As you can imagine, very little serious info came up today.
- apparently, if you can’t enter team battles properly (you see bugged windows etc.), it’s old version of XVM’s fault
Let’s just survive the rest of the day and get serious tomorrow :)
Monthly Archives: April 2014
On Yesterday’s “CW Campaign” Post (Info from Ectar)
Hello everyone,
so, yesterday I posted some info that allegedly came from Ectar – and he was not happy about it apparently, since he got “misquoted”. So, where is the truth?
For starters, this is the original e-mail I got (unchanged, only removed one link ot the Utrecht post):
Dear SS, Today I’ve been to the Xbox360 Community Event in Utrecht. There I was able to speak with Ectar for quite a while. When asked the question about when the Third Campaign starts, he responded accordingly:
Q: So Ectar, tell us: When does the Third Campaign Start?
A: Well, I don’t know. I haven’t been in the office last week so when I get into the office on Tuesday then I will know. However, I did notice that time has been reserved in my work calendar to play with the WG-clan in the last week of April.So yeah….. Also talked about Tier 8 USA en German Light tanks, about the USA LT he wasn’t allowed to comment, on the German LT they haven’t made a conclusive decision yet. Apparently 2 tanks were considered. Then we aswell talked a bit about World of Warships, the client is now in Closed Alpha. The group of alpha players (RU supertesters) will be expanded during the year. Closed Beta might come in the end of this year or beginning 2015.
They were still thinking about creating an EU supertester group for WoWs. However, he wasn’t very optimistic about the chances of this happening. Minks is apparently still very pissed about EU supertester stuff. Ectar’s favorite tanks are: E50M, Hellcat, Centurion Mk. 7/FV4202. Hope this is some interesting information. Please only publish my nickname ;) With kind regards, Amayii [WHY]
So, that’s that. With the earlier in mind and with Ectar writing he got misquoted, I started looking for the truth on my own, at least on the important matters. Two points I learned:
- the campaign info is probably wrong, because the the info I got is that new campaign is not planned for Spring 2014, but for later. HOWEVER take this “cum grano salis”, because although the source is very legitimate, it’s not the person organizing it himself and there could have been some misunderstanding.
- the German LT info is wrong. Only one German LT8 is considered (RU251). Here, either Ectar or Amayii mixed two things together – US and German LT8′s – there are two candidates for US LT8 (the T92 and the T49) and at one point, they were “competing” for the LT8 slot (with certain people at WG favouring the T92, others the T49). In the end, the T49 “won”, but T92 is still officially considered as a LT8 candidate and it is possible that Americans will (not immediately) get two LT8′s.
And one speculation:
- the WoWs stuff I don’t know about, but considering the fact that the alpha testers from EU are doing just fine, I’d say that the chance of having WoWs EU supertesters is not zero.
Weekly FTR contributor review
Hello everyone,
today’s review will be a bit special, since as of now, For the Record basically has two ways how anyone can contribute – either by that Paypal button in the upper right corner, or by the Patreon system. I explained it in detail in the original post and I would like to thank everyone, who took part in the pledges and contributed via Patreon – you can find the entire list here, although I would especially like to thank Tugboat1964 (as usual :)), Godsmacked, Ammattimies, daedric_orc and Kkesu for extra-large pledges.
What happens now is that we wait. There is a day (and I am not sure which day), where (once per month) the pledges will be transferred. It’s supposed to be “end of the month”, but it hasn’t happened yet, so I guess it will start from next month or so.
But of course, I haven’t forgotten other people, who have contributed to FTR via Paypal!
Contributors
polyarmus (Czech Repiblic)
elr (Germany)
Satbel (Czech Republic)
Jean-Christian N. (USA)
Claus L. (Finland)
Luca S. (Canada)
Victor P. (USA)
Bob R. (UK)
Bolterman (Spain)
William C. (USA)
Xavier L. (France)
Jürgen G. (Germany)
Marshall L. (USA)
*anonymous* (UK)
Niels Børge R. (Denmark)
R.R. (Germany)
Jonas B. (Germany)
Sean M. (Canada)
InSL (Germany)
Jay N. (USA)
Siegfriend M. (Germany)
Jürgen B. (Germany)
DeadMoney0811 (USA) – thanks for large contribution mate! Much appreciated.
Lee D. (Germany) – a message from him: “In space, noone can hear you WUB”
KTZV_D86 (Germany)
Tore B. (Norway)
Martijn W. (Netherlands)
Gnomefather (Norway)
Thanks to all of you! This month is covered even without the Patreon subscriptions then.
A Couple More Invite Codes
Hello everyone,
a couple more invite codes (1000g, 7 day prem), courtesy of Ardernech, Mihai, Amethon, Hotovson, Foxy123321, Mike, PandaDethDealer, Mortal_sniper_guy, Skullwolf
NTRDH-G9K4U-ZPT53-D27P7
NTRDT-XDB5V-M2VS7-K7P84
NTRD6-S3N9N-4ZR3Z-XHV8U
NTRDD-TK9WP-24P5N-VD2U7
NTRD3-PM77V-KU5C3-NKB7G
NTRDG-MGCZW-2TA6B-MPC73
NTRD7-82TNT-YS3XU-KX3DA
NTRDH-MCDF2-RS6B7-8MUP7
NTRDR-UT8S5-UGY5T-GPZGN
NTRDZ-8B75Z-9HHUN-M7DHK
NTRD2-8V8TX-YDUW7-PUHP2
NTRDZ-B98Y2-PZ2AD-RNCP5
NTRD9-4VAAD-F7US4-RWNPA
NTRDZ-93T8R-WZVMC-VPTGA
Secret German Tank Project
It is no secret that Heinz Guderian, a leading thinker in the German school of armoured warfare, was greatly impressed by the Soviet T-34 tank. In October of 1941, one of his subordinates from the 4th Tank Division wrote: “Immediately create copies of the 26-ton Russian tank, and use captured 26- and 52-ton tanks. Each tank regiment should have one company of these tanks.” It is also known that Fast Heinz’ plan to clone the T-34 was unsuccessful. What is less known is what happened later, when Guderian ran into one of the more underrated tanks of the war, the T-60.
The T-60 was one of the most numerous tanks of the Second World War, but, as a light tank, it lacked the thick armour or impressive firepower of the T-34, IS, Tiger, Panther, and other famous tanks of the war. Little is written about it, which is a shame, as Guderian saw much promise in it. Torsion bars, that Russian hard steel he was a fan of, sloped armour, easily obtainable and reparable engines. The design was far superior to that of German light tanks, and even the captured Czech tanks in the Wehrmacht’s service were starting to show their age. The T-60, a modern light tank, was what the Wehrmacht needed. Better yet, the factory at Kharkov was not evacuated completely before the Germans captured it, giving them a manufacturing base.