I have a problem that you dont differ between pros and noobs using gold ammo, the outcome will be the same. To me, why is it even right to win if you cant penentrate the tank with AP? If im on a close win and im perfecly angled, why is it right for a weaker tank to load gold just because he cant pen me, and therfore win? You can look on it the other way around. By that said, it is wrong to have any gold ammo on any tank because that gives you unfair advantage in terms of game balance and this is specially horrific these days, where some tanks and many newer introduced tanks are more MBT than heavy, medium, TD, etc.

Lower damage is a good trade off for higher penentration, just like the balancing values of all other guns with AP (for example, higher pen guns maybe get lower alpha, and vice versa). With lower alpha on gold ammo, the player is forced to aim carefully to make more damage or not shoot at all, just as it should be. Nobody on the battlefield is entitled to damage everybody with ease, thats important to remember.

Gold ammo for gold is how it suppose to be, this prevent their excessive usage as it were before, because back then people used gold for more important stuff like prem account and crew transfer/reset.

I feel the only way to make less people use gold ammo is nerf it badly to the point where “most” people dont really see the need of using it. Thats is by making damage less, increase price and or make it gold currency only.

Its all about the mentality of the players, using gold ammo or not is a mindset, just as using certan tanks or play in a certan way. The ultimate would be to play the most OP tank with gold ammo (and platoon) and let your team “scout” for you while you snipe. Some peope do that and they make alot of damage, but where is the fun really? I dont want WOT to be turned into a auto penning game while people can run around full speed autoshooting everybody and where skill is determined by reaction time of the player. Battlefield has that kind of BS tank gameplay.

The day WOT gameplay turn into that, and some times it is even that, its is a sad fucking day for all slow tanks with mediocre armor and mediocre aimtime, accuracy, penentration and damage.

They also have good rof, accuracy and aimtimes as well as good AP/gold pen, that neither one of the “older” tanks had. How can this be balanced one can ask, well by the fact that they have “thin armor”, but its not about the thickness its about the angling of the armor. Side and rear armor is totally irrelevant specially on mediums and even on heavys. Most AP can go thru angled sides on tanks as it is and imagine with gold ammo.

Some people say it all started when tier 10, E5 heavy tank got introduced which clearly were superior to all other heavy tanks and from that majority of newer introduced tanks is clearly better. This along with gold ammo for credits, makes the game a noob friendly dumbed down version of bf3. I really dont see what skill it takes to take one hit and then stand still for 10 seconds autoloading gold ammo in the enemy. Or sit in a bush in a t54 or similar penning heavys frontally with gold ammo. Wheres the fucking skill?

No wonder high tier mediums are performning better than ever, because some TDs and or mediums with excellent view range and camo outspot heavys which benefit them all.

While armor means little with the overall high AP pen on higher tier mediums and huge amount of TDs, it still means something because they have to aim for weakspots. But with 24k gold….huh totally idiotic.

This also proves that the game is all about penentration, rof and mobilty. Something that any of the original heavy tanks and some TDs totally lack, for example the german ones. While this worked good before, due to balancing factors like germans had better rof, accuracy and aimtime. This means alot less now due to all guns beeing overall more accurate, abuse of gold ammo and tanks with good mobilty. In other words original tanks with accurate guns as balancing factors are alot weaker now compared to others, also those tanks that did rely on armor some how are even weaker due to the high amount of gold ammo and or overall more accurate guns. This combined with fairly good mobilty of many newer medium and heavy tanks, make the old ones lack like hell.

These days you cant rely on armor thats right, but that doesnt change the fact that some tanks will never be able to compete with newer more mobile ones. Not to mention autloaders that will ruin things even more because they can run after you, even if you take cover and mess you up for 10 seconds while you reloading.

Theres no fucking possible way to defend yourself against gold ammo except beeing there from the frist place. But if you want to make credits and XP you got to be active in the battle and be closer to enemy. In other words that is3 sitting and sniping/camping might make 3000 damage and 4 kills in some games, but he will have lower average XP and damage as well as and bad eff. And if one heavy tank camps at A1/A0, then imagine what 70% of all other heavys will do…

Pay ingame currency to make a change > pay 2 win

> their price will not be reduced
Good.

I would however not be surprised if they were pressed into battle. But I do think the odds of this happening are slim as they tended to break down regulatory and their fuel consumption was horrible. On the plus side the cold weather would act in the Maus favor as it would make the ground harder…

Considering that we know that Foreign(captured) Tank Testing Units were pressed into battle, that ad-hoc units of JTigers and other odd ball tanks pulled from Maintenance Depots were grouped together and pressed into battle, and lastly that Training Units with Tigers and Panthers were pressed directly into battle when the Allies got close make the odds of the Maus going into battle and there being a lack of documentation even after 70 years highly if not extremely unlikely but, admittedly, not impossible… I will admit that much.

Just another argument for destroying boxes in base – no discussion whether someone can shoot thru them or not.
BTW HE/HEAT ammo will go off (be activated) on boxes , so yet another argument for destroying them.

Cmon, is it so hard to spend 5-8 seconds of your time?

Imho premium ammo should be reserved for CW mostly and should be bought only by gold.