Comments on: Straight outta Supertest: new Stalingrad map

By: WOT to add a historical Stalingrad map | Mal's Maps

WOT to add a historical Stalingrad map | Mal's Maps — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:35:30 +0000

[...] on the For the Record blog (about all things WOT) they revealed yesterday (and WG confirmed) that one of the new upcoming [...]

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 22:36:06 +0000

Actually even the worst of the GULag camps (in the Kolyma region) ‘only’ killed an average of about a third of their inmates. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag#Conditions

Doesn’t really hold a candle to the industrialised mass murder and quite deliberate starving and working to death of prisoners the Nazis were innto.

By: 23r0_NA

23r0_NA — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 22:08:39 +0000

Now that you mention it, the layout’s almost the same.

By: Daemonik

Daemonik — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:36:54 +0000

@ Haren and @LargeFeline… I swear to god, they are getting dumber and dumber every year. No education or knowledge, just “I heard from a friend who only does crack and he sounds so resonable”.

So stupid, much retarded.

By: Kellomies

Kellomies — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 21:32:45 +0000

Uh… the Ardennes *themselves* are an outright mountain range and AFAIK the associated forested region is notably rugged. From what I understand it’s also Chokepoint Special as the terrain isn’t particularly conductive to offroad driving even in tanks.

Note also that properly speaking Karelia covers quite a bit of land area from the Gulf of Finland all the way to the White Sea, and there’s some quite rugged geography there.

Lapland… well. Unless you’re referring to the southernmost portion thereof there basically aren’t even *trees* up there, and little in the way of sufficiently high other vegetation for a tank to hide behind for that matter. The the relatively smoothly rolling fells don’t really strike me as offering too many tactical options either.

There’s also the minor detail the very real problem with mere visual cover is that once you *do* get spotted you basically die instantly as every idle enemy gun in the vicinity zeroes in on you already for lack of anything better to do, and you can’t really take cover behind anything. The infamous Magic Forest of Murovanka (or “Murowanker” as we like to call it among friends) and the Prokhorovka Tree Road should have taught you as much.

By: KazukiHyena

KazukiHyena — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 20:35:36 +0000

City map should work okay being smaller, what we really need is a huge map where the only cover is bushes and stuff, you know, a forest map.

Like the Ardennes, what Karelia actually looks like or Lapland.

By: Ojelle

Ojelle — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 19:46:24 +0000

SpudmanWP, when you struggle with a turretless td in a closed city map, you are doing it vérry wrong.

By: havoc313

havoc313 — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 19:28:48 +0000

Thats the best part when some lights roll up to your flank and just hit the reverse and and bang your behind them and can derp them

By: Brusilov

Brusilov — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 19:17:03 +0000

Try playing in a Crusader SP with the stock gun.

It’s the same gun as the final FV304 one but without the maneouverability (unless you learn to drive in reverse)…..

By: LeoXiao

LeoXiao — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 18:43:50 +0000

Honestly this map doesn’t seem to resemble Himmelsdorf all that closely. Sure, there’s a square in the middle and a relatively open space to the side, but but honestly the really parallels are Ensk on the east side, where you can go into to the city blocks, and Ruinberg on the right, where the streets are not arranged to a nice grid. The square itself also seems to more resemble the one in Ensk than that of Himmelsdorf. And of course there is no hill to take.