Hello everyone,

as you probably know by now, there’s a Sherman Fury in the game (a tier 6 premium medium tank). It’s being sold on ASIA server (not sure about the US, it’s not on EU yet however).

It is no secret that the Fury E8 has quite different armor layout than the regular Sherman E8 (we are talking about the elite turret now). Let’s make a quick comparison. This is the regular E8 (in Fury-corresponding configuration):

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Hello everyone,

as you know, I am not exactly a fan of War Thunder and as such, I do not follow their video channel unless someone sends me an e-mail (thanks, Ed Francis) with “you gotta see this, this is cool”. And, as such, I missed this amazing video ad as well and it’s a damn shame, because if there’s one thing Gaijin is really, really good at, it’s making these videos.

THIS is how you make ads, Wargaming. Not the retarded IS-6 video.

Hello everyone,

a lot of people are waiting for the multicore support for World of Tanks. Whether that wait is worth it is a good question, but one thing is for sure: World of Warships has it. Check this out:

This is the game working on multiple cores on the PC of one of the testers. How is that related to World of Tanks? To be quite honest, I have no idea, because WoWs is running on a very different engine from the original WoT one (it’s still based on Bigworld, but from what I heard, it has pretty much nothing in common with the old WoT version anymore). Still, it’s good news for the future WoWs players I suppose.

Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/10/13/bandai-namco-reveals-battleline-steel-warfare-for-pc

Hello everyone,

these days, armored warfare (without capitals) is the “hot stuff” of gaming – well, at least for a certain group of players. It was of course World of Tanks that made tanks really mainstream and popular, but that was years ago. More and more companies are attracted to that particular genre of gaming and Bandai Namco is one of them with its newly revealed game – Battleline: Steel Warfare.

As you can see, it’s some sort of strategy game with tanks. Allegedly, it will take place in a time frame from WW1 to modern era – if you go to cca 0:39 and pause the video, you’ll see that it’s actually true, they are planning to introduce all sorts of vehicles, including King Tiger and Maus, so if you are looking for historically realistic and accurate games, this is probably not the place to look.

Personally, I think the trailer looks kinda cheap and the game seems not to make much sense. I mean… it’s like Dawn of War, but with tanks? Hm. I guess I haven’t played enough of this type of games to make an educated guess, but at first sight, I do not like it:

- the models look kinda lowres
- the CGI looks really outdated
- too much crap flying all over the screen
- the explosions look really cheap

I assume it will also have destructible environment, but still, this is not a game I am going to hold my breath for.

Another part of the Chieftain’s Hatch videos, this time about the Soviet SU-100 tank destroyer.

Source: http://worldoftanks.kr/ko/news/pc-browser/9/armyfest-2014/ (thanks to Daigensui for translating)

Hello everyone,

1st of October in South Korea is the Armed Forces Day – basically, the Korean military sites (some of course) are open to public. This time, Wargaming participated in one such event with a stand with PC’s and all that. Additionally, Korean players could also check photographs and artefacts from the Korean War era, as well as modern battle tanks and the equipment of Korean army. And so, the smallest Wargaming cluster (Korea WoT peaks are 4000-6000 players) is doing its best to “bond” with the army of South Korea, to show the players the history of their armed forces.

Regarding the opinion on Korean community from a player, who actually plays there (Daigensui): “There are lot of problems, from occasional mistakes on WG KR’s part, constant trolling from the bigger communities like Ilbe and DC Inside, rage against bad players (heated more than other places from the competitive atmosphere), and stupid stalking and false accusations of people they don’t like, but all in all it is still a pretty tight community. While WoT in Korea might not be bigger than in Italy, the enthusiasm shown is certainly one of, if not the, best of all WoT servers. I hope that WoT still maintains a position as the one casual military game anyone can fall back on, in Korea and elsewhere.”

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand… there was also this – that’s what I call advertising done right:

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Hello everyone,

so, I guess that at this point, you’ve already seen the “IS-6″ video from yesterday. If not, here it is.

Well, where to start… I mean, the video is terrible. For one, it was made on Russian server, that’s why the IS-6 in it has Russian flag decals and Russian inscriptions saying “Soviet Arctic Explorer” and “Russians don’t give up!” – I am kinda surprised they didn’t put “For Stalin!” or “For Soviet Ukraine!” on them, I am sure that would be recieved well on RU server.

The video depicts a “heroic defense” of one IS-6 against several enemy tanks, who are utter retards and can’t get rid of a single IS-6 in the open and so they rush it one by one. The vehicle is depicted as a “killer”, when in reality, despite being noob friendly thanks to its thick armor, the 122mm D-25 is more like mediocre for its tier. I mean, it’s a good tank, but not an OP death machine. The entire comedy is complemented by the awkward “radio chatter”, which is actually quite literally translated from the Russian version and sounds just weird.

Actually, it’s this chatter I mind about the entire stupid video the most.

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Hello everyone,

so, today, the M24 Chaffee Sport was removed from the hangar. In case you are looking for the equipment that was on it, it’s in the depot. Of course, with Wargaming being Wargaming, we can’t have it without a fail now, can we?

The crew was removed from the vehicle as well, but it was not retrained to the original Chaffee, as originally promised. The same issue happened on Russian server. The official answer was that the crew will be retrained later on and that the players are supposed to be patient. So, if you want that Chaffee crew on your regular Chaffee, don’t spend your credits or gold just yet and wait a bit, you’ll get it retrained for free.