Hello everyone,

today is the third day of the Igromir 2014 game expo in Moscow (the expo is open between 2.10. and 5.10.2014). If you haven’t heard of it… basically, what E3 is for the USA and Gamescom is for EU, Igromir is for Russia. And, of course, you guessed right: Wargaming’s there. Here’s one of the “day summary” videos Wargaming is posting on Russian portal. It’s in Russian obviously, so just for you to see how it’s looking (I like the host, isn’t she cute?)

You might ask of course: “why are you posting this?” Well, two reasons really. First reason is that it explains the fact that there’s not much going on with the developers at this moment. They are busy. On the other hand, Anton “Evilly” Pankov (WoT producer) is there and he’s answering some player questions, so we might get some info after all.

Second reason is, there’s actually a live stream. You know, with everything. Dancers, the show itself, whole day and all that. So, my question is: why the FUCK did we not get the same thing on Gamescom and instead, we had to watch a bunch of guys stroking each other’s… ego in a closed studio? Yes, I am still annoyed by the Gamescom “stream”.

Anyway, here’s the stream. Obviously, they are speaking Russian, but if you were to… say… greet them in English in the chat… in large numbers of course, I am sure they would totally appreciate it! :)

Hello everyone,

Khitan (from EU server I assume) sent me a couple of interesting photos from the August Military Odyssey event in Kent. Like other such historical meetings, this one too had some re-enactments and all that – including some with Panzer III and StuG! Well… okay, not really, but it’s still interesting, check this out.

The Universal Carrier

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Source: VK Wotleaks community, http://world-of-ru.livejournal.com/3526751.html

Hello everyone,

a new tier 8 premium/reward tank appeared on supertest, the T95E2. Some are speculating that it’s a reward tank, but nothing is confirmed at this point.

The description reads:

The development started in September 1954. Many pieces of equipment and modules were unified with the T96 heavy tank. In total, nine vehicles were produced, five of which were equipped with a 90mm gun and four were planned to be equipped with the T96 tank turret and its 105mm gun. However, since the T96 turrets were not ready on time, it was decided to fit the tank temporarily with the M48A2 tank turret with its M41 rifled gun. These vehicles were built in May-June 1957 and were designated T95E2.

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Enjoy!

Hello everyone,

as the older readers probably know, Czechoslovak branch in World of Tanks is sort of my “pet project” for various reasons. It is also one of the upcoming branches in the European tech tree (late 2015) – altogether, I’ve been working on it from like January 2012 (Tuccy wrote a post about the Czechoslovak branch in March 2012 based on my first attempt and then I based my work on his old proposal), so there’s enough data to implement a lot from it.

That however brought an issue with it – the old posts I made in early 2013 are now for all intents and purposes obsolete and they sometimes mislead people. Plus, as we all know, a lot has changed since 2013 – for example, in late 2012, there was still no tier 10 artillery.

That’s why my original work needs some serious updating. Currently, I am working with the following statements, that have been at one point or another confirmed to be either very likely or completely true:

- European tree will come at one point (confirmed)
- it will consist of separate national branches (crews situation was not decided yet, but likely the player will choose the nationalities)
- one (or alternatively more) of these branches will belong to Czechoslovakia
- Italian branch of medium tanks should look like this
- copies of existing tanks should be avoided

Based on the statements above, I did split the branch into three “sections”:

- regular tanks (Czechoslovak projects, vehicles produced in Czechoslovakia and modified by us)
- premium tanks (mostly prototypes or projects or existing tanks with modifications)
- captured/foreign tanks (unmodified tanks Czechoslovakia used at one point or another, this group is completely optional and quite frankly pointless, it’s there as some sort of “last resort” (and for the sake of tree completion), I do not expect ever to see any tanks from that group in the game)

The branch is made in a form of the “old tree” – I really hate the horizontal tree design, but it’s just a collection of branches, that could work with one another. Here’s how it looks:

Details follow:

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Hello everyone,

a few months back, in June 2014, a military event called “Misja Wschód” (“Mission East”) took place in Poland in Ogrodniczki and Mrorome was kind enough to share some pictures from this event with us. There were historical vehicles, re-enactment… that sort of stuff. Overall, pretty interesting.

Adler Kfz 13 (German armored car from early 30′s, only 147 were made)

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Author: Karika

Hello everyone,

I’m Karika from the EU server, a volunteer researcher of the Hungarian armored fighting vehicles. Some of you might already read my articles about the Hungarian tanks and tank destroyers of WWII, here on the FTR blog. Today, I’m going to start a new series of articles here, about how the Hungarian tanks could be implemented into World of Tanks.

In this first part, let me explain some of the main aspects and problems of this hopefully upcoming branch, and from part two, I’ll list the possible candidates with their predictable characteristics from vehicle to vehicle. Also, I’ll try to give reasons why I put that vehicle in the tech tree where I put it.

Silentstalker already wrote a short summary about this topic, you can read it here, but there are some new detailes and corrections I would like to add in my articles. I’m also not going to go into too much detailes about the concept of the European tech tree. SS already wrote a great summary about this too, you can read it here and here.

First of all, I must make clear, that there are NO official decision or statement from Wargaming was made about how exactly and when exacty will the European tanks come. All we know, according to the latest informations and leaks, that the first parts/waves of the EU tree might probably come sometime in 2015, but no details yet and this is not sure either.

Keep in mind that even if the fate of the EU tanks was already decided, WG is definitely not going to disclose that decision for now, because this is at least medium-far future stuff. It could be delayed or totally changed, or some parts of it could be scrapped during the development process and they certainly don’t want people to be upset or whine about it.

So – after this long prelude – let’s take a look at how I imagine the Hungarian tech tree tree now. Right now, as it might change in the future, for example when/if the alternative hull options will be implemented, maybe the Toldi IIA and the Toldi III could merge, as one could be the other’s optional hull and turret.

As you can see, Hungary can not build a complete WoT tech branch on its own. This creates a lot of problems and questions, so I’ll try to explain a few here.

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