound recordings from the Tiger II sound. Apart of having the sheer delight of seeing this monster moving (the only one in the world), it’s reasonable to believe that the guys recording the sound are from Wargaming, so we might in the end have a truly authentic Tiger II sound as well!

Okay, a tidbit that might be interesting for you. Recently (not sure when, but can’t have been long ago), Wargaming apparently – according to the words of of a Wargaming employee (no names for now) – 3D scanned the AMX-30 in Saumur (for some strange reason, WG scanned a middle-late production vehicle apparently instead of the prototype, which is there also – why? No idea). So in case you were wondering, yea – the next branch is probably the French AMX-30 one (heavy tanks on the other hand – not in 2015, or probably ever).

Hello everyone,

yesterday was the annual celebration of the Independence Day in Finland, related to the date of 6.12.1917 – thus making Finland 97 years old this year. As a part of the celebrations a military parade took place, featuring some rare pieces of equipment, including the Finnish StuG III and the Landsverk Anti vehicles.

According to an accompanying article in Finnish news (thanks for the link, Nalle), the StuG is really thirsty – its fuel consumption is cca 150 liters per 100 km.

Source: http://worldoftanks.ru/ru/news/pc-browser/remember-everything/cmvs_30_11_report/

Hello everyone,

an interesting piece of info. You know how WG claimed on several occasions not cooperating with the Russian army?

Well, apparently, that’s not a problem with the cadets (you know, that’s only the FUTURE army, so it doesn’t count). It took place in Moscow in the computer room (education class) in the Moscow military museum. A part of the tournament was the tour of the museum and – I quote: “the holiest of places – the Hall of Victory” to “taste the spirit of 1945″.

I don’t know… doesn’t it look a bit odd? I mean, I guess that in the end, they are just young guys wanting to have fun. But considering they might be sitting not long from now in real tanks heading west as “volunteers”…

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