Hello everyone,

today, we are going to take a look at how the Firefly line could look. After all, both Storm and EU representatives confirmed that this line will come this year.

But before we start: Please keep in mind that no composition has been officially confirmed and no ETA is currently known, other than it will not be in 9.1 or 9.2 (as far as I know, even developers aren’t sure when exactly will it come). Thus, it’s completely pointless to ask “when will it come” in comments.

Got it? Okay, let’s have a look at it. Now, normally, the composithe only thing that we actually do know about this line is that it will have Firefly in it and it will end with a tier 10. Other than that, nothing. Earlier, it was referred to (probably incorrectly) as a “Lend-Lease” line, but despite the claims of the “LL models being ready for quite some time already”, I find that not very likely that it will in fact really be a line, defined by the “lend-lease” vehicles (or “Commonwealth” ones, like the Sentinel).

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Hello everyone,

as you already know, there is a competition running this month, awarding those, who manage to get 75k XP for every nation within the time limit with the tier 8 premium Super Pershing tank. But which tanks should a player use for this undertaking? Which will gain you statistically most XP?

I took these numbers and tables straight from Vbaddict – there are a lot more statistics there to find if you like this sort of stuff (despite Storm debunking these statistics as inaccurate, I guess they can be used at least as guidelines, if not accurate values), but what we are interested right now is the amount of XP gained by each respective tank.

The tanks have to be regular and between tier 4 and 8, the first number is amount of battles taken into account, the second is the average XP per battle. Red colored name means that the tank is of tier 9 or 10 and thus unavailable for the event.

France

Here, it’s clear. The AMX 50-100 gains the most.

6.	AMX 50 100	619,383	397.47
7.	Lorraine 40 t	386,153	389.75
8.	AMX 13 90	891,915	379.48
9.	AMX AC mle. 48	202,971	353.05
10.	Bat.-Chatillon 155 55	342,339	342.09
11.	Bat.-Chatillon 155 58	306,078	328.18
12.	Lorraine 155 mle. 51	344,070	322.40
13.	AMX M4 mle. 45	268,608	321.32
14.	AMX 13 75	558,386	315.24
15.	AMX AC mle. 46	143,205	303.59
16.	Lorraine 155 mle. 50	264,789	282.00
17.	AMX 12 t	605,566	278.45
18.	ARL 44	360,999	267.59

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Source: http://worldoftanks.com/en/news/22/operation-t34/

Hello everyone,

as you probably know already, RU, SEA and EU servers have Super Pershing missions, US server has a T34 mission with the requirement of 100k XP per nation instead of 75k. Not bad! But… US server also has some very stronk (or trollish) art department. I will just leave the banner for the operation here, as visible on the page linked above…

Wrong T-34, guys :)

Hello everyone,

as you might have noticed, the Operation Super Pershing is up on the EU server. Where on earth is the portal announcement???

Conditions as announced earlier:

- 75k XP for each nation – reward: Super Pershing and 14 days of prem
- must be in top 10 of the team in XP
- tier 4-8 regular tank (no premium)

Third part of the Wargaming series with Russian veteran memories about the Second World War. This time with former artilleryman Vladimir Vasilievich Borodin, who talks about outwitting the German recon plane Focke-Wulf Fw189, that was guiding German artillery and about fulfilling complicated combat task without taking casualities.

Colonel (ret.) Vladimir Vasilievich Borodin was drafted to the Red Army in August 1942. After finishing the artillery school in 1943, he fought at the South-Western Front, 1st Ukraine Front and 1st Belarus Front. He took part in Odessa, Warsaw and Poznan liberation and he participated in taking Berlin. He started the war as 2ndLt. and ended the war as 1stLt. He was awarded three times with the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class, Order of the Red Star, with Medal for Liberation of Warsaw and Medal for Capture of Berlin.

Please note: This man is a war veteran and a brave soldier, not a Cheka officer, politruk, Stalin’s friend or anything like that. I am strongly suggesting and asking you to leave Stalin, Crimea, Russia bashing and other such crap out of the discussion. He doesn’t deserve it.

Hello everyone,

Wargaming, as a part of its (Russian) “Remember everything” campaign (with the upcoming 9th of May celebration in Russia), started a cycle of clips about the Russian victory in WW2. In part 1 comes the interview with Major-General of tank armies Alexander Fyodorovich Fen. He describes the operation on river Berezina, the deed of a crew of Pavel Rak and meeting Marshal Alexander Vasilevski.

English subtitles are available in the video.

Major-General Alexander Fyodorovich Fen is a veteran of WW2. He took part in the battles of Stalingrad and Kursk, liberation of Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Baltic republics. He commanded a tank, also a tank platoon, then a company, he also became the Chief of staff of the tank batallion of the 5th Tank Guards Army. The war ended for him in Gdynia (Poland) as a deputy commander of the tank batallion. During the war, he destroyed 12 enemy tanks, he was wounded 4 times, twice his tank caught on fire. For the liberation of Belarus as a part of 31st Brigade of 29th Tank Corps, he was awarded with the order of Alexander Nevsky.

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Hello everyone,

two or three days ago, I was trying out some settings in World of Tanks and was playing the (loved by some, hated by others) Komarin map, when I became the victim of the infamous misfire bug. I am pretty sure it happened to many of you as well (at least judging by the amount of screenshots and videos with this bug).

Basically, what happens: the aiming reticle you generally see in the game is a client-side reticle and I am quite sure 99,9 percent of players use that option (before you say “not true” – consider that people who read (and comment) on FTR are the players, who know most about World of Tanks). There is an option to turn on the server aim circle – while the usual aim circle is based on what is on your client, the serverside transfers the data “what the server sees” to your client at the price of higher traffic (according to some older statement from one of the developers, this cannot be turned on en-masse, because it would cause too much issues/traffic/extra work/whatever).

Sometimes, the client aim circle is drastically different from the server aim circle and the following happens:

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Hello everyone,

The day before yesterday (2.5.2014), a reenactment of the last battles in Karkonosze mountains(Czech: Krkonoše, Giant Mountains) took place in Jelenia Gora, Poland. Piciu713 sent me a couple of pictures and two videos from the reenactment. The most interesting part seem to be the involvement of a functional Jagdpanzer 38(t) “Hetzer”. Other interesting vehicles include the Soviet BA-64 armored car and what I think is the SU-57 (Soviet 57mm gun mounted on a halftrack). Check this out:

 

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